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Activism: causes and principles I stand for
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Against smoking and all drugs, ostracism (on a personal level) to those who actively defend using them.
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Fast food chains and Shopping Malls: never using when there is a viable option available.
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Videogames: not playing and ostracism (on a personal level) to those who actively defend it as something beneficial or innocuous.
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Avoiding industrial made sugary/diet soft drinks.
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Actively avoiding anything connected with intrusive or excessive publicity. Against any form of invasion to the daily flow of consciousness in order to sell something or some idea.
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While using social networks, to avoid mere criticism. Not to be kind (likes, +1, favorites, shares, comments, retweets) to mere criticisms without an activist basis such as the ones described here.
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More animal rights.
Causes on a civil level
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Absolute freedom of private communications, including copies of copyrighted files through peer to peer networks.
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Freedom and anonymity (not guaranteed by the Brazilian bill of rights) of public speech, all due civil restrictions guarded (defamation, hate speech).
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Severe limitations on advertisement, for instance prohibition of street advertisement (sound, visual) of any kind.
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Decreasing the time of copyright royalties to something around 5 years.
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Profound reform on patent law, which is obcene for pharmaceutics, and causes unproductive results to many areas, e.g. software.
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Limitation or elimination of possibilities and notions around corporate personhood.
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Gun control on civil populations on all contries.
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Internet neutrality.
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Free speech with privacy and anonymity.
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For the continuous regulation of financial markets, particularly "high frequency trades" and such.
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Regulation for compulsory release of prices and conditions on public databases for easy consult and comparison.
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Radical Transparency.
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Direct democracy and progressively less representation.
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Dynamic granulation of decision locations. (Making the discussions on centralization/descentralization obsolete by using adaptive social statistics tools).
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Sustainability.
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For measures to decrease inequalities, in the sense of Rawls' Difference Principle. Progressive taxes and measures to equalise the access to justice institutions.
Technological causes
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All software is free. All hardware should be free. All hardware and software should be open. Radical transparency for software and hardware.
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Against all forms of DRM
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Against iTunes.
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Against Adobe Flash.
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Against Netflix, Hulu, Crackle etc. All streaming non p2p services.
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Support to jailbreaks, cracks, hackintoshes etc.
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For regulations on universal use of adapters, chargers and batteries.
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For regulations to ease the access and DIY fixing of our own devices.
Companies I try to boycott as widely as possible
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Amazon
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Apple
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Editora Abril
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MacDonald's
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Facebook
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Google
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Burger King
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Starbucks
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Adidas
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Nike
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Harley-Davidson Motor Company
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HarperCollins Publishers
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Netflix
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Pfizer
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Walmart
My Political Compass
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1st (Jun 2009) ec left -6.13, soc libertarian -5.85•
2nd (Aug 2010) ec left -3.88, soc libertarian -4.05•
3rd (July 2011) ec left -7.25, soc libertarian -5.85•
4th (June 2012) ec left -6.77, soc authoritarian +0.64•
5th (June 2013) ec left -5.31, soc libertarian -6.31
(Draw your results here)
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The World's Smallest Political Quiz: Centrist
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A Review of the Madhyamaka
Course by Alex Trisoglio
Recently, a student of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, Alex Trisoglio, presented the internet general public with a course on the Madhyamakavatara by Chandrakirti. Here some words on the course, and a particular discussion I had with Mr. Trisoglio.

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