Working title for new novel: "Distinguishing between the Internet and Objective Reality" by Andrew William Morrow

Tentatively to be published by Ishi Press, at 461 Peachstone Terrace, San Rafael, Caliornia 94903-1327, which is right here.

Possible future ISBN: 0-923891-YY-Z , pending allocation of YY number.

Ishipress.com domain name registration.

Note to self: Need to start test-marketing segments of this at upcoming Bay Area poetry slams.

All of the music lyrics snippets and video clips pointed to in this novel are for entertainment purposes only. These media segments and documents pointed to should be thought of as fiction and clever attempts to set a light mood (sometimes with a little rough hurmor, depending on your perspective) rather than be thought of as fact-based knowledge. Before you get any bright ideas about your behavioral freedom translating to Anything Goes, determine what are the facts of legislation and case law in your jurisdictions at the municipality, county, state and federal levels. It is a daunting task to attempt to live a free life when it is so full of interesting (as in the Chines curse "may you live an interesting life') possibilities. A semester-long course in civics or a comprehensive and focused book relevant to where you live might be a good place to start. Even if you release your neighbor's nude image through an anonymity network, it is still a crime under many circumstances, even if you never get caught. Your lawyer will give you some good advice: obey all laws. If you fail to heed such advice, then a judge might be the next person to be providing you with that same advice after you have been punished for your crime or sued for damages for your tort. Of course, your attorney is likely to advise you to live an even more cautious and conservative lifestyle. It is up to you to decide at what point such a life is too meaningless and too dull to restrict oneself to. In the end, intelligent social activism is a matter of risk management: the more you risk, the more change for the better that you might effect in your lifetime.

Wikipedia

The headquarters of the Wikimedia Foundation exists somewhere on Earth. This is listed in See this PDF, page 121 from North Dakota. See Arkansas and this law blog in German. WikiMapia link . The ZIP+4 code is 94107-1309 and lat/long to 4 decimal places is Lat 37.783 N Long. 122.395 W. See also the office interior and staff. If you simply want to send them a letter via the U.S. Post, use Wikimedia Foundation Inc., P.O. Box 78350, San Francisco, CA 94107-8350, USA .

Wikipedia is part of the WikiMedia Foundation whose two most influential leaders in timeframe of 2007 were a man and a woman, namely Jimmy Wales and Florence Devouard. Some people would like to imagine that Jimmy is a Messiah with few or no faults. Far too often, one can perceive the "Animal Farm" pig or Animal Farm dog within him. There is little of the pig-dog element in Florence, but it is only a rather small amount because she does have to deal with issues of confidentiality. Listen to this French woman speak. (Response to http://www.freesoulJAH.com/ Davos Question) I love hearing French women speak English well; there is something very sexy about it. Florence reminds me a of French man I used to work with, Jean-Luc Marce. Jean-Luc still manages user interface for the Java application Blaze Advisor, now as a part of Fair Isaac. You can see some high-rez photos of her here. Florence is the most psychologically mature member of the WikiMedia organization because her primary goal is real just to share human knowledge. She say does not care about the money beyond having enough to keep the organization going. She couldn't care less about drama, socks, banned users or any of that other community nonsense that mean-spirited control-freaks like Jimmy fret about all the time. She tolerates minor lapses in civility better than Angela. She just wants the encyclopedia to continue to increase in quality and expand in coverage and depth. Some familiarity with family therapy provides further insights into these differences between Jimmy and Florence. Jimmy says let's all plagiarize and rob each other of attribution and "shoot" on sight in order to try to claim that "we win" in this Wikipedia policy game of Calvinball and then Florence says "I think what matters is the quality of the content". Jimmy is obsessed about what little privacy he has left and so he is often secretive. Look at how Florence stormed out of a news conference because she had not been told about the announcement being made because of the large insincere pig-dog within Jimmy.

Flo says it best: My concern has been stated: the policy "verifiability, not truth" is stupid. Flo is a trained scientists but Jimmy just settles for verifiability; you know, like what the number is for how many U.S. dollars and cent he has in his bank account. That number is verifiable, but what does it represent in objective reality. What if that objective reality is more like Mars where there happen to be no people around?

