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1 month ago
in Neo-Progressivism watch: online collectivism as the 3rd way that works on eaves.ca
I would say calling most open source projects socialist would be a huge misuse of the term. Socialism implies top-down rule, whereas in most open source communities, it is the bottom-up structure that works.
It is also not socialism because there is no explicit force. No open source application is attempting to force others to use it, only to persuade them to use it through the usage of logic. Nor would an group strong enough to do so, work in an open source manner.
The New Deal type programs are actually the most socialist programs in America.
Kelly's assertion, "The more we benefit from such collaboration, the more open we become to socialist institutions in government.", can be proven wrong by looking at the difference between forced collaboration, and free collaboration. Free collaboration leads to a prospering civilization, whereas forced collaboration leads to a corrupt and weak society.
It is also not socialism because there is no explicit force. No open source application is attempting to force others to use it, only to persuade them to use it through the usage of logic. Nor would an group strong enough to do so, work in an open source manner.
The New Deal type programs are actually the most socialist programs in America.
Kelly's assertion, "The more we benefit from such collaboration, the more open we become to socialist institutions in government.", can be proven wrong by looking at the difference between forced collaboration, and free collaboration. Free collaboration leads to a prospering civilization, whereas forced collaboration leads to a corrupt and weak society.
9 months ago
in Michael Moore’s 10 Point Plan on SEO, Web Design and Costa Rica
Points 1 and 2 are on the money. Point three is what is suppose to happen. Point 4 causes problem number 6. Instead, we own you, we remove any power you have, and we dump you would be a better strategy. In fact, I think it's called bankruptcy.
On point 5, change 'all' to 'most'. Not all regulations are needed. In truth, not all regulations are needed. Eventually bad business models fail, and when they do, they fail hard causing a depression. If people learned this, they wouldn't create mega-entities.
On point 6, that's just another regulation, and while it's a good one because it stops massive failures and huge scams, it is still technically unneeded, but still massively wanted.
On point 7, see point 6, and notice the 'huge scams' part.
On point 8, look at problem 6, with the Too Big to Fail thing. If you give too much power to the central gov't, when it falls, you create a huge depression.
On point 9, I'll just give a 'duh' to this, and be in agreement.
On point 10, I disagree because of the bystander effect. If we all own it, nobody will give it responsibility because they can rely on everybody else to. Instead, let businesses that are not in control of gov't (or gov't controlled) create monetary policy for their currencies. The thing here though, is that this is also idealistic, as it would in effect create a more fascist gov't. That is something we don't want.
On point 5, change 'all' to 'most'. Not all regulations are needed. In truth, not all regulations are needed. Eventually bad business models fail, and when they do, they fail hard causing a depression. If people learned this, they wouldn't create mega-entities.
On point 6, that's just another regulation, and while it's a good one because it stops massive failures and huge scams, it is still technically unneeded, but still massively wanted.
On point 7, see point 6, and notice the 'huge scams' part.
On point 8, look at problem 6, with the Too Big to Fail thing. If you give too much power to the central gov't, when it falls, you create a huge depression.
On point 9, I'll just give a 'duh' to this, and be in agreement.
On point 10, I disagree because of the bystander effect. If we all own it, nobody will give it responsibility because they can rely on everybody else to. Instead, let businesses that are not in control of gov't (or gov't controlled) create monetary policy for their currencies. The thing here though, is that this is also idealistic, as it would in effect create a more fascist gov't. That is something we don't want.
11 months ago
in Power Gone… Growing Cold… Send Help to Summit on In Pursuit of Mysteries
The good news is that the worlds time system is standardized (or standardised). Rawr!
1 year ago
in Remixing the Mozilla Manifesto on eaves.ca
Hey, you are doing things with the manifesto. How about adding an IRC channel for it?
irc://irc.mozilla.org/manifesto maybe? It'd be a nice place to talk about it...
irc://irc.mozilla.org/manifesto maybe? It'd be a nice place to talk about it...
