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Some of them have phony keys under my name and email address, made by someone else as a trick. See <a href="/gpg.html">gpg.html</a> for my real key. </p> <p> Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphoma. Treatment put it into remission, and he can expect to live many more years. However, he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19. </p>  <p>  <a href="https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v14/">FSF Giving Guide</a>   <h3> <h3> Robert Reich explains how the bullshitter and Republicans are <a href="https://invidio.us/watch?v=3Cjjh3VNOjs">trying to spread chaos</a> to discourage non-fascists from voting. After creating as much real chaos as they can, they pretend there is even more of it, hoping Americans will give up and not vote, or support a fascist strong man. <p> I urge you to vote in Democratic primaries for the progressive candidate, if there is one. And in the final election I urge you to vote for Democrats, unless a liberal independent had a good chance of winning. </h3> <h3> Canadians: I suggest you seek election advice at a local chapter of a group that pushes to curb global heating and has the courage to say, "Canada should stop exporting fossil fuel." It will at least use the right goals to suggest who to vote for in your area. </h3> <h3> Join a <a href="https://www.aperture.presumed.net/nojs/fff/events.html">Friday climate strike</a>. <br>That page is made by scraping Fridays for Future so you can get the information without running any Javascript code. I would be very glad if they made the information on their own site accessible from the Free World; then we could simply refer people to their site and do without the scraping etc. </h3> <h3> I am limiting the number of new political notes per day so as not to overload the volunteers who install new notes. If you'd like to help, please write to rms at gnu period org. </h3> <h3> Is your bank pressuring you to use biometric ID? If so, please write to rms at gnu dot org. It could be useful if you document what is happening. </h3>  <h3> Please <a href="https://fsf.org/"> join the Free Software Foundation</a> to support its work for your freedom. </h3> <h3> "They" is plural — for singular antecedents, use <a href="/articles/genderless-pronouns.html"> singular gender-neutral pronouns</a>. </h3> <p> <a href="/linkpolicy.html">Link Policy</a> </p> <p> The largest part of the site is the <a href="archives/polnotes.html" >political notes</a>, and they are typically updated every day.</p> I'm looking for people to <ul id="volunteerList"> <li>learn how to HTML-craft and remotely-install political notes</li> <li>send me examples of how proprietary programs have been designed to be addictive.</li> <li>check a few sites for me regularly and show me any new articles that I would like to see or link to. <li>help me in maintaining stallman.org by <a href="/articles/bigotry.html">occasionally looking for articles on a given point in the news</a>. <li>send me examples of how proprietary programs have been designed to cause programmed obsolescence of products.</li> <li>write <a href="https://www.gnu.org/help/help-javascript.html"> site-specific Firefox extensions</a> or local scripts to operate specific web sites.</li> <li>help <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/HowToBecomeASavannahHacker"> maintain and operate</a> savannah.gnu.org.</li> <li>experiment to find good ways to attach fruits to a <a href="http://stallman.org/grav-mass.html">Grav-mass tree</a>.</li> <li>help web sites put free licenses on their Javascript code.</li> </ul> If you would like to help me in any of these ways, please write to rms at gnu dot o r g.</li> <p> <a href="/civillibertiesminute/">Civil Liberties Minute</a>: </p>  <div class="column1"> <a href="http://www.aclu.org/safefree/"><img src="flag_set_vectorized.png" alt="[America Means Civil Liberties / Patriotism Means Protecting Them / www.aclu.org/safefree ]" style="margin-left:-6px;"></a> <h6> graphic by Susan Henson<br> Americans, you may wish to copy this icon to your own page, as a way of showing what patriotism means to you. </h6> <h3> <a href="#upcoming-talks" id="upcoming-talks">Upcoming talks</a> </h3>   <ul>  <li> <a href="/talks.html#2024-10-22">El Movimiento del Software Libre y el Sistema Operativo GNU</a> <br>2024-10-22 @ 14:00 p.m. <br>Ubicación: Auditorio de Casa de la Cultura, Universidad Nacional de Cañete <br>Cañete, Peru <li> <a href="/talks.html#2024-10-23">El Movimiento del Software Libre y el sistema operativo GNU La IA y la estupidez artificial</a> <br>2024-10-23 @ 11:00 a.m. <br>Ubicación: Auditorium Villa 2, Universidad Científica del Sur <br>Lima - Chorrillos, Peru <li> <a href="/talks.html#2024-10-24">Free/Libre software and freedom in the digital society</a> <br>2024-10-24 @ 10:00 a.m. <br>Ubicación: Auditorio de Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín <br>Arequipa, Peru <li> <a href="/talks.html#2024-10-26">El Movimiento del Software Libre y el sistema operativo GNU</a> <br>2024-10-26 @ 18:00 p.m. <br>Ubicación: Auditorium, Gobierno Regional de Tacna <br>Tacna, Peru <li> <a href="/talks.html#2024-10-29"> El Movimiento del Software Libre y el sistema operativo GNU</a> <br>2024-10-29 @ 11:00 a.m. <br>Ubicación: Auditorio de la FIIS. Edificio de la Facultad de Ingeniería Industrial y de Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Federico Villareal <br>Lima, Peru <li> <a href="/talks.html#2024-10-30">Por una sociedad digital libre</a> <br>2024-10-30 @ 11:00 a.m. <br>Ubicación: Av. Antigua Panamericana Sur km 16.2. Villa El Salvador, Universidad Autónoma Auditorio de la Universidad Autónoma <br>Lima, Peru <li> <a href="/talks.html#2024-10-31">El Movimiento del Software Libre y el sistema operativo GNU - Los sistemas de Aprendizaje Automático</a> <br>2024-10-31 @ 11:00 a.m. <br>Ubicación: Auditorio: Celso Alfredo Alva Bravo - FISI Edificio de la FISI Panamericana Sur km 16.2. Villa El Salvador, Universidad Nacional de San Marcos <br>Lima, Peru </ul> <h3> <a href="#urgent" id="urgent">Urgent action items</a> </h3>   <ul>   <li> <p> US citizens: call on Senate Democrats to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/fourth-amendment-not-for-sale-24/">close the Data Broker Loophole</a>, that allows agencies like ICE, CBP, and the FBI bypass