Freedom - Gone to the dogs!

Where did my neighbors Freedom Go? I guess not out his window, cause he looked out there and it was no where to be seen. Or may be my other neighbors dog found it and buried it somewhere in my garden! So in search of his freedom, he needs to dig up my garden, violating my freedom and my rights to my Land! Isn't this what so many people and so many organizations do, in search of the their freedom cum rights (to live in luxury) they will not hesitate to violate my freedom or my rights.

Well any way, we have so many movements that fight for freedom, human rights, media freedom and what not, but still there is no freedom! Well if they were to win these "freedom" or "rights" that they are so longing for, what the hell will happen to their (generously funded) NGOs? Who need them then? How will they live their gala lives? Who will pay their (unlimited) fuel bills or their mobile bills or their house rents or trips abroad, etc. etc.?

Freedom has indeed gone to the dogs. Let alone the government, even these so called "Rights" and "Freedom" organizations have started to denying rights and freedom, what ever the hell one calls them. These organizations hide the truth in their publications and moderate and censor comments, which in turn deny the right of the reader to know the truth and the commenters' their right to their opinion and freedom of expression. The truth is bitter for them and bad for their coffers, so no way can one expect truth. But moderating and censoring comments!!! You can try commenting in the most civilized manner and language, and give logical arguments relevant to the topic - but if your comments differ in opinion or threaten their agenda, well you have no right or freedom to have your opinion published.

Just try it out by posting a logical and civilized argument on the blogs of the Free Media Movement or Groundviews or Vikalpa, or try leaving a comment on the vikalpa channel on YouTube, or why not try to comment on the DailyMirror blog. All of them will go to town with the story when some so called journalist or some Kumara, Sivalingam or Mohamed is "harnessed". What more I am still waiting for the "Muththusami Ilankoowan" story on DailyMirror site, which has been carried by every other major newspaper.

The mind-boggling question is, if they don't want to hear the opinion of people, why the hell do they allow for comments? Ain't they obstructing the "rights" and the "freedom", which they say they are fighting for? What are these "rights" and "freedom" organizations really fighting for? Is it for the freedom to live or the freedom of expression or human rights or media freedom or are they just showing their funding organizations and political masters that there is no freedom and there are no rights in Sri Lanka, and that all commenters' on their publications reinforce what they say?

In simple terms is their fight real or are they fighting to keep the money flowing into their coffers and for their "right" and "freedom" to live luxury lives with blood money.

The new Apple MacBooks and Pros are out?

I want to buy an apple MacBook and have been keeping an eye on things. I just heard this rumor that apple would be releasing the new MacBook and a MacBook Pro with the Santa Rosa architecture with a bus speed of 800MHz, and tomorrow is Friday (if apple keeps to the tradition of launching stuff on Friday) the new Macs should be out tomorrow. I noticed on the Apple websites too that 1st they had the new spec, but now they have taken away the whole Product Bar so that visitors cannot see the new Mac specs. Still if you search hard enough, you can find a link they forgot to take off, so here are the new spec,

The MacBook

• 2.0GHz or 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
  
• 4MB shared L2 cache running at full processor speed
• 800MHz frontside bus
• 1GB (two 512MB SO-DIMMs) of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300); two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100

The MacBook Pro

• 15-inch MacBook Pro
  • 2.2GHz, 2.4GHz, or 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed
• 17-inch MacBook Pro
  • 2.4GHz or 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed
• 2GB (two SO-DIMMs) of PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 memory; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB
• 800MHz frontside bus

So whats New? Well now it is 2.0 - 2.6 GHz (used to be 2.0 - 2.4 GHz) , RAM upgradeable to 4 GB (used to be 2 GB), 800MHz frontside bus (used to be 667MHz), the MacBook with the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (instead of GMA 950) and they also comes with new OS-X Leopard (watch the demo on the apple site Leopard is really awesome). The best news from what I have seen up to now is that, all the extra features with no price increase :-) WOW!

So I might wait another day or two to get my new MacBook. If you bought it recently, me deepest sympathies :-(