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The Free Internet Act Crowdsource Authoring Tool
by jasperfixx | January 31st, 2012Summary From Reddit:
"The Internet Freedom Act: To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship and innovation by preventing the restriction of liberty and preventing the means of censorship. IFA will allow internet users to browse freely without any means of censorship, users have the right to free speech and to free knowledge; we govern the content of the internet, governments don't. However enforcements/laws must also be put into place to protect copyrighted content.
Propose Changes to OPEN: the Better SOPA Alternative
by jasperfixx | January 18th, 2012Propose specific changes you would like to see to OPEN (text is attached as pdf).
DMCA was, and has been, bad enough. Can we consider alternative mechanisms? One great thing about this site is that we're not just leaving it to the politicians to figure out a solution. Similarly, they are not left in the lurch to figure it out by themselves. :)
Additional Ways To Effectively Protest SOPA
by rabbit | January 17th, 2012Let's consider additional ways and means to get the message to lawmakers to defeat SOPA. The blackouts are a powerful message, but are there other ways to really drive this home and get it done?
Is there an alternative to a patent process that enables an inventor or entity to ...
by RacerX | November 24th, 2011To patent an idea, it must be novel. If you can publish your idea into common circulation, it makes it very difficult for anyone to come along subsequently and be granted a patent on the very same idea. Thus, the concept of "defensive publishing". But is there a no-cost or low-cost method of establishing "prior art"? And what are the chances that a USPTO agent would actually find your idea in a search for prior art?
Here's a version of how to accomplish this:
Buddhist meditation and yoga are now widely practiced by inmates
by Coco | July 2nd, 2011"A 2003 study by the Addictive Behaviors Research Center at the University of Washington found that drug use and self-reported levels of depression and hostility were significantly lower among inmates who took a 10-day meditation course....
When people are incarcerated, they have the opportunity to grow and change, to think about the life they want when they rejoin the community." read more: http://goo.gl/supsF
Buddhist meditation and yoga are now widely practiced by inmates, and many prisoners are enrolled in education programs or degree courses.
Alternative sentencings for nonviolent offenders
by B A | July 2nd, 2011Pennsylvania could save millions on prison costs if the state made better use of alternative sentences for nonviolent offenders. That was the message from Pennsylvania auditor general Jack Wagner, who joined state senator Stewart Greenleaf at Philadelphia City Hall on February 24, 2011 to endorse the idea of investing in alternative programs for nonviolent criminals.