Vanity - FR is the only site on the web that is painfully slow to me
Monday 6th of February 2012 12:56:28 PM
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| For about a week now, in multiple browsers and from iPad and iMac, Free Republic has been deadly slow. Frequently it times out waiting to load. This is on FIOS at top speed, both wireless and wired. No other site is even slightly slow for me. I don't see any other threads mentioning this, and I've posted to the yahoo group with no responses, so I am assuming it's me. What could I be doing wrong? Or has this been your experience too? What's up? |
M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All
Monday 6th of February 2012 12:56:28 PM
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| For Wall Street Occupiers or other decriers of the social injustice of college tuition, heres a curveball bound to scramble your worldview: a totally free college education regardless of your academic performance or background. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning initiative called M.I.T.x,which will offer the online teaching of M.I.T. courses free of charge to anyone in the world. |
Free pot draws a crowd as Sacramento County dispensary closes
Monday 6th of February 2012 12:56:28 PM
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| Free pot draws a crowd as Sacramento County dispensary closesBy Peter Hecht - The Sacramento Bee Last Modified: Friday, Dec. 16, 2011 - 3:58 pm Hundreds of people lined up for free grams of medical marijuana and discount pricing today as one of Sacramento County's last surviving dispensaries closed with a flourish and a day tinged with politics. People snaked around the building at the Magnolia Wellness Center, waiting more than two hours for their marijuana as the Orangevale dispensary doled out its inventory and promoted a political drive to overturn the county's ban on cannabis stores. Sacramento County, which... |
China villagers threaten to march on government offices
Monday 6th of February 2012 12:56:28 PM
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| Protesting villagers in southern China said they will march on government offices this week unless the body of a local leader is released and four villagers in police custody are freed. The 13,000 residents of Wukan, in the wealthy province of Guangdong, are in open revolt against officialdom and have driven out local Communist Party leaders who they say have been stealing their land for years. Many local businesses have been closed for the past week while schools have been shuttered as riot police blockade the village, which has for months been the scene of occasionally violent protests over land... |
Beijing orders microbloggers to register real names
Monday 6th of February 2012 12:56:28 PM
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| Beijing city authorities on Friday issued new rules requiring microbloggers to register their real names before posting online, as the Chinese government tightens its grip on the Internet. The city government now requires users of weibos -- the Chinese version of Twitter -- to give their real names to website administrators, its official news portal said. The new rules will apply to weibo operators based in Beijing, which include Sina -- owner of China's most popular microblogging service which has more than 200 million users. "Websites with weibo operations must establish and improve a system of content censorship," according to... |
Twitter stalking is protected free speech, judge rules
Monday 6th of February 2012 12:56:28 PM
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| Twitter stalking is protected free speech, judge rulesBy Andrew Couts | Digital Trends 2 hrs 28 mins ago A San Francisco judge has declared cyberstalking on Twitter and blogs constitutionally-protected free speech, reports The New York Times. The ruling is a victory for the First Amendment. But like all things worth fighting for, it comes at a price. **SNIP** Titus ruled that, because no one was forced to read Cassidys posts and tweets as opposed to a telephone call, letter or email specifically addressed to and directed at another person they are considered free speech, not harassment,... |







