Operational Analysis of E-mail

Operational Analysis is a method by which you determine what is going on by looking all the information given to you and what is really happening "in the field" to deduce how the "other side" is working.

 

The same can be done by reading e-mails of many political campaigns by looking what they are doing and what they are NOT doing to see how things really are.

 

Moveon.org is a very political organization that is often associated with the Liberal - left - progressive - idea of government and subsequent entitlements to be given to others by taxing the people who have used the laws of their land to make the most money.

 

In their latest e-mail rally they have going they are trying to petition the US Government to step up and throw even more money - and troops - into the Sudan to stop the famine that has been going on there for around 2,000 years.

 

Now what is interesting is that they state in their latest e-mail:

"Experts agree that deploying a relatively small, armed and well-funded United Nations peacekeeping force could protect the civilian populations and allow a sustainable peace process to begin.⁶ We wouldn't even need to commit new American troops. But the UN won't act unless leading nations, especially the United States, step up and insist on it. "

 

Which, on the surface is chastising the US for not insisting on doing something - but that begs the question - why SHOULD the USA insist to a WORLD BODY on doing ANYTHING? As a single "vote" in the UN at large it implies equal weight on an issue (ignoring the veto power we and 7, maybe 8, other nations hold on any resolution.) Remember, these are the same people who get upset when the US DOES do something - especially when the US just happens to do something that this organization does not want the United States to do.

 

This actually shows the UN is a totally worthless body in enforcing ANYTHING. If the UN cannot step in to stop killing in the Balkans, Somalia, Iraq (under President Hussein), Ivory Coast, and about 1/2 the nations in Africa, etc unless the US throws troops into the front lines, it shows that the UN is effectively a bunch of talk with no guts.

 

The ONLY way that people would every respect and honor any UN order is if the UN had its OWN military force equipped and recruited from around the world and beholden to NO NATION for troops or equipment and sent them anywhere in the world it wanted when the whole body voted to do so.

 

Is that likely to happen? No. If the ONLY way the UN will act on any topic is if the US is going to give money and troops to any endeavor then operationally that shows the United Nations can only enforce rules on any nation if the nations it orders rules imposed on wants to enforce those rules. That means around 2/3 of the nations of the world effectively ignore the UN.

 

Operationally, the UN is a failure.

DCMA - Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act HR 1201

The assault by media conglomerates continues to use technology to lock in for hundreds of years, maybe thousands, items produced since the CD era started back in the mid 1980s.

 

The main emphasis is that by putting into law definitions of very broad technology and what cannot be done to circumvent them - ever - effectively locks up items being produced FOREVER.

 

70 years from now when the copyright officially ends on something produced today (actually could be as long as 115 years in some circumstances of corporate ownership) anything that was encrypted in ANY manner would still be blocked from being copied due to the law against breaking  to reading and copying it onto another medium when ANY protection method is used.

 

Thus, that DVD of Disney's "Snow White" that you bought in 2006 when 2076 comes around and you want to copy that DVD onto a new medium doing so would violate the DCMA even though the copyright is expired! (And of course you could not alter the DVD at all to eliminate the ads that are put onto the beginning telling you about the 2006 releases coming out by Disney this year. Likely not even able to fast forward though them since if that feature is disabled by design bypassing that would ALSO be a crime!)

 

Now also there are changes affecting work for hire clauses going on for copyrights. Many record companies put into a contract that when an artist records a song is it a "work for hire" which means the RECORDING company owns the song and all rights to it - not the artist who wrote it and sang it. reading the law and the proposed changes online http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju65223.000/hju65223_0.HTM is very time-consuming and confusing so I may be wrong on this part.

 

Also see http://judiciary.house.gov/OversightTestimony.aspx?ID=538

 

and a copy of the new act proposed draft Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2006 is available  http://static.publicknowledge.org/pdf/ip-protection-act-2006-20060413.pdf   a PDF

 

However, the main thrust is that the big companies are trying to tighten the DCMA to include a lot stiffer set of penalties, tighter regulation by using OTHER technologies to be written into law to ensure that anything that may come up in the future would effectively lock in copyright eternally.

 

How is relatively simple.

 

If you try and copy ANYTHING even after the copyright is expired you violate Federal Law and get from $1,000 fine to years in jail. So the companies would then RENT you software on a monthly basis would legally allows you to copy the no longer copyrighted material onto a NEW medium but doing so would THEN encrypt it into a NEW format that you would have to also RENT forever in order to watch that.

 

So they would then be able to claim that they are NOT stopping people from copying expired © material but they WOULD still be forever getting money from people in order to watch the expired protected material since there is NO provision in allowing that to be bypassed.

 

The problem with DCMA is that they threw technology solutions against a SOCIAL problem - and that NEVER works.

 

Meeting Notices I'd Like to See in Print

American Society of Anarchists have canceled their next meeting. At the last meeting in February they voted to burn the building to stay warm and now have no meeting space.

 

The Procrastinators Club have canceled their next meeting due to lack of time. People wanting to join will have to wait till the next meeting or whenever.

 

The Save Our Trees Now environmental group will hold a bonfire vigil at midnight July 4. Bring water buckets.

 

Overeaters Anonymous will have their next meeting at Ming's All You Can Eat Diner.

 

The Truth Sayers Story Telling training session will be held on riverfront at the Hook, Line, and Sinker bar.

 

The Everything Is Free store was forced to close its doors last week when no one stepped forward to pay the rent for them.

 

The Downhill Runners Association is seeking help of surveyors in planning their summer trips.

 

 

I made these up over lunchtime . . .