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November 28th, 2005
10:51 pm - Writing Therapy
I never finished this (so much for writing this to get myself to start writing again) or checked it or whatever, and I won't finish this in the future either. I might as well throw it on here right now so that I can stop thinking about it and delete it out of the default startup draft for w.bloggar. And my LJ would be updated, yay. Only reason this is worth putting up here is Chris Anderson's interesting thoughts. I barely managed to finish this. But Chris Anderson's argument should be more known
Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine, penned an entry about the economical benefits of illegally spread content, such as music and movies. He has a few arguments. The latter one: using a slightly complex (and criticised) argument, he tries to point out that not locking up all content with things such as DRM (Digital Rights Management) can provide economic benefits to content publishers:
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Current Music: Ellioth Smith - Pretty Mary K (demo)
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December 16th, 2004
07:00 pm - Trip to Turkey, day one
Don't expect great writing, it's just a recollection of the stuff I remembered which I post for myself, to remember it, and for others if they are interested.
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November 13th, 2004
02:59 pm - Some random recent thoughts
Just some random thoughts I had lately:
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October 5th, 2004
02:52 pm - Thuisschool notities
Geen internetopdrachten voor Atlantis. De internetopdrachten voor vietnam zijn nog niet online, maar op navraag zullen die dat snel zijn.
Ik ben Annemiek aan het e-mailen. Thuisles is volgende week dinsdag, 13.00
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July 14th, 2004
01:21 am
mensen moeten leren de informatie echt met dat uit zichzelf te combineren
dingen moeten met henzelf gerelateerd worden
example is plato and the cup of poison he had to drink
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July 12th, 2004
06:48 pm - Vacation schedule
Since I'm bored to death during this vacation, this is the schedule I'm making up for myself. When school, which my life revolves around quite a lot, is not there, I don't really know that to do besides doing useless stupid things all day like watching the telly, sitting in #jj2 and reading fiction books. So here's a schedual, mostly as a note to myself:
Per day:
1 (or more) hours of regular work - fixing up finances, homework
1 (or more) hours of site work - J2Ov2/weblog
1 (or more) hours spent on knowledge aggegration - researching things in the subject of economy and environment, partly for my paper next year.
1 (or more) hours on reading general books on subjects economy and environment.
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June 18th, 2004
05:06 pm
Ignore the postings below. I..had a pretty weird opinion on politics back then, not considering the opposing side's viewpoints at all and not seeing the complexity of problems. They don't reflect my current opinion.
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February 13th, 2003
11:02 pm - Protests
Say no to this war!
I'm going to protest tomorrow in the city of Amsterdam. The entire world is mobilizing.
A small list of places where there will be protests:
Europe
La Coruña, Aix-en-Provence, Albacete, Alicante, Amsterdam, Andorra, Antwerp, Athens, Barcelona, Belfast, Bergen, Berlin, Berne, Bilbao, Bodoe, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Cádiz, Castellón, Ciudad Real, Cluj-Napoca, Coimbra, Copenhagen, Cordoba, Cuenca, Dublin, Évora, Faro, Girona, Glasgow, Gothenburg, Granada, Guadalajara, Helsinki, Hereford, Huelva, Huesca, Isafjordur, Jaén, Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kiev, Kristiansand, Kuopio, Lancaster, Lillehammer, Lisbon, Ljubljana, Lleida, London, Longyearbyen, Luxembourg, Madrid, Málaga, Malmö, Malta, Marseille, Moscow, Murcia, Nokia, Oslo, Oulu, Oviedo, Palma de Mallorca, Pamplona, Paris, Patras, Pontevedra, Porto, Poznan, Prague, Puertollano, Reykjavik, Rodos, Rome, Rovaniemi, Salamanca, San Sebastian, Santander, Savolinna, Seinäjoki, Sevilla, Shetland, Skopje, Sofia, Stavanger, Stockholm, Talavera de la Reina, Tallinn, Tarragona, Teruel, Thessaloniki, Toledo, Tromsoe, Trondheim, Turku, Valencia, Valetta, Vienna, Vigo, Vilnius, Volos, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Zagreb, Zaragoza
Afrika
Cairo, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Kigali, Niamey, Rabat, Reunion Island
Asia
Baghdad, Bahawalpur, Bangkok, Beirut, Dili, Faisalabad, Gojranwala, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Kansai, Karachi, Kharian, Kuala Lumpur, Kumamoto, Lahore, Larkana, Layya, Muharraq, Manama, Mandi Bahaudin, Manila, Matsumoto, Multan, Naha, Okara, Osaka, Otsu, Peshawar, Qasur, Ramallah, Sahiwal, Sargodha, Seoul, Sheikhupura, Tel Aviv, Tokyo
Latin-Amerika
Bahia, Buenos Aires, Havana, Kingston, Jamaica, Lima, Martinique, Mexicali, Mexico City, Montevideo, Quito, Rio de Janiero, Rio Grande do Sol, San Jose, CR, San Juan, Santiago, Santo Domingo, Sao Paulo
