We are (almost) all on it, and we are (almost) all aware about the inproper things that happen at facebook and Co.
The big issue of the past time is about data mining, getting as much info from 'us', and returning personalized messages. We know that FaceBook is doing this (such as google and all other big businesses), and we accept it. Sometimes we are shocked with what happens, and for me it gives a giggle when, for example, I am chatting with a person who is original from kroatia, that I get commercials for holidays at Croatia.
My personal hero of 2013, Snowden, did do a good job this year in making the world realize about how much of our lives is realy private. Fact is that, when you realy want your privacy, you should not be at the internet at all. But, that was a side walk, I wanted to tell something about Facebook and the real dangers of it.
The real dangers of Facebook, in my eyes, are not the facts that they are collecting our data. We give it, they take it, in fact we agree with this at the moment that we create our account. We cannot blame (or sue) them for doing the things that google, microsoft, apple, samsung and you name it, are doing as well!
The real danger of Facebook (and other social media) are the personal messages that we place.
How often do I see messages from people that tell about their illness, about their sleepless nights. I do it mself as well, it is so easy. And there is always someone who reacts, no matter what time of the day, or night, that I post such, someone is there to awwww or ahhhh with you.
We tend to consider our networks as friends, living persons, who realy do care. When no one else does care, there is always a Facebook Friend that does..
The internet is nothng better then any other place. There are 80 percent people of good will, a few that are not even aware that they are around, a few that use it day and night and a few that are searching for trouble.
Nowadays we all have some private troubles, one bigger then the other, and we tend to hare them as well with our on line friends. What is okay, of course, that's where friends are for-
Now there you see the danger. Sharing things with firends is okay, they help and care. But in those days that we consider social networks, Facebook, as a friend, we tend to mix up and tell our friend FaceBook what is wrong in our life. Problems at work, share them with FaceBook, FB will take care. But FB has as well eyes with your bosses and enemies.
Problems in your family (and who has not)? Share them with your big friend FB. There is always someoen who cares, or who supports you. No matter if you are right or wrong, someone DOES listen to you.
That, in my opinion, is the biggest danger that our friend FB (and the others) is for us. FaceBook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google, they ar NOT human! People who use it are. So, when you start writing something about persons, how rude are you treated, how desperate you are, and share it with your friend FB, your friend FB will share it with all your friends. And there is always someone who understands what you mean. And there is often someone who in fact should not read your words, or who can interprete them wrong.
I did see that myself as well. A she, who is realy close to me, did hurt me. We did not share it with our big friend FB, but we did it in emails. A tiny bit more private that is. Not much, but still.
Then, there was that remark that she did place and did share with her huge friend FB. And of course, someone did react. The someone that reacted is exactly the other one that did hurt me. Who is so keen to not share the stuff with his big friend FB. But he did react. Big friend FB did share it with me. I was already unfriended and blocked, but the info came still to me. I shall not react further on it, but the fact that I did see that reaction, I didnt ask for it, made me realize how vulnerable we all are on line.
No matter how careful we are, there is no guarantee that your messages might reach eyes that you dont want to see them. And when you use your personal time line to tell your friend FB your sorrow, you can be sure that there are people reading it, who shouldnt.
Share what you like, it is lovely to see what you eat, it is lovely to see you having fun with your friends, it is wonderful to see great pictures and wisdoms that you found.
We all make the mistake to put some private matters on line and share it with our friend FB. And it is good to realize that he is not our friend. He is the biggest danger for your life and can ruin it. More then the personal issues that you have with others. Be careful!
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Freitag, 20. Dezember 2013
RIP David Richards
For the exception I did hop to Brian's soupbox to read his words about the news that David Richards did pass away. One of the Queen (and for all Freddie Mercury) song producers.
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David Richards, Engineer/Producer to QUEEN.
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David Richards RIP
Best known to Queen fans as the producer of their last four albums, David Richards' career was varied and distinguished.
Born into a musical family in London in 1956, his father Bobby Richards worked as an orchestrator and arranger on various movie and stage productions, most notably with John Barry.
David began piano lessons aged three, and by five he had already won a prize playing to an audience of over three hundred. He also became a championship-winning ice-skater and, whilst preparing the soundtracks for his skating routines, discovered a talent for editing music on audio-tape with a razor-blade and sticky-tape.
As a boy of eight, David witnessed his father working on a movie soundtrack in a big London studio and later recalled: "There was a huge sound, all these knobs and guys with smart clothes, very cool, behind the console. I realised that this was what I wanted to do".
