version=pmwiki-2.2.130 ordered=1 urlencoded=1 agent=w3m/0.5.3+git20190105 author=jrmu charset=UTF-8 csum= ctime=1596581780 host=198.251.84.158 name=Freedom.Union rev=8 targets= text=(:title United We Serve:)%0a%0a-> One united network with one united user community, attached to the same love of freedom. By our joint effort, we have established a network of liberty.%0a%0a-> If our union is broken, then friends would turn into rivals and enemies. We'd steal and fight each other rather than working together to compete against non-free networks%0a%0a-> There is no golden age of decentralization. Rival servers (and their users) will not remain friends and be free from greed, pride, and evil.%0a%0a-> The strength of our network is essential to our liberty. History teaches us that a poorly defended network is much more likely to result in tyranny.%0a%0aUnited We Serve, Divided We Fault%0a time=1624712486 title=United We Serve author:1624712486=jrmu diff:1624712486:1612610975:=1,11c1,21%0a%3c (:title United We Serve:)%0a%3c %0a%3c -> One united network with one united user community, attached to the same love of freedom. By our joint effort, we have established a network of liberty.%0a%3c %0a%3c -> If our union is broken, then friends would turn into rivals and enemies. We'd steal and fight each other rather than working together to compete against non-free networks%0a%3c %0a%3c -> There is no golden age of decentralization. Rival servers (and their users) will not remain friends and be free from greed, pride, and evil.%0a%3c %0a%3c -> The strength of our network is essential to our liberty. History teaches us that a poorly defended network is much more likely to result in tyranny.%0a%3c %0a%3c United We Serve, Divided We Fault%0a---%0a> (:title Why Our Servers Must Remain United:)%0a> %0a> Having a single, united network is essential to the well being of the free and open source community. Without unity, we would become enemies, stealing and fighting from each other rather than working together to compete against proprietary networks.%0a> %0a> ->Networks in general will steal from each other any time they might benefit from it.%0a> %0a> ->If our network is dissolved, then the bonds of friendship, which is shared by our free and open source users, would be broken. Our servers would turn into rivals, enemies.%0a> %0a> ->Haven't we already seen enough of these false promises of a golden age of decentralization? False promises that rival servers (and their users) would remain friends and be free from greed, pride, and evil?%0a> %0a> ->One united network with one united user community, attached to the same love of freedom. By their joint effort, they have established a network of liberty.%0a> %0a> ->Safety is the most powerful motivation behind a network's policies. Even a passionate love of decentralization will, after a time, give way to this demand.%0a> %0a> ->The strength of our network is essential to our liberty. History teaches us that a poorly defended network is much more likely to result in tyranny.%0a> %0a> ->No one respects the neutrality of a network despised for its weakness.%0a> %0a> Centralization is beneficial to users when there are proper checks and balances placed on the power of staff.%0a> %0a> ->We code not to enslave, but to set a network free, and to make room upon the Internet for users to live in.%0a\ No newline at end of file%0a host:1624712486=198.251.84.158 author:1612610975=jrmu diff:1612610975:1597054155:=11c11%0a%3c ->One united network with one united user community, attached to the same love of freedom. By their joint effort, they have established a network of liberty.%0a---%0a> ->We have one connected network with one united user community -- a people who use the same free software, attached to the same love of freedom, and by their joint effort have established a network of liberty.%0a host:1612610975=198.251.81.119 author:1597054155=jrmu diff:1597054155:1597054115:=18,19d17%0a%3c %0a%3c Centralization is beneficial to users when there are proper checks and balances placed on the power of staff.%0a host:1597054155=38.81.163.143 author:1597054115=jrmu diff:1597054115:1597053979:=2,3d1%0a%3c %0a%3c Having a single, united network is essential to the well being of the free and open source community. Without unity, we would become enemies, stealing and fighting from each other rather than working together to compete against proprietary networks.%0a host:1597054115=38.81.163.143 author:1597053979=jrmu diff:1597053979:1597053252:=1,8d0%0a%3c (:title Why Our Servers Must Remain United:)%0a%3c %0a%3c ->Networks in general will steal from each other any time they might benefit from it.%0a%3c %0a%3c ->If our network is dissolved, then the bonds of friendship, which is shared by our free and open source users, would be broken. Our servers would turn into rivals, enemies.%0a%3c %0a%3c ->Haven't we already seen enough of these false promises of a golden age of decentralization? False promises that rival servers (and their users) would remain friends and be free from greed, pride, and evil?