Sam, what you're talking about is cultural relativism, and it's a very dangerous philosophy. Sentencing this woman to be whipped or imprisoned for the victimless crime of blasphemy is not excusable because it is Sudanese culture to punish people like that. Morality has to be based on more than just culture, and it is.
Why do these people get so upset about this? Why does every blasphemy have to be punished so severely? Why does this victimless crime have to result in such uproar? What's wrong with just writing a strongly-worded letter to the Times and being done with it?
Accept that the customer is seldom right. Accept also that the customer can complain to your boss about your attitude, but you can't complain to their boss about their attitude.
That thing about the firls and last letters being in the right place is baloney, and I'm sick of seeing it. It doesn't work unless you know what the words really are through years of reading correctly spelled words. Also, it's not as quick to read as they say... it might work on a short piece of text, but can you imagine reading a whole novel written like that? You'd find it an awful chore. Even on a short text it takes some decoding.
Does anyone else think that the use of pictures of Vishnu alongside this story is a touch inapprorpriate, bordering on offensive? This little girl is not some kind of miraculous, fortunate recipient of the divine gift of extra limbs.
Does anyone really still believe that Apple is a caring sharing company that makes free lollipops out of magic pixie dust? They're a major corporation, so they're assholes like all the rest. Slightly more so, as they pretend they're not assholes. Just try and change an iPod battery by yourself.
Yeah she got sent a form letter. But why was she expecting better from Apple? If she's learning about letter-writing, then she should learn that a lot of the time, your missives are only met with cursory disdain and, increasingly, automated dismissal responses. It's not really newsworthy, is it?
A very inappropriate theme for a wedding. To open with the declaration of war and then gaily fling oneself down the aisle to Glenn Miller is a little macabre, to say the least. To include a mock-up trench scene in Normandy borders on sick. And what entitled him to wear that uniform?
Good find, good post.
Yeah she got sent a form letter. But why was she expecting better from Apple? If she's learning about letter-writing, then she should learn that a lot of the time, your missives are only met with cursory disdain and, increasingly, automated dismissal responses. It's not really newsworthy, is it?