Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic, or a thousand words from Nietzsche? Actually, Nietzsche was a lunatic, but you see my point. What about a thousand words from a rambler vs. 500 words from Mark Twain? He could say the same thing quicker and with more force than almost any other writer. One thousand words from Ginsberg are not even worth one from Wilde. It’s wild to declare the equivalency of any picture with any army of 1,000 words. Words from a writer like Wordsworth make you appreciate what words are worth.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What thousand words? A thousand words from a lunatic, or a thousand words from Nietzsche? Actually, Nietzsche was a lunatic, but you see my point. What about a thousand words from a rambler vs. 500 words from Mark Twain? He could say the same thing quicker and with more force than almost any other writer. One thousand words from Ginsberg are not even worth one from Wilde. It’s wild to declare the equivalency of any picture with any army of 1,000 words. Words from a writer like Wordsworth make you appreciate what words are worth.
Photography
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
Because we’ve been lied to and lied to, and it hurts to be lied to. It’s ultimately just about that complicated: it hurts. It denies you respect for yourself, for the liar, for the world. Especially if the lies are chronic, systemic, if hard experience seems to teach that everything you’re supposed to believe in’s really a game based on lies. Young Voters have been taught well and thoroughly. You may not personally remember Vietnam or Watergate, but it’s a good bet you remember ‘No new taxes’ and ‘Out of the loop’ and ‘No direct knowledge of any impropriety at this time’ and Did not inhale’ and ‘Did not have sex with that woman’ and etc. etc. It’s depressing and painful to believe that the would-be ‘public servants’ you’re forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously with such a straight face that you just know they have to believe you’re an idiot. So who wouldn’t fall all over themselves for a top politician who actually seemed to talk to you like you were a person, an intelligent adult worthy of respect?
Because we’ve been lied to and lied to, and it hurts to be lied to. It’s ultimately just about that complicated: it hurts. It denies you respect for yourself, for the liar, for the world. Especially if the lies are chronic, systemic, if hard experience seems to teach that everything you’re supposed to believe in’s really a game based on lies. Young Voters have been taught well and thoroughly. You may not personally remember Vietnam or Watergate, but it’s a good bet you remember ‘No new taxes’ and ‘Out of the loop’ and ‘No direct knowledge of any impropriety at this time’ and Did not inhale’ and ‘Did not have sex with that woman’ and etc. etc. It’s depressing and painful to believe that the would-be ‘public servants’ you’re forced to choose between are all phonies whose only real concern is their own care and feeding and who will lie so outrageously with such a straight face that you just know they have to believe you’re an idiot. So who wouldn’t fall all over themselves for a top politician who actually seemed to talk to you like you were a person, an intelligent adult worthy of respect?
MAKING THE LIE MAKE SENSE:When denial (his or ours) can no longer hold and we finally have to admit to ourselves that we’ve been lied to, we search frantically for ways to keep it from disrupting our lives. So we rationalize. We find “good reasons” to justify his lying, just as he almost always accompanies his confessions with “good reasons” for his lies. He tells us he only lied because…. We tell ourselves he only lied because…. We make excuses for him: The lying wasn’t significant/Everybody lies/He’s only human/I have no right to judge him.Allowing the lies to register in our consciousness means having to make room for any number of frightening possibilities:• He’s not the man I thought he was.• The relationship has spun out of control and I don’t know what to do• The relationship may be over. Most women will do almost anything to avoid having to face these truths. Even if we yell and scream at him when we discover that he’s lied to us, once the dust settles, most of us will opt for the comforting territory of rationalization. In fact, many of us are willing to rewire our senses, short-circuit our instincts and intelligence, and accept the seductive comfort of self-delusion.
MAKING THE LIE MAKE SENSE:When denial (his or ours) can no longer hold and we finally have to admit to ourselves that we’ve been lied to, we search frantically for ways to keep it from disrupting our lives. So we rationalize. We find “good reasons” to justify his lying, just as he almost always accompanies his confessions with “good reasons” for his lies. He tells us he only lied because…. We tell ourselves he only lied because…. We make excuses for him: The lying wasn’t significant/Everybody lies/He’s only human/I have no right to judge him.Allowing the lies to register in our consciousness means having to make room for any number of frightening possibilities:• He’s not the man I thought he was.• The relationship has spun out of control and I don’t know what to do• The relationship may be over. Most women will do almost anything to avoid having to face these truths. Even if we yell and scream at him when we discover that he’s lied to us, once the dust settles, most of us will opt for the comforting territory of rationalization. In fact, many of us are willing to rewire our senses, short-circuit our instincts and intelligence, and accept the seductive comfort of self-delusion.
