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北京很惊险，大家“小心点” - [是以为记]

这些事情都过去一段时间了，因为工作太忙，一直没有写blog，今天像小时候开学前一天晚上狂写作业一样补上，呵呵。此文没理论、没逻辑，只是想表达一下在北京有些不爽而已。

你信不信其实北京是一个丛林，这里看起来现代化又繁荣，其实还是一个有力者便牛B的大森林，很多地方没有秩序、很少人有公平的商业精神、谁都不安全。

9月29号早上8点50左右吧，在国贸往南的那个立交桥下面。相信路上匆匆奔走的行人们都在抓紧赶时间，千万不要迟到。这时候一对年轻男女，急急地走上斑马线，才迈了两步，就见一个右转的出租车（京艺，车牌是BG616）冲了出来，眼看着就可能撞在这对男女身上。擦身而过的一瞬间，男人伸出手在出租车的车窗上轻敲了一下。

相信他只是轻微地表达一下不满而已，相信他也不会想到会有什么后果。可是这出租车却头一歪停在路当中，司机冲出来伸着手指着男子骂（骂的什么忘记了）。男子想来是在国贸一带的某个写字楼里坐办公室的，身材也显得颇为文静瘦弱。出租车司机相比较而言就强壮很多。然而在这样的对比之下白领男子还是转身要迎上去，女子扯着男人的胳膊说，别理他、走吧。可是白领男子还是固执地迎上去与出租司机对抗，出租司机一脚踹在白领男子身上。女子一遍尖叫：“你打人！”一遍掏出手机来。后来的我没看到，因为快迟到了，所以赶时间走了。现在回想起来感觉蛮遗憾的，我居然当时什么都没有做，我心里当时最大的感觉是我什么忙也帮不上（只是记下了车牌号而已）。另一个感觉是，这个城市太不安全了。唯一能做的事情就是，小心点。

另一件事情是去年10月2号。1号那天朋友去中关村买电脑，我那天骑着自行车绕着二环骑了将近一圈。回来之后朋友跟我炫耀他新买的“双核”的笔记本，可是电脑上贴的标不是Core Duo（酷睿），我就充满怀疑地提醒了他一下。他坚持说卖货的那个人说的就是双核的啊！我说，那你不如在网上查查，看这个型号到底是什么配置。网上的信息果然说明朋友被骗了，而且还多付了n百块钱。于是2号这一天我就和他和他女朋友一同去中关村的海龙与卖电脑的理论（忘记卖电脑的那个公司叫什么了），找到那天卖货的那个人就颇费了些周折，先是说没上班、又说在楼下柜台等一下就上来，结果发现那人就在楼道里抽烟呢。于是把他叫进来询问，这个卖货的哥们伶牙俐齿，说“酷睿的意思是单核”，要不是我懂一点电脑的常识，我也就听楞了。本来是想先礼后兵，可是这个卖货的哥们却开始咄咄逼人地挑衅，挑衅完就转身奔出去了。我和朋友接着跟出去对着他喊话。可是突然不知道从哪里冒出来的二十几个全是那个公司的“销售经理”，团团把我和朋友围在墙角。20vs2，对骂。他们20人当中有一个伸手推了我朋友一下，我大喊，是你先推人的啊！丫很牛逼地用东北话喊“我推你滴咋地了吧”。这是要不是保安过来，我和朋友的后果会很惨的。随后一个小头目模样的汉子一脸微笑地过来说，消消气消消气，咱们去楼下谈。于是来到了海龙大厦的消费者投诉处“协商”。最后妥协结果有些荒诞，赔了一个256M的U盘（值几十吧应该）。

回了家仔细回想，才发现原来挑衅、吵架、推人、以及最后的“协商”，都是卖货的人的策略。而所谓的保安、消费者投诉处的“协商调解”，都和卖货的人是一伙儿的。不爽的时候、被欺负的时候找人理论是根本不可能取胜的，唯一能做的事情还是“小心点”。

后来跟一个在中关村在有个店面的朋友谈起这件事情，他告诉我说，你可千万小心点，中关村卖电脑的都是他妈流氓。然后伸手指向不远处一个贴着封条的店面，说那里前几天也是类似的事情。客户买电脑回去才发现被骗了，于是第二天找过来理论。理论、争吵最后打起来。混乱之中货架被推倒了，客户被砸死了。

