http://abcnews.go.com/US/suicide-rutgers-university-freshman-tyler-clementi-stuns-veteran/story?id=11763784&page=1
Really? You broadcasted live a sex video of your roommate? You really did that? Knowing that even if it was a girl, it could potentially ruin his career? You know that being gay in our society is hard enough right? Even without screw-ups like you? And you still decided to out your roommate before even the first month of school was over? Really?
Where is the sanity here? How could anyone think that posting a sex video of someone, regardless of sexual orientation, be ok? There is enough literacy, especially on a college campus, to know the damaging effects that such a video can create.
To make matters worse, he were OUTTING HIS ROOMATE. VIA SEX TAPE. WTF?
How could this possibly be construed as ok? or funny? or ethically right?
What was his thinking? "Uhhhh I'm a stupid teenage boy and gay sex is funny, especially since it's with this guy I live with...uhhh...lemme scratch my balls now and hock a lugee..."
As for the possibility of five years in prison? Five years for privacy violations? Sure, but I think there needs to be a torture charge here too. Ravi emotionally tortured Clementi for absolutely no good reason. To the point of suicide.
I think that warrants a heavier sentence.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Movie Recomendation!
http://www.crudethemovie.com/
I recently had the oppertunity to view this documentary as well as hear Joe Berlinger himself speak about the film. During the question and answer period after the documentary was shown, Berlinger was asked what what image has stayed with him the most that he was not able to put into the film. His answer was surprising, even after watching the film: That when visiting these indigenous people's land, so far away from any civilization, the people who had for so long subsisted on the Amazon for food and life, had to eat canned tuna because the fish in the river were either all dead or poisonous.
The other surprising thing Berlinger talked about was how fair he tried to make the film for both sides. That he strived for an equal balance of both the plaintiffs and Texaco (now Chevron).
The thing is, even though he strived for fairness in legality issues, the questions of ethical and moral responsibility and obligation seem to have a clear answer...
Check it out!
I recently had the oppertunity to view this documentary as well as hear Joe Berlinger himself speak about the film. During the question and answer period after the documentary was shown, Berlinger was asked what what image has stayed with him the most that he was not able to put into the film. His answer was surprising, even after watching the film: That when visiting these indigenous people's land, so far away from any civilization, the people who had for so long subsisted on the Amazon for food and life, had to eat canned tuna because the fish in the river were either all dead or poisonous.
The other surprising thing Berlinger talked about was how fair he tried to make the film for both sides. That he strived for an equal balance of both the plaintiffs and Texaco (now Chevron).
The thing is, even though he strived for fairness in legality issues, the questions of ethical and moral responsibility and obligation seem to have a clear answer...
Check it out!
Monday, September 20, 2010
Suck it up!
First read this!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/science/earth/19clean.html?_r=1&hpw
I admit that when I think of how to get something really clean, I think of harsh chemicals scouring away all potential dirt and microscopic life forms...But I also associate these products with protective gloves and such because they give rashes. I never really stopped to consider what it meant...
This semester I am taking a "Makeup for Motion Pictures" class (I'm going to have the best scary, gorey Halloween costume ever!). I'm not that into make up, but I do occasionally put some on...What I am really excited for is learning all the crazy alterations that one can use to distort and enhance features. In any case, when explaining about all the different kinds of make up, the thing that our professor stressed most to us was that you should never put anything on your face that, when put up to your nose or mouth, you find repulsive. He explained that when makeups are strong smelling or distasteful (literally), it means that they have harsh chemicals that you probably don't want on your skin.
In fact, if you don't want them on your skin, you probably don't want to ingest them either...which means that you probably DON'T want phosphates in or around your plates/food, regardless of the environmental concern (which is completely valid and reasonable). If you care so much about the appearence of your dishes that you are going to get terribly upset if they have water marks when they come out of the dishwasher, you need to suck it up. If you really care that much, wash your dishes by HAND (of course only running the water when it is necessary)!
As the article points out, cleaning employees were made physically sick by the toxic chemicals found in most "cleaning" supplies.
