If Other Businesses Worked Like the Cable Company. Suicide Rate Rises Sharply in U.S. Xipietotec comments on On trauma and the task of /r/lostgeneration. If You Can Manage To NOT Have To Live Through One Of These, You Are Lucky Indeed! I'm currently running for Mayor of Miami Beach against a near billionaire and a career politician and I'm making a documentary about the dirty political process, and the election is in 9 days. : IAmA. Fred Phelps is a Con Man. Fred Phelps does not believe what he is doing.
This is a scam. It's a business. They travel the country, set up websites telling you exactly when they'll be there, and using the most inflammatory statements all over the place, just to get someone to violate their rights for profit. Then they sue the military, the police force that was to protect them, and everyone that is around them for money.
This is a sham, and it is a trap to get people sued. This is a scam. Whether he believes his posters or not is irrelevant. Let's look at the ways he's trying to get you up in a tizzy to violate his civil rights for profit: He says God Hates Fags, God hates the US Govt., that God hates the US Military, God Hates you, and God justifies the killing of others. The most telling tale about all of Phelp's behavior is the schedule he keeps, and the company he keeps as well. See? Tell all your friends about this. After all, he makes everyone around him a lawyer. So how am I sure? See my previous post. Blissfully_happy comments on Should teachers have to beg online for funding for classroom supplies? Aaron Swartz, JSTOR: MIT can honor the Internet activist by fighting to make academic journals open to everyone.
Photo by Doc Searls/Flickr Beginning in the fall of 2010, Aaron Swartz repeatedly logged on to MIT’s campus network and used an automated script to download nearly 5 million articles from JSTOR, one of the largest digital archives of scholarly journals in the world.
When they discovered Swartz’s actions, both JSTOR and MIT faced a choice—should they help prosecute Swartz as a nefarious hacker, or should they forgive him for skirting the law while pursuing his activism? Farhad Manjoo is a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the author of True Enough. Follow Last summer, after he agreed to return the articles he’d downloaded, JSTOR dropped its civil case against Swartz. Abelson has said that he will release his report in a few weeks’ time. Making academic articles available to everyone is one of the most direct ways for MIT to fulfill its public-spirited mission to expand the world’s access to knowledge. MIT could stop the whole business with a few bold steps. He hasn’t. How Much Will Your Taxes Jump? Beijing's 'Airpocalypse' Spurs Pollution Controls, Public Pressure. Hide caption A woman wears a mask while walking in a park near the China Central Television Tower, background, on a hazy day in Beijing.
The elderly, children and those suffering from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases are being advised to stay indoors to reduce exposure to polluted air. Alexander F. Yuan/AP Hide caption Air pollution hangs over the skyline as the sun rises over the central business district in Beijing on Monday. Dense smog has shrouded the city with pollution at hazardous levels for days, and residents were advised to stay indoors. Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images Hide caption Students take an indoor physical education class at Shoushuihe Elementary School in Beijing, as outdoor sports activities for primary and middle schools were halted due to heavy air pollution.
Hide caption A woman helps adjust a mask for her friend outside an amusement park on a hazy day in Beijing on Saturday. The conditions are expected to linger for two more days. Louisa Lim/NPR.