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Datalagringsdirektivet

06/04/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Stortinget vedtok i går, med knapt flertall, å innføre datalagringsdirektivet. Direktivet som har oppstått som et resultat av frykten for terrorisme i Europa, og som er omstridt i flere europeiske land, vil pålegge leverandører av telefoni- og data tjenester å loggføre trafikkdata i et fastsatt tidsrom. Data som skal loggføres er metadata fra telefonsamtaler og internettoppkoblinger. Hensikten skal være å gjøre det lettere for politiet å kunne benytte datatrafikk til etterforskning som bevismateriale i en eventuell rettssak. Kritikerne på sin…

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A Comment on: Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks

14/02/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

In an essay on Wikileaks the Slovenian philosopher and critical theorist Slavoj Žižek discusses Wikileaks and different aspects on how it can be understood. In this short paper I have tried to use some of the elements mentioned in his text. Wikileaks has been subject to great public attention after they in 2010 published diplomatic cables reveling confidential and secret information from internal US diplomatic network. The cables contained intimidating details on foreign heads of states, analyses and views on…

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Habermas and the Public Sphere

29/01/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas is maybe the most acknowledged philosopher living today. He is considered to be the heir of the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research where he worked early in his academic career. His first book, which was also his habilitationsschrift (A post-doctoral work done to be recognized as a professor in Germany): The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is widely discussed. In this paper he, in a Marxist tradition, discusses the rise and decay of the…

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Two events

10/01/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

2011. We are now entering the 10th year since the terrible attacks on the World Trade Center which shook the world and imposed a view of a world where everything can happen. I remember the happening, sitting in the school bus home from Tynset I’ve got a text telling me that a plane had crashed into a skyscraper in New York. As soon as I came home I ran inside and turned on the TV set in the kitchen. At…

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2011 – What will happen?

26/12/2010 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Soon 2010 will be history, and a new year will begin. 2010 was a long year in which many interesting things happened (as every year). I will now look into my light ball, able to foresee the future, and come with some anticipations about what the new year will bring. As always is it impossible to judge the future, and how things are to become, so this is just some thoughts of what will happen, as a little new years…

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Student demonstration in Edinburgh

30/11/2010 Ola Løvholm Comments 1 comment

The UK government coalition of Tories and the Liberal Democrats has annonced cuts in welfare due to the economical situation. Edinburgh students were demonstrating today for what the call a lie, and it is especially the cabinet deputy and LibDem leader Nick Clegg students are raging against -We know you are a Tory, furied the rally as they went from the Edinburgh University towards the Scottish Parliament. After the demonstration in front of the parliament some of the students went…

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Wikileaks

29/11/2010 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Just minutes ago the head of foreign affairs of one of the most powerful states in world, if not the the most powerful state, was giving a press conference regarding the recent leaks of diplomatic wires. In her press conference Hillary Clinton addressed several aspects related to the wires. Maybe the most important objective she had with her speech was to assure other nations that the United States perceived this a severe security breach, telling the world that this would…

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Bruk nettets muligheter

05/02/2010 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Har du hentet ned noe musikk fra nettet i det siste, bare for å sjekke om musikken er verdt å kjøpe? Eller har du lastet ned en film, fordi det var for langt å gå til nærmeste videobutikk? Kjenner du deg igjen? Sjansen for at du da har forbrutt deg mot åndsverksloven er da stor. Åndsverksloven vi i dag benytter oss av i Norge ble lagt til lovverket i 1961, men lover som slår fast de immaterielle rettigheten en person…

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Talerens troverdighet

04/01/2010 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Denne teksten er skrevet i forbindelse med kurset SKRIV1101 ved Universitetet i Oslo. Jeg vil i denne artikkelen se nærmere på talerenes troverdighet og viktigheten av denne i samfunnsdebatten. Er det slik at troverdighet kan skapes? Og har troverdigheten noe å si for vår evne til å få frem vårt budskap, og for å gjøre dette overbevisende? Akkurat dette spørsmålet opptok stor plass i mediene da medierådgiver og samfunnsdebattant Kjell Terje Ringdal ga ut boka «kunsten å overbevise». I kjølvannet…

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The European Union and the German bakers

05/03/2009 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

A new law suggestion in the European Union provokes the German bakers. In this suggestion the Union want to deal with the health of the population but on the other side some of the suggestion in this law could alter the German baking tradition. With up to 15 gram pr 100 gram is much of the German bread is quite salty and in the new directive the EU wants to set a limit on maximum 10 grams pr 100 gram….

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