I’m a Canadian. We’re a quiet bunch; prone to enjoying hockey, drinking stronger beer than our friends south of the border, and lovers of fries smothered in cheese curds and gravy. We also, apparently, have an inferiority complex when it comes to being evil dirt bags, because we’ve decided to pass our very own version [...]
Archive for January, 2012
A Copyright Quickie: Canada Is About To Pass Sopa’s Evil Little Brother. Politely.
Posted: January 26, 2012 in Culture, Media, PoliticsTags: Censorship, copyright, Media, Piracy, Revolution, SOPA, Users Rights
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The Ethics Of Vigilantism: How Anonymous Is Like Batman, Israel (it’s thin but it’s there) And The American Revolution
Posted: January 22, 2012 in Culture, Politics, TechnologyTags: Anonymous, Batman, Censorship, Israel, Occupy, Revolution, revolutionary, SOPA, vigilante, vigilantism
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere. Thomas Jefferson [...]
The Chromebook One Month Later: Tantalizingly Close, But Still Feels Beta
Posted: January 22, 2012 in UncategorizedReblogged from Non-Tech Tech: {EAV:4c41a062839ce378} Wait. Why Do I Have A Desktop? This is the desktop on my Samsung Chromebook. Two things should jump out at you. 1. It’s awesomely reminiscent of Mac OS (but slightly sexier) and 2. Why the heck do I have a desktop on my Chromebook? The answer to 2 is [...]
Mega Upload Is Dead: A Quick Reminder That You Don’t Run Your Government Anymore
Posted: January 19, 2012 in Culture, Politics, Random Thoughts, TechnologyTags: America, Bankers, crime, Financial Crisis, Hana Amal, Hulu, Mega Upload, Ninjavideo, Occupy Wall St, PIPA, Sony, SOPA, Time Warner, Universal
First, read this. Then, if you have time, read the very long: http://dearthey.com/2010/07/29/government-assasinates-ninjas-to-catch-pirates-its-not-stealing-if-it-isnt-real/ which was my eulogy of sorts for Ninjavideo last year. I’ve been meaning to come back to this for a while. The very real consequence of internet piracy, as we’ve learned from Ninjavideo, and now Mega Upload, is that they’re not just going to [...]
SOPA V. Soapy: In 2012 Government and Big Business Will Understand How Powerless They Are In The Face Of Human Ingenuity
Posted: January 13, 2012 in Culture, TechnologyTags: BitTorrent, Censorship, Congress, GoDaddy, Kazaa, Napster, Netflix, Piracy, Soapy, SOPA
SOPA. The Stop Online Piracy Act. If you have a web browser open for most of the day, or you just happened to have badly misspelled soap in a Google search, you’ve come across SOPA. In short, it’s bad. Cauliflower bad or (if you’re a some kind of deviant who actually likes the flavor of cream [...]
