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A friend have a pair of dxs with the pink lens for cloudy days. It creates great contrast for flat light conditions, but it doesn't do much on sunny days (no shit) I have no experience with rogue or mace tho, but the dxs was a nice fit for my face.
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They are good? also have the dxs's .... if you aren't big on the type just go sit and wait on whiskeymilitia.com and get them on the cheap...
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I used to have a couple pairs of the DX which were fine, but now I have a couple pairs of the Rogue and love them. Good peripheral with the spherical lens, lots of frame/lens color options.
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I bought Dragon Rogues on WM a while back, and I love them so far. If they fit your face then I highly recommend them. Also, if you see Whiskey Militia selling Rogues in the "Jet" colorway, they're a great deal -- the ones that they sent me came with polarized lenses. I'm not too sure what the actual difference between ionized and polarized actually is, but it's nice knowing I got a set of pretty expensive goggles for ~sixty bucks.
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I have a pair of black rogues. They're all I wear and they have been great in every condition. No glare, fogging, smearing or anything like that. They fit well on me and the field of vision isn't obstructed by the design. I highly recommend.
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Five Scottish universities have been placed in the top 200 of the world's higher education institutions.
The University of Edinburgh was ranked 36th in the 2011/12 list, with St Andrews at 85th, Glasgow at 102nd, Aberdeen at 151st and Dundee at 176th.
The California Institute of Technology took first place - and the highest in the UK was Oxford in fourth.
The world rankings are produced each year by the Times Higher Education magazine with Thomson Reuters.
They consider teaching, research, citations in other research, industry income, and international outlook, putting the US as the biggest player in higher education, followed by the UK.
Scotland, with a population of just five million, appears to be punching above its weight..
In this study, Scotland is on a level pegging with Japan and France, much larger countries, and it's well ahead of Italy, which has no institutions at all in the top 200.
High rankings help countries attract fee-paying overseas students and lucrative research contracts.
The Times Higher Education study is arguably the most respected and influential, particularly since a root and branch review of its assessment procedures last year.
More weight is now attached to performance in the arts and social sciences. This may be one factor behind the climb of St Andrews and go some way to explain the fall of Dundee from 140 to 176.
The high performance of the Netherlands, with 12 universities in the top 200, could attract growing interest from British students considering cheaper alternatives to high fees at home.
Scots residents pay no fees at Scottish institutions but competition for places is fierce.
As Ireland's top universities have fallen, reflecting perhaps a decline in funding at a time of increased student numbers, academics in Scotland will be breathing a sigh of relief over the settlement in last month's Scottish government spending review.
There are 32 UK universities in this top 200, an increase on last year - although the number of UK institutions has fallen in the top 100.
Universities Minister David Willetts said the list showed that relative to its size, the UK's university system was the "world's best-performing".
The University of Edinburgh, the highest ranking in Scotland with 72 points, improved its position from 40th last year, when it scored 69.2 points.
The University of St Andrews moved up from 103rd place in 2010/11 and the University of Glasgow improved its ranking from 128. The university of Aberdeen's place was relatively stable having moved only two places from 149th last year.
The University of Dundee was the only Scottish university to move down the table having been ranked 140th last year with 52.2 points compared to this year's 44.5 points.
The University of Stirling also appeared in the "best of the rest" top 400, appearing in the 301 to 350 banded list.
There are many different university rankings published - none of them are "official" tables - and they are not based on results in the way that school league tables are based on exam results.
And there are wide variations in these rankings, depending on the type of criteria that are used as measurements.
Although university leaders have sometimes been sceptical about such rankings, they have become more important for marketing purposes, particularly when recruiting overseas students.
Times Higher Education editor Phil Baty said: "I think it's an extraordinary achievement.
"The top 200 really represents about 1% of the world's entire higher education sector so to have one or two in there is remarkable.
"Scotland has more universities in the 200 than France, for example, so it's a tremendous achievement."
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SEATTLE, Wash. -- A challenge to the Pentagon's two-year-old law barring lesbians and gay men from openly serving in the military was argued March 4 before a three-judge panel of the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle, Wash.
The case, filed on behalf of former Navy Petty Officer Mark Philips, contends that the current "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" ban on gays in the military violates the constitutional guarantees of equal protection and free speech, and is based solely on the government's fear that heterosexual troops are prejudiced against lesbians and gay men.
Matt Coles, Director of the National Lesbian and Gay Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the case is the first to focus on the "conduct" portion of the ban, which permits heterosexuals to engage in private sexual conduct, but which forbids all intimate relationships for lesbians and gay men.
"This case goes to the heart of the government's prejudice against lesbians and gay men," said Coles, who argued the appeal. "Under this law, gay servicemembers are discharged for acts of intimacy and love which everyone else may participate in freely. This violates the basic premise of our Constitution, which was written precisely to prevent laws that apply to only one group of Americans."
Philips was serving aboard the aircraft carrier U.S. Nimitz in Bremerton, Wash. when he disclosed his sexual orientation to a commanding officer shortly after President Clinton was elected in November 1992. Philips, who had received many commendations including a Bronze star for his service in Desert Storm, came out of the closet in part to demonstrate that the ban costs money and valuable personnel. (According to a General Accounting Office report issued in 1992, approximately 17,000 lesbian and gay men were discharged between 1980 and 1990 at a cost of $500 million to taxpayers.)
