[sudo-discuss] So what are our options?

[Troy]

I hear of the stuff that governement and big business do and conspire to do in piecemeal plans. 

Plansto slowly grip control over people and erode our rights like the tide of the ocean with a hypnotizing consistency.

A consistency that paralyzes people through the legal framework of fighting through the court system which can be won ( hats off to EFF and others on the frontlines ) but if not pursuing themselves often hear of as a removed experience from them until they find themselves signing away what is concievably recognized as normal should be rights in a contract or no service.

It is a form of econosocial extorsion and i see a need for people to be plugged in with collective action more than "Donate here so WE can save you" instead of educating people about how to take action and support more than just causes.

Causes are the fragmented approach to the fragmentation of our lives through the structural contradictions inherent in society that has not provided us with basic necessities so that we can discover the answers to the basic questions as to 
1.)'why we are here; 
2.)what are we to do?' ... 
3.)'how did we get here; 
4.) where are wr going?'
not necessarily in that order.

i tire of having others do the work to protect me and act in my supposed best interest if they cannot answer simple questions as to why this effects me, how i can protect myself and my community by taking actions within my own realm of influence?

So basically the question comes back to : what are our options?

we claim to want transparency.

yet when the internet we use is changing the dynamics so that the people will be the first to become transparent, we freak out.

this is understandable and predictable as those in power and the holders(legitimate theives ) of societiy's wealth do not participate in the transparency they a few claim to be part of their principles.

I see that anything that ever changes in society start in the lowest castè or class of that society.

One of the greatest untapped powers of the People in the systematically organized collective action of boycotting and investing in meeting our own needs through the formation of a collective( as in business collective).

But how often do you hear of a city that has its own citizen run newspaper with contributing authors from throughout the community and discussing what the community desires collectively using real metrics and organized demographics?

how often do you hear about communities working together to isolate businesses that have harmed the community and driving them out ?

Education with activities to build experience are required I agree. Yet how can we create these opportunities for learning when there is no culture of mentorship where those of greater experience actually take the time to SHOW their students instead of merely lecturing them as the elders of our communities have proclivities toward doing?

I have brought up many questions yes but i feel that through an open, honest, and well positioned question we can open up the dialogue toward reaching viable answers.

Sincerely,

Troy Massey

"You are the source of Freedom : the price of Freedom is awareness and action"

On Mar 5, 2013, at 1:50 AM, Anon195714 <anon195714 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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> 
> Yo's-
> 
> This just in:
> 
> "DARPA wants to make [voice recognition/transcription] systems so
> accurate, you’ll be able to easily record, transcribe and recall all the
> conversations you ever have. ... Imagine living in a world where every
> errant utterance you make is preserved forever. ... DARPA [awarded
> U.Texas comp sci researcher Matt Lease]... $300,000... over two years to
> study the new project, called “Blending Crowdsourcing with Automation
> for Fast, Cheap, and Accurate Analysis of Spontaneous Speech.”"
> 
> "The idea is that business meetings or even conversations with your
> friends and family could be stored in archives and easily searched. The
> stored recordings could be held in servers, owned either by individuals
> or their employers. ... The answer, Lease says, is in widespread use of
> recording technologies like smartphones, cameras and audio recorders...
> [A] memorandum from the Congressional Research Service described [an
> earlier DARPA project of this type known as] EARS, as focusing on speech
> picked up from broadcasts and telephone conversations, “as well as
> extract clues about the identity of speakers” for “the military,
> intelligence and law enforcement communities.”"
> 
> http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/darpa-speech/ (Yes, "real geeks
> don't read Wired," but nonetheless its news pages are useful for keeping
> a finger on the pulse of Big Brother and his corporate Brethren.)
> 
> In short:
> 
> DARPA is researching the means by which every conversation you have,
> in-person, whether at work or with family or friends, gets picked up by
> the mic in your smartphone or other portable device, and stored on a
> server, where DARPA's algorithms and human editors turn all of it into
> fast-searchable text, that could be used by your employer, the military,
> law enforcement, and intel agencies. Presumably the credit bureaus,
> insurance companies, and financial institutions will want "in" on the
> data as well.
> 
> Now connect that with this, about cell-site tracking and call detail
> records:
> 
> "The government maintained [that] Americans have no expectation of
> privacy of such cell-site records [call detail records or CDR] because
> they are in the possession of a third party — the mobile phone companies."
> 
> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/gps-drug-dealer-retrial/
> 
> The key point is that the gov's current position is that data stored on
> a third party's servers have "no expectation of privacy." What begins
> with CDR will eventually include voicemail messages stored on the mobile
> phone companies' servers, and then eventually all of your live in-person
> conversations that are stored "in the cloud."
> 
> "Anything you say can and will be used against you..." Mark my words.
> 
> Meanwhile people keep using gmail and Google Voice, and smartphones from
> which they can't remove the batteries. Because nothing is more important
> than "convenience," right?
> 
> As a character in a sci-fi piece I wrote in the mid-1980s said, "Why put
> a person in prison, when you can put prison in the person instead?"
> 
> -G.
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