Manifesto in Defense of Fundamental Rights in Internet
I always clear that the blog would go on fantasy and nothing more. But it is also true that sometimes an exception is needed, especially when fantastic (horror genre to be exact) bursts in everyday life as an elephant in china shop. So server is added to the Manifesto in Defense of Fundamental Rights on the Internet.
Given the inclusion in the Draft Sustainable Economy Act legislative changes affecting the free exercise of freedom of expression, information and the right of access to culture through the Internet, journalists, bloggers, users, professionals and Internet writers express our firm opposition to the project, and declare that:
1. The copyright holder can not be above the fundamental rights of citizens, including the right to privacy, to security, the presumption of innocence, to effective judicial protection and freedom of expression. 2.La
suspension of fundamental rights is and must remain the exclusive competence of the judiciary. Not a close without trial. This blueprint, contrary to the provisions of Article 20.5 of the Constitution, put in the hands of a non-judicial body under the Ministry of Culture, the power to prevent English citizens access to any website.
3.La new legislation will create legal uncertainty around the English technology sector, damaging one of the few areas of development and future of our economy, hindering entrepreneurship, introducing barriers to competition and slowing its international expansion. 4.La
proposed laws threaten to hinder new creators and cultural creation. With The Internet and new technologies have democratized the creation and release of contents of any kind, no longer come predominantly from the traditional cultural industries, but from many different sources. 5.The
authors, like all workers are entitled to live out of their creative ideas, business models and activities associated with their creations. Trying to hold with legislative changes to an outdated industry that knows no adapt to this new environment is neither fair nor realistic. If your business model is based on the control of the copies of the works and the Internet is not possible without violating fundamental rights, should find another model.
6.Consideramos that cultural industries need to survive modern alternatives, effective, credible and affordable to suit new social practices, rather than limitations so disproportionate as to be ineffective in that they are pursuing.
7.Internet should operate freely and without interference from groups that seek to perpetuate outdated business models and make it impossible for human knowledge remains free.
8.Exigimos that the Government guarantees by law the net neutrality in Spain, to any pressure that may occur as a framework for developing a sustainable economy for the future.
9.Proponemos a real reform of intellectual property rights aimed at an end: return to the society of knowledge, promote the public domain and limit abuses of management entities. 10.On
democracy, laws and amendments should be adopted after due debate and consultation with all parties involved. It is unacceptable that legislative changes are made that affect fundamental rights in a non-organic law and deals with other matters.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
New Sid For Windowblinds7
A Vueltas Damn the Press
"Last Narrative English / Emerging Trends" is the title of a two-page article published in the newspaper El Mundo on Saturday March 20. What is interesting for the purposes of this blog is that these emerging trends are actual words, the story based on real facts and new science fiction.
Well, the first tendency is rather obvious if we consider that references to this "In Cold Blood" by Capote and is celebrated with joy the success of fences and "Anatomy of a moment."
But what's this about the new science fiction? It goes without saying that, whatever the device journalism, the fact that the CF (old or new) standing in an article in a journal relative importance of the dissemination of The World is a source of joy for all self-respecting geek and a sign of the times we live in a small quiet revolution , which on many occasions I have gone on record on this blog and not mine is a mental straw as other voices and learned much more respectable than mine have reached similar conclusions (in this regard the controversies that are periodically shaken Prospective Literature significant).
The problem is that the article by Emma Rodriguez creates more confusion than anything else. It starts, again, the teaching of Ballard as opposed to the old CF gender (though, curiously, not mentioned other writers also appear as Dick and Lem), which, to some extent, is the most logical and coherent literary rigor, interior space and the future as a metaphor This could be the coordinates of this new CF that, personally, it does seem a resurrection of the old New Wave.
Thus Fresán Rodrigo statements, the flamboyant author of "The sky background" reaffirm this way, just as the demand for CF Argentina (probably the highest quality literature written in Castilian) and cyberpunk (a Ultimately Gibson is also an author of more presentable).