The first and still biggest project of the Foundation is the English Wikipedia. It playfully acknowledges itself to be the public toilet of encyclopedias: its free and we are glad that it is there, but there is no guarantee that the experience of using it or editing it is going to be pleasant

Technical info on WMF:

http://wikimediafoundation.org/
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Contact_us

Postal address:

P.O. Box 78350
San Francisco, CA 94107-8350
USA

Phone: [phone]
Email: info "at" wikimedia.org (replace the "at" with @)
Fax: [phone]

200 2nd Ave. South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701-4313

http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Contact_us&oldid=16232
This is the former mailing address of the Wikimedia Foundation for most of 2006 and 2007.
200 2nd Ave. South #358
St. Petersburg, FL 33701-4313

The previous address for most of 2005 was the UPS Store at
204 37th Ave. N. #330, St. Petersburg, FL
http://www.wikimapia.org/7732791/

204 37th Ave. North, St. Petersburg 33704-1416

Former mailing address of WMF during some part of 2005
http://wikimediafoundation.org/
204 37th Ave. N. #330

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WHOIS&oldid=31499836

After this UPS store shut down near the end of 2005, it was switched to:

http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Contact_us&oldid=16232
This is the former mailing address of the Wikimedia Foundation.

200 2nd Ave. South #358
St. Petersburg, FL 33701-4313

http://www.wikimapia.org/732125/

Prior to that, it had been

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WHOIS&oldid=9093637

Tech ID:C40903148-RCOM
Tech Name:Jimmy Wales
Tech Organization:Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Tech Street1:3911 Harrisburg St. NE
Tech Street2:
Tech Street3:
Tech City:St. Petersburg
Tech State/Province:FL
Tech Postal Code:33703
Tech Country:US
Tech Phone:[phone]
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email:moc.simob|selawj#moc.simob|selawj

http://www.wikimapia.org/7733348/

3911 Harrisburg St NE, Saint Petersburg FL 33703-6025
4 beds, 3.0 baths, 2,306 sq ft
http://www.zillow.com/HomeDetails.htm?zprop=46978829

Jimmy Wales?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WHOIS&oldid=9820007
00:51, 22 December 2004 Tristanb (Talk | contribs) (updating wikipedia.org whois)

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Jimbo_Wales

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=prev&oldid=146414569

"Yea, I live at 3911 Harrisburg in St Petersburg 33703 for a long time. But I currently live with Osama bin Laden in a cave in an undisclosed location. We watch DVDs of Lost with Jimmy Hoffa.—Jimbo Wales 23:47, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

The next address (for most of 2005) was the UPS Store at
204 37th Ave. N. #330, St. Petersburg, FL 33704-1416
http://www.wikimapia.org/7732791/

http://webofdeception.com/
A visitor to webofdeception.com wrote and told us that the Libertarian party has a very favorable spin unlike other political party entries on Wikipedia. We investigated this and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is registered a Libertarian.
Voter Name: (last, first) WALES, JIMMY D
FL Voter Reg. System ID: 107269405
Birth Date: 1966-08-08
Street Address: 3911 HARRISBURG ST NE
Precinct: 156.0
Mailing Address: 3911 HARRISBURG ST NE, ST PETERSBURG FL 33703-6025
Party Affiliation Code: LIB

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Current_staff

http://www.nd.gov/sos/forms/pdf/charorg.pdf page 121:
http://www.law.state.ak.us/pdf/consumer/regcharit.pdf page 151:

Most likely, the address will be updated to the P.O. box for the calendar Q3 timeframe.

Good photos of interior and staff here:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wikipedia10mar10%2C0%2C7404443.story
"Wikipedia's tin-cup approach wears thin"
March 10, 2008

Main area has old wood flooring.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Foundation

Note that there is a narrow gap in the back to allow part of the back window to act as a skylight.

Focus in on the tattoo representing a black widow spider on the cutaneous surface above the proximate end of the 1st
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsal_interossei_of_the_hand
of the right hand of Sue Gardner
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wikipedia10mar10-pg%2C0%2C7309091.photogallery
Specifically, the article is quite sloppy with this sentence fragment: "Gardner, a petite woman with black hair and a tattoo of a black widow spider on her wrist, …" That is off the mark by at least two inches, no matter how distal your reasonable definition of the word "wrist" is.

