John Adams Quotes Author of Love Letters Of Great Men

“Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.”― John Adams156 people liked itlike“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”― John Adamstags: politics131 people liked itlike“There are two types of education… One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.”

 

President of the Senate John Adams (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

― John Adams126 people liked itlike“I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough…the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”― John Adamstags: education, lifelong-learning, reading125 people liked itlike“I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. 12 May 1780”

 

― John Adamstags: books, first-amendment, politics, presidents, scholorship120 people liked itlike“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”― John Adamstags: evidence, facts, forefather, passion111 people liked itlike“Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present Generation to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.”― John Adams109 people liked itlike“But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.”

 

White House: we “win the future” by making ISPs into copyright cops

The White House likes the newly announced “six strikes” voluntary agreement announced today between major copyright holders and Internet access providers. That’s no surprise—the US administration helped to broker the deal.

“The joining of Internet service providers and entertainment companies in a cooperative effort to combat online infringement can further this goal [of supporting jobs and exports] and we commend them for reaching this agreement,” said Victoria Espinel, US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, in a statement today. “We believe it will have a significant impact on reducing online piracy.”

Espinel is professionally interested in copyright online; Vice President Joe Biden is more of a copyright hobbyist (“piracy is flat, unadulterated theft”) who has convened White House meetings to talk about infringement. It was therefore no real surprise to learn a few weeks ago that the White House had played a behind-the-scenes role (along with New York’s Andrew Cuomo) in bringing together the content owners and ISPs to hash out a voluntary agreement.

While ISPs were for years seen more like the “common carriers” of yore, who ran a network and were generally not responsible for policing the uses of that network, government sentiment in key quarters is changing. And not just in the US—at the recent high level OECD Internet conference in Paris, the concluding document stressed ISPs’ duty to halt bad behavior.

“Sound Internet policy should

via White House: we “win the future” by making ISPs into copyright cops.

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| Rita W. Jones

Posted on Thursday, August 26, 2010 10:07:34 AM

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