A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.""Oh, they don't miss me," she said. "I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this." She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard. "Or talking about how strange the world is. Being with people is nice. But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don't; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher. That's not social to me at all. It's a lot of funnels and lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not. They run us so ragged by the end of the day we can't do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher place or wreck cars in the Car Wrecker place with the big steel ball. Or go out in the cars and race on the streets, trying to see how close you can get to lampposts, playing 'chicken' and 'knock hubcaps.' I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right. I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abnormal. But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?
Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.""Oh, they don't miss me," she said. "I'm antisocial, they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this." She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard. "Or talking about how strange the world is. Being with people is nice. But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don't; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher. That's not social to me at all. It's a lot of funnels and lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not. They run us so ragged by the end of the day we can't do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher place or wreck cars in the Car Wrecker place with the big steel ball. Or go out in the cars and race on the streets, trying to see how close you can get to lampposts, playing 'chicken' and 'knock hubcaps.' I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right. I haven't any friends. That's supposed to prove I'm abnormal. But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?
Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used
Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used
All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING."They're not the same at all!"YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOMERIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's thepoint—"
All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE."Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING."They're not the same at all!"YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOMERIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED."Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's thepoint—"
So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.
So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.
If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.
We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave; the way you saw the world, its colors and textures and sounds, I felt--I felt the way you thought, hoped, felt, dreamt. I felt I was dreaming and thinking and feeling with you. I dreamed what you dreamed, wanted what you wanted--and then I realized that truly I just wanted you.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Sadness
Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.
Monday, February 24, 2014
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Sunday, February 16, 2014
Facebook made my teenager into an ad. What parent would ever 'like' that?
How fast they grow up. Facebook turns 10 years old this month, which in the internet world sounds pretty old. But 10-year-olds still need supervision.
Consider that Facebook uses children’s images in advertisements without their consent – or the consent of their parents. If your child “likes” a company that advertises on Facebook, or if she “checks in” at a restaurant, or uses an app associated with that company, her image may appear next to a custom ad for the business in the News Feed and elsewhere, with text suggesting that she endorses that business.
You probably won’t even know when your family is suddenly starring in a commercial. Neither will your kid, unless she enjoys fine print more than status updates. But contrary to what Mark Zuckerberg would have you believe, there’s not a fine line between a selfie and a sponsored post – there’s a problem.
A two-year-old class-action suit on behalf of children exploited by Facebook’s profiteering was settled in August, but it turns out that the terms of the deal are an insult to any parent trying to shield her children against an internet behemoth ultimately out for commercial gain, privacy be damned.
I’ll get right to the worst part. The settlement authorizes Facebook, with the blessing of the court, to continue doing what California and six other states specifically prohibit by law: using children’s images to make money without asking their parents first. (The other states are Florida, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin.)
With the support of privacy, consumer-rights and children’s-rights nonprofits, I and several other parents urged the US Court of Appealsfor the Ninth Circuit to throw out the settlement this week – because Facebook can’t buy our children, and it can’t sell them either.
The few new “protections” in the settlement are a joke. For most children, the only change is some new legalese in Facebook’s terms of service saying that any user under 18 “represents” that her parent agrees to let Facebook use her image in ads.
Really? You’re asking kids to take the lead on determining whether they can be used as a front for major corporations, based on hitting a single “thumbs-up” button? That’s where parents are supposed to come in.
And the idea that teenagers are really going to sit down and read Facebook’s legal terms, let alone read carefully enough to understand what they’re signing up for? The idea that kids will take that time while they’re busy with the rest of Facebook, which sets the basic terms for their main online communication with friends, whether they like them or not? That high-schoolers are then going to go discuss the legalese with their moms and dads so that they can truthfully “represent” parental consent? That’s just out of touch with reality.
