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The Danger of E-books
Richard Stallman
In an age where business dominates our governments and writes our laws, every technological advance offers business an opportunity to impose new restrictions on the public. Technologies that could have empowered us are used to chain us instead.
With printed books,
• You can buy one with cash, anonymously.
• Then you own it.
• You are not required to sign a license that restricts your use of it.
• The format is known, and no proprietary technology is needed to read the book.
• You can give, lend or sell the book to another.
• You can, physically, scan and copy the book, and it’s sometimes lawful under copyright.
• Nobody has the power to destroy your book.
Contrast that with Amazon ebooks (fairly typical):
• Amazon requires users to identify themselves to get an ebook.
• In some countries, Amazon says the user does not own the ebook.
• Amazon requires the user to accept a restrictive license on use of the ebook.
• The format is secret, and only proprietary user-restricting software can read it at all.
• An ersatz “lending” is allowed for some books, for a limited time, but only by specifying by name another user of the same system. No giving or selling.
• To copy the ebook is impossible due to Digital Restrictions Management in the player.
and prohibited by the license, which is more restrictive than copyright law.
• Amazon can remotely delete the ebook using a back door. It used this back door in 2009 to delete thousands of copies of George Orwell’s 1984.
Even one of these infringements makes ebooks a step backward from printed books. We must reject ebooks until they respect our freedom.
The ebook companies say denying our traditional freedoms is necessary to continue to pay authors. The current copyright system does a lousy job of that; it is much better suited to supporting those companies. We can support authors better in other ways that don’t require curtailing our freedom, and even legalize sharing. Two methods I’ve suggested are:
• To distribute tax funds to authors based on the cube root of each author’s popularity.
• (See http://stallman.org/articles/internet-sharing-license.en.html.)
• To design players so users can send authors anonymous voluntary payments.
Ebooks need not attack our freedom, but they will if companies get to decide. It’s up to us to stop them. The fight has already started.
Copyright 2011 Richard Stallman
Released under Creative Commons Attribution Noderivs 3.0.

Nel 1993 lo scoppio della bomba in via dei Gergofili a Firenze aprì una nuova era: un’era di governanti mafiosi, di intrattenitori e pessimi imprenditori coglioni riciclati in politici, di indagini nelle case dei compagni, di repressione sempre più incalzante.

Oggi, dopo lo spoglio dei voti a Milano e a Napoli, e in altre città italiane, questa era sembra essere giunta al termine.

Nel ’94 Firenze era una città viva che contava 5 centri sociali autogestiti più varie case e palazzine occupate da vari movimenti.
L’anfiteatro delle Cascine garantiva un flusso pressochè ininterrotto di hashish e marijuana nonchè un grande punto di riferimento e luogo di aggregazione per migliaia di giovani tutte le sere da giugno a settembre.

Adesso non voglio dare la colpa della decadenza della mia città solo al centro destra, perchè comunque anche la giunta così detta di sinistra a Firenze ha fatto i suoi lavoracci sporchi e merdosi, ma non posso non essere felice per i risultati di queste elezioni amministrative.

cito da qui http://it.reuters.com/article/topNews/idITMIE74T0GD20110530 :

Voto, De Magistris vince a Napoli, ballottaggi al centrosinistra
lunedì 30 maggio 2011 17:24

ROMA (Reuters) – I candidati di centrosinistra hanno vinto i più importanti ballottaggi per l’elezione a sindaco, in una tornata elettorale a cui lo stesso premier Silvio Berlusconi aveva attribuito nelle scorse settimane un carattere politico nazionale.

A Napoli Luigi De Magistris, candidato dell’Idv e della Federazione della sinistra, che al primo turno aveva superato a sorpresa l’uomo del Pd strappandogli l’accesso al ballottaggio, è al 65,28%, con 700 sezioni scrutinate su 886. Mario Lettieri, candidato del Pdl che aveva vinto al voto del 15-16 maggio, è invece al 38,52%.

A Milano, dove l’affluenza degli elettori non è calata al contrario del resto d’Italia, Giuliano Pisapia, già vincitore del primo turno, è al 55,14% con 1.195 sezioni scrutinate su 1.251, mentre Letizia Moratti, sindaco uscente, è al 44,85%.

A Trieste, città dove il centrodestra si era diviso tra Pdl e Lega Nord, favorendo al primo turno il centrosinistra, e dove l’estrema destra aveva avuto un forte risultato, Roberto Cosolini (Pd) è al 57,45%, quando mancano solo quattro sezioni alla fine dello scrutinio. Roberto Antonioni, del Pdl, ex sottosegretario, è al 42,55%.