the 4th Amendment and spy on everyday people's location and online activity without a warrant. </p> <p> In my view, that change would be a change for the better, but would not be adequate. We are entitled to use devices controlled by us, not be companies. We should be able to make sure they do not tell anyone where we go. </p> <p> But closing the Data Broker Loophole is at least a change for the better. </p> </li>  <li> <p> US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/revoke-musks-security-clearance">revoke Musk's security clearance</a>. </p> </li>  <li> <p> US citizens:Support Bernie Sanders: <a href="https://act.ourrevolution.com/signup/bernie-agenda-fight-gop/">urge Democrats in Congress to resist Republicans</a>. </p> </li>  <li> <p> US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/oppose-the-appointment-of-a-moms-for-liberty-co-founder-as-education-secretary">Oppose the Appointment of a "Moms for Liberty" Co-Founder as Education Secretary</a>. </p> </li>  <li> <p> US citizens: call on world leaders to <a href="https://act.ran.org/page/74162/petition/1">reduce deforestation and environmental degradation</a>, so as to preserve biodiversity. </p> </li> <li> <p> I'm looking for a <a href=/comics.html>cartoonist</a> who would like to draw cartoons for me once in a while. If you're interested, please write to rms, which refers to me, at the location gnu period org.  <li> <p> Boycott Chevron, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/15/dont-let-big-oil-open-new-front-its-war-environmental-defenders">in the name of Steven Donziger</a>.</p>  </li> </ul> <h3>Recording of Guantanamero</h3> Listen to the <a href="guantanamero.ogg">recording</a> of <a href="guantanamero.html">Guantanamero</a>, a protest song written in Spanish. The recording is in Ogg Vorbis format. To install an Ogg Vorbis player, see <a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg"> the FSF's Ogg Players page</a>. <h3><a href="#oughttobe" id="oughttobe">There Ought to Be a Law</a></h3>  <ul> <li id="Require Services to be available anonymously"> <p> A pitifully weak attempt to solve a real problem: asking for a federal law that would permit victims of domestic abuse and stalking to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/data-brokers-harm-abuse-survivors-we-need-a-law-to-stop-them">demand that data brokers delete information about them</a>. </p> <p> Data, once collected, <em>will</em> be abused. The way to prevent that abuse is to facilitate refusing to hand it over in the first place. </p> <p> Here is my proposal for protecting the specific people known to be in particular danger, and everyone else who could be harmed if individuals, businesses or governments use their personal data against them without a search warrant: require services to be available anonymously. </p> </li> <li id="toxic-chemicals"> The regulation of toxic chemicals in the US is hamstrung by laws that enable companies to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/17/lawsuit-prevent-hiding-toxic-chemicals">keep their use and their presence in any place secret</a>. <p> The selfish interest of those who keep trade secrets is rational but antisocial. In many cases the only harm it does is to hold back the general advance of technology. But sometimes it does really nasty things. For digital hardware and software, it often gives companies a way to subjugate their users. Regarding use of toxic chemicals, it endangers public health. <p> Why would legislators pass laws to "protect" companies instead of protecting the people they harm? I suspect it is partly because these companies are influential and the legislators seek their support, and partly because the legislators ask them for campaign funds. <p> But it is also partly the result of the mindset of "trickle down", which assumes that the only way to get more funds for the state is to let increase the size of the economy by letting companies have what they want. Unfortunately, what they want is often to be allowed to harm the public. <p> Most Democrats in Congress got corrupted this way in the 80s and 90s. (The exceptions are the progressive Democrats.) Now in the UK Starmer is guiding Labour into that sort of corruption. <p> Clearly our laws should say that any public need to know about the presence of toxic substances in a business facility overrides the desire to keep them secret. </li> <li id="state-business-funding"> *China-owned British Steel said to have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/23/china-owned-british-steel-requested-600m-taxpayer-support">requested £600m of taxpayer support</a>.* <p> Whether the owners are Chinese is a question that there is no need to ask, because the state should <em>never</em> give money to a business "to support it." Instead it should offer to lend money to the company for suitable repayment, or else buy equity at a fair price. <p> These two ways of supporting a company avoid giving the owners an opporunity to rip off the state -- which the company's owners are likely to try to do, if they can, regardless of which country they are from. <p> With a policy like this, it wouldn't matter which country the company's owners are from. </li> <li id="recommendation-engine"> California is proposing an interesting approach towards <a href="https://www.engadget.com/proposed-california-bill-would-let-parents-block-algorithmic-social-feeds-for-children-220132956.html?src=rss">antisocial media platforms</a>. <p> It is exciting that SB 976 turns towards restricting recommendation algorithms. But these options should not be limited to minors — every user <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#8_September_2023_(Taking_control_away_from_social_media_sites)">should have this choice</a>. (Please do not refer to teenagers as "children"; that feeds the US tendency to treat them like children and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#20_July_2023_(Free-play_kid_programs)">retard their development</a>.) <p> However, I suggest taking a step beyond just choosing to use or not use the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-nov-feb.html#7_February_2024_(Misogynistic_messages)">platform's addiction system</a>. Recommendation algorithms should be completely separated from platforms! <p> If you want to use a nontrivial recommendation algorithm, you should be able to choose it yourself and use it anonymously. You could send it the URLs you want it to base its choices on. These might be some of the pages you had visited, and perhaps pages you had not visited. <p> Then it should send <i>you</i> its recommendations. You could pass all, or just some, or none of those recommendations to the platform to look at them. <p> AB 1949 is admirable because it gives a small boost to privacy for users of all ages, not only for children. It isn't enough, though — users should also be guaranteed the right and possibility to access through the Tor network and to use aliases. And collection of a user's data by the state should require a warrant against the user. </li> </ul> <a href="/there-ought-to-be-a-law.html">More items where there ought to be a law.