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Ars reports on the most recent blogger death in Bangladesh:
Assailants with cleavers and machetes on Tuesday killed another blogger in Bangladesh, the third blogger in that country murdered in as many months, the Committee to Protect Journalists said. Another blogger killed in Bangladesh earlier this year used Facebook as his medium, the committee said.
The committee said that Ananta Bijoy Das, who wrote about science and railed against religious fundamentalism, was killed Tuesday by four masked men in the northeastern city of Sylhet in broad daylight.
The death of Das brings to at least 20 the number of writers murdered globally this year, according to CPJ statistics. Bangladesh is ranked 13th globally with at least 16 killed since 1992.
An American blogger (of Bangladeshi origin) was an earlier victim this year.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @12:23AM
I am dead certain that predominant among the reasons I am unable to find paying work, is that I am so outspoken on the Internet.
At least all I have to worry about, is that I don't have much money.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:12AM
Modding the parent offtopic was just petty and stupid. The post was at least tangentially on topic. Somebody apparently has a grudge against the poster. Hunt the modder down, take his mod points away and slap his peepee. Asshole.
(Score: 0, Troll) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:26AM
... and is the reason that every time someone writes a wikipedia article about me, it's marked for deletion, with the specious claim that I'm not notable enough for wikipedia, because I'm only well-known as kuro5hin.
In reality, I was notable enough for wikipedia long before the best part of jimmy wales dripped down his mother's leg.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday May 14 2015, @05:47PM
[Citation Needed]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:24AM
> The post was at least tangentially on topic.
It was yet another post by MDC about MDC. Just more first post noise.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:29AM
Good, Hans Reiser did nothing wrong. (Score:-1, Spam)
Good.
When someone opposed to marrying girl children is killed it is a good thing. When they are killed painfully it is better.
Marry young girls.
Kill feminists.
Deuteronomy 22 28-29, hebrew
+Other parts of deuteronomy.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:33AM
... when no body had been found, and there were no witnesses.
Yes I do know Reiser eventually led them to her body. At that point it would have been just to try him for murder, not before.
To try someone for murder, without any evidence at all that the alleged victim is even dead, that is just wrong.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:39AM
She committed adultery against him.
Deuteronomy calls for her to be killed.
He did nothing wrong.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:46AM
but I wiped it up afterward.
What's your take?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @12:09AM
Deuteronomy doesn't care.
I'm not a wowser american christian.
That thing your citing was a story about a guy that was supposed to fuck his dead brothers woman because the dead brother had no kids with her and someone needed to inherit his name.
The brother didn't want to and thus "dissed" his dead brother.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:49AM
So why are you so outspoken on the internet under your real name and social security number?
You might get just as much attention under a pseudonym, while protecting your ability to earn a living.
(Score: 2, Troll) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:27AM
because I stand behind my words.
On the other hand - it sucks to be me.
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday May 14 2015, @05:51PM
because I stand behind my words.
On the other hand - it sucks to be me.
It sucks to be a person with an illness, or an abused minority, or even a Bangladeshi blogger.
Dealing with the consequeces of voluntarily posting to the internet in the US does not meet the suckage bar.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:02AM
> So why are you so outspoken on the internet under your real name and social security number?
Because he is a narcissist.
> You might get just as much attention under a pseudonym, while protecting your ability to earn a living.
Or... his postings don't really matter all that much other than to confirm what any interviewer already suspects.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @12:53AM
Good.
When someone opposed to marrying girl children is killed it is a good thing. When they are killed painfully it is better.
Marry young girls.
Kill feminists.
Deuteronomy 22 28-29, hebrew
+Other parts of deuteronomy.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:13AM
Semantic overload on "hacking".
Before jumping in with "get over it", consider a bit the... well... language hacking used (on purpose) as a political tool as mentioned in Orwell's 1984.
While I do get it we aren't (yet?) at the stage of vocabulary reduction as a political tool, it may be there's no need for imposition: seems that we are pretty good in doing it onto ourselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:26AM
It's currently something different but similar. Rapidly construct a new vocabulary of terms and then shift which ones are appropriate to say and which ones aren't, all the while, gravitating toward the longer and more awkward to say ones.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @05:56AM
Got that, shifting in progress!
Terrorist... Terrorist terrorist terrorist, terrorist thinkofthechildren SJW!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:29AM
To further elaborate, it's very hard to delete a word from a persons vocabulary once it's put there in place. That becomes a generational thing.
You create a sense of stigma and shame around a word though, and once the right people latch on, it starts spreading rapidly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:24AM
I think you need to remember better. We've always been hacking at Eastasia.
(Score: 2, Troll) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:31AM
1984 was an extreme example, of what he really meant to defeat, fascist and communist propaganda.