Their co-tenant in the long middle building, http://www.invuity.com/, produces a product that implements their Structure Guided Illumination™ technology for surgical visualization. An even more vivid and richly educational experience for views into the body's interior and the functions of its structures can be had at http://www.or-live.com/ . Note that the older, archived videos require registration (and affiliation with a hospital) but that the site shares the human knowledge of their latest videos freely.

Previous tenant: Mauk Design http://www.maukdesign.com/

Former addresses of WMF was:
1. http://www.wikimapia.org/732125/ (a UPS store in St. Petersburgh) (2006 and 2007)
2. Another UPS nearby store in St. Petersburg (which happened to close, hence the change) 2005
3. Jimmy's short-term residence in Florida (3911 Harrison)
4. The address of Bomis in San Diego.

Note that the servers in the USA are located elsewhere and that Jimmy is still back in Florida. Jimmy Wales travels many days of the year and his residential address and the residential address of his soon-to-be ex-wife are not publicly known. The way it is operated, the address of the Foundation is where its Executive Director is because that person is paid to come into work every day and be the boss to the employees. The main technical guys (Erik Moeller as Asst. ED, the CTO and the main developer, all different), do not have to visit the colo of the servers often. The main servers are probably near wherever the lead sysadmin lives, but there are also mirrors in Europe and Asia. As Brad Patrick pointed out, the single most important piece of intellectual property is the wikimedia.org domain name. The only two measures of success are how much money is rolling in (both the current net run rate and how much are the current net assets) and the traffic ranking of the domain name. Recognitions and award simply enhance prestige (and future financial grants and donations).

The early domain name registrar was Register.Com , but Jimmy switched to godaddy.com after moving to Florida in 2005. The DNS serving has always been done by Bomis or by the wikimeida.org servers themselves. The main firewall has been 208.80.152.2.

Wikimedia has its own AS number:

CIDR: 208.80.152.0/22
OriginAS: AS14907
NetName: WIKIMEDIA

with the given address still at the UPS store in St. Petersburg.

"Traceroute" shows that the next upstream addresses.

The upstream ISP is http://www.concentric.net/ (Concentric and XO are registered trademarks of XO Communications, Inc., XO.com) w006.z207088246.xo.cnc.net [207.88.246.6]

but that the address is dedicated to Wikimedia:

network: Class-Name: network
network: ID: NET-XO-NET-cf58f604
network: Auth-Area: 207.88.0.0/16
network: Network-Name: XO-NET-cf58f604
network: Organization;I: WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC (265902-1)
network: IP-Network: 207.88.246.4/30
network: Admin-Contact;I: XCIA-ARIN
network: Tech-Contact;I: XCIA-ARIN
network: Created: 20071109
network: Updated: 20071109
network: Updated-By: moc.ox.gne|nimdapi#moc.ox.gne|nimdapi

The next address reports no WHOIS record

207.88.14.42.ptr.us.xo.net [207.88.14.42]

and the next address is corporate XO in Texas:

te-11-4-0.rar3.dallas-tx.us.xo.net [207.88.14.41]

XO:
Corporate Headquarters
XO Communications
11111 Sunset Hills Road
Reston, VA 20190-5339

Private Company, Headquarters Location
55 Almaden Blvd., 7th Fl., San Jose, CA, United States
[phone], [phone] fax, http://www.concentric.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Alternate_Wikipedia_accounts

Drama and Chaperones

The Wisdom of the Chaperones: Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy

The two biggest problems with Wikipedia are what I call the chaperones amongst the so-called "established editors" and the other chaperones amongst the so-called administrators. There might be some other problematic editors, but it is these bad apples who are the intrusive and cliquish chaperones amongst the established players of the MMORPG game that is Wikipedia and it poisons the environment for everybody else and helps Wikipedia retain its established reputation as being "written by a bunch of 12-year-olds" with a dash of Ryan Jordan tossed in and a whole lot of drama. At Wikipedia, rather than being able to make quality contributions of lasting value, you only get to produce Sand Castles of Knowledge to be kicked over the by next bully-chaperone that that comes walking down the beach. Carrying on with the "public toilet" theme, the chaperones have in store for you cesspools of intrigue instead of a mind ready to collaborate with you as a peer. Far too many of those problematic editors come from that cesspool of intrigue known as Europe and the former British colonies (not including the USA). What those established editors have ready to shove in your face is right here, so if you still want to contribute, don your gasmask and your hazmat suit and wade right into to the thick of it. Do not expect to actually relieve yourself in this toilet: instead you will be arguing all night about who left the seat lid up, or some other pointless typical domestic dispute. Expect to be called a troll as you tolerate insult after insult from these problematic editors and administrators. Expect to be dissed as a n00b (a "newbie" or neophyte) on your first edit, an SPA on your second edit if on the same subject and to be blocked as vandal on your third. But if all you want to do is add more information about professional wrestling or Pokemon or other TV-based fiction, then you can expect to be greeted with open arms and a cascade of barnstars by a parade of highbrow intellectuals. Within the project, there are truly productive editors. Such people are talented and benevolent. I am focused on two groups: unproductive editors who are no more than busybodies intruding on the affairs of other, and those few productive editors who, despite the fact that they have gotten their turn on the soapbox, still connive to make Wikipedia even-more exclusive in order to block out other good editors whom they simply do not like. The illustration gets it right: it is the obsession of Jimmy Wales on his notions of community that poison the environment for regular editors. The highly prolific editors mentioned in the article are not especially talented writers: they are simply the ones that fawn over Jimmy as some sort of Messiah; they have accepted him as their personal savior, stroking his ego. This becomes the primary end-product of the project: the propping up of the delicate ego of Jimmy Wales.

Much of the drama at Wikipedia is simply due to the intrusive chaperones suddenly declaring an fake emergency in an attempt to win some argument that they themselves have usually started. These chaperones latch on any controversy they can get their mitts on. Any recognition that some argument has a battle-of-the-sexes aspect to it, and they lunge in and start blocking.

How exactly does “virtual rape” even occur in Second Life?
A Rape in Cyberspace
Can I Touch Your Breast?
Brest Touch
Jack Dan's Naked Ukulele
Another Jack Dan performance
Bob and David at Comic Relief 8 - Naked Improv Mr. Show
Naked guys sing
Norwegain Airline commercial

I was trying to emphasize that there was something to JenniCam because Jennifer Ringley is an intelligent and thoughtful person. YouTube now has The Naked Vlog Campaign . You have to look at the "Related Videos" to see who has followed suit. Here are some people who are clearly not accustomed to communication naked, but are doing so anyway and without being particularly flirty and simply talk without music or try to be too entertaining:

• chris3ff - the guy who started the campaign
• Best of Naked Vlog Campaign by nalts
• Dinzla
• cows996
• K80Blog
• pimpmonkette
• Prepoceros
• speedyconkiwi
• stylistbrighton
• verytrulyvideo
• winger1212
• walllofweird

Zipster on X-TUBE

http://www.xtube.com/

The Bay Area is the best place in the world to live. When you got it, flaunt it (Later in show: That Face)

If you got it, give it Don't be selfish, give it all a-vay
Don't be shy, be bold 'n' cute Show the boys your birthday suit
Ven you got it, if you got it Once you got it, shout out hooray!

These chaperones are merely imposing their conservative views. Private Willis of Iolanthe understands. lyrics

When all night long a chap remains On sentry-go, to chase monotony
He exercises of his brains, That is, assuming that he's got any.
Though never nurtured in the lap Of luxury, yet I admonish you,
I am an intellectual chap, And think of things that would astonish you.
I often think it's comical – Fal, lal, la! How Nature always does contrive – Fal, lal, la!
That every boy and every gal That’s born into the world alive
Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative! Fal, lal, la!

