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Turkey coup: 15,200 education staff suspended

Tun Sri Lanang — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 23:48:59 +0800

More than 15,000 education staff in Turkey have been suspended after last week's failed coup, as a purge of state officials widens still further.

The ministry of education accused them of links to Fethullah Gulen, a US-based cleric the Turkish government says was behind Friday's uprising.

Mr Gulen denies any involvement in the coup attempt .

The resignation of more than 1,500 university deans has also been ordered by Turkey's high education board.

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim vowed to take action against Mr Gulen's supporters.

"I'm sorry but this parallel terrorist organisation will no longer be an effective pawn for any country," Mr Yildirim said, according to Reuters news agency.

"We will dig them up by their roots so that no clandestine terrorist organisation will have the nerve to betray our blessed people again."

The army, judiciary, security and civil service have all been targeted following Friday's coup attempt:

6,000 military personnel have been arrested, with more than two dozen generals awaiting trial
9,000 police officers have been sacked
3,000 judges have been suspended
More than 250 staff in Mr Yildirim's office have been removed

Turkey's media regulation body on Tuesday also revoked the licenses of 24 radio and TV channels accused to have links to Mr Gulen.

The UN has urged Turkey to uphold the rule of law and defend human rights in its response to the attempted coup.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said the mass suspension or removal of judges was "cause for serious alarm". He expressed "deep regret" at suggestions the death penalty could be reinstated.

According to official figures from the prime minister's office, Friday night's coup attempt left 232 people dead and 1,541 wounded.

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Asal Usul Tarian Boek

Tun Sri Lanang — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 22:39:17 +0800

I think boek dancer was inspired by this.

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[YOUTUBE]aY_nhrmFdiE[/YOUTUBE]

What do /ktards think?

Ustaz Tawar Servis Transfer Pahala

Tun Sri Lanang — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 21:38:57 +0800

OK, let me try to understand this.

You pay $350 so that the ustaz can recite Quran and transfer the pahala to 10 people.
But if you pay $500, the pahala can be transferred to 20 people instead.

I have few questions:
1. How much does it cost to transfer pahala to 100 people?
2. How much pahala does each person receive?
- Does it depends on how alim the ustaz is?
- Or does it depends on how much we pay the ustazs?

MasyaAllah, ana sangat confuse lah.

Muslim Match Kena Hacked

Tun Sri Lanang — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:34:46 +0800

A niche dating website called Muslim Match has suffered a data breach exposing roughly 150,000 user accounts and more than half a million private messages.

The dataset consists of usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, chat logs, hashed passwords and geographic locations. Security researcher Troy Hunt has uploaded the information into breach notification website HaveIBeenPwned and the data was released in full by TheCthulhu – a well-known name in hacking circles.

IBTimes UK has obtained and viewed a copy of the leaked database, which includes eight separate documents, six of which are in Sql format. Both Muslim Match and a sample of the users in the data dump have been approached for additional comment. At the time of writing, the website is offline.

One of the leaked files, marked SEPMs, contains roughly 790,000 private messages between users – many of an intimate or confessional nature. "I was not married or engaged before. As much as I always wanted to share my life with a Muslim wife, I was not fortunate enough to meet my soul mate before now," a message reads.

A separate user said: "Fancy chatting to a 2ft, 65 stone geek, with big goggly eyes and a fettish for really crap comic books. Oh and Saturday nites (sic) I like to train spot at Kings Cross... nah didn't think so "

Another message stated: "I'm interested to get to know you, as I am looking for a soul mate / wife, and hope that it will be you. Please write to me and send me your photo please. I will tell you everything about myself too, and please don't go by what is written in the profile. There are lots to tell you about. Life is too short to waste it without loving someone and be loved by someone." There are many more from users spanning the UK, US and Middle East.

While most of the users appeared to be using the website for dating purposes, the Muslim Match social media pages describe the service as a "100% free marriage service". On its Facebook page, it says the website could be used to "share ideas, thoughts and find a suitable marriage partner".

