Steve Smith wrote at 05/01/2013 06:00 PM: > This seems like another form of tragedy around the commons?
I view all this the same way I view laws and selective enforcement by DAs and LEOs. Laws are there to provide options for the LEOs to selectively choose who to "suppress". (As with our disagreement about the "scientific method", we probably disagree on this, too. Perhaps the authors of the law have other intentions. But from what I've seen of legislative bodies, especially those - like Oregon - with "initiative" processes, whatever intentions might be there are lost in the noise of money and contradictory ideology, kneaded by massively pragmatic, amoral efficiency oriented bureaucrats.) So it is with the various terms of agreement we click through without ever reading. If/when an individual emerges as a threat to the corporation or government, rules are cherry-picked to bring the hammer down on that individual in order to coerce them into behaving how they "should" behave. As long as you don't emerge as a threat, then you can get away with pretty much anything. To me, this is why "bards" and jesters are so valuable and powerful. They manage to walk that very fine line between being a no-op and being a threat. cf: http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2013/05/bassemyoussef-saga-continues-khaled.html > Students who likely move through > apartments as frequently as on a semester basis are just SOL unless good > samaritans (scofflaws?) like myself provide an alternative? Heh, that's all very alien to me. I lived in an old corps dorm with concrete walls, group showers, and no air conditioning. I had a few "rich" friends who lived in the new dorms on the other side of campus, with their own toilets, or off campus in (what seemed like) wildly expensive apartments and houses. They had their own phones, cars, etc. Most of them could even buy their food at the grocery store rather than eating whatever the cafeteria provided on the "food plan". ;-) All my "internet access" came in the form of a green or orange screen in various basements across campus. Luckily, in large swaths of Portland, free wifi abounds due to the heroes at the Personal Telco project: https://personaltelco.net/wiki -- =><= glen e. p. ropella I can tell just by the climate, and I can tell just by the style ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