David secured his first job in 1973 at Chappell Studios in London where he worked as assistant to chief engineer John Timperley recording many of the greats including Bing Crosby. He said of the time: "I learned to respect the musicians and to never interrupt them while they were searching for an idea".
In 1975 John Timperley relocated to Montreux, Switzerland, as chief engineer of the brand-new state-of-the-art Mountain Studios within the recently re-built casino building, and asked David to accompany him. Within two years John had moved on to other things and David became chief engineer at the age of 21.
By this time David had married Collette McCready and had two children together.
During his time working at Mountain Studios, David encountered a huge range of artists plus hundreds more coming through the Montreux Jazz Festival. All this music, recording and mixing provided an enormous wealth of experience and, with his natural musical talent and his calm, discreet and efficient manner, it was unsurprising he was soon in demand as a record producer racking up countless gold and platinum discs and production credits for Queen, David Bowie, Chris Rea, Iggy Pop and Duran Duran to name a few. He won a Juno award in 1978 for Best Jazz Recording and at one point in 1994 David was Billboard Magazine's Producer Of The Month with three Number One records.
David eventually bought the studio from Queen in 1993 and continued to work there until 2002 when he relocated Mountain Studios to the village of Attalens, not far from Montreux. Needless to say, his production work took him all over the world for months at a time but he always returned to his home near Montreux and Mountain Studios.
After his first marriage ended David had a longstanding relationship with the cellist Nathalie Manser, producing a number of CDs together. Latterly he was married to Vivian Wong.
David Richards passed away on the morning of Friday 20th December 2013 after a long illness. He will be remembered by many as a good friend. He was funny and generous and great company, a talented and capable man who had an instinctive "magic touch" in the recording studio. His creative productions and will be enjoyed for years to come.
He is survived by his daughter Wendy and son Christopher.
(Photo: Brian May, Roger Taylor, Claude Nobs, Freddie Mercury, David Richards and John Deacon)
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Dienstag, 17. Dezember 2013
STOP DOLPHIN AND WHALE SLAUGHTERING!
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The Great Barrier Reef is already in enough danger. Now, the government is trying to poison it with a nearby coal port.
Dear hans,
The future of the Great Barrier Reef was already looking grim -- it’s facing critical threats from climate change, ocean acidification, and pollution. And now, the government wants to put it in even further peril by expanding a nearby coal port. Australia’s government has just granted permission to expand Abbot Point into one of the world’s largest coal ports. Before development even starts, preparation involves dredging three million cubic metres of sea bed and dumping the spoil near or in the Great Barrier Reef. To add even more damage, the pollution attracted by the port will put the reef's fish and coral in further danger. The UN, the fishing and tourist industries, scientists, and others have all voiced their objections. But the government has so far refused to listen. We can't let Abbott and his cronies keep putting profit over the environment. Stand against the Abbot Point Coal Port!
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Montag, 16. Dezember 2013
EIGHT YEARS in prison for Facebook post
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Dear hans friedhoff,
This story is almost too awful to believe -- and it's taken a turn for the worse. First teenager Justin Carter was jailed for making a bad joke on Facebook. And now he's on SUICIDE WATCH.
Let's try to make things better, and be sure that Justin knows that thousands of us stand with him.
According to his dad, while Justin was playing a video game "[S]omeone had said something to the effect of 'Oh you're insane, you're crazy, you're messed up in the head. To which [Justin] replied 'Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head, I'm going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts,’ and the next two lines were 'lol and jk' [all sic]."
Even though it was a clear joke -- underscored by the shorthand for "laugh out loud" and "just kidding" -- a woman who saw the post reported Justin to the police. Now he's in jail for making "terroristic threats" and faces $500,000 for bail and up to 8 years in prison!
And this weekend his dad told CNN: "He's very depressed, very scared, and ... concerned that he's not going to get out.... He's pretty much lost all hope."
Please sign our petition to Justin -- we'll deliver it to his family, and also to the people who are persecuting him.
Click here to sign -- it just takes a second.
Thanks,
-- The folks at Watchdog.net
P.S. If the other links aren't working for you, please go here to sign: http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/3554?n=48279641.Btk3gG
This story is almost too awful to believe -- and it's taken a turn for the worse. First teenager Justin Carter was jailed for making a bad joke on Facebook. And now he's on SUICIDE WATCH.
