ACTA is Killing the Internet like Cancer did Jobs

Horrible news - 22 countries signed ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) on Thursday, January 24.
What this could mean is ceasing the internet as we know it today - a free platform to exchange data and retrieve information - free in the sense of expression and freedom of speech and (also) data.
US government blocked Megaupload last week - on the 29th anniversary of the Apple Lisa (Jan. 19), ACTA comes next to kill digital freedom. The Polish people are protesting on the streets against the law which could block Wikipedia and other useful sites.
And remember: in the 60s, when the internet was set up first (as ARPAnet) - nobody cared about digital copyright. And today there is a movement, going out from young people which use the net daily. This movement is noticeable when you download a song - we want everything for free and we don't see any use in copyright - nobody will ever control the internet completely. And no law will be ever able to in force it. Where are we living? In a totalitarian dictatorship like in "1984"?
NO! We are living in a (mostly) peaceful and democratic world - If we will give in to a dirty sheet of paper, the internet - the last outpost of total freedom - will slowly deteriorate to a grade it will just vanish from existence. The freedom in the internet will end more or less surprisingly - like died Steven Paul Jobs: Foreseeable, but still surprisingly.


Today is also the day of Holocaust: Take a minute of silence and think about the things that happened in the concentration camps during the Nazi regime in the 1930s and 1940s.


That's my thoughts on today.


Stay hungry, foolish and tuned! 

The Computer for the Rest of us is 28

January 24, 2012 - Finally opened my blog. There's a reason why I did it exactly today:
Exactly 28 years ago, Apple Computers, Inc. introduced the original Apple Macintosh at a price of $2,495. This one was the third industry standard, of which I have got two later descendants.
Macintosh - The computer for the rest of us. That event happened on Tuesday, January 24, 1984.

The title of my blog is Latin for "Books, Languages and I", which is exactly the suppose for: Commenting about my (second) book and a constructed language of Latin origin. And maybe you will see something about me...

This post is re-issuing my "iLog" entries in Facebook, for everybody who wants to catch up.

November 16, 2011: Friday will be a torture for me, since I hate watching football games. But then again, I can go on and write some passages into my second book and develop the verb conjugation system of my constructed language. The present is already done, I need a past (maybe two or three) and a future tense (or two). And that's gonna be version 2.0 Alpha (0.0.2 final) of Lingua Latina Nova - a Vulgar Latin, mixed with Spanish (primarily), French, Italian and maybe Portuguese.

And the time scale of the iWizard is already set: October 6, 2011 [guess why] until the beginning of the summer holidays. Well, that's a plan for Friday afternoon.

November 20, 2011: Had been working in the pseudonymes and time scale of my iWizard. October 6 - 10 days after the Tuscany Trip with my class. A perfect place for a showdown. Writing that in Bastard Secretary hand. I love that script. ;-)

iLog (Dec/18/2011)
Lingua Romana (Communa) - The noun declension tables are finally fixed on paper (three declensions - one for each gender [preserving neuter BTW], three cases each [nominative/vocative (casus rectus), genitive/dative (c. obliquus)], accusative/ablative [c. directalis]) - It's not going to be much simpler.
Present time is resembling Spanish more than Italian - both descend from Vulgar Latin and that's where my LRC comes from: Rome's simple Latin.

iWizard - slowly leaving October 6. I've got so many ideas, but no way to get to them. But I'm gonna make a time leap to October 12, sure.

Stay tuned for more - and hungry and foolish! ;=)

iLog (Dec/25/2011)
iWizard: The class trip has begun and it's close to the first deciding activity. A potion is being made - it will work, but the main character will throw up in the end. ^^

No news for Lingua Romana yet, except for some words not yet written down - oh right, I will use the diphthongs IE <i.e. tierra -Spanish> and UO <i.e. schuola - Italian> for my Vulgar Latin "ancestor". Stay tuned, hungry and foolish!

iLog (01/01/2012) 

iWizard
It's going to be pretty... Thriller-like, the protagonist is alone with... a good friend, while the rest of the group is far away. Ad then, there is a werewolf facing them. - Oh my God, that's gonna be amazing --- INSANELY GREAT!

Lingua Romana Nova

Guess what was the first saying in my Neo-Latin: Happy New Year! - Felicu annu nuovu!

iLog (Jan/16/2012)
iWizard - The werewolf came (no, there were two...) and it's gonna be a bit bloody - but first aid will fix it. I've got a ton of ideas for chapter 2 - "Differences come with a price". And much more is coming :-)

Lingua Romanica Communa - Phew... I changed some u's into o's in the male section of the noun's declension table and tweaked some endings of present conjugation. The imperative looks like Polish. ^^

Stay hungry, foolish and tuned!

iLog (Jan/18/2012)iWizard /only/ - Beginning in the middle of chapter 2...
The man character is really pissed by a classmate and escapes to the restroom - and must face a really "chinchillian" surprise. And then a good friend wants to know what made him scream... -.-

Stay hungry, foolish and tuned!

That's all for now. Please comment.