The inner-circle of unproductive editors and chaperones who creep and crawl around desperately for tiny little bits of attribution and resort to intrusive hair-splitting when trivial iota of history are lost on selected articles. Jimmy has created a false-but-competiitive economy of attribution and credit and another fake economy of hidden identities that are traded within the Inner Party (a la Orwell's 1984). Jimmy skims off both false economies just like he was betting on interest rate and foreign-currency fluctuations (that gambling sometimes referred to as speculation, especially if you are betting other people's money). Some of the same admins who blithely delete the histories of their user pages in order to protect their fake anonymity (i.e. they have a significant circle of friends that they are not anonymous to). Their notion of confidentiality of their identities as they distribute the information to the Inner Party is difficult to distinguish from a confidence trick.

Todo: inventory and document the worst of the chaperones.

Anonymous administrators

Wikipedia administrators exist to hide pages "the jargon used is that they "delete" the page, but the administrator and their friends can still see the content) and to block users and, when blocking them "indefinitely" by neglecting to set a time limit on their block, implicitly ban them. A major aspect of Wikipedia is anonymous administrators who effect the work of other real people without taking any responsibility for their actions in real life. Finding out these people and divulging their identity to the world is one a good service that one can perform for Wikipedia. Danial Brandt is a pioneer in this service to mankind. Every time a Wikipedia admin is outed, Wikipedia becomes more mature. By now, Wikipedia has matured quite a bit: it has gone from being the encyclopedia edited by 12 years olds to being the encyclopedia edited by 13 year olds, such as Greeves 13 year old administrator Mitchell "Mitch" Duce who lives in Winnipeg, Canada , as previously documented here (a story now archived and requiring a paid subscription).

I have come to realize that my perspective of privacy is peculiar because I view this Universe as a shared commons. I happen to think that every cubic femtometer and every atom is shared until established as being otherwise. The boundaries of privacy are often set based on notions of reasonable which are evaluated based on the judgment of one's peers. There is also the question of whether the setting of the boundaries is rigorously logical. With in appropriate level of rigor, there are no such boundaries at all. An illustration of how the notions of reasonableness break down and dissolve into nothingness when sufficient logical rigor is applied is the American drama film 12 Angry Men. One juror, Juror #8, (who is an professional architect) uses rigor and logic to break down the guilty votes (which were based on circumstantial evidence) of the other 11 jurors who all initially vote for "guilty" in a capital crime case. By the end of the film, all 11 other jurors vote "innocent" and they return their verdict. In American law, the language standard for a guilty vote in criminal cases is "beyond all reasonable doubt". When one uses rigorous logic, there is alway still some possible doubt, thus the standard of "reasonable". As the film closes, Juror #8 and Juror #9 (the first guilty vote switched to innocent and the oldest man in the jury) walk outside and tell each other their names:

Juror # 9: What's your name?
Juror # 8: Davis.
Juror # 9: My name's McCardle. Well, so long.
Juror # 8: So long.

There are plenty of excellent web pages about this film, a remake was made, the DVDs for both are still available the NNDB entry for it demonstrates that the original was an all-star cast.

Does Jimmy has such a sense of humor when he and his chaperones are out to get yet another imagined future Robert John Bardo? Look at how polarizing this person who runs StalkingAlert.com presents it: A photo gallery of studio-quality photos that translate to "give me money" and a Rogue's Gallery of miscellaneous dumpy-looking low-end men. See her tag line? "Giving you valuable information about the law and what stalking victims should know" Yeah, so valuable that you will have to pay her for it. "The California Stalking Law Penal Code Section 646.9 has greatly evolved over the past fourteen years and has become more effective in defining and addressing this increasingly common crime." Yes, is has been greatly evolve to terminate any previously non-criminal activity in our society formerly falling under the realm of "social discourse" between men and women. A citizen in this country used to be able to have a conversation with a accomplished middle-aged woman who was providing some leadership and not have her suddenly claim that she is a victim and thereby truncate the dialog, simply to then proceed to revel with her friends in her new exalted status of victim, having "won the argument".

