adding a couple more manifestos.

content/manifestos/2001-Zero-Dollar-Laptop.txt

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+# Zero Dollar Laptop Manifesto
+
+by James Wallbank
+
+The zero dollar laptop is widely available to individuals in the developed world. It's also available to businesses, governmental organisations and NGOs. It's also available in the developing world. Distribution is ramping up.
+
+The zero dollar laptop comes in a variety of specifications.
+
+The current typical specification of the zero dollar laptop in the UK is around 500mHz, with 256mB RAM, a 10 gigabyte hard disk, a network card, a CD-ROM, a USB port and a screen capable of displaying at least 800x600 pixels in 16-bit colour. Many zero dollar laptops are better specified. (Its close cousin, the zero dollar desktop, typically runs at 1000mHz or faster.)
+
+The zero dollar laptop is constantly being upgraded - so by next year its specification will be even more powerful.
+
+The zero dollar laptop is powered with free, open source software. Users can get involved as deeply as they want - the software packages available include easy to use graphical applications, more complex professional applications, and expert level programming languages.
+
+Free software upgrades for the zero dollar laptop are constantly being made available, from a huge variety of software producers.
+
+The zero dollar laptop is not intended simply for multimedia entertainment. Though it can an educational playground, it can also be a genuinely useful production platform.
+
+The zero dollar laptop allows kids to learn and adults to produce. (Only when people are able to use computers to produce their own data does information communication technology become genuinely empowering.)
+
+The zero dollar laptop has already been distributed. (You weren't told about it at the time of distribution.)
+
+Individuals, businesses and non-profit organisations can all have a say in how the zero dollar laptop is rolled out in their local area. It's not up to government think-tanks, multinational NGOs or national policy boards.
+
+The zero dollar laptop is available to individuals, education organisations, NGOs and businesses alike.
+
+The carbon footprint of the zero dollar laptop is zero.
+
+You, as an individual, may already own a zero dollar laptop.
+
+What's it doing? Sitting on your shelf, unused, because you've already upgraded?
+
+Your employer or your school may own a large number of zero dollar laptops.
+
+What are they doing? Are they getting recycled responsibly (i.e. destroyed) by the company that supplied them? (That's often the company that just happens to be supplying the next generation of laptops.)
+
+Perhaps surprisingly, you may not know how to install or operate the zero dollar laptop.
+
+You may never have installed a free, open source operating system. You may never have installed any operating system.
+
+Nowadays it's quite easy. You can download a full version of the Linux operating system appropriate for the specification of your zero dollar laptop for free. It's entirely legal.
+
+Many versions of Linux are user-friendly. There are lots of help resources online, and there are likely to be local people who'll be happy to give you advice.
+
+You may be unaware of lightweight window-managers that use memory more efficiently. You may never have used powerful, compatible free office and productivity software. It may surprise you to discover that free software can be better than software you can buy.
+
+You may be reluctant to invest time, of which you may only have a little, rather than invest money - of which you may have plenty.
+
+Think about the longer-term consequences: buy software and you'll have to pay again and again. Invest time learning about free software, and you'll never have to pay for software again.
+
+For the sake of the planet, and for the sake of a fair, just, and cohesive society, isn't it about time you learned? Then maybe you could teach someone else.
+
+You may ask, "Why isn't someone doing something to roll out the zero dollar laptop?" In developed-world economies and cultures we're familiar with centralised solutions. We're less familiar with localised, decentralised, do-it-yourself solutions. In this case, that "someone" is you.
+
+Decentralised solutions like the zero dollar laptop may not seem to be as efficient as centralised solutions. However, efficiency isn't everything. Solutions of this character are more robust, more responsive to local circumstances, greener, more flexible, and they encourage local skill development and independence.
+
+You may have to spend unpaid time learning about and implementing the distribution of a few zero dollar laptops in your area. Think about the contacts you'll make and the skills you'll learn. Think about the skills you'll help to develop, the lives you may transform, the fun you'll have.
+
+The emergence of the zero dollar laptop as a key computing platform for empowering individuals, stimulating creativity, overcoming poverty and enriching our shared culture is entirely feasible without any additional research, design, or manufacture.
+
+We already have all the tools we need - all we need to manufacture is the will to act locally; all we need to replace is the software on our hard drives; all we need to develop is the content of our minds.
+
+Source: https://jaromil.dyne.org/journal/zero_dollar_laptop.html

content/manifestos/2009-powr-broccoli-kopimi.txt

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+# POwr, Broccoli and Kopimi
+
+## /join #kopimi
+
+According to Kopimi all truths can be summarized in one sentence: “The Internet is right.”
+
+Though seeded in prehistory, Kopimi is rooted in the future, and holds together a constantly vibrating avalanche of knowledge that forms the foundation for a discussion indifferent to the rippling changes of time and space. A tumult where no one has the permission to keep silent, and where we must speak to everyone and everything.
+
+In attractive flocks, passionate swarms and boisterous schools, we sow ourselves into new contexts and eras. This book is a spontaneously organizing, clustering community project with a single purpose – Kopimi shall be deepening, propagating, and all-consuming. We want to reach further into ourselves and into Kopimi. We want to penetrate further into you, and into the future.
+
+Our words shall, simultaneously, sound as foolishness upon deaf ears and lovely caresses to those who see and hear, but above all: They should bite firmly into you – and your mom. This is a book for those of you who find yourselves in the moment, but are looking for your way forward through the ages.
+
+## 100 roads to #g-d:
+
+001. Obtain the Internet.
+002. Start using IRC.
+003. Group and birth a site.
+004. Experiment with research chemicals.
+005. Design a three-step program.
+006. Take a powerful stance for something positive and essential.
+007. Regulate nothing.
+008. Say that you have to move in two weeks, but stay for seven months. Come back a year later and do it all over again.
+009. ROTFLOL.
+010. Relax, you’re already halfway there.
+011. Just kidding.
+012. Don’t think outside the box. Build a box.
+013. Support support.
+014. Organize and go to parties and fairs.
+015. Start 30–40 blogs about the same things.
+016. Drain the private sector of coders, graphic artists and literati.
+017. Create a prize that is awarded.
+018. Express yourself often in the media, vaguely.
+019. Spread all rumors.
+020. Seek out and try carding, and travel by expensive trains. Don’t order sushi.
+021. Start a radio station.
+022. Everything you use, you can copy and give an arbitrary name, whether it’s a news portal, search engine or public service.
+023. Buy a bus.
+024. Install a MegaHAL.
+025. Make sure that you are really good friends with people who can use Photoshop, HTML, databases, and the like.
+026. Read a shitload of philosophy.
+027. Give yourself cult status, and act accordingly.
+028. Never aim.
+029. Pick on everyone.
+030. Invent or misuse Kopimi.
+031. Do things together as a composition, not as a collective.
+032.  Make your advertising confusingly similar to that of established ventures.
+033. Always act with intent.
+034. Assert, in any context, that the establishment is lagging.
+035. When criticized, blame others and refer to the cluster formation’s non-linear time-creating swarm hierarchy.
+036. Send everything to all media, regardless of niche.
+037. Start an anonymous confession venture.
+038. Make babies and blog their upbringing.
+039. Be sure to closely study and keep abreast with substances.
+040. Participate in lively Internet discussions that don’t interest you.
+041. Start at least three to four IRC channels about every project.
+042. Fight and make up often.
+043. Share files with anyone who wants them.
+044. Deal often with humor sites.
+045. Hang out with the Left, the Right, and the Libertarians.
+046. See “23” in everything. 
+047. Flirt with money.
+048. Be AFK very little.
+049. Threaten large American culture corporations.
+050. Broadcast radio from Skäggetorp.
+051. Make a “100 list” for successful projects.
+052. Be unsure what the list should be named.
+053. Take upon yourself a lot of projects.
+054. Make sure to be connected to technical, aesthetical, and
+philosophical people of world class competence.
+055. Sleep over at each others houses regularly.
+056. Publish a book about Kopimi.
+057. At a trial, deny everything.
+058. Cultivate unfounded myths and react to them.
+059.  Hack sites, e-mail accounts, and more.
+060. Continuously mock and ridicule all aspects of copyright.
+061. Create an Internet site where people can buy and sell votes in democratic elections.
+062. Claim to be true, fair and satisfied.
+063. Collect money for fraux’s trip to Iceland.
+064. Confidently claim that all disconnected computers are broken.
+065. Do NOT go to Kurdistan.
+066. Make sure to thoroughly establish the claim that all hardware is
+overpriced.
+067. Affirm all words and signs.
+068. Mindfuck each other to appropriate extent.
+069. Take care of small animals.
+070. Create and spiritualize the concept of “Snel hest.”
+071. Start and own a think-tank.
+072. Deny magnetism.
+073. Start a business school. Drop out. 
+074. Write press releases often.
+075. Use IRC while in your underwear, and eat pizza.
+076. Juggle with other people’s balls.
+077. Ensure that there is no conclusive evidence of Ikko giving monki
+advertising money by means of volada’s helicopter.
+078. Cause inflation and a global financial crisis.
+079. Express yourself vaguely if anyone asks you, “How much is a bandwidth?”
+080. Use “dynamic” to mean “completely out of control”.
+081. Never mention Hotmail, MSN, or Windows.
+082. Have all project meetings on IRC.
+083. Claim to receive around 1256 e-mails a day.
+084. Force a prosecutor to draw up several thousand pages of drivel.
+085. Above all abstract everything.
+086. Have a liberal vision of hell.
+087. Consider yourself overly qualified for top positions in American film and
+music industries.
+088. Create the world’s largest file-sharing service in a twinkling.
+089. Attract international attention by accident.
+090. Control the portal and opinion makers in all mediums.
+091. Standardize and explain your way of doing things at all levels.
+092. Have 3576 anonymous confessions on your hard drive. Including the
+authors’ IP addresses and personal information.
+093. Preserve the Internet.
+094. Mention the Internet as a source in serious discussions.
+095. Rarely mention reasons for your IT elitism.
+096. Dismiss expressions like “from farm to table” as superstition.
+097. Follow the yellow fellow.
+098. Skip the last points of your 100 point list.
+099. Establish social services as a parody of antisocial services.
+100. Start from scratch.
+100. Be careful of burning kittens.
+100. Write a book, but start with the back cover.
+100. Use parables in abundance, preferably about “butter” and “snow”.
+100. Stop using IRL. Use AFK instead.
+100.Cultivate contacts within the powers of state intelligence services.
+100. Always define “flat organization” arbitrarily, subjectively, and without
+common sense. 100. Upload.
+100. Take over #g-d. 
+100. PROFIT.
+
+/clear
+
+In the shadow of the culture industry’s final crisis of the 20th-century, grows a larger portrait of the POwr, broccoli and Kopimi. The culture industry’s complete failure is followed by the uncanny success of the diffused structure of an Internet elite, spread the world over. The book you’re about to read has no author, no designer, no typesetter, no distribution channel. Nevertheless, you have it in front of you. How did that happen?
+
+Read the frightening instructions of a loosely coherent core of IT specialists grafted into an unsuspecting generation of youths, and how the group stole the eggs, dollars and jpegs in front of the powerless establishment and strong financial interests. Learn how servers, seeders, trackers, e-mail, company formation, foreign investors, Ikko’s weekly allowance, scandalous advertisements, links and search services, infiltrated and destroyed an entire world that had nowhere to run, no one to consult, and no one to trust...
+
+The machine, which operates under the radar frequency is unhindered from the Cambodian jungle to the gay neighborhoods of San Francisco, via the empty beaches of Tel-Aviv, and into the Internet of plain folks in Jönköping suburbs and Gothenburg harbor. It leaves no one unmoved and mangles everything in its path. Technically superior and physically independent it’s constantly transforming, mutating and reappearing in new guises and under new codenames. With a stranglehold on its opponents it’s completely untouched and even more – incomprehensible.
+
+It has rightly been said that this is the first time Kopimi has freed the world and we can be sure that it’s not the last.
+
+
+***
+
+Sources: 
+
+https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4741944/powr.broccoli-kopimi
+
+https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-manifesto-powr-broccoli-and-kopimi-090225/
+
+http://indexofpotential.net/manifesto-of-the-pirate-bay-powr-broccoli-and-kopimi/
+
+http://apas.gr/2010/08/power-broccoli-kopimi-and-the-internets/

content/manifestos/2011-Bitcoin-Manifesto.txt

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+# The Bitcoin Manifesto
+
+The Bitcoin Manifesto
+April 10, 2011, 04:56:35 PM
+ #1
+From my friend Jaromil. I love this little speech:
+
+hi Aharon,
+
+On Thu, 07 Apr 2011, a...@aharonic.net wrote:
+
+> bitcoins - isn't this simply a distributed structure to do
+> capitalism with?
+
+That's not even the worst you can do with it. you can do money
+laundering, buy drugs online and sex toys, all anonymously.  but
+that's not the point, because despite the coercion imposed by all
+kinds of regulatory systems so far, also current official monetary
+systems are full of that shit, on top of the capitalist pie.
+
+Emerging technologies should never be judged by the sensationally bad
+taste of early adopters. it's like being concerned about the shit that
+fertilizes some beautiful flowers, wasting their seeds.
+
+What really bitcoin is, I finally understood on the 6 april (which
+somehow always ends up being a magic day, eh!): this is now the end of
+the *flow capitalism*, which consists of the monopoly on transactions,
+the hegemony of banks on the movement of values and not just their
+storage, this middle-man mafia strangling the world as we speak.
+
+How right are now those South American countries asking the "taxation
+of transactions", an argument refrained in many speeches of the
+companeros. They studied the system and understood that there is a
+crucial problem there, that needs to be solved urgently. Yet i'd argue
+here taxation on transaction cannot be the solution. The solution is
+to eliminate the flow capitalists.
+
+If i want to give you money i'll give it to *you*. me and you,
+period. its fine that we'll pay our taxes for our communities, don't
+get me wrong this is not a tea bagger argument. its just not right
+that all what we do is in the hands of a third party, that has been
+caught cheating already many times: look at what happened at the
+paypal accounts of the Iraqi linux user group back in 2004, or even
+more recently to Wikileaks.
+
+We don't need those fat cheaters to be in between our value
+transactions anymore; the flow capital has played its disgusting role
+in the little laps of history for which it has been needed, now sadly
+these people won't give up what they have accumulated, so it makes
+more sense to leave them alone and multiply more monetary systems that
+work efficiently across diverse networks and that rely on the
+neutrality of a cryptographic authentication.
+
+the death of the flow capital is a new stage for the necrotization of
+capitalism.
+
+ ciao
+
+
+Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5671.0