Speaking to technology website Motherboard, which was able to make contact with a number of impacted users, one person described the situation as "very scary". Another user stressed disappointment about the lack of encryption used by the website, which is used by hundreds of thousands of members to share sensitive and private information in confidence.

Poor security, no encryption.
The admins can read all your messages.
Please be aware and avoid this website, guys.

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Privacy activist
Data Dump

Imam Jutawan (Millionaire Imam)

Tun Sri Lanang — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 10:47:00 +0800

/ktard average salary is only 20k per month.
Now, beat that!

(Srs) The World's Newest Major Religion

Tun Sri Lanang — Sun, 08 May 2016 01:00:14 +0800

The World's Newest Major Religion: No Religion

As secularism grows, atheists and agnostics are trying to expand and diversify their ranks.

You don’t usually think of churches as going out of business, but it happens. In March, driven by parishioner deaths and lack of interest, the U.K. Mennonites held their last collective service.

It might seem easy to predict that plain-dressing Anabaptists—who follow a faith related to the Amish—would become irrelevant in the age of smartphones, but this is part of a larger trend. Around the world, when asked about their feelings on religion, more and more people are responding with a meh.

The religiously unaffiliated, called "nones," are growing significantly. They’re the second largest religious group in North America and most of Europe. In the United States, nones make up almost a quarter of the population. In the past decade, U.S. nones have overtaken Catholics, mainline protestants, and all followers of non-Christian faiths.

A lack of religious affiliation has profound effects on how people think about death, how they teach their kids, and even how they vote. (Watch The Story of God With Morgan Freeman for more about how different religions understand God and creation.)

There have long been predictions that religion would fade from relevancy as the world modernizes, but all the recent surveys are finding that it’s happening startlingly fast. France will have a majority secular population soon. So will the Netherlands and New Zealand. The United Kingdom and Australia will soon lose Christian majorities. Religion is rapidly becoming less important than it’s ever been, even to people who live in countries where faith has affected everything from rulers to borders to architecture.

But nones aren’t inheriting the Earth just yet. In many parts of the world—sub-Saharan Africa in particular—religion is growing so fast that nones’ share of the global population will actually shrink in 25 years as the world turns into what one researcher has described as “the secularizing West and the rapidly growing rest.” (The other highly secular part of the world is China, where the Cultural Revolution tamped down religion for decades, while in some former Communist countries, religion is on the increase.)

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Millennials to God: No Thanks

If the world is at a religious precipice, then we’ve been moving slowly toward it for decades. Fifty years ago, Time asked in a famous headline, “Is God Dead?” The magazine wondered whether religion was relevant to modern life in the post-atomic age when communism was spreading and science was explaining more about our natural world than ever before.

We’re still asking the same question. But the response isn’t limited to yes or no. A chunk of the population born after the article was printed may respond to the provocative question with, “God who?” In Europe and North America, the unaffiliated tend to be several years younger than the population average. And 11 percent of Americans born after 1970 were raised in secular homes.

Scientific advancement isn’t just making people question God, it’s also connecting those who question. It’s easy to find atheist and agnostic discussion groups online, even if you come from a religious family or community. And anyone who wants the companionship that might otherwise come from church can attend a secular Sunday Assembly or one of a plethora of Meetups for humanists, atheists, agnostics, or skeptics.

The groups behind the web forums and meetings do more than give skeptics witty rejoinders for religious relatives who pressure them to go to church—they let budding agnostics know they aren’t alone.

But it’s not easy to unite people around not believing in something. “Organizing atheists is like herding cats,” says Stephanie Guttormson, the operations director of the Richard Dawkins Foundation, which is merging with the Center for Inquiry. “But lots of cats have found their way into the 'meowry.'”