</a> <h3>Quotes</h3> <p> Here are some <a href="/quotes.html"> quotations</a> that I particularly like. </p> </div>  <div class="column2"> <h2>Most recent <a href="archives/polnotes.html">Political Notes and News Items</a></h2> (<a href="rss/rss.xml">RSS Feed</a>) <p> You can now read the political notes on <a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.xyz/@rms">Mastodon</a>. <dl><dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(Prosecuted_for_not_tracking_child_at_all_times)" target="_top"><b>Prosecuted for not tracking child at all times</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> While Brittany Patterson brought one child to a medical appointment, her 10-year-old went out for a walk. Lunatic officials are <a href="https://www.freerangekids.com/free-range-kids-brittany-patterson-and-arresting-moms-whose-kids-take-a-walk/">prosecuting her for not tracking him during that time</a>. </p> <p> As it happens, she had no way to do that except to cancel her child's appointment. That would have been far more likely to cause harm to her kids than what she is being prosecuted for doing. </p> <p> If you want to live in a country where everyone is tracked and monitored all the time, go live in China. Don't bring China here! </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(Fee_of_$9_for_driving_in_Manhattan)" target="_top"><b>Fee of $9 for driving in Manhattan</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> *New York City plan to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/congestion-fee-nyc">charge $9 fee for driving in Manhattan</a> approved.* </p> <p> I support this plan to charge for driving in downtown and midtown Manhattan provided it does not have the byproduct of tracking who goes there, and in particular it is possible to pay without being subject to injustice such as identifying yourself or running nonfree software. </p> <p> But the article fails to say whether the fee system has those unjust aspects. Like so much journalism these days, it focuses on monetary cost while disregarding cost that may (or may not) accrue to our freedom. </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(Suggestions_for_Biden_to_act)" target="_top"><b>Suggestions for Biden to act</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/trump-biden-civil-liberties">Five suggestions for Biden to act</a>, while still president, to impede some of the destruction that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> plans to do. </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(Wrecker's_officials_linked_to_Project_2025)" target="_top"><b>Wrecker's officials linked to Project 2025</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> Some of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> choices for official positions have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/project-2025-trump-picks">direct links to Project 2025</a>, which tends to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-may-aug.html#10_August_2024_(The_liar's_ties_to_Project_2025)">confirm the suspicion</a> (which I mentioned then) that he was lying when he said that Project 2025 had nothing to do with him. </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(Trust_of_the_working_class)" target="_top"><b>Trust of the working class</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> *The Democratic Party Is Toast If It Doesn't <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11/17/democrats-next-time-try-fighting-for-the-working-class">Earn Back the Trust of the Working Class</a>.* </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(Democrats_need_working-class_candidates)" target="_top"><b>Democrats need working-class candidates</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> *The Democrats need to recruit more working-class candidates. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/22/democrats-working-class-candidates">Here's how</a>.* </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(Americans'_medical_insurance)" target="_top"><b>Americans' medical insurance</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> A former official under <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> expects the wrecker to make non-wealthy Americans' medical insurance <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/trump-ex-health-secretary-interview">weaker and more expensive</a>. </p> <p> The article makes the mistake of seeing a contradiction between this and what <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a> said to the public to win votes, but there is no reason to suppose he wasn't bullshitting then. </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(California_limits_on_PFAS)" target="_top"><b>California limits on PFAS</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> California limits on PFAS in products are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/22/pfas-california-prop-65">having a real effect</a>. </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(GM_cutting_costs_by_firing_workers)" target="_top"><b>GM cutting costs by firing workers</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> Robert Reich: Enormously profitable GM says that it "must cut costs" by firing workers, and <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/gm-corporate-greed-and-the-reason">most Democrats don't show outrage</a>. </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(Secretary_of_defense_who_anticipates_a_civil_war)" target="_top"><b>Secretary of defense who anticipates a civil war</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">The fascist</a> wants to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/trump-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-book">appoint a secretary of defense who anticipates a civil war</a> — perhaps anticipating that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#trump">the fascist's</a> oppression will cause one. </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(Protection_from_pollution)" target="_top"><b>Protection from pollution</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> *<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> staff fear Trump will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/11/environmental-protection-agency-staff-react-trump-second-term">destroy how it protects Americans from pollution</a>.