另一个事情还是在中关村，那里路边有许多新疆人（我知道这样的称呼会有些政治不正确，可是我实在不知道除了这样表达一下之外还能做什么）推着三轮车卖糕。应该是一个月之前的一天吧，和GF逛街走到那里，好奇地想尝尝那个糕到底什么味道。问了价钱，说那东西一两2块，我们跟他说“只要切一小点就可以了”，他用坚硬的、怪异的普通话说“切多少算多少不能反悔啊”。我心想，这有什么好反悔的。切完之后他一称，说有2斤多，要价50。呵呵，其实我觉得这个东西我本来也就只想尝一口而已，却让我平白多付那么多钱，凭什么啊。于是问，能便宜吗，他说不能。继续用他怪异的口音说“切多少算多少不能反悔的！”，此时菜刀还握在他的手上。他要是当时委婉地说些让步的话，可能我的态度还会温和下来，可是这样以来我们两个都被激怒了。冷静了一下，之后我看着30来岁的维族汉子眼睛说我不买。这个想必是很难能把东西卖出去的维族汉子一下子也急了，把菜刀在空中挥舞着质问，“都切下来了，不买了？你想想可能吗！”

旁边四五个卖盗版碟和发票的人们远远地盯着看这边的情况，5、6步开外有一个保安。我们冲保安喊“要打架了你也不管管～”他才不情愿地姗姗走过来，软软地说“有话好好说，别打架吗”。就在这个当口我拉起GF的手向人群里跑去。跑了一段之后喘喘气心想，丫不会为了几十块钱追上来吧，回头一看才发现这个固执的维族男人真的骑着板车带着车上他号称“值一千多块”的糕和糕上斜插的菜刀飞快地蹬着追过来。于是接着跑，到旁边的商场里转了一圈。出来之后还有点后怕，于是继续往人多的地方躲藏，在家乐福里面转了一圈。出来才放心。

还有另外一个故事来说明北京很惊险，北京是一个丛林，很少人有和平的商业精神和尊重他人和公共秩序的意识。以前写的朋友租房时的故事《逃离回龙观》

ummm就像上面说的，北京这个城市实在是没有给我多少切身的安全感和归属感，我一定会在合适的时候闪人的。免得互相添堵。

Internet Freedom Can Produce a New Level of Civilization - [Thus I wrote]

Our World is Highly Complex yet Well-Organized

Our world is infinite in which we can define enormous dimensions. And on every dimension, the world could still be divided into enormous tiny sections. At the same time, the world also changes constantly and incessantly, with all these dimensions interconnected and mixed together. Nevertheless, the world has its rules. Apples always fall on the ground ever since billions of years ago.

A fallen apple gave Isaac Newton the clue to mechanics. People were convinced it was the God who created the world, and that is why the world is so well organized. When Albert Einstein discovered relativity, scientists also proved wave-particle duality. Our knowledge still lacks the ability to tell the exact acceleration due to gravity at any given time or position. In most cases, observations of human beings are variable rather than constant. Believers keep and expand their belief in God's omnipotence.

Although we are capable of gather some information about the remote spaces tens of billions of light years from the Earth, we are still not sure if quarks can be further divided, we are still not able to create a human brain out of industrial methods. Although we have been creating the strongest computers, developing the smartest software, we have to admit that wisdom remains a most significant resource. This means a difficult situation in reality for human being. We cannot acquire or utilize resources properly and wisely. We cannot analyze efficiently business strategies. We cannot supply people with longevity. We cannot escape from the solar system.

All our knowledge and behavior may seem trivial and ridiculous to God. Nonetheless, human beings are still growing crops, making computers, electron colliders and robots no matter we love, hate, disbelieve in God or not. No matter God exist or not, human consciousness keeps interacting with the nature, at least limitedly.

Individual Desire, Cognition, and Collective Consciousness

Individuals can perceive and understand the world and establish his own theory. And if you want to apply this theory to wider community, and larger scale of human activities, you need also to have a wider base of collaboration. It took around two centuries for Newtonian physics to engage in the Industrial Revolution. Publication of the theory, experimental proof, dissemination, and establishment of industrial system, all of these events took as long as generations to happen. In Einstein's age, atomic bomb was created based on his theory by military efforts that combined all kinds of resources and through expansive collaboration. Invention of telephone enabled the whole world to communicate at light speed. When the Internet was created, again interaction among networksaccelerated to light speed. Today, hundreds of millions of computers have been connected online, information of electronic and dynamics online maps can be easily obtained from satellites and other technologies. And all this will be given to consumers of information and computing in real-time. Even in a disastrous nuclear war, if a computer engineer could survive, he can rebuild and deploy all this in a short time.

