[Free-sklyarov-uk] Corrupt CD's - Time for another protest/leafleting session?

[Jim Peters]

Edward Welbourne wrote:
> > Ack, good to know you're okay now... what is it with geeks and depression? 
> > It's definitely more common among geek groupings.
> 
> so maybe more depressives show up among the folk doing jobs for
> which surplus rationality is an advantage ... some sort of
> compensation, anyway.

Or maybe an excessive tendency for thinking makes more room for
depressive thoughts ;-(   

Or, you can't run the software if you don't have suitable hardware:
"Brain the size of a planet ... don't talk to me about *life*".


Anyway, I go for Julian's get-together in London.  This sounds like a
really good idea -- get some fresh ideas and so on.


> > I vote for turning the CDR into a registered legal entity of some
> > form, soliciting donations / memberships, and paying you a wage
> 
> I must confess I'd tend towards sending the money FIRP's way and
> remaining anarchic and disorganised.  It's easier to organise
> protests that way ...

Yes, anarchic and disorganized sounds by far the best.  Unfortunately,
when the press are asking for comments, they're expecting you to say
the same thing every time, i.e. to keep a consistent "line".
Repeating the same thing over and over isn't for me -- and anyway I
can't do it, it always comes out different each time.

Is an anarchic approach incompatible with this kind of taking a stand,
and holding a position for the benefit of the press ?

Would we be better off as a completely unpredictable group, with no
identifiable spokesperson ?  Or is it necessary to interface with the
"system" to some extent ?  If/when Julian stands down as spokesperson,
is there anyone who thinks they might enjoy that role ?  (It's
certainly not me).  I guess we can talk about this at the
get-together.


I was reading something the other day about how to create a `popular'
computer language:

  http://www.paulgraham.com/lib/paulgraham/pop.txt

One thing struck me, and that was what this guy was saying about how
people don't pay any attention to a new subject the first time they
hear about it.  They just unconsciously log it as "something maybe
interesting".  Only once they've heard it mentioned maybe 3-4 times do
they take the trouble to investigate.  This is a kind of filter.  (As
the guy points out, by delaying learning VRML, he avoided having to
learn it at all).

Applying this to our CD campaign, a whole bunch of people have heard
about this issue maybe once or twice.  If we solved the whole problem
for them before they heard about it again, then their delaying tactics
would have paid off.  This indicates that plugging away endlessly at
the same thing would indeed get results.


So there are two things -- the chaotic approach, which I really
support, in which each of us would be doing things for the campaign
only if we felt the inspiration, and the organized approach, which
involves doing logically appropriate things at logically appropriate
times to maintain continuity and presence and things like that (which
to me is like slow death).


How to resolve this dilemma ???  Do there exist people who are
naturally inspired to maintain continuity ?


Jim

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