“Videri quam esse” (“To seem to be, rather than to be”)
I'm strange but i like to be a good strange, My name is Clarence, born in 1988, Pisces and I'm a student of Sociology and the child of the internet. I usually feel like my life has no meaning and i want to die but sometimes it seems like life is worth living for and i love everything in it. If it seems odd to read think what it might be like living it. I like reading philosophy, fiction and tech news.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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New Hampshire Republicans Propose Bills That Would Prevent Police From Protecting Domestic Abuse Victims
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Since the 1970s, New Hampshire police have operated under a progressive policy for handling domestic violence cases that has saved countless lives. Under current law the presumption is that an arrest will be made when police observe evidence of abuse. They have a large degree of discretion and don’t need to witness the assault firsthand or obtain a legal warrant before they can separate the alleged attacker from his victim. All that will change if Republicans get their way. The state’s GOP legislators are pushing two bills that will reverse a half century of progress. […]](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhr5nqoM41qd0sg1o1_250.gif)
~~~~~~~~~~~~Since the 1970s, New Hampshire police have operated under a progressive policy for handling domestic violence cases that has saved countless lives. Under current law the presumption is that an arrest will be made when police observe evidence of abuse. They have a large degree of discretion and don’t need to witness the assault firsthand or obtain a legal warrant before they can separate the alleged attacker from his victim. All that will change if Republicans get their way. The state’s GOP legislators are pushing two bills that will reverse a half century of progress. […]
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The debates are longer than average TV episodes. My calculations (based on times listed [here]) put the total debate time (not counting tonight’s [Jan. 26]) at north of 1,900 minutes. That’s about 32 hour long TV episodes, 64 half hour eipsodes (I’m being generous and counting commercial breaks as part of episode length). That means the current round of GOP debates have outlasted such TV shows as
Firefly
Freaks And Geeks
My So-Called Life
Police Squad!
Wonderfalls
Eerie, Indiana
Arrested Development
The real question, after considering all of this: What are the chances that we can keep this amazing cast of characters together and keep this new reality show on television long after the GOP convention?
at least half of those shows had better writers than the GOP](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyijd0k5X11qzy2emo1_500.jpg)
The debates are longer than average TV episodes. My calculations (based on times listed [here]) put the total debate time (not counting tonight’s [Jan. 26]) at north of 1,900 minutes. That’s about 32 hour long TV episodes, 64 half hour eipsodes (I’m being generous and counting commercial breaks as part of episode length). That means the current round of GOP debates have outlasted such TV shows as
Firefly
Freaks And Geeks
My So-Called Life
Police Squad!
Wonderfalls
Eerie, Indiana
Arrested Development
The real question, after considering all of this: What are the chances that we can keep this amazing cast of characters together and keep this new reality show on television long after the GOP convention?
at least half of those shows had better writers than the GOP
The now, getting ready.
meow via Galaxy Nexus =^•^=
Rarely have so few imposed such damage on so many. When five conservative members of the Supreme Court handed for-profit corporations the right to secretly flood political campaigns with tidal waves of cash on the eve of an election, they moved America closer to outright plutocracy, where political power derived from wealth is devoted to the protection of wealth. It is now official: Just as they have adorned our athletic stadiums and multiple places of public assembly with their logos, corporations can officially put their brand on the government of the United States as well as the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the fifty states.
Citizens United is but the latest battle in the class war waged for thirty years from the top down by the corporate and political right. Instead of creating a fair and level playing field for all, government would become the agent of the powerful and privileged. Public institutions, laws, and regulations, as well as the ideas, norms, and beliefs that aimed to protect the common good and helped create America’s iconic middle class, would become increasingly vulnerable. The Nobel Laureate economist Robert Solow succinctly summed up results: “The redistribution of wealth in favor of the wealthy and of power in favor of the powerful.” In the wake of Citizens United, popular resistance is all that can prevent the richest economic interests in the country from buying the democratic process lock, stock, and barrel.
Massive Arrests in USA - LIVE NOW
Must see, this is what our future is about.
Watch as Rachel Maddow addresses how Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has ties to ex-gay organizations, just like his hyper-conservative past opponent Michele Bachmann: Romney’s foundation donated $10,000 to an organization that backs ex-gay therapy and paid for a campaign showing trans* people as sexual predators.
This is important. Journalism is important. LGBT media figures are important. Who else has talked about this? Not many people.
This is a new, MUST-READ book by my colleague and friend Alan Moore. “In No Straight Lines, Alan Moore argues that we have reached the nadir of the adaptive range of our industrialised world. Now faced with an unsustainable trilemma of social, organisational and economic complexity, we have entered an era in which the rules we have previously organised our lives around no longer apply. Leaving us with both a design problem and a design challenge which we must urgently solve. By describing an entirely new way for true social, economic and organisational innovation to happen, No Straight Lines presents a revolutionary logic and an inspiring plea for a more human-centric world.