* </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(Musk_and_Zuck's_era_of_disinformation)" target="_top"><b>Musk and Zuck's era of disinformation</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> *First came the bots, then came the bosses — we're entering <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/12/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-disinformation">Musk and Zuck's new era of disinformation</a>.* </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(Actors_in_Hollywood_afraid_of_bullshitter)" target="_top"><b>Actors in Hollywood afraid of bullshitter</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> Sebastian Stan, who stars in The Apprentice, a biopic of [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a>] focusing on his association in the 1970s with lawyer Roy Cohn, has said that other actors in Hollywood are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/nov/21/the-apprentice-actor-sebastian-stan-says-hollywood-stars-are-afraid-of-trump">too “afraid” of the president-elect</a> to participate in press with him. </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(Book_about_Musk)" target="_top"><b>Book about Musk</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> A successful author, whose other nonfiction books have been successful, wrote a book about Musk. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/23/we-live-in-a-climate-of-fear-graphic-novelists-elon-musk-book-cant-find-uk-or-us-publisher">No company dares to publish it in the US</a>. </p> <p> I assume that this book is mot actually libelous, because he surely knows by now how to have a lawyer check that, and how rewrite to avoid libel. It would follow that this is a new form of intimidation: people so powerful that no one dares publish even truthfully about them. </p> <p> I suggest posting the book on a web site under a Creative Commons license — that way, at least people could read it. </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#27_November_2024_(Cop29_negotiating_text)" target="_top"><b>Cop29 negotiating text</b></a><br><small><i>27 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> *Saudi Arabia accused of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/23/revealed-saudi-arabia-accused-of-modifying-official-cop29-negotiating-text">modifying official Cop29 negotiating text</a>.* </p> <p> All participating nations are supposed to have the same access. Favoritism towards one of them is allowing it to cheat. In this case it would seem to be favoritism from Azerbaijan (a planet-roaster state) towards <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> (another planet-roaster state). </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#26_November_2024_(Urgent:_Close_Data_Broker_Loophole)" target="_top"><b>Urgent: Close Data Broker Loophole</b></a><br><small><i>26 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> US citizens: call on Senate Democrats to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/fourth-amendment-not-for-sale-24/">close the Data Broker Loophole</a>, that allows agencies like ICE, CBP, and the FBI bypass the 4th Amendment and spy on everyday people's location and online activity without a warrant. </p> <p> In my view, that change would be a change for the better, but would not be adequate. We are entitled to use devices controlled by us, not be companies. We should be able to make sure they do not tell anyone where we go. </p> <p> But closing the Data Broker Loophole is at least a change for the better. </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#26_November_2024_(Urgent:_Revoke_Musk's_security_clearance)" target="_top"><b>Urgent: Revoke Musk's security clearance</b></a><br><small><i>26 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/revoke-musks-security-clearance">revoke Musk's security clearance</a>. </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#26_November_2024_(Evidence_global_heating_supercharging_deadly_weather)" target="_top"><b>Evidence global heating supercharging deadly weather</b></a><br><small><i>26 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> *Analyses are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-to-blame-for-dozens-of-impossible-heatwaves-studies-reveal">stark evidence</a> of how <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity.* </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#26_November_2024_(Thugs_shot_victim_of_break_in)" target="_top"><b>Thugs shot victim of break in</b></a><br><small><i>26 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> Brandon Durham called 911 because people broke into his home. While he was struggling to take a knife away from one of them, a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/20/las-vegas-911-caller-police-officer">thug arrived and shot him dead</a>. </p> <p> His relatives want the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> to be tried for this hasty killing which predictably invited a deadly mistake. </p> </li> </dd> <dt><h3><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2024-sep-dec.html#26_November_2024_(Republican_party_turning_into_playpen_for_oligarchs)" target="_top"><b>Republican party turning into playpen for oligarchs</b></a><br><small><i>26 November 2024</i></small></h3></dt><dd> <p> *The Republicans were always the party of big business, but [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>] is turning them into a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/20/the-guardian-view-on-donald-trumps-plutocrats-money-for-something">playpen for oligarchs</a>.