Battle For The Net

If you woke up tomorrow, and your internet looked like this, what would you do? Imagine all your favorite websites taking forever to load, while you get annoying notifications from your ISP suggesting you switch to one of their approved “Fast Lane” sites.Think about what we would lose: all the weird, alternative, interesting, and enlightening stuff that makes the Internet so much cooler than mainstream Cable TV. What if the only news sites you could reliably connect to were the ones that had deals with companies like Comcast and Verizon?On September 10th, just a few days before the FCC’s comment deadline, public interest organizations are issuing an open, international call for websites and internet users to unite for an “Internet Slowdown” to show the world what the web would be like if Team Cable gets their way and trashes net neutrality. Net neutrality is hard to explain, so our hope is that this action will help SHOW the world what’s really at stake if we lose the open Internet.If you’ve got a website, blog or tumblr, get the code to join the #InternetSlowdown here: https://battleforthenet.com/sept10thEveryone else, here’s a quick list of things you can do to help spread the word about the slowdown: http://tumblr.fightforthefuture.org/post/96020972118/be-a-part-of-the-great-internet-slowdown Get creative! Don’t let us tell you what to do. See you on the net September 10th!

via Battle For The Net.

RACISM AND WHY WE SHOULD NOT JUST FORGET ABOUT IT

Racism is a something we’ve all seen. Many people fail to consider that race isn’t a genetic class, but a synthetic classification of individuals with no scientifically variable facts. The term “Race” seemed to have stemmed from how people view other faces and ideas that we are not used or accustomed to.  In U.S. history, the definition of the label “white” has modified over time, eventually adding groups.

Different groups, principally those that hailed from Africa, the ones we call Latinos, Native American, people from the Pacific, and the Asians, have found worldwide acceptance to be difficult. The irregular border of ethnicities touches instructional and economic chance, political illustration, also as financial gain, health and social quality of individuals of colour. This simply states how not being culturally “normal” can hinder the social acceptance of an individual in certain instances such as Africans being reduced to being slaves and how they are not allowed to be on the same level as the “whites” or how the Native Americans, the true founders of America, were treated as savages who only wanted to retain the lands their ancestors passed on to them.

Where does it all begin, you ask? There are several ideas thrown around on however racism began, although the reality lies within the history of man. Before individuals were ready to travel and had knowledge of the different kinds of “humans”, we had a tendency to preponderantly stay within the same reasonably space with pretty much the same individuals. As humans, we have a tendency to fear things that were totally different, and were lacked the ability to face those sorts of things. All this modified once we did, in fact, get this level of human advancement; however the worry never really went away. The reality is racism began as shortly as individuals faced those of various races. In this regard, humanity’s natural instinct is to fear the things it does not recognize as occurring naturally or is naturally peaceful. Humans have survived as the dominant species because of this instinct yet this primal instinct has now become the driver of human segregation or discrimination.

9/11 Remembered: POV from space last September 11 2001

Grabbed from this site

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It saddens me how religion and politics never help each other.

Remember 9/11 this Sunday at 8:46 AM; wherever you are.

Osama Bin Laden is “dead”; LOL at OBAMA Bin Laden is dead on Fox!

So you probably have read or heard it somewhere. Americans go celebrate this “event” and may proceed to renew their drunken state for a few weeks via parties and nothing but sex, sex, and more sex.

I’m not here to say I’m a skeptic and shit but I just hope it’s not one of those “he’s really alive but we’d like to say he’s dead because we’re doing inhumane things to him to reveal WMDs and secret plans and stuff” conspiracies.

And have you heard about Fox’s recent typo accident?

In any case, may those who died from 10 years ago may finally be put to rest.

Let’s all pray for Japan

I’m sure you’ve at least heard of it by now; Japan just got slammed by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake earlier today which then resulted in this biblical proportion of a tidal wave (or tsunami). Here’s an official report.

Here’s some statistical data.

As the saying goes: The sunrise signals a new day.

Let’s all hope for the best for the people of the Land of the Rising Sun.

My Name Is Memory= Fallen Rip-off?

First things first: I haven’t exactly bought myself a copy of this book titled “My Name Is Memory” by Ann Brashares so it’s only safe to say that my assumptions may only apply to the following:

a. The book cover

b. The synopsis

c. The characters

anima9 reminds you to drive FUCKING carefully

The following video contains graphic scenes. This is composed of both real and theoretical footage. Take note, however, that just because some videos are theoretical doesn’t mean it can’t happen. I urge everyone to be cautious while on the road. Not just for your sake but for others as well.

A split second decision can change your life forever. Remember that.