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POPSFirefox can be faster: four easy tricks... I am an add-on addict of Firefox: the more I had added on the add-ons, the more Firefox had become sluggish in opening up! the above tips has helped me, well, agreeably so! If someone knows more such tricks, let's all share... By the by, you need to visit the site for the how-tos!
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POPSShouting At The Devil "Why in the hell do we stubbornly cling to a system that enables a fraction of a percent of the population to live in OBSCENE opulence while 35,000 of our fellow human beings die of starvation-related causes each day? Are the rest of us truly inane enough to believe that asinine myth that any of us has a REALISTIC chance of becoming the next Bill Gates, if we “just work hard enough.” Or that there is an ounce of moral virtue in pursuing the accumulation of excessive wealth?"
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POPS Solar power makes tiny village beam It's so amazing that the sun's power can be harnessed to provide energy and help a village like this one step into the new century. I had the opportunity of seeing a solar cooker; the joy it gives the people who used it to make food and feed their families; its always amazing.
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POPSWhere are the marches for peace? "Ah, who am I kidding? It is one thing to march against the country that liberated half of Europe and kept it that way for the following 50 years. It is quite another to march against a nation that enslaved half of Europe and kept it under a bloody slavery for 50 years. I can see the morally bankrupt relativist lefty loonies massing to the streets to protest the overthrow of a regional warmonger who managed to kill at least half a million of his own citizens in a few decades. It takes no courage to stand up against that, only vast amounts of ignorance and self adoration."
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POPSStrange Laws While this is occurring half-way around the world from where I sit and has no real impact on my life, I still find it interesting because of the implecations to religious thought here. No direct correlation exists as far as blasphemy laws here in the States (yet!) but it does point to the cultural bias against religious criticism here in the US.
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POPSGay Sheep The scientists said they hope to be able to show that sexual orientation in humans is biologically given. They believe that such knowledge would make the world more 'gay-friendly'.