According to Russia Today, Anon took down over 700 Israeli websites, and also dumped the (sensitive) personal details of almost 5,000 Israeli government employees on the internet: http://rt.com/news/anonymous-israel-officials-leaked-002/ --------- It seems to me that the Israelis are either a) lying to save face or b) lying because they are so used to lying about everything to begin with.
...from stealth DRM spyware on your Music CDs, to shitty closed-ecosystem type policies for PS3 is that SONY - once a "Superbrand" - is crumbling in the eyes of consumers. No big loss, really. Samsung does everything Sony once did better, and at lower prices. Maybe Samsung could be persuaded to create an Android or Linux powered game console that frees people from the inevitable "horror" that will be Playstation 4? Go on Samsung; Take that "final leap" to challenging Sony in "all things consumer electronics"...
When the original "Wing Commander" was released for DOS, many hardcore Amiga/Atari ST gamers bought PCs just to be able to play it. No game before it had the kind of graphics, story or space combat that Wing Commander offered. And this one game (plus the hugely innovative Ultima Underworld perhaps) turned PCs into a potent gaming machine overnight. ---- Star Citizen may very well do the same for Linux. A Chris Roberts Space Game + Internet Massively Multiplayer + Cryengine 3 graphics + Newtonian Physics simulation on everything in game + Linux = Nerd Heaven!!! ------- I say "Go, Chris Roberts, Go! Bring SC and CryEngine 3 to Linux!!!"
Murdoch's NewsCorp makes Billions of Dollars in Profit/Revenues a year, and is one of the largest media companies in the world. Yet NewsCorp only pays about 4% in Taxes on all this income, thanks to an intricate network of hundreds of shell-companies in tax havens like Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Article to back this up: http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/6796-focus-pay-your-taxes-murdoch ---- So, Rupert Murdoch, perhaps you should pay your taxes properly before you go after anyone for "Piracy"? You owe multiple governments and territories hundreds of millions of Dollars in back taxes. --- Perhaps you should clean up your "Tax Piracy", before you go after hapless individuals for "Content Piracy"? --- Better yet, run your "archconservative" NewsCorp dinosaur biz into the ground for good, so more ethical, talented, objective news and content producers can fill the gap you leave in the market.
I couldn't stand the highly technical coding I do for a job without my periodic "Cigarette Break". Every couple of hours I go outside into fresh air, light up a cig, see some daylight, and let my mind relax for a moment, to recharge for another 2 hour bout of the highly quantitative stuff I do. Nobody should be hired/fired or not based on whether they smoke cigarettes. ------ Yes, cigarettes are not good for you in the long run. But it isn't anybody's business what you do or don't do with your own body. ---- It is idiotic how harshly non-smokers try to wean smokers off cigarettes. Tobacco products are not illegal. Nobody has a right to tell me that I can't smoke if I want to "keep my job".
...about consumer rights, and about the information it passes to buyers. A lot of Apple fans pay a steep premium for Apple products, assuming that they are "the best", even though that is hardly the case. There really is no legit reason why a Mac will cost 1.5 - 2 times more than a similarly specced Windows PC. ---- There's only one way Apple will go from here if it doesn't implement more ethical policies across the board: Down, down, down...
Crappy right-wing deregulation & economic policymaking is allowed. Fighting illegal wars against far weaker enemies is allowed, with massive civilian casualties. Being an anti-immigration racist is allowed. ---- But show an exposed female nipple on TV, or say something negative about the Church or Clergy, and they will hunt you down, brother! --------- These people need to get a life.. Whatever this man said online, its freedom of speech! Love it or hate it...
Assange called Facebook "The most abominable spying-machine created in all of human history". I'm inclined to think that he was right about that, since U.S. 3 letter agencies seem to have bought special software that crawls sites like Facebook to collect as much data/information about each person as possible. -------- The EU did the right thing here. Suckerberg can't be trusted with anybody's privacy. -------- Now if only I could live to see the day when people voluntarily delete their profiles off Facebook, and use alternate services that aren't as intrusive...