A Cagliari è in testa il candidato del centrosinistra Massimo Zedda (Sel) con il 58,78% dei voti, rispetto al 41,22% di Massimo Fantola, con 107 sezioni scrutinate su 175.

A Varese invece i risultati definitivi assegnano la vittoria al centrodestra, con il 53,89% andato a Attilio Fontana, sindaco uscente. Ma a Gallarate, grosso Comune del varesotto dove centrodestra e Lega Nord si erano divisi e al primo turno aveva vinto il centrosinistra, primo cittadino sarà probabilmente Edoardo Guenzani, del Pd, col 54,6% dei voti quando le sezioni scrutinate sono 39 su 49.

Ad Arcore, nota per essere la residenza del premier Berlusconi, il centrosinistra ha vinto col 56,6% di Piera Rosalba Colombo, mentre al centrodestra di Enrico Perego è andato il 44,4%.

Anche a Novara vince il centrosinistra, col 52,91% di Andrea Ballarè Mauro Franzinelli, del centrodestra, è al 47,1%. E a Grosseto, con 67 sezioni su 75 scrutinate, Emilio Bonifazi (Pd), è al 57,31%, contro il 42,68% di Mario Lolini (Pdl).

A Rovigo è invece in testa il candidato del centrodestra Bruno Piva, con il 51,05% dei voti quando mancano 6 sezioni alla fine dello scrutinio. Federico Frigato, del centrosinistra, è al 48,94%.

A Rimini, 100 sezioni su 143, il centrosinistra è primo con Andrea Gnassi, al 52,56%, mentre Gioenzo Renzi, del centrodestra, è al 47,43%

Ieri e oggi si votava anche in Calabria. A Cosenza, il candidato del centrodestra e dell’Udc Mario Occhiuto è al 53,23%, con 76 sezioni scrutinate su 82. Enzo Paolini, del centrosinistra, è al 46,76%.

A Crotone, 62 sezioni su 74, è invece in testa, al 59%, Peppino Vallone, del centrosinistra. Fermo al 40,99% Dorina Bianchi, ex parlamentare Pd poi passata all’Udc, sostenuta dal centrodestra.

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kill fascism everywhere

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Oscar Wilde

“I don’t play with my fingers, I play with my ears.” – Jimi Hendrix

“I quit playing guitar for a few years because I did not want to be part of the guitar gymnastics.” – Frank Zappa

“Good composers borrow, great composers steal.” – Igor Stravinsky

“I don’t know the secret of success, but the secret of failure is to try to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby

“The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.” – Tom Waits

“No listener gives a damn what microphone preamp you used.” – Craig Anderton

“Everyone understands and accepts that the placebo effect is real, but for some reason audiophiles think it never happens to them.” – Unknown

“The most important component in the whole musical spectrum is to be able to transcend and escape your own cliches while holding on to all the things you’ve learned and continue to love about creating music and sharing it.” – Prefuse 73

“Everyone has a plan, untill they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson

“Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.” – Sidney J. Phillips

“Read the labels and play it loud!” – the RZA

inspirational quotes

There will come a time in your life when you will ask yourself a series of questions.
Am I happy with who I am?
Am I happy with the people around me?
Am I happy with what I’m doing?
Am I happy with the way my life is going?
Do I have a life or am I just living?
Do not let these questions strain or trouble you.
Just point youself in the direction of your dreams.
Find your strengh in the sound and make your transition.

Do not spend too much time thinking and not enough doing.
Did I try the hardest at any of my dreams?
Did I purposly let others discourage me when I knew I could?
Will I die never knowing what I could have been or could of done?
Do not let these doubts restrain or trouble you.
Just point yourself in the direction of your dreams.
Find your strength in the sound and make your transition.

There will be people who say you can’t – you will.
There will be people who say you dont mix this with that and you will say “watch me”.
There will be people who will say play it safe, that’s too risky – you will take that chance and have no fear.
You wont let these questions restrain or trouble you.
You will point yourself in the direction of your dreams.
You will find the strength in the sound and make your transition.

For those who know it’s time to leave the house and go back to the field.
Find your strength in the sound and make your transition.

–The Unknown Writer
(Underground Resistance – Transition)

“Where I grew up in Brooklyn, man, a punk was like a wuss, the guy who ran away from the fight. “You’re a punk. You’re a weasel. You’re nothing”. Now it has this connotation of being the tough-guy thing. The revolution, are you kidding? So I liked the word and used the term “punk music mass”, maybe inadvertently trying to turn it into something else. One day I wake up and there’s the word punk all over the place. That’s when it became meaningless to me. Somebody said that Suicide had to be the ultimate punk band because even the punks hated us.”
Alan Vega (2008)

http://www.alanvega.com/

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