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Citibank Fires a Woman For Being Too HotCitibank fires a woman is fired for being too hot. Apparently, her male co-workers find her figure too distracting. Here are photos of the woman so you can make up your mind. Murdoch, iPad and Traditional NewspapersJust recently, Rupert Murdoch is pushing for people to pay for news. With the recent release of the Apple iPad, he thinks there's new hope for newspapers to make this dream come true. When news had to be printed on paper, it makes sense for consumers to pay and contribute to the costs of printing. In this day and age of computers and the Internet, publishing costs are eliminated. Therefore, the advertising revenue made by newspapers should cover the costs of journalism, mainly salaries paid to journalists and their crew.If a news organisation cannot attract sufficient revenue from advertising to cover for their operational expenses, then it should look at the reasons why, instead of asking the consumer to pay for its shortfall. If the likes of Rupert are successful in charging for news, I think people will find ways to get news for free. If they cannot, they will work together to make news free. It happened to software and encyclopedias. People wanted to minimise their software expenses, so they began collaborating on Open source software. People wanted to minimise their encyclopedia expenses, so they began collaborating on open source encyclopedias. I am suggesting that the same phenomenon will happen with news. There is in fact an open-source news called Wikinews. Efforts like Wikinews will become even more prevalent and important if and when news organisations begin charging people to access news. Google and Yahoo criticise Australia's internet filter plansGoogle and Yahoo critices Australia's internet filter plans: it goes beyond blocking child pornography, it blocks the flow of legal information that is crucial in informing the public of what's true.
California legalises marijuanaCALIFORNIA has taken a key step towards becoming the first US state to legalise the recreational use of marijuana and tax sales of the drug by announcing a referendum. (Read article)
InvictusOut of the night that covers me, _______________________ "Invictus" is a short poem by the English poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) |


