11-12-2010, 02:32 AM
Relax, Jan. I'm over it. Those comments weren't histrionics, a desperate plea for support, or the words of a persona wanting recognition. They were simply a bit of hyperbole in a statement to make the point that tremendous efforts are made (indeed, the main issue of the Wikileaks business) to suppress the availability or sharing of information. Not just here, but on other Internet discussion boards, in the media, everywhere. Rest assured I am a part-time information liberator; I am a Jeffersonian. I have every intent of continuing to do what I do within the limitations of my time, abilities and life's situation.
By the way, I like your three options. My jury is still out too, though it is at least at the point of asking the bailiff to send in fresh copies of the testimony or ask the judge for clarification of the court's rules. It is extremely hard work to be aware of one's own conscious and unconscious mental filters (I've been reading Seymour and Albarelli); it is even harder work to get it to stretch sufficiently so as to consider possibilities never before encountered.
I think it wise to take things like your three options, or my prior questions about the technologies, knowledge and access necessary to obtain information that has been released, or similar queries and theses, and begin to set up a template for better evaluation.
We are already at a point where it is incumbent upon us to discern from reality and satire, or poking fun at the matter. [See http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/12/wik...rk_wo.html ] The mere fact that there is organized comedic analysis and mimicry is an indicator of something.
By the way, I like your three options. My jury is still out too, though it is at least at the point of asking the bailiff to send in fresh copies of the testimony or ask the judge for clarification of the court's rules. It is extremely hard work to be aware of one's own conscious and unconscious mental filters (I've been reading Seymour and Albarelli); it is even harder work to get it to stretch sufficiently so as to consider possibilities never before encountered.
I think it wise to take things like your three options, or my prior questions about the technologies, knowledge and access necessary to obtain information that has been released, or similar queries and theses, and begin to set up a template for better evaluation.
We are already at a point where it is incumbent upon us to discern from reality and satire, or poking fun at the matter. [See http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/12/wik...rk_wo.html ] The mere fact that there is organized comedic analysis and mimicry is an indicator of something.
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