‘Alan Moore is a visionary, someone who takes concepts from many sources and detects the previously hidden relationship between them. He has a firm grasp of the changes which are reshaping our world, always pointing towards a more participatory, cooperative, reciprocal model of what our society might look like.’ Henry Jenkins, Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, USC Annenberg School for Communication
‘Economic transactions and markets have warped perceptions to such a degree that most people fail to see what is important in life, even when it’s right in front of them. Alan Moore offers a vision that is at once more humane, more forward-thinking, and more realistic.’ Howard Rheingold, writer and critic
Amazon Kindle Book Alan Moore: No Straight Lines MUST READ
- TheFuturesAgency: Alan Moore: 6 challenges for organisations in a non-linear world (futureof.biz)
- My new book is out: The Future of Content (Kindle only, $3.90) (futureof.biz)
- Gerd Leonhard: Mission 2012 are Green Futures. (thefuturesagency.com)
- The Future of Digital - Eco NOT Ego (futureof.biz)
- Announcing my new Kindle book “The Future of Content” (mediafuturist.com)
- “This iPhone/iPod app is probably the best way to follow his work as it delivers pretty much his…” (futureof.biz)
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (F, 20s, sparkly silver shoes, dark purple coat, light purple scarf, JMZ platform) http://bit.ly/ewftKg
Meet Omari. Two days ago he returned from the hospital after being hacked in the face by a machete defending an orphanage of 35 children by himself.
This man dedicates his life to take care of 35 orphaned children from the ages of 2-17 in Kenya. A couple of days ago a group of thugs raided the orphanage to pilage anything they could find, after beating and slashing Omari’s face for defending the children and himself from a previous attempted attack.
The only thing the children are living off of right now are things growing from their small garden, and eggs from a couple of chickens in their coup. Reddit looked to aim to raise $2,000 a couple of hours ago to help build a concrete wall around the orphanage with a 3 layered barbed-wire coil set on top.
In 3 hours, over $11,000 has been donated - and all the extra money is going to feeding them, giving them an education, keeping these children (and many more) safe, and building a new facility.
Please feel free to donate here:
http://www.longonoteducation.org/
Remember, anything counts!! Lets see what we can do in 24 hours! :))
The Wall Street Journal published a letter expressing skepticism about anthropogenic climate change signed by a group of engineers, retired weathermen, and scientists from fields other than climate science. In response, a much larger group of actual climate scientists signed onto a letter rebutting the first letter. The WSJ rejected it. Instead, the pre-eminent science journal Science, which is know for its rigor in treatments of science, published it, as "Climate change and the Integrity of Science" on January 27th, 2012.
Climate scientists slam the WSJ in this long rebuttal to a trashy editorial on climate denial. The first half of the piece are dozens of signatures, so you’l have to scroll scroll scroll to get to the red meat. But it’s well worth your time. A sampling:
(i) The planet is warming due to increased concentrations of heat-trapping gases in our atmosphere. A snowy winter in Washington does not alter this fact.
(ii) Most of the increase in the concentration of these gases over the last century is due to human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.
(iii) Natural causes always play a role in changing Earth’s climate, but are now being overwhelmed by human-induced changes.
(iv) Warming the planet will cause many other climatic patterns to change at speeds unprecedented in modern times, including increasing rates of sea-level rise and alterations in the hydrologic cycle. Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide are making the oceans more acidic.
(v) The combination of these complex climate changes threatens coastal communities and cities, our food and water supplies, marine and freshwater ecosystems, forests, high mountain environments, and far more.
Check out this must read piece at ScienceBlogs
People you should all follow:
IBM builds 9 nanometer carbon nanotube transistor, puts silicon on notice
It’s not the smallest transistor out there, but the boffins at IBM have constructed the tiniest carbon nanotube transistor to date. It’s nine nanometers in size, making it one nanometer smaller than the presumed physical limit of silicon transistors. Plus, it consumes less power and is able to carry more current than present-day technology. The researchers accomplished the trick by laying a nanotube on a thin layer of insulation, and using a two-step process — involving some sort of black magic, no doubt — to add the electrical gates inside. The catch? (There’s always a catch) Manufacturing pure batches of semiconducting nanotubes is difficult, as is aligning them in such a way that the transistors can function. So, it’ll be some time before the technology can compete with Intel’s 3D silicon, but at least we’re one step closer to carbon-based computing.
(Source: januaryseraph)