The downside is that there is a ceremony after the confusion of the most peculiar. On one hand, cite a number of authors and works, except Ray Loriga and "Tokyo and does not want us" and Nicolas Casariego and "Hunters of light," I, personally, are totally unknown to me, both assumptions precursors (Andrés Ibáñez and "The world in the era of Varick, Antonio Orejudo and his" fitness to travel ") with very new values \u200b\u200b(Manuel Vilas author of" Air our "or Javier Calvo" creator of "The Reflecting God" .)
Along with this we must add a statement more than unfortunate José López Jara, head of the Minotaur, citing new promises of this new CF none other than John Scalzi and Kim Stanley Robins. Something really ridiculous when you consider that Scalzi is a kind of pulp author heinleniano last thread and Robinson, one of the most hard hard, is anything but promising youngster. Another thing is the assertion that you are editing a novel national author, Luis Montero, but, hey, the above statements moved to laughter.
And finally, nothing less than the claim Agustín Fernández Mallo and Nutella trilogy as one of the new landmarks of this new CF.
Where, as always, one end was not clear. And either I have not heard anything, or has made a rehash stews tremendous with very different hair, why put in the same bag to Ballard, CF Argentina, strawberries and cyberpunk has a logic but then add to Minotaur (with Scalzi and Robinson) bypassing other publishers (those of Alamut, SWAT , La Factoria de Ideas, Berenice, Gigamesh, etc, etc), the Nutella boys and a group of totally unknown authors (forgetting all our authors fandomitas) and it sounds weird, weird.
So, for now, I'm hoping someone enlighten me what it's like the new CF but I promise to be a good boy and find all those references unknown to see if some light coat of this coal mine in which it appears that has become, not the new journalism, if not the English journalism lifetime (ie, write something but not have much idea about it).
Well, the first tendency is rather obvious if we consider that references to this "In Cold Blood" by Capote and is celebrated with joy the success of fences and "Anatomy of a moment."
But what's this about the new science fiction? It goes without saying that, whatever the device journalism, the fact that the CF (old or new) standing in an article in a journal relative importance of the dissemination of The World is a source of joy for all self-respecting geek and a sign of the times we live in a small quiet revolution , which on many occasions I have gone on record on this blog and not mine is a mental straw as other voices and learned much more respectable than mine have reached similar conclusions (in this regard the controversies that are periodically shaken Prospective Literature significant).
The problem is that the article by Emma Rodriguez creates more confusion than anything else. It starts, again, the teaching of Ballard as opposed to the old CF gender (though, curiously, not mentioned other writers also appear as Dick and Lem), which, to some extent, is the most logical and coherent literary rigor, interior space and the future as a metaphor This could be the coordinates of this new CF that, personally, it does seem a resurrection of the old New Wave.
Thus Fresán Rodrigo statements, the flamboyant author of "The sky background" reaffirm this way, just as the demand for CF Argentina (probably the highest quality literature written in Castilian) and cyberpunk (a Ultimately Gibson is also an author of more presentable).
The downside is that there is a ceremony after the confusion of the most peculiar. On one hand, cite a number of authors and works, except Ray Loriga and "Tokyo and does not want us" and Nicolas Casariego and "Hunters of light," I, personally, are totally unknown to me, both assumptions precursors (Andrés Ibáñez and "The world in the era of Varick, Antonio Orejudo and his" fitness to travel ") with very new values \u200b\u200b(Manuel Vilas author of" Air our "or Javier Calvo" creator of "The Reflecting God" .)
Along with this we must add a statement more than unfortunate José López Jara, head of the Minotaur, citing new promises of this new CF none other than John Scalzi and Kim Stanley Robins. Something really ridiculous when you consider that Scalzi is a kind of pulp author heinleniano last thread and Robinson, one of the most hard hard, is anything but promising youngster. Another thing is the assertion that you are editing a novel national author, Luis Montero, but, hey, the above statements moved to laughter.
And finally, nothing less than the claim Agustín Fernández Mallo and Nutella trilogy as one of the new landmarks of this new CF.
