Ahh, the Ides of March are upon us. Except it's snowing horizontally again. I'm waiting to hear from a hospital in GA. right on the coast 70 miles north of Jacksonville, FL. Oh Yeah!
So anyway this is from the BBC back in Sept.--
Internet giant Yahoo has been accused of supplying information to China which led to the jailing of a journalist for "divulging state secrets".
Reporters Without Borders said Yahoo's Hong Kong arm helped China link Shi Tao's e-mail account and computer to a message containing the information.
The media watchdog accused Yahoo of becoming a "police informant" in order to further its business ambitions.
A Yahoo spokeswoman said it had to operate within each country's laws.
"Just like any other global company, Yahoo must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are based," said Mary Osako.
Shi Tao, 37, worked for the Contemporary Business News in Hunan province, before he was arrested and sentenced in April to 10 years in prison.
According to a translation of his conviction, reproduced by Reporters Without Borders, he was found guilty of sending foreign-based websites the text of an internal Communist Party message.
Reporters Without Borders said the message warned journalists of the dangers of social unrest resulting from the return of dissidents on the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, in June 2004.
I thought about this and the way that Yahoo and most (all) of the free mail companies collect private information and I decided to get my own domain and website. So notice the change...I'll figure out IM later.
So anyway this is from the BBC back in Sept.--
Internet giant Yahoo has been accused of supplying information to China which led to the jailing of a journalist for "divulging state secrets".
Reporters Without Borders said Yahoo's Hong Kong arm helped China link Shi Tao's e-mail account and computer to a message containing the information.
The media watchdog accused Yahoo of becoming a "police informant" in order to further its business ambitions.
A Yahoo spokeswoman said it had to operate within each country's laws.
"Just like any other global company, Yahoo must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are based," said Mary Osako.
Shi Tao, 37, worked for the Contemporary Business News in Hunan province, before he was arrested and sentenced in April to 10 years in prison.
According to a translation of his conviction, reproduced by Reporters Without Borders, he was found guilty of sending foreign-based websites the text of an internal Communist Party message.
Reporters Without Borders said the message warned journalists of the dangers of social unrest resulting from the return of dissidents on the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, in June 2004.
I thought about this and the way that Yahoo and most (all) of the free mail companies collect private information and I decided to get my own domain and website. So notice the change...I'll figure out IM later.
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Or number 5? The tarot card is "The Hierophant". Just look it up on Google. There are a lot of interpretations. If you look up "The Hierophant Aleister Crowley tarot" you probably find:
Smile down upon this
Your earth-born Bounty
In the Name of Love
and all that is Holy
in the Blessed Trinity
Let the Ritual Fires burn
and purifying Smoke cleanse
away these Sins of Confusion
May this Holy Covenant
struck between Form and Flux
Quell the turbulent Swells
Distant voices echo back
from the Great Outer Abyss
humming hymns of White Noise
The ceaseless Cogs of Time
shift into Neutral
and an Instant becomes Eternity
Mirrors of my mind
tranquil as the Glass Sea
reflect the Moon's silent Face
Childlike spirits of the Mountain
Dance and Sing in lunar light
calling up the Oceans into Clouds
That wash across Sacred Lands
of Forest hill and rolling Plain
with quenching Rains of Salvation
Children of the Mountain
weep in Innocent wonder
their Crystal Tears of Trust
To form the River of Dreams
That flows down to the Great Ocean
Splitting the land into Halves
On the Left side of the River
the Jungle is thick and untamed
Beast and Bird roam free and wild
On the Right side of the River
Roads, Fields and the Matrix of
Man's dominion enforces Order
The snaking River of Dreams
splits these Blessed Lands on its
winding path to meet the Ocean rim
Where the great City of Gold perches
Home to the Philosopher-Kings
who Sit and Bathe their feet in the cooling waters
While Emerald green Earth rolls on
knowing Nothing
but Wiser for the Journey
The card is explained (in English) here.
Well, my entries are not protected as well, but your name comes up on top of the list if you search for your user name. So what does your user name mean? Provoking?
[Edited on Mar 09, 2006 9:54PM]
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