"We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China."
[source] Google no longer willing to comply with Chinese censorship. This could be very interesting. An international corporation challenging a country on its human rights record. It all seems backwards and surreal to me. It’s unprecedented..

”[‘intellectual engineering’] has turned the economics discipline into a public relations exercise for the rentier classes..”

"[S]miley-face posturing aside, users should never forget that Facebook remains, at heart, not a community but a Silicon Valley startup, always hungry for exponential growth and new revenue streams. So be sure to review those new privacy “options,” and take Facebook’s recommendations with a huge grain of salt."

“Going into debt today is as American as the 40-hour work week; or the stampede of Wal-Mart warriors on Black Friday; or the hillocks of gifts under a Christmas tree. An army of loan drones we’ve become, marching from one unpaid-for purchase to the next in quest of a sense of fulfillment that fades long before the bill arrives.”

jesus on healthcare

jesus on healthcare

Some pics I took of the Bildungstreik (student protest) in Heidelberg.

Some pics I took of the Bildungstreik (student protest) in Heidelberg.

Interesting article on the effects of file-sharing on the music industry (with some insightful graphs). Turns out (as suspected) the only part of the music industry that file-sharing is hurting is the record industry.

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