random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
  Freedom has to be won, and, more importantly, the consequences of freedom have to be lived. You do not win freedom of information by filching data from a corporate warehouse, or begging the authorities to kindly abandon their monopolies, copyrights and patents. You have to create that freedom by a deliberate act of will, think it up, assemble it, sacrifice for it, make it free to others who have a similar will to live that freedom

tagged: freedom, copyright, intellectual property, patent, monopolies, living free, revolution
  —Bruce Sterling, "The Manifesto of January 3, 2000", posting to Viridian list.

Archive for June, 2009

resurrecting my old abortion rights button

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

“I’m pro-choice and I shoot back.”
It’s not strictly true since I don’t own a gun.
I love how Bill O’Reilly freely tosses around incendiary rhetoric (arguably, “inciting violence”) but is so incapable of taking responsibility or acknowledging his own words. Why is he a frickin’ pundit talking head if he thinks his words [...]