Everyone has a date...
"Here's how it works. The number of possible universes is basically
infinite. So there's almost certainly, in Sinhababu's view, a possible
world in which a girl or guy is romantically devoted to someone who fits
my description exactly, or who otherwise just is me. Suppose for the
sake of argument that the feeling is mutual (it of course isn't; I
happen to have a girlfriend who I love very much and who inhabits the
same world I do). What we'd have then are two people who are interested
and romantically devoted to each other. Usually we call that "dating."
It's non-traditional, of course, and communication between partners
in different modal universes is difficult if not impossible; it makes
Skype relationships look like a literal honeymoon. But plenty of people
have non-traditional relationships these days. Neil, I think, makes a
convincing case. So take heart, lonely hearts. Given some pretty strong
metaphysical assumptions, you might have a partner!"
read more here
Friday, February 14, 2014
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
임창정 - 문을 여시오
오늘도 자꾸 이렇게 하루 하루가 흘러만 가는데
아직도 혼자 방에 앉아서 무슨 고민에 빠져 있나요
여보세요 문을 여시오
여보세요 문을 여시오 문을 여시오
(여보세요) 오늘 하루를 그냥 보내는 군
(문을 여시오) 오늘 하루를 마냥 앉아 있나요
(여보세요) 이 늦은 발걸음을 어서 떼세요
(문을 여시오) 어둠이 꽉 닫힌 문을 여시오
아침이 밝았는데 태양이 떠오르는데
마음의 문을 닫고 밖으로 나오지 않고 왜
넌 왜 도대체 왜 오 왜
여보세요 문을 여시오
여보세요 문을 여시오 문을 여시오
어제도 똑같은 하루 시간은 점점 지나가는데
아무도 몰래 눈물 닦으며 아무일 없는 듯 앉아 있나요
여보세요 문을 여시오
여보세요 문을 여시오 문을 여시오
(여보세요) 오늘 하루를 그냥 보내는 군
(문을 여시오) 오늘 하루를 마냥 앉아 있나요
(여보세요) 이 늦은 발걸음을 어서 떼세요
(문을 여시오) 어둠이 꽉 닫힌 문을 여시오
일은 하지도 않고 밥이 또 넘어가냐
아직도 엄마에게 용돈을 부탁하느냐
오 왜 도대체 왜 오 왜
(닫혀있던) (문을 열어) 문을 여시오
(문을 열어) (네 마음의) (문을 열어)
문을 여시오 문을 여시오
얼쑤 (좋다) 얼쑤 얼쑤 문을 여시오
이제부터 하나하나 문을 여시오
오늘부터 하나하나 보여 주시오
오늘보다 많이많이 웃어 보시오
오늘부터 닫혀있는 문을 여시오
Monday, February 10, 2014
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Blank on Blank: interviews with Fidel Castro and James Brown
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Monday, January 27, 2014
Sunday, January 26, 2014
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Friday, January 24, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Monday, January 20, 2014
Police Issues II
Building upon previous posts: Police Issues and Cops
***
"Two former Fullerton California police officers were just acquitted this
week in the death of a homeless man. Police brutally beat and killed Kelly Thomas after a violent struggle that was captured on surveillance
video.
Admittedly, it is rare for officers to be charged in a death involving actions that occur while they are on duty. But the sheer brutality of the beating that Thomas received led many to believe that maybe this time some sense of justice would be served.
Unfortunately, all of those who believe that the officers might face justice had their hopes dashed as former Fullerton police officer Manuel Ramos was acquitted Monday of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges. Former Cpl. Jay Cicinelli was also acquitted of all charges, in his case involuntary manslaughter and excessive use of force."
source
Anonymous also investigates the issue
***
"Kim Nguyen, a 27-year-old pharmacist, says she was thrown from a squad
car after police kidnapped and sexually assaulted her. Nguyen was shown
on camera tumbling from a moving LAPD cruiser last year, after being
handcuffed in the early morning hours of March 17, 2013."
more here and information about the filed complaint here
***
"Police in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma are being accused of using excessive force in their beating of a deaf African-American man. ...
Pearson has a sign on his vehicle that informs officers that he is deaf and thus may not hear commands. But this didn’t seem to matter to the officers involved in the beating.
