Hi. I'm a Free Software hacker and activist (born on the 5th of Nisan 5742); proselytizing for the adoption of the GNU system and the anthropological human moral philosophy of the Free Software movement.
I identify w/a form of Libertarian Socialism within the framework of a market-free non-commodity producing subsistence society, enjoy reading imaginative literature, lisp hacking, maths hacking (homological algebra, harmonic proportions and forms :), and listening to bitpop (viz; Welle:Erdball).
Were I to vote, it sure as fock wouldn't be for the polyarchical single party system, that's the business party, having two factions in the same camp, that's Democrats and Republicans; they are proconsuls to business. So to the extent that "voting" is a metaphorical bayonet and really a joke... I would definitely vote Nader.
I know truth in veganism, non-violence, and Bhakti Yoga.
My primary operating system and the one I recommend to people is the modified GNU system; GNU/Linux. Please click here for a list of freedom respecting distributions of GNU/Linux; I use gNewSense.
CheckPointUSA is a youtube profile (and web site) w/a collection of incidents capturing clear police misconduct, intimidation, and abuse. Please note that the clips are in Flash and the only program to play all Flash videos is non-free software. Further, Flash videos contain MPEG4 format which is patented. To view them w/Free Software you can use GNU Gnash or ffplay from the ffmpeg project, among other alternatives. Withal, a script written in python to retrieve youtube videos is available here
James Chasse was murdered by agents of injustice simply because he "acted strangely". The officers involved have yet to be held accountable for murdering him.
Vegan recipes submitted to me by friends; click here.
Please see lirhost for a web page and space (: like this one).
PETA needs to rethink some of its actions; PETA-Kills.
I stand with you Leonard, in solidarity; this man ought to be immediately released.
Consider one non-technical way to help the Free Software movement by donating money to the Free Software Foundation; The FSF funds Free Software development and remains the leading sponsor of the GNU project.
Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg
"Not all lies are untrue. Here, the lie isn't in what he's telling you, but in what he's not." --F. Almanac 2006
"For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared." --Aurelius Augustinus 397 AD
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." --W. Churchill
"that all servitude is voluntary and the slave is more despicable than the tyrant is hateful." --G.A. Borgese
"By themselves, rulers cannot collect taxes, enforce repressive laws and regulations, keep trains running on time, prepare national budgets, direct traffic, manage ports, print money, repair roads, keep markets supplied with food, make steel, build rockets, train the police and army, issue postage stamps or even milk a cow. People provide these services to the ruler through a variety of organizations and institutions. If people would stop providing these skills, the ruler could not rule." --Dr.Gene Sharp
"Violence is the last refuge of the weak." --Jorge Luis Borges
"Everything that is harmoniously constituted is knit together out of opposites and, of course, out of real things; for neither can non-existent things be set in harmony, nor can things that exist, but are like one another, nor yet things that are different, but have no relation one to another. It remains, accordingly, that those things out of which a harmony is made are both real, different, and things with some relation to one another" --Nicomachus
"History reveals the Church and the State as a pair of indispensable Molochs. They protect their worshiping subjects, only to enslave and destroy them. The relations between social organizations and the individuals who live under them is symbolically expressed by the word "shepherd," as applied to the priests and ruler, who like to think of themselves as G-d's earthly representatives, and even to G-d himself [...] We never pause to relfect that a shepherd is "not in business for his health," still less for the health of his sheep. If he takes good care of the animals, it is in order that he may rob them of their wool and milk, castrate their male offspring and finally cut their throats and convert them into mutton." --A. L. H.