My daughter is 14. She’s bright and savvy. She’s aware of the existence of corporate predators and, yes, she probably knows more about Facebook’s privacy settings than most adults. She shows me anything online that she thinks is sketchy. She’s careful about what actions she takes on Facebook and she has developed good habits to protect her identify online.
Yet without her knowledge, my daughter’s image has shown up next to ads for clothing stores that represent something she opposes – the global supply chain that exploits workers. I don’t want her to be publicly associated with those clothing stores, and, more importantly, neither does she. It’s an inappropriate and illegal to use of her image and name, hiding behind the checkbox charade of “represented consent”.
Not only can my daughter’s digital record affect her future educational and career prospects (more and more college recruiters and employers are checking out the online profiles of students and potential employees), but this practice is a component of a larger problem: my daughter’s generation is increasingly being subsumed by the relentless intrusion of advertising and commercialism into our lives. Ads are everywhere, not only in the physical world – at the bus stop and the airport baggage carousel – but online. I object to it, and as a parent, I want to shield my daughter from it to the extent possible. Sure, my daughter’s generation may be “opting in” more than my own, but I feel they are doing so unwittingly, and so the Facebook generation is playing by Facebook’s rules, rather than their own.
Fortunately, the governments of California and six other states have laws that children’s images cannot be used without their parents’ consent. Government entities don’t always give parents the support they need or regulate what needs to be regulated. But in this case, laws already are in place to help us protect our children.
The problem is that Facebook, through this settlement, is making an end run around these laws – and around parents – by assuming that just because kids between the ages of 13 and 18 say they’re okay with something means they understand the implications. Facebook is undermining my role as a parent. Because even at 10 years old and with its billions of dollars, Facebook is still a kid. Now the justice system needs to impose some supervision.
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Anand to open against Aronian
Former World champion Viswanathan Anand of India will clash with Armenia's Levon Aronian in his opening match of the Candidates' meet for theWorld Chess Championship, to be held in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, in March.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Mark Zuckerberg's Story And How He Became A Billionaire
This bio on Mark Zuckerberg will be short because you have probably been bombarded with his story all over the place. I am going to tell you instead about how he became so rich. Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest richest person in the world. He is 27 years old and his net worth is 17.5 Billion Dollars as of September 2011 according to Forbes. Mark Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, NY in 1984. His parents are Jewish but he does not follow the Jewish faith. In fact he is an atheist. In the early days Mark loved programming computers, communication tools and games. He attended Ardsley High School and then attended Phillips Academy.
Mark really liked to write software even when he was in middle school. When Mark was at Phillips Academy he studied Latin, and studied computer programing.and he built a communication program to help his father's office employees. He also built a music player called Synapse Media Player that was used to research what people listened to. Mark had offers to buy his media player from large companies like AOL and Microsoft but he turned them down and chose to go to Harvard College instead, in September 2002, and then he joined a Jewish fraternity called Alpha Epsilon Pi.
In February 2004 Mark and his roommate Dustin Moskovitz and his best friend Eduardo Saverin, started the launch of Facebook from their Harvard dormitory room. The thought to start Facebook came while he was attending Phillips Academy. Most colleges and prep schools, have an annual student directory which include head shots of students, and school staff known as the "Facebook". When Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook started, it was just a "Harvard thing" and then he decided to get other schools to check out Facebook, First it spread to Stanford, and then it spread to Dartmouth, Columbia, and then to other schools with social contacts with Harvard.
Although there has been some recent controversy with privacy issues Facebook is still the number one social website in the world!
Mark really liked to write software even when he was in middle school. When Mark was at Phillips Academy he studied Latin, and studied computer programing.and he built a communication program to help his father's office employees. He also built a music player called Synapse Media Player that was used to research what people listened to. Mark had offers to buy his media player from large companies like AOL and Microsoft but he turned them down and chose to go to Harvard College instead, in September 2002, and then he joined a Jewish fraternity called Alpha Epsilon Pi.