Local KFOR reported that affidavit indicated Pearson didn’t comply with multiple orders to show his hands after he was pulled over on January 3. KFOR later removed the article, apparently after pressure from local law enforcement. No retraction was ever issued for information in the article, and a search of the KFOR website revealed nothing of the story."
source
***
"An argument between two moviegoers turned deadly on Monday when a
71-year-old retired cop allegedly shot and killed another man in a
Florida theater where the victim had been texting during the previews.
According to police, the confrontation began when Curtis Reeves, a
retired police captain, asked 43-year-old Chad Oulson to put his phone
away. "It ended almost as quickly as it started," said Pasco County
Sheriff's spokesman Doug Tobin."
source
***
"A 16-year-old boy in Philadelphia was hospitalized after a stop-and-frisk encounter with police led to a brutal sexual assault by police....
***
"Cops in Durham, NC, claim that Jesus Huerta committed sμicide by shooting himself in the face in the back seat of a police car. I say claim because Huerta had been searched by a cop before he was put in the car with his hands cuffed behind his back. Yet they want us to believe that he could’ve had a gun on him the rookie cop who frisked him didn’t notice AND could’ve contorted himself to use that gun to shoot himself in the face!"
source
Police will not be facing any charges on this case...
***
The above pictured cop:
"In Spring Hill, Florida, a Hernando County detention deputy was arrested after burning a 3-year-old boy who was left in his care. Deputy Cody Marrone, 21, was charged with aggravated child abuse and child neglect, after having burned the toddler for “not letting” Marrone sleep.
The toddle in his care was brought to a local hospital with severe burns, including burns to his genitals, according to authorities."
source
***
"The police marksman who killed Mark Duggan will be allowed to have his gun back and return to armed duties. The officer was found to have lawfully killed Duggan by an inquest jury last week though the jury decided his account of the shooting, in which he said Duggan had had a gun in his hand, was wrong."
source
and more here
***
"[O]ut of New York City... Over the weekend, an elderly man was hospitalized after being left bloody and violently arrested by police on the Upper West Side. His crime? Jaywalking, apparently."
source
***
"An Oregon reserve officer and former sheriff’s deputy is behind bars after allegedly beating his girlfriend’s four-year-old son nearly to death.
On New Year’s Eve, the boy had to be medivaced to a nearby hospital after sustaining a severe brain injury, internal tearing of his bowel and intestine and seven fractured ribs.
34-year-old Michael Shane Abo, who had worked as a sheriff’s deputy for the Yamhill County Sheriff’s Department from 2008 to November 2012, was arraigned Monday following a grand jury indictment."
source
***
***
Admittedly, it is rare for officers to be charged in a death involving actions that occur while they are on duty. But the sheer brutality of the beating that Thomas received led many to believe that maybe this time some sense of justice would be served.
Unfortunately, all of those who believe that the officers might face justice had their hopes dashed as former Fullerton police officer Manuel Ramos was acquitted Monday of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges. Former Cpl. Jay Cicinelli was also acquitted of all charges, in his case involuntary manslaughter and excessive use of force."
source
Anonymous also investigates the issue
***
more here and information about the filed complaint here
***
Pearson has a sign on his vehicle that informs officers that he is deaf and thus may not hear commands. But this didn’t seem to matter to the officers involved in the beating.
Local KFOR reported that affidavit indicated Pearson didn’t comply with multiple orders to show his hands after he was pulled over on January 3. KFOR later removed the article, apparently after pressure from local law enforcement. No retraction was ever issued for information in the article, and a search of the KFOR website revealed nothing of the story."
source
***
source
***
"A 16-year-old boy in Philadelphia was hospitalized after a stop-and-frisk encounter with police led to a brutal sexual assault by police....
Darrin Manning, a black, straight-A student and star basketball
player, was walking with his coach and teammates to basketball practice
when they were stopped by three white police officers. The officer's
admitted reason for stopping the group was that they were wearing
scarves to cover their faces--on one of the coldest evenings ever
recorded in Philadelphia.
After the encounter, Manning had to be rushed to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he underwent reconstructive surgery on his genitals. Despite his injuries, the teenager was still charged with aggravated assault and resisting arrest."
source, watch news report hereAfter the encounter, Manning had to be rushed to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he underwent reconstructive surgery on his genitals. Despite his injuries, the teenager was still charged with aggravated assault and resisting arrest."