* </p> </li> </dd></dl> </div>  <div class="column3"> <hr /> <p href="#apocalypse" id="apocalypse"> The four factors of the apocalypse: <br />    global heating, global hating, <br />    global eating, global mating. </p> <hr /> <div id="comic-container"> <div id="comic"> <div id="comic-expand"> <a href="comics.html"><img src="images/expand_r.png" alt=""></a> </div>  <a href="/images/so-many-candidates.jpg"> <img src="/images/so-many-candidates-small.jpg" alt="So Many Candidates"> </a> </div>  </div>  <a href="comics.html">[More Cartoons]</a> <hr /> <br><br> <a href="https://stallman.org/facebook.html"><img src="/no-facebook.svg" alt="Not f'd. You won't find us on Facebook" width="200"></a> <p> Copy <a href="/no-facebook.svg">this button</a> (courtesy of R.Siddharth) to express your rejection of Facebook. </p>     <hr> <h3>E-books</h3> <p> <a href="/non-oppressive-ebooks.html">Non-oppressive Commercial E-books</a> </p> <hr> <h3>Don't use Facebook</h3> <p> Facebook's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jun/14/facebook-facial-recognition-software">face recognition demonstrates a threat</a> to everyone's privacy. I therefore ask people not to put photos of me on Facebook; you can do likewise.</p> <p>Of course, <a href="/facebook.html">Facebook is bad for many other reasons as well.</a> <hr> <h3> <a href="harry-potter.html">Boycott Harry Potter Books, Movies, etc.</a> </h3> <br> <hr> <h3> <a href="/internet-music.html">Internet Music EULAS</a> </h3> <br> <hr> <h3> <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">Business Supremacy Treaties</a> </h3> <br> <hr /> <h3> <a href="/stay-away-countries.html">Countries to Stay Away From</a> </h3> <br /> <hr> <h3>No national identity cards</h3> <p> I'd like to make a list of countries that do not require a national identity card, and have no plans to adopt one. If you live in or have confirmed knowledge of such a country, please send email to rms at gnu.org. <p> Here's my list of countries with no national ID cards and no plans for one: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK. Australia's previous government tried to institute national ID cards, but the Labor government dropped the plan.</p> <p>India has mostly finished imposing a national biometric ID number in a grand act of oppression. </p> <p>Switzerland has national ID cards which are optional, but they or some other government ID card are needed for some purposes. <p> Iceland doesn't have ID cards as such, but they have ID numbers that citizens are forced to use frequently. For example, the national ID number is often required to rent a video or use a gym. </p> <p> Denmark issues non-photo ID cards with a "person number", and many services use this card to identify people. </p> <p> Norway will impose a national <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html">biometric ID card</a>. </p> <p> <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/privacy-campaigners-concerned-over-national-id-card-by-stealth-1.3091209">Ireland</a> - national ID card by stealth. </p> <p> ACLU: the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/other/5-problems-national-id-cards">five dangers of national ID cards</a>. </p> <p> Wikipedia has a list of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_identity_card_policies_by_country">identity card policies by country</a>. </p> <hr> <h3>Borders</h3> <p> Stay away from certain countries because of their <a href="bad-border-policy-countries.html">bad immigration policies</a>. </p> <hr> <h3>Flight connections</h3> <p> Avoid flight connections in these airports because of their <a href="bad-connection-airports.html"> treatment of passengers</a>. </p> <hr> <h3>The Lifelong Activist</h3> <p> People often ask how I manage to continue devoting myself to progressive activism (such as the free software movement) for years without burning out. The best way I can answer is by recommending a book, <a href="https://hillaryrettigproductivity.com/the-lifelong-activist/"> The Lifelong Activist</a> by Hillary Rettig. <p>I disagree with the book on one theoretical point in the last part of the book: we shouldn't think of political activism as <em>being</em> marketing and sales, because those terms refer to business, and politics is something much more important than mere business. However, this doesn't diminish the value of the book's practical advice about borrowing techniques from marketing and sales.</p> <p>Disclosure: I am friends with the author.</p> <hr /> <p> <h3>Bob Chassell</h3> <a href="/Bob-Chassell/">Writing</a> (mostly science fiction) by my friend Bob Chassell who recently died. </p> <hr> <h3>Solidarity Economy and Free Software</h3> <p> <a href="https://stallman.org/solidarity-economy.html"> Personal Declaration of Richard Stallman and Euclides Mance on Solidarity Economy and Free Software.</a> </p> <hr> <h3>Falkvinge articles</h3> <p> <a href="/falkvinge.html">I have reposted some of Rick Falkvinge's articles.</a> As posted on his site, you can't see them in a browser without running some nonfree Javascript code which is apparently non-free. These versions show the same text, without the obstacle. </p> </div>  <div class="rest"> <hr> <h3> <a href="/longterm.html" id="long-term">Long-term action items</a> </h3> <hr> <h3> <a href="#politics" id="politics">Political Articles</a> </h3> <p> These are my political articles that are not related to the GNU operating system or free software. For GNU-related articles, see the <a href= "http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/">GNU philosophy directory</a>. You can also download copies of my book, <a href="https://www.fsf.org/faif/">Free Software, Free Society, 3rd edition</a>. <ul> <li> <a href="articles/propaganda.html">A way to recognize misleading political propaganda</a> (July 2024) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/magellan-just-a-name.html">Fight Modern Slavery, but Leave Astronomy Alone</a> (May 2024) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/benevolence.html">Let Benevolence Shine</a> (December 2023) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/virgin-of-emacs.html">What I learned about gender and language from talking about the Virgin of Emacs, and how I made use of that in practice</a> (October 2023) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/companies-snoop-on-students.html">Many