Today, Information Technology have provided these breakthroughs,

And yet Information Technology has not made much progress in some areas.

How Newton set a basis for classical mechanics from a falling apple, and how Einstein established Theory of Relativity through a series of experimental and observation data remain an unsolved question for today's Information Technology. Information Technology still lacks the ability to process information in the way of thinking as human beings do. Information Technology still cannot build up a theory of its own, let alone something like collective consciousness.

Perhaps such a breakthrough will be fatal and disastrous to human beings. The capabilities of machines will surpass human being, they do not need rest, they can propagatecostlessly , they will have clear and careful plan on resource. Human beings would be unimportant and powerless. However, this hopeful breakthrough remain the last way to the redemption of humanity. Even if there is no artificial intelligence that surpasses human brain, we still face the sad fact of wars and endless waste of natural resources because of our greed, ignorance, and short-sight. Our life is limited by space, by time, and by our own intelligence. The only thing that can save us, is the intelligence of machines.

Because of the possible disastrous impacts of machine intelligence, we will need to spare no effort to work together in order to have a complete, thorough, and goodwillful common knowledge of future machines. This can only be achieved through wide collaboration of individuals on a free Internet. We will elaborate about Internet freedom below.

If we call individuals who have Internet freedom "Internet citizens", we assume only Internet citizens who can use the Internet sufficiently can create a real good intelligence of machines.

Traditional Religion and Government

This a rather simplistic observation of the development of our history, civilization and country.

Once the speed and quality of information dissemination was low and far from sufficient for the actual demand and complexity of life, religion became a necessary solution. Information transmission that is now multitude and diversified was once a unilateral and centralized broadcasting monopolized by religion. And the government was a organizer of secular affairs left out by religion.

In the assistance of this unilateral information transmitting and one-point intelligence, we have made achievements in physics and knowledge, on which Renaissance and later industrial civilization are based.

However we could not comprehend the natural world and society thoroughly, we had to believe in a omnipotent God. As our knowledge of the world deepens, religious people said, our understanding of the God develops with time.

In many cases people have intelligence and morality at almost same level, and yet since their living environments are differentiated, governments that consist of different groups of people would have different content of information and intelligence and different levels of centralization. Governments and churches in modern democracies all allow traditional rights and freedom to their citizens.

Based on these rights and freedom, multitude and multi-point information flow and diversified intelligence could be sustained. As a result an intelligence that can rival the evil side of traditional government came into being, and eventually the goodwill in government will serve as check and balance of its evil side.

Let's say thoughts come came out of factual experiences and thinking. Production, war, disasters, catastrophes all provide us with factual experiences. In ancient times, early compilations of theories, for example the Art of War of Sun-Tzu, often originated in a lot of battles or factual experiences. And now, men can use in war philosophy, information technology, high-tech weapons, etc. Power of human thinking has reached new heights, for us to gain equal factual experience, the cost of time and manpower is much lower.

Via transmission, integration, alteration, and decomposition of information, human thinking upgrades from raw information to knowledge that can guide their actions, and further develops into intelligence that gives birth to wisdom. For a higher intelligence to come about, there should be abundant source of information and the complex chain above-mentioned. Today we can give out many examples that ordinary citizens in free countries could have higher efficiency in multitude and multi-point transmission of information, more independent thinking, and more collaboration than in totalitarian states. And that free countries lead the world is a proof that efficient information sharing, independent thinking, and collaboration are key to the collective intelligence of human beings.

The Right of Nature, which Writers commonly call Jus Naturale, is the Liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himselfe, for the preservation of his own Nature; that is to say, of his own Life; and consequently, of doing any thing, which in his own Judgement, and Reason, hee shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto.
-- Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes

Internet Freedom Produced by Information and Internet Service

Internet services have surpassed the limits of borders. In any country, if not intentionally blocked, user can access information and service from another country straight away. What information technology and Internet allows, is first of all a freedom of information access and computing.

