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beckman466

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About beckman466

smile, you're on camera!

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Beckman is the last name one of my favorite authors: Dutch author Thea Beckman ('Kinderen van moeder aarde'/Thule trilogy, as well as 'Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek'/'Crusade in Jeans')

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    wow they've done it: they've out-exploited an already monsterably ruthless monopoly!

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    Comment #35156084

    not a paper but a project: http://libscie.org

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    Comment #34113049

    Lynn Margulis knows the answer.

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    Comment #32971722

    yeah, sorry, i understood. i think in my mind i was referring to Bill Gates's letter to hobbyists (which is basically that), thanks for the clarification

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    Comment #32971594

    it was a joke.

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    Comment #32953057

    it would be easier if twitter just ported itself to Secure Scuttlebutt or the myriad other p2p/dweb projects.

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    Comment #32925179

    what about 'Entitlement in Closed Source'?

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    Comment #32925030

    -4 downvotes lol. the joke is that the Grand Theft Auto video game series is itself absurdism/satire. so my point is that coca cola is made with the same substance as cocaine. in o…

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    Comment #32902666

    why don't we just open source everything and use peer-to-peer software for a new type of digital networked resource accounting to replace money and privately-owned resource plannin…

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    Comment #32886579

    > (Cara Delevingne) is allegedly a cokehead can't believe she doesn't like pepsi. smh

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    Comment #32819293

    > entire populations do tell us more what you see

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    Comment #32818692

    or not to be

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    Comment #32785462

    we need open book peer-to-peer accounting of resources: mikorizal.org

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    Comment #32717198

    the real question is: why not lend some brain power to an open source project? or write some kick-ass documentation... and always get involved in your local community project /s

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    Comment #32628069

    > it is worth commenting that there are trivial ways to remove DRM from Audible files. say i share with a loved one or close friend the de-DRM'd audiobook. now their computer becom…

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    Comment #32597799

    "a set of intellectual property rights [is] explicitly designed to favour corporations. This system — the flip side of globalisation — is propagated by various trade agreements and…

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    > its chief architect always came off like a schizophrenic do you realize it's our economic system and the perversion of technology to literally criminalize cooperation and the sha…

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    Comment #31978232

    i wish DIY.org (specifically Zack Klein -and team's earlier versions) was available as free/open source software libraries (and not just available for kids). a decommoditized, adve…

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    Comment #31902642

    this is a great strategy and a patriotic one even, i mean, just imagine if the NSA were to lose their copy of your data and they'd actually need access to it. then they could just …

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    welcome to techno-feudalism.