It is important to say what you really mean. It can be difficult to do so. It's easier in writing, if you spend some time away from your written work then come back to edit it. It's quite difficult to say what you really mean when speaking.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:24AM
You can either get over it or keep fruitlessly trying to enforce the original meaning, too few people care enough to make a dent in the minds of society. The allusion to 1984 is inappropriate through, the corruption of the meaning was not sinister, and you aren't being prevented from discussing the original concept.
(Score: 0, Troll) by zugedneb on Thursday May 14 2015, @01:29AM
... humans who wanted to fight the power gathered in shady cellars to plan, recruit and train, like true ninjas...
In modern days, we have idiots...
Everywhere, in every country, idiot human beings without training provoke dangerous and deranged people.
In mexico they blog about the cartel.
In middle east they blog anti fundamentalism.
In west they blog anti capitalism...
I ask this, why not go back to the old days?
Say, when in a family of arabs immigrants stab the girl to death because she has a western boyfriend, why not some good arians with pristine white muscle get out and execute some imams?
No fucking feminists, or humanitarians or faggot poets writing some limerick on freedom...
Just arians and muscle...
Man, i rally want to kill some imams now...
But nowdays, even arians brothers are faggots. No more pristine white muscle...
So sad...
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old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:57AM
Say, when in a family of arabs immigrants stab the girl to death because she has a western boyfriend, why not some good arians with pristine white muscle get out and execute some imams?
So, you don't have a problem with what they do, only who is doing it.
Doesn't seem like a principle with much room to stand on.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by zugedneb on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:00AM
so, who else is doing it?
in the part of the world I live, it is they...
also, wtf with all these downmods?
as fast as anyone mentions the dark side of humanity, some jesuswannabe takes to the mod broom...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:04AM
> >So, you don't have a problem with what they do, only who is doing it.
>
> so, who else is doing it?
I am going to take that as violent agreement.
(Score: 1, Troll) by zugedneb on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:07AM
I do not understand your posts...
but now that I think about what I have read in the news in the last few years, "arabs" must be substituted by "muslims" in general.
It was a mistake by me not to write it so...
Apart from muslims, I do not know other cultures that punish the woman that severely...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:18AM
> I do not understand your posts...
Racist too stupid to realize he's racist.
News at 11!
(Score: 2) by zugedneb on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:30AM
I would not call myself racist, since I do not reason in terms of race...
However, definitely Culturalist, or maybe in some cases, nationalist.
Also, I am not from USA, so my interpretation of Racist may not be the same as yours.
Enlighten me, why not...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:04AM
> However, definitely Culturalist, or maybe in some cases, nationalist.
Because a culture where "good arians with pristine white muscle get out and execute some imams" is so obviously superior.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Thursday May 14 2015, @08:59PM
You lost, your snivelling leader shot himself in 1945 after hiding in a cellar for months.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:51AM
Some of my very best friends are Muslims.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by GungnirSniper on Thursday May 14 2015, @02:03AM
Your 'god' must be really insecure if he demands such punishments for slights that even other humans could laugh at. And if he's that insecure, he's no 'god' at all.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:30AM
Joke's on you buddy, my god is systemd! It's so secure that it's absolutely impossible to hack it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @03:43PM
Your god? I thought he was a daemon.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday May 14 2015, @06:25PM
He laughs at Matt Damon too.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 1, Troll) by mendax on Thursday May 14 2015, @04:07AM
A blogger has been hacked to death. Wow...
Now when I was in school and I hacked the university mainframe I did nothing than a little malicious mischief. But now these hackers have actually found a way to create code that kills people, code that kills people as they blog. The rootkitting scriptkiddies must be laughing so hard they're pissing in their pants.
Oh... I have just been informed that this is a different kind of hacking.... so..... never mind.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mendax on Thursday May 14 2015, @05:27AM
... let's talk about something more serious.
As I see it, any society that cannot tolerate open and honest discussions by people who mean well and intend only to improve society is mortally sick. We're getting there in this country. I hope we don't turn into another Bangladesh or Singapore.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by mtrycz on Thursday May 14 2015, @08:43AM
It's not society per se.
A power group, which finds itself to be founded on religion*, is going straight to establish a reign of terror and submission, showing off their willingness to kill those with opposing views. So that the miserable that want to be "parto of a greater thing" will join them, and most of the others will be reduced to a complicit silence. We've seen it countless times before.
* regiligion is not bad in itself, and not bound to become bad. But it is a great foundation for those who want to use it in this way.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @11:45AM
> As I see it, any society that cannot tolerate open and honest discussions by
> people who mean well and intend only to improve society is mortally sick.
> We're getting there in this country.
Seems like you aren't much of a student of human psychology. Every single one of the worst most violent and destructive ideologies in the world have all meant well and only intended to improve society. Ask the white power people, they will tell you society will be better off without the mud people. Ask any anti-gay campaigner, they will tell you teh gays are a corrupting influence on society and think of the children!
Shame on you for trying to equate the shunning of the odious with murder. Freedom of speech has never meant freedom from consequences.