Society
Stop the Hate vs Public Shaming
Although I never liked hating, I don’t buy it when a clown tells me to ‘stop the hate’. I’d rather hate something than die without hating and fighting world corruption which will eventually victimize all even our children. Here is what Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney and now political comedian says: ‘But there’s an increasingly […]
Promoting Homosexuality in Children’s Schools
They finally STEPPED OVER THE LINE. When will the world system ban heterosexuality next!!? The only good thing about it was only 61% supported the proposal ‘The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders — a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the […]
Why Fund-transfer Services Can’t Defeat PayPal
Latest Health Hurdle: Buying Insurance Without A Bank Account ‘The consequences could be severe.’ ‘The federal health law requires most Americans to carry health insurance starting next January. The presents a particular problem for those households. Most health plans accept a credit card for the first month’s premium payment and then require customers to pay […]
Is Morality Without Religion Possible?
I don’t see why that has to be ‘an experiment that’s never been tried’. Isn’t it enough knowing someone who is an atheist but is more moral than religionists? ‘…de Waal’s argument, which he has been making for years, is strengthened by the fact that recent research is starting to paint a better picture of […]
Why Predatory Publishing is Dangerous
Is Your Website Mobile-Friendly? Because I use my netbook most of the time, I’m very grateful for mobile-friendly sites I don’t have to adjust page sizes Why Your Website Should Be Mobile-Friendly ‘In late 2012, Google conducted an independent survey titled “What Users Want Most From Mobile Sites Today.” Of the 1,088 smartphone users that […]
FBI’s Online Wiretapping and your Computer
How the FBI’s online wiretapping plan could get your computer hacked ‘The fundamental problem is that eavesdropping facilities are a double-edged sword. They make it easier for the U.S. government to spy on the bad guys. But they also make it easier for the bad guys to hack our computers and spy on us. And, […]
Genetically-modified Humans
They are already walking among us ‘According to the original DailyMail article, Jacques Cohen, a former employee at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine & Science of Saint Barnabas in New Jersey, came up with a way to blend the genes of multiple mothers into a single egg that can then be fertilized with sperm from […]
How Hardware Manufacturers Are Deceiving You
Beware of fine print even on the front of the product itself — one got me ‘…Sure, everyone involved can come up with a variety of excuses — they aren’t technically misleading customers, it’s all in the fine print, and these are the standard ways the industry operates — but hardware has been advertised in […]
A Case of Legal Drone Intrusion
Creep stalks woman with drone — legally ‘…The mysterious drone operator may be perfectly right. Legislation on new technologies can often take some time to catch up with the technologies themselves, and it’s perfectly possible he was technically operating within the law. ‘As the Atlantic notes, talking to a Harvard public policy expert, there would […]
Online Photos, Vanity, and Plastic Surgery
This piece is making me guilty about my online profile photos Social Media Leads to Spikes in Plastic Surgery Requests ‘The survey polled 752 of the AAFPRS’ board-certified facial plastic surgeons on the trends in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. This year, one finding stuck out: surgeons are seeing a 31% increase in plastic surgery requests […]