America, the EU, Russia and China could spend their money more wisely than on another "Stealth Aircraft". ---- They could spend that money on helping the world's poor get some food, healthcare, permanent shelter, et cetera. ---- But who cares about corny issues like that, right? Why help the poor, when you can instead create 50 Million Dollars a piece Fighter Aircraft, even if they will never be used for anything serious.... Because the US, EU, Russia and China will in all probability never go to war with each other... -----
You'd think that people would wait a few days for the iPhone 5 to hit the market, get thoroughly tested/reviewed by various internet sites, build some word-of-mouth (is it genuinely good?). But not, millions of people go "I want, I want, I want" for a product they've never seen or touched in person. ------- Thank god for Android. I couldn't live in a world where Apple dominates everything. --------
... that governments around the world are spying on their citizens... because... well... because they can. Also because a small number of unscrupulous IT companies keeps churning out digital tools that are made solely to spy on people. ---- IMHO this practice needs to stop. People should pay nnnn Dollar for smartphones and computer gear, and be safe in the knowledge that they are NOT spied on when they use these gadgets. -------- Its sad, just sad that governments, instead of being on the side of people, increasingly see people as ORGANIC DATA GENERATORS.---- The more data you can collect on people, the better, these people think. ----- Once again, this is a sad, sad picture. The practice of spying on people casually needs to stop!
The powers-that-be, which includes banks, corporations and lawmakers, have been driving all of us "ordinarylings" towards a future where we are increasingly under 24/7 surveillance, whether we like it or not. They have been building a "surveillance grid" that becomes more sophisticated every day, and that knows everything from what we are buying/consuming, to what we are reading, to where we surf on the net when we get up in the morning, to where we park our cars, or go for an evening walk. ---- In a sense it is almost fair that the people who have been encouraging & bankrolling & constantly expanding this surveillance grid get their own digital lives hacked, and thrown online for everyone to scrutinize. ----- If we weren't surveilled digitally, 24/7, and so cruelly, I would say that these hackers have done "a bad thing". ------- Things being what they are - we are watched every more closely by the surveillance grid - its hard, morally speaking, to blame these hackers for their unorthodox actions and tactics.
Without a good selection of available games, many people won't switch from Windows to Linux. And if many people don't switch to Linux, game publishers will be loathe to port any major games to Linux. -------- Steam may change this. It may change it a LOT. Even if just a dozen or so AAA games get ported to Linux, it would be a positive start. ----- I would love to run Linux instead of Windows 7. I really would. But the lack of games and some other applications on Linux keeps me on Win 7. ----- Good luck to any Linux gaming pioneers. Carmageddon: Reincarnation will be ported to Linux, so that is one potentially major game title being ported to the tux.
These people won't rest until every phone can be tapped, every email recorded in a forever-database, every face recognized from 500 feet away by nextgen CCTV cameras, every car's whereabouts tracked via RFID or license plate readers... You get the idea. ----- For the people in power, all this surveillance and more is how the future "should look like". ------ They don't like the idea of peopel having some privacy. They don't like the idea of people being free, or having some secrets. That's not how the future THEY WANT looks like. ------ 10 - 20 years from, every little bit of liberty and privacy we take for granted may be gone, forever. Every step you take will be recorded. Every statement you utter also. Every phone conversation you have with someone. Every place you browse on the web. Every channel you watch on your TV. ------ These people cannot live with the idea of a FREE AND FAIR FUTURE for mankind. They are psychologically programmed to feel a need to watch everyone, all the time, and record everything for future evaluation. ------ Goodbye, old & free world. It was nice to experience you, even if it didn't last very long... --------
Game sales are seriously down in 2012 compared to previous years. I am willing to bet that at least partially, this is because of the Steam/Origin/UPlay DRM garbage game publishers force you to install. ------- The game industry needs to take a long, hard look at the way it treats paying customers. Instead of the "we force xyz conditions on you" mantra practiced today, the industry needs to switch to "the buyer is always right". This means that the industry will need to listen to what game buyers want, and no longer IMPOSE completely unnecessary and counterproductive terms & conditions on the paying gamer. -------- This will probably never happen... The industry is run by money-oriented suits & beancounters who don't really care about making good games. But it would definitely have been nice to see, even if for just one day, the industry actually listening to what its customers want. --------- Maybe Kickstarter.com can help fix this mess. The 24 game projects that have been funded with Kickstarter will all be delivered sometime in 2013. And then we will see if the "Crowdfunded Games" can serve as a replacement for buying games from the big Multi-Billion Dollar game publishers. ------