In December 1992, while responding to questions from the ship's legal officer, Philips said that he has had intimate relationships with men off-base, and would continue to do so. None of his partners were in the military.
The case is on appeal from a federal district court in Seattle, which issued a summary judgment last March in favor of the government, which had argued that none of Philip's constitutional rights has been infringed.
"Mark Philips has given over four years of his life to serving our country," Coles said. "History will find it appalling that his military career was cut short just to satisfy an out-dated stereotype."
The ACLU is also counsel in two other challenges to the military's current ban. In New York, the ACLU represents six lesbian and gay service members who won an important ruling last March from a federal judge who held the law was unconstitutional (Able v. USA). In Virginia, the ACLU is assisting Navy Lieutenant Paul Thomasson in his lawsuit. Both cases are currently awaiting a federal appeals court decision.


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This article will introduce the basic concepts in building a graphical user interface in X and Motif. I'll go into a quick introduction to the X Window System and its programming model, then introduce Motif and illustrate some concepts with a sample program. Finally, we'll go through the basic Motif programming principles.
The X Window System, or simply X, was originally developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with support from Digital Equipment Corporation. X was developed for Project Athena to fulfill the project's need for a distributed, hardware-independent user interface platform.
X is a graphics system used primarily on UNIX systems. It provides an inherently client/server-oriented framework for displaying windowed graphics. It provides a way of writing device-independent graphical and windowing software that can be ported easily from one machine to another.
X provides functionality via a vast set of subroutine libraries. These may be called from a variety of high-level languages. However, they are most easily called from C programs.
Since X is network-oriented, the applications developed for it do not need to run on the same system as the one supporting the display. The programmer doesn't need to worry much about the practicality of this, as X normally makes this transparent to the user.
The server is the program that controls the display. It acts as a bridge between user programs (i.e., clients or applications) and the resources of the local system. These run on either local or remote systems. The server performs the following duties:
Allows access by multiple clients.
Interprets network messages from clients.
Allows two-dimensional graphics display.
Maintains local resources such as windows, cursors, fonts and graphics.
The client in X usually consists of two parts. One, the graphical user interface, which is written in one or more of Xlib, Xt or Motif. Two, the algorithmic or functional part of the application where the input is received from the interface and processing tasks are defined.
In this section, I will briefly describe the main tasks of the three levels of the X/Motif programming model. The X/Motif programming model consists of Xlib, Xt Intrinsics and Motif.
Xlib handles the interface between the client application and the network. It is part of the X software architecture. The main task of Xlib is to translate C data structures and procedures into the special form of X protocol messages, which are then sent off. The converse, receiving messages and converting them to C structures, is performed by Xlib as well.
X Toolkit Intrinsics (Xt Intrinsics) is a toolkit that allows programmers to create and use widgets. Toolkits, such as the Xt Intrinsics, implement a set of user interface features or application environments such as menus, buttons or scroll bars (referred to as widgets). Since Motif is built upon Xt, we'll need to call some Xt functions. However, we do not need to understand the workings of Xt, as Motif takes care of most things for us.
The client and server are connected by a communication path called the connector. This is performed by a low-level C language interface known as Xlib. It is true that many applications can be written solely using Xlib, but in general, it will be difficult and time-consuming to write complex GUI programs only in Xlib. Many higher-level subroutine libraries, called toolkits, have been developed to remedy this problem. One of these toolkits is Motif.
Motif is a widely accepted set of user interface guidelines developed by the Open Software Foundation and its member companies around 1989, and supported since. These rules specify how an X Window System application should "look and feel". Motif includes the Motif Toolkit (Xm), which enforces a policy on top of the X Toolkit Intrinsics (Xt). Xt is really a "mechanism, not policy" layer, and Xm provides the specific look and feel. For example, Xt does not insist that windows have titlebars or menus, but it provides hooks for developers of specific toolkits (Motif, OpenLook, Athena widgets) to take advantage of. Motif also includes the Motif Style Guide document which details how a Motif user interface should look and behave to be "Motif compliant".
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Stockholm hotels are influenced by the two certainties of Swedish life: style and taxes. The former is a national obsession, and so many hotels look lovely; the latter leads to high labor costs, so hotels can seem understaffed (at least to Americans used to lobbies full of eager bellhops). While room rates at the Lydmar—currently the city's finest hotel—start at $300 and soar upward of $1,500, it is possible to find a decent hotel room in Stockholm for under $200 per night. Given the recent reduction in business travel, many business hotels (such as the Clarion Sign) are offering bargain rates to fill empty rooms; you'll likely find availability even booking last-minute. As in so many cities, Stockholm's top hotels have become popular local hangouts. Bars at the Grand Hotel, the Lydmar, the Diplomat, the Nordic Light, and the Berns are among the best places in the city for a drink. The Esplanade has an old-fashioned air and, like its neighbor the Diplomat, stunning water views. The Nordic Light and Nordic Sea are ideal for quick trips—with the train link to the airport right outside, you can go from hotel checkout to airport check-in in less than half an hour. Since the lovely Old Town, Gamla Stan , gets clogged with visitors in the summer, the best base for sightseeing in Stockholm is a hotel in Norrmalm—the city's main downtown area.
