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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218141953.htm

Muutamia lainauksia:

"Tufts University psychologists Evan Apfelbaum and Samuel Sommers were intrigued by the notion that too much self-control may indeed have a downside - and that relinquishing some power might be paradoxically tonic, both for individuals and for society."

"They explored the virtue of powerlessness in the arena of race relations. They figured that well-intentioned people are careful - sometimes hyper-careful - not to say the wrong thing about race in a mixed-race group. Furthermore, they thought that such effortful self-control might actually cause both unease and guarded behavior, which could in turn be misconstrued as racial prejudice."

"In other words, relinquishing power over oneself appears to thwart over-thinking and "liberate" people for more authentic relationships."

Tämä(kin) tulos oli melkeinpä itsestäänselvyys minulle. On hienoa, että joku tutkii näinkin mielenkiintoisia ja alitajunnaisia asioita.

http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/Pirate+Bay+-oikeudenk%C3%A4ynti+alkoi+Ruotsissa/1135243570984

Tämä on alusta alkaen erittäin jännittävä tapaus, yksi merkittävimmistä oikeudenkäynnistä aikoihin. Infoa kiinnostuneille: http://piraattiliitto.org/

Syyttäjä lähti erittäin itsevarmana kukkoilemaan The Pirate Bay-sivuston taustalla toimiville henkilöille.

Ja kappas, mitäpä heti oikeudenkäynnin alkumetreillä kävikään?

http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/The+Pirate+Bay+-oikeudenk%C3%A4ynnin+syytt%C3%A4j%C3%A4+per%C3%A4%C3%A4ntyy/1135243609542?ref=rss

Syyttäjä Håkan Roswall ilmoitti poistavansa 50% syytteestä! Ehkäpä sensaatiomaisin uutinen hetkeen, vaikka olihan tuo nyt odotettavissa. Jo puolentoista päivän jälkeen syyttäjä perääntyy noin rankasti. The Pirate Bay todennäköisesti voitti oikeusjutun, koska syyttäjältä lähti kokonaan pohja syytteisiin. Tosin, pohjaa hänellä ei kyllä koskaan ollutkaan. Koko syytös on perätön, ja mikäli syyttäjä näin paskalla keissillä voittaa, niin jotain on mennyt pahasti pieleen.

The Pirate Bayn puolustusasianajaja Per E. Samuelsson kuvaili tilannetta hyvin:

"Kaikki neljä tullaan vapauttamaan. Laki ei yksinkertaisesti kata syytöstä. Se, mitä asiakkaamme ovat tehneet, ei ole rikos. Yhtä lailla BMW:tä voitaisiin syyttää avunannosta ylinopeuksiin siksi, että se mainoksissaan kertoo valmistavansa autoja, jotka kulkevat 250 km/h.

Levy- ja elokuvayhtiöt ovat lihavia kissoja, jotka ovat tulleet nauttimaan todellisesta makupalasta. Ne puhuvat voitonvarmasti ja lennättävät tänne 10-15 asianajajaa ja maailmankuulua gurua Lontoosta. Mutta minä uskon, että me neljä asianajajaa tulemme hoitamaan tämän homman kotiin. Uusi tekniikka on tullut jäädäkseen. Vaikka levy-yhtiöt voittaisivatkin oikeudenkäynnin, ne häviäisivät joka tapauksessa. Niiden on pakko koettaa luoda jokin suora kontakti kuluttajien ja oikeudenomistajien välille. Yksi askel eteenpäin voisi olla palveluntarjoajien perimä maksu [tiedostojen jakamisesta]."

Tätä tullaan seuraamaan!

Tämä on silkkaa neroutta:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nwNPaYoTY8

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Look out! Look out!
Pink elephants on parade
Here they come!
Hippety hoppety
They're here and there
Pink elephants ev'rywhere

Look out! Look out!
They're walking around the bed
On their head
Clippety cloppety
Arrayed in braid
Pink elephants on parade

What'll I do? What'll I do?
What an unusual view!

I could stand the sight of worms
And look at microscopic germs
But technicolor pachyderms
Is really much for me

I am not the type to faint
When things are odd or things are quaint
But seeing things you know that ain't
Can certainly give you an awful fright!

What a sight!
Chase 'em away!
Chase 'em away!

I'm afraid need your aid
Pink elephants on parade!
Pink elephants!
Pink elephants!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090209152416.htm

Kerrassaan loistouutinen ihmisen potentiaalista ottaa selkävoitto syövästä.

Toki minua huvittaa otsikosta syntynyt mielikuva: "Tee syöpädiagnoosistasi elämys -- Koe se kolmiulotteisena!"

Joo.

(Alkup. artikkeli: http://www.hs.fi/politiikka/artikkeli/Ministeri+Lind%C3%A9n+Kuvailin+asioita+v%C3%A4%C3%A4r%C3%A4ll%C3%A4+tavalla/1135243481717 )

Viestintäministeri Suvi Lindén (kok) paikkailee Aamulehden torstaisesta haastattelusta noussutta kohua.