So using megadoses of peer-pressure to get everyone on Facebook isn't enough anymore... Now not being on Facebook is actually considered to be a serious clue that there is something seriously wrong with you? What a load of bullshit. What a load of bullshit. What a load of bullshit. ------ Many ordinary people who are smart about privacy do not put their lives on Facebook for a very good reason: Zuckerbook exists purely to make money, and cannot be TRUSTED with the details of your life, however mundane they may be. 3 cheers for everyone who abstains from Facebook for privacy reasons. Hip-Hip-Hooray. Hip-Hip-Hooray. Hip-Hip-Hooray. ------- End of message -----------
I'm wondering what the advantage of so many different - and incompatible - OSs on Phones is. iOS, Android, Blackberry, now Windows Phone, et cetera. Each with different APP stores, different SDKs and Apps... What's the point of it all? What does it matter where a Smart Phone with hardware specs XX runs Android, iOS or Windows Phone. ---------- The whole things seems like a waste of software developers' finite resources to me (having to develop separate versions of an APP for separate OSs and so forth). -------- Why can't the world of Smart Phones agree on one compatibility standard, and then everything runs fine on every device? -------- Good luck to MS. It may be getting into a fight in the smart phones space that isn't even worth winning. =)
If they want to hide the number of people they have wiretapped/surveilled, that number, in all likelihood, is very large. Could be a few hundred thousand. Could be a few million. Could be a few tens of millions. It could also be "everybody living within the borders of the United States, every day", if they have the digital infrastructure to handle that kind of workload in realtime. ---------- Besides, precisely what would the number tell you? The number of people surveilled by human operators? Or the number of people who have had their phone conversations/emails/web browsing flagged, because they used a "suspicious keyword" or two while communicating with someone else? --------- In any case, the fact that they refuse to reveal the "number" of people who have been surveilled suggests that this number is large, or perhaps even very large. --------- As for privacy, how do a few simple statistics violate the privacy of anyone? Or are they afraid that the numbers in play are so LARGE, that virtually everyone in America will feel they have "lost their privacy". Maybe that is the correct translation of what they are trying to say: "If we reveal the number of people surveilled, the number is so large that EVERYONE who reads about it will start to feel surveilled. --------------
What I implied is that an established Western Democracy like Britain cannot pull out of a major Human Rights treaty without causing a huge bruhaha in the international media. ------- Being a developed country and f%%king up your duty to uphold Human Rights Laws is a seriously bad combination. ----- It would cause the country in question to loose A LOT of prestige. -------- That said, the UK Govt is determined to undermine all Human Privacy it seems. Oh well, it might help solve Britain's immigration problems when not even poor people of Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin want to move to the UK anymore. =)
This is what Wikipedia has on the subject: "While not a treaty itself, the Declaration was explicitly adopted for the purpose of defining the meaning of the words "fundamental freedoms" and "human rights" appearing in the United Nations Charter, which is binding on all member states. For this reason the Universal Declaration is a fundamental constitutive document of the United Nations. Many international lawyers, in addition, believe that the Declaration forms part of customary international law and is a powerful tool in applying diplomatic and moral pressure to governments that violate any of its articles. The 1968 United Nations International Conference on Human Rights advised that it "constitutes an obligation for the members of the international community" to all persons. The declaration has served as the foundation for two binding UN human rights covenants, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the principles of the Declaration are elaborated in international treaties such as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations Convention Against Torture and many more. The Declaration continues to be widely cited by governments, academics, advocates and constitutional courts and individual human beings who appeal to its principles for the protection of their recognised human rights."
The one I worry about more is "The Sun". It's owned by an arch-conservative right-wing media oligarch of Australian origin who hates muslims, freedom, civil rights and good journalism to an equal extent. ----- Its seriously worrying that in a supposedly highly advanced country/democracy like Britain, junk like The Sun can sell 9 million copies a day.
America has been fucked up in the way you describe, ever since they created the whole DHS bureaucracy. ----- And don't worry about the way you are treated. Since 9/11, Americans have been doing what they did to you to practically everyone who visits their country. ----- If you had been wearing a NASCAR t-shirt and similar apparel, and had an American accent, you might have been able to buy your PSU with cash. ----- Any hint of being foreign - even British or French - and the average American cannot tell you apart from a Libyan terrorist, LOL. ------ Sorry about your experience. I myself got treated pretty rough in America a few years ago, too. ----- What an unwelcoming and uncivilized country the U.S. has become in the last 10 years. ------ Pretty sad....