***
"Cops in Durham, NC, claim that Jesus Huerta committed sμicide by shooting himself in the face in the back seat of a police car. I say claim because Huerta had been searched by a cop before he was put in the car with his hands cuffed behind his back. Yet they want us to believe that he could’ve had a gun on him the rookie cop who frisked him didn’t notice AND could’ve contorted himself to use that gun to shoot himself in the face!"
source
Police will not be facing any charges on this case...
***
"In Spring Hill, Florida, a Hernando County detention deputy was arrested after burning a 3-year-old boy who was left in his care. Deputy Cody Marrone, 21, was charged with aggravated child abuse and child neglect, after having burned the toddler for “not letting” Marrone sleep.
The toddle in his care was brought to a local hospital with severe burns, including burns to his genitals, according to authorities."
source
***
"The police marksman who killed Mark Duggan will be allowed to have his gun back and return to armed duties. The officer was found to have lawfully killed Duggan by an inquest jury last week though the jury decided his account of the shooting, in which he said Duggan had had a gun in his hand, was wrong."
source
and more here
***
"[O]ut of New York City... Over the weekend, an elderly man was hospitalized after being left bloody and violently arrested by police on the Upper West Side. His crime? Jaywalking, apparently."
source
***
"An Oregon reserve officer and former sheriff’s deputy is behind bars after allegedly beating his girlfriend’s four-year-old son nearly to death.
On New Year’s Eve, the boy had to be medivaced to a nearby hospital after sustaining a severe brain injury, internal tearing of his bowel and intestine and seven fractured ribs.
34-year-old Michael Shane Abo, who had worked as a sheriff’s deputy for the Yamhill County Sheriff’s Department from 2008 to November 2012, was arraigned Monday following a grand jury indictment."
source
***
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Pro-Internet: Feb. 2014
"A broad coalition of activist groups, companies, and online platforms
will hold a worldwide day of activism in opposition to the NSA's mass
spying regime on February 11th. Dubbed "The Day We Fight Back", the day
of activism was announced on the eve of the anniversary of the tragic
passing of activist and technologist Aaron Swartz. The protest is both
in his honor and in celebration of the victory over the Stop Online
Piracy Act two years ago this month, which he helped spur."
read more here
source
WSJ: How a Court Changed the Way the Internet will be Paid for
"The FCC’s open Internet rules were struck down by a federal appeals court Tuesday, dealing a major blow to the idea of “net neutrality” and opening the door for companies like VerizonVZ -0.37% to start charging content providers more money for faster speeds. NetflixNFLX -0.49%, for example, swallows up huge chunks of bandwidth as its customers stream video. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said the FCC would consider appealing to the Supreme Court."
read more here
Media Law Prof. also comments here
On a related, but slightly different area: Do police need a warrant for cell phone searches?
"The Supreme Court said Friday it would decide whether police need a warrant before they can search the cellphone of someone they arrest, the latest in a string of cases that have tested how constitutional protections conceived in the 18th century apply to the digital age"
read more here
read more here
source
WSJ: How a Court Changed the Way the Internet will be Paid for
"The FCC’s open Internet rules were struck down by a federal appeals court Tuesday, dealing a major blow to the idea of “net neutrality” and opening the door for companies like VerizonVZ -0.37% to start charging content providers more money for faster speeds. NetflixNFLX -0.49%, for example, swallows up huge chunks of bandwidth as its customers stream video. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said the FCC would consider appealing to the Supreme Court."
read more here
Media Law Prof. also comments here
On a related, but slightly different area: Do police need a warrant for cell phone searches?
"The Supreme Court said Friday it would decide whether police need a warrant before they can search the cellphone of someone they arrest, the latest in a string of cases that have tested how constitutional protections conceived in the 18th century apply to the digital age"
read more here
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Sunday, January 12, 2014
What's wrong with TED talks
"Instead of dumbing-down the future, we need to raise the level of general understanding to the level of complexity of the systems in which we are embedded and which are embedded in us. This is not about 'personal stories of inspiration,' it's about the difficult and uncertain work of demystification and reconceptualisation: the hard stuff that really changes how we think. More Copernicus, less Tony Robbins."
read full text here
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Friday, January 10, 2014
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
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