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Author: Aulia Masna
Former tech journo, used to write for Macworld, DailySocial, e27. Ex , ran a national startup initiative program in Indonesia. Very much into the news.
Apparently school is only for virgins
This sickening news came from Jambi, a city in Sumatra, Indonesia. The logic of Bambang Bayu Suseno, a local legislator, is that:
The idea is simple. Parents are obviously afraid of their daughters being deflowered before the time comes, so before they continue their studies, they can undergo the virginity test and automatically protect their dignity,” said Jambi legislative councilor Bambang Bayu Suseno.
He is proposing that female students undergo virginity tests before they can be admitted into public schools and existing students may be forced out if they were found to be no longer virgins. According to him, non-virgin girls are not worthy of education simply because they gave in to peer pressure. Note that he did not say anything about non-virgin boys.
While the province’s secretary spokesman rejected the idea, it is still astounding that someone at the legislative level even has this idea cross his mind. Education is a basic human right and to refuse anyone, virgin or not, is a violation and the law does not discriminate based on a person’s moral judgment.
The country has been drawn into the morality debate. The Minister for Communication and Information wants to block pornography to protect children and the eastern values of society and prosecute those who seek porn. Advocates of freedom of expression are being labeled as pro porn despite debating the principles of censorship rather than the content. An Aceh district chief wants to enact a bylaw making it compulsory for women to dress in a certain way to avoid inciting impure thoughts by men which may lead to rape.
This is Indonesia now. A country anchored in morality issues.
Update: The proposal has been rejected.
Pizza Cutter of the Day: “Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter” from ThinkGeek.
Officially licensed collectable. Laser-etched stainless steel blade; solid zinc-alloy chromium plated body.
Space… the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new pizzas, to seek out new toppings and new cheeses, to boldy cut pizza where no man has cut before!
Make it slice.
This would be perfect to cut this.
iPad habit creeping in to MacBook
No matter how hard you expect it to happen, those keys on that MacBook’s keyboard won’t ever flip and reveal additional characters. Oh, and there’s no .?123 key on the MacBook to tap and flip the keyboard. Maybe in the future when Apple introduces context aware touch-enabled keyboard for its Macs as per their patent, but not now, not yet, and definitely not on this MacBook you’re typing on.
This is something I have to remind myself almost daily since May. The time spent typing on the iPad has definitely taken over my muscle memory on using the MacBook and its traditional (I’m trying to avoid describing it as quaint) keyboard.
Speaking of additional characters, I wish Apple would incorporate special characters and symbols into the iOS keyboards. All they have to do is make it an additional keyboard option that can be activated by tapping the globe icon.
More than a year ago I got so used to double tapping the space bar to end a sentence when typing on the iPhone, I started doing it on the MacBook.
iTunes had that “feature” where it stops updating podcasts since it first supported them, and it always used an exclamation mark for it.
So people told me. Never seen it before, maybe I was diligent in my podcast listening schedule until recently.
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