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According to Russia Today, Anon took down over 700 Israeli websites, and also dumped the (sensitive) personal details of almost 5,000 Israeli government employees on the internet: http://rt.com/news/anonymous-israel-officials-leaked-002/ --------- It seems to me that the Israelis are either a) lying to save face or b) lying because they are so used to lying about everything to begin with.
...from stealth DRM spyware on your Music CDs, to shitty closed-ecosystem type policies for PS3 is that SONY - once a "Superbrand" - is crumbling in the eyes of consumers. No big loss, really. Samsung does everything Sony once did better, and at lower prices. Maybe Samsung could be persuaded to create an Android or Linux powered game console that frees people from the inevitable "horror" that will be Playstation 4? Go on Samsung; Take that "final leap" to challenging Sony in "all things consumer electronics"...
When the original "Wing Commander" was released for DOS, many hardcore Amiga/Atari ST gamers bought PCs just to be able to play it. No game before it had the kind of graphics, story or space combat that Wing Commander offered. And this one game (plus the hugely innovative Ultima Underworld perhaps) turned PCs into a potent gaming machine overnight. ---- Star Citizen may very well do the same for Linux. A Chris Roberts Space Game + Internet Massively Multiplayer + Cryengine 3 graphics + Newtonian Physics simulation on everything in game + Linux = Nerd Heaven!!! ------- I say "Go, Chris Roberts, Go! Bring SC and CryEngine 3 to Linux!!!"
Murdoch's NewsCorp makes Billions of Dollars in Profit/Revenues a year, and is one of the largest media companies in the world. Yet NewsCorp only pays about 4% in Taxes on all this income, thanks to an intricate network of hundreds of shell-companies in tax havens like Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Article to back this up: http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/6796-focus-pay-your-taxes-murdoch ---- So, Rupert Murdoch, perhaps you should pay your taxes properly before you go after anyone for "Piracy"? You owe multiple governments and territories hundreds of millions of Dollars in back taxes. --- Perhaps you should clean up your "Tax Piracy", before you go after hapless individuals for "Content Piracy"? --- Better yet, run your "archconservative" NewsCorp dinosaur biz into the ground for good, so more ethical, talented, objective news and content producers can fill the gap you leave in the market.
I couldn't stand the highly technical coding I do for a job without my periodic "Cigarette Break". Every couple of hours I go outside into fresh air, light up a cig, see some daylight, and let my mind relax for a moment, to recharge for another 2 hour bout of the highly quantitative stuff I do. Nobody should be hired/fired or not based on whether they smoke cigarettes. ------ Yes, cigarettes are not good for you in the long run. But it isn't anybody's business what you do or don't do with your own body. ---- It is idiotic how harshly non-smokers try to wean smokers off cigarettes. Tobacco products are not illegal. Nobody has a right to tell me that I can't smoke if I want to "keep my job".
1) In Soviet Russia, internet is rude to YOU! 2) I for one welcome our rude, toy-using internet overlords!
...about consumer rights, and about the information it passes to buyers. A lot of Apple fans pay a steep premium for Apple products, assuming that they are "the best", even though that is hardly the case. There really is no legit reason why a Mac will cost 1.5 - 2 times more than a similarly specced Windows PC. ---- There's only one way Apple will go from here if it doesn't implement more ethical policies across the board: Down, down, down...
Crappy right-wing deregulation & economic policymaking is allowed. Fighting illegal wars against far weaker enemies is allowed, with massive civilian casualties. Being an anti-immigration racist is allowed. ---- But show an exposed female nipple on TV, or say something negative about the Church or Clergy, and they will hunt you down, brother! --------- These people need to get a life.. Whatever this man said online, its freedom of speech! Love it or hate it...
Assange called Facebook "The most abominable spying-machine created in all of human history". I'm inclined to think that he was right about that, since U.S. 3 letter agencies seem to have bought special software that crawls sites like Facebook to collect as much data/information about each person as possible. -------- The EU did the right thing here. Suckerberg can't be trusted with anybody's privacy. -------- Now if only I could live to see the day when people voluntarily delete their profiles off Facebook, and use alternate services that aren't as intrusive...