USA en Canada
Akron, Asheville, Atlanta, Austin, Bakersfield, Baltimore, Bellingham, Bisbee, Blacksburg, Bloomington, Boise, Brampton, Butler, Calexico, Calgary, Canmore, Cape Cod, Cape Girardeau, Carbondale, Charleston, Charlotte, Charlottesville, Chicago, Chico, Coburg, Colorado Springs, Columbia, MO, Columbia, SC, Corpus Christi, Cortez, Cranbrook, BC, Dallas, Detroit, Durango, Edmonton, Encino, Eugene, Fayetteville, Fillmore, Flagstaff, Fort Wayne, Fresno, Galveston, Grand Junction, Grand Rapids, Halifax, Hamilton, Hilo, Honolulu, Houston, Huntington, Indianapolis, Jefferson City, Juneau, Kamloops, Kelowna, Kingston, Knoxville, Lancaster, Lansing, Las Cruces, Las Vegas, Lawrence, KS, Lethbridge, Lincoln, London, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Louisville, Macomb, Madison, Melbourne, Memphis, Minneapolis, Miami, Milwaukee, Montpelier, Montreal, Mount Vernon, OH, Nanaimo, Naples, New Orleans, New York City, Newark, DE, Norfolk, VA, North Newton, Olympia, Orange, Orangeville, Orlando, Ottawa, Palm Desert, Parry Sound, Pensacola, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsboro, Portland, ME, Portland, OR, Port Perry, Portsmouth, Prince Albert, Raleigh, Regina, Richland Center, Rolla, St. Augustine, St. Louis, Salem, Salt Lake City, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santa Monica, Sarasota, Saskatoon, Savannah, Seattle, Sitka, Sonora, South Bend, South Haven, Spokane, Starkville, St. John's, Sudbury, Tacoma, Tallahassee, Tehachapi, Temple, Thornbury, Toronto, Tulsa, Vallejo, Vancouver, B.C., Victoria, Wausau, Waterloo, Wilkes-Barre, Williamsburg, Williamsport, Wilmington, Windsor, Winnipeg, Youngstown
Oceania
Adelaide, Aotearoa, Auckland, Brisbane, Bundaberg, Byron Bay, Canberra, Christchurch, Dunedin, Geelong, Gisborne, Greymouth, Hamilton, NZ, Hastings, Hobart, Kelowna, Launceton, Lismore, Melbourne, Nelson, Newcastle, Opotiki, Palmerston North, Perth, Rockhampton, Rotorua, Sydney, Takaka, Tauranga, Timaru, Wanganui, Wellington, Whakatane, Wollongong
Antarctica
McMurdo Station
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/angry.gif) angry
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10:34 pm - A few reasons against the pre-emptive war
1. How can you start a war to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction? If you war the only thing that will happen is that you are sure they will be used, if they exist at all. If you want to disarm Iraq you will have to let the inspections go on. Apply pressure, though. If Saddam(who might just be dead according to a deserted 'Clone'(only in looks) of him. He has cancer according to this person) does not cooperate enough you might consider waging war.
2. The US wants to use nuclear weapons. This is against international law and the UN.
3. Around Iraq live a billion muslims. Installing a puppet government or at least the temporary US government that is being planned, you are going to make quite a lot of them quite mad. Terrorism will worsen extremely and the middle east will become even more unstable. Fundamentalism will rise. You might end up with a worse situation then before you had the war. What do you think that will happen to a US country in a anti-US region?
4. Pre-emptive strikes are against international law.
5. Projections: 200.000 to half a million deaths and a few million refugees. This will cause even more instability in the region.
6. If the US is allowed to pre-emptively attack countries possibly without UN permission, aren't all other countries allowed to?
7. It seems funny to me to wage war to avoid one. They say offense is the best kind of defense, but aren't you doing the same thing as you're accusing Iraq of?
8. If the attack happens outside of the UN, this will become a major letdown for the UN. Not that the UN hasn't already always been boycotted by the US who only use it for their own good and preferrably don't even pay the contribution..
9. In Iraq live hundreds of thousands of fled Kurds. They want their own country, Turkey would rather have them dead then allowing something like that near their own country. Turkey is a possible ally in the war against Iraq. This could become a major catastrophe.
10. Sharon could deport the Palestinians now all cameras are pointing in a different direction. Several Israeli experts have said he *is* planning such a thing.
11. The islamist world will only become more self-centered, and progress will cease.
12. The western world runs on oil. If we attack Iraq they might just set fire to these fields, starting a deep economic recession.
13. What happened to Afghanistan? First it gets bombed by the Americans, now Bush doesn't even think of sending them funding. The entire country is a wreckage and coincedentally the leader of the country, that was suggested by the US, is a former high oil-guy. The Afghan people have democracy still in their memory, the Iraqian people have suffered because of Saddam for ages. Democracy can't be established by the US government the US is planning to install for one year, with the intention of installing a 'democracy'. Oh, and remember the Islam anti-American people? Democracy won't stand like this just yet. It requires a long process.