You can eat, drink, party, and sleep at the Berns. Originally built as a music hall in 1863, it remains one of the city's top entertainment hubs. The 65 guest...more
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Opened in February 2008, the 558-room Clarion Sign pairs low room rates with high design—a fitting combination in the homeland of IKEA and H&M. (We picked...more
The Grand, in continuous service since 1874, has the best location of all, fronting the harbor, with views of the Old Town and the Royal Palace. There are...more
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Francis's Feedback on 14-Day China Tour
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I have many beautiful pictures on my wall. They are the places I've been always dreaming to go:The Grand Canyon, Great Barrier Reef, Taj Mahal, Pyramids, Maldives and so on. I look at them everyday and imagine myself there. What about you? ...
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Dear Nora,
Now we are already one week in China and it's time to say thank you and China Highlights for all the organization, guides and transfers we had so far.
We had alread very interesting day in Beijing, Chengde and Xi'an and everything is fine!
Dear Nora
Our China Tour that you organized for us (Beijing, best hotel near Tsingua university where our son studied, and Xian) is already more than 3 months back. We had a lot of activities just after our home arrival, but now it's time to give you a warm and friendly THANK YOU so much for the superb program for our tour (21 March-3 April). The organization that you managed with china tours was really excellent, also the different guides we had.
Especially Carole, the guide we had in Beijing on our last day (where we visited Temple of Heaven) was so excellent with all her knowledge of history and chinese culture. We learnt so much from Carole on our last day: you can really thank her a lot. Also the guide in Xian, Shannon was excellent for the different visits in the city, Terracotta Warriors and the day in Qianling tomb, Famen temple and Maoling mausoleum.
Only the dinner in Fangzhuang (roasted duck) was not really excellent: we had very few roasted duck and some other food. Many other meals you organized during our trip were much better than this one (that besides was expensive). We were by ourselves in Dadong restaurant (Dongsi), 22A Dongsishitiao, where we had an absolutely marvelous roasted duck meal.
We keep very good souvenirs from our first trip in China with China Tours that we can really recommend to our friends and we had so exciting days with our son in Beijing (that now is also back from Beijing).
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The colors are a bit tackier than usual... I we all lost our touch after so long, hahahaa _(:'D_/
Still looks pretty good though! Anatomy's pretty good, and your detail seemed to stay intact.
Great job! ;u;
Aaaaa all of my senpais are so busy now, berjuanglah uvu
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The European Humanist Federation has accused the European Commission of refusing to comply with the Lisbon Treaty. It has lodged a complaint with the European Ombudsman.
Article 17:3 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (introduced by the Lisbon Treaty) requires the EU to conduct a 'regular, open and transparent dialogue' with 'philosophical and non-confessional organisations' no less than with the churches and religious organisations. The Commission has for many years routinely conducted 'dialogue seminars' with the two conferences of European bishops.
In March the European Humanist Federation (EHF), the main body representing nonreligious people in Europe, proposed a dialogue seminar for the first time, seeking to discuss the problems arising from religious exemptions in EU directives against discrimination. The Commission refused to discuss the subject. Attempts over the last four months to obtain a shift in the Commission's position, culminating in a letter to President Barroso himself, have produced no result.
"The Commission is refusing to let the EHF meet the officials who deal with policy on nondiscrimination," said David Pollock, President of the EHF. "Yet the official in charge is aware of the difficulties, as was clear when he spoke at a recent meeting in the European Parliament. The Commission's incomprehensible excuse is that we want to talk about religion or philosophy and that this lies outside the Commission's area of competence. Of course it does – but (as we have pointed out in vain) what we want to discuss is not religion but human rights, equality and non-discrimination, and these lie squarely within the Commission's competence. Exactly the same problem arose last year over a conference the Commission proposed to subsidise for us, with the result that it was never held.
"For too long," said Mr Pollock, "we have suffered disdainful treatment from the Commission that stands in marked contrast to their receptive attitude to the churches. It took years of pressure while the Commission organised annual summit meetings with the churches before they created a parallel meeting for non-confessional organisations. "We did not want to make a public complaint but we were left with no other recourse. This is either incompetence by the Commission or, we fear, an attempt to protect religious privilege from scrutiny."
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This house believes that the internet is not inherently a force for democracy.
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Opening statements
While the internet has the potential to both oppress and liberate, which side dominates depends on the social and political context in which it is used rather than on some internal "logic" that derives from its architecture or culture.
The internet is inherently a force for democracy. That will not necessarily always be true, but it is the case today, given its present architecture and the way that people use the network.
It is easy to be cynical about "Twitter revolutions". It is increasingly fashionable too. For too long pundits exaggerated the internet's ability to drive democratic change. As tech-savvy youngsters in Tunisia and Egypt pushed aside their ageing despots, such lazy rhetoric grew louder still. It is hardly surprising that critics are hurrying to dissent.
It is certainly true that the internet alone will not foment a revolution. Few have ever argued that it could. But the extent to which it can help, or even hinder, democratic movements remains hotly contested. And far from clarifying matters, dramatic events in the Arab world have fed both sides of the debate.
