Why you should Boycott the Beijing Olympics
Posted on 15th July, 2008 by BC Blog Team
We at the BC Blog will not be watching the Beijing Olympics.
Why, because China is a country featuring a Stalinist political regime and an unrestrained market economy. The country openly represses its citizens’ human and civil rights, and exports cheap products of low quality produced by laborers who work for very low wages, while making a very thin layer rich and creating a capitalist oligarchy. China also pollutes water, air and land with no restraints in order to continue its economic development, it continues to use the death penalty while selling the body parts of those executed, and so forth.Ranging from Tibet, which was occupied in the 1950s, to the industrial zones of Manchuria, the Chinese regime embodies the combination of totalitarianism and capitalism similar to the Third Reich, and now it hopes to display its strength and power in the Olympics, just like Hitler.
We all urge you to boycott the Beijing Olympics like we will.
If you are waffling on it, just watch this!
With a mobile screen so large and pretty, it was only a matter of time. Over the weekend our good friends at Sling Media showed off SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone and iPod Touch in the form of a pre-alpha proof-of-concept software demonstration. According to our friends at Engadget , Sling hasn’t yet been accepted into Apple’s developer program , making what’s been seen so far as an under-the-radar app for jailbroken devices. Don’t get your hopes up though… it won’t get released until Sling can do so legitimately. Could we see SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone and iPod Touch before the end of 2008?
Based on a report from the SatelliteGuys, who were present during the Team Summit in Nashville, it Sling Media parent Echostar has some new products planned for 2008 that (as expected since the acquisition) builds Sling technologies into a Dish Network product. Though nothing has been ‘officially’ unveiled, the report talks of a new new version of the Dish Network ViP722 (dubbed the 722s), that bakes SlingCatcher and Clip+Sling functionality right in. Word of whether it can also stream out (like a Slingbox) wasn’t specifically mentioned. Hit up Engadget for their take, and view the original report from the SatelliteGuys.US. Though not getting as much notice around the web, ZatzNotFunny specifically called out a certain piece of gear that’s sure to get some love from Slingbox owners suffering from TV2 withdrawl. With the new UHF-to-IR adapter, users can connect the TV2 tuner on Dish receivers right up to their Slingbox. Very cool! Hit up ZNF for a photo of the card about the device.
Donald Bell gives up all the test results and analysis in his top picks for high-fidelity MP3 players.
Small but perfectly formed? Review Even though SanDisk tell us it has seen the future of MP3 players and that it is devoid of built-in storage, the future isn’t here just yet. The firm’s new Fuze player, released this week, slots into the Sansa range between the small but perfectly formed Clip and the larger, vaguely video-oriented, View and comes with either 2, 4 or 8GB of internal memory.?
The Sansa Fuze from SanDisk is a top-notch music and video player, and it’s all Apple’s fault. Apple has had a string of hits with its hugely popular iPod line of music and video players, and other manufacturers have lined up to try to get their own slice of that pie.
