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Lost Liberty

libervisco — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:39:17 -0400

An excellent and intriguing video ad for a site which aims to "strike the hidden root of violence"; Lost Liberty Cafe. Violence is oppositional to liberty, but unfortunately most people don't see the sources of violence hidden in plain sight because they learned to doublethink it away.

Surveillance Self-Defense

libervisco — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:47:32 -0400

Electronic Frontier Foundation has established a Surveillance Self-Defense site at ssd.eff.org which appears to be a rather complete resource on how to legitimately defend yourself from government (and other) surveillance. I found this from this article which among other things also points out why this isn't just something for those who have something to hide. Quoting:

Microsoft suit over FAT patents could open OSS Pandora's Box

libervisco — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:26:06 -0500

"Microsoft has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against TomTom alleging that the device maker's products, including some that are Linux-based, infringe on patents related to Microsoft's FAT32 filesystem. This marks the first time that Microsoft has enforced its FAT patents against the Linux platform, a move that some free software advocates have long feared could be disastrous."

The next frontier: 'Seasteading' the oceans

libervisco — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:52:34 -0500

An article about a new movement (and an institute to go with it) of seasteading, that is, homesteading the high seas as the new frontier of colonization. It would allow those who long for independence of the current governments to break free and build sea based societies of their own.

Being forward looking and ambitious I think of seasteading as no more impossible than building space stations in Earth's orbit or even colonizing Moon, Mars and beyond. Just because it hasn't successfully been done just yet doesn't mean it cannot be done, naysayers be damned.

Authors: Beware of Copyright

libervisco — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:01:53 -0500

When an author signs a publication contract, insofar as it contains strict and traditional copyright notices, he is pretty much signing his life away. It used to be that the publisher would maintain control only so long as the book is in print. Today, with digital printing, this means forever: your lifetime plus 70 years.

Some of us may live forever (video overview)

libervisco — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:57:00 -0500

Morgan Webb brings an overview of three very interesting TED talks, about aging prevention or life extension, technological transformation of humanity (Kurzweil's singularity) and regrowing of body parts. She also links to the full talks at TED.com.

Banking Crisis of 2008

frobnitzem — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:44:18 -0400

Our economy is being hit hard by the failure of the banking system on many levels. What can we do about it?

Liberation by Internet

libervisco — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:22:41 -0400

An excellent article about the power of internet as means of attaining more liberty. It helped end the Soviet Union and continues to help liberate people from oppression of big governments, while being far more efficient than government's methods of controlling it.

The Market Loves Linux (That's Why It's Thriving)

libervisco — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:09:14 -0400

An excellent article about GNU/Linux and Freedomware from a libertarian perspective (which I personally share).

A great excerpt:

Daniel Coleman wrote:

Safe in our cages

libervisco — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:19:18 -0400

To all of the ignorant idiots of the UK, and sadly, the western world at large, will you celebrate the onset of what you've been, through your idiocracy and ignorance building? Huh?

Where are you now?

When is anyone going to realize that Orwell's "1984" is not science fiction anymore? Read this and celebrate... or weep, weep hard for letting your ignorance, stupidity and self-betrayal mark your contribution to the reality you're living in: