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content/manifestos/1974-0.txt

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+# Computer Lib
+\chapter{Computer Lib}
+\section{Computer Lib}
+-->
+
+\part{1974 - 1999}

content/manifestos/1974-computer-lib.txt

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+<!---
+
+\chapter{Computer Lib}
+\section{Computer Lib}
+-->
+
 # Computer Lib
 
 Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do. Unfortunately, due to ridiculous historical circumstances, computers have been made a mystery to most of the world. And this situation does not seem to be improving. You hear more and more about computers, but to most people it's just one big blur. The people who *know* about computers often seem unwilling to explain things or answer your questions. Stereotyped notions develop about computers operating in fixed ways – and so confusion increases. The chasm between laymen and computer people widens fast and dangerously .

content/manifestos/1986-hacker-manifesto.txt

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+# The Hacker's Manifesto
+
+By The Mentor (a.k.a. Loyd Blankenship
+
+Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers.
+"Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after
+Bank Tampering"...
+
+Damn kids. They're all alike.
+
+But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's
+technobrain ever take a look behind the eyes of the Hacker? Did you ever
+wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded
+him?
+
+I am a Hacker, enter my world....
+
+Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most
+of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
+
+Damn underachiever. They're all alike.
+
+I made a discovery today. I found a comupter. Wait a second,
+this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake it's
+because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me...  
+Or feels threatened by me...  
+Or thinks I'm a smart ass...  
+Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
+
+Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.
+
+And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing
+through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an
+electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencys
+is sought... a bored is found.
+
+"This is it... this is where I belong..."  
+I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked
+to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
+
+Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...
+
+You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby
+food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you
+did let slip were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by
+sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had somthing to
+teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in
+the desert.
+
+This is our world now... the world of the electron and the
+switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of the service already
+existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by
+profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you
+call us criminals. We seek after knowledge, and you call us criminals.
+We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religous
+bias... and you call us criminals.  
+You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and
+lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the
+criminals.
+
+Yes, I am a crimial. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is
+that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look
+like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something you will never
+forgive me for.
+
+I am a Hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this
+individual, but you can't stop us all. After all... we're all alike.

content/manifestos/2000-0.txt

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+\part{2000 - 2012}

content/manifestos/2009-cult-of-done.txt

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+# The Cult of Done Manifesto
+
+Bre Pettis    
+Mar 3, 2009 
+
+Dear Members of the Cult of Done,
+
+I present to you a manifesto of done. This was written in collaboration with Kio Stark in 20 minutes because we only had 20 minutes to get it done.
+
+## The Cult of Done Manifesto
+
+1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
+2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
+3. There is no editing stage.
+4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
+5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
+6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
+7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
+8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
+9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
+10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
+11. Destruction is a variant of done.
+12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
+13. Done is the engine of more.

content/manifestos/2009-piracy-manifesto.txt

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+# Piracy Manifesto
+
+News from a future newspaper: *“A man was stopped yesterday at the boarder of Italy and France, his computer was scanned and pirated material was found, mostly Adobe software and songs by Beatles. The man was arrested at the spot”*
+
+From a poem to a drug, from an piece of software to a music record and from a film to a book, everything that’s famous and profitable, owns much of its economic value to the manipulation of the Multitudes. People haven’t asked to know what the Coca-Cola logo looks like, neither have they asked for the melody of “Like a Virgin”. Education, Media and Propaganda teach all that the hard way; by either hammering it on our brains or by speculating over our thirst, our hunger, our need for communication and fun and most of all, over our loneliness and despair. In the days of Internet, what can be copied can be also shared. When it comes to content, we can give everything to everyone at once.
+
+Around this realization, a new social class is awakening. This is not a working class but a class of Producers. Producers are pirates and hackers by default; they recycle the images, the sounds and the concepts of the World. Some of it they invent but most they borrow from others.
+
+Because information occupies a physical part of our bodies, because it is literary “installed” on our brain and can’t be erased at wish, people have the right to own what is projected on them: They have the right to own themselves! Because this is a global World based on inequality and profit, because the contents of a song, a movie or a book are points of advantage in a vicious fight for survival, any global citizen has the moral right to appropriate a digital copy of a song, a movie or a book. Because software is an international language, the secrets of the World are now written in Adobe and Microsoft: we should try hack them. Finally, because poverty is the field of experimentation for all global medicine, no patents should apply.
+
+Today, every man with a computer is a Producer and a Pirate. We all live in the Internet, this is our new country, the only territory that makes sense to defend and protect . The land of the Internet is one of information. Men should be able to use this land freely, corporations should pay for use - a company is definitely not a person.
+
+Internet is now producing “Internets”, situations that exist not only online but also in real space, governed by what is happening online. This is the time for the foundation of an global Movement of Piracy. The freedom of infringing copyright, the freedom of sharing information and drugs: these are our new “Commons”. They are Global Rights and as such, Authorities will not allow them without a battle. But this will be a strange battle because this is the first time the Multitudes disrespect the Law instinctively and on a global scale.
+
+Today, an army of teenagers is copying, the adults are copying and even the senior citizens, people from the Left and from the Right are copying. Everyone with a computer is copying something; like a novel Goddess Athena, Information wants to break free from the head of Technology and it assists us on our enterprise.
+
+Pirates of the Internet Unite!
+
+Miltos Manetas, 2009
+

content/manifestos/2012-we-the-web-kids.txt

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 Perhaps we have not yet given it a name, perhaps we are not yet fully aware of it, but I guess what we want is real, genuine democracy. Democracy that, perhaps, is more than is dreamt of in your journalism.
  
-___
+
 "My, dzieci sieci" by Piotr Czerski is licensed under a Creative Commons Uznanie autorstwa-Na tych samych warunkach 3.0 Unported License:
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
  
-Contact the author: piotr[at]czerski.art.pl
+Contact the author: piotr[at]czerski.art.pl

content/manifestos/9999-end.txt

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 Edited March 6-7 2015 during Fahrenheit 39, Ravenna
 
 Greyscale Press
 
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