A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I
come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask
you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have
no sovereignty where we gather.

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address
you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always
speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally
independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral
right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true
reason to fear.

Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You
have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not
know us, nor do  you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your
borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public
construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows
itself through our collective actions.

You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you
create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our
ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order
than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this
claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't
exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will
identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social
Contract . This governance will arise according to the conditions of our
world, not yours. Our world is different.

Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself,
arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications.  Ours is a
world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.

We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice
accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her
beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence
or conformity.

Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and
context do not apply to us. They are based on matter, There is no matter
here.

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by
physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest,
and the commonweal, our governance will emerge . Our identities may be
distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our
constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope
we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis.  But we
cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.

In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications
Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams
of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These
dreams must now be born anew in us.

You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world
where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust
your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly
to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of
humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole,
the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes
from the air upon which wings beat.

In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States,
you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at
the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small
time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in
bit-bearing media.

Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate
themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own
speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be
another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world,
whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed
infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires
your factories to accomplish.

These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same
position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had
to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare
our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to
consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the
Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more
humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

Davos, Switzerland
February 8, 1996

A Fair and Color Blind Death Penalty

My system would be based on a point system. As a person commits crimes they would accumulate points when convicted. Each conviction would have a point value attached. These points would start at day 1 of life.

There would be a defined number of high security prison beds assigned based on the population. Points would accumulate for all crimes but the felon would have to commit violent crimes to be eligible for the death penalty. The people with the most points would be bumped off the end.

So people who commit crimes in prison could also run the risk of execution. Also it is only likely that the worst criminals would be executed regardless of race or wealth.

The death penalty should be federal only. So points would be compared to all felons across the nation.

Finally there should be no such thing as attempted murder. If a person attempts to kill someone and is convicted of it the victims good fortune shouldn't benefit the felon. They should be charged as if they we successful in killing the victim.

When we are going to die?

There is an answer or method to determine your life expectancy based on the telomere for example.

Telomeres are unique protein–DNA structures. They are effectively a life line for cells. They determine how many times a cell can split.

Look at it this way each copy of something gets progressively degraded from the original. If you were to live forever the person you would become would be an absolute physically altered genetic mess assuming current conditions. Its a hard concept but if we were to make comparisons between peoples telomeres with sample from a wide range of cells we could determine their life expectancy assuming no other factors take(kill) them sooner.

Also check out my website. There is a link to a New kind of science that will show you that no matter the situation there is a predetermined out come. Chaos theory is just bad math so don't even try it. My website is: http://thinkbiggar.blogspot.com/"

A pivotal finding in the understanding of somatic cell bi-ology was the observation that normal somatic cells have a finite replicative life span (3). That is, they are capable of a finite number of cell divisions, after which they under go what has been termed replicative senescence and are inca-pable of further cell division. The mechanism underlying the replicative clock that monitors this process has evoked considerable attention, and it is in this context that telo-mere function has been of particularly intense interest.

The most widely accepted paradigm relating telomere function to cellular aging and replicative senescence is based on the observation that in normal somatic cells telomeres shorten with each cell division (4, 5). This telomere shortening has been attributed to the primer requirement for DNA syn- thesis during chromosomal replication, and results in in- complete replication and a loss of terminal telomeric repeats with each cell division (6). Telomeres thus shorten progressively with successive cell divisions, and telomere length in a somatic cell may thus reflect the replicative his-tory of that cellular lineage. "

Can we reverse old age?
http://tasciences.com/?gclid=CPW614f75ZACFQFjHgodcBUmOA

Source(s):
http://www.jem.org/cgi/reprint/190/2/153.pdf

http://thinkbiggar.blogspot.com/

Solution to Health Care in a Fair Market

This is a rough concept. The idea is that a for a system to work you need the free market to control prices. This can only happen if people spend their own money for the basis of their health care. In the even a serious condition occurs a catastrophic plan can kick in. If a person has a pre-existing condition they will max out their out-of-pocket then we will cover them as a whole under the catastrophic plan. We might never need it and there is no guarantee that any of us won't. Unless you are willing to turn away people from a hospital then we need a system that involves us as the individual and us as a whole to do what is best for yourself, your family, and your community to remain healthy without violating a persons individual freedoms.


The problem with health care as it stands today is that not everyone has insurance and the insurance model isn't driven by the fair market economy.

The answer is simple. Each person or family will maintain a medical spending account. You can then spend the health care dollars as you choose from this account. You will also have to apply some of this to the purchase of a catastrophic health care plan with a $5000 deductible. If you have more than $5000 in your account you will be refunded the money. If you did not accumulate $5000 for that year but have money left over you will have it carry into the next year until you have $5000.

This system puts each person in charge of their own health care costs which they pay for as a part of daily living. No one can be turned away and everyone is covered.

A family could hold maybe $8,000 for the 2 adults if married and the rest of the cost would be picked up but the catastrophic insurance which might go up slightly more than what it might cost for each individual to maintain it. Since everyone in society benefits from the healthy growth of society and new citizens to ensure the future then they can share a small amount in the costs of keeping those children healthy until the age of 18.

As I said this may be very small to almost no cost since children are usually healthy and since the parents are banking $8,000 in the system is is very unlikely a young family would ever spend that much. Bring the elderly into the system as well with a $5,000 requirement before getting a refund. Medicare can still supplement a percentage before the catastrophic insurance kicks in based on need.

So anyone can go to the doctor of their choice. The doctor bills the account no mater how much is in it because if the account hits zero the catastrophic plan takes over.

So where are people going to come up with this extra $500 a month. The systems in place currently handling these costs will finance the first infusion. This allows the people a $5000 buffer. So in actuallity the amount they pay would be just the amount to get the account up to $5000 for that year only. They continue to pay up to $5000 or until they have payed out $5000 in a calendar year. So the monthy costs can be as low as 0 up to $500 a month.

Companies currently paying insurance will be force to convert those dollars to salary compensation.

The benefits become obvious when people shop around for affordable health care. Everyone gets equal treatment. You have an insentive to stay healthy and if you don't it will untimately cost you more. The downside is that many families might avoid doctor visits to save money.