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Comment Re:Paging Bernie Madoff Clients... (Score 1) 666

Ok, I see what you're saying.

The one in Africa is clearly worse at the moment according to the metric of killings we can do anything about.

I quite agree.

The fact that she didn't point out that it WAS happening as she spoke was disturbing. Focusing on a past event is fine and all but if the goal is to stop it I think it would be nice to at least MENTION that it is going on.

My point was that the lady probably simply wasn't aware of the situation in Africa, as the Western media isn't as big on telling their audience about ethnic genocides as they are in covering the latest Hollywood scandal. Considering she went through an ethnic slaughter and would be more concerned about the issue, I think she ought to be given the benefit of the doubt and that her not commenting on current events was more likely due to lack of information rather than deliberate omission.
Sorry if I read too much into your previous post!

Comment Re:Paging Bernie Madoff Clients... (Score 3, Interesting) 666

So... talking about the horrors of the Holocaust is racist if you don't give equal time to every other ethnic slaughter? The lady was talking about what she knew firsthand.

While you were aware of the current wars in Africa, most of the rest of the students in your class probably weren't and this lady's talk was eyeopening for them. How many African students at the time of WWII knew what was happening in the concentration camps? Most African wars don't make it to Western media; that's no reason to assume the lady didn't care about people in Africa or wouldn't have mentioned the wars if she knew about them. Why are you attacking someone (who had actually lived through) an ethnic slaughter and was trying to raise awareness of it?

I asked her why she hadn't even mentioned the millions of people currently dieing in Africa in similar or worse conditions than her own people.

Millions of Jews died in the Holocaust. Millions of Africans died and are dying in wars and genocides. How can you say one atrocity is worse than the other, as though it negated the "lesser" atrocity? This lady, after surviving an ethnic slaughter, was going around speaking about her experiences (which can't have been easy) to try to raise awareness and warn people living in a comfortable Western society about the dangers of racism. That took a lot of courage and compassion for others.

Comment Re:Dear Brittish friends, why do you want Stasi? (Score 1) 176

If you actually knew your neighbor was building a bomb to blow up a bus / train station / whatever (assuming you knew there was a good possibility it was credible, not just the six-year-old next door saying "I wish I could blow up my school!") and you did nothing about it, then yes, I would say you're guilty by association.
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Submission + - SPAM: Spammer ordered to pay Facebook $711 million

alphadogg writes: Facebook was awarded $711 million in damages from a convicted spammer on Thursday, but the social networking site is hoping a separate criminal action will eventually send him to jail.
Sanford Wallace was sued by Facebook in February along with Adam Arzoomanian and Scott Shaw for allegedly obtaining the login credentials for accounts. The accounts were then used to send spam to those users' friends starting around November 2008. The spam either linked to other phishing sites that sought to collect more Facebook account credentials or linked to other commercial Web sites that paid spammers for referrals.

Facebook "doesn't expect to receive the vast majority of the award," according to a company blog.[spam URL stripped]

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Comment Re:they need something based on the rules of crick (Score 1) 294

I hate the 5th Doctor episode where he spends a big chunk of time doing nothing but playing cricket. Rather than waste time with that nonsense, they should have simply consolidated the 2-part story downto 1 part.

Now now, don't disparage the first man who's lived long enough to actually understand the game.

Comment Re: (Score 1) 244

I submit that religion illustrates perfectly our ability to make irrational decisions in the absence of evidence, and cling to obviously false explanations in spite of real facts subsequently brought to light.

So does Clippy.

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