Sipsey Street Irregulars: Remember: "Can't stop the signal" works both ways, just like tracers.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Remember: "Can't stop the signal" works both ways, just like tracers.

A tip of the boonie hat to Brother John for these links:

Cell phones are 'Stalin's dream,' says free software movement founder.

NASA Building Network of Smart Cameras Across the US. Of course the latter are looking up, not down. Give 'em time, I reckon.

4 comments:

Dedicated_Dad said...: How can someone of Stallman's obvious intelligence not see that the worm has turned and "big business" is no longer the real bogeyman?

How can he support the rioting tyrants in WI?

I've finally figured out that what we think of when we use the word "Government" -- CONgress, POTUS and SCOTUS -- aren't even CLOSE to being the *REAL* problem.

It doesn't matter WHO we elect - the REAL Leviathan rolls on, unchanged. It is the career bureaucrats who wrote the "rules" that we're imprisoned for daring to violate.

It is they who decide who to arrest, who to prosecute on what charge, they who set the "limits" of emissions and other points...

And - like SCOTUS - they have "lifetime appointments" as it's damn near impossible to fire them once they've achieved "tenure."

All of this *MIGHT* be acceptable - if not for the mandatory-participation of "public-sector" unions. If nothing else has been proven, it should be obvious that THE UNIONS are now the *REAL* power of our .gov -- they tell their members how to act, what to do and what NOT to do.

THEY are the "shadow-governmemt" and the ones we should really fear.

In sum, until we can figure out how to clean-house and get rid of these miscreants, any real "change" is IMPOSSIBLE!

DD; March 16, 2011 at 2:15 PM
Anonymous said...: DD-

Because Stallman is a bit of a collectivist wingnut?

It took years of arm twisting from the OSS community to get him to admit that someone somewhere making money from software might be an okay thing to let happen - not just in support.

To Stallman, software should be free. Especially yours.

*ahem*

Not that I know a thing about it.; March 16, 2011 at 6:20 PM
Anonymous said...: Dude uses a 900 megahertz computer and runs an OS that doesn't support anything. This is 15-20 years after this movement started. Sarcastically, way to go.

But it's good to know I'm not alone with not having a cell phone. It's me and a guy who eats nothing but tree bark and soy ice cream and probably smells like feet.; March 17, 2011 at 3:12 AM
Anonymous said...: http://www.meritline.com/cell-phone-signal-blocker-pouch-black---p-65009.aspx?source=fghdac; March 17, 2011 at 7:15 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Remember: "Can't stop the signal" works both ways, just like tracers.

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