In the final scene of the 3-act opera Turandot, the entire third act is based on just one thing: finding out the name of Prince Calaf, son of Timur. Turandot even drives the innocent little slave girl, Liu to suicide. Liu kills herself just to avoid possibly revealing Calaf's name under torture. It sounds horrible, but it is not: it is miraculously beautiful. I have never been completely comfortable with the fact that Liu must die, but the ethereal and dramatic quality of the music is just stunning, so I just remind myself that it is "art" and try to enjoy the show. It is logically a little dissonant that Turandot has been so cruel and destructive (a life-long trait in her)and that Calaf still loves her, but true love is blind. Calaf has made a bargain with Turandot that the deadline for finding out his name is sunrise. Just as the twilight is turning pink in the Eastern sky, Calaf, knowing that his victory over Turandot must be absolute, himself tells Turandot his name. The singing she reacts with is stunning and the listener cannot read Turandot's mood as she sings "I know his name! I know his name!" If she tells the Emperor (her father) Calaf's real name, then Calaf will be summarily executed. There is a quick scene change. She approaches her father on his elaborate and monumental throne and sings: "Father, I know the stranger's name. His name is Love." The sleepless people break out rejoicing and they all live happily ever after.

And for all you pedophile conspiracy-theorists out there, Rumpelstiltskin, stanza:

"To-morrow I brew, to-day I bake, And then the child away I'll take;
For little deems my royal dame That Rumpelstiltskin is my name!"

For all you people that insist that all super-villains must die: Bill Sikes, lyrics

Strong men tremble when they hear it! They've got cause enough to fear it!
It's much blacker than they smear it! Nobody mentions My name!

For all you who need to equate what you cannot control with the devil: Sympathy for the Devil, lyrics

Just as every cop is a criminal And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails Just call me lucifer cause Im in need of some restraint
So if you meet me Have some courtesy Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse Or Ill lay your soul to waste,
Pleased to meet you Hope you guessed my name,
But whats puzzling you Is the nature of my game,

Tell me baby, whats my name Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, whats my name I tell you one time, youre to blame
Whats me name? Tell me, baby, whats my name? Tell me, sweetie, whats my name?
Ooo, who, who? Ooo, who, who? Ooo, who, who?

High Plains Drifter; Mordecai says to him, "I never did know your name." The Stranger replies, "Yes, you do." Mordecai blanches at the answer, and as the Stranger returns to the shimmering haze of the horizon, the camera pans over the grave marker to reveal the murdered Marshal Jim Duncan's name, implying that the drifter is some avenging angel.

Naming the Animals - Genesis 2:19-20

Privacy

A very large problem within Wikipedia is that it rolls back the boundaries of privacy for many of the people for which it has BLP's about, but it does not do so for the anonymous administrators who often control such BLP's.

If you grew up as part Scouting like I did, you learn to pick up litter left by other humans no matter where you find it, within reason. After the death of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, a letter was found in his desk that he had written to all Scouts. It included this passage: "Try and leave this world a little better than you found it." I have very ambitious ideas about leaving this world a better place than I found. I think I understand much better than Jimmy Wales what the scope of the sum total of human knowledge really is because I am a highly-training Chemical Engineer with a degree from the oldest engineering Institute in my hemisphere and I have broad range of experience in other areas of science, medicine, astronomy, physics, computer science and other arts, sciences and humanitis at both an amateur level and with hands-on study. I am omnivorous when it comes to knowledge. One small example is that I am at home on many different computer platforms: IBM mainframe, UNIX, Mac and Windows and several more obscure ones. BTW: I do not like Bill Gates or Bad Boy Balmer, so please do not give me any flak about Microsoft. I care about companies like ATI and NVIDIA and how they their products can be used to fill people's eyes with fabulous, fact-based information in a compelling and, ideally, riveting fashion. I seize the choicest richest intellectual morsels from a field of study, delving as deeply as I can and then I move on. My ideas about what the scope of the sum total of human knowledge really means leaves little room for what some shy people consider to be their privacy, at least in the space of my person, my residence, my place of work, my country, my world, my Universe and every atom within my Universe. I ask that you demonstrate to me beyond any reasonable doubt that any one of the atoms in my Universe is not part of our shared Commons before I will agree to not think of that atom again for a period of time. Any atoms not rigorously shown beyond reasonable doubt to be private are fair game in my Universe, although I am willing to discuss the thresholds if you prefer to talk about what merely the preponderance of the evidence might indicate. The atoms of air in your lungs right now are on loan for a reasonable period of time and I expect you to promptly return almost all of my atoms back to our Commons when you are done with them. That is my idea of my privacy and your privacy. If you do not like that, then either find some other planet (barring that, try the other Eastern Hemisphere) to live on or grow up and get over it. Why do I consider this my half of the Earth? It is because of the Monroe Doctrine.

