December102009
Preparando las ruedas de prensa del día
(via Territorio Vergara)
Tags: /comic /spanish /funny /politics /Rajoy /estatut /Tribunal Constitucional
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November242009
"While the impact of network neutrality obligations on network investment is likely negligible — or even positive — the absence of nondiscrimination protections will have a substantial negative impact on investments made in the content and applications markets. Currently, the Internet is an open platform that provides online innovators with a high degree of predictability about a major segment of their business. An innovator knows that she can develop a new idea or application, and that it will work on any end-user’s Internet-connected device. Without network neutrality, this certainty is lost. Losing network neutrality could badly undercut the current investment in applications and services — a sector of our economy much larger than the network infrastructure itself."
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S. Derek Turner, research Director at Free Press
(via La Quadrature du Net : FINDING THE BOTTOM LINE: The Truth About Network Neutrality & Investment)
Tags: /internet neutrality /internet /politics
November92009
"A good political speech is not one in which you can prove that the man is telling the truth; it is one where no one else can prove he is lying."
— Sir Humphrey Appleby, fictional character from “Yes Minister”
Tags: /politics /funny /Yes Minister /BBC /sitcom
November52009
Telecom package: Final agreed text « Christian Engström, Pirate MEP »
The Telecom package final text in the European Parliament.
Tags: /politics /Telecom package /Europe /European parliament /Pirate party /internet /Internet neutrality /copyright
October272009
“No hair cuts” said Leviticus
It’s Time For Changing And Cleansing Everything:
And the swine, he is unclean to you. And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, they shall be an abomination unto you. (Leviticus 11:7-12) (Thou shalt not eat pork, shrimp, lobster, or any shellfish.)
Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee. (Leviticus 19:19) (Thou shalt not wear clothes of mixed fibers.)
Every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death. (Leviticus 20:9)
You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard. (Leviticus 19:27)
If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:13)
You can’t pick and choose which rules of Leviticus apply to society or do not. Either follow every rule because it is the word of God, or follow none of them because it is not. I say we just trash the whole thing. Just saying.
(via Little Flower : rainbowarriors : It’s Time For Changing And Cleansing Everything)
Tags: /Leviticus /bible /christianity /gay /homosexuality /religion /politics /gay rights
Reblogged from little flower..
October242009
The Left vs Right political spectrum
A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th).
Of course, the political spectrum is not quite so polarised. Actually, it’s more of a diamond shape, apparently. But this is how it’s mostly presented via the media – left wing vs. right wing, liberal vs. conservative, Labour vs Tory. And perhaps in our minds too…
Well, certainly in my mind. Researching this showed me that, despite my inevitable journalistic lean to the ‘left’, I am actually a bit more ‘right’ than I suspected.
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There are two versions with different colours: a US and a World version. This is because the US and Switzerland are the only countries in the world where red = right wing and blue = left wing. Grrr!
(via I Love Charts : Ian Oberholtzer : Information is beautiful)
Tags: /politics /chart /left /right
Reblogged from I Love Charts.
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