Upon some basic investigation, the elephant hunting in the way it was done in the Youtube video appears to be done in favour of the villagers. The issue seems to be that the elephants will come in and crush the crops of the villagers, so it's a practice there to selectively cull an elephant, and this activity is open to visitors.
I'm not suggesting this guy is not a douchebag of the highest order, but it does look like there's two sides that story in whether he was in the wrong to shoot the elephant.
And at the same time, I guess Jobs and Gates are a bit more selective in their choice of philanthropic activity.
Canada, believe me I live here, is traveling down similar path. I have heard good things about gandi but have to admit 90% of my stuff are at namecheap.-rgdot (December 22, 2011, 10:38 PM)
Sigh... :(
Can I say that I'm proud to be Canadian? Well...-Renegade (December 22, 2011, 10:49 PM)
I have been using idotz.net (http://idotz.net) for a long time and I am very happy with them. They are owned by BRS Media, a San Fransisco company that is very friendly and supportive to independent internet radio. They also accept Paypal.-app103 (December 22, 2011, 10:53 PM)
Sigh... :(
Can I say that I'm proud to be Canadian? Well...-Renegade (December 22, 2011, 10:49 PM)
Good old 80s :D-rgdot (December 22, 2011, 11:14 PM)
India is going to follow the same footsteps and opting for a bill that protects religious sentiments. So it's okay for religious people to say "infidels should burn in hell" but you as a non-believer have no rights to lift a finger on them,It's a word of god ofcourse to create non-believer product and then asking believer product to save that lost soul from going into dustbin, makes sense. This is no different than SOPA, as we already have politicians controlling RIM, Google and Facebook to control any random content going from india to pakistan or iraq.-mahesh2k (December 23, 2011, 01:06 AM)
@Renegade, I'm searching for european hosts as of now so I'll update thread for alternative to US hosts.-mahesh2k (December 23, 2011, 01:06 AM)
It infuriates me how bad policy in the US seems to get exported... Monkey see... monkey do...
Please note that I am not interested in any services hosted by any UK company though. I don't see the UK as significantly different from the US. They're turning into a police state the same way the US is.-Renegade (December 23, 2011, 03:03 AM)
Please note that I am not interested in any services hosted by any UK company though. I don't see the UK as significantly different from the US. They're turning into a police state the same way the US is.-Renegade (December 23, 2011, 03:03 AM)
@Ren - Don't mean to rain on your parade, but most of the world is turning into a police state if it hasn't already. We've entered the Age of Expedience. And our data links go everywhere. So geographic boundaries and national borders are no longer meaningful when it comes to political policies and agendas.
But maybe that's because all the corporations with real clout are multinationals?
"Global Village." (Fear it!) 8)-40hz (December 23, 2011, 06:24 AM)
I used to sit around and drink with spooks. They were some very nice people. Tight lipped about a lot of things, but open about many others.
I used to sit around and drink with spooks. They were some very nice people. Tight lipped about a lot of things, but open about many others.-Renegade (December 23, 2011, 07:32 AM)
Victory! Boycott forces GoDaddy to drop its support for SOPA
By Timothy B. Lee | Published about 4 hours ago
Under intense pressure from an Internet-wide boycott, domain registrar GoDaddy has given the open Internet an early Christmas present: it's dropping its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act. The change was announced in a statement sent to Ars Technica:
Go Daddy is no longer supporting SOPA, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" currently working its way through U.S. Congress.
"Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation—but we can clearly do better," Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said. "It's very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it."-berry (December 23, 2011, 07:47 PM)
For those who somehow missed it: after GoDaddy publicly stated their support for SOPA yesterday morning, a colossal chunk of the Internet (read: the chunk that understands how the Internet works) began to rally. There were no torches or pitchforks here; the only weapons here were wallets, all being carried off in another direction.
What it really comes down to is: Are you willing to put absolute control of the Internet into the hands of the US Government and a select few entertainment industry corporations? I know I’m not, YouPorn sure as hell isn’t, the entire PornHub Network isn’t, and the hundreds of thousands of companies and people that have joined the cause? You can bet your ass they don’t.
Please keep the boycott going
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/nokde/it_sounds_obvious_but_godaddys_sopa_flipflop_is_a/-nosh (December 24, 2011, 02:09 AM)
Paul Graham, YCombinator founder and investor, banned employees who work for a company on the official list of SOPA supporters from attending the YC Demo Day. "Several of those companies [on the list] send people to Demo Day, and when I saw the list I thought: we should stop inviting them. So yes, we'll remove anyone from those companies from the Demo Day invite list," he stated.
"If these companies are so clueless about technology that they think SOPA is a good idea, how could they be good investors?" he quipped.
