You are poor if you spend more time on other peoples projects than your own or projects you want to do.
You may have a million dollar house but if you have to work other peoples projects to pay for it, leaving you little time to create things on your own terms, you're still poor.
On the other hand, people who have nothing but their...
It can be done for good reasons and fair trades of possible futures, but it can also be used in a very dangerous and powerful way, which we can all more often avoid by being aware of the paradigm and how it can be used positively or negatively.
In the Saw movies, people find themself in a world they want to escape. They are given a list of...
The sticker network is a network made with wirelless stickers.
Control over the internet leads to a new form of independent network: the sticker network. This is in fact an open internet wich may interconnect wirelless routers or work as standalone. All you have to do is stick arround. Glue stickers everywhere.
Large quantities of stickers are...
Trade Secrets and NonDisclosure Agreements are a plague on reusing valuable knowledge and tools.
Some tools are shared, at a price that can just barely compete with open source, but mostly businesses Reinvent The Wheel because they dont want other businesses to benefit from what they've created for their private strategy to dominate a market....
This is a plan to solve a big problem everyone on Earth will soon have if we don't start working on a solution. The solution I'm looking for is technical but can quickly be calculated with pen and paper. Its a way of us observing eachother and keeping track of who can and can't be contacted, to make sure the reasons for anyone's unexpected...
What do the US Diplomatic Cables - released by WikiLeaks - reveal about the state of the African continent [country-by-country]?
Sudan
The Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, stole $9bn of Sudan's public money, and stashed it in UK banks. The Lloyds Banking Group is name checked in the cables as one of the banks who accepted this money. Lloyds...
Most of us 7 billion people are fed up with the way the world works.
Whoever is ready to change things... We will commit to do the following only if others do the following, but if it doesn't work out nobody has to do it. uses a similar model for charity funding for unusual projects... the funding gets to a certain level by a certain date or...
We sovereign intelligent life forms (from now on, called "people") commit to live by the view that there is no higher authority on Earth than majority commitment of the global population, therefore if a majority commits to something then indirectly all others are committed to it too, but indirect commitments do not count votes toward...
Going by the standard of supply and demand, a Human life is worth as much as it costs to save the cheapest Human life, unless some people are worth more than others.
I asked how much it costs to save the cheapest million Human lives on average in and indirectly explained how peoples' actions and what they think it costs contradict.
Here is...
Everyone gets as few or as many votes as they want. Nobody needs to be identified because there is no limit on how many votes each person can create.
How could such a system work? Why wouldn't people just vote millions of times? They may, but that won't give them more influence. Its not about the number of votes. Its about the patterns of...
They are becoming the same subject through unusual experiments. In recent years, some of the subjective experiences and things that were believed on faith are being scientifically proven. We now know that thinking certain things can directly cause other things to change from thousands of miles away. We're not sure why it happens, but we know it...
What if the revolution doesn't need a name? Or leaders? Or a formal agenda?
The most wonderful thought could be this: shit happens. Perhaps this is a uniquely Australian idiom, perhaps not - and I don't wish to offend with profanity, we Australians swear a lot, and this phrase has even been used by a Parliamentarian in a memorable impromptu...
Words themselves are becoming antiquated. Rarely enough do we even find an
arrangement as worthy as these:
Today, Homo sapiens is faced with a rapid modification of his environment, a transformation for which he is the involuntary collective agent. I am not implying that our species is threatened with extinction or that the “end of the...