That doesn't sound too healthy, now does it?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/science/earth/19clean.html?_r=1&hpw
I admit that when I think of how to get something really clean, I think of harsh chemicals scouring away all potential dirt and microscopic life forms...But I also associate these products with protective gloves and such because they give rashes. I never really stopped to consider what it meant...
This semester I am taking a "Makeup for Motion Pictures" class (I'm going to have the best scary, gorey Halloween costume ever!). I'm not that into make up, but I do occasionally put some on...What I am really excited for is learning all the crazy alterations that one can use to distort and enhance features. In any case, when explaining about all the different kinds of make up, the thing that our professor stressed most to us was that you should never put anything on your face that, when put up to your nose or mouth, you find repulsive. He explained that when makeups are strong smelling or distasteful (literally), it means that they have harsh chemicals that you probably don't want on your skin.
In fact, if you don't want them on your skin, you probably don't want to ingest them either...which means that you probably DON'T want phosphates in or around your plates/food, regardless of the environmental concern (which is completely valid and reasonable). If you care so much about the appearence of your dishes that you are going to get terribly upset if they have water marks when they come out of the dishwasher, you need to suck it up. If you really care that much, wash your dishes by HAND (of course only running the water when it is necessary)!
As the article points out, cleaning employees were made physically sick by the toxic chemicals found in most "cleaning" supplies.
That doesn't sound too healthy, now does it?
Thursday, September 16, 2010
For the love of sugar!
Oh corn syrup...do you really think you will fool anyone by changing your name to corn sugar?
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/a-new-name-for-high-fructose-corn-syrup/?hpw
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Corn sugar that is syrupy and looks exactly like corn syrup?
Do you really think you will get away with this???
*sigh*
You probably will.
(wooo unprocessed (or less processed) sugar!)
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/a-new-name-for-high-fructose-corn-syrup/?hpw
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Corn sugar that is syrupy and looks exactly like corn syrup?
Do you really think you will get away with this???
*sigh*
You probably will.
(wooo unprocessed (or less processed) sugar!)
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
A forgotten post from late summer that never managed to get up here...until today!
I hate beverage containers that are not waterproof. I hate them so much. If you are going to design something to hold liquids, wouldn't it follow that you would like that container to NOT LEAK?
Yesterday I ate yummy take out thai food, and got a thai iced tea to go along with it. Because it was somewhat late when I got the tasty tea, and there is loads of sugar and caffine in it, I decided to save half of it for this morning.
So I woke up this morning, grabbed my tea from the fridge, grabbed a metal coffee container with a lid that has rubber sealing on the top, and I put the tea in. My tea was all sealed up, but because I have had issues in the past, I ALSO put the coffee mug in a plastic bag. I get in the car. I drive 20 minutes. I arrive at bart. I get out of the car. I walk up stairs. I tag my card. I walk down stairs. I wait for the doors to open. The doors open and I walk in. I sit down to get my reading material. When I pull it out, IT IS COVERED IN TEA. "ASS BALLS," I think. WTF IS GOING ON.
To my horror, the entire bottom of my bag is swimming in liquid. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? The coffee container is still upright, the socks I put in to keep it upright in my bag are still there, still holding it upright (and are now bright orange from the tea). Luckily my bag is waterproof, so none of it is leaking out on to me on the subway. BUT WTF. HOW DID ALL THAT LIQUID GET OUT FROM A CONTAINER THAT IS SUPPSED TO (SUPPOSEDLY) CONTAIN LIQUIDS?? Contain them I say!
Rude. Upon arriving at work, I grab paper towels and start sopping up the insides of my bag. It appears my coffee container is leaking from the bottom, which is a mystery because the insides are one piece of metal with no visible cracks or imperfections. Upon closer inspection I see a little "RBS Lynk" logo - which makes me angry. If this company is trying to woo me with their free give-aways, this is not the way to do it.
Their blatant disregard of the beverage consumer is irritating. Are we supposed to put their coffee mug on a pedestal and never use it?
Apperently so.
Is grass fed better?
An interesting story on grass-fed beef:
http://www.npr.org/templates/
http://www.npr.org/templates/
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