Please keep the boycott going
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/nokde/it_sounds_obvious_but_godaddys_sopa_flipflop_is_a/-nosh (December 24, 2011, 02:09 AM)
Hmmm... I'm waffling...-Renegade (December 24, 2011, 05:39 AM)
I like forgiveness and redemption...-Renegade (December 24, 2011, 05:39 AM)
Not sure if it's just PR whoredom on GoDaddy's part or not...-Renegade (December 24, 2011, 05:39 AM)
But like why would they ever get behind something that insane to begin with? Baffled... :huh:-Renegade (December 24, 2011, 05:39 AM)
This ain't a mistake what got learned from. Unless of course the "lesson" was don't get caught. It's a pure and simple evil corporate money grab attempt at backing-the-winning-pony. They recoiled because they got $panked ... Not because they learned anything/had a change of "heart"/realized it was wrong...-Stoic Joker (December 24, 2011, 08:44 AM)
Cripes... This is going to take forever...-Renegade (December 24, 2011, 08:50 AM)
This ain't a mistake what got learned from. Unless of course the "lesson" was don't get caught. It's a pure and simple evil corporate money grab attempt at backing-the-winning-pony. They recoiled because they got $panked ... Not because they learned anything/had a change of "heart"/realized it was wrong...-Stoic Joker (December 24, 2011, 08:44 AM)
I'm afraid Stoic is 100% correct in his analysis. :(
GoDaddy talks a good game. But they're a big sprawling corporation. And many who have used GD soon discover there's often serious disconnects between what's being said and what's being done.-40hz (December 24, 2011, 08:59 AM)
The thing that people often forget, is that corporations are not entities. They are made up of people, and the larger the corporation, the more stratified the people are. Maybe there is a disconnect in management, but there so often is. There probably wasn't at the lower levels (and perhaps even at the higher levels- the people who couldn't convince the policy makers not to do this). And perhaps those same people, in the face of the internet screaming, used that as leverage to get things done. Perhaps the outcry by itself did nothing. We don't know.
But what we do know is that those people are still employed there, and boycotting after a reversal will hurt them, and make the case less clear cut for people trying to work from the inside in the future.
The thing is, is there a history of negative actions. Not that I've seen... and that history would bear out the boil them in oil attitude. Not one incident. At least IMO.-wraith808 (December 24, 2011, 10:16 AM)
But what we do know is that those people are still employed there, and boycotting after a reversal will hurt them, and make the case less clear cut for people trying to work from the inside in the future.-wraith808 (December 24, 2011, 10:16 AM)
But what we do know is that those people are still employed there, and boycotting after a reversal will hurt them, and make the case less clear cut for people trying to work from the inside in the future.-wraith808 (December 24, 2011, 10:16 AM)
I'm sure there are many good (albeit horrible misguided...) people that work for the RIAA, but that's not an excuse to cut-them-a-break. The SOPA is an incredible dangerous piece of legislation that requires a crystal clear message. We The People, will not tolerate the further weakening (and destruction) of the Constitution.
A bad idea is just that. A bad idea. And the SOPA is a bad idea. Any mercy shown will only give rise to the perception that maybe it just needs a better spin, or a more subtle pitch/insertion. The corporations need to be fearful of the people ... Not the other way around, which is where it's headed. An example must be made.-Stoic Joker (December 24, 2011, 10:55 AM)
Pulling out says that there is no forgiveness... But, it also says to other companies that they had better not go down that path to start with...-Renegade (December 24, 2011, 10:47 AM)
You know that you're sending mixed signals now, eh?-Renegade (December 24, 2011, 11:08 AM)
The SOPA is an incredible dangerous piece of legislation that requires a crystal clear message. We The People, will not tolerate the further weakening (and destruction) of the Constitution.-Stoic Joker (December 24, 2011, 10:55 AM)
You know that you're sending mixed signals now, eh?-Renegade (December 24, 2011, 11:08 AM)
That was a calculated risk, but I thought the joke fit rather nicely. Moral being that some things just cannot be overlooked regardless of previous good behavior.-Stoic Joker (December 24, 2011, 11:11 AM)
The SOPA is an incredible dangerous piece of legislation that requires a crystal clear message. We The People, will not tolerate the further weakening (and destruction) of the Constitution.-Stoic Joker (December 24, 2011, 10:55 AM)
So then make the point where it should be made. Anyone that even thought about voting for this shouldn't be in office come their next term. But the voting is so dissociated from the actions of the politicians, that I doubt even the most frothing at the mouth anti-SOPA voter will even think about it come next election. Because other things matter more. Like... frothing at the mouth over party divisions. Or something. I'm not sure what... but there's something!-wraith808 (December 24, 2011, 11:40 AM)
You know that you're sending mixed signals now, eh?-Renegade (December 24, 2011, 11:08 AM)
That was a calculated risk, but I thought the joke fit rather nicely. Moral being that some things just cannot be overlooked regardless of previous good behavior.-Stoic Joker (December 24, 2011, 11:11 AM)
I think that with the quick reversal, and the prior history of good behavior, this isn't one of those things. If they dragged their feet in the mud and had to be pulled screaming, then I'd say so. But not in this case. The RIAA - yeah, I can see that. The MPAA - yeah, I can see that too. But this...?