America, the EU, Russia and China could spend their money more wisely than on another "Stealth Aircraft". ---- They could spend that money on helping the world's poor get some food, healthcare, permanent shelter, et cetera. ---- But who cares about corny issues like that, right? Why help the poor, when you can instead create 50 Million Dollars a piece Fighter Aircraft, even if they will never be used for anything serious.... Because the US, EU, Russia and China will in all probability never go to war with each other... -----
You'd think that people would wait a few days for the iPhone 5 to hit the market, get thoroughly tested/reviewed by various internet sites, build some word-of-mouth (is it genuinely good?). But not, millions of people go "I want, I want, I want" for a product they've never seen or touched in person. ------- Thank god for Android. I couldn't live in a world where Apple dominates everything. --------
... that governments around the world are spying on their citizens... because... well... because they can. Also because a small number of unscrupulous IT companies keeps churning out digital tools that are made solely to spy on people. ---- IMHO this practice needs to stop. People should pay nnnn Dollar for smartphones and computer gear, and be safe in the knowledge that they are NOT spied on when they use these gadgets. -------- Its sad, just sad that governments, instead of being on the side of people, increasingly see people as ORGANIC DATA GENERATORS.---- The more data you can collect on people, the better, these people think. ----- Once again, this is a sad, sad picture. The practice of spying on people casually needs to stop!
One of many backward countries around the world that don't see any benefit in having a free internet. Sad but true...
The powers-that-be, which includes banks, corporations and lawmakers, have been driving all of us "ordinarylings" towards a future where we are increasingly under 24/7 surveillance, whether we like it or not. They have been building a "surveillance grid" that becomes more sophisticated every day, and that knows everything from what we are buying/consuming, to what we are reading, to where we surf on the net when we get up in the morning, to where we park our cars, or go for an evening walk. ---- In a sense it is almost fair that the people who have been encouraging & bankrolling & constantly expanding this surveillance grid get their own digital lives hacked, and thrown online for everyone to scrutinize. ----- If we weren't surveilled digitally, 24/7, and so cruelly, I would say that these hackers have done "a bad thing". ------- Things being what they are - we are watched every more closely by the surveillance grid - its hard, morally speaking, to blame these hackers for their unorthodox actions and tactics.
Without a good selection of available games, many people won't switch from Windows to Linux. And if many people don't switch to Linux, game publishers will be loathe to port any major games to Linux. -------- Steam may change this. It may change it a LOT. Even if just a dozen or so AAA games get ported to Linux, it would be a positive start. ----- I would love to run Linux instead of Windows 7. I really would. But the lack of games and some other applications on Linux keeps me on Win 7. ----- Good luck to any Linux gaming pioneers. Carmageddon: Reincarnation will be ported to Linux, so that is one potentially major game title being ported to the tux.
These people won't rest until every phone can be tapped, every email recorded in a forever-database, every face recognized from 500 feet away by nextgen CCTV cameras, every car's whereabouts tracked via RFID or license plate readers... You get the idea. ----- For the people in power, all this surveillance and more is how the future "should look like". ------ They don't like the idea of peopel having some privacy. They don't like the idea of people being free, or having some secrets. That's not how the future THEY WANT looks like. ------ 10 - 20 years from, every little bit of liberty and privacy we take for granted may be gone, forever. Every step you take will be recorded. Every statement you utter also. Every phone conversation you have with someone. Every place you browse on the web. Every channel you watch on your TV. ------ These people cannot live with the idea of a FREE AND FAIR FUTURE for mankind. They are psychologically programmed to feel a need to watch everyone, all the time, and record everything for future evaluation. ------ Goodbye, old & free world. It was nice to experience you, even if it didn't last very long... --------
You can always develop for this thing: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console It will be available to buy March 2013.
