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glen ropella on
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Steve Smith wrote at 05/01/2013 06:00 PM:
> This seems like another form of tragedy around the commons?
I view all this the same way I view laws and selective enforcement by
DAs and LEOs. Laws are there to provide options for the LEOs to
selectively choose who to "suppress". (As with our disagreement about
the "scientific method", we probably disagree on this, too. Perhaps the
authors of the law have other intentions. But from what I've seen of
legislative bodies, especially those - like Oregon - with "initiative"
processes, whatever intentions might be there are lost in the noise of
money and contradictory ideology, kneaded by massively pragmatic, amoral
efficiency oriented bureaucrats.)
So it is with the various terms of agreement we click through without
ever reading. If/when an individual emerges as a threat to the
corporation or government, rules are cherry-picked to bring the hammer
down on that individual in order to coerce them into behaving how they
"should" behave.
As long as you don't emerge as a threat, then you can get away with
pretty much anything. To me, this is why "bards" and jesters are so
valuable and powerful. They manage to walk that very fine line between
being a no-op and being a threat. cf:
http://egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com/2013/05/bassemyoussef-saga-continues-khaled.html> Students who likely move through
> apartments as frequently as on a semester basis are just SOL unless good
> samaritans (scofflaws?) like myself provide an alternative?
Heh, that's all very alien to me. I lived in an old corps dorm with
concrete walls, group showers, and no air conditioning. I had a few
"rich" friends who lived in the new dorms on the other side of campus,
with their own toilets, or off campus in (what seemed like) wildly
expensive apartments and houses. They had their own phones, cars, etc.
Most of them could even buy their food at the grocery store rather than
eating whatever the cafeteria provided on the "food plan". ;-) All my
"internet access" came in the form of a green or orange screen in
various basements across campus.
Luckily, in large swaths of Portland, free wifi abounds due to the
heroes at the Personal Telco project:
https://personaltelco.net/wiki--
=><= glen e. p. ropella
I can tell just by the climate, and I can tell just by the style
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