If you litter my world with your dandruff, you hair, your sloughed off skin, your snot, your spit or any other cellular detritus that allows me to sequence your DNA, then that is my business, not yours. I support legislation to prohibit insurance companies and all other such entities from adjusting medical insurance rates or other such prices based on DNA-based information of any sort. All men are created equal. If you walk in the nude down a nude beach just once in your life and you find your nude photos on the Internet at web sites such as VoyeurWeb, then that is OK by me. You gave it away and your privacy should not necessarily be restored to you. If the photo can be re-associated with your identity, work address and home address, my reaction is: yawn. If you ran a Naked Mile ten years ago and you are nude on the Internet now because of it, then so be it. Certainly, every short-term resident of Black Rock City accepted that notion upon entering it. If you feel any emotional distress because of any such exposure on the Internet that you can no longer control, then I feel sorry for you not because of your supposed (and possibly contrived) emotional distress but because you are so stupid as to let it bother you in the first place. If that is good enough for former prosecutor Marcia Clark and for and that fake-doctor Laura Schlessinger then it is good enough for you. Be proud of who you really are and ignore that other people might tut-tut or tsk-tsk you or appoint themselves your judge or claim that they have some advantage over you because of what thy might think that they know about you. In my opinion, the one possible exception to this notion is if your neighbor snapped your photo as you accidentally once passed by your window in the nude and that neighbor then put the image up on th web without your permission, then perhaps a crime occurred. In the State of California, that is considered a crime that would and might be prosecuted, so if you want to take photos of people without the person's permission while they are in a possibly private space, then study your law and local municipal rules before getting any smart ideas that Anything Goes. lyrics.

If driving fast cars you like, If low bars you like,
If old hymns you like, If bare limbs you like,
If Mae West you like Or me undressed you like, Why, nobody will oppose!
When every night, The set that's smart Is intruding in nudist parties in studios, Anything Goes.

Retain your sense of humor, even if you are not in the "There is no cabal" cabal at Wikipedia. Indecent proposal - humorous example of accidental loss privacy. Vital element: the old man has a sense of humor. Kaylee farts.

Background music used in first video: Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me. lyrics.

Oh I watch you there through the window, And I stare at you, you wear nothing but you
Wear it so well tied up and twisted the way I'd like to be, For you, for me, come crash into me.

Wings of Desire. Yes, the desire is erotic, but the point is: the guardian angels hover over their charges without interfering with their lives. In a full-up virtual reality, you could do that: wander around our real urban spaces and just observe. The guardian angles are male and yet they cause no harm. The angels are philosophical and very wise, but they do zero to educated their charges. They do not even protect their charges. They are just another personality in the room for the movie-watcher to see. It does not always work that way in real life because some people are way too sensitive and intolerant of others who are not buying into their "taking charge" or "taking over" game. The clearest example of this is Linuxbeak RfC which arose from his unblocking of Blu Aardvark and Mistress Selina Kyle. Look at this emotion-laden logic: SlimVirgin must have all of Wikipedia all to herself like a selfish little child who has grabbed the special party-toy and will not share it with anybody else. And then the all other chaperones line up as the immature little children that they are and say they are going hold their breath until they die if they cannot have Wikipedia for their coven or sewing circle. The chaperones include: SlimVirgin, FloNight, AnnH, SOPHIA and JzG. Almost all of them blank their user pages and do emotion-laden fake admin-quits. Will Beback, Sceptre etc. chime in in support of the chaperones. The chaperone Will_Beback, of course, . Tom Harrison and AnnH and KHM03 and MONGO the rest of the members of DWEEC side with the chaperones. To her credit, Theresa Knott tries to de-polarize and resolve the situation through compromise. I am in search of collaborative fully human minds. I would rather think of these people as ready to build a community of editors and peers, but the evidence suggests that they are building a small clique of chaperones.