The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, continues Sunday, April 24, at 9/8c, and will take viewers on a trip around the world to explore different cultures and religions on the ultimate quest to uncover the meaning of life, God, and all the questions in between.

Guttormson says the goal of her group is to organize itself out of existence. They want to normalize atheism to a point where it’s so common that atheists no longer need a group to tell them it’s okay not to believe, or to defend their morals in the face of religious lawmakers.

But it’s not there yet.

The Privilege of Not Believing

There are a few theories about why people become atheists in large numbers. Some demographers attribute it to financial security, which would explain why European countries with a stronger social safety net are more secular than the United States, where poverty is more common and a medical emergency can bankrupt even the insured.

Atheism is also tied to education, measured by academic achievement (atheists in many places tend to have college degrees) or general knowledge of the panoply of beliefs around the world (hence theories that Internet access spurs atheism).

There’s some evidence that official state religions drive people away from faith entirely, which could help explain why the U.S. is more religious than most Western nations that technically have a state religion, even if it is rarely observed. The U.S. is also home to a number of homegrown churches—Scientology, Mormonism—that might scoop up those who are disenchanted with older faiths.

The social factors that promote atheism—financial security and education—have long been harder to attain for women and people of color in the United States.

Around the world, the Pew Research Center finds that women tend to be more likely to affiliate with a religion and more likely to pray and find religion important in their lives. That changes when women have more opportunities. “Women who are in the labor force are more like men in religiosity. Women out of the labor force tend to be more religious,” says Conrad Hackett with Pew. “Part of that might be because they’re part of a religious group that enforces the power of women being at home."

In a Washington Post op-ed about the racial divides among atheists, Black Skeptics Group founder Sikivu Hutchinson points out that “the number of black and Latino youth with access to quality science and math education is still abysmally low.” That means they have fewer economic opportunities and less exposure to a worldview that does not require the presence of God.

Religion has a place for women, people of color, and the poor. By its nature, secularism is open to all, but it’s not always as welcoming.

Some of the humanist movement’s most visible figures aren’t known for their respect toward women. Prominent atheists Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins have awful reputations for misogyny, as does the late Christopher Hitchens. Bill Maher, the comedian and outspoken atheist, is no (nonexistent) angel, either.

The leaders of Atheist Alliance International, Dawkins Foundation, and Center for Inquiry who I talked to were all well aware of the demographic shortcomings, and they’re working on it: All of the leaders I spoke to were women.

Even people who are white, male, and educated may fear the stigma of being labeled a nonbeliever. A white dentist at the CFI’s Drinking Skeptically event didn’t want to go on the record out of a fear that patients wouldn’t want an atheist working on their teeth.

“We have this stigma that we’re combative, that we’re arrogant, that we just want to provoke religious people,” Thomas with Black Nonbelievers, Inc. says. She’s working on changing that, and increasing the visibility of nonbelievers of color, too.

Thompson believes the demographics of nones don’t accurately reflect the number and diversity of nonbelievers; it just shows who is comfortable enough to say they don’t believe out loud. “There are many more people of color, there are many more women who identify as atheists,” she says. “There are many people who attend church who are still atheists.”

Expanding the Ranks

What’s sometimes called the New Atheism picked up in the mid-2000s. These were years of war, when Islam was painted as a threat and Christianity infused U.S. policy, abroad and domestically, most visibly in faith-based ballot initiatives against same-sex marriage.

In the U.S., many state legislators are still using a narrow interpretation of Christian morals to deny services to gay people and appropriate restrooms to people who are transgender.

But the national backlash to religious legislation has become faster and fiercer than ever before. Europeans seem set on addressing Islamophobia and the forces that could create tension with the “rapidly growing rest.”