Game sales are seriously down in 2012 compared to previous years. I am willing to bet that at least partially, this is because of the Steam/Origin/UPlay DRM garbage game publishers force you to install. ------- The game industry needs to take a long, hard look at the way it treats paying customers. Instead of the "we force xyz conditions on you" mantra practiced today, the industry needs to switch to "the buyer is always right". This means that the industry will need to listen to what game buyers want, and no longer IMPOSE completely unnecessary and counterproductive terms & conditions on the paying gamer. -------- This will probably never happen... The industry is run by money-oriented suits & beancounters who don't really care about making good games. But it would definitely have been nice to see, even if for just one day, the industry actually listening to what its customers want. --------- Maybe Kickstarter.com can help fix this mess. The 24 game projects that have been funded with Kickstarter will all be delivered sometime in 2013. And then we will see if the "Crowdfunded Games" can serve as a replacement for buying games from the big Multi-Billion Dollar game publishers. ------
So using megadoses of peer-pressure to get everyone on Facebook isn't enough anymore... Now not being on Facebook is actually considered to be a serious clue that there is something seriously wrong with you? What a load of bullshit. What a load of bullshit. What a load of bullshit. ------ Many ordinary people who are smart about privacy do not put their lives on Facebook for a very good reason: Zuckerbook exists purely to make money, and cannot be TRUSTED with the details of your life, however mundane they may be. 3 cheers for everyone who abstains from Facebook for privacy reasons. Hip-Hip-Hooray. Hip-Hip-Hooray. Hip-Hip-Hooray. ------- End of message -----------
I'm wondering what the advantage of so many different - and incompatible - OSs on Phones is. iOS, Android, Blackberry, now Windows Phone, et cetera. Each with different APP stores, different SDKs and Apps... What's the point of it all? What does it matter where a Smart Phone with hardware specs XX runs Android, iOS or Windows Phone. ---------- The whole things seems like a waste of software developers' finite resources to me (having to develop separate versions of an APP for separate OSs and so forth). -------- Why can't the world of Smart Phones agree on one compatibility standard, and then everything runs fine on every device? -------- Good luck to MS. It may be getting into a fight in the smart phones space that isn't even worth winning. =)
If they want to hide the number of people they have wiretapped/surveilled, that number, in all likelihood, is very large. Could be a few hundred thousand. Could be a few million. Could be a few tens of millions. It could also be "everybody living within the borders of the United States, every day", if they have the digital infrastructure to handle that kind of workload in realtime. ---------- Besides, precisely what would the number tell you? The number of people surveilled by human operators? Or the number of people who have had their phone conversations/emails/web browsing flagged, because they used a "suspicious keyword" or two while communicating with someone else? --------- In any case, the fact that they refuse to reveal the "number" of people who have been surveilled suggests that this number is large, or perhaps even very large. --------- As for privacy, how do a few simple statistics violate the privacy of anyone? Or are they afraid that the numbers in play are so LARGE, that virtually everyone in America will feel they have "lost their privacy". Maybe that is the correct translation of what they are trying to say: "If we reveal the number of people surveilled, the number is so large that EVERYONE who reads about it will start to feel surveilled. --------------
What I implied is that an established Western Democracy like Britain cannot pull out of a major Human Rights treaty without causing a huge bruhaha in the international media. ------- Being a developed country and f%%king up your duty to uphold Human Rights Laws is a seriously bad combination. ----- It would cause the country in question to loose A LOT of prestige. -------- That said, the UK Govt is determined to undermine all Human Privacy it seems. Oh well, it might help solve Britain's immigration problems when not even poor people of Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin want to move to the UK anymore. =)
This is what Wikipedia has on the subject: "While not a treaty itself, the Declaration was explicitly adopted for the purpose of defining the meaning of the words "fundamental freedoms" and "human rights" appearing in the United Nations Charter, which is binding on all member states. For this reason the Universal Declaration is a fundamental constitutive document of the United Nations. Many international lawyers, in addition, believe that the Declaration forms part of customary international law and is a powerful tool in applying diplomatic and moral pressure to governments that violate any of its articles. The 1968 United Nations International Conference on Human Rights advised that it "constitutes an obligation for the members of the international community" to all persons. The declaration has served as the foundation for two binding UN human rights covenants, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the principles of the Declaration are elaborated in international treaties such as the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the International Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the United Nations Convention Against Torture and many more. The Declaration continues to be widely cited by governments, academics, advocates and constitutional courts and individual human beings who appeal to its principles for the protection of their recognised human rights."
The one I worry about more is "The Sun". It's owned by an arch-conservative right-wing media oligarch of Australian origin who hates muslims, freedom, civil rights and good journalism to an equal extent. ----- Its seriously worrying that in a supposedly highly advanced country/democracy like Britain, junk like The Sun can sell 9 million copies a day.
America has been fucked up in the way you describe, ever since they created the whole DHS bureaucracy. ----- And don't worry about the way you are treated. Since 9/11, Americans have been doing what they did to you to practically everyone who visits their country. ----- If you had been wearing a NASCAR t-shirt and similar apparel, and had an American accent, you might have been able to buy your PSU with cash. ----- Any hint of being foreign - even British or French - and the average American cannot tell you apart from a Libyan terrorist, LOL. ------ Sorry about your experience. I myself got treated pretty rough in America a few years ago, too. ----- What an unwelcoming and uncivilized country the U.S. has become in the last 10 years. ------ Pretty sad....