On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Balwinder S Dheeman <bdhee...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 01/17/2012 10:13 PM, Praveen A wrote: > >> 2012/1/17 Balwinder S Dheeman<bdhee...@gmail.com>: >> >>> On 01/17/2012 08:08 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: >>> >>>> Great news indeed. I hope many more sites join the protest. I would >>>> black out kandalaya.org, if anyone ever visited there :) >>>> >>> >>> IMHO, there is no harm in joining race, but will these kinds of protests >>> be >>> effective enough, I doubt. >>> >> http://news.cnet.com/8301-**13506_3-57327681-17/tumblr-** >> users-fight-sopa-with-87834-**calls-to-congress/<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-57327681-17/tumblr-users-fight-sopa-with-87834-calls-to-congress/> >> >> "87,834 calls were placed to representatives. The average call lasted >> 53 seconds, while the longest came in at 31 minutes, the company said. >> A total of 1,293 total hours were spent talking to representatives." >> That was just one website, now lets see how much impact when lot many >> popular sites including reddit and wikipedia does blackout tomorrow. >> > > Wow! that's good, I was not sure; but only in doubt. > > > A better protest must/should effect or interrupt working and lives of the >>> policy/law makers or it at least must stop generation of taxes for a day >>> or >>> two ;) >>> >> some protest is better than no protest, and if you are waiting for the >> perfect protest it may never happen! >> >> Since, the politicians, bureaucrats or governments are not different >>> anywhere. The democracy, socialism or whatever the intellectuals can >>> think >>> of are just cloaks for them to loot the general people. The agony is >>> people >>> empower them themselves on every term so that the politicians can rule >>> them >>> :P >>> >>> And ... and this has been happening since long :( >>> >> and citizens are more or less same every where too! If you just look >> back to 2011, you can see how much change was made possible by people >> rising up. Would you have believed Hosni Mubarak won't be in power if >> someone told you a year back? >> > > Yeah, we observed a lot of change all over world in the recent past. > > > We can at least make it a topic of conversation in our circles. Better >> light a candle than blame the darkness! >> > > Agreed, that's what I was trying to do; enlighten people, more and more > though me also am not different since I'm also struggling just to make a > livelihood, hence I'm unable to devote much time. > > > -- > Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman > (http://werc.homelinux.net/**contact/ <http://werc.homelinux.net/contact/> > ) > Openlx.com and Kalculate.com have joined this strike. -- *Wish you an "era of Realization & Mobilization"* *Best wishes of Peace, Force & Joy, for 2012 and beyond !* Sudhir Gandotra. +91-98101-20918 / +91-93124-65666 *You don't need violence to shake the world* *www.humanistvoice.in - voice of the 99% * _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
