Category Archives: Democracy

MINE.

Posted on October 20, 2006 by Kalle

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/19/us_space_policy/ Space = the 51st state? Lovely. Want some fries with that megalomania, Mr. President?

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The blues.

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Kalle

Yesterday was “valvaka”, which I guess translates to “election wake” for the Swedish government the next 4 years. Me? I was sleeping. The thing was meant to happen at 11 pm and I usually go to bed around 10. So … Continue reading →

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Online Cinema Tickets

Posted on August 19, 2006 by Kalle

When I signed up for my new ISP, I received 3 movie tickets as a thanks. That’s pretty nice. However, the movie tickets turned out to be movie tickets for “viewing movies online.” I.e. a movie industry move to tackle … Continue reading →

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Stop doing stuff in Flash.

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Kalle

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=6b3af6c9 Which other company would decide to not support newer hardware in this fashion? Adobe can go fuck themselves. Stop using YouTube. Stop using Google Video. If you do that, I’ll give you $5. No seriously, I will.

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War.

Posted on June 16, 2006 by Kalle

- “More than a decade of hard lobbying by two powerful trade groups, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), has convinced U.S. lawmakers and law enforcement officials that it’s worth using … Continue reading →

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Why Free?

Posted on May 26, 2006 by Kalle

The following is a message written by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation in 1994. I stumbled upon it on my computer and was struck by how well written it is, as well as how important a message it … Continue reading →

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A New era; A New way of thinking.

Posted on May 23, 2006 by Kalle

Richard is mad. Richard is very, very mad. Why? Let’s get to why in a moment. Richard owns a store chain with shops worldwide. It’s an immensely popular store because Richard has managed to obtain a worldwide monopoly on the … Continue reading →

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File sharing and such.

Posted on April 23, 2006 by Kalle

Interesting article (found at boingboing). It does make you wonder, though. Personally, I’m doing surprisingly little piracy compared to most of my friends, and their friends, and theirs, and so on. This has more to do with me using linux … Continue reading →

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Follow-up on Google censoring.

Posted on January 31, 2006 by Kalle

Compare these two searches: 1. Regular Google search: http://images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen 2. Censored Google search: http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen Quite scary, wouldn’t you say? And they are the same search. One censored, the other not. Now, my personal stance in the whole censoring deal is … Continue reading →

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Google censoring in China.

Posted on January 28, 2006 by Kalle

According to a Swedish news channel, the announcement about Google being censored in China was apparently censored in China.

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