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July 1st, 2002
02:27 pm
Well, let me say I mourn for the victims of 11 september. I really do. But I mourn for the people who die because of poverty too. What I'm going to write might seem a little bit hard, therefore I've waited with posting this until 12 september.
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June 24th, 2002
10:20 pm
World scientist's warning to humanity
Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about.
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Current Music: a silver mt. zion - broken chords can sing a little
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June 4th, 2002
11:59 am - Iraq
Media's Willing Distortions Pave Way for War
I found this article interesting, about the wrong assumptions on iraq many people have
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April 8th, 2002
April 7th, 2002
07:03 pm - Gaviotas: the future is there
Right now about 453 billion dollars are spent on advertising yearly in the entire world. The economy is getting stronger and stronger, people are getting richer. Still, studies prove that the amount of people who consider themselves happy has decreased a lot since the fifties.
What is wrong? It has become normal in the United States to have multiple cars for one family. People can buy more things, and still they are less happy.
There's a popular phrase: 'Money can't buy happiness'. That phrase is related to what's happening here. Humanity doesn't know anymore what the meaning of life is and how to get happy. 453 billion dollars are spent yearly to tell us to consume. Buy products, buy snacks, buy multiple cars, buy another television, buy Pepsi and so on. Parents of a child both take a job, people work 50 hours a week, just so they can consume and just so they can go on vacation extra long to an extra far away place so they can relax after they've almost gotten themselves burned-out. They have forgotten that you can't buy happiness.
So, these working parents send their kids to other institutions to care for and don't realize they are distancing themselves from their own child and that they are spoiling the child. They lose all contact with their kids and distance themselves.
As both parents need to drive to their work traffic problems are getting bigger and the ozone layer gets weaker, as they both need a car.
Still, these parents aren't happy. Humanity doesn't realize anymore what the value of life is. They stare themselves blind at their work.
Paolo Lugari did not forget the old saying and did not forget the value of our planet and keeping it alive. After a vision, he set out to start his own village in one of the poorest countries, Columbia. He convinced a group of scientists, doctors, engineers and agronomists to come with him.
Gaviotas was born. A village that doesn't need any cops, doesn't need a president, doesn't need prisons and doesn't need any polluting energy. A village that doesn't need door locks. A village that is self-supporting and where people are happy. A village where the people don't need to consume endlessy.
Paolo Lugari felt that, with the population in the world constantly increasing, a big part of the world's population would have to live at places that were considered unlivable. At places without any elevation, and without a good resource of water. Lugari bought 25,000 acres of land like that in Columbia. The only water there was undrinkable. He bought it to show it was possible to start a settlement there. Lugari and the other people first designed a water system. One of the things they built was a pump that could get water from depths today's pumps cannot get to. A machine running on solar energy cleans the water.
This all happened about three decades ago. Now there is Gaviotas. People are happy, even though they aren't rich. The salaries are low but a lot higher then the minimum wage, but people aren't being pushed to consume and have found out that you can live a happy life without too much money. The entire town uses revolutionary techniques and machines. There is no crime at all, because the people don't need money. At least some people have found a way out of our society of consumnation and to a happy life.
One, Gaviotas has proven that there is a way out, second, Gaviotas has proofen that even on the barrest places welfaring towns can exist, third, Gaviotas has proven that you can life a environmentally-friendly life.
I have certainly not told everything about this fantastic town. You'd be stunned by the solutions they provided to our everyday problems and all our environmental problems. Get this, the entire village barely pollutes anything, and yet it is very technically advanced. It totally runs on green energy, there are no sewers needed and a lot of things are recycled.
Spread the message and become one of the new world's pioneers. This is the future. This is our hope. This is the ideal civilization.
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January 29th, 2001
11:55 pm
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Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/classic/blah.gif) blah
Current Music: Enigma - Gravity of love
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11:54 pm
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not much news stuff.. Have been working on jcsref for a while.. rsi is worsening..I really have to watch out
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January 25th, 2001
10:04 pm
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Current Mood: awake
Current Music: radiohead - everything in it's right place
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10:03 pm
/me bought radiohead - kid a today..
I have been working on the official possum site php core in all my work-time, and it's going pretty well. Finished a table class today, which means the site can be made very modular
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09:41 pm
I installed a rsi-watcher. It makes me take breaks and do exercises. It also warns when I work too intensively. And typing a message like this in normal rate is too intensive already, so I have got to get used to it..
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January 24th, 2001
09:29 pm
I am *probably* developing rsi. My muscles hurt each time I type with my right arm or mouse with it. This means I won't be able to produce anything productive anytime soon.
Current Mood: angry
Current Music: Enigma-camera obscura
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