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	<description>roger lancefield's space on the web</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>News Corp: presumptuous, arrogant, self-important, rude and stupid</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2010/01/18/news-corp-presumptuous-arrogant-self-important-rude-and-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2010/01/18/news-corp-presumptuous-arrogant-self-important-rude-and-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, and I forgot controlling, deluded and greedy.
Jeff Jarvis writing in The Guardian: News Corp is foolish to block linking
&#8220;Linking is not a privilege that the recipient of the link should control - any more than politicians should decide who may or may not quote them. The test is not whether the creator of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SSID with attitude</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/12/12/ssid-with-attitude/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/12/12/ssid-with-attitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you guess which one is my wi-fi network? (Click for larger version)

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		<title>Don&#8217;t mention the war&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/12/01/dont-mention-the-war/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/12/01/dont-mention-the-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ralpress.org/?p=2425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Pete Doherty has found out, one has to be very careful in Germany with regard to 1930s/40s history and its legacy. Back in 1994/95 or thereabouts, I took a green version of this jacket with me on a visit to my girlfriend&#8217;s family who were living near Sinsheim at the time. Having swanned around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Huffington Post on ACTA: betrayal by our own political representatives</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/11/04/the-huffington-post-on-acta-betrayal-by-our-own-political-representatives/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/11/04/the-huffington-post-on-acta-betrayal-by-our-own-political-representatives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are unaware of the existence and nature of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) this article &#8220;ACTA &#8212; A Patriot Act For the Internet&#8221; by James Love in the Huffington Post is a good one for getting your spidey sense tingling. Some choice quotes:
&#8220;The term &#8220;counterfeiting&#8221; is designed to demonize the agreement critics as friends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dude, I invented the friggin web. Have you heard of it?</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/10/23/dude-i-invented-the-friggin-web-have-you-heard-of-it/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/10/23/dude-i-invented-the-friggin-web-have-you-heard-of-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the world and his dog now knows, Tim Berners-Lee has a Twitter account.
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		<title>How to write to your MP</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/10/20/how-to-write-to-your-mp/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/10/20/how-to-write-to-your-mp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Open Rights Group wiki has a useful guide to writing to your parliamentary representative:
http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Letter_writing
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		<title>If you were to give&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/08/09/if-you-were-to-give/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/08/09/if-you-were-to-give/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[contempt]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ralpress.org/?p=2409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were to give people the power to fly helicopters over your home at 04:00 am, to discharge firearms in your direction, to handcuff you, to electrocute you, to arrest and detain you, to &#8220;kettle&#8221; you, to exceed vehicle speed limits, to wrap duct tape around your wrists and ankles, to walk into your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are you doing?</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/08/06/what-are-you-doing-2/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/08/06/what-are-you-doing-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is like, totally down.
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		<title>The US legal establishment begins standing up to the RIAA</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/07/27/the-us-legal-establishment-begins-standing-up-to-the-riaa/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/07/27/the-us-legal-establishment-begins-standing-up-to-the-riaa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Nesson, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School:
&#8220;the idea of imposing law on the global ocean of free bits that has flooded into cyberspace is a gross and harmful over-extension of the power of the state and authority of the law.&#8221;
Source: Judge rejects fair use as Tanenbaum P2P trial begins
Nancy Gertner, judge for the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does our government like us?</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/07/24/does-our-government-like-us/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/07/24/does-our-government-like-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Does our government like us? Henry Porter has his doubts (they&#8217;re my doubts too).
The left, at least as we see it in government, gives the impression of not really liking the British people and so finds every possible pretext to chivvy, nudge, monitor, watch and criminalise its behaviour. How else do we explain the 3,500 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mapping common sense</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/07/08/mapping-common-sense/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/07/08/mapping-common-sense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From: Activate 09 summit hears calls for more free data access
It is &#8220;totally unacceptable&#8221; for Ordnance Survey not to provide maps suitable for the digital economy, said former Cabinet Office minister Tom Watson at the Guardian&#8217;s Activate 09 summit - part-sponsored by Ordnance Survey - last week.
Thank you Mr Watson.


