First full week begins tomorrow.

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Although I don't think I actually have a course on Monday, it being a discussion before the lecture, but I'm going to go out and get books for it. And other such things - might continue to amass objects for the first paper I have in a different class - not starting to write it yet, necessarily, just amassing the content I need.

Ran across a lesson on entrepreneurship that I think might be applicable to a lot of other places, too, especially philosophical and religious thought. Namely, that sitting around and trying to think up the Big Idea is something likely to fail. But paying attention to the world around you and working in the world you want could very well produce the Idea you're looking for, so long as you know how to listen to it.

More Zero Tolerance in schools. Admittedly, making a joke out of crashing the school server is definitely not a bright idea, but I'm not sure it requires filing charges. (Although if you think of it as inciting a DoS attack, there might be better grounds for it.) Perhaps I'm a bit more lenient because it appears there wasn't permanent damage. Still, these are the sorts of things that somehow manage to cause problems later on in life, because now there's a mark on the kid's record that he was arrested and spent time in jail. I wonder how employment and government loan/grant programs will look at him now. Maybe he'll develop something like this Tesla Gun (although tagged as a "Klingon Disruptor" to be built) and wreak his revenge.

A second odd thought - a small lesson on the idea of entrainment which is followed by a suggestion that tapping and advertising in the "alternative thought" market isn't too hard, and that you could make money off your own alternative thought. Something doesn't quite jive here with those two halves. I'm not entirely sure what it is, but it feels just off enough to be jarring.

In terms of technical ability, I can, indeed, watch television and by extension, play games on the computer in Linux. The TV's grainy, but it'll service. Hopefully, the console games will be not grainy and quite crisp. Might just be the way things are wired up here. Still, it's nice. I can watch programming in peace. Aaaah.... (yeah, yeah, I know. More TV addiction.)

But I also make profuse thanks, for I also burnt a gift card completely and got me lots of books. Yay! Vices satisfied or something like that.

But I must make your eyes burn. Thus, I subject you to the Jack Chick movie. Just when you thought it couldn't get any funnier...Although I don't think I actually have a course on Monday, it being a discussion before the lecture, but I'm going to go out and get books for it. And other such things - might continue to amass objects for the first paper I have in a different class - not starting to write it yet, necessarily, just amassing the content I need.

Comments

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

*bookmarks entrepreneur thingy for further perusal.* You have the best links.

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There's a good chance that if you liked it, you can blame D.R.T. for bringing it to my desktop. They have good captioning themselves - I just go for a different angle here and there.

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

Personally I've begun to think that criminal charges are what more people need on the internet. There is too much of people acting without any consequense when they know they're acting badly. Probably in this case the kid needed suspended or something, but you know what I mean. There has been too much letting people off becuase it's "teh intarwebs" and you shouldn't take it seriously.

It's like the person on forums who is an asshole but people say "He's a nice guy in real life" and I say "No he isn't, he fears retribution in real life. He knows if he talked like that to people's faces he'd rapidly run out of teeth." sort of thing.

btw

You know you posted the link to the Jack Chick movie twice?

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

Actually, re-reading, you seem to have written your post twice and then posted it.

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Hiccup in my client, I suspect - it has those occasionally. It should be correct now.

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

N) Personal point of view: the Internet is serious, but should remain an anarchy! A separate, international network untouched by national law! Free for all... let all defend themselves, help each other, strike at whom they choose as they may...

The problem is getting a system whereby governments won't be able to interfere, as it is so tempting to generally. (Or rather--let them interfere! Interference is fine! Just... let what happens on the Internet stay on the Internet. Keep everything between computers, and don't start bursting into people's homes and dragging them off.)

If there were some way to ensure (relative) anonymity, that there weren't any way to trace one back to one's physical location, that would be wonderful. You could still give yourself away, of course, but you'd be able not to if you were careful enough.

That, now... ohh, that would be wonderful.

The Internet is not the domain of any one country, and no country has rights to it. Let it remain wholly ungoverned! Hail Eris! *grins*

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It's not to say serious things can't happen on the Internet. Regardless of the avatar, there are still people doing stuff on it, so yes, the kid needs correction on why you don't try to crash the school server or change your grades, or anything like that. But pressing charges on something that, at least, as I read the article, didn't do a lot of damage seems a bit like overkill. Eventually, everything that we do, even in jest, will be prosectuable, it seems.

[greyweirdo.livejournal.com]

Eventually, everything that we do, even in jest, will be prosectuable, it seems.

You better watch it, comments like that will have the thought police down your throat.

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I remind you of the profession I am going into. It is inevitable that I will have to deal with the Thought Police on a regular basis.

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

N) Which profession is that? *curiosity*

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Informations Science generally, Librarianship more technically and likely professionally.