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[ICANN-EU] Re: Article 31
- To: "Berend Schuitema" <okhela@iafrica.com>
- Subject: [ICANN-EU] Re: Article 31
- From: "Constantine S. Chassapis" <cschassapis@acm.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 17:49:26 +0300
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> > oops
> > :-)
> > Constantin Chassapis
> Oops what!
> If the word NOOS speaks the language of the internet community in
> general,
> why not wrest control from "financial capital" by mobilizing our "social
> capital" !?
> What we want, we shall endevour to get!!
> Berend
Dear Berend, obviously you did not
gave much attention to the emoticon,
Nor you red my answer to Sabine,
when you wrote the above in a
somewhat irritated wording.
I am certain, that now, you understand me,
but for all other people let me add few
words.
I start with a story. Some very wealthy man, gives to a
team of lawyers and engineers a set of good dictionaries
in the majority of languages that are expressed for the
moment with english characters and
enough money and the order to register
in his name or in his biz name the totality of the
words in the dictionary that are free, and to do that
on all TLDs available!
Then, whatever significant word we find in order
to better describe cyberspace, would have been
taken. That is what the "oops" and the emoticon
combination was saying.
Sometimes, one better say many words, than too few.
The morale is what you said in slightly different words:
We cannot be dependent on the absurdity of applying laws
of an older world to a new entity (Internet) based on the
wording of the law and not on its essence, and stop
our creative processes. Of course we will not stop our
creative processes. And our creative processes do not
end in cognitive processes!
Sincerely,
Constantin Chassapis
P.S. The word "noos" I don't care of anyway, it is the word "nous"
I like, but I know that it is already taken. It is NOT taken though
from all possible synthetic words conceivable. But, let us
stop for a while talking about words and let's concentrate on
the tendency that has started, at last, to gain momentum; I am
talking to the tendency of the candidates of the EU to self-organize!