governments invite schools to invite companies to snoop on students</a> (June 2022) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/lasting-peace-weaken-putin-not-ruin.html">To Endure, Peace Needs to Weaken Putin But Not Ruin Him</a> (March 2022) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/putin-forces.html">The Russian Army has become the Putin Forces</a> (March 2022) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/defining-racism.html">The definition of "racism" must not be formulated based on who the perpetrators are</a> (February 2022) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/corporate-landlords.html">Why we should get rid of corporate landlords, and an easy method</a> (August 2021) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/cooperative-internet-disservices.html">Worker-owned internet services can still be dis-services</a> (June 2021) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/necessary-changes.html">Necessary Changes in Society</a> (March 2021) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/toobin.html">On the Firing of Jeffrey Toobin</a> (November 2020) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/policing-police.html">The Broken Trust Model of Policing Police</a> (October 2020) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/clark-killick.html">An Extinction Rebellion activist comments about the London police by Clark Killick</a> (October 2020) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/real-privacy-laws.html">What sort of laws would give us real privacy?</a> (December 2019) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/microsoft-talk.html">My Talk at Microsoft</a> (September 2019) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/surveillance-ordinance.html">Surveillance Ordinance</a> (November 2018) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/ramayana.html">How the Ramayana endorses caste bias</a> (April 2018) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/genderless-pronouns.html">Better Genderless Pronouns in English</a> (April 2018) </li> <li> A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/03/facebook-abusing-data-law-privacy-big-tech-surveillance">radical proposal</a> to keep your personal data safe. (April 2018) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/what-mary-had.html">What Mary Had</a> (May 2017) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/anonymous-payments-thru-phones.html">Anonymous internet payments using pay phones</a> (Apr 2017) </li> <li> When people are <a href="/articles/conscripted.html">conscripted by the DMCA into the War on Sharing</a>. (Dec 2016) </li> <li> If you feel your organization needs a <a href="/facebook-presence.html">"presence" in Facebook</a>. (Dec 2016) </li> <li> <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html"> How Much Surveillance</a> Can Democracy Withstand? </li> <li> Yes, <a href="/articles/why-fear-surveillance.html">You Have Something to Fear</a>. (August 2016) </li> <li> A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/13/something-to-really-miss-about-david-cameron"> proposal for resolving the dispute</a> over the South China Sea. (July 2016) </li> <li> Is <a href="/articles/duckduckgo-censorship.html"> duckduckgo.com partially enforcing</a> the "celebrity threesome injunction"? (May 2016) </li> <li> Adapting the Marseillaise to the <a href="/articles/chant-du-29-novembre.html"> greatest threat to civilization</a>. </li> <li> <a href="/articles/logo-sea-turtle.html">Proposing the Logo Sea Turtle — for Whales</a> (October 2015) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/when-should-body-cameras-record.html">Controlling When the Cameras Record</a> (August 2015) </li> <li> A few <a href="/articles/words-to-greece.html"> words to Greece</a> (June 2015) </li> <li> Fixing <a href="/articles/progressive-tax-on-business-gross-income.html">Too Big To Fail</a> (Apr 2015) </li> <li> <a href="/enslaved-workers.html">Enslaved Workers</a> </li> <li> <a href="/articles/hrant-dink.html">What I said about Hrant Dink</a> in my talks in Turkey (Apr 2015) </li> <li> Earth <a href="/articles/planet-koch.html">under attack from planet Koch</a>. </li> <li> <a href="/articles/fine-hiring-ex-officials.html">Fine government contractors for hiring ex-officials</a> (Feb 2015) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/witch-hunt.html">Suggestion to the target of a witch hunt</a> (Feb 2015) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/nonexistence-not-good-or-bad.html">Nonexistence</a> (Feb 2015) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/thermocene.html">The Thermocene Epoch</a> (Feb 2015) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/digital-voting-bad.html">Digital Voting.</a> (Jan 2015) </li> <li> My letter asking the judge not to sentence <a href="/articles/hammond.pdf"> Jeremy Hammond to prison</a>. (Jan 2015) </li> <li> It is a <a href="/evoting.html">bad idea to have computers count the votes in public elections</a>. </li> <li> <a href="/internet-voting.html">Internet Voting: don't even think of it!</a> </li> <li> The patent system is, at best, <a href="http://www.luc.edu/media/lucedu/law/students/publications/llj/pdfs/45_1_stallman.pdf"> not worth keeping</a>. (February 2014) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">Why We Need A State</a> (November 2013) </li> <li> We can put an end to "too big to fail" with an <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/idUK261136661120130204"> innovative tax</a> that also defeats corporate tax-dodging. (August 2013) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/exxon.html">Exxon and the Letter Exx.</a> (April 1, 2013) </li> <li> <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/idUK261136661120130204"> Fixing too big to fail</a> (February 2013) </li> <li> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2013/jan/21/hmv-loss-music-buying-cash">Why internet music "sale" is a bad deal.</a> (January 2013) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/online-education.html"> On-line education</a> is using a flawed Creative Commons license (September 2012) <a href="/articles/online-education.fr.html">French Translation</a> </li> <li> <a href="/articles/redistributable-scientific-publishing.html"> Redistributable Scientific Publishing</a> (April 2012) </li> <li> <a href="/articles/asked-to-lie.html">My Doctor's Office Asked me to Lie</a> (August 2011) </li> <li><a href="articles/responding-to-beggars.html">Responding to Beggars</a></li> <li><a href="articles/extreme.html">UK extreme pornography law</a>.