Let's try to make things better, and be sure that Justin knows that thousands of us stand with him.
According to his dad, while Justin was playing a video game "[S]omeone had said something to the effect of 'Oh you're insane, you're crazy, you're messed up in the head. To which [Justin] replied 'Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head, I'm going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still, beating hearts,’ and the next two lines were 'lol and jk' [all sic]."
Even though it was a clear joke -- underscored by the shorthand for "laugh out loud" and "just kidding" -- a woman who saw the post reported Justin to the police. Now he's in jail for making "terroristic threats" and faces $500,000 for bail and up to 8 years in prison!
And this weekend his dad told CNN: "He's very depressed, very scared, and ... concerned that he's not going to get out.... He's pretty much lost all hope."
Please sign our petition to Justin -- we'll deliver it to his family, and also to the people who are persecuting him.
PETITION TO JUSTIN CARTER: Justin, please know that thousands of people across the country are horrified by what you're going through, and will stand with you and try to make things right.
Click here to sign -- it just takes a second.
Thanks,
-- The folks at Watchdog.net
P.S. If the other links aren't working for you, please go here to sign: http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/3554?n=48279641.Btk3gG
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The angora torture. Stop it!
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But even when I'm grey
I still be greymy way
Yeah!
Hans,
Great news! Huge clothing retailer, H&M, ceased production of all its angora products last week, in response to horrific video footage released by PETA that shows rabbits screaming in pain as their fur is torn off at angora farms in China, and to a 77,000-strong SumOfUs petition.
Sadly, Zara is refusing to do the same -- at the time of writing, there are still 60 angora items for sale on the Zara website.
Workers in China were secretly filmed by PETA, plucking angora rabbits of all their long, soft fur while they scream. Plucking a rabbit without causing harm takes up to two weeks of gently removing the loosened hair, but here it takes only a few, violent minutes. After this tortuous experience, which the rabbits endure every three months, many of them appeared to go into shock, lying motionless inside their tiny, filthy cages.
H&M has taken responsibility for this barbaric practice, Zara should too.
Tell Zara to stop production of its angora products immediately, and save the bunnies!
Ninety percent of angora fur comes from China, where there are no penalties for abuse of animals on farms and no standards to regulate the treatment of the animals. The reason for this cruelty comes down to profit, pure and simple. Angora has a trade value of $35 to $45 per kilogram, but the longer hair that comes from plucking, as opposed to shearing, can sell for more than double that.
The big retailers have a responsibility to tell their suppliers that they won’t accept this brutal treatment of angora rabbits. H&M have acted, saying in a statement that it will step up inspections of its sub-suppliers before selling angora again. In the meantime, customers can take back their H&M angora products for a full refund. H&M isn’t the only one -- it joins Topshop, New Look, Esprit, Asos, and C&A.
If they can act, Zara can too. But right now, its website is full of angora sweaters, gloves, hats, and scarfs. Zara thinks we don’t care where our clothes from, or how they are made. We need to prove it wrong.
Tell Zara we don’t want to see angora on its shelves. Cease production of angora products!
UK retailers Topshop and Asos’ decision to stop the production of angora was a direct response to our pressure -- SumOfUs members not only signed petitions to those companies, but we kept the pressure up by commenting on the Topshop and Asos Facebook pages, tweeting, making campaign graphics, and writing personal letters -- all leading to a huge victory for both consumers and bunnies! Now let’s multiply our impact, by getting major global clothing retailer Zara to stop selling angora.
Thanks for all you do,
Hanna, Johnny, Joakim, Martin, Ledys, Paul, and the rest of us at SumOfUs.org
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More Information:
H&M stops the production of all angora products, H&M, 27 November
Stretchers, shears and tiny bunny screams—making that angora sweater is rarely pretty, Quartz, 29 November
SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy.
Please help keep SumOfUs strong by chipping in $3.
Freitag, 13. Dezember 2013
A dark day for gay rights
Dear friends,
Two Indian Supreme Court judges just decided that gay sex is illegal. ILLEGAL!! But if we act fast we can help reverse this crazy backwards ruling.
Men and women in India now face police harassment and life imprisonment. This hateful decision is being met with outrage, and if we now show India that outlawing love is making them an international embarrassment we can get the Indian Parliament to fast track passing a law that the judges have to respect.