And compared to past campaign seasons, religion is taking a backseat in this year’s U.S. presidential election. Donald Trump is not outwardly religious (and his attraction of evangelical voters has raised questions about the longevity and the motives of the religious right). Hillary Clinton has said “advertising about faith doesn’t come naturally to me.” And Bernie Sanders is “not actively involved” in a religion. Their reticence about religion reflects the second largest religious group in the country they hope to run. Aside from Ted Cruz, the leading candidates just aren’t up for talking about religion. The number of Americans who seek divine intervention in the voting booth seems to be shrinking.

For all the work secular groups do to promote acceptance of nonbelievers, perhaps nothing will be as effective as apathy plus time. As the secular millennials grow up and have children of their own, the only Sunday morning tradition they may pass down is one everyone in the world can agree on: brunch.

National Geographic

TLDR: In Western countries, more ppl have rejected religions. However, for rest of the world, the opposite is true.
Haha weird.

Dah Ada Date Dengan Izham, Sorry

Tun Sri Lanang — Mon, 02 May 2016 08:43:33 +0800

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I installed Windows 95 on my Apple Watch

Tun Sri Lanang — Sun, 01 May 2016 12:36:07 +0800

With a 520 MHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, and 8GB of internal storage, the Apple Watch packs a lot of computing horsepower into a very small package. On paper, its processor alone is about twenty-five times faster than the average 386, and 512 MB was the size of a hard drive in the mid nineties, not memory. As a result, I was feeling confident that the Apple Watch had the ability to run one of the most revered desktop operating systems Redmond has ever produced.

What are you, nuts?
Pretty much. I was born in the nineties, and the first personal computer my family bought (a $3000 screamer with a 300 MHz Pentium II, 256 MB of RAM, and the optional Boston Acoustics speaker system) ran Windows 95. Also, this isn’t the first time I’ve installed an old operating system on a watch. Here’s a video of my Apple Watch running Mac OS 7.5.5:

But How?
Unlike the above port of the Mini vMac emulator, the result here had to be interactive. That meant that Apple’s WatchKit SDK wasn’t good enough, since it doesn’t allow you to access user touch locations directly — it only lets you use Apple’s stock controls. Long story short, it’s possible to patch certain files within a WatchKit app to load your own application code rather than Apple’s. For more information, check out Steven Troughton-Smith’s excellent blog post on the subject.
Here’s an outline of the steps involved:
- Copy symbols and headers from Xcode’s iphoneOS and iphoneSimulator platforms to the watchOS and watchSimulator platforms, respectively.
- Build your “normal” UIKit-based iOS app inside a framework, rather than in your WatchKit extension.
- Use install_name_tool to point your WatchKit app’s _WatchKitStub/WK binary to your framework instead of SockPuppetGizmo. SockPuppetGizmo is the framework that (to my knowledge) runs WatchKit and interacts with normal WatchKit extensions that developers write.
- Jury-rig the iOS port of the Bochs x86 emulator into your framework. “Easy!” “How hard can it be?” read: Pretty hard. In my case, Xcode crashed whenever I tried to use lldb. Your mileage may vary.
- Copy a Windows 95 disk image in to your app’s bundle, write the config file, and boot ‘er up.
*Optional: hot glue a motor to the watch’s crown to keep it from falling asleep.

Will It Blend?
Yes! Due to the fact that it is emulated (not virtualized), it takes about an hour to boot.

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Jom main Solitaire

Assalamualaikum Ya Ukhti

Tun Sri Lanang — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 23:56:58 +0800

QUOTE

Assalamualaikum sahabat2 semua sihat ?

Alhamdulillah kepada yg sihat , dan yang tk sihat SYAFAKILLAH buat awak ..okay semalam syiqah ada cakap 100 likes keatas syiqah akan bagi tahu , tentang siapa lamar siapa .
Harini syiqah nak cerita sikit tentang syiqah dan suami , macam mana kami kenal , macam mana relation kami yang tak kenal satu sama lain boleh sampai ke hari pernikahan .
Syiqah anak yang berumur 16 tahun dan suami berumur 25 tahun . syiqah bernikah masa umur 15 and masa tu suami 24 , tarikh kami nikah 14.11.2015 Alhamdulillah sekarang nak masuk 6bulan kami bernikah .

