Dictionaries or even Wikipedia will never tell you what words mean, just what people think they mean. Very very important distinction.

Looking at the scope of society and human affairs, you can say that there’s no end to the clever ways people and institutions persuade you to give up a subset of your rights. The GPL license, on first read, made me chuckle because whoever wrote it got to that point real quick.

To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights or asking you to surrender the rights.

What really happened is that the power company fried the equipment of the Internet company. Bad luck all around.

My ISP just deleted themselves from the Internet — that’s a typical occurrence in The Bahamas. The upside though, is that they (rev.bs) have stress tested pretty much every possible failure point in my infrastructure.