Personal Privacy

Privacy is a funny issue for a lot of people, they are so willing to yield so much of their privacy to people who tell them its for “their safety”, yet will squawk like a chicken if they find out that their public posts to twitter are being indexed by a company (or a government [...]

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Free Software is Libre

Free Software to me is more of a lifestyle choice than just “what applications are going onto my computer. Sure free software typically provides more features with a better community than proprietary alternatives, however, it also offers more: It teaches us that many individuals contributing small amounts of time to the greater good, can accomplish [...]

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Criminal of Innocence

Charlie walked into class on Wednesday, like he did every Wednesday (and as he did every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday as well). This was, however, not an average Wednesday, as after the announcements were over, a girl walked into his class room, and delivered the Mr. Wiener (pronounced Whiner, but this did not stop [...]

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Some People Will Lose Their Jobs in the Digital Revolution

The concept that file sharing will be the destruction of jobs within the movie and music fields, as a legitimate argument against it has always intrigued me. We do not continue using horse and buggy, just to ensure that horseshoe makers still have job… We have not made buying cars illegal because they are made [...]

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Civil Liberwhats?

Government needs revolution to ensure that it remembers who it answers to, men need revolution so they can remember what its like to have a pair, and women need revolution to get the men out of the house, and to weed out the idiots. The number one epidemic in my mind for the United States [...]

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