Sign now to help love conquer fear in India. When we reach 1 million we’ll get all our names written on hundreds of giant hearts ringing the Indian parliament, then place prominent ads showing that the world will no longer accept making love illegal:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/indias_gay_outrage_loc/?bIiqNab&v=32699
The shocking court decision came as a surprise. In 2009, a lower court in India had ruled that a colonial-era law making gay sex illegal violated the Indian Constitution. Most people expected the Indian Supreme Court to uphold that ruling. Instead, they reversed it, endorsing the medieval argument that gay sex is "unnatural, immoral and a reflection of a perverse mind."
Indian lawyers are already preparing to challenge the decision in further legal proceedings, but the Indian Court essentially said this is an issue for the Indian Parliament to decide. The Indian government suggested they could take it to Parliament but that they likely won’t have the votes to change the law and that doing so could take a very long time. But if we make India an international scandal for outlawing gay sex, we can help swing votes and speed the process.
Sign now and send this to 10 others -- let’s make the response to the Indian Supreme Court’s decision overwhelming:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/indias_gay_outrage_loc/?bIiqNab&v=32699
In most of the world, gay rights have gone through a watershed decade. People everywhere are realizing, if they hadn’t already, that love is love and deserves respect and protection. But this didn’t happen by accident -- it happened because of conscientious communities like ours who called out injustice wherever we saw it. India is now the next frontier -- let’s join with those in India to stand up for love.
With hope and determination,
Ian, Alex, Alice, Julien, Christoph, Melanie, Emilie, Ricken and the entire Avaaz team
More information
LGBT community outraged as SC rules gay sex illegal, upholds Sec 377
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/lgbt-community-outraged-as-sc-rules-gay-sex-illegal-upholds-sec-377/438991-3.html
India Top Court reinstates gay sex ban
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-25329065
Delhi High Court strikes down Section 377 of IPC
http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/03/stories/2009070358010100.htm
Article 377 and LGBT rights: here's what you need to know
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-article-377-and-lgbt-rights-here-s-what-you-need-to-know-1933370
Two Indian judges just ruled that gay sex is illegal and can be punished with life sentences! Outrage is building, and if enough of us lend our support today, we can embarrass India and get this crazy ruling overturned. Sign now so that love conquers fear in India: |
Men and women in India now face police harassment and life imprisonment. This hateful decision is being met with outrage, and if we now show India that outlawing love is making them an international embarrassment we can get the Indian Parliament to fast track passing a law that the judges have to respect.
Sign now to help love conquer fear in India. When we reach 1 million we’ll get all our names written on hundreds of giant hearts ringing the Indian parliament, then place prominent ads showing that the world will no longer accept making love illegal:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/indias_gay_outrage_loc/?bIiqNab&v=32699
The shocking court decision came as a surprise. In 2009, a lower court in India had ruled that a colonial-era law making gay sex illegal violated the Indian Constitution. Most people expected the Indian Supreme Court to uphold that ruling. Instead, they reversed it, endorsing the medieval argument that gay sex is "unnatural, immoral and a reflection of a perverse mind."
Indian lawyers are already preparing to challenge the decision in further legal proceedings, but the Indian Court essentially said this is an issue for the Indian Parliament to decide. The Indian government suggested they could take it to Parliament but that they likely won’t have the votes to change the law and that doing so could take a very long time. But if we make India an international scandal for outlawing gay sex, we can help swing votes and speed the process.
Sign now and send this to 10 others -- let’s make the response to the Indian Supreme Court’s decision overwhelming:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/indias_gay_outrage_loc/?bIiqNab&v=32699
In most of the world, gay rights have gone through a watershed decade. People everywhere are realizing, if they hadn’t already, that love is love and deserves respect and protection. But this didn’t happen by accident -- it happened because of conscientious communities like ours who called out injustice wherever we saw it. India is now the next frontier -- let’s join with those in India to stand up for love.
With hope and determination,
Ian, Alex, Alice, Julien, Christoph, Melanie, Emilie, Ricken and the entire Avaaz team
More information
LGBT community outraged as SC rules gay sex illegal, upholds Sec 377
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/lgbt-community-outraged-as-sc-rules-gay-sex-illegal-upholds-sec-377/438991-3.html
India Top Court reinstates gay sex ban
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-25329065
Delhi High Court strikes down Section 377 of IPC
http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/03/stories/2009070358010100.htm
Article 377 and LGBT rights: here's what you need to know
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-article-377-and-lgbt-rights-here-s-what-you-need-to-know-1933370
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