Is there a cemetery for the avatars that people create and don’t use anymore/perhaps forgotten already. It would be really cool if site admins would bury(erase) the avatars with a ceremony - let’s say of accounts haven’t been used for more than 6 months, and send out a bulletin has an obituary section… In loving memory of Mina (2007 - 2007), she had a guitar never learned how to make a sound, flew like everyone else. She was insignificant, though had a nice ass.
I received this email from a friend today: PUNK ROCKERS FACE PRISON TIME FOR PROTEST SONG.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav041307.shtml
Frankly, it didn’t surprise me. Because I know my government and it’s people (like me) only want to hear songs about our beautiful shores, delicious food and belly dancers. Oh! And love stories between macho Turkish men and well-behaved Turkish virgins.
The song criticizes a central examination system that places you into a college program according to the score you get. Yep! I couldn’t make it, I couldn’t get the score to get into the sociology program in the school I wanted to study. Luckily, my parents had the money to send me to a private university to study graphic design, which was exempt from this central exam. Thus I didn’t deal with the aftermath of not passing the fucking test. Yet, there are thousands whose parents cannot afford private education. This song is their voice. And they’re shutting it down by putting the band in jail. It’s symbolic of course, it just says, “control your kids mothers and fathers, or they might end up in jail like these guys instead of ending up in college.”
I agree: “screw your exam system”
The company I work for is an online conferencing company; provides all kinds of conferencing services web, phone, and video. Since I attended one of them I’m frankly amazed by it. You sit in front of your computer with a headset and a mic, you join a meeting for 40 people, share your desktop, images and ideas. Since that day I’ve been thinking this would be a great solution to the education problem in the world. I’m from a third (perhaps second, I’m not really following the categorizations) world country and I know many countries like mine can’t (don’t) provide equal recourses for all regions. I think, if private universities could get this service, they can offer all kinds of lectures, classes to these people who are not able to move to big cities and get into big schools. They only need to provide 1 room, a projector and a computer and whatever the package it is to enable the network. Then, teachers who have so big egos thus say they’d only teach in big schools could address these people who are eager to learn, from their comfy chairs. Only one hour a week, perhaps 40 students at a time.
My country has banned YouTube. Obviously, there is offensive material against the unity of the country. And obviously democracy is adulatory, fascism, intolerancy etc… I don’t know what to say, really…
I’ve been reading “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and The State” by Engels, who discusses about the origins of monogamy and the rise of the family concept. This may sound weird but it occurred to me that the earlier societies of homo-sapiens reproduced among their small communities. Yes? Incest was not a concern at that time. Only after years later they realized incest causes severe deformation on the new-born. If they are our ancestors from whom generations reproduced, this deformation is in our genes. Perhaps differs in degree, but we’re all defective. Maybe that’s why human beings are brutal, greedy, etc…