world, Please add me as a friend on Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?i=LTM2MDY2NTk5NDg6MzE2 &n=world&e=decentralization@egroups.com - Syukriy...
It's John Perry Barlow's birthday tomorrow. Co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, author of the Declaration...
The site: http://peerconomy.org/ "So far, this new mode of production—peer production—has been limited to certain niches of production, such as information...
Dear all, In his book Christian Siefkes argues that peer economies (sharing and cooperation) are better than market economies (property and competition). ...
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Nov 4, 2007 10:57 pm
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Centrally planned economies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy) form a simple analog to centralized system architectures. In that regard, truly...
I have only read a few pages of this book so far, so my understanding is pretty limited, but I am pretty confident that it is not a case for communalism. That...
The conventional view remains that the choice is EITHER: (a) Public = State owned; OR (b) Private = "owned by a "Joint Stock Limited Liability Company" aka...
... ...or, as a third thesis, will the physical world increasingly take on the features of the digital world? An increasing number of physical activities are...
... Which completely leaves out: - non-profit (or non-governmental organization) - governed by either its membership or a board of trustees - cooperative...
... Miles Fidelman replied ... either its membership or a board of trustees ... you think coops can't be effective businesses, check out the financials on...
Hi, guys, There are multiple ownership alternatives, not just two. If we want to group ownership into two groups, the following two might be more appropriate....
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Nov 8, 2007 3:46 pm
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... Well, yes, but... that's a somewhat fallacious point of view that's been pushed by vested interests and a cooperative media. It wasn't that long ago when...
... topic ... Now that's the spirit! I've only ever been interested in outcomes, and in problem solving. I observe a new "Capital Partnership" financing...
... Fantastic point. The real world is becoming a bunch of I/O devices with computers in between. Pretty much everything can be conceived of as one or the...
Isn't the digital world part of the physical world? The world can also be categorized into two groups. * Tangible: software, hardware, nature,... * Intangible:...
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Nov 9, 2007 2:48 am
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Hi, Chris and all, What Chris describes is equity capital that we call friends and family, angel, or venture capital investment in the U.S. Equity will...
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Nov 9, 2007 3:28 am
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Scott Feamster <sf@...> Thu, 8 Nov 2007 18:48:01 ... When datacentres are sucking up a significant chunk of available power, yes, definitely. It's...
... Dude, it is pure naked hubris to think it's possible to wander off topic in a conversation that contains sustained lapses into silence going on for more...
... I believe it was Vernadsky's Noosphere: http://www.metafilter.com/56565/History-of-a-meme - unless, of course, you are specifically referring to the parts...
I feel safe in predicting that pretty much everything with a retail price over $25 will be connected to the internet some day soon. Here's one I'm finding...
Mike Dierken <dierken@...> Fri, 9 Nov 2007 22:39:40 ... Err, what? The World of Ideas certainly does exist. But I'm twisting the original ideas. The...
... EG, pi is implicit in every circular object. That makes it even more durable than the objects. ... Here is an example of seeping -- I have been playing...
... But the Internet is physical (electrons, silicon, copper, glass fiber, etc) ideas are not. That's the "exists" I was referring to. The statement that...
Mike Dierken <dierken@...> Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:32:52 ... You're right of course. It's one of those trolls that sounds deep but doesn't actually say very...
... More to play devil's advocate on a Sunday morning, than anything else... Are ideas indistinguishable from things, or vice versa? Ideas are often...
In the middle, it's people among tangibles (sheet music and mics) and intangibles (thoughts and emotions). In the end, it's the intangibles that give our lives...
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Nov 11, 2007 10:44 pm
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Hi Scott Although I'm based in Linlithgow, Scotland (birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots) I'm not Scottish myself, just a mongrel. ... family, angel, or venture...