Where, as always, one end was not clear. And either I have not heard anything, or has made a rehash stews tremendous with very different hair, why put in the same bag to Ballard, CF Argentina, strawberries and cyberpunk has a logic but then add to Minotaur (with Scalzi and Robinson) bypassing other publishers (those of Alamut, SWAT , La Factoria de Ideas, Berenice, Gigamesh, etc, etc), the Nutella boys and a group of totally unknown authors (forgetting all our authors fandomitas) and it sounds weird, weird.
So, for now, I'm hoping someone enlighten me what it's like the new CF but I promise to be a good boy and find all those references unknown to see if some light coat of this coal mine in which it appears that has become, not the new journalism, if not the English journalism lifetime (ie, write something but not have much idea about it).
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Sleeping Women's Boobs
Memory Menuda
The truth is that I have always enjoyed a good memory. And he's been lucky. I studied Geography and History and work in a school, in both areas my memory has been very helpful. Could not possibly have finished the race without it, or have passed the opposition, nor can deal with some dignity in my classes. Memory is also unusual, for example, give me bad names of people (no sides), when I run into a former student I know, more or less, when I gave her class and if it was good or bad but almost I never remember what it was called (what which is often embarrassing). That
good memory helps me a lot with this little love of literature, I remember quite well the patterns and degrees of the things I read and I like. Almost never do I have to consult a book, for example, write about it in this blog or discussion on a forum (yes, I never remember well the names of the players, curious).
So I have a good memory. Or at least so I thought. Why lately I'm beginning to doubt the alleged ability of mine. It was this gift that is not as good as it was: age, Alzheimer? No idea but I'm starting to develop that happens both the elderly, of being able to perfectly agree on something that happened 60 years ago and have trouble remembering events of last week.
And I'll give an example. In 2006 I was a member of the jury I Xatafi-Cyberdark Prize Fantastic Literature. Among other things I had to read me a lot of books to do my job. Of course, not all fantasy production in 2005 but a succulent piece.
For example, I read every issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2005 (N ° 15-21). There were more than 2,000 pages and about 70-80 stories (of course, that is not just the short narrative section, there were many more anthologies).
This Christmas I got to browse the entire collection of Asimov. Eye, not to read it to me, just go over it over, focus on some pieces, read a few snippets ... Well, there I got a big surprise. I remember almost none of the stories of that 2005. I looked at them, looked again and almost all seemed brand new, as if he had never read. In fact only remembered certain intensity fourteen of them. They are: Stableford Nectar
The Oxygen
Popkes ice upward
Garcia and Robertson Lake Wolves Sanders Ten Spokesman sea
wood Watson
A Princess of Earth
dry bones Resnick TK'TK'TK
Sanders'
Levine Far from the Land of Shadow Twin
Barton Abraham, Dozois and Martin
Through Lace Nestvold
Play "Nobody's Home" by Avril Lavigne Planells
The Man Ice Cream Van Pelt
The little goddess of McDonald
There is some logic in some of these memories, for example, the little goddess was the one who won the award for best foreign accounts and is a very good story. A Princess of Earth was one of the nominees, like Play "Nobody's Home" by Avril Lavigne. Ten Lake Lobos remember exactly why it was my favorite, a beautiful story reminded me Variant Zelazny Unicorn (unfortunately I was the lone juror who had that feeling, no one else voted.)
But the rest, frankly, I have no idea why they stayed in my head and others do not. Okay, some are really good stories even if they had the same fate as my favorite: the award passed by unnoticed.
Nectar has a very original futuristic and attractive, is very reminiscent Dry Bones (Sanders is not a bad writer in my opinion), very far from Earth is one of the most powerful visions I know about the failure of the CF and Twin shadow is a good adventure story.
But others are pretty mediocre, perhaps Spokesman Sea wood stuck in my head to come from an author Watson broadly pretty decent but the story itself is pretty mediocre, and oxygen up even a routine story as no longer a space opera, a my weaknesses. But why the hell I remember so well from the ice Popkes, a long and boring clones leaden history? TK'TK'TK Or supposedly humorous but really unbearable? And what about the ice cream man of grace and more mutants without hearing that the comic? Through the socket, a mediocre story, why not take it off my head?
