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Michael Robinson commented on the diary post Occupy Wall Street reminds me of open source software by Michael Robinson.
Forking in open source is when someone takes a project’s code and goes in their own direction. Example: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/LibreOffice
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Michael Robinson commented on the diary post Occupy Wall Street reminds me of open source software by Michael Robinson.
Letting communities fork and start mini-nations sounds like a great idea. Complicated, but good.
Autonomous regions currently within the US don’t give much hope, but I think we’d see more Liberty Squares than Puerto Ricos if the process were formalized and common.
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Michael Robinson commented on the blog post Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: Day Seventeen, The Occupation is the Message
I compared OWS to the open source movement: http://my.firedoglake.com/mkronline/2011/10/03/occupy-wall-street-reminds-me-of-open-source-software/
It’s a lightning rod for related interests to collaborate and make progress.
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Michael Robinson wrote a new diary post: Occupy Wall Street reminds me of open source software
The thing in NYC is just a kernel. Ubuntu is a useful concept in this analogy. “I am what I am because of who we all are.” https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ubuntu Open source software has no defined “message.” It’s just an amalgam of ideas from everyone who’s willing to contribute. And you’ll note that open source powers most servers, [...]
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Michael Robinson wrote a new diary post: Some posts from my blog
I mentioned this in my post where I said hello , but I blog in many places. Here’s some posts from one of my other blogs that should be of interest to FDL readers: The rich don’t taste very good Fake Majority: Why your kids told you to stop forwarding political emails to them The message from Occupy Wall Street [...]
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Michael Robinson commented on the blog post Live Blog of #OccupyWallStreet: Day Fourteen, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Expresses Support
“We need the banks. If the banks don’t go out and make loans, we will not come out of our economic problems. ”
Because they’re so eager to make loans now. Right.
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Michael Robinson commented on the diary post The recession’s aftermath: Notes from the 99% by Michael Robinson.
I meant for the title to be the description, but I’ll give a little more detail the next time I post something like this.
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Michael Robinson wrote a new diary post: The recession’s aftermath: Notes from the 99%
People are telling their stories over here in the form of notes.
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Michael Robinson commented on the diary post Death penalty petition back up by Michael Robinson.
We’re far enough away from the execution for its motivating impact to dissipate. Most of my promotion efforts were nullified by it being down constantly, and now I can’t do much. State-sanctioned murder is horrifying enough that most people try to block it out, so it would be like screaming into a void. I hate [...]
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Michael Robinson commented on the diary post Death penalty petition back up by Michael Robinson.
That site is about as stable as the banking system. It’s there, it’s just not always available.
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Michael Robinson wrote a new diary post: Death penalty petition back up
It looks like the petition I wrote about yesterday is available now. Go sign it.
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Michael Robinson commented on the diary post Escalation of Commitment, or, Voting for Obama No Matter What by Missouri Mule.
It has the same feel I get from how Conservatives call people who disagree with them naive and entitled. It’s not a road I feel comfortable peeking down. It’s usually more productive to take a possible motive and try to persuade based on it. It wont work if you’re wrong, and it might if you’re [...]
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Michael Robinson commented on the diary post Escalation of Commitment, or, Voting for Obama No Matter What by Missouri Mule.
I’m worried that you’ve started off the discussion by effectively claiming anyone who disagrees with you is mentally troubled. That’s not going to convince anyone who isn’t already convinced. But I could fill a whole blog post on that one. You should propose an alternative to go with this. Propose a better candidate (backed by [...]
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Michael Robinson commented on the diary post End the death penalty by Michael Robinson.
That’s a great idea.
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Michael Robinson commented on the diary post End the death penalty by Michael Robinson.
I’ve seen enough websites for startups from competent people crash on the day they launch to know scaling is a hard thing to do.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t question it, but it’s probably nothing.
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Michael Robinson commented on the diary post End the death penalty by Michael Robinson.
I doubt government sites are used to having to process a lot of traffic. They’re probably being overwhelmed.
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Michael Robinson commented on the diary post End the death penalty by Michael Robinson.
I think of it a different way: The best-written, most compelling argument will rise to the top. It’s better to have a bunch in competition.
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Michael Robinson commented on the diary post End the death penalty by Michael Robinson.
It’s been lagging since the email went out. My guess is that there’s a hundred petitions to legalize marijuana being added every hour.
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Michael Robinson commented on the diary post End the death penalty by Michael Robinson.
The nice thing about petitions is that signing is fairly quick and easy. It’s worth signing the ones closer to where they might have an impact on the off chance it’s seen and acted on.
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Michael Robinson commented on the diary post We Are All Troy by Edger.
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/abolish-death-penalty/tGHvPkGK
I figured this would be a good test of the new whitehouse.gov petition site.
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