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+---
+format: rst
+categories: book
+toc: no
+...
+
+
+============================
+Common as Air
+============================
+
+:by: Lewis Hyde
+
+.. warning: These notes still in progress!
+
+p50: double telescope story (patents are public)
+
+p51: old history of publishers over authors
+
+land as canonical property: feudal commons, then enclosure
+
+p61: present value analysis says 20+ year copyright no incentive today
+
+p73: copyright over cage's 4'3" ! (actually trademark)
+
+stinted markets: not "free"
+
+allodial vs. feudal ownership
+
+p125: "patent of importation" given to immigrant (not inventor)
+
+p129: franklin loved "public and durable knowledge"
+
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+A coop is a social and educational institution as well as a mutual employer.
+
+A coop should not restrict the rights of it's employees any more than a regular
+"citizen". Eg, contracts should have no non-compete provisions, no restrictions
+on employee's activities and behavior outside of work, no muzzling effect on
+blogging, etc.
+
+Tech Coops
+-------------
+
+http://www.gaiahost.coop/
+
+http://www.isthmuseng.com/
+
+http://electricembers.net/aboutus.php
+
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+======================================
+On The Merits of Expartiatization
+======================================
+
+"Hairshirting" must be avoided: the benefits of all human progress should be
+leveraged going forward, and technologies and lessons learned under flawed and
+unjust organizations should not be ignored. The point is not to drop off,
+abandon, or boycott  the polical grid, it is to create a new and improved
+subnetwork of the grid. 
+
+Change happens when things are done well. 
+
+The United States, and arguably many other developed western captialist
+democracies, is stuck in a rut: political and social progress has slowed to a
+halt and momentum has been lost. It is unclear whether there is a significant
+backslide taking place or if this is just the perception from a lack of
+progress. 
+
+Other Places
+---------------
+
+Unused infrastructure is good.
+
+A balance of resources is good: enough to not be desperately dependant, but not so many that outside forces will be attracted. 
+
+
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+================
+New Zealand
+================
+
+Justice System
+----------------
+
+203 prisoners per 100k, vs. 760 for USA and 55 for Iceland. 
+
+Military
+-------------
+2.3/2.8% of population is active/total military, vs. 5.1/9.8% in the USA. 1% of
+GDP (NZ 1.7 billion) vs. 4.7% ($692 billion) for USA. 
+
+Sent some troops for Afghanistan War, sent engineers but not soldiers to Iraq. 
+
+#2 in "Global Peace Index", USA #82/153.
+
+During the Vietnam War, Agent Orange chemicals were produced in New Zealand and
+shipped to US forces in Vietnam. 
+
+Privacy, Spycraft
+-------------------
+
+NZ participates in US/Canada/UK/Australian spying and information sharing,
+including ECHELON, with 2 ECHELON ground sites in NZ. 
+
+Economy
+------------
+"Westpac CEO gets $5.4m [NZD] pay packet [...] The figure likely makes him the
+highest paid CEO in New Zealand this year." (2011; roughly $4.2m USD)
+
+http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/5962549/Westpac-CEO-gets-5-4m-pay-packet
+