"Kuvailin, väritin, kärjistin, yritin olla huumoripitoinen. Ilmeisesti sitä ei sallita."

Lindén myöntää mediakohun syntyneen liian kärjistetystä lausunnosta.

Lindén sanoi Aamulehden haastattelussa, että yritys voi vaatia työntekijäänsä vaikka riisumaan alasti, kun tämä lähtee työpaikalta.

"Joskus kuvailee asioita väärällä tavalla. Tätä lakia ei ilmeisesti kyetä käsittelemään neutraalisti ja objektiivisesti."

Lindén korostaa, että tietenkään työntekijää ei voi vaatia riisuutumaan. Hän korostaa keskustelleensa toimittajan kanssa yli tunnin sähköisen viestinnän tietosuojalain eli Lex Nokian sisällöstä.

Lindén sanoo pysyvänsä yhä lakiesityksen takana.

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Ah, nyt se tuli! Se kuuluisa "Mä vaan läpällä heitin"-kortti yhdistettynä kritisoijien huumorintajuttomiksi leimaamiseen!

Ei tainnut juolahtaa Lindénille mieleen, että _vaikka_ hän olisi kärjistänyt asioita ja tarkoituksellisesti laskenut leikkiä, niin ei se silti olisi ollut järkevää, mikäli haluaa välttää mediakohun. Totta kai tuollaiseen lausuntoon tultaisiin tarttumaan, onhan se nyt niin vitun absurdi ja valheellinen! Miksi ylipäätään alkaa heittämään noin paskaa huulta silloin, kun kyseistä lakia (Lex Nokia) kritisoidaan?

Eroa jo, Lindén. Hanki koulutus. Tai edes muutama oikeasti hyvä komedia elokuvahyllyysi.

Darwin is now a household name whose ideas over the last 150 years have revolutionised our understanding of nature and our place within it.

Darwin challenged the thinking of the day because his observations - that every living thing is related and belongs to one big family - placed humans firmly within the natural world.

As the following quotes indicate, DarwinÂ’s innovative thoughts are just as important to our lives todayÂ…

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'Charles Darwin's concept of evolution through natural selection is one of the most illuminating scientific ideas of all time for understanding our biosphere and humanity's place in nature. As an iconic figure, Darwin is matched only by Newton and Einstein - indeed, he has perhaps had a more pervasive influence on human culture than any other scientist.'

- Lord Rees of Ludlow, The Charles Darwin Trust's Science Advisory Panel

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'The two governing ideas of modern biology are first, the molecular basis of all life processes and second, the origin and evolution of all life processes by Darwinian natural selection.'

- Professor E. O. Wilson, The Charles Darwin Trust's Science Advisory Panel.





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'There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.'

- Charles Robert Darwin (On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection)

http://www.mtv3.fi/uutiset/kotimaa.shtml/arkistot/kotimaa/2009/02/798483

Oivallisia aivopieruja. Työnantajille lisää seuranta- ja pompotusoikeuksia!

"Yritys voi vaatia työntekijäänsä vaikka riisumaan alasti, kun tämä lähtee työpaikalta. Sekin voi olla yhdenlaista valvontaa. Nämä ovat kaikki sallittuja, Lindén sanoo Aamulehdessä."

Ei muuten ole.

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality.
You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us.
Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

Can miles truly separate you from friends?
If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire
and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it.
If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
If you love someone, set them free.
If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom.
It is not always an easy sacrifice.

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

Learning is finding out what you already know.
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over,
remembering them for the rest of our lives.

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life:
Overcome fear, behold wonder.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
The simplest things are often the truest.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn;
whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.


Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible,
but the mark of a fake messiah.

Our true nature is not bound by space or time, we are expressions of the Is, we are not truly born nor truly die, and we enter this world of Seems and Appearances for fun, learning, to share experiences with those we care for, to explore -- and most of all to learn how to love and love again.

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

- Richard Bach

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205083709.htm

V-A-U.

With my feet upon the ground
I move myself between the sounds
and open wide to suck it in.
I feel it move across my skin.

I'm reaching up and reaching out.
I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me.
WHAT EVER WILL BEWILDER ME.

And following our will and wind
we may just go where no one's been.
We'll ride the spiral to the end
and may just go where no one's been.

Spiral out. Keep going.
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Spiral out. Keep going.

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Spiral out. Keep going.

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Spiral out. Keep going.

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Spiral out. Keep going.

"Stop waiting...

Until your car or home is paid off
Until you get a new car or home
Until your kids leave the house
Until you go back to school
Until you finish school
Until you clean the house
Until you organize the garage
Until you clean off your desk
Until you lose 10 lbs.
Until you gain 10 lbs.
Until you get married
Until you get a divorce
Until you have kids
Until the kids go to school
Until you retire
Until summer
Until spring
Until winter
Until fall
Until you die...

There is no better time than right now to be happy.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
So work like you don't need money.
Love like you've never been hurt,
and, Dance like no one's watching.


Wishing you a beautiful day!
Don't be afraid that your life will end,
be afraid that it will never begin.

- Author unknown"