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Interview with a German Pirate Living in Iceland | PirateTimes

Interview with a German Pirate Living in Iceland May 23, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Interview, Pirate Party News Interview with an overseas Pirate The Icelandic Pirate Party has reached over 30% in the current polls. We spoke to Simon, a Pirate who lives and studies in Iceland, to throw some light on the background to the Icelandic success-story. Editor: Hello Simon, you are the ‘overseas Pirate’ who is currently studying in Iceland. Simon: Góðan daginn. Yes, that’s right. I lived for ten years in the Netherlands until I moved 18 months ago to Iceland to do my PhD in aquaponics (Engineering Science ). I have therefore been observing …

Revenue | PirateTimes

Flattr Appreciation During April 2015 (4.41E) May 13, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times Our Flattr income is still fluctuating on a worrying level. In the past month we have payed 20 Euros to top up our web hotel and 10.70 Euros for our domain name extension. On average we have a minimum of… Flattr Appreciation During Mar 2015 (7.41E) April 18, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times Our flattr income is back to normal levels again after being below sustainable levels last month. Many thanks to the eight persons that have supported us during March. We’re planning sending one or …

Show Notes and Podcast: The Order of the Pirate Unicorn Podcast 004 | PirateTimes

Show Notes and Podcast: The Order of the Pirate Unicorn Podcast 004 May 13, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Podcast The order of the pirate unicorn podcast recorded on Tuesday 12th of May following the mumble chat held on the 10th of May 2015     UK Pirate Guests As an experiment we invited some of the Pirate campaigners and candidates for the UK national elections to the chat so they could tell us about their experiences and answer questions – we sent a general message and hope one or two could make it after a long and strenuous campaign and so many of them turned up there …

Flattr Appreciation During April 2015 (4.41E) | PirateTimes

Flattr Appreciation During April 2015 (4.41E) May 13, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times Our Flattr income is still fluctuating on a worrying level. In the past month we have payed 20 Euros to top up our web hotel and 10.70 Euros for our domain name extension. On average we have a minimum of ~4 Euros in expense each month (web server + domain name) and with only 4.41 Euro from our Flattr we will have to find alternatives or a way of activating more supporters soon in order to cover our minimal costs. Thanks to the people that sent us flattr support in April! …

The Ebook from the Second Think Twice Conference | PirateTimes

The Ebook from the Second Think Twice Conference May 11, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News The proceedings of the second Think Twice Conference held in Istanbul on 30 – 31 August 2014 is available as an online ebook. It contains a good variety of subjects, both from prominent Pirates as well as academics. The Editors are: Can Bilgili, a Faculty Member at Istanbul Commerce University Arif Yıldırım an Assistant Professor, working as Head of the Department of Communication Informatics and Journalism, Gaziantep University Contributors and subjects:PAUL SUCIU : Creating a Knowledge Architecture for Socio-economic Policy Generation RICO BROUWER: Commercial Threats to Financial Independence – and What …

PPSE Votes to Leave Pirate Parties International (PPI) | PirateTimes

PPSE Votes to Leave Pirate Parties International (PPI) May 10, 2015 · by Andrew McCallum · in Pirate Party News The Pirate Party of Sweden (PPSE) has become the latest national party to leave Pirate Parties International (PPI), following a vote taken at the currently ongoing PPSE General Assembly. The Assembly approved the Board’s proposed motion to end PPSE’s observer membership by 62 votes to 8 against, with 13 blank votes. In its motion the Board stated that “[d]uring our two years as observers, we have not noticed many improvements in the organization. Indeed, it has been worse on many levels and it is important to highlight that we are not …

Results for Pirates in the UK Elections | PirateTimes

Results for Pirates in the UK Elections May 8, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News In an electoral system that seems to belong to the middle ages rather than a modern western state, the Pirates had an uphill battle. Add to that a predicted tight race and that every vote was fought over then the chances of a Pirate winning a seat, although not zero, was very remote. However, a parliamentary seat were not their only goal. Increasing awareness of the Pirate Party and its policies in the UK and increasing their memberships were also very high in the minds of the Pirates working hard on …

The Power of Ideas -> To Replace the Idea of Power | PirateTimes

The Power of Ideas – To Replace the Idea of Power [Pirate Visions] May 7, 2015 · by Matthijs Pontier · in Pirate Vision Pirates have to work in the political environment to order to change it and we must be mindful to exercise that change with ourselves . Matthijs Pontier is a scientist and a PPNL candidate for the European Parliament. These articles are part of the weekly series ‘Pirate Visions’ from different prominent international pirates. We asked them to write as individuals and not in their official capacities in their party or organisation. We hope you would like to join us in discussing the future direction for pirates internationally by …

Follow the fortunes of the Pirates in the UK election | PirateTimes

Follow the fortunes of the Pirates in the UK election May 7, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News We will be bringing you a full article on the results for PPUK soon but you can follow the Pirate Candidates directly here or on the Pirate Party of the UK’s live blog site. On the PPUK site you can also add your comments as the night unfolds We have our fingers crossed Featured image : CC BY-NC-SA Cris Chesha   About Andrew Reitemeyer I joined the Pirate Party of Lower Saxony in Germany in April 2012, once I found out that non citizens were welcome to join …

Matthijs Pontier | | PirateTimes

The Power of Ideas – To Replace the Idea of Power [Pirate Visions] May 7, 2015 · by Matthijs Pontier · in Pirate Vision Pirates have to work in the political environment to order to change it and we must be mindful to exercise that change with ourselves . Matthijs Pontier is a scientist and a PPNL candidate for the European Parliament. These articles… About Matthijs Pontier I have always had an interest for privacy, digital freedom and copyright reform. I actively Twitter about these subjects, publish opinion  articles, givepresentations and perform at public debates or in the media every now and then. As an interdisciplinary scientist, I work to enable robots and computers to make moral decisions, and currently I …

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