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a waste in any case

Posted Feb 1, 2006 18:44 UTC (Wed) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227)
In reply to: a waste in any case by b7j0c
Parent article: iPods for Senators

"you have to see government as an obstacle,"

... and do what about it?

Take up arms and revolt? Shoot people? Because we can't download music and share it?

The government is not an obstacle, it's simply a problem. Obstacles, you avoid. Problems, you fix. The government needs to be convinced that we are right. There is no other viable solution. None.

(Western) Government exists for the people. It was founded by the people. In order to serve the people. The US government wasn't founded so our fore fathers could control us, it was founded because any sufficiently large group of people require governence in order to coexist and work together, just like an Open Source project needs a maintainer. Our government as, in some (but only some) areas, strayed. Ignoring it will not fix any problem. Only by realigning the government with the interests of the people it was founded to serve will improve the state of affairs.

Anything else is unenlightened anarchy.

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a waste in any case

Posted Feb 2, 2006 7:10 UTC (Thu) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link]

>> The government needs to be convinced that we are right. There is no other viable solution. None.

convinced you are right about what? that free music is neat? i doubt you would find one lawmaker who would find issue with your desire to freely copy media if that is what the original author authorizes.

you have two choices in govt - one branch of the property party or the other, to paraphrase gore vidal.