In February 2004 Mark and his roommate Dustin Moskovitz and his best friend Eduardo Saverin, started the launch of Facebook from their Harvard dormitory room. The thought to start Facebook came while he was attending Phillips Academy. Most colleges and prep schools, have an annual student directory which include head shots of students, and school staff known as the "Facebook". When Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook started, it was just a "Harvard thing" and then he decided to get other schools to check out Facebook, First it spread to Stanford, and then it spread to Dartmouth, Columbia, and then to other schools with social contacts with Harvard.
Although there has been some recent controversy with privacy issues Facebook is still the number one social website in the world!
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg Co - Founder And CEO Of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest richest person in the world! He is worth $17.5 billion dollars!! Yes, I said billion! He is the co-founder of Facebook with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes . Facebook is the most popular social website ever. Learn how Mark started Facebook and how h
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e became the youngest richest person in the world.Shahrukh Khan- $600 Million
Sitting pretty on the top of the list is The “Badsha of Bollywood”, King Khan whose net worth is a whopping $600 Million. Currently the second most famous Indian actor only behind Superstar Rajinikanth, Shahrukh Khan set an example by rising up the ranks from a simple middle class family to becoming the richest actor in the world. He has done over 75 Hindi films which have grossed around $18 Million, making him one of the most successful actors in India. He is well known for his romantic films, DDLJ and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and his patriotic endeavors, Swades and Chak de India. He is the co-owner off the IPL Franchise Kolkata Knight Riders which is worth $75 Million and is also the co-chairman of the production company, Red Chillies Entertainment. He also co-owns the production company Dreamz Unlimited. He has one of the most amazing houses in India, called Mannat, which is a projection of King Khan’s lavish lifestyle. Apart from this he also owns a house at The Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, UAE. He owns six cars which include an Audi, two BMWs and a Rolls Royce. SRK, as he is often called, is known to make very generous donations to many charitable foundations and is also a board member of the Make a Wish foundation. His efforts to improve health care and spread education to underprivileged children e
arned him UNESCO’s Pyramide con Marni award.
arned him UNESCO’s Pyramide con Marni award.Tom Cruise- $250 Million
Tom Cruise is a 3 time Oscar nominated American actor and a multi-millionaire film producer. . His first major blockbuster was 1983’s Risky Business, which literally made him the most sought after actor in the business. He is the only actor to have his six consecutive movies gross more than $100 million. A string of Hollywood hits and he was clearly leading the way, both in terms of cash and fan following. As a producer, he was even more successful. The Mission Impossible franchise, which is a baby of his own production company, is one of the highest grossing movie franchises of all times. He is also known for his roles in Top Gun, A Few Good Men, Rain Man, Tropic Thunder and Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report. He is the only person to make it to the top of Forbes Celebrity 100 power list not once, but twice. He owns a $35 Million estate called The Beverly Hills Mansion in Beverly Hills, CA. He is also Hollywood’s highest paid actor.
Leonardo DiCaprio- $215 Million
Hailed by many as the most versatile actor in the world, Leonardo DiCaprio proved his versatility by bagging nine Oscar nominations for various films and various roles. His debut film was a sci-fi horror called Critters 3, but it was James Cameron’s Titanic which gave him international fame. From there it was a one way trip to the top, with movies like Catch Me If You Can, Shutter Island, Aviator, Blood Diamond and Django Unchained. One of his recent movies, Christopher Nolan’s Inception earned high critical acclaim and grossed $825 Million in which he got a solid chunk of the profits. He is known to receive a high fee upfront for all his movies. He owns a Carbon Beach house in Malibu California which is currently valued at $23 million. The estate is among three ocean front properties owned by DiCaprio in the same area. Rising to fame with Titanic, DiCaprio could have easily become a romantic heart-throb or even an action star. But he waited for the proper scripts and chose directors like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Christopher Nolan. His diverse and intense characters made him extremely popular the world over.
Will Smith- $200 Million
Will Smith is an outstanding actor and also a successful rapper and has a net worth of $200 Million. He achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name, The Fresh Prince. His roles in Bad Boys, I,Robot, The Independence Day and Men in Black made him one of the most popular actors in the world. He has won 3 Grammy awards and has received two Oscar Nominations for best actor for the movies, Ali and In Pursuit of Happyness. He has also had great success in Television especially in the NBC show, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Smith has reportedly made donations to President Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign. Will smith owns a massive and lavish residential estate called The Calabasas estate in Malibu California, where he and his family currently stay. The estate is valued a $20 Million and it boasts of full size tennis, basketball and volleyball courts, a pool, a picturesque private lake and a state of the art Gyhttp://listdose.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/will-smith-300x199.jpgm.
