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I am quite the sparkling conversationalist..
Âllo qu'est-ce qui se passe? // allo, how's it going? Tell me your secrets, I'm listening....
~ previously on sofarsoShawn:
former WaPo Journal ~ finished the lengthy god awful process of a Bone Marrow Transplant for Leukemia (AML)...interests: tech, politics, books, & keeping a sense of humour :)
Aesthetics, I like. The quotidien ~taking note of the beautiful that surround us every day
Oh btw I'm very, very controversial. [Parental Fuckn Advisory]
The Future iPhone 10s
Via GP
The Maturation of the Billionaire Boy-Man | New York Magazine
Incredibly, Mark Zuckerberg has grown up to become an ace CEO—one whose way of thinking might drive Wall Street nuts.
Interesting read. Also; a good motivator to come up with some new posts. Not that there’s anything wrong in particular with the Boy-Man’s looks, but I can’t have that face staring back at me from my front page too long.
A report that a 17-year-old sold a kidney to buy an iPhone and an iPad has citizens worried about consumerism among China’s youth.
An iPhone and iPad were worth more to a Chinese teenager than his kidney, according to a report Friday from China’s Xinhua news agency. Now five people in southern China face charges of illegal organ trading.
The 17-year-old, surnamed Wang, received about $3,500 for his kidney, which was removed and delivered to a recipient last April. Wang’s mother grew suspicious when her son returned home with the costly new gadgets, and his confession soon followed. Xinhua says the teen is now suffering from “renal insufficiency” — a decreased level of kidney function — and that his condition is deteriorating.
The five charged include the surgeon, as well as the broker, who was reportedly penniless and hounded by gambling debts. Another of those charged was tasked with hunting for donors through online chat rooms, Xinhua says, and another with leasing the operating room. Together, they shared the rest of the $35,000 received for the organ after giving Wang his share.
The case is stirring alarm in China as citizens worry about increasing consumerism, particularly among the young, The Associated Press says.
Also alarming is the enormous gap between people needing transplants in China and donors, which Xinhua says has led to a huge black market for organs.
via NPR http://n.pr/HNRebu
SOPA Protest Day: the largest digital protest ever (infographic)
On January 18th, it was hard to miss what was the largest (digital) protest in world’s history as millions of people, and the largest internet companies stood up against the proposes SOPA and PIPA laws (watch the 5mn “what is SOPA” video here). If you don’t know what SOPA and PIPA are, both are basically law proposals that would end up making it impossible to have user-generated content sites and services like YouTube, WordPress.com, Disqus, or even Ubergizmo because if one user or commenter uploads a copyrighted image, or content, the whole site could be taken down. Today, websites are required to remove that content and most are actively participating in the fight against piracy. To date, both laws have been put on hold, but not eliminated.
FrugalDad.com has compiled some numbers in the nice infographic below. It is self-explanatory and definitely worth a look. Among the interesting numbers, Congress got 400,000 calls, 10M people have signed petitions against SOPA and PIPA, and 3M emails were sent to politicians backing the proposal. More importantly, this pushed other Senators to jump in and to issue statements against the bill.
The “The Day the Internet Stood Still” sounds great, although it’s also fair to say that this is a bit of an exaggeration. The event was nonetheless a great success, and it is comforting to see that so many people have expressed their opinions on this important subject.
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What’s up next? ~ Didn’t #SOPA take a look, you’ll hate #ACTA. Please, sign & share on the @accessnow petition http://t.co/Ac1xF1Mk #StopACTA
This post has been found in violation of H.R. 3261 SOPA, and has been removed:
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WOW. okay now hat sounds pretty serious, can you give me short the version congressional bills are always so long winded.
Very true, more gassy than a methane plant. Well this bill would establish a system for taking down websites that the Department of Justice determines to be dedicated to copyright infringement. This DoJ or the copyright owner would be able to commence legal action against anything they deem to have “only limited purpose or use other than infringement. “ and the DoJ would then have the legal authourity to demand that search engines, social networking sites and domain services block access to the targeted site. It would make unauthorized web streaming and proliferation of any copyrighted content a felony with possible penalty up to five years in prison. The bills combines tow separate senate bills into — S.968 and S.978 — one big House bill.
Okay now the long version, I’m a masochist?
The full text of HR 3261 SOPA can be found after the jump *click*.
A Pileus Iridescent Cloud Over Ethiopia
Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts. This image was taken just after the picturesque sight was noticed by chance by a photographer in Ethiopia.
Image Credit & Copyright: Esther Havens
http://www.nasa.gov/
- sofarsoShawn: Yo tumblr. what's the deal with you messing the awesome "Missing e" extension? Like are you jealous dude's a better programmer than you?
- tumblr. programmmers: Yeah we're pretty envious and we're also huge fanboiz of tyranny and demand complete control!
“As of 2011, approximately 1 out of every 13 people on Earth will be on Facebook.”
O_O I did not know that… ffascccinating
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fact courtesy of chicksandfacts.com replaced with a dude
