Comment Abortion (Score 1) 513
Dear Presidential Candidate McCain,
If a bill making abortion not associated with incest or rape a federal crime were to come across your desk as president, would you sign it into law?
Submission + - The Rise of Geekdom (nytimes.com)
cynagh0st writes: In what can only be described as the biggest newsflash for the Slashdot community since Microsoft was sued: It is the age of the geek. New York Times Op-Ed columnist and author David Brooks writes a brief article that can be best summed up in the following: All your culture are belong to us. In the article proper he summarizes the rise to power and discusses a technocratic geek dominance on the social construct. He writes, '...the new technology created a range of mental playgrounds where the new geeks could display their cultural capital. The jock can shine on the football field, but the geeks can display their supple sensibilities and well-modulated emotions on their Facebook pages, blogs, text messages and Twitter feeds...They've created a new definition of what it means to be cool, a definition that leaves out the talents of the jocks, the M.B.A.-types and the less educated...There are now millions of educated-class types guided by geek manners and status rules.'
Submission + - China to US: 'We Like Our Censorship Thanks.'
cynagh0st writes: A Pew Internet & American Life Project report indicates that of an overwhelming majority of Chinese people that believed the internet should be "managed or controlled," 85% want the government to do this managing. This is resulting from surveys on internet use over the last 7 years in China. 'The survey findings discussed here, drawn from a broad-based sample of urban Chinese internet users and non-users alike, indicate a degree of comfort and even approval of the notion that the government authorities should control and manage the content available on the internet.' The report goes further into describing the divide in perspective between China and Western Nations on the matter and discusses the PRC's justifications for internet control.
