Computer-like devices are everywhere these days. We often don't even realize that they are computers, and that's why computer security isn't all that important to us. More importantly, security isn't important to the large corporations making those products either.
For instance, luxury cars:
Of all the belligerents in the current middle east conflict, the Kurds are the easiest to sympathize with and understand.
Their political parties are usually the most progressive of the region, sometimes dramatically more progressive.
So what's the harm in backing them? Simple put, all of the neighboring countries distrust the Kurds.
"Never in the history of the world was such an exhibition, where with all the prejudices existing against the black man, when the white wage-earners of New Orleans would sacrifice their means of livelihood to defend and protect their colored fellow workers. With one fell swoop the economic barrier of color was broken down."
- AFL leader Samuel Gompers
[The 1946 coal strike] is the most momentous event in the country's peacetime history."
- Evansville Courier, 1946
When most people think of labor unrest in America they think of the 1930's, or the various major strikes of the 19th Century. The fact is that no year, before or since, saw so many strikes, and such a large percentage of people on strike, or so many industries effected by strikes, as 1946.
Never before had labor unions flexed so much muscle.
When they started to make M*A*S*H*, I thought, "Good. Bob got a little break there. He'll deliver this film, put a few bucks in his pocket, and get out of debt."
I go out to the set, it was like the third day, and there he is with this picture of the Last Supper in his hand, and he's laughing at it.
I'm thinking, "Jesus, now it's going to be blasphemy, and they won’t want to release it."
Most people know that 23 states have legal medical marijuana and four states have legal recreational marijuana (Ohio will vote on legal pot this November).
What most people don't know is that Central and South American countries, the ones who have suffered the most violence from drug prohibition, are moving far ahead of us in the fight to end this costly and losing war.
On a Dreary Morning in May of 1920 Seven Men Carrying Winchesters and pistols boarded the Norfolk and Western's No. 29 at Bluefield, West Virginia, bound for the little mining town of Matewan on the Kentucky border.
- Robert Shogan
"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard."
George Orwell, 1984
There is one nation in Europe that could use immigrants: Serbia.