For the optimistic, unprecedented internet shutdowns in Egypt and elsewhere demonstrated every dictator's fear of the web. In Wael Ghonim, the Google marketing manager whose anti-government Facebook pages led to incarceration and fame, Egyptian protestors found a convincing internet advocate. Without Facebook and Twitter, he announced to American audiences, their revolution "would never have happened".
Others drew more pessimistic conclusions. The internet suspension in Egypt and elsewhere proved how easily governments can pull the plug, and led observers in many rich countries to consider the vulnerability of their own internet access. If some Egyptians used loopholes to spread news within and outside the country, in China authorities confirmed their complete mastery over internet discourse by ensuring that searches for "Egypt" returned no results.
This debate matters. Several rich governments have confirmed their belief that the internet promotes democracy, some more explicitly than others. Like many activists and campaign groups, authorities in democratic countries are working ever harder to spread web access (and "internet freedom") into the darkest corners of the world. Much of this is sensible; some a little fanciful. Following Egypt's blackout, and with violence continuing in Libya, hawkish Western commentators have asked whether military technology could be deployed to reconnect citizens whose web systems are disrupted by their leaders.
Some fear that uncritical trust in the internet's democratic power could in fact be making it harder for people to escape authoritarian control. Evgeny Morozov's book "The Net Delusion" examines how the internet can prop up even the most unpalatable regimes. Mr Morozov emphasises that the internet can be wielded as usefully by despots as democracy-lovers. He argues that the tension between internet freedom and civic freedom is evident even within long-established democracies, where criminals and extremists routinely use the web to circumvent democratically created laws. He also reminds us that the very tools of web repression are often supplied by businesses in democratic and internet-soaked states.
Defending the internet's democratic credentials is John Palfrey, of the Berkman Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Mr Palfrey is no digital-utopian; no technology, he concedes, will force people onto the streets. Yet he argues that the internet has played a crucial role in spreading pro-democracy protests beyond national borders and across the wider Arab world. And he contests that if Arabic autocrats thought there was much to gain from exploiting their powers over the internet, they would have been more hesitant to pull the wires from the wall when crowds started amassing in their streets.
And then we have you, our audience. As I write, only your position remains unclear. Your comments, analysis and critique are fundamental to a successful debate; your votes will ultimately decide our winner. As well as participating here on our website, you can now also participate on Facebook, should you prefer. We will be reading and responding to your contributions, wherever you choose to leave them. I urge you not to hold back.
Around the world, slightly fewer than 30% of people now have access to the internet. Compared with the speed of previous communications revolutions, that figure was reached at an incredible pace. And the fastest rates of internet adoption are to be found in Africa, South America and the Middle East, and often in countries with little or no history of democratic rule. We cannot be certain what effect this will have. But certainly we can aim to watch and respond with our eyes open to both the best, and the worst, of the web.
There are many things to admire about the internet. It makes it easier and cheaper to publish, distribute and access information. It allows like-minded people to find each other. It greatly reduces the costs of collective action.
Were we to define "democratisation" in a narrow sense of improving access to information or facilitating civic engagement, there would be few doubts about the internet's democratic bona fides.
However, liberal democracy—unlike anarchy—does not champion absolute freedom to access or publish whatever information we like, let alone form any civic associations we like. On the contrary, democracies have laws regulating libel and hate speech; their state institutions try to guard sensitive information that citizens disclose to them, from social security numbers to their health history; their governments rightfully ban groups promoting terrorism or child pornography, even though those groups can also be seen as promoting civic engagement and even some basic forms of civil society (perhaps of the uncivil variety).
Democracy is not just about granting freedoms; it is also about accepting responsibilities and erecting barriers. More often than not, the internet allows us to skirt these responsibilities and ignore the barriers all too easily. Anyone can shout fire in our crowded digital theatre without fearing the consequences. And many do: hate speech has flourished on the internet (thanks, perhaps, to the anonymous nature of many online conversations); sensitive personal information is stolen and traded over the counter; and all sorts of extremist groups have found a comfortable home online.
Of course, it is just as easy to cite examples of how the internet has strengthened democratic institutions, making it easier for citizens to monitor their elected representatives or acquire more information about a given political or social issue. Luckily, there has been no shortage of researchers and pundits studying the internet's brighter side: we already know that it can do wonders. But, alas, this does not automatically cancel out its darker side.
Clearly, the internet unleashes processes that strengthen and weaken democracy simultaneously; often these processes are so qualitatively different that it is impossible to evaluate them next to each other, let alone decide which of the two is the more dominant. To believe that the internet is an inherent force for democracy would be to assume that the web's pro-democracy side would prevail in all possible cases. Technology-worship aside, there seem to be few good reasons to believe this.
The debate about the impact of the internet on authoritarian states often falls into a similar intellectual trap, with cyber-pessimists assuming that the web is bound to favour dictators, who will use it for propaganda and surveillance, and cyber-optimists assuming that it is bound to favour their (usually democratic and pro-Western) opponents, who will use it for social mobilisation.
