júní 06, 2005
júní 03, 2005
mobile phones
if you want to buy a new phone you have to take the day off.
monopoly is not good thing at all. it lets company do what they want, provided that you must buy the product. but neither is the competence good solution, at least from the viewpoint of ordinary customer. having five mobile phone service providers makes you even more confused. instead of reading just one, you have to read whole bunch of mutually incompatible billing systems.
the worse thing they have fucking names like fun+free, genion and the likes. on the internet you can find some distributers selling the same things at at the reduced price. this may seem like a phishing.
nowadays mobile phones are expensive necessity. long gone are the days when you could get a decent phone for 1 euro. today all you can get for one euro is 2,5 year old no name (i don't consider lg to be brand name) phone, reminiscent of brick. nokias are too expensive.
it seems that i am going to buy a motorola razr v3.
júní 02, 2005
voyeurism
about mtv, severina and paris' home videos, abu ghraib and other things that make us human.
not even a year ago, a lot of words have been written about abu ghraib scandal. first the government/military/patriotic journalists didn't want to show us pictures, claiming they may be too graphic. The latter set another peak of ridiculesness in the landscape of bush's stupidity. finally, though shyful wahington post published these pictures behind what seems to be an obscure link somewhere on their page. but this turned out to be huge hit, crashing washington post's site.
i bet most of the internet surfers did not want to see what american heroes had done. they simply wanted to see the other things, like how huge cocks the abused have, or if it is really cool out there in iraq. these sadism-masochism plays often seem too cool and sexy. unfortunately there were blurred areas on those sensitive places.
i can't otherwise imagine why so many people would want to see pictures of people abused. regardles of who they are. i have never heard that pictures of darfour tragedy led to any site crash. or poverty in africa. although there may be naked people there.
but leave this thing here, i admit i can never write an essay on this topic, as good as late susan sontag did in new york times last year.
we want to peek in the lives of others. why on earth would then paris hilton's videos be so popular? why was internet in balkans brought to a halt last year when severina's home (boat) video appeared? let alone mtv and cnn.
once i wrote about this. the post was about cyrilic, and it was written in bosnian. i wrote that we are pervert generation. raised with live tv coverages: the one of alija's capture upon arival in bosnia from talks in portugal, with live radio coverage of stand-off on visegrad's dam, army withdrawal from barracs in tuzla. we could watch massacres as they happen, although not live, but you could be certain: as it happens, you will get to see it half an hour later.
and god i know no one wanted to watch it. it was too graphical for us. despite having seen things far worse. we had some respect towards those killed and wounded. we thought airing these reports might help to defend bosnian cause. we thought, that those graphic images may influence politicians to help us. yet those who saw it had good material to masturbate at.
i am not american president and don't have god in my bedroom, to fuck him and use him as i want, so i will stop with my moral litany exactly here.
the cause of writing this post is obvious. last night serbian tv aired short movie. movie is located in bosnia sometimes 1994 or something. it showed ortodox priest blessing serbian forces. the same forces later executed, visibly mistreated civilians, apparent prisoners of war.
moral positions of those who made this movie are the same as those who made pictures in abu ghraib. this was safari movie from bosnia. intended to be shown to pervert consumers. the same ones who crashed washington post site.
post festum: iraqi war continues. abuse pictures didn't change anything.
in balkans those right wing extreemist are stronger than ever. waiting for another war to push their agenda.
in this situation one asks what is the purpose of morality?