Information as a concept bears a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation.

Many people speak about the Information Age as the advent of the Knowledge Age or knowledge society, the information society, and information technologies, and even though information science and computer science are often in the spotlight, the word "information" is often used without careful consideration of the various meanings it has acquired.

Information as a message

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Information is the state of a system of interest (curiosity). Message is the information materialized.

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Hope, Change and Secrecy
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:00:00 -0000
Barack Obama has a problem with openness. The candidate of "hope and change" seems to be hoping that if reporters can't get access to records from his past, they'll change their mind and leave it alone.  The good news for gun owners is that we do have access to his anti-gun record, and we're making it public. NRA-ILA has a whole section of its website devoted to telling the truth about Obama's brutal attacks on your Second Amendment rights. You can find it at www.nraila.org/obama. Obama may be able to hide his paperwork from the press, but he can't hide his record from gun owners.
The Right Thing to Do
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:00:00 -0000
Residents of Vallejo, California, are facing a public safety crisis right now. The cityls declared bankruptcy, and crime is rising. Police are leaving the force for better-paying jobs in other cities, and there’s no real solution in sight. It wouldn't solve every problem facing the local leaders in Vallejo, but I think Solano County, where Vallejo is located, should treat concealed-carry as "Shall-Issue," rather than keeping the very restrictive policies that are currently in place. Residents of Vallejo have the same right to self-defense as every other American, and with the exodus of police officers, it's more important than ever that those citizens have the tools to defend themselves and their families.
The Platform Cannot Stand, Part 3
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:00:00 -0000
I'm still asking good Democrats to oppose the proposed Democratic platform, at least where it concerns our constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms: "We recognize that the right to bear arms is an important part of the American tradition, and we will preserve Americans' continued Second Amendment right to own and use firearms. We believe that the right to own firearms is subject to reasonable regulation, but we know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne. We can work together to enact and enforce common-sense laws and improvements, like closing the gun show loophole, improving our background check system and reinstating the assault weapons ban, so that guns do not fall into the hands of terrorists or criminals." Obama's supporters are prepared to end private transactions of firearms and to ban entire classes of firearms in the name of "common sense." They are prepared to tell residents of Chicago that they do not possess the same inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that their fellow Americans in Cheyenne enjoy. Yet they tell us the Second Amendment is "an important part of the American tradition."  It's all well and good to say that states have powers reserved to them. It is an outrage to suggest the role of state legislatures is to fight over the crumbs that are left after the federal government has taken away as much of your rights as it deems "reasonable." Chicago and Cheyenne may indeed require different laws dealing with traffic, or zoning for skyscrapers, and so on. But laws that say different Americans have different rights? That's not federalism, that's feudalism.  We have a major political party treating one of our constitutional rights like it is just some relic of history, to be preserved on paper but serving no practical purpose today. If this is how we treat the Second, how long before we treat the First, or the Fourth, or the Fourteenth the same way?  The Supreme Court affirmed that the Second Amendment is a right "guaranteed to all Americans." It is inconceivable that a major political party would choose to believe that statement is false.

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