I’m sorry but I have to say this cause it angers me. Kindle is a great product. Hands down the best current e-book out on the market. The newest version came out with a built in feature to read the ebooks to you whenever you didn’t feel like reading. So essentially your ebooks would become audiobooks. What amazing feature for the lazy, and most of all the sight impaired.
Because of dumb-bums like Authurs Guild whining about the copyright issues, the ebook reading out loud feature was crippled! What about the sight impaired people who want’s to read the book and their is no audio version? ever thought about that? Paper is dying format, and it should just die. It’s wasting trees, and creating trash which is further polluting the earth. Most of the books written today anyways is probably a shitty book anyways, so who gives a damn about your stupid copyright. Ok, I’m just ranting. Copyright is important but this audio feature thing on kindle is so stupid. What about computer? they can read any format you throw at it, even e-books… should we cripple our computers to? Should we rob the impaired of fairness and equality in life to enjoy already poorly written books?
Authors Guild, please… wake up and smell the technology. Move into the future and embrace the change and quit being greedy trying to squeeze every dime out of everyone.
I still love the kindle, but crippling this feature has now stopped me from purchasing one.
Today, I decided to skip Starbucks because I was annoyed that they messed up my order yesterday. So I decided to go to a gas station right next to the Starbucks store and grab myself a cheaper cup of coffee.
As soon as I walked in, I was greeted by the store clerk. “Good morning”.
I reply, “Hi how you doin?”
“I’m ok… are you Chinese?”
I’m thinking in my head, no bitch, I’m not chinese. But I knew I shouldn’t be rude. “I’m not Chinese, I’m Korean. I know we all look the same right?”
“Oh my neighbor is Korean. They are very nice.”
“That’s cool.”
“You look Chinese.”
“Oh is it cause I have small eyes? Well I must go now. Take care.”
A Fox Searchlight spokesperson said he is “proud” of their treatment, “the children were paid three times the average local annual adult salary.”
Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, two of the child actors in “Slumdog Millionaire,” are still living in the slums of Mumbai, despite the film’s $14 million budget and worldwide success. Ali earned 500 British pounds ($710) for one year’s work and Ismail earned 1700 pounds ($2414), “less than many Indian domestic servants”:
Both children were found places in a local school and receive £20 a month for books and food. However, they continue to live in grinding poverty and their families say they have received no details of the trust funds set up in their names. Their parents said that they had hoped the film would be their ticket out of the slums, and that its success had made them realise how little their children had been paid.
Ismail is in fact “worse off” now, as his “family’s illegal hut was demolished by the local authorities and he now sleeps under a sheet of plastic tarpaulin.” Ali lives nearby — in a “hut.” A Fox Searchlight spokesperson said he is “proud” of their treatment and boasted, “For 30 days work, the children were paid three times the average local annual adult salary.”
My comment:
Yea it’s nice they got paid extra… a whole years worth. But I think this is appauling to me that they’re still left in the slums with only few bucks in there pockets. Mr Danny Boyle, why don’t you just not buy one of your expensive cars, and meals and send the boys some money.
Kid Shoots Parents for Taking Away His Copy of Halo 3
An Ohio teenager stands accused of killing his mother and injuring his father because he was not allowed to play Halo 3. The trial, on charges of murder and attempted murder, opened this week in the town of Elyria, Ohio.
In September 2007, Daniel Petric, who was 16 at that time, purchased a copy of Halo 3 against his father’s orders. His parents caught him playing the game and took it away from him. Almost a month later, on October 20, 2007, Daniel used his father’s key to open a safe box where he knew he’d find the game and a 9mm handgun.
Soon after, Daniel asked his parents to close their eyes for a “surprise” and then shot both parents in the head, prosecutors said. Daniel Petric’s mother, Susan, 43, was killed. His father, Mark Petric, survived because Daniel’s sister and her husband arrived at the scene after the shooting.
Mark Petric, a co-pastor with his wife of New Life Assembly of God in Wellington, Ohio, said his son tried to make the whole thing a a murder-suicide. Prosecutors say Daniel has confessed he planned the shooting.As Mr. Petric lay wounded, Daniel tried to place the gun in his father’s hand. Then Daniel told police when they arrested him that his father had shot his mother.
I came across this documentary called Earthlings and it’s about how we humans abuse our animals for consuming purposes. You can watch the video here http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/earthlings.php. I think the worst parts for me is when the dolphins throats were cut and left on the floor to bleed to death. The dolphins would contort and cry in pain while school children would walk by. Also pig farmers brutally abusing pigs with a metal wrench and yelling at them to hurry up and move. Another scene the man knocks out a pig by hitting the pig in the head with a blunt metal wrench.
I think this is an old documentary but I’m sure this kind of stuff still goes on. I love meat but I’d rather have kosher meat now. This is just appalling.
Don’t you hate it when you wake up from a crazy dream that you were enjoying? This morning I dreamed that I had won a contest and won a million dollars as the prize money. And this all took place at a poker tournament somewhere in Vegas. So I decided to place my 1 million dollar prize money on one hand of hold’em. I had a King and Queen clubs suited. Opponent which happened to be an old asian lady had pocket rockets (2 aces). As soon as the flop came out she had made a 4 of a kind. 4 aces. Than it started to dawn on me that I had bet a million dollars all on just one hand. Man, I’m so stupid I thought. Cause this was my dream the next 2 cards was a king and queen which made it 2 pairs for me which means I would still lose. But it was my dream and in my dream world, I WON! I was jumping for joy, screaming at the top of my voice. I called C screaming how I had won and that we would never have worry about money ever again.
For some reason, C was house sitting for someone. And the scene changes now to the house shes sitting. I’m in front of my computer and I decide to check my banking account to see if the money is my account.
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