Salman Khan- $200 Million
As one of the leading stars in Bollywood, it is, in no way, a surprise to see Salman Khan in this list. This immensely popular North Indian actor and son of screenwriter Salim Khan shot to fame for his performance in his second film, Maine Pyaar Kiya. He has done over 80 Hindi films till date, with his latest, Ek Tha Tiger, grossing 1.86 Billion which is the second highest in Bollywood. He was voted the best looking man in India and the 7th best in the world by People’s Magazine in 2004. Salman owns six motor vehicles including two Audis, a Land Rover and two Suzuki bikes. He is also in the center of many controversies both romantic and legal. However, Salman Khan remains one of the most influential people in Bollywood. He has a large fan base which is evident from the several Favorite Hero Filmfare awards that he has won. He often lends his star power for charitable causes. He started his own non-profit charitable foundation called Being Human: Salman Khan Foundation and also has a production company called Being Human Productions which donates all its profits to the Being Human Foundation.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Apple policies frustrating users?
Tech enthusiasts who used to see Apple as akindred spirit are voicing their frustration over its policies.
Apple's decision to remove a programme used to send and receive Bitcoins from its App Storeprompted Barry Silbert to end a love affair with his iPhone.
"I'm switching," Silbert, chief executive officer of New York-based SecondMarket, said in an e-mail after Apple this week removed his Bitcoin application of choice, Blockchain.info.
"Shopping for a new phone this weekend." From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, technology enthusiasts who used to see the Cupertino, California-based company as a kindred spirit are voicing their frustration over its policies.
Apple requires apps to be legal everywhere they're offered, and some governments including China and India have questioned Bitcoin's legal status. The ouster of Blockchain is causing a backlash, and some are going to extreme measures to show their displeasure.
Several people posted videos online destroying their iPhones. One user shot his iPhone with a sniper rifle, another smashed it with a metal bar and another threw it down a flight of stairs.
Bitcoins exist only as software, and transactions are completed via computing devices. Even though no physical currency exists, merchants from car dealers and Web stores are accepting the digital money.
"I'm switching," Silbert, chief executive officer of New York-based SecondMarket, said in an e-mail after Apple this week removed his Bitcoin application of choice, Blockchain.info.
"Shopping for a new phone this weekend." From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, technology enthusiasts who used to see the Cupertino, California-based company as a kindred spirit are voicing their frustration over its policies.
Apple requires apps to be legal everywhere they're offered, and some governments including China and India have questioned Bitcoin's legal status. The ouster of Blockchain is causing a backlash, and some are going to extreme measures to show their displeasure.
Several people posted videos online destroying their iPhones. One user shot his iPhone with a sniper rifle, another smashed it with a metal bar and another threw it down a flight of stairs.
Bitcoins exist only as software, and transactions are completed via computing devices. Even though no physical currency exists, merchants from car dealers and Web stores are accepting the digital money.
NSA collects under 30% of all phone data: Reports
WASHINGTON: The National Security Agency collects less than 30% of all US phone calls, much less than previously thought, according to media reports.
Lawmakers have suggested the NSA's controversial bulk phone data programme scooped up virtually every phone call in America, but officials told the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal the agency has struggled to gather data from mobile phones.
The explosion in cellphone use has presented a technical and logistical problem for the eavesdropping agency, which has a much more comprehensive collection of landline phone records, the newspapers said.
The controversial program, first revealed during George W Bush's presidency, seeks to track extremists or other intelligence targets by scooping up phone records, including the numbers called and the duration of the calls, but not the content of the conversations.
The bulk data collection once covered close to 100 percent of Americans' phone records, but last year the portion dropped to between 20 to 30 percent, current and former officials told the newspapers.
The NSA is moving to close the gap and will seek court orders to force telecommunications companies to hand over phone records, if they are not already doing so, officials told the papers.
When collecting phone data, the spy service has to take steps to avoid obtaining mobile phonetower details that are not allowed under the program, it said.
