GREEN PIRATE

Amelia Andersdotter makes some valid points here. Please notice that she felt strongly enough about this to speak contrary to the position her party had previously announced. Personally, I think such an act is characteristic of a leader who will examine the credence of a given situation, rather than yield to doxa. Living in a time when we hardly expect a politician to be anything more than a pandering sophist, I feel that such a refreshing act deserves a bit of praise. So, great job, Miss Andersdotter! I hope you hold onto this quality and it serves your peers well.

That said, I’ve personally gone back and forth about how I feel about DDoS. It is important to note that this is being used as a means for young people to have their voice heard in a political climate which otherwise ignores or labels them as “politically insensitive.” While they have now demonstrated that this is not true, I really can’t find justification for making a criminal of a 16 year old net activist.
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Amazon has recently announced the following statement regarding the Kindle:

We will be introducing lending for Kindle, a new feature that lets you loan your Kindle books to other Kindle device or Kindle app users. Each book can be lent once for a loan period of 14-days and the lender cannot read the book during the loan period. Additionally, not all e-books will be lendable [loanable*] – this is solely up to the publisher or rights holder, who determines which titles are enabled for lending.

While some people have considered this to be a sign of progress by a major player in the content distribution industry, it just makes me feel like I’m waiting for the commercial world of content distribution to catch up to the present.

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