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2月26日

The last straw

  

She must have lost her mind. She sounds exactly like Karl Rove accuses people who criticize the war as unpatriotic.

And the heat is just unbelievable. She is surely more Howard Dean than Obama is Karl Rove.

Bye bye, Hillary!

I have to admit that I feel bad. That's not because I liked her. I never did. I just dislike Obama more. And now I have to decide whether I dislike more McCain or Obama.

One interesting thing I found, from myself as well as many other voters, is that people don't vote based on reason as much as emotional instinct. This is of course no news. I myself blogged many times against it. That's why it's so provoking to me when I found (or finally admit) I am one of them. For example, I NEVER study the platform of either candidates in details, I just dislike Obama because he is rhetoric, the type of the politicians I as a Chinese despise intuitively. (Of course an excuse could be there's no much difference between Obama and Hillary that worths time investment.)

I've come to one theory for that. Vote for a specific candidate is a specific meme. There are rational reasonings to support these memes, which form a memeplex. These memeplexes compete in one's brain. The fittest survives. But that's not up to which one fits the reality, or logic, or reasoning. No, it's who fits best the environment, the brain. The memeplex that makes the brain feel good survives. Some brain  reward reasoning strongly, but that's very rare. Most just yield to the subconscious unknown pleasure. Yet people think they are reasoning, because they all have a decent memeplex to support their decision. And these kind of memeplex are just too many. That's why rationality often ends up only as an excuse for irrationality.

2月1日

为黑窑母亲群体及获救窑工派过年红包“网友送温暖”活动捐款方案(Updated with Paypal info)

现实之于他们如此坚硬,我们可能没什么办法帮到他们什么忙,但至少可以让他们感受到世界还有人性的柔软的另一面。

所以,发起这次对部分黑窑母亲及获救窑工送过年红包的募捐活动。

以下是我们准备送红包的黑窑母亲及获救窑奴名单,他们只是黑窑受害者的一小部分,鉴于没有公开全面的信息来源,我们暂时只能做到这一步。

 捐赠人:所有自愿参加送温暖活动的网友

组织者:IAMV

受益人:失踪窑工袁学宇家长袁成、柴长青家长柴伟、苗全(又名苗旭鹏)家长苗立松、霍晨阳家长霍耀周、赵永民家长赵臣义、李鹏家长蒋花荣、秦明辉家长李玉亲、何建强家长何大楼;怀疑被掳为窑工的陈昌家长王小丽……等

获救窑工张文龙(化名)、李耀锴、陈小军、庞飞虎、周道明、肖文龙、刘亚飞、刘伟等


paypal:huangbincn@hotmail.com,用户名是Bin Huang (不过好像不用填)。

由于涉及到外币兑现和汇率的问题,捐款活动结束后,由黄斌、钭江明、王小山、罗永
浩四人共同确认账户余额。黄斌同意将捐款按照银行汇率折合成人民币交于组织方。
 

接收捐款的银行帐号:4060101-01880211765

开户行:中国银行

户名:钭江明 (TOU  JIANGMING)

支付宝账号:huangbincn@hotmail.com

帐号持有人姓名:黄斌

我们大概会每三天公布一次该帐号收到的款项明细,捐款活动结束后,由黄斌、钭江明、王小山、罗永浩四人共同去银行提取。
活动时间:2008年1月22日至2008年2月21日24时。

 

规则:

一、捐款汇至上述银行帐户;当你向上述帐户汇款时,表示你已经阅读、理解并接受本方案,视为你已经同组织者达成捐赠协议。

二、截至2008年2月21日(正月十五)24时,将所有捐款以现金或实物方式送给受益人。

三、分别给每个受益人的数额由组织者IAMV与辛艳华、罗永浩、王小山根据受益人的家庭经济状况及个人意愿共同商讨决定。

四、受益人包括但不限于上述所列名单,捐款活动结束后一个月内,组织者公布所有受到捐助的受益人名单。

五、受益人自由支配获捐款项。

 

阳光保障措施:

一、罗永浩先生保管捐款帐户存折,保证不将该存折交给他人,并定期公布接收捐款的金额(公布频率不低于七天一次)。

二、王小山先生掌握捐款帐户密码,并保证不将自己掌握的折卡密码泄露给他人。

三、罗永浩先生、王小山先生、IAMV承诺仅在三人同时在场的情况下方可提款。

四、IAMV承诺捐款帐户提出的款项将仅交付给受益人。

五、取款及向受益人汇款的过程,由律师见证。

撤销捐赠的流程:

.捐赠人在捐款后一个月内有权撤销捐赠。

.要求撤销捐赠的,需要提交汇款凭证原件供组织者或组织者指定的人士查验。

.核实汇款信息属实后半个月内,组织者将相应的款项退还给原汇款人(退款时,收款人、收款帐号为原汇款人、原汇款帐号)。