</li> <li> My criticism of the <a href="/articles/zeitgeist.html">The Zeitgeist Movement</a>. The Venus Project is more or less the same idea. </li> <li> <a href="articles/states-union.html">The states need to form a union</a>. </li> <li><a href="/articles/political-articles.html">Additional Political Articles</a> are on a separate page</li> </ul> <h3> <a href="#notes" id="notes">Political notes</a> </h3> <blockquote> <em>"Those who profess to favor freedom, yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."</em> <div class="c3"> <a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html">Frederick Douglass</a>, American Abolitionist, <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass#West_India_Emancipation_.281857.29">Letter to an associate, 1849</a> </div> </blockquote> <p> Here are notes about various issues I care about, usually with links to more information. The current notes are <a href="/archives/current.html">here</a>. For all previous notes, see <a href="/archives/index.html">this page</a>. <br> <p> See <a href="/repairing-links.html">this page</a> for information on efforts to maintain links in the political notes. <p> Political notes about the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy are being archived on <a href="/genoa.html">their own page</a>. <h3>Media/Press/Bios</h3> <p> Richard Stallman's bio and publicity photos, and other things of interest to the press, have been moved to a <a href="/media.html">separate page</a>. </p> <h3> <a href="#travel" id="travel">Travel experiences</a> </h3> <p> <ul> <li> <a href="/articles/palestine-trip.html">How it happened</a> that I planned speeches at Israeli universities, then cancelled them. </li> <li><a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms">Richard Stallman's travel blog</a> and <a href="/restaurants.html">restaurants reviews</a></li> <li>My <a href="articles/machu.html">visit to Machu Picchu</a></li> <li>Stories about visits to <a href="articles/tikal.html">Tikal</a> and <a href="articles/greece.html">Greece</a></li> </ul> <h3> <a href="#travel_photos" id="travel_photos">Photos about my travels</a> </h3> <p> <ul> <li>Photos of me <a href="photos/rms-working/">working on my laptop</a> at various places</li> <li><a href="/photos/index.html">All of my photos</a>, organized by location, from my trips.</li> <li> <a href="/favorite-photos.html">Photos people like best</a>, among those I have taken and posted here. </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201125151515if_/http://juliancash.com/view/rms2/set/medium_index.html">OSCON</a></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040630232452/http://juliancash.com/view/rms3/medium_index.html">More Photos from OSCON</a></li>  <li>my <a href="https://stallman.org/photos/switzerland/2003-RMS-Tour-de-Suisse/index.html"> visit to Switzerland</a> in May 2003 (and the same <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mum/sets/72157623706272563/"> photos at the original photographer's site</a>.)</li> <li>Some pictures from <a href="vaasa.html">Vaasa</a> where I slipped on icy ground in the airport, broke my elbow, and gave my speech by telephone from the hospital bed</li> <li>my <a href="/photos/greece">trips to Greece</a> </li> <li>In Singapore in March 2001, a <a href= "parrot-love.jpg">lovely parrot</a> (50k jpeg) became enamored of me, while others <a href="singapore-music.jpg">enjoyed my recorder playing</a> (91k jpeg)</li> <li>my <a href="/photos/china/2000/RMS_in_China_2000.html">visit to China</a> in May/June 2000. I also visited Tibet unawares, because nobody told me that JiuZhaiGou was part of Tibetan territory annexed by China since the conquest</li> <li>my visit to Brazil: some from <a href= "https://web.archive.org/web/20010613171306/http://www.cipsga.org.br/rmsinrio/">Rio de Janeiro</a> and some from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010613171306/http://www.cipsga.org.br/rmsinrio/">Porto Alegre</a> where the Software Livre 2000 event was held. <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060112234750/http://www.lugos.si/lugos/rms2000/pic/">my trip to Slovenia</a></li> <li>  A <a href="./rms-1.jpg"> photo of me</a> by Blake Livingston (may be used under CC-BY-SA). </li> </ul> <h3> <a href="#sci_links" id="sci_links">Scientific Links</a> </h3> <ul> <li> <a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2007/09/the-pseudoscience-behind-homeopathy/"> Homeopathy debunked</a>, and thoroughly, as pseudoscience. </li> </ul> <hr> <h3> Some <a href="#humor" id="humor">humor</a> </h3> <p> <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/the-berry-torture.html">The berry torture</a>. </p> <p> <a href="https://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.en.html">The Free Software Song</a>, by Richard M. Stallman. You can listen to a performance of the song: <a href="https://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song-rhythmic.ogg">Free Software Song performed by Thor</a> Here is a variant of this song called <a href="https://blog.vimuser.org/free-firmware-song.html">"The Free Firmware Song"</a>. </p> <p> A song parody, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308124953/http://aoeu2code.com/post/251">Colors of the Lisp</a>, by Jefferson Carpenter. </p> <p> Earth <a href="/articles/planet-koch.html">under attack from planet Koch</a>. </p> <p> <a href="/doxing.html">On doxing</a>, and how to spell it. </p> <p> <a href="/futon-physics.html">Futon Physics</a> </p> <p> <a id="ruleta-espanola" href="/images/ruleta-espanola.png">A Spanish cartoon: La Ruleta Española. <img src="/images/ruleta-espanola-small-alpha.png" alt="thumbnail" style="vertical-align:middle;"></a> </p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140208062623/http://shift-reset.com/blog/2013/12/24/The%20Night%20before%20M-x-mas/">The Night before M-x-mas</a> </p> <p> Here I am <a href="power-tie.jpg">wearing my "power tie"</a>. <p> <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2021/01/pour-decisions/">Wine snobs</a> get their comeuppance.