The current bulk data program does not cover at least two wireless firms -- Verizon Wirelessand T-Mobile, according to the Wall Street Journal. And it was unclear if it included Internet-based calls.
In a request for comment on the reports, the NSA told AFP it would not "discuss specific intelligence collection methods," saying that it is "always evaluating our activities to ensure they are keeping pace with changes in technology."
But the reports suggested the program was less extensive and less effective than widely believed.
The relatively low percentage still may translate into tens of billions of phone records going back five years, which civil liberties groups say signifies a major breach of privacy rights.
But Deputy Attorney General James Cole told lawmakers in July that collecting a large amount of records is necessary to pinpoint terror suspects.
"If you're looking for the needle in the haystack, you have to have the entire haystack to look through," Cole said.
The account comes amid a growing "big brother" image of the NSA in the wake of revelations from intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, the former IT contractor who lifted the lid on the agency's vast electronic spying activities.
Amid global outrage sparked by the Snowden media leaks, President Barack Obama last month proposed that the phone data be taken out of the government's hands and shifted elsewhere to allay privacy worries.
The Justice Department and the country's intelligence agencies have until March 28 to come up with a plan on the data storage.
Lawmakers have suggested the NSA's controversial bulk phone data programme scooped up virtually every phone call in America, but officials told the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal the agency has struggled to gather data from mobile phones.
The explosion in cellphone use has presented a technical and logistical problem for the eavesdropping agency, which has a much more comprehensive collection of landline phone records, the newspapers said.
The controversial program, first revealed during George W Bush's presidency, seeks to track extremists or other intelligence targets by scooping up phone records, including the numbers called and the duration of the calls, but not the content of the conversations.
The bulk data collection once covered close to 100 percent of Americans' phone records, but last year the portion dropped to between 20 to 30 percent, current and former officials told the newspapers.
The NSA is moving to close the gap and will seek court orders to force telecommunications companies to hand over phone records, if they are not already doing so, officials told the papers.
When collecting phone data, the spy service has to take steps to avoid obtaining mobile phonetower details that are not allowed under the program, it said.
The current bulk data program does not cover at least two wireless firms -- Verizon Wirelessand T-Mobile, according to the Wall Street Journal. And it was unclear if it included Internet-based calls.
In a request for comment on the reports, the NSA told AFP it would not "discuss specific intelligence collection methods," saying that it is "always evaluating our activities to ensure they are keeping pace with changes in technology."
But the reports suggested the program was less extensive and less effective than widely believed.
The relatively low percentage still may translate into tens of billions of phone records going back five years, which civil liberties groups say signifies a major breach of privacy rights.
But Deputy Attorney General James Cole told lawmakers in July that collecting a large amount of records is necessary to pinpoint terror suspects.
"If you're looking for the needle in the haystack, you have to have the entire haystack to look through," Cole said.
The account comes amid a growing "big brother" image of the NSA in the wake of revelations from intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, the former IT contractor who lifted the lid on the agency's vast electronic spying activities.
Amid global outrage sparked by the Snowden media leaks, President Barack Obama last month proposed that the phone data be taken out of the government's hands and shifted elsewhere to allay privacy worries.
The Justice Department and the country's intelligence agencies have until March 28 to come up with a plan on the data storage.
Satya Nadella: Right man, right place, wrong time?
Satya Nadella, 46, the newly anointed CEO of the $78-billion Microsoft faces a daunting task of fitting into oversized shoes of the two previous chiefs, Steve Ballmer and founder Bill Gates, and steer a ship that's past its prime. After all, Microsoft dominates a market in decline.
While Windows is the preferred operating system for traditional personal computers (PCs), it runs less than 15% of new devices , including new PCs, smartphones and tablets, according to research and analyst firm Gartner.
Yet, Nadella has proven himself before in multiple divisions of Microsoft and that's what makes him cut out for the challenging job. He has overseen some of Microsoft's fastest-growing and most profitable businesses , including its Office, server and tools arms. In three years as server and tools president, he helped grow that business into one with $20 billion in annual revenue — about a quarter of Microsoft's total revenue in the most recent fiscal year. In the past one year, Nadella was the executive vice-president who led Microsoft's cloud computing offerings. Under Nadella, cloud enterprise group more than doubled customers in the latest quarter, although it remains a small part of Microsoft's current business.