Snail mails have given way to E-mails, many online libraries now provide better service and more books than cement public libraries. Information service enabled by search engines is available in more categories and better quality than that can be provided by the government or other public organizations.

Let's see the example how open source software Linux has made its way on the Internet,

Who would have thought ... that a world-class operating system could coalesce as if by magic out of part-time hacking by several thousand developers scattered all over the planet, connected only by the tenuous strands of the Internet?

One interesting measure of fetchmail's success is the sheer size of the project beta list, fetchmail-friends. At time of writing it has 249 members and is adding two or three a week.
--Eric Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The bazaar way of developing software is amazing, and shows us how civilization could develop itself on the Internet,

Linux and fetchmail both went public with strong, attractive basic designs. Many people thinking about the bazaar model as I have presented it have correctly considered this critical, then jumped from it to the conclusion that a high degree of design intuition and cleverness in the project leader is indispensable.

But Linus got his design from Unix. I got mine initially from the ancestral popclient (though it would later change a great deal, much more proportionately speaking than has Linux). So does the leader/coordinator for a bazaar-style effort really have to have exceptional design talent, or can he get by on leveraging the design talent of others?

We can see, designers got inspiration from frontrunner's code (Unix, popmail; which were originallly organized and publish on the Internet) and created their own works.Later they publish their creation online, collect others working, manage versions and big scale testing, feedback, and publication would follow.

We can see in developing open source software, sharing intellectual property and open environment on the Internet were so important. Such creative collaboration can never thrive out of the Internet if there were strict monitoring and predetermined filtering. A filtered search engine could "miss out" key documents that a developer needed, a monitored E-mail conversation could leave contributors in bewilderment. All this would bring about deviation or errors to the project, which can delay or even destroy the whole progress and plan.

In the example, we can see that the Internet links brains and computers, which are the actors in the massive information source and transformation, on information and knowledge level. As the cost of information out of experience lowers, the Internet will finally act as a platform and a motor for the development of this higher level of intelligence. Restrictions on Internet freedom, which can hinder the efficiency, smoothness of information transmission and block the exchange of information, are extremely stupid.

We will continue to explain how the individuals that have Internet freedom could hold brand new and powerful ability in creation.

What the Internet freedom can solve about land, vote, and welfare, and possible impacts on traditional religions and governments and constructive advice

The Internet is a help in solving social problem.

In consideration of ownership and the right of use, right in modern society is dynamic. People can get rich or broke, certain persons would live or die, be healthy or get sick. All this influences their status of possession. How we can ensure all walks of life can share the resources in society equally, how we can manage this dynamic system in a lawful manner, how we can ensure all the citizens feel the justice in society, a definition of future society should base on a solution that answers all these questions.

The Internet helps solve the problem by enabling every citizen to give out data, opinion and vote. Meanwhile the result also can be shown to all persons.

Even if we had all the technology ready, the Internet freedom would still remain a biggest problem. Sina.com, China's top portal site, always forcibly delete or block comments on news articles and forum discussions, and the discussions on Sina.com really lack quality and depth.

This is a snapshot of the article and following discussions on the death of a law enforcement personnel,
http://picasaweb.google.com/yetaai/Screencopies/photo#5106277901712383810
http://picasaweb.google.com/yetaai/Screencopies/photo#5106277686964018994

Douban.com, a Web2.0 site, allows comparatively larger degree of freedom of speech. This is a snapshot of a discussion on Douban.com.
http://picasaweb.google.com/yetaai/Screencopies/photo#5106278129345650514

What I want to say is, everyone has his or her own mind, when given respect, he will definitely think on his own. Long oppression only produces anger and curse. In other words, the Internet is a cathedral where the light of future civilization origins. However, a distorted Internet will only produce a generation of hatred and anger.

Other technical questions, for examples, legislations over the Internet, election and campaign online, communication between political actor and voters, or land resource and ownership database, etc, I think should be leave to the real Internet citizens in China that are forming themselves right now. They will keep the discussion and finally materialize this.

In the end, I'd like to call for attention on the following lawsuit. The prospect and strategy of this case is to leave the door of this public interest ligitation open to the 100 million broadband users on Mainland China. It has been proven in my own case that the testification of this lawsuit is quite simple. And the significance of this case, as argued in this article, is about our dignity and freedom and that of our sons and grandsons. Why not?

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