content/manifestos/2013-Pirate-party-manifesto.txt

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+# The PPEU Manifesto
+
+## Preamble
+
+We, the European Pirates, want society to welcome and adjust to the digital revolution:
+
+We identify the digital revolution as a moment of total renewal of human societies; we recognise therefore as one of our primary goals the defence of the Internet as a common good and a public utility.
+
+We want a society based on the following manifesto:
+
+## Civil Rights
+
+Human dignity is inviolable. Everybody has the right to life, liberty, security of person, freedom of thought, self-determination and participate in society.
+
+We, the European Pirates, support the highest standard for civil rights in the European Union. The rights of free association, freedom of movement and free assembly in public, freedom of opinion, expression, and free access to information are all essential. Whistle-blowers should be protected by law and not subject to legal action.
+
+We strongly believe that all people have the right to fair and equal treatment. As everybody belongs to a minority, it is essential that society respect the rights of minorities.
+
+The Privacy of the individual should be valued at all times and protected from being exploited by public and economic actors.
+
+## Citizen participation and Open Government
+
+Power resides with the people. Their rights and their dignity stand above all else.
+
+We, the European Pirates, strive to create opportunities for democratic participation and to promote their widespread use, because only democracy can ensure an equitable balancing of Europeans' diverse interests. Public authorities should be encouraged to put forward participatory and collaborative tools that allow citizens to actively propose policies and make decisions.
+
+## Transparency
+
+Transparency and Accountability for public institutions are the counterpart of good data protection regulation to protect Privacy. We, the European Pirates, want clear transparency in common affairs and good privacy for individuals. Public authorities should be required to regularly publish organisational and task descriptions, including catalogues of all administrative records.
+
+Everybody has the right to access documents and proceedings on all levels of government and the information available to the respective public authorities. The respect of this right shall be controlled by a strictly independent organ.
+
+## Copyright reform
+
+We, the European Pirates, want a fair and balanced copyright law based on the interests of society as a whole.
+
+We therefore demand that copying, providing access to, storing and using literary and artistic production for non-commercial purposes must not just be legalised, but protected by law and actively promoted to improve the public availability of information, knowledge and culture, because this is a prerequisite for the social, technological and economic development of our society. Everyone shall be able to enjoy and share our cultural heritage free from the threat of legal action or censorship.
+
+The commercial monopoly given by copyright should be restored to a reasonable term. Derivative works shall always be permitted, with exceptions which are very specifically enumerated in law with minimal room for interpretation.
+
+## Patent system reform
+
+Patents are government-backed monopolies which are obstacles in a free market and increasingly hinder, instead of help, innovation. Patents should definitely never be given for things that are trivial, non-substantial, computer programs, business models, or anything unethical.
+
+In the long term, an alternative system to support innovation must be developed to replace patents and ensure that the results of research come to the benefit of society.
+
+## Open Access and Open Data
+
+The results of any research carried out with public funds, completely or in part, must be published in open access scientific journals or by other means which make them readily accessible to the general population.
+
+All data created for public use or with the use of public money, regardless of origin, should be freely available to the general public, as long as personal details are not revealed without the consent of the concerned individuals. It shall be made available in an appropriate form, which shall also include a form for data processing. Access must not be limited by application procedures, licenses, fees or technical means.
+
+## Net Neutrality
+
+Everybody should have unencumbered access to the internet and other public information and communication networks and have the possibility to protect all data transfer with good privacy. To ensure this we, the European Pirates, advocate for a discrimination-free Internet, which does not permit operators, governments and other bodies to either block or prioritise certain kinds of applications, services or contents nor limits the access depending on the location of sender or receiver.
+
+## Free software and Libre Culture
+
+We, the European Pirates, support the promotion of software that can be used, analysed, disseminated and changed by everyone. This so-called free and libre open source software is essential for users' control of their own technical systems and provides a significant contribution to strengthening the autonomy and privacy of all users.
+
+Free culture is an important resource for the education and creativity of society. We strive to promote artistic activity and cultural diversity to ensure a rich educational and artistic environment for our and future generations.
+
+source: http://ppeu.net/wiki/doku.php?id=statutes:manifesto