Bermula kisah macam mana syiqah boleh kenal dengan sifulan bin sifulan ni .
Syiqah seorang yang aktif diwechat 2,3 tahun lepas , FB syiqah kurang dan more kepde wechat . wechat kan ade shake right ? wechat ade people nearby right ? haaaaa meh nak cerita .

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Hahaha.../k/tard forever alones, how now?
Maruah tercabar tak?

Ban all non-electric vehicles by 2025

Tun Sri Lanang — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 23:58:22 +0800

The Netherlands is making moves to ban all non-electric vehicles by 2025

No fumes in the future.

Electric vehicles – including self-driving cars – are clearly the future of personal transportation, but the question remains: when does the future begin, exactly?

If the Netherlands has its way, we now have an answer. There are moves within the country to ban all petrol and diesel vehicle sales by 2025, meaning only new electric cars would thereafter be approved on Dutch roads – although existing fossil-fuel-based vehicles could continue puttering around until their engines give out.

While it's an extreme proposal, a majority of the lower house in the Dutch parliament supported the motion, meaning there's a chance it could be passed into law. Under the plan, all emissions-based cars would be outlawed, at least in terms of new sales. That means fuel-efficient hybrids would also be banned, although hydrogen fuel cell cars would be permitted.

It's an ambitious plan, and it's certainly not the first time the Netherlands has backed the environment with big ideas in terms of transport technology. The country is currently working on a 100 percent wind-powered railway system, and is even building solar technology into its roads.

The most remarkable thing about the proposed vehicle emissions ban is how short the time frame is – less than a decade – to turn the Netherlands' existing auto industry into a wholly electric marketplace. Admittedly, the nation appears to currently enjoy a much greater penetration of electric vehicles than most other countries.

According to Inside EVs, last year, the Netherlands saw over 43,000 new electric vehicles purchased, giving electric cars a very healthy 9.6 percent share of the market, with 449,347 vehicle registrations in total in 2015.

While that's still significantly behind the leader in electric vehicle uptake – Norway, sitting on an amazing 22.39 percent market share – it's still a long, long way ahead of countries like the US (0.66 percent), the UK (1.1 percent), and Canada (0.35 percent).

In a sense, that's not surprising. There's been an awful lot of attention on Tesla's Model 3 in recent weeks, and it's been widely billed as the first 'affordable' electric vehicle from Tesla. As long as electric cars are also necessarily considered luxury cars – like the rest of Tesla's lineup – they clearly won't be able to take over from cheaper, albeit gas-guzzling vehicles.

So the Netherlands' impressive proposal won't just mean getting other politicians on board – it will also require getting car makers to produce about 10 times as many electric vehicles as are currently sold to Dutch drivers. A pretty big change, and will a decade be long enough to achieve it?

Nobody knows for sure, and there's certainly dissent among the Dutch themselves. According to Janene Pieters at NL Times, the Minister of Economic Affairs, Henk Kamp from the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), has called the proposal overambitious and unrealistic, saying at most 15 percent of new cars in 2025 will be completely electric.

It remains to be seen whether the motion will pass into law, but at least the debate is taking place, and some voices are clearly behind setting an aggressive pace for the uptake of electric vehicles. After all, they'll have to replace gas-guzzlers at some point, right?

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Mari menceroboh rumah orang 2.30 pagi...

