Wednesday, June 10, 2015

America’s Quality Pot Is Changing the Drug War

With weed now permitted in some form in 23 U.S. states, the flow of cannabis out of Mexico has slowed and, to a degree, reversed

Monday, June 8, 2015

Από τα coffee shops στα social clubs και όχι μόνο. Τί κάνουν αλλιώς οι χώρες που πρωτοστατούν στη νομιμοποίηση της κάνναβης.

Πριν από μια 15ετία η Ολλανδία ήταν η χώρα προς την οποία έδειχναν όλοι όταν ήθελαν να αναφερθούν στη νομιμοποίηση της κάνναβης/μαριχουάνα. Από τότε όμως έχουν αλλάξει πολλά, καθώς ο αριθμός των χωρών στην Ευρώπη αλλά και στην άλλη πλευρά του Ατλαντικού, που άλλαξαν τις πολιτικές αυξάνουν και οι νέες πολιτικές που έχουν υιοθετηθεί κινούνται σε έναν ευρύ άξονα που ξεκινά από την απλή αποποινικοποίηση της χρήσης για ιατρικούς ή/και ψυχαγωγικούς λόγους και μπορεί να φτάνει ως και την πλήρη νομιμοποίηση καλλιέργειας, διάθεσης κλπ, πάντα βέβαια υπό όρους και προϋποθέσεις.
Το σημείο καμπής όμως, για την αλλαγή αυτών των πολιτικών, ήταν κυρίως για τις ΗΠΑ που πλέον ηγούνται του κινήματος για τη νομιμοποίηση της κάνναβης, «αποτυχία στον πόλεμο κατά των ναρκωτικών» και η ανάγκη να συζητηθούν και να υιοθετηθούν εναλλακτικές πολιτικές. Ακόμη και ο ΓΓ του ΟΗΕ, Μπαν γι Μουν- όπως και ο προκάτοχός του Κόφι Άναν- στηρίζει το έργο τηςΠαγκόσμιας Επιτροπής για τα Ναρκωτικά η οποία κάνει ανοιχτά λόγο για την αποτυχία σε αυτό τον «πόλεμο» και τρέχει καμπάνια και αναζήτησης νέων προσεγγίσεων στο θέμα.
To δε video-animation (σε μορφή παραμυθιού και με πρωταγωνιστή τον...δράκο Drugo) της Επιτροπής εξηγεί με τον πιο απλό τρόπο αυτή την αποτυχία και περνά το μήνυμα για τη νέα προσέγγιση που απαιτείται στο θέμα.




Friday, March 20, 2015

To Pirate Bay σπάει πλάκα με τους ISPs


Στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο τα βρήκαν... σκούρα οι πάροχοι με την νέα τεχνολογία του The Pirate Bay.


Αρκετοί πάροχοι σε πολλές χώρες θέλουν να μπλοκάρουν την πρόσβαση των χρηστών Internet προς το The Pirate Bay, σε μία προσπάθεια καταπολέμησης τηςπειρατείας.
Μετά το προσωρινό κλείσιμο από την Αστυνομία της Σουηδίας τον περασμένο Δεκέμβριο, το site επανήλθε.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Se7en Photography tricks You Didn't know your Smartphone can do



Just when you thought you needed to purchase external devices such as fisheye lens or tripods, now, there’s an alternative solution! In this video, the guys at 
COOPH demonstrate some creative smartphone photography tips and tricks that you can do with your iPhone 5S.




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Monday, November 10, 2014

Lemon & Baking Soda – This Combination Could Save Lives

The combination of lemon and baking soda has 10,000 times stronger effect than chemotherapy! Why was this fact kept as a secret? Being totally aware of the powerful properties lemon provides is completely opposite to the interest some world organisations have. For that reason, we recommend you share this article and help a friend who needs it!
Do you have any idea what’s the recent number of deaths caused by the fact that this is being kept secret, in order to protect large corporations?
Lemon-And-Baking-Soda-Combination-Saves-Lives

Τρεις “κρυμμένες” λειτουργίες του VLC Player που δεν ξέρατε και θα σας λύσουν τα χέρια

Τρεις “κρυμμένες” λειτουργίες του VLC Player που δεν ξέρατε και θα σας λύσουν τα χέρια
Επίσης, ήταν από τους πρώτους media players που υποστήριζαν τα αρχεία υποτίτλων.
Αυτό όμως που οι περισσότεροι δε γνωρίζουν, είναι ότι το VLC έχει αρκετές επιπλέον δυνατότητες, τις οποίες και θα παρουσιάσουμε παρακάτω.

Saturday, October 25, 2014

'Google grown big and bad': Assange reveals company and its founder's links to US govt

One of the world's largest internet companies, Google 'should be a serious concern' internationally, WikiLeaks co-founder and Editor-in-chief Julian Assange says, revealing its connections and donations to the White House.
"Google is steadily becoming the Internet for many people. Its influence on the choices and behavior of the totality of individual human beings translates to real power to influence the course of history," Assange writes in his article, an extract from which is published in Newsweek.
Based on Assange's personal encounter with Google's chairman Eric Schmidt, the story of the corporation's connections with the US government is intertwined with Schmidt's personality.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (Reuters / Hannibal)
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt (Reuters / Hannibal)

Graduating with a degree in engineering from Princeton, Schmidt joined Sun Microsystems, a company that sold computers and software, in 1983, and over the years had become part of its executive leadership.
"Sun had significant contracts with the US government, but it was not until he was in Utah as CEO of Novell that records show Schmidt strategically engaging Washington’s overt political class," Assange writes.
Referring to federal campaign finance records, Assange says "two lots of $1,000" to a Utah senator in 1999 was the future Google CEO’s first donation, with "over a dozen other politicians and PACs, including Al Gore, George W. Bush, Dianne Feinstein, and Hillary Clinton...on the Schmidt’s payroll" in the following years.
Ahead of his interview with Google executive chairman in 2011, Assange was "too eager to see a politically unambitious Silicon Valley engineer, a relic of the good old days of computer science graduate culture on the West Coast," but says Schmidt "who pays regular visits to the White House" is not the type.
When visiting Assange, who was living under house arrest in England at the time, to quiz him "on the organizational and technological underpinnings of WikiLeaks," Eric Schmidt was accompanied by Jared Cohen, the Director of Google Ideas, who also works for the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank specializing in US foreign policy.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Reuters / Suzanne Plunkett)
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Reuters / Suzanne Plunkett)

While describing Schmidt's politics as "surprisingly conventional, even banal," Assange says the man behind Google "was at his best when he was speaking (perhaps without realizing it) as an engineer."
Talking about Cohen, the WikiLeaks co-founder names him "Google’s director of regime change."
According to Assange's research, "he was trying to plant his fingerprints on some of the major historical events in the contemporary Middle East," including his interference with US politics in Afghanistan and Lebanon.
"Nobody wants to acknowledge that Google has grown big and bad. But it has," Assange says, providing not only data on its direct connections with the White House, but also remembering the PRISM program scandal, when the company was "caught red-handed making petabytes of personal data available to the US intelligence community."
Google is "luring people into its services trap," and "if the future of the Internet is to be Google, that should be of serious concern to people all over the world," Assange concludes.

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