In reality, however, it will favour both sides: smart dictators would be silly not to use the web to strengthen their grip on power, while smart dissidents would be equally silly not use it to carve out more autonomy. But, sadly, that is all we know.
To argue that the internet is not an inherently democratic force is simply to point out that while it has the potential to both oppress and liberate, which of these two sides dominates depends on the social and political context in which it is used rather than on some internal "logic" that derives from its architecture or its culture.
For example, a strong authoritarian government that enjoys fast economic growth and domestic legitimacy would not be affected by the prospects of internet-enabled civic mobilisation to the same extent as a government that is weak and beset by unemployment. Likewise, a strong authoritarian government would be in a much better position to profit from online surveillance and propaganda than a weak one. But that no amount of internet control can contain the anger of unemployed youths does not automatically make the internet a technology of liberation, even if this is what these youths use to organise themselves.
Does the internet have the potential to make a useful contribution to promoting democracy, despite all its flaws? Of course it does. However, to make the most of that potential we need to maximise its liberating side and minimise its repressive side. This will be a hard fight: there are too many Western firms eager to sell surveillance and censorship technology to authoritarian states, while the privacy and community policies of companies like Facebook leave much to be desired (many dissidents complain that Facebook does not allow them to use pseudonyms).
It is only by always doubting the inherently liberating nature of the internet that we will be able to subject those who prevent it from reaching its full democratic potential to the scrutiny they so rightly deserve.
The internet is inherently a force for democracy. That will not necessarily always be true, but it is the case today, given its present architecture and the way that people use the network.
Uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and across the Middle East and North Africa this month offer the most recent manifestation of the power of the use of internet. To start with the obvious limitations of the argument: no technology will make people take to the streets. There must be a reservoir of anger at the state of affairs and desire to improve society. There must be baseline levels of literacy, education, infrastructure and technological skill among would-be protestors, and so forth. With these conditions present, the use of the internet cuts in favour of democracy.
The clearest evidence in favour of this premise is that the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, faced with protesters in the streets of Cairo who were actively using social media to co-ordinate and project their efforts on the ground, decided he would shut down the network altogether. As the story goes, Mr Mubarak placed six phone calls to the big internet service providers and mobile telecommunications companies and told them to shut down the network. Researchers have shown that his shutdown was largely effective as a technical matter: network traffic dropped 90% or more. But Mr Mubarak's gambit failed.
The key facts are not those related to the ultimate outcome of the story. We should focus neither on the fact that the network came back up, nor on the fact that Mr Mubarak's regime fell. The crucial fact is that, when decision-time came, Mr Mubarak did not seek to use the network to his advantage. He decided that it was better for him, as he sought to cling to power, to take the tools away from the protesters. If the internet fundamentally somehow favours autocrats over dissidents, Mr Mubarak would have made a different decision in his moment of crisis.
Leaders across the Middle East and North Africa have reason to empathise with Mr Mubarak. The most distinctive feature of the use of the internet and digital media in the past few months is the regional nature of the protests. One of the most important ways in which the internet favours those who seek to advance democracy is the effect of people in one geographic location seeing clearly what is happening elsewhere in their region. This particular story is still unfolding. After dramatic events in Tunisia and Egypt, people are in the streets in Libya and Bahrain. Smaller, sympathetic protests are taking place throughout the region and in social spaces online. Part of what is powerful about the network is the connection of people who share a common language and relationships to their state, religion and social norms. (Autocrats presumably might use social media to connect with one another and to co-ordinate their resistance, but their numbers are, of course, much smaller.)
This debate is not as clear-cut as recent events make it seem, though. Those who believe that the internet is primarily a tool for tyrants have powerful arguments on their side. The most sophisticated non-democratic regimes have become extraordinarily proficient in their use of the internet to preserve their power and to clamp down on free speech. The tools in their toolkit include technical internet filtering, network-based surveillance, the spread of fear, strategic releases of malware and the propagation of false information online.
There is a more fundamental, but ultimately misleading, argument on the other side of the debate. As some are quick to point out, bits and bytes have no chance in the face of bullets and tanks. There are plenty of examples—consider Iran in 2009—that make the recent events in the Middle East and North Africa look like anomalies, where the use of force overcame protests in the streets supported by internet technologies. But the fact that classic forms of power can overcome protests, whether or not supported by the use of internet, does not mean that the internet is not a helpful tool for the activists. It simply means that force still works.
The optimistic premise is that we can bend the arc of the internet towards democracy. It is not the technology itself, but the way we use it and build it, that matters. The way that skilful activists are using the internet and digital media today, especially mobile technologies, favours those who are seeking to express themselves and to organise their peers, not those who are seeking to close down debate and to prevent crowds from gathering in the streets.
Comments from the floor
probablynotarealist wrote:
Dear Sir,
The internet is a place of great personal freedom, where people can place their views and do what they wish with much less chance of getting called out for what they say or do (though governments across the world are desperately trying to control what is happening on the internet).
In a country where democracy is a view that can get you into trouble, then the internet will be a force for democracy because it can be discussed with impunity. In a country with democratic rights, where other views can be seen as being taboo, then the internet can be a place for like minded people to discuss anti-democratic subjects, and hence would exacerbate the coordination and power of anti-democracy views.
