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Andrew DeWitt

Pay it forward - Wikipedia - 0 views

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    The concept that debt be repaid to a third party not the original creditor.  Consider how this idea is moving and shaping the open software movement.
Erin Hamson

Compulsory Voting - 0 views

  • "will of the electorate"
  • Governments must consider the total electorate
  • Candidates can concentrate their campaigning energies on issues rather than encouraging voters to attend the poll
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  • Voting is a civic duty
  • benefits of political participatio
    • Erin Hamson
       
      In the old sense liberty is the ability to participate in government, why would you turn this down?
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      Through forcing people to the polls you encourage them to think about what they are doing, and they don't have to vote for anyone
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    This is website a friend posted to my blog, that relates to my post on open government and compulsory voting.
LeeAnne Lowry

Open Source - 1 views

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    The history on this site was really cool to read. Open source was basically created to dispel the monopolies that were being created by automobile developers.
James Wilcox

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences - 0 views

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    This is the oldest and longest running scientific Journal in the world.  It has a lot of free open content to keep you busy.
Jeffrey Chen

Wikipedia article introducing the idea of open science - 0 views

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    Open science is a movement towards sharing scientific data and discoveries with others as a way to improve quality of research and science culture
Andrew DeWitt

Speeches Website - 0 views

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    BYU Forum. Great Talk!  This is a must read/listen about if you give more you will actually make more.  Link that to ideas of a free economy.  
Erin Hamson

* A Note about Freeware - 0 views

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    I think that this is an interesting personal perspective on the changes that the corporate world aka authority has brought to the internet.
Erin Hamson

The Frontier In American History: Chapter X - 0 views

  • As the American pioneer passed on in advance of this new tide of European immigration, he found lands increasingly limited
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      The close of the Frontier
  • . But the captains of industry by applying squatter doctrines to the evolution of American industrial society, have made the process so clear that he who runs may read.
  • it seemed not impossible that the outcome of free competition under individualism was to be monopoly of the most important natural resources and processes by a limited group of men whose vast fortunes were so invested in allied and dependent industries that they constituted the dominating force in the industrial life of the nation
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      Unregulated turn of events, the people were turned loose and made the best of it. What is wrong with this? They set the standards, and there is no room for competition.
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  • Mr. Harriman
  • mastering the economic forces of the nation
    • Erin Hamson
       
      According to Adam Smith and the free market economy theory, the people are the best regulators. This sounds like socialism...
  • The Granger and the Populist were prophets of this reform movement. Mr. Bryan's Democracy, Mr. Debs' Socialism, and Mr. Roosevelt's Republicanism all had in common the emphasis upon the need of governmental regulation of industrial tendencies in the interest of the common man
  • "the State University and the public school system which it crowns would be the strongest evidence of its fitness which it could offer."
  • "general system of education ascending in regular gradations from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis and equally open to all," expresses the Middle Western conception born in the days of pioneer society and doubtless deeply influenced by Jeffersonian democracy.
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      applying pioneer principles of avaliability and indivdualism to education and other opportunities to suceed in life as presently constituted.
  • propaganda to induce students to continue
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      Want everyone to go to college to become their best individual self.
  • all under the ideal of service to democracy rather than of individual advancement alone
  • The times call for educated leaders.
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      And have yet to cease to call for experienced leaders. Which is why we are all sitting here reading this, to become educated leaders.
  • The test tube and the microscope are needed rather than ax and rifle in this new ideal of conquest
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      influence of technology on life
  • It is hardly too much to say that the best hope of intelligent and principled progress in economic and social legislation and administration lies in the increasing influence of American universities.
  • able to think for themselves, governed Dot by ignorance, by prejudice or by impulse, but by knowledge and reason and high-mindedness,
  • The learning of the few is despotism; the learning of the many is liberty.
  • At first pioneer democracy had scant respect for the expert.
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      individualism
  • That they may perform their work they must be left free, as the pioneer was free, to explore new regions and to report what they find; for like the pioneers they have the ideal of investigation, they seek new horizons.
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      application of pioneer ideals
  • Thus it is the function of the university to reveal to the individual the mystery and the glory of life as a whole
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      opening the mind to new ideas and ideals
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