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David,
Let's assume for the moment that we agree that the fundamental and overriding
objective is the protection of the public interest in the operation and
evolution of the Internet (and not for example as seems to be (or at least to
have been) the case w
Hello Nettimers,
There is (or at least there was, until recently) a particular photograph
on the internet. Black and white, cropped to an approximately square
format. It appears to have been taken with a flash, or supplementary
lighting, in a dark interior. The upper right quarter of the image
On Sunday, September 13, 2015 at 7:05:41 AM UTC-7, patrice wrote:
> Original to:Â http://mondato.com/blog/apptivism/
>
> (Bwo Eduard de Jong Frz.)
>
> ASTROTURF APPTIVISM AND THE SHARING ECONOMY
From Wikipedia:
"Astroturfing is the practice of masking the sponsors of
"Bad employees come up with problems - or excuses; good employees come
up with solutions"
(New Management mantra)
Mething Michael was right with asking the question about the internal
workings that made the VW clusterf%$#&^*k 'happen'. And I also think it
has to be analysed and answered before
Hi,
 well said:
What VW tells us (and why "motivation" is worth looking at) is that
when push comes to shove we really really need some structures of
accountability that are responsive to "our", the public's needs and
not the shareholders and that multistakeholderism
a fwd. from the rethink uva list (university of amsterdam) /geert
From: "Engelen, Ewald"
Subject: Re: [Rethink UvA] We can't let VW get away with this
Date: 28 September 2015 7:44:04 am GMT+2
Volkswagen is also an aggressive tax evader, using Dutch shell
companies (of course)
Am 27.09.15 um 23:09 schrieb Florian Cramer:
WWII. As far as I know, all profits that the state of Lower Saxony
makes from its remaining 20% share go into the endowment. And, Leuphana
is a state university of Lower Saxony.
(marginalia)
folks, i think this is besides the point, but
I'm afraid you may be right, that the closed system is so entrenched
that it utterly negated the possibility of an open system. Tesla made
a lot of designs open-souce last year, and I have seen no effect from
that at all, in spite of demand for electric and hybrid vehicles being
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