Comments on: The New “Freedom”

By: Mahmoud Ibrahim

Mahmoud Ibrahim — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:23:00 +0000

Egypt is longing for freedom

By: The Virtual Meeting Coach

The Virtual Meeting Coach — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:23:00 +0000

Love this post, love the image you’ve used and wonder where it came from. I want to use it to illustrate another perspective on freedom.

By: Contemporary Furniture

Contemporary Furniture — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:23:00 +0000

Is there more deeper definition of freedom?

By: jmgregory

jmgregory — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:13:21 +0000

Wow, thank you for saying what I’ve been trying to verbalize for a long time. What an interesting paradox, though it has been well-documented, that freedom requires restrictions.

If your job requires you to have constant internet access (for instance, to check your e-mail), another option out there is a Firefox plugin called LeechBlock, which lets you block the sites you spend the most time on, or limit them to a certain amount of time per day, or certain periods of the day. Sadly, I may have to add FPR to my list soon.

Dropping our internet service at home has made for a huge improvement in our family life, but it has also created the problem that the internet access at work must be used for shopping, personal communication, etc. Then again, I was already using it for those things. It is almost as if I need two offices: one that has internet access, and one that does not.

By: Russell Arben Fox

Russell Arben Fox — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:04:46 +0000

I can't believe nobody has put this link up yet.

By: Esmeralda_Pearl

Esmeralda_Pearl — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:48:27 +0000

Susan….Just amazing! What will “they” think of next?

Even us “oldsters” have become more and more “addicted” to the internet. Here I sit, on a beautiful day, reading blogs instead of being outdoors!

See you later! I’ve got do some weeding in the garden! :)

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:36:55 +0000

Ah, the irony. I read this article in its entirety because I had hit an obstacle at work, and wanted to put off finding a solution. So I jumped into Google Reader and checked the latest headlines.

Freedom, the software is a useful tool. It’s useful in the way that some dim bulbs seem to think poverty is useful: necessity produces a certain degree of virtue (thrift, for example, or the “common spirit” of the Depression). Freedom, however, lets you have your luxury and eat it productively. Or something like that.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:59:54 +0000

I’m going to quote this just because I can: “Computers displace us. They displace us physically – they enable us to talk to anyone, anywhere, and so forth – but they also displace us emotionally and intellectually.”

A technical note: programs like Freedom have existed for some time.