The public opinion on filesharing

I am sure that most of you, especially the youth, has heard about downloading and file sharing.
This is something that all of a sudden has blown up in the media and hit the older generation, because this has been a well known phenomenon among the younger generation.
The basics are: You have bought/received/stolen a CD, you rip it on to your computer, you copy the files you just ripped, and upload them to the internet. Then, people from all around the world can enjoy the music (/movie/game) you have paid for, for free! Isn't that neat? Technically, you are not stealing, as many would say. Let's say your friend just bought a dancing monkey, then he puts it in his cloning machine, clones it, and gives the clone to you, did you steal anything? No you did not, you just didn't pay for it, because he did not sell it to you either. That are the basics of file sharing. This does make it a lot harder for artists to make money off music, in my opinion they make most off live shows anyway. Is this something we should stop? Can we even hope stop it at all? Is this just like the machines taking over for the workers in the factories in the 18oo's? What thoughts do you make up about file sharing, illegal file sharing, as it is called.

I have actually not yet taken a stand to this, but I do download music, games, movies and programs, quite often actually. I just know that I am not hurting anyone, and the police have more serious business to take care of. I rarely buy CDs, when I do, it is mostly because the album has a more personal value. If it is just for the music, I download it. This may all sound morally wrong, but there are still a lot of people buying CDs, I do to occasionally. I also think that if not everybody does this, it can work out, but that is not a very good argument of course. I hope that there will be an agreement about this someday, until then I am going to continue downloading.
- Peace out

Shall I never see the outside again?

In the state of Pennsylvania in the USA a murder has taken place. The victim was the pregnant twenty six year old Kenzie Marie Houk, who was shot in the back of the head while she slept. A murder case is perhaps not the most unusual case we hear of from the united states, but this time the murderer was not the most common criminal. The person sitting on trial has not yet reached adulthood, and has not even lived long enough to become become a teenager. The eleven year old Jordan Brown risks the sentence of life time in prison, because the judge has decided he will not be judged in a courtroom for minors.

My opinion is that a child is not yet developed mentally until he or she has at least reached the age of fifteen, and should therefor be counted as mentally sick in these types of cases. A child is very easy to convince and influence, and has not yet learned right from wrong. However, a murder is a murder and should not go unpunished. But adults should be adults enough to treat kids as kids and rather teach them how to behave instead of punishing them for a crime they most likely had no control over! I believe that physical help and a youth camp would be the suitable punishment for Jordan Brown. Remember, this kid had easy access to the gun in his own house! What do you think? Should a eleven year old be judged by the same guidelines as an adult, and should the owner of the gun also be punished?

Twitter and World War 2

NRK wrote an article about the British school. And their plan for primary school to remove education about world war 2  and the Victorian time,  and instead learn about Twitter (same as facebook almost) and Wikipedia. This seems like a joke, but it isn't. This is real fact and I can' even think WHY? The ww2 was over for about 60 years, your grandmother and grandfather lived to it, and it's a HUGE part of European history. In addition what do you need Twitter for? I think it’s so much more interesting and useful to learn history instead, because it’s our past and it’s what made today as it is. Why do you really need to learn Twitter at school, it’s a program you use in your free time not at school or work. 

Do you really think we should waste our education to learn about Wikipedia and twitter and not history?

No animals in Circus Agora

After they went bankrupt last year, Circus Agora is introducing a new concept to Norway. They want to create circus without animals. They have had animals in their show for 19 years, and have decided to become the first Norwegian circus that is replacing animals with human artists.

They are denying that their decision about human circus has anything to do with the economical crises. They are promising that among the human artists, it will be a huge variety and it will be performed everything from acrobatic to magic performances.

Circus Agora is debuting in Drammen, furthermore they will go on with a tour in Norway.

 

How do you feel about animals being in circus?

If you ever have been at a circus, I guess you have noticed all the people that are protesting against animals being in circus. Do you think that the protesting people have had any effect on Circus Agora’s decision about removing the animals? 

Kidnapping

I read in the newspaper that a 17-year-old girl was kidnapped in Namsos about two weeks ago. The police are reporting that an unknown man dragged her into a car. 22 hours later she was found in Oslo. The person who found her thought she was related to drug dealing, but that was clearly not the case.

During the kidnap she wore something that covered her eyes, and she did not talk to her kidnapper. That led to her being unable to recognize either the man, or the car she was forced into. Therefore, the police have no further leads that can help them track the one who committed this crime. It is not yet known if she was sexual abused.

The police are reporting that the girl was exposed to a very traumatic situation. She is now joining a helping centre to deal with her feelings. The young girl was brutally treated and she was in a bad condition when she was found. Though, she is slowly recovering from the accident. She is at the moment back at school.

 

Kidnapping is a crime that is very difficult to control. People around the world are being exposed to this unfortunate crime every day. Luckily for this young girl, the ending was brighter than for many other victims.

Do you have any suggestions of how to avoid kidnapping?

What can we do individually, and what can authorities do?

 

 

Parents who "over protect" their children

I read today a story that a kindergarten introduced protective order when the children were out playing. They wanted the children to wear helmets so they would not hurt them self.

This is not the first case of its kind, I have previously heard of cases where parents do not let the children play freely. They believe that it can be dangerous to play in such as trees, but the children doesnt learn to set boundaries for what is possible and not if they dont get climb in trees and play freely. Now I am talking not about the parents must let the children get powerful bone fractures and stuff like that, but bruises and graze. Every kid has well to hurt them self during their childhood, i mean that it should be a part of your childhood so that you are hardend for the rest of your life.

To all 10A students:

Feel free to comment on any of the postings now, not just mine. There are some very interesting contributions from your fellowstudents that I would look forward to having your opinion on.
Anita