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Osama who?

> Am I the only one concerned with how these services can be used to funnel money to Mexican drug cartels and terrorists?

Probably.

Going with the majority opinion, even when wrong, is an excellent way to maintain errors in thinking and in fact.

Wikipedia is an ok MMORPG but a failure as a reliable repository of useful knowledge.

This is why wikipedia is a failure:

"....Another editor cheerfully tutored me in what this means: "Wikipedia is not 'truth,' Wikipedia is 'verifiability' of reliable sources. Hence, if most secondary sources which are taken as reliable happen to repeat a flawed account or description of something, Wikipedia will echo that." http://chronicle.com/article/The-Undue-Weight-of-Truth-on/13...

My posts have been actively deleted, not just caught in a spam trap.

I'be had discussions with subreddit moderators and reddit admins. The majority of them dislike my political opinions, thus the active censorship.

To restate my point: reddit has been actively deleting unpopular political opinion long before they thought about restricting kiddie porn.

That kind of prioritizing is what's been instrumental in the herd of geniuses that now inhabit reddit.

> more than a little repulsive to see people up in arms about it.

Agreed. Equating free speech with the ability to trade in sexual images of children is about the low-water mark for political philosophy applied to communications tech.

All that being said, I miss the pre-AOL usenet.

> So where is this global wireless electricity transfer technology, after so many decades?

Probably in the same place as the liquid fluoride thorium reactors.

> I don't know what you said

The below article was deleted from the queue in r/politics and I've been unable to post articles in politics and a few other subreddits ever since, using a particular handle from a particular IP.

Ron Paul’s Challenge to the Left: http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/07/a-question-of-morality-ron...

My point stands: reddit has been complicit in silencing political opinion long before it began worrying about whether child porn should be allowed or not.

I've been told, by a drunken reddit admin in a late night talk, that no one likes my opinions and I should just go away. True to form, callow youth are generally the most sure of their own views while also being sure that everyone else is wrong.

> Reddit is a private organization, and they don't have to give a damn about freedom of speech.

Agreed. They should stop acting like they care when they don't.

> Back when there was usenet

NNTP is still alive. : )

I've been banned from posting articles on some larger subreddits some time ago. My political, economic and historical opinions aren't welcome for some reason.

My point? Reddit began banning political opinion long before it banned kiddie porn. Reddit's admins don't give a damn about freedom of speech and opinion.

> On the other hand: What took ’em so long?

Speaking as an interested outside observer, my opinion is that the personal connections between a few of these subreddit owners and reddit's admins were a stumbling block. Business and PR is now overwhelming those friendships.

As nanotech increases in dominance, perhaps someday we can just make our own wireless ad hoc hardware as you describe. As the overall push is toward decentralized services and utilities, hardware is already starting to mirror reality, slow as it may be.

History is on infinite repeat, unless....:

Tesla Plunges After Morgan Stanley Reduces Automaker’s Price Target by 37%

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-08/tesla-plunges-after...

While Tesla was researching wireless electricity, he was being supported by JP Morgan. Morgan had an interest in what was then a monopoly on copper. That monopoly wanted their copper wires to rule the world, not free wireless power. Tesla's vision of helping humanity didn't fit into the designs of a monopoly, so Morgan made sure Tesla's research went nowhere.

As Morgan said, "If anyone can draw on the power, where do we put the meter?" Tesla's mistake, as brilliant as he was, was his inability or unwillingness to see how the Dogs of Money keep all the good scraps for themselves. I know many brilliant people today with the same difficulty.

I had 2000+ friends. I deleted my account two weeks ago and it should be gone by tomorrow.

I have no more interest in monetizing my connections for the benefit of a small group of people I don't even like or respect.

I was surprised to realize how many DNS requests originating out of Fortune 500 companies were being handled by the FBI. I was unaware of it till now.

"I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here."

"They trust me. Dumb fucks." -MZ

> Every country has the right to determine who can enter its borders.

Every government, legitimate or not, has the power to decree who may or may not enter the country.

There's a huge difference between a power and a right.

> Of course the US pressured Sweden to prosecute a group harming its economy/trade interests.

Except that Hollywood is making more money than ever.

This is about cultural hegemony and economic gatekeepers. Please don't be deluded into thinking it's about law.

For those that don't take the time to read the blog post, the takeaway:

"Today I urge everyone to make sure that the entertainment industry does not profit from them anymore. Stop seeing their movies. Stop listening to their music. Make sure that you find alternative ways to culture. I’ve founded Flattr.com, which allows you to support people that create directly instead of going through the corrupt entertainment industry. Use it in solidarity to the creators, and to your fellow citizen. Or start a competitor. Spread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse, use, abuse. Make sure noone controls your mind. Create new systems and technology that circumvent the corruption. Start a religion. Start your own nation, or buy one. Buy a bus. Crush it to pieces.

Always act with intent and maintain hardline kopimi."

The advice to developers to never tie your business model to a third-party platform holds true for us lusers of those platforms: don't depend on a third-party platform for your online presence.

I wonder if the timeline being made mandatory is tied to the IPO somehow.

Graphene filters combined with SODIS methods would be the ticket.

http://www.sodis.ch

How many Google execs that are formulating and implementing these policies spent their formative years on irc, usenet or on web boards being "ultim8haxor" or "l33tGOD"?

This is akin to Metallica's BS move regarding tapers after gaining their position because of tapers. You can't ever really trust people that forget where they come from.

> But Hollywood funds artists

I'm an artist, a musician to be precise. I've done ok for myself without Hollywood. I've known many artists that have been wrecked by Hollywood's promises of wealth and fame, far more than have benefited from it.

Hollywood needs to die and let the next model(s) of the marriage of art and business thrive. I actually envy the younger generation of musicians that have been raised to think of producing and distributing their own work rather than depend on a larger, centralized entity for their livelihoods.

This makes more sense than "Anonymous" taking down .gov websites in a coordinated attack.

"Anonymous" is so handy, if they didn't exist the government would just have to invent them.

> we live in a plutocracy

I prefer the word "synarchism", as used by Fairbank and King:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synarchy#China