To me this is a mystery, or rather, two. Why stories are not anything special I stick to the neurons and not going and that I can remember only 14 stories of 70-80.
And for an example of how well other things I can remember older. The volumes of the Hugo Awards Roca Martinez pulled in 80. I remember vividly all the stories and even many of the introductions of Asimov. And the last time I reread was, at least, at 90.
As I said, a mystery, old age or degeneration, but in any case highly irritating to noses.
good memory helps me a lot with this little love of literature, I remember quite well the patterns and degrees of the things I read and I like. Almost never do I have to consult a book, for example, write about it in this blog or discussion on a forum (yes, I never remember well the names of the players, curious).
So I have a good memory. Or at least so I thought. Why lately I'm beginning to doubt the alleged ability of mine. It was this gift that is not as good as it was: age, Alzheimer? No idea but I'm starting to develop that happens both the elderly, of being able to perfectly agree on something that happened 60 years ago and have trouble remembering events of last week.
And I'll give an example. In 2006 I was a member of the jury I Xatafi-Cyberdark Prize Fantastic Literature. Among other things I had to read me a lot of books to do my job. Of course, not all fantasy production in 2005 but a succulent piece.
For example, I read every issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, 2005 (N ° 15-21). There were more than 2,000 pages and about 70-80 stories (of course, that is not just the short narrative section, there were many more anthologies).
This Christmas I got to browse the entire collection of Asimov. Eye, not to read it to me, just go over it over, focus on some pieces, read a few snippets ... Well, there I got a big surprise. I remember almost none of the stories of that 2005. I looked at them, looked again and almost all seemed brand new, as if he had never read. In fact only remembered certain intensity fourteen of them. They are: Stableford Nectar
The Oxygen
Popkes ice upward
Garcia and Robertson Lake Wolves Sanders Ten Spokesman sea
wood Watson
A Princess of Earth
dry bones Resnick TK'TK'TK
Sanders'
Levine Far from the Land of Shadow Twin
Barton Abraham, Dozois and Martin
Through Lace Nestvold
Play "Nobody's Home" by Avril Lavigne Planells
The Man Ice Cream Van Pelt
The little goddess of McDonald
There is some logic in some of these memories, for example, the little goddess was the one who won the award for best foreign accounts and is a very good story. A Princess of Earth was one of the nominees, like Play "Nobody's Home" by Avril Lavigne. Ten Lake Lobos remember exactly why it was my favorite, a beautiful story reminded me Variant Zelazny Unicorn (unfortunately I was the lone juror who had that feeling, no one else voted.)
But the rest, frankly, I have no idea why they stayed in my head and others do not. Okay, some are really good stories even if they had the same fate as my favorite: the award passed by unnoticed.
Nectar has a very original futuristic and attractive, is very reminiscent Dry Bones (Sanders is not a bad writer in my opinion), very far from Earth is one of the most powerful visions I know about the failure of the CF and Twin shadow is a good adventure story.
But others are pretty mediocre, perhaps Spokesman Sea wood stuck in my head to come from an author Watson broadly pretty decent but the story itself is pretty mediocre, and oxygen up even a routine story as no longer a space opera, a my weaknesses. But why the hell I remember so well from the ice Popkes, a long and boring clones leaden history? TK'TK'TK Or supposedly humorous but really unbearable? And what about the ice cream man of grace and more mutants without hearing that the comic? Through the socket, a mediocre story, why not take it off my head?
To me this is a mystery, or rather, two. Why stories are not anything special I stick to the neurons and not going and that I can remember only 14 stories of 70-80.
And for an example of how well other things I can remember older. The volumes of the Hugo Awards Roca Martinez pulled in 80. I remember vividly all the stories and even many of the introductions of Asimov. And the last time I reread was, at least, at 90.
As I said, a mystery, old age or degeneration, but in any case highly irritating to noses.
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