Dnia wtorek, 21 stycznia 2014 14:17:07 Troy Benjegerdes pisze: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:32:53PM +0100, rysiek wrote: > > Dnia poniedziałek, 20 stycznia 2014 23:29:46 Troy Benjegerdes pisze: > > > Let me posit that we need humans that act more like ethical beings, that > > > have insights that go beyond the logic, rules, and reason that seem to, > > > well, govern the keeping of secrets. I see a disturbing trend towards > > > people who appear to be more human rule-and-emotional-reactivity > > > execution > > > units than empowered beings with free and unpredictable thought and > > > discernment. > > > > > > The great thing that Snowden did was get more of the general public > > > engaged > > > and involved, and for the various types of infiltrators to have any > > > lasting > > > effect, there must be cypherpoliticians, architecting secure legal codes > > > and blocking legislative trojans. > > > > > > Assassination Politics is an interesting armchair quarterback game, but > > > I > > > think what we really need is some of that theory applied to Election > > > politics, with some down-in-the dirt wrestling with campaign finance. > > > > Oooooh. Oooh. "I just had a brainwave", to quote Chief Inspector Hubbard. > > > > How about use the very same mechanism as assassination market, but for > > voting? Betting on who will win the next election, generally or in a each > > district, etc? Creating cash incentives not for politicians (well, also, > > they could bet themselves after all!), but activists, or other people > > that might help get somebody elected? Pooling resources, but not in a > > candidate's pocket. > This is a perfect example of "It's hard to understand something your salary > (or campaign finances) depend on not understanding", cause I never saw this > until you pointed it out. Fortunately I still have a few braincells that > fired. > > This is brilliant... Get more money in politics, but in a way the > politicians can never touch it. Oh sure, some will, but they will quickly > be strung up by the 'clean campaigns' lynch mob.
Well, ideas are cheap, so if anybody feels compelled to implement that, go for it, it's Public Domain now. ;) > > > We need cypherpunks pointing out the futility of more reactive campaign > > > finance regulations that plug the holes we saw last year. We need > > > speech, > > > and code as speech, and a debate about does the First Amendment cover > > > the > > > right to speak in code, and does the Second Amendment give us the right > > > to > > > keep and bear a well-regulated open-source drone Militia? > > > > Well, funny thing that. I wrote on it: > > http://rys.io/en/54 > > > > The tl;dr is -- even though traditional RC planes are better-fitted to be > > used as "terrorist tools" (faster, more load, etc), it's *copters that > > will get banned first, as they empower people to "watch the watchers". > > Except I get to play the "Farmers need open-source drones to keep those > anti-GMO terr'ists out" police state card, and watch the competing > interests tie themselves up in knots while activists download the code I > use to "Protect America's Food" "The Police will handle that for you, Dear Farmer. Now hand over the drone that you no longer need. You're not a terr'ist, are ya?.." -- Pozdr rysiek
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