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Yup. "Real" journalists get the protection of the agencies they work for. Independent ones get no such protectoin. Is it any wonder that 45 percent of media workers jailed worldwide are bloggers, web-based reporters, or online editors?
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Twin brothers lost their dad. Did the police help? No. The police were pussies too scared to jump in the water and save the man, so they called the coast goard. Meanwhile, the twin brothers, OBVIOUSLY MORE WILLING TO RISK THEIR LIVES TO SAVE THEIR FATHER THAN COWARDLY POLICE (who die at a lower rate than farmers and fisherman), are prevented from jumping in and saving the dad, because the police "don't want to save 3 people".
(Note: The police saved ZERO people.)
The brothers, understandably mad, are tasered and arrested for "interfereing" with the rescue efforts. You know, the ones that didn't exist because the Coast Guard hadn't arrived yet.
Fucking sick. The cops not only did nothing, but they prevented a rescue, used police brutality, and filed bullshit charges. They did the very oppositte of their job.
I'm not the biggest fan of vigilantism, but I wouldn't object to a mob stoning the cops to death for dereliction of duty; There's zero chance real justice will come of this. -
And this is the day google officially jumps the shark.
100,000+ members of adult social networks can no longer network together as consenting adults — becaus of corporate fear of losing Google advertisements. De facto censorship and self censorship is the most dangerous kind, because our constitution only guarantees freedom from government repression. It doesn't actually guarantee the freedom for adults to be able to say what they want; it just gurantees the government wont stop us.
Of course, multi-national corporations are often more powerful than individual governments. At what point do constitutions become meaningless when the only thing they protect us from is a government that is going broke while the corporations get richer?
So anyway: Fuck you Google. You're not my friend anymore. You're now in the same category as Microsoft, Yahoo, and Apple.
Of course, NUDIST NETWORKS ARE ALLOWED. It's only once you start to GET OFF on it that it's not allowed. Fuck!
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Of course, they got this by covering a Rolling Stones song. WTF.
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Child rape, of course. Or something like that. NSFW like anything from Haluze.
Funny thing is, probably more than half the planet would want to criminalize the act of you viewing this picture. Fucking fascists wouldn't know a good joke if it raped them. -
More and more, I want to self-host my own wordpress blog. But then it's a return to the BBS-like days of modifying and maintaining my source code with the latest mods. And then when I upgrade, do I have to re-mod my code? And then there's the fact that my router with this ISP handles torrents the worst of any, giving crazy latency to my machines (webpages take 2+ seconds to start loading.. FREQUENTLY.. unless i kill all torrents and let it cool down for a couple of minutes.. and this is limiting my connection to a mere 140 connections, whereas in the past i torrented with 1100 connections!)
Such problems. But seeing feature lists like this makes me jealous of the things my wordpress.com-hosted blog can't do, because I can't modify the source code. -
"Apple isn't lying in television ads that tout the iPhone 3G as twice as fast as its predecessor, but customers would have to be fools to take those claims at face value, the company argues [in response to a lawsuit for false advertising]."
heh… Apple is so trendy, and has such room for growth (microsoft with 90% share can only decay, apple with 10% share can only grow) — that they can call their own customers fools and still be succeed! Wow.
I wonder how many people are going to defend this, or say that to limit their commercials is to limit the freedom of the company to do business as they please?
I don't actually find the banned commercial included in the article to be super-objectionable, but they already claimed "all parts of the internet are on the iPhone", which is laughable when it does not even support Flash or Java! Sounds worse than AOL to me…
Here's a novel idea: Talk on phones, surf on a computer.
December 5, 2008
December 5, 2008 at 9:35 PM
I’m not sure that the reason more intenet journalists are jailed less often due to less protection than “legitimate” journalists. Actually, I think its quite the opposite.
I think it has more to do with the fact that a lot of the countries that tend to jail journalists have state controlled/censored media. In other words, someone working for the “legitimate media”, wouldn’t be able to publish something that would get them arrested in the first place.