I won't be pulling out at this time. They've gone out of their way to help me at times, and not just to correct the problem, but to help me understand. But that's just my opinion and my experience. Let each person's wallet speak for them.-wraith808 (December 24, 2011, 11:40 AM)
I think that with the quick reversal, and the prior history of good behaviour, this isn't one of those things. If they dragged their feet in the mud and had to be pulled screaming, then I'd say so. But not in this case. The RIAA - yeah, I can see that. The MPAA - yeah, I can see that too. But this...?-wraith808 (December 24, 2011, 11:40 AM)
I think that with the quick reversal, and the prior history of good behaviour, this isn't one of those things. If they dragged their feet in the mud and had to be pulled screaming, then I'd say so. But not in this case. The RIAA - yeah, I can see that. The MPAA - yeah, I can see that too. But this...?-wraith808 (December 24, 2011, 11:40 AM)
I'm not so sure. The quick reversal bothers me. It feels like the New Hotness way of doing things. "Let's announce a position! Ooh, we're getting boycotted! Okay, let's announce the opposite position!"
Trouble is, it's far from clear that the *second (and good)* position will stick any better!
In my opinion, we're seeing a new breed of politics. "Announce something, and if the public is too exhausted to shout loud enough, do it. If they do shout loudly then: reverse it, wait until it becomes Old News, then slide a weaker form of it in later."-TaoPhoenix (December 24, 2011, 12:45 PM)
Here is good news for india as per CNN IBN... after 6th Feb Supreme Court ordered indian ISP's and social networks to censor following type of content - nsfw, non-religious content, content that makes fun of religion, content that makes fun of politicians and any other protest worthy content. Total 31 social network from around the world got this order from court. Good bye freedom. Welcome medieval age, lets respect idiots. :down:-mahesh2k (December 24, 2011, 11:36 PM)
non-religious content -- Anything that isn't religious???? This doesn't make any sense. Not even remotely. The entire Indian Internet must be religious?Minority faiths like pagan are considered as superstitious beliefs and they'll be taken care of under anti-superstitious belief bill. Atheism has negative impact on people as per indian thinking. Bombing in the name of religion is considered as atheist act, not religious as per these spiritually religious folks. You can't beat their logic. This whole stuff is actually to get control of the internet just like SOPA. This is to stop some of the protests against politicians and movements against corruption that are shaking government here. As 95% or more indians think that spying on people for ads or getting manipulated by government or religion is good, so it's hard to educate this country.
A Delhi Court on Saturday ordered 22 social networking sites, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, to remove all "anti-religious" or "anti-social" contents in the next one-and-a-half-month and file compliance reports by February 6, 2012.
A Google spokesperson told HT: "We comply with valid court orders wherever possible, consistent with our long standing policy. We're yet to receive the details of this order and can't comment on this specific case."
If CNN-IBN (I'd be surprised, they're a responsible channel AFAIK) is reporting the rest of it, they're jumping the gun.
Of course, there's no telling how the Twitter/Facebook crowd (a fringe of the population, the so called "educated elite") may react if they see their favorite religious figure being bashed on FB, they just might burn this little country down.I'm sure you're aware of Miraj Riot(2009) during ganesh festival? It wasn't that big and there was no chance for burning the country. I'm sure even religious folks here will not think social network add more fuel to this.
The worrying aspect for me is that the judge used the term "anti-social", it could potentially be used for political censorship in the future.
Looping back a bit, some folks over at Slashdot say GoDaddy actually still supports the SOPA bill, they're just reversing their PR advocacy. Not sure of the details, I'll leave that to my betters.-TaoPhoenix (December 25, 2011, 01:40 AM)
Specifically, GoDaddy appears to be returning incomplete WHOIS information to Namecheap, delaying the transfer process. This practice is against ICANN rules.
***Update 12:45 PT – GoDaddy has confirmed they have finally unblocked our queries. The transfer queue is being cleared and all transfers should go smoothly from here on. Many thanks to our customers and supporters for bringing this issue the attention it deserved!
Godaddy! Actually, please don't!Specifically, GoDaddy appears to be returning incomplete WHOIS information to Namecheap, delaying the transfer process. This practice is against ICANN rules.***Update 12:45 PT – GoDaddy has confirmed they have finally unblocked our queries. The transfer queue is being cleared and all transfers should go smoothly from here on. Many thanks to our customers and supporters for bringing this issue the attention it deserved!
http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/12/26/godaddy-transfer-update/-nosh (December 27, 2011, 06:29 AM)
Thanks for the update and transparency guys!