The internet is not therefore inherently a force for democracy, it has just helped pro-democracy causes in the most high-profile cases.
onthesidelines wrote:
Dear Sir,
We can theorise and philosophise to our heart content. But the truth on the ground is what matters. No one starts a struggle for democracy only because the internet exists.
graeff wrote:
Dear Sir,
Was the printing press a force for democracy. Sure, it was used to spread the word of totalitarian thinkers as Hitler, Lenin and Mao. But it was instrumental to the formation of modern nation-states as "imagined communities" (B. Anderson) and to the universalizition of literacy in rich and emerging countries. Both ways I'd say it was a necessary condition to the advent of liberal democracy.
I guess in the long run the internet will have a similar impact on political participation, helping the struggle for freedom against autocratic rule and maybe fostering the evolution from representative to deliberative democracy.
ShaunP wrote:
Dear Sir,
There are many variables than can swing the view one way or the other. For example: is the internet controlled, or is it free and open; bottom up or top down. I think that ultimately in practice it can be a bit of both, but operating within a vacuum and all things being equal--which they are not--then, in theory, it is a force for good and for Democracy. It all depends on the inputs and how they are received by the receivers. There is a wide range of possibilities on how that could play out. Hard question to answer one way or the other.
Fengmingqihan wrote:
Dear Sir,
This debate reminds me of conversations in China thirty years ago about the role "Dazibao" played in China's infamous "cultural revolution". Dazibao literally means "big character poster". Although one may be able to trace its origin to imperial times, it became ubiquitous during the Cultural Revolution as a means of communication and protest. It was a great tool for the Red Guards, workers, peasants and soldiers to express themselves; at the same time, it was also a main channel to spread rumors and false accusations. For many, Dazibao brings memories of chaos and violence; for others, it reminds them of the moaning of Premier Zhou Enlai's death in in Tiananmen Square in April, 1976 or the Beijing Xidan Democracy Wall movement of 1978.
Looking at the Chinese Cultural Revolution example, one could easily conclude that arguing internet is inherently democratic is no different than arguing Dazibao is inherently anarchical. To me, like all technological advancements, internet is capable of use for both good cause and bad. Simply put, Internet can advance democracy, promote anarchy, and defend totalitarianism. As such, I cannot agree with Professor Palfrey's reasoning that Internet is inherently democratic because otherwise "Mr. Mubarak would have made a different decision in his moment of crisis" (by shutting down internet). The fact that Chairman Mao decided to favor Dazibao during the Cultural Revolution does not make it inherently democratic; nor was it automatically un-emocratic because the paramount leader Deng Xiaoping later banned Dazibao after Xidan Democracy Wall Movement.
This debate does raise an interesting line of inquiries: let's assume Internet does play a critical role in promoting social activism and democracy, does its role weigh more in promoting democracy today than the inventions of printing press, locomotive, electricity, telephone and television on social activism of their ages? Could one argue that all these technological progresses were also enablers for communism, fascism, democracy, monarchy, anarchy, and totalitarianism at the same they were for democracy? Of course, if one defines democracy to encompass speed, scale and scope of communication, then, I would concede that all science and technological advances, internet included, are inherently democratic. Here, I am not sure there is a consensus among the discussants.
mbotta wrote:
Dear Sir,
The inherent force of the internet is to lower transaction costs. Whether this be of communication, commerce or politics, the internet facilitates easier access and interaction.
As such, the internet is value-neutral: the non-democrat has just as easy access as the democrat does.
The true, inherent democratic force comes from people daring to take a stand and not fearing power. State or corporate.
gysezjnqs6 wrote:
Dear Sir,
democacy as a system has its own credentials and peculiarities.personel liberties and rule of law are important among them.sustaining democracy is more challenging than launching one.there are so many ways to rome.we can have many tools to attain democratic goals.internet can also be among one if used with right spirit.the online debate itself shows that.but major problem is regarding the access of net to common people in many countries.in that case it may not be true stating like. at the same time this cannot be neglected completely.
imenevazno wrote:
The internet per se is a medium of communication that allows ideas to be communicated, exchanged, and collected in a similar way in which a telephone may serve the same function. The internet, however, is likely the most efficient, transparent, and effective way to communicate ideas, especially by and for the general public.
Whether the internet is a force for good or evil will depend on the nature of communicated ideas, and therefore, on the very nature of humans/parties that use it to mobilize political or any other opinion or movement. To use an analogy: One may use a knife to cut a loaf of bread, other may use it for a murder. Therefore, the Internet will fulfill its purpose in either a positive or negative way depending on (objectives, motives, etc. of the) force that uses it. Its role will reflect the characteristics (demographics, economics, politics, etc.) of the times in which it performs.
Popa_Eng wrote:
Dear Sir,
Internet is the harbinger of democracy ,if we take the case with the present "arab early spring " uprising .Democracy was invented 3000 years b c ,and consisted in ...peer citizens coming down in the public square to vote public decisions regarding their city.That is the basis of the present democracy ,with all the elements that arab nations today claim to accede to.
What they want today ,in the public places where they have gathered and resisted to all threats?
All that the first Greecq democracy invented :
1 the right to free speech and public opinion.