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		<title>Stupid GNOME command line tricks</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/06/25/stupid-gnome-command-line-tricks/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/06/25/stupid-gnome-command-line-tricks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ralpress.org/?p=2368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(There may be other ways of doing this, but FWIW&#8230;) If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to reduce workspace clutter by merging two terminal instances, you can do this easily by creating a tabbed view within one of the instances (SHIFT+CTRL+T) and dragging the tab (or tabs) you wish to merge to the other instance. Simple eh?
Can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First it was terrorism, then fly-tippers, now it&#8217;s transparency: democracy&#8217;s sternest test yet</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/05/15/first-it-was-terrorism-then-fly-tippers-now-its-transparency-democracys-sternest-test-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/05/15/first-it-was-terrorism-then-fly-tippers-now-its-transparency-democracys-sternest-test-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 11:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ralpress.org/?p=2350</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To understand what&#8217;s really behind the furore over MPs&#8217; expenses, it&#8217;s necessary to understand that it&#8217;s not primarily about whether or not it&#8217;s right to claim for moat-cleaning, or even about whether or not claiming for non-existent mortgage payments is fraud. It&#8217;s about a conspiracy (sic) to hide the workings of parliament from the people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s really responsible for the abuse of power perpetrated by intellectual monopolies?</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/05/13/whos-really-responsible-for-the-abuse-of-power-perpetrated-by-intellectual-monopolies/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/05/13/whos-really-responsible-for-the-abuse-of-power-perpetrated-by-intellectual-monopolies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 10:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Glyn Moody on the just-announced fine imposed by the European Commission on Intel:
These fines arise, after all, from the abuse of monopoly power. And there are no greater abuses than those associated with intellectual monopolies – patents and copyrights. The more that the European Commission punishes such monopolies, the sooner, it seems to me, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are you doing?</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/05/11/what-are-you-doing/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/05/11/what-are-you-doing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Not using that proprietary Web bottleneck, Twitter.
What are you doing?
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		<title>Tasers - How they&#8217;re really used</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/04/24/tasers-how-theyre-really-used/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/04/24/tasers-how-theyre-really-used/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Naked Wizard Tased By Reality from Tracy Anderson on Vimeo.
Remember all that stuff about how Tasers were humane, non-lethal replacements for firearms? About how police officers would only use them against knife and gun-wielding crims or any other situation in which an officer feared for his life or safety? At least, that was the official [...]]]></description>
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		<title>System Notifications: MS Windows versus Ubuntu Linux</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/04/22/system-notifications-ms-windows-versus-ubuntu-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/04/22/system-notifications-ms-windows-versus-ubuntu-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to understand the difference between free and non-free, restricted and unrestricted software? The following system notifications provide a big clue:
System notification Ubuntu Linux style

System notification Windows 7 Starter Edition style
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		<title>How the public became Public Enemy No.1</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/04/20/how-the-public-became-public-enemy-no1/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/04/20/how-the-public-became-public-enemy-no1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[IMO, David Gilbertson has nailed the new policing mentality in this new article in the Guardian. We&#8217;ve been watching it develop for years, and anyone who has been &#8216;comparing and contrasting&#8217; the US police force with that of the UK could see where things were heading:
&#8220;Increasingly, British policing morphed into a faux-US style of operation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officer, can you tell me how to get to democracy and freedom please?</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/04/19/officer-can-you-tell-me-how-to-get-to-democracy-and-freedom-please/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/04/19/officer-can-you-tell-me-how-to-get-to-democracy-and-freedom-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Certainly madam, if you&#8217;d just like to first smile for the video camera&#8230;
&#8220;Hell is where the cooks are German, the lovers Swiss, the mechanics French, the organizers Italian, and it&#8217;s all policed by the British&#8221; (1)
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		<title>The War on Terroism Tourism</title>
		<link>http://ralpress.org/2009/04/16/the-war-on-terroism-tourism/</link>
		<comments>http://ralpress.org/2009/04/16/the-war-on-terroism-tourism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roger Lancefield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We can&#8217;t find the plot, so let&#8217;s harrass some harmless tourists instead.
Officers of the Met treating guests to our country with contempt, behaving as if they&#8217;ve been trained in North Korea, and frankly, demonstrating that they lack sufficient common sense and judgement to be entrusted with the rights-circumventing powers they&#8217;ve been given:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/16/police-delete-tourist-photos
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