"the human brain receives several billion signals a minute. your brain is being flooded with millions of coded messages from all parts of your body every second. most of us most of the time are completely blocked from awareness of the information which is flooding into our nervous system. often people during lsd sessions get trapped where their consciousness floats into one of these areas of the nervous system, to be lost there because you don't recognize it, and is suffered a tremendous anguish, or experience incredible new ecstasies as you whirl through this center, to slowly dissolve and go back down the history of your own nervous system, and experience the ecstasy of the root beginnings. but the terror is that you'll never get back, or that you'll slowly spiral down some central sewer in the middle of this universe, bloop, that'll be the end of you, at that point you'll be grabbing, struggling, to pull out of this, and the advice is, recognize this and float with it." --Timothy Leary (BA from UA in Psychology; MA from WSU in Psychology; PhD from UC in Psychology)
"The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero." --Ilya Prigogine (Chemist-Physicist) Recipient of two Nobel Prizes in chemistry
"Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today." --David Bohm
"When we kill our brother, we kill ourselves." --Carl Sagan
"G-d has not called me to be successful; He has called me to be faithful." --Mother Teresa
"All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers." --Francois Fenelon
"Don't be afraid to expose your own flaws and examine yourself, because what can defile a man can deliver a man." --Paraphrased
"Before I was your little son, before I was your baby, your dependent, I was a free spirit in the next stage of life. I walked in the cosmos not imprisoned by a body of flesh, but free in a body of light, I knew all things, there were no questions only answers, no weaknesses only strength, I was light, I was truth, I was a spiritual being, I was a g-d... but you had to fock! and bring my arse down here!" --Sam Kinison
"Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable." --Terence McKenna
"I had a lot of friends who were sent to mental hospitals instead of universities. Most people would think that's too bad but I think they came out with more cylinders than many who went to university." --Dr.Richard Alpert; Stanford graduate, Harvard professor, researcher in human consciousness
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." --Albert Pine
"For example, unlike humans, all natural meat-eaters manufacture their own vitamin C, whereas we need to consume vitamin C in fruits and vegetables. True carnivores perspire through their tongues rather than through their skin. Natural meat-eaters have sharp, pointy front teeth, sharp and jagged molars, and a tooth- bone density that's many times greater than that of humans, which enables them to crunch through the bones of their prey. Carnivores have no digestive enzymes in their saliva at all, and their digestive acids are many times more acidic than those of humans, so the bacteria from rotting flesh won't kill them. Natural meat-eaters have jaws that move only vertically, instead of in a grinding motion as ours do, and they don't chew food their they just rip and swallow. Carnivores have claws to rip their prey apart instead of sensitive fingers for plucking. They have intestinal tracts that are only three times their body length, which enables them to eject rotting flesh quickly. No matter how much saturated fat and cholesterol they consume, natural meat-eaters never develop atherosclerosis, the heart disease that consistently kills more human beings in the industrialized world than any other cause of death." --Bruce Friedrich
"In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my room; I find her not. My house is small and what once has gone from it can never be regained. But infinite is thy mansion, my Lord, and seeking her I have come to thy door. I stand under the golden canopy of thine evening sky and I lift my eager eyes to thy face. I have come to the brink of eternity from which nothing can vanish--no hope, no happiness, no vision of a face seen through tears. Oh, dip my emptied life into the ocean, plunge it into the deepest fullness. Let me for once feel that lost sweet touch in the allness of the universe." --Tagore, from Gitanjali, LXXXVII.
"People that want to control [...] anything that gives the power to change reality to the individual, to every inclusive individual, well you (statists) can't have that happening." --Timothy Leary
"The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level as the level we created them at." --Albert Einstein
"I don't want anything. I exist only to serve others." --Neem Karoli Baba.
"O journeyer, deaf in the mould, insane with violent travel & death: consider me in my cast, your first son. Would you were I by now another one, witted, legged? I see you before me plain (I am skilled: I hear, I see)" --John Berryman
"Being a man or being a woman has nothing to do with your genitalia; it has to do with what's right here in your heart, and what's in your mind." --Robert Eads
"In other words, a peaceful man is the first criterion if you want to have a peaceful universe. You start with the universe you've got, which is your own being; and if you're angry, you can't be angry about peace because all you're creating is more anger in the world, rather than more peace. So whatever you're going doing to do, you've got to do it peacefully... you've got to do it with peace in your heart if it has anything to do with peace." --Ram Dass
"You must be the change you wish to see." --Mahatma Gandhi
"The dust of the universities is draped like a death veil over the truth" --Edgar Froese
"But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence." --MLK
"The natural impulse of the primitive man to strike back, to avenge a wrong, is out of date." --Red Emma
"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." --Alfred Adler
"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause." --Henri Bergson
"Everyone has their point of view and everyones' point of view is absolutely valid, you know, for them, a monarch; don't get caught in your point of view or you will impale yourself on your point of view. --Timothy Leary
"Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!" --Karl Marx
"There are many causes for which I am prepared to die for, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill." --Gandhi
"The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer -- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer." --Ken Kesey
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves." --Bill Hicks
"In other words, all of us are more the same than we are different. That we give overwhelming attention to our perceived differences gives rise to much of the human drama." --Ingo Swann
WikiLeaks is [a] developing a[n] uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis.
Oregon ACLU is my local chapter.
FlexYourRights is a non-profit organization w/a mission to inform and educate the citizenry to know and assert their rights.
Revolution-Books: a great source of printed material.
GNU IceCat: a free software web browser; the binaries released by the Mozilla project are non-free and they recommend non-free software.
GTK-Gnutella: a free software p2p client; share and exchange digital information!
Privoxy: free software to help improve security and privacy.
CookieSafe: free software to help manage web browser cookie permissions.
NoReferer: free software to help control the http referer your web browser sends; this improves privacy.
AdblockPlus: free software to help against web browser spam.
NoScript: free software to help improve web browser security.
Copwatch: a database of citizen complaints against police.
Tor: free software to help circumvent network surveillance and censorship.
Scroogle: never google; you are entitled to privacy and anonymity.
IMC: great news resource; the media systems are oligopolies and corporate so choose real news like indymedia.
thepiratebay: a bittorrent tracker. please read this for why you ought to reject the terms "pirate" and "piracy" when it's applied to software and digital information; in fact, just avoid it altogether unless you are talking about pillaging and murdering on the high-seas.
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I typed this page in GNU Emacs; viva la Free Software! Also I would like to thank Joakim for helping me with it.
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