2 the right to cast a vote on the public policy
3 the right to be there to elect or to be elected
4 the right to be informed with the public decisions
All the internet media have facilitated people to gather and enforce their right to have a say.In this respect ,internet is inherently democratic as all the 4 (and many others) items important for democracy are well served by it.
I read a lot of skeptical comments about the Internet beeing democratic ,but please tell me one thing :
why not to use the same tool (internet) to decide where to go next with their society?
They must use the internet now to poll the numerous participants about the new society they want to build up.I know ,there are many tens of milions more to have a say in the process ,but to have a reformist ,educated and colaborative mass public to select the best of them for political reforms is the best protection against all the biasesand the best legitimacy for the new comittee.
As we ,Romanian people know best ,the best way to deal with the artritic societies is to rejuvenate the leadership and provide them the democratic tools to work a new society.The number one of the regime is gone ,but all the society must be reformed and that requires information ,mass polls and mass comunications .All of these are the very atributes of the Internet ,then I wish them good luck!
Tazmanian wrote:
Dear Sir,
The internet has all the attributes required to support the democratic process: ease of data dissemintaion, reach, accessibility and an efficient collaborative tool that allows people from all corners of the globe to come togetehr very quickly. However, like any other tool or process, the output will depend in its use and its application. So, positive examples of the use of the web includes the recent sharing of detailed and classified US government information on wikileaks. Despite the best efforts of the US government, the information remained accessible to the world. Apart from those in diplomatic circles, most people would argue that as a principle, sharing of information is a good thing. But what if wikileaks had a political agenda and was not an unbiased and the independent organisation that it purports to be and instead was selectively releasing or even manufacturing information for circulation? how could we be sure? Case in point, the internet is open to all and its role within the democratic process is only as effective as the intention of the users behind it and that itself will vary.
hbuhl wrote:
Dear Sir,
The internet is a double-edged dagger. Its darker sides relates to the ability to scan communication between individuals in a scale that was unimaginable a few years ago with old fashioned mail and telephone communication. The ability to exploit this depends on a regimes academic and technical resources. While the internet could be a force for democracy in the most underdeveloped nations the effect in much more technically advanced countries - like China - should be expected to be the opposite.
murozel wrote:
Dear Sir,
In my opinion, this is not a very complicated issue. We have a new tool in our hands, namely the internet, which allows us to access a huge pool of information from all over the world and enables us to communicate globally just in seconds. This magnificient tool, however, is still a "tool" and we shouldn't take it as "good" or "evil" itself. Take the information side as an example: True results of objective research on any matter stand in somewhere on earth, and fakes are also present as well. These two co-exist regardless of whether we have internet access or not. Internet just enables us to access both of them freely and in a matter of seconds, while without it access to information would be more time consuming and -maybe- more costly. Anyway, it's just about the way we use, not about the information itself. Likewise, when it comes to the subject of this debate, internet has the potential to help spread all kinds of ideas more fast and effectively, regardless of whether they are democratic or anti-democratic. Moreover, I think this question goes beyond the features of internet and expands towards the definition of democracy: Does the term "democracy" include the "freedom to abondone democracy"? As I mentioned above, at the end of the day, internet is the "tool". In line with my comments, I also notice that there are many common points between the remarks of the "motion" and the "opposition" in this debate. I think, by and large, both come to agree on the fact that internet can eventually be used in favour of democratic or anti-democratic purposes, depending on which side uses it more effectively and timely. Though I admire the free and borderless environment on the Web, my vote is "for the motion" and actually this is due to the very free nature of the Web.
zayyan wrote:
Dear Sir,
north korea , burma governments ban internet access .
internet is like a spark , it needs fuel ( youth ) to be sustained
Shinji Ikari wrote:
Dear Sir,
It might be difficult to help realise democracy with little or no assistance of the internet.Nevertheless,it is not that democracy as such arises just because there exists the internet.In non-democratic countries(they have embarked on proceeding into democracy,though),the notable and recent examples of which are Tunisia and Egypt,where people there have until recently been controlled and oppressed by the only powerful leader since a long time ago,those citizens,I think,may have realised that they should turn their countries into democracy from dictatorship,or they would be going to suffer more and more.It is their will,need and the social context that contributed to creating democracy.
However,I think that it is difficult to make democracy be realised if there is no help of the internet.Equipped with the computers capable to access the Internet,we can surely share our feelings and needs with others,thus can plan to protest against the government efficiently showing where to gather to protest.It is clear that it is more efficient and formidable to protest with a large number of people than to do with our neighbours alone.
Thus,what I think is that the sole impulse for democracy is not the internet as such,but people's emotion that they need to stop dictatorship and proceed into democracy.But what lubricates their will for democracy is internet technology.
VAD784 wrote:
Dear Sir,
Organizing polls, conducting virtual events doesn't event help people to move these dictators or leaders out of their throne. Internet is obviously a sort of fast and easy communication,which can help anyone to bring awareness among the world and to run their businesses. And they are no that sophisticated - situation of internet (facebook or twitter) but rather it is just transforming their views for business purposes we can never trust them. In the past 100 years all revolutions are powerful and are happened with out twitter or facebook, yet they are very powerful - whether it is Independence of India from Britain in 1947 or cold war.
ok let us consider internet is inherently a force for all democracies. what happened if a major destruction happens to internet infrastructure ?
