(04-30-2010, 10:49 AM)NiX Wrote: :LOL: (not that there's anything funny about what happened) you guys linked the same story

(04-30-2010, 11:10 AM)Sforza Wrote:

(04-30-2010, 10:49 AM)NiX Wrote: :LOL: (not that there's anything funny about what happened) you guys linked the same story

It was on the y!m front page too. Slow news day, maybe.

Anyway, it's China so this guy is probably going to be executed very slowly and painfully.

(04-30-2010, 09:25 AM)Fox Wrote: Knife nut goes crazy in kindergarten class, twenty-eight kids slashed - http://ph.news.yahoo.com/ap/20100430/tap-as-china-students-attacked-4th-ld-wr-bb10fb8.html

Quote:Thursday was shaping up to be just another school day for 13-year-old Erik Martin, but then something extraordinary happened: Spider-Man called.

Spider-Man happens to be one of the few people who knows that Erik, too, has a secret identity — he's Electron Boy, a superhero who fights the powers of evil with light.

And Spider-Man needed Erik's help.

Erik, who is living with liver cancer, has always wanted to be a superhero. On Thursday, the regional chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted him that wish with an elaborate event that involved hundreds of volunteers in Bellevue and Seattle.

(04-30-2010, 11:11 AM)Serene Wrote: Well, it would've been different if they linked to the same page. But damn. Attacking kids like that is way too... I don't even know how to describe it.

Quote:ISLAMABAD – Pakistan blocked YouTube and many other Internet sites Thursday in a widening crackdown on online content deemed offensive to Islam, reflecting the secular government's sensitivities to an issue that has ignited protests in the Muslim country.

The move came a day after the government obeyed a court order to block Facebook over a page called "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" that encourages users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Most Muslims regard depictions of the prophet, even favorable ones, as blasphemous.

Supporters of an Islamist political party protested against Facebook in at least three cities in small and peaceful rallies. The government, which is unpopular among many Islamists for siding with the United States in the war against the Taliban and al-Qaida, is hoping that the website bans will lessen anger in the days ahead.

"We are ready to die protecting the honor of our beloved Prophet Muhammad," said Aysha Hameed, one of 1,000 female protesters in Multan city.

Others — mostly members of the more secular, educated elite — accused the government of blocking freedom of expression and hurting small businesses that use Facebook for marketing. Many questioned need for the entire Facebook and YouTube sites to be blocked, instead of individual pages on them.

About 20 million of Pakistan's 180 million people are Internet users and social networking sites are among the most popular, especially among those younger than 25. Pakistan's Internet service providers' association said usage had dropped by about 25 percent since Wednesday.

The offending Facebook page encourages users to post images of the prophet on May 20 to protest threats made by a radical Muslim group against the creators of the American TV series "South Park" for depicting Muhammad in a bear suit during an episode earlier this year.

"Such malicious and insulting attacks hurt the sentiments of Muslims around the world and cannot be accepted under the garb of freedom of expression," Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said.

(05-22-2010, 02:08 PM)Fox Wrote: Dare we hope that the fight may now stand a chance of actually pushing through?