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• over-managed
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  Digital rights *management*.
  
  *Managed* care (health)
  
  And with Diebold audit-less voting machines, Constitutional Rights *Management*.
  
  What we are seeing here is the ascendency of the administrative, the meddling of middle-management in fields as diverse as engineering, medicine, and our basic rights as citizens.
  
  This is my first post. "Make" hits the target re. the inherent subversiveness of the do-it-yourself ethic in a society where picking up a screwdriver is tantamount to an act of rebellion. I'll be subscribing shortly and getting the back-issues. If this is as good as it sounds, you're going to stir up quite a storm.

  Posted by gg2 on June 12, 2005 at 20:12:27 Pacific Time

• over-managed
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  Unfortunately over-managed, this type of degradation of basic property rights, not to mention constitutional rights in general, has been going on for decades. While certain rights have become inclusive of all American citizens, certain other rights have been degraded.
  
  For example, look at how eminent domain has been applied by certain local and state government to increase their tax base. Other examples include seizures of property, based not on guilty verdict of a court, but based simply charging the subject (I.e. seizing of cars of alleged, not proven, drunken drivers) If you would like a technological example look no further then the DeCss case or how the Digital Millennium act intrudes into fair use laws of media material.
  
  This degradation has just begun to become apparent to garage hobbyist in technological fields, but has been apparent to firearms hobbyist for a long time. The best way to combat this is to lobby congressional members into not passing these types of laws. Unfortunately, I doubt us do-it-yourselfers could organize a group in time to affectively combat the legislation that is pending.
  

  Posted by j__z on June 20, 2005 at 08:58:19 Pacific Time