Facebook or twitter are just a business , what happen to democracy if they operate unethically ?
I believe that internet is not inherently a force of democracy.
MpNm6AjwRD wrote:
Dear Sir,
Technologies are shaped by the values of the early innovators and designers. Reading the history of the Internet, I come to the conclusion that while the Net's origin was in the military, early researchers had actively imbued it with a democratic ethos at operational level-perhaps out of pragmatism and/or idealism. Zitrain in the book "Future of the Internet" calls this set of values "generativity"- the ability of a system to permit end-users to improvise the tool in ways that was not anticipated by the designers. The shift in the locus of control to end-users is a democratic ideal and hence the Internet is inherently democratic as of now. However, Just the way a democratic system can elect a authoritarian rulers,the net users-voters of the coming years can vote to "escape from the freedom", in the words of Erich Fromm .That is, users-voter might opt-in to surrender some of their freedom to gain greater security from the perceived threats.Then, the nets democratic gene could lead to a surveillance society. To the extent one beliefs in conspiratorial theories about"big brother" a society of Panopticon would seem inevitable. For the rest who see the prospects of surveillance society as the stuff of science fiction or media creation, will try to push the the Internets' inherent democratic potential to its limits with uncertain outcomes.
MpNm6AjwRD wrote:
Dear Sir,
Technologies are shaped by the values of the early innovators and designers. Reading the history of the Internet, I come to the conclusion that while the Net's origin was in the military, early researchers had actively imbued it with a democratic ethos at operational level-perhaps out of pragmatism and/or idealism. Zitrain in the book "Future of the Internet" calls this set of values "generativity"- the ability of a system to permit end-users to improvise the tool in ways that was not anticipated by the designers. The shift in the locus of control to end-users is a democratic ideal and hence the Internet is inherently democratic as of now. However, Just the way a democratic system can elect a authoritarian rulers,the net users-voters of the coming years can vote to "escape from the freedom", in the words of Erich Fromm .That is, users-voter might opt-in to surrender some of their freedom to gain greater security from the perceived threats.Then, the nets democratic gene could lead to a surveillance society. To the extent one beliefs in conspiratorial theories about"big brother" a society of Panopticon would seem inevitable. For the rest who see the prospects of surveillance society as the stuff of science fiction or media creation, will try to push the the Internets' inherent democratic potential to its limits with uncertain outcomes.
Shickelgruber wrote:
Dear Sir,
Democracy is all about fooling most of the people most of the time.
c r williams wrote:
Dear Sir,
Nance45 (23/2/2011, 21:16) might revise her views about Arabs, youth and China with this article, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/xinhua/2011-02-27/content_1875852.html.
The Palestinian Authority has been quick to engage their youth in the democratic process via Facebook, and this experiment has caught the attention in China.
Wherever democracy struggles to appear, there is an opportunity for the internet to be a positive force. For those where the internet is taken for granted, it belongs to corporate marketeers and privacy invaders.
How much do you want or need your democracy?
pianissimo wrote:
Dear Sir,
The function of communication which is beyond any argument is the method for the expression of feelings, thoughts and opinions. Since the internet has become a major tool in regards to the effectiveness of communication is, in my mind, neither inherently democratic force, nor just depends on social and political context. It has, in fact, a mediating effect on common people who is, in extent, free to understand others, and to express their own ideas. The internet cannot be thought of free from the cultural context, consequently higher the level of conservatism, will be lesser degree of tweeting; but this is just the beginning!


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Slow Cooker Pork and Black Bean Soup
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The combination of chipotle chiles and adobo sauce adds a smoky kick to this thick, no-fuss soup. If you want to cut down on the heat, skip the chopped chiles and just use the adobo sauce.
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Calories | 526 |
Total Fat | 18g |
Saturated Fat | 7g |
Cholesterol | 91mg |
Sodium | 629mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 49g |
Dietary Fiber | 17g |
Sugars | n/a |
Protein | 42g |
Calcium | -- |
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Serves: 6
Total Time: 8 hr
Prep Time: 10 min
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- 6 cup(s) low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 tablespoon(s) chopped canned chipotle peppers in adobo, plus 2 Tbsp adobo sauce
- 2 teaspoon(s) ground cumin
- 1 pound(s) dried black beans, rinsed
- 1 large red onion, chopped
- 4 clove(s) garlic, finely chopped
- 1.5 pound(s) boneless pork shoulder, trimmed of excess fat
- Kosher salt
- Sour cream, fresh salsa and cilantro, for serving
- In a 5- to 6-qt slow cooker, whisk together the chicken broth, chipotles and adobo sauce, and cumin; stir in the beans, onion and garlic.
- Add the pork and cook, covered, until beans are tender and pork easily pulls apart, on low for 7 to 8 hours or on high for 5 to 6 hours.
- Transfer pork to a bowl and, using a fork, break it into large pieces. Using a handheld immersion blender (or a standard blender), purée half the soup.
- Stir the pork back into the soup and season with 1 tsp salt. Serve with the sour cream, salsa and cilantro, if desired.
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