Tun Sri Lanang — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 01:48:42 +0800

Guna aduan palsu, Jais ceroboh rumah pelakon pagi buta

KUALA LUMPUR, 16 April ― Belum pun selesai kontroversi sebelumnya, pelakon Faye Kusairi terus diuji namun kali ini apabila ketenteraman hidupnya dihancurkan pihak berkuasa agama. Faye nama popular Dayangku Faratiwan Adnil Awang Kusairi berkata sekumpulan anggota Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (Jais) menceroboh ke rumah keluarganya Ahad lepas ekoran aduan palsu daripada individu tertentu. "Tujuan saya bukanlah untuk menuding jari kepada mana-mana pihak, namun saya berasa teraniaya apabila keluarga diperlakukan sebegini. "Malah, pihak si pengadu turut memberi jaminan kepada pihak Jais untuk menanggung kos kerosakan sepanjang proses serbuan berlangsung. "Maruah keluarga saya turut tercemar apabila insiden terbabit disaksikan oleh jiran tetangga. Saya juga risaukan ibu saya yang menghidap darah tinggi," katanya kepada Berita Harian semalam.

Faye, 29, berkata ketika serbuan 2.30 pagi itu hanya ayah, ibu dan adik lelakinya berada di rumah. Pelakon drama Aku Isterinya bagaimanapun tiada ketika serbuan kerana tinggal di rumah lain bersama rakan. "Saya ada hak untuk mengetahui siapakah pengadu itu kerana selain menjatuhkan maruah, saya juga risau akan keselamatan saya. “Oleh itu saya mengambil pendekatan membuat satu lagi laporan berhubung keselamatan diri. "Lebih merisaukan, pihak pengadu mengetahui kelima-lima kereta milik saya dan keluarga. Ia membuatkan saya risau ketika keluar rumah untuk bekerja," dia dilaporkan berkata.

Kicap

I found a good blog on personal finance

Tun Sri Lanang — Sun, 03 Apr 2016 11:15:06 +0800

Hey /k/

I found a good blog on personal finance, Ringgit Oh Ringgit.
It is written by a Malaysian and is very informative.

Here is a sample entry:

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Malay Wedding Cost – The Akad Nikah
1. Canopy: RM880 – rented 1 x canopy, 10 x tables, and 3 x buffet tables
2. Catering: FREE RECEIVED HELP– provided by family members
3. Pelamin (aka Dais): RM2000 – 1 x pelamin, 7 x dulang hantaran, floral bouquet
4. Photographer: RM900 – 1 x event + free outdoor photoshoot
5. Door gifts: RM400 – 100 x cupcakes, VIPs get extra water and a book, 100+ paper bags
6. Sound system: FREE – borrowed
7. Bridesmaids outfits: RM350 – for 7 people
8. Makeup services: RM500 – Mak Andam came to house
9. Bride’s outfit: RM900 – custom made
10. Malam berinai: RM200 – Inai lady came to house
11. Spa for bride: RM300 – package set

TOTAL: RM6430

Malay Wedding Cost – The Wedding Itself
1. Venue: RM5000 – originally RM10,000, but since it was a joint wedding, each side paid 50%
2. Catering: RM30,000 – THE BIGGEST EXPENSE RIGHT HERE. It was the venue’s in-house catering service. RM30 per pax for 1000 guests.
3. Pelamin + Decoration: RM4000 – originally RM8000, but since it was a joint wedding, each side paid 50%
4. Wedding Cards: RM900 – Package set. This includes: 450 x wedding cards, 4 x buntings, 1 canvas, 50 x VIP box, 4 x arrow signs, 53 x button badges, 1 x guestbook, 1000 x name stickers, 1000 x thank you tags, and 2 x welcome boards.
5. Photobooth: RM750 – Originally RM1500, but since it was a joint wedding, each side paid 50%
6. Photographer: RM900
7. Door gifts: RM3000 ESTIMATION – This includes 300 x fans, 600 x prayer mats, ? x big boxes of assorted sweets, and boxes/casing for each of them.
8. Sound system + DJ + MC + Entertainment: RM2500 – originally RM5,000, but since it was a joint wedding, each side paid 50%
9. Bridesmaid + Flowergirl attire: Minimal – covered under akad budget
10. Makeup: RM700 – Mak Andam
11. Bride’s outfit: RM1800 – custom made
12. Bunga Pahar (or bunga telur): RM80 – cost price; family member helped made