</p> <p> Here I am <a href= "IMG_5884.JPG">struggling to open a bottle of water</a>. <p> My application to an join Marian Henley's <a href="ex-boyfriends-list.html">ex-boyfriends list</a>. <p> My <a href="doggerel.html">funny poetry and song parodies</a>. <p> <a href="comics.html">My Cartoons</a> <p> <a href="/puns.html">My Puns in English</a> (<a href="/puns.html#littleleague">Little Leaguer</a>, August 2019). <p> <a href="/spanish-puns.html">My Puns in Spanish</a> (New pun: <a href="/spanish-puns.html#apostasia">Apostasía</a> April 2019) <p> <a href="/french-puns.html">My Puns in French</a> (New pun: <a href="/french-puns.html#microsoft">Microsoft à l'école</a> July 2019) <p> <a href="/portuguese-puns.html">My Puns in Portuguese</a> <p> <a href="/italian-puns.html">My Puns in Italian</a> (New pun: <a href="/italian-puns.html#pesce">Quale pesce fa starnutire?</a> New 10/2018) <p> <a href="/german-puns.html">My Puns in German</a> (New 02/2016) <p> <a href="linguistic-swifties.html">Linguistic Swifties</a> (Now with: Wintu, Penutian, Cochiti, Taos, and Towa.) <p> <a href="/saint.html"><img src="/graphics/saint-button.png" alt="I am a Saint In the Church Of Emacs"></a> --<a href="/saint.html">Saint IGNUcius</a>-- The Church of Emacs will <a href="extra/church.html">soon be officially listed</a> by at least one person as his religion for census purposes. <p> There are no godfathers in the Church of Emacs, since there are no gods, but you can be someone's <a href="editorfather.html">editorfather</a>. <p> <a href="articles/texas.html">Stallman Does Dallas</a>: "I have to warn you that Texans have been known to have an adverse reaction to my personality…" <p> <a href="articles/yellow-hat.html">The Dalai Lama today announced the official release of Yellow Hat GNU/Linux.</a> <p> <a href="/articles/pre-zen.html">Pre-Zen Studies.</a> </p> <p> I found <a href="extra/bdk.html">a funny song about the Mickey Mouse Copyright Act</a> (officially the Sonny Bono Copyright Act) which extended copyright retroactively by 20 years on works made as early as the 1920s. <p> If you are a geek and read Spanish, you will love Raulito el Friki, who said "Hello, world!" immediately after he was born. Here's <a href="http://www.taringa.net/posts/linux/1289402/Raulito-el-friki:-Homenaje.html"> an archive of this now-defunct comic strip</a>. <p> <a href="http://disobedience.mit.edu/?p=813"> Sleeping with Stallman</a> at MIT. <p> <a href="/malentendido-gracioso.html">Un malentendido gracioso</a>. <p> ESR's favorite programming language: <a href="http://fdiv.net/2012/04/01/objectivist-c"> Objectivist C</a>. <p> <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140701124736/http://americanextremists.thecomicseries.com/ ">American Extremists</a> <p> <a href="/articles/mouth.html">My Small Mouth</a> <p> <a href="/huns-writs.html">The huns and the writs</a>. <p> <a href="/articles/cluj.html">No Kludges in Cluj</a> (June 2014) <p> <a href="/images/P1010083.JPG">Hammer into Anvil</a> <h3> <a href="#fiction" id="fiction">Fiction</a> </h3> <p> <p> <a href="/articles/made-for-you.html"> Made for You</a> (December 2012) (<a href="/articles/made-for-you.html">local copy</a>) <a href="/articles/made-for-you.eo.html">Esperanto translation</a> </p> <a href="/articles/jinnetic.html">A science fiction story: Jinnetic Engineering</a> (<a href="/articles/jinnetic-portuguese.html">in Portuguese</a>, <a href="/articles/jinnetic-engineering.fa.html">Farsi</a>, <a href="/articles/jinnetic.es.html">Spanish</a>, <a href="/articles/jinnetic.hy.html">Armenian</a>, <a href="/articles/jinnetic.ru.html">Russian</a>, <a href="/articles/jinnetic.fr.html">French</a>, and <a href="/articles/jinnetic.it.html">Italian</a>). <p> <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html">The Right to Read</a> <h3> <a href="#books" id="books">Books</a> </h3> <p> My book of essays about the philosophy of Software Freedom, is available from the <a href="http://shop.fsf.org/category/books"> GNU Press</a>. </p> <h3> <a href="#love" id="love">Stallman on Love</a> </h3> <p> <a href="articles/love-and-dance.html">Love and Dance</a> <p> <a href="articles/childhood-sweetheart.html">My Childhood Sweetheart</a> <p> <a href="articles/made-for-you.html">Made for You</a> <p> <a href="extra/personal.html">My Former Personal Ad</a> <h3> <a href="#non-political" id="non-political">Non-Political Articles</a> </h3> <p> <a href="/articles/dr-stallman.html">Am I Doctor Stallman?</a> </p> <p> <a href="/articles/avec-des-chapeaux.html">Avec des chapeaux</a> French song parody. </p> <p> My <a href="/RMSGeorgianMusicWUOG.ogg">radio program of Music from Georgia</a>, originally broadcast on WUOG in Athens, Georgia on Oct 13, 2014. </p> <p> <a href="/articles/trolley-problem.html">Resolving the trolley problem</a> <p> <a href="/articles/quantum-abortion.html">Quantum Theory and Abortion Rights</a> </p> <p> A <a href="/articles/castellano-sin-genero.html"> proposal for gender neutrality in Spanish</a>, suitable for both speech and writing. </p> <p> <a href="articles/posix.html">Origin of the POSIX name.</a> </p> <p> <a href="articles/on-hacking.html">On Hacking</a>: In June 2000, while visiting Korea, I did a fun hack that clearly illustrates the original and true meaning of the word "hacker". </p> <p> <a href="/articles/childhood-sweetheart.html">My Childhood Sweetheart</a> </p> <p> <a href="/articles/love-and-dance.html">Love and Dance</a> </p> <p>Predicting the attack on <a id="pearlharbor" href="pearlharbor.html">Pearl Harbor</a></p> <p> <a href="/articles/destruction-certificate.txt">Certificate of confusion</a> </p> <h3> <a id="links" href="/links.html">Links</a> </h3> <h3> <a href="#thanks" id="thanks">Thanks</a> </h3> <p> I would like to thank: <ul> <li>Positive Internet for hosting this web site.</li> <li>Graziano Sorbaioli for improving the layout of the main page.</li>  </ul> <hr> <p> Please send comments on these web pages to <b>rms at gnu period org</b>. <p> Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Richard Stallman<br> Verbatim copying and redistribution of this entire page are permitted provided this notice is preserved.<br> Verbatim copying and redistribution of any of the photos in the <i>photos</i> subdirectory is permitted under the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/"> Creative Commons Noderivs license version 3.0</a> or later. 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