Zack and I had a long conversation which was very interesting.
My long conversations with Zack are typically fairly private,
which makes them pretty poor material for a public diary. One
option would be to keep a private diary (which many people I
know do), another would be to have a different sense of
privacy, another to talk to Zack at length about other subjects,
and still another to refrain from mentioning private
conversations here in the first place. So many choices!
Earlier in the day, Lee and I had lunch with a cool lawyer from the
ACLU.
We also found out that we won the
"Narco News"
case. I was
surprised to discover that the lead counsel in that case (in which
EFF filed an amicus brief) was a law firm in my home town,
Northampton. My father knows one of the partners in that firm!
I'll have to go and congratulate them in person at the end of the
month.
I was thinking that autarky, which Sumana mentions, was the same
thing as autarchy, but they're different -- autos + arkein as
opposed to autos + archein. It seems that they're pronounced the
same in English, though! "Arkein" is to suffice or be adequate,
and "archein" is to rule or command.
So emotional autarchy is a very different proposition from emotional
autarky.
I used to think I had some of the latter, but then, someone could
say, life happened to me. Well, you can conceive "emotional
autarky" as a sign of immaturity or fearfulness, or as a sign of
happy maturity, just as you can conceive economic autarky. Are
countries which are seeking economic self-sufficiency being
silly, frightened protectionists, or are they seeking proper
maturity and self-reliance as countries?
A
20-year Usenet archive; I'm scarcely older than that archive and
it seems to contain all major historical events of which I have any
memories.
Various things happened; I went to Berkeley and got the new
LNX-BBC project machine up (called "gar"). (Thanks, Joe.) I saw
Brian and Michelle while I was over there.
Unfortunately, I then got sick, and have been home sick. Nick
came to visit and talked to me about the BBC, and we made a huge
amount of progress toward getting organized for future releases.
But the really big deal for this week is that
Dmitry
Sklyarov is free and will go home to Russia! Congratulations
to Dmitry, his family, his lawyers, and all the activists who kept
up pressure and attention on this case. It seems that the publicity
and pressure was really very significant -- since at the beginning,
Adobe, the AAP, and the USAO all seemed convinced that it was
necessary for Dmitry to go to jail, and to serve a long prison
sentence.
I'm hoping there will be a party on Wednesday to celebrate Dmitry's
return home.
Now my question is: Who will be the next person to
Get Caught
Reading?