%0a%3c %0a11,17c3,17%0a%3c ->Safety is the most powerful motivation behind a network's policies. Even a passionate love of decentralization will, after a time, give way to this demand.%0a%3c %0a%3c ->The strength of our network is essential to our liberty. History teaches us that a poorly defended network is much more likely to result in tyranny.%0a%3c %0a%3c ->No one respects the neutrality of a network despised for its weakness.%0a%3c %0a%3c ->We code not to enslave, but to set a network free, and to make room upon the Internet for users to live in.%0a\ No newline at end of file%0a---%0a> ->The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.”%0a> %0a> Like%0a> “It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation. This penalty, whatever it may be, can only be inflicted in two ways: by the agency of the Courts and Ministers of Justice, or by military force; by the coercion of the magistracy, or by the coercion of arms. The first kind can evidently apply only to men: the last kind must, of necessity, be employed against bodies politic, or communities, or States.”%0a> ― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers%0a> tags: federalist-15%0a> 3 likes%0a> Like%0a> “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflection on human nature?”%0a> ― James Madison, The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution%0a> 3 likes%0a> Like%0a> “Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.”%0a> %0a> “FAREWELL! A LONG FAREWELL TO ALL MY GREATNESS."%0a\ No newline at end of file%0a host:1597053979=38.81.163.143 author:1597053252=jrmu diff:1597053252:1596581862:=1,4c1,10%0a%3c ->We have one connected network with one united user community -- a people who use the same free software, attached to the same love of freedom, and by their joint effort have established a network of liberty.%0a%3c %0a%3c ->The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.”%0a%3c %0a---%0a> %0a> %0a> “It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected fertile, wide-spreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants. A succession of navigable waters form a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind them together; while the most noble rivers in the world, running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation of their various ties. With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice, that Providence has been pleased to give us this one connected country to one united people -a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by they their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.”%0a> ― John Jay, The Federalist Papers%0a> tags: fortune, similarity, strength%0a> 4 likes%0a> Like%0a> “The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.”%0a> ― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers%0a> 3 likes%0a host:1597053252=38.81.163.143 author:1596581862=jrmu diff:1596581862:1596581780:=2d1%0a%3c %0a21,23c20%0a%3c “Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.”%0a%3c %0a%3c “FAREWELL! A LONG FAREWELL TO ALL MY GREATNESS."%0a\ No newline at end of file%0a---%0a> “Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.”%0a\ No newline at end of file%0a host:1596581862=38.81.163.143 author:1596581780=jrmu diff:1596581780:1596581780:=1,20d0%0a%3c %0a%3c “It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected fertile, wide-spreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants. A succession of navigable waters form a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind them together; while the most noble rivers in the world, running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation of their various ties. With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice, that Providence has been pleased to give us this one connected country to one united people -a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by they their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.”%0a%3c ― John Jay, The Federalist Papers%0a%3c tags: fortune, similarity, strength%0a%3c 4 likes%0a%3c Like%0a%3c “The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.”%0a%3c ― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers%0a%3c 3 likes%0a%3c Like%0a%3c “It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation. This penalty, whatever it may be, can only be inflicted in two ways: by the agency of the Courts and Ministers of Justice, or by military force; by the coercion of the magistracy, or by the coercion of arms. The first kind can evidently apply only to men: the last kind must, of necessity, be employed against bodies politic, or communities, or States.”%0a%3c ― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers%0a%3c tags: federalist-15%0a%3c 3 likes%0a%3c Like%0a%3c “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflection on human nature?”%0a%3c ― James Madison, The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution%0a%3c 3 likes%0a%3c Like%0a%3c “Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.” %0a\ No newline at end of file%0a host:1596581780=38.81.163.143