Ignorance

Wikipedia is an attempt to fight ignorance, but the chaperones are the ones going back and re-imposing ignorance with the fake excuse that they are protecting vulnerable persons.

A Christmas Carol

"They are Man's,' said the Spirit, looking down upon them. 'And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. Deny it.' cried the Spirit, stretching out its hand towards the city. 'Slander those who tell it ye. Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse. And abide the end."

Chris Rock - How not to get your ass kicked by the police! Rule #4: Turn that sh*t off. If you are blasting (N.W.A.'s rap hit on your car stereo) "F*ck Da Police" while being pulled over by the police, then that is just ignorant.

Things went a certain way for Galileo, whom we now think of in a good light and as having a non-controversial intellectual legacy, but who spent the last years of his life in house arrest for that same intellectual legacy. The Church wanted not knowledge but ignorance.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise

Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. (Thomas Gray, 1742)

The Ugly Duckling by A. A. Milne :

I give you with this kiss a wedding-day surprise. Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

Ignorantia juris non excusat - Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

The Wikipedia chaperones often do not explain any rules until they are in the process of reverting your work. By that time, it is too late for you to get a second chance; you become trapped and under their direct control, exactly where they want you to be.

War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength (1984, Orwell)

Assertions of confidentiality at Wikipedia are insincere and hypocritical. If you encounter a chaperone mentioning confidentiality, then what they are saying is simple: information and control for me and my friends and my cult and ignorance for you. FloNight is the worst offender in the department. Some advice when encountering a chaperone: When that chaperone says "Email me first…" or even "Talk to me first…", one should promptly cut off all further communication with that insincere chaperone. They are just trying to exert unilateral control which was supposed to be the antithesis of Wikipedia. Such chaperones are not no longer participating in the original spirit of the project because they want to exert some kind of control all for themselves. Chaperones (especially some checkusers) are puffed up with their own sense of self-important and should be given gentle clues that it is they and their assertions of confidentiality are the problem that should be solved first. If needed, disable your own ability to receive email from Wikipedia and insist that the openness of Wikipedia be restored by communicating with that chaperone only via their user talk pages for all to see.

AWM

My name is Andrew William Morrow. I live here and most specifically here. My advice to you is to Shoot your TV and get onto the Internet. I consider myself fortunate to have had Marshall Brain as my classmate at RPI. He is certainly the most notable of the Class of '83. You can see more into my mind by examining my original Wikipedia userpage.

When you are online and ready-to-go, carry out this thought experiment: what could a curious 10-year-old boy of average intelligence learn via the Internet without spending any money or leaving his chair if he just put his mind to it? This is an exercise in answering that question. Of course, my intention is that it would be without hacking any secret passwords, divulging secrets of national security that he might know or other obvious wrongdoings like that. More broadly, what could he learn and attempt to know about life and the world around him to a reasonable degree of certainty? In other words, is there such a notion as Learning from the Internet? I think that the answer is "yes".

Are you a prisoner of TV or a prisoner of the county jail, where the TV is on all day long? Smarten up. You are just Trapped in a box until you get yourself out of that box. lyrics. The smart people will escape these sorts of boxes and the dumb people will stay trapped. Smarten up.

Trapped in a box of tremendous size, It distorts my vision, it closes my eyes
Attracts filthy flies and pollutes in the skies, Sucks up our lives and proliferates lies
Trapped in a box

If you are curious about other ISBN-bearing publications about Wikipedia, try these online publications. Then ask yourself: will you ever become a published author in your lifetime? You might if you find something of interest to write about during your the limited span of your otherwise forgettable life and if you get cracking before your time is up. These are by Akronos Publishing.
ISBN 1-894840-36-4 Wikipedia: A Techno-Cult of Ignorance
ISBN 1-894840-38-0 Anti-Wikipedia 2: The Rise of the Latrines
You know, my relationship with Dr. Paulo Correa is not perfect, but we have found common ground. We both have something to say about Wikipedia and hope that the signal and message of our criticisms can rise above the noise of the high traffic ranking of the wikipedia.org domain name and be heard by the leadership of the WikiMedia Foundation. While Correa's publishing imprimatur only has an on-line presence, Ishipress offers hardcopy sales via its partnering with third-party print on demand services.

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