"Going forward, it's a mobile-first , cloud-first world," Nadella said on Tuesday in a video accompanying the announcement. Now withBill Gates as technology adviser, can Nadella take on new and old challengers, including Google, Amazon, Salesforce, Apple, IBM, HP, Oracle? For instance, Salesforce. com has taken a bold step with its new platform launched in November 2013, Salesforce1 to merge business applications and social collaboration in a mobile environment. Microsoft needs to answer with the entirety of its offering (Dynamics CRM software ) across all devices.
An Insider Helps
Says Staten James, analyst at Forrester Research: "Being an insider, Nadella understands the culture. He has proven success — both in online and cloud and enterprise groups he has delivered on his strategy and business goals." Nadella's elevation also boosts employee morale. "There's lot of benefit to the employee base when they see that one of them can rise to the top," adds James. While the 100,000-odd Microsofties may feel happy, the company that Nadella inherits is vastly different from what Ballmer ran, when he took over back in 2000. At that time, iPod wasn't launched, Facebook had not started, YouTube didn't exist, Google was just a search engine figuring out how to make money and Amazon was only selling books. Today, the company that Nadella inherits has all these as challengers. Microsoft , once the most influential technology company , let them literally run away with one new business after another. So how relevant is Nadella , the insider?
Says Mary Jo Foley, editor of ZDNet's All about Microsoft blog and who has tracked Microsoft for the past 25 years: "Nadella was the strongest internal candidate in terms of his multi-divisional experience and technical chops. Nadella has made it clear that they need to be both in consumer and enterprise, hardware and software. I think he will rely on other executive vice-presidents for consumer expertise."
Foley is also author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era.
Adds Merv Adrian, research vicepresident , Gartner: "Nadella knows the engineering and technical issues and will lead the charge into mobile, device-driven and cloudenabled businesses. In the past Nadella has shaken up models within Microsoft, including changing software release frequency and supporting non-Microsoft technologies to help customers."
Tech Leads from Gates
Can Nadella's magic work as CEO as well? With Bill Gates, 58, as technology adviser, will there be room for Nadella to take independent decisions ? Back in 2000, when Ballmer took over as CEO, Gates was pretty much there and remained a chief software architect till 2008. That period saw Ballmer miss one wave after another and he could not remould Microsoft into a company that would sell both devices and services that powered them. For instance Windows Phone, Surface Tablet, launched ahead of competitors, failed to fire the markets. The past decade has seen the Redmond giant's power diminish as its core strength in desktops was overtaken by a world shifting to mobile platforms. By end-2013 global PC shipments totalled 82.6 million units, a 6.9% decline from the fourth quarter of 2012. This is the seventh consecutive quarter of shipment decline, Gartner said in a January statement.
So, will Gates' presence make it tougher? Says Foley: "It's more of a PR thing than something that will have a massive impact on Microsoft. I believe Gates was given this role to compensate for his no longer being chairman of the board." Adds James: "Gates is a technologist at heart and will serve as a tech strategy sounding board for Nadella."
Gates also has his foundation — Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — to run and won't be preoccupied with Microsoft . Says Foley: "I will be surprised if Gates actually takes the entire one-third of his time he supposedly has freed up to help guide Microsoft. I also wonder for how long he will be in this role."
While Windows is the preferred operating system for traditional personal computers (PCs), it runs less than 15% of new devices , including new PCs, smartphones and tablets, according to research and analyst firm Gartner.
Yet, Nadella has proven himself before in multiple divisions of Microsoft and that's what makes him cut out for the challenging job. He has overseen some of Microsoft's fastest-growing and most profitable businesses , including its Office, server and tools arms. In three years as server and tools president, he helped grow that business into one with $20 billion in annual revenue — about a quarter of Microsoft's total revenue in the most recent fiscal year. In the past one year, Nadella was the executive vice-president who led Microsoft's cloud computing offerings. Under Nadella, cloud enterprise group more than doubled customers in the latest quarter, although it remains a small part of Microsoft's current business.
