Virginia and Iraq

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Aboali.
Categories: Politics, Ramblings.

Cho Seung-hui AKA Lara Croft!

32 dead in Virginia and the world is in uproar. It makes front page headline news in all the international media for 5 days. heads of state and foreign ministers send condolences, candlelight vigils, mass rallies, cries for change, harrowing eye witness accounts, video footage, reports , documentaries, analysis……all of the world’s press descends on Virginia Tech….

100 people a day are massacred in Iraq… hardly anyone notices….just another by-topic to include somewhere in the news broadcast…. just this week 178 people were blown to bits in car bombs in Iraq… where are the candle lit vigils for those people? where are the outpouring of grief? where are the letters of condolences from heads of state? where are all the voices calling for change and something to be done?

Ofcourse, the massacre in Virginia and the massacres in Iraq have one thing in common, they were both caused by a crazed, deranged individual…….in one case it’s a student, in the other it’s a president!
The real irony is that apart from the obligatory increase in flags that Americans resort to when they’ve “been had”, there’s almost no serious steps being taken to insure that a “mini-Iraq” doesn’t happen again in the states. Americans are still wondering how it could have happened….! as if it doesn’t happen every other month! the only real talk of taking action, is directed at stopping deranged nuts before they start going Rambo, just another f****d up misfit from the Americana/holywood/media/mtv pop culture delusion where everyone is supposed to be white, good looking, rich and successful. Those who fail to fit into this distorted category and aren’t pretty enough or rich enough view themselves as worthless or find themselves being outcasts ….which leads to head cases like Mr.Cho Seung.

As if the fact that 200 million guns amongst the populace wasn’t a valid reason……nah, it’s the fault of a crazed lunatic….he did it, not the guns…..can you then please explain to me how that very same crazed lunatic could have killed 32 people if he was armed only with a kitchen knife?

Watching these events unfold in the states is more than pathetic, it’s quite sickening. what valid reason can there be for American people to be the most heavily armed population in all of human history? What argument for gun ownership can possibly out weight the consequences for it? the countless massacres and gun related deaths?

Not content with keeping their violent murder culture to themselves, Americans are now exporting violence wholesale to the world….Iraq is currently the unlucky recipient, but it’s coming soon to a country near you…..

Wake up people, Virgina x3 is happening everyday in Baghdad……

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Women outnumber men online in US

Posted on April 15, 2007 by Sugar.
Categories: Ramblings.

i found this quite intresting to know!!

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA – A study released Thursday indicates that more women than men go online in the United States, defying the perception of the Internet as a male-dominated realm.

Approximately 97.2 million women use the Internet in the United States, compared to 90.9 million men, according to research by eMarketer.
“There are absolutely more things women do online than men do,” said eMarketer senior analyst Debra Aho Williamson, author of the “Women Online” report.
“Women are the supreme communicators and the Internet makes it easier for them to communicate and socialize.”
For example, Williamson added, women and girls make up the majority of the users on popular social-networking Web site MySpace while only 45 percent of the audience at video-sharing Web site YouTube.
“Social networking, in general, is very big with women,” Williamson said. “Particularly young women interested in meeting people and talking with friends. It fits very well with the lifestyle.”
Seventy-eight percent of male US Internet users will watch video online this year while 66 percent of the female users will, according to eMarketer.
Reasons given for the difference in video-viewing proclivities included men adopting new technologies faster than women and having greater access to high-capacity broadband Internet connections needed to handle data-rich video streams.
When women watch online video, they are most interested in news, weather, music, and movie clips, according to eMarketer.
Women are less likely than males to visit video Web sites and not drawn to “silly videos” such as those abounding on Google-owned YouTube, Williamson said.
Women are inclined to use the Internet to accomplish tasks instead of as a diversion, according to the eMarketer report.

“Females, especially adult women, are more likely to use the Internet to get things done, rather than to have fun,” the eMarketer report states. “Many adult women, busy juggling work with their relationships and child-caring responsibilities, don’t have time to surf the Web for video.”
More women are expected to take up viewing video online in coming years as broadband connections become ubiquitous and television shows that they like are made available on the Internet, according to eMarketer.
“Early data indicate that female teens are as enthusiastic as male teens about online video,” Williamson said. “The networks are well-positioned to drive greater female online video usage by offering more programming that appeals to females, particularly adults.”
When women play online they prefer “casual games,” such as computer versions of board, card, or word games, over battle games with proven appeal to the opposite gender, according to eMarketer.
The eMarketer study estimates that 66.2 percent of female US residents three years of age or older will use the Internet this year as opposed to 64.2 percent of male residents in the same age range.
Women outnumber men by approximately 5 million in the United States, according to 2005 census figures.
“Even within the populations of men and women you see more women than men using the Internet,” Williamson said.