Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLachlin, Sum 41, and Barenaked Ladies have come out to voice their opinions against DRM.
Month: April 2006
The American Dream Illusion
America may still think of itself as the land of opportunity, but the chances of living a rags-to-riches life are a lot lower than elsewhere in the world… More at Reuters.com .
Spanish Socialists Want To Give Apes Human Rights
The Spanish Herald: The Spanish Socialist Party will introduce a bill in the Congress of Deputies calling for “the immediate inclusion of (simians) in the category of persons, and that they be given the moral and legal protection that currently are only enjoyed by human beings.” The PSOE’s justification is that humans share 98.4% of our genes with chimpanzees, 97.7% with gorillas, and 96.4% with orangutans.I’m not going to mock, since I don’t know what was actually stated in Spanish, but it seems to me that giving them “human rights” seems less sensible than extending rights beyond the scope of …
China’s Priorities
Worthwhile article China loves capitalism, hates elections reproduced at The Peking Duck. (With a long and involved comments section following.)
Secretary PK Boss
EastWestNorthSouth captured article on the EastSouthWestNorth: Secretary PK Boss email that’s being forwarded among foreign-business-workers in China is a bit disturbing: people are supposed to do whatever their bosses say, apologize for everything, and never argue with the boss? And this is foreign business culture?