"Going forward, it's a mobile-first , cloud-first world," Nadella said on Tuesday in a video accompanying the announcement. Now withBill Gates as technology adviser, can Nadella take on new and old challengers, including Google, Amazon, Salesforce, Apple, IBM, HP, Oracle? For instance, Salesforce. com has taken a bold step with its new platform launched in November 2013, Salesforce1 to merge business applications and social collaboration in a mobile environment. Microsoft needs to answer with the entirety of its offering (Dynamics CRM software ) across all devices.
An Insider Helps
Says Staten James, analyst at Forrester Research: "Being an insider, Nadella understands the culture. He has proven success — both in online and cloud and enterprise groups he has delivered on his strategy and business goals." Nadella's elevation also boosts employee morale. "There's lot of benefit to the employee base when they see that one of them can rise to the top," adds James. While the 100,000-odd Microsofties may feel happy, the company that Nadella inherits is vastly different from what Ballmer ran, when he took over back in 2000. At that time, iPod wasn't launched, Facebook had not started, YouTube didn't exist, Google was just a search engine figuring out how to make money and Amazon was only selling books. Today, the company that Nadella inherits has all these as challengers. Microsoft , once the most influential technology company , let them literally run away with one new business after another. So how relevant is Nadella , the insider?
Says Mary Jo Foley, editor of ZDNet's All about Microsoft blog and who has tracked Microsoft for the past 25 years: "Nadella was the strongest internal candidate in terms of his multi-divisional experience and technical chops. Nadella has made it clear that they need to be both in consumer and enterprise, hardware and software. I think he will rely on other executive vice-presidents for consumer expertise."
Foley is also author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft Plans to Stay Relevant in the Post-Gates Era.
Adds Merv Adrian, research vicepresident , Gartner: "Nadella knows the engineering and technical issues and will lead the charge into mobile, device-driven and cloudenabled businesses. In the past Nadella has shaken up models within Microsoft, including changing software release frequency and supporting non-Microsoft technologies to help customers."
Tech Leads from Gates
Can Nadella's magic work as CEO as well? With Bill Gates, 58, as technology adviser, will there be room for Nadella to take independent decisions ? Back in 2000, when Ballmer took over as CEO, Gates was pretty much there and remained a chief software architect till 2008. That period saw Ballmer miss one wave after another and he could not remould Microsoft into a company that would sell both devices and services that powered them. For instance Windows Phone, Surface Tablet, launched ahead of competitors, failed to fire the markets. The past decade has seen the Redmond giant's power diminish as its core strength in desktops was overtaken by a world shifting to mobile platforms. By end-2013 global PC shipments totalled 82.6 million units, a 6.9% decline from the fourth quarter of 2012. This is the seventh consecutive quarter of shipment decline, Gartner said in a January statement.
So, will Gates' presence make it tougher? Says Foley: "It's more of a PR thing than something that will have a massive impact on Microsoft. I believe Gates was given this role to compensate for his no longer being chairman of the board." Adds James: "Gates is a technologist at heart and will serve as a tech strategy sounding board for Nadella."
Gates also has his foundation — Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — to run and won't be preoccupied with Microsoft . Says Foley: "I will be surprised if Gates actually takes the entire one-third of his time he supposedly has freed up to help guide Microsoft. I also wonder for how long he will be in this role."
About....!
.I do what I must, and my friends will adjust!
*.I am here for your entertainment!
*.I am still waiting for blessings which aren't in disguise.
*.I cover my mouth when I cough, so people don't catch my awesomeness.
*.Yeah I'm F.I.N.E. (F)alling apart, (I)nsecure, (N)eeding help, (E)verything's wrong.
*.I am the one your mother warned you about.
*.I'm painting a blue square in my backyard so Google Earth thinks I have a pool.
*.I live for the moments you can't put into words....!
*.I am here for your entertainment!
*.I am still waiting for blessings which aren't in disguise.
*.I cover my mouth when I cough, so people don't catch my awesomeness.
*.Yeah I'm F.I.N.E. (F)alling apart, (I)nsecure, (N)eeding help, (E)verything's wrong.
*.I am the one your mother warned you about.
*.I'm painting a blue square in my backyard so Google Earth thinks I have a pool.
*.I live for the moments you can't put into words....!
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