Shafia accused saw deceased as ‘diseased limb’

That’s what the head read on the front page of the CBC.ca site. It implies that the accused stated that the murder victims were indeed no more than diseased limbs to him. But if you read the next sentence in a much smaller, unbolded, type size:

“Three Montrealers accused of drowning four family members in Kingston, Ont., viewed the deceased as the “diseased limb on the family tree” that needed to be removed, the prosecutor told jury members on Thursday.”

…you realize that in fact this statement was made up by a prosecutor who, in speaking to a jury, is trying to get a conviction. For skimmers like me (who make up at lest half of the population according to a recent non-scientific survey) the first, and likely lasting, impression is that the accused did in fact have this view instead of the actual fact that this is purely an accusation on a part of a prosecutor trying to win a case.

I hate this kind of journalism. I would rather read the National Enquirer where at least I know they are deliberately skewing the story. I declare it a stupid human trick.

And the Golden Age of the Internet is now over.

[Iran] announced its plans (link in Farsi) to build the Intranet in March 2011, motivated by social media fueled protests during its 2009 election and inspired by China’s domestic controls. According to the statement, Iran plans to offer Intranet access to nearby countries interested in taking advantage of the Halal network.

“We can describe it as a genuinely ‘halal’ network aimed at Muslims on a ethical and moral level,” the Iranian Deputy Minister for Economic Affairs Ali Agha Mohammadi writes.

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The government hopes the latest restrictions will limit election-related protests of the kind that organized on social networks in Egypt last year. All online planning of protests — through social media or email — will be considered national security crimes, the government said.

http://mashable.com/2012/01/06/iran-intranet-tests

OMFG, nuff said.

If you don’t want to join them, beat them! Turn off their phone and they are helpless… 🙂

The Bay Area Rapid Transit District, (BART) which carries close to 350,000 commuters each day, pulled the plug on mobile phone base stations operating in some of its San Francisco stations last Thursday in an attempt to disrupt a planned protest. The outage lasted about three hours.
The move sparked outrage by civil libertarians who said that BART’s actions amounted to an infringement of free speech, and — because 911 mobile services were also cut — a threat to public safety.

www.cio.com/article/688027/FCC_Looking_Into_BART_Mobile_Phone_Shutdown
www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219158/SF_Bay_Area_transit_police_cut_mobile_service_to_thwart_protest

Nice to see that at least one ultra-rich person recognizes that fair is fair…

Last year my federal tax bill — the income tax I paid, as well as payroll taxes paid by me and on my behalf — was $6,938,744. That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income — and that’s actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33 percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent…

If you make money with money, as some of my super-rich friends do, your percentage may be a bit lower than mine. But if you earn money from a job, your percentage will surely exceed mine — most likely by a lot.

—Warren Buffet

www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html
whatever.scalzi.com/2011/08/15/the-only-time-the-conservative-politicians-ignore-warren-buffett/

Sigh. Can we spell “overreaction”?

Following the havoc wreaked by the London riots, a 20-year-old man from Colchester, England, was arrested for allegedly organizing a giant water gun fight via the BlackBerry Messenger service and Facebook.

mashable.com/2011/08/15/water-gun-bbm

People don’t like to share: who knew…

The paper identifies three ways employees hide what they know from co-workers: being evasive, rationalized hiding – such as saying a report is confidential — and playing dumb.

Why do they do it? Two big predictors are basic distrust and a poor knowledge-sharing climate within the company.

From this article

As much as I am opposed to gay marriage — because I am opposed to all marriage, not just the same-sex ones — this picture really did make me smile. It’s nice that people are allowed to be happy. The only thing sillier that using the government, church or other oppressive state apparatus to control human interrelations is denying people the right to have their interrelations recognized by the aforementioned apparatus…

Find more happy images here!

So you wanted marriage eh? Well now you got it… have fun with it…

Corning, I.B.M. and Raytheon all provide domestic partner benefits to employees with same-sex partners in states where they cannot marry. But now that they can legally wed in New York, five other states and the District of Columbia, they will be required to do so if they want their partner to be covered for a routine checkup or a root canal.

Seems by asking for the right to acquire access to an outdated institution, gays are helping bolster the antiquated idea that without government sanction, a relationship isn’t valid. And now they (along with the rest of us) are gonna have to suffer. Lovely… just lovely…

The article (although the NY Times will probably lock it off soon).

LOL

http://www.shaveeverywhere.ca/?origin=1_ca_en_grooming