Last time I wrote about the facebook and blog blackout in protest against section 92a amendments. Today our PM announced that it has been delayed. Hopefully it will stay delayed forever. And I wrote about how the Wellington CC was going to replace the green recycling bins with (unrecyclable) plastic bags you had to pay for. Now they've canned that. Hooray. And I'm sure that both are because of the public responses to them. So that's cool.
Speaking of activism working, I just finished reading How many lightbulbs does it take to change a planet? by Tony Juniper of Friends of the Earth. It was really interesting, partly because of its economics, and partly because the book is compostable. Mostly because of the economics - it's not a book about what individuals should each do, it's about what councils and countries and inter-governmental agencies should do, all about policies to do with the environment (obviously enough). And he refers to a lot of cases that FOE and others have fought and won, or partially won, or lost but made a difference anyway, and it really shows that activism does actually work. For a little light relief on FOE, Greenpeace et al, read this, surely the worst press release scoop has ever published.
Lastly and leastly, here is Wellington an hour ago, from Mt Albert, in the town belt above Newtown... crappy photos of a nice place...
Speaking of activism working, I just finished reading How many lightbulbs does it take to change a planet? by Tony Juniper of Friends of the Earth. It was really interesting, partly because of its economics, and partly because the book is compostable. Mostly because of the economics - it's not a book about what individuals should each do, it's about what councils and countries and inter-governmental agencies should do, all about policies to do with the environment (obviously enough). And he refers to a lot of cases that FOE and others have fought and won, or partially won, or lost but made a difference anyway, and it really shows that activism does actually work. For a little light relief on FOE, Greenpeace et al, read this, surely the worst press release scoop has ever published.
Lastly and leastly, here is Wellington an hour ago, from Mt Albert, in the town belt above Newtown... crappy photos of a nice place...
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did you take those photos with a pin-hole camera you fashioned out of cardboard and twigs!?
Yay about the activisim wins huh. I hadn't heard about the recycling bins, woop!
Although like we were talking about the other day, this isn't necessarily a win for recycling/the environment in general.
S92 will most likely still pass in an altered form in a few months, IMHO. They'll tidy up that code of conduct, add some more detail to the law, and slap it through. The pressure from the recording industry from the US through the Australasian one is too strong.
So it probably won't end up being soo ridiculously open-ended, but still, I think people will be getting disconnected for multiple infringements which are clearly provable in the near future.
I'm also sure that over the course of this year P2P networks will become more secured and better ways to mask IP addresses will become the norm. Piracy continues, record & movie executives stress more - hopefully some of them will rethink their outdated business model.
yup, it's getting there...
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/23/2245231&from=rss
No Simon, I didn't make a camera out of camera and twigs. I'm not MacGuyver. I made it out of my thoughts, then transmitted them to a hedgehog. Then I painted red on one of its feet, green on another, blue another and chopped the fourth foot off. Then I taught the hedgehog a dance to Brazilian samba in which its rythmic stamping made the ink transfer from its feet onto the paper and eventually made the photos. But he got distracted by all your twittering and so that's why they're a bit blurry. Thanks for asking.
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