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From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:22 Norbert Wiener * * A light quantum is a very small thing, but it turns out the energy * transfer which is necessary for an effective information coupling * is quite small. * * Thus, for the leaf of a tree, photosynthesis uses radiation from the * sun to form starch and other complicated chemicals necessary for life, * out of the simpler atoms of water and the carbon dioxide of the air. * * An enormous local decrease in entropy may be associated with quite a * moderate energy transfer. Sunshine on a photosynthesising leaf. The Sun as direct life-giver. Causing matter to become more complex: simple atoms transformed to more complex molecules. On purpose, to sustain life. Ground zero, a soup-of-life mixture zapped with energy: Scientists have absolutely no problem creating amino acids - the building blocks of all life - from constituent chemicals. It takes a Darwinian amount of time to get higher-evolved life forms, but it eventually happens. This property of matter to spontaneously become more complex is called negentropy (negative entropy), and it means 'matter formatted by information'. * "Platform for Change", by Stafford Beer, 1978, ISBN 0 471 06189 1 * * We human beings mean more than the few-pence-worth of our chemical * constituents, because information *informs* those component chemicals * by means of a genetic blueprint. * * Life itself is a negentropy pump. The universe means more than a * collapsed energetic equation of 'x-heat = x-cold = nothing', because * information structures the balance. The result is the sun, moon and * stars... We have a lot o
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 22:38 ". I think it's pretty obvious why company traffic involving company systems is monitored. After all, companies aren't democracies. Finally, I should point out that all the people at both sites were told repeatedly that Internet email was being monitored; this includes all traffic picked up by my JobTalk analytic: > Salomon site. > > All sites start out with the employment contract stating unequivocally > that the systems are the company's and are to be used only for work > purposes. And that they are subject to inspection. You signed it. > > Salomon's goes further by stating the firm's computer systems may be > audited and that they have the right to do so even if you have put > personal information on the system. > > After the first couple of months of security incidents at Salomon, > they began issuing global email broadcasts saying that a new security > package "Internet Risk Management: email facility" had been installed, > and that Internet email traffic was actively being monitored. > > Th
From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 19:52 of drug use, * and some may even attempt suicide out of their shame. Thank you very much Free World Leaders for that intelligent discourse on marijuana. What would we do without you? We love being your lemmings. Keep beating the Drums so we can march into your ocean of insanity. "Zero Tolerance" is an extremely dangerous attitude to have regarding crime. Zero Tolerance by definition means excessive vigilancy. # "War on Drugs Runs Up Against the 4th Amendment" # By Tony Mauro, USA Today # # J. LeWayne Kelly went to the Austin, Texas, airport two months ago. # # But because he's black, dressed casually and wore expensive cowboy boots, # he soon was surrounded by strangers---police who suspected him of being # a drug courier. # # Mr. Kelly had gone to the airport only TO PICK UP A FRIEND. # # He felt numb, agreed to be searched because he didn't want to get beaten. # # Kelly tried an experiment. He had a white friend WEAR THE SAME OUTFIT he # had worn that day and retrace his steps at the airport. # # Police gave the friend not even a glance. # # His lawyer filed a class-action suit in a Texas state court. # # "The Supreme Court has hobbled the Fourth Amendment so much that I # never even thought about filing in Federal court." A major foobar in Zero Tolerance mania occurred when the government seized a ship over a couple joints. The government had seized the ship from itself. The Drug War. The Drug War. The Drug War. The Drug War. The Drug War. Hear it enough times and you believe it is a national security problem. Rather than an entirely domestic consumer problem. Yes, the drugs - a HUGE amount of drugs - cross our national bor
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:53 to # access information stored in the card, issue an electronic ticket right on # the spot with the fines and other information embedded into the smart card # chip itself. When the driver goes to the bank to pay his/her fines, the # penalty will be deducted from the memory chip. Our Military contractors are making money issuing China citizens a National ID Card??? Our we thinking of what the Communists will do with it??? * "China Tells Internet Users To Register With Police" * The New York Times, 2/15/1996 * * China ordered all users of the Internet to register with the police, as * part of an effort to tighten control over information. * * The order came from the Ministry of Public Security. * * Network users have been warned not to harm national security, or to * disseminate pornography. Well, there's a new way to control Internet users: require them to identify themselves, no doubt your U.S.-created National ID Card will be required for access. That ought to stop pornography: identify each and every user. # "The Great Firewall of China", by Geremie R. Barme & Sang Ye, Wired, 6/97 # # Xia Hong, China InfoHighway's PR man: "The Internet has been an important # technical innovator, but we need to add another element, and that is # control. The new generation of information superhighway needs a traffic # control center. It needs highway patrols; USERS WILL REQUIRE DRIVER'S # LICENSES. THESE ARE THE BASIC REQUIREMENTS FOR ANY CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT." In dissenting on the unconstitutionality of the CDA, which attempted to censor the Internet, Supreme Court Justice O'Connor, together with the Chief Justice, said CDA will be legal as soon as: "it becomes technologically feasib
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:31
have required it for all users of a * National Job Training and Employment database. * * George Orwell, in 1984, his classic novel of Big Brother and a coming * totalitarian state, observed that very few people are awake and alert * to the machinations and manipulations of the controllers. Thus, the * people, as a whole, fall victim to a colossal conspiracy out of ignorance * and because of apathy and denial of reality: * * The people could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of * reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was * demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public * events to notice what was happening. [ By Walter Cronkite: "Orwell's '1984'---Nearing?", NYT, June 5 1983 In our world, where a Vietnam village can be destroyed so it can be saved; where the President names the latest thing in nuclear missiles "Peacekeeper"---in such a world, can the Orwellian vision be very far a |