TOTAL: RM49,630

The amount above DID NOT include: hotel room for my sister, fabric+tailoring costs for family members’ matching outfits, and other bits and pieces
Grand total for both events: RM56,060

My Sister’s Malay Wedding – The Complete Cost

To owner of the blog, I commend you on your hard work

Zunar tells Malaysians to use talents to express

Tun Sri Lanang — Sat, 02 Apr 2016 18:36:30 +0800

PETALING JAYA, April 2 — Whether it is writing, singing, drawing or reciting poetry, political cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ul-Haque urged Malaysians today to use every talent at their disposal to highlight authorities’ alleged abuses.

Speaking during a forum here, Zulkiflee Anwar, popularly known as Zunar, said Malaysians should not feel shy about using their talents or be cowed by anyone from doing so.

“If you sing, then sing a song that would best reflect your stand on the (government’s) abuses, because if you keep quiet, it is a kind [sic] of encouraging them to continue doing what they think is ‘correct’ for the people.

“Don’t keep quiet. Let the government know if you are not happy with what it is doing,” he said at his talk entitled “To Fight Through Cartoons”.

At the event, Zulkiflee Anwar drew laughter and applause from the crowd when showing his political satire drawings.

The cartoonist, who was charged with nine counts under the Sedition Act for his images poking fun at political topics in the country, also declared that his drawings posted on his social media accounts were free to be shared, reused and redistributed without conditions.

“There is no copyright for my work, and in fact, it is mandatory to share my drawings under the ‘Zunar Cartoonist Act,’” he said in jest, to further applause from the crowd.

Zunar most recently won an award from Human Rights Watch for upholding the right to freedom of expression via his satirical drawings.

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Sooo please share interesting Zunar cartoons here.

Government official bought Audi, Hermes handbag

Tun Sri Lanang — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 14:24:43 +0800

Pegawai KBS songlap RM100j, beli kereta Audi, beg Hermes, cincin Cartier

PETALING JAYA, 20 Mac — Penahanan pegawai Kementerian Belia dan Sukan (KBS) menimbulkan persoalan tata kelola dana jabatan kerajaan diuruskan, lapor akhbar Malay Mail hari ini.

Suspek berusia 56 tahun yang menjadi dalang menggelapkan kira-kira RM100 juta dana kementerian sejak enam tahun lalu ditahan Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) di rumahnya di Kajang pada Jumaat.

SPRM menyita beberapa barangan termasuk 12 kenderaan antaranya Audi, Mercedes Benz, Nissan GTR dan Toyota Vellfire.

Antara barang mewah lain yang dibeli dengan dana gelap tersebut ialah jam berjenama Richard Mille (RM400,000), 40 beg tangan berjenama termasuk jenama Hermes (RM400,000), set cadar mewah (RM300,000), dan barang kemas termasuk cincin mutiara Cartier bernilai RM600,000.

Barangan yang disita berjumlah RM20 juta, sementara wang di dalam 69 akaun bank berjumlah RM8.33 juta dibekukan.

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Ahh no wonder our football is going nowhere.

According to The Star, the involved official is a division secretary, so which one of you did this?

KETUA-KETUA PEJABAT / BAHAGIAN

Inb4 Allah hina rakyat yang tidak hormat pemimpin, kata Jakim

Vietnam > Malaysia

Tun Sri Lanang — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 09:37:10 +0800

I am sorry if this news is stale, but I only get the chance to post it here today.

Apple eyes $1b regional data centre in Vietnam

US tech giant Apple Inc is mulling a $1-billion regional data hub in Hanoi, according to the Dien dan doanh nghiep, the official publication of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

“Apple is studying the sites for the construction and completing the investment procedures,” the publication said, cited its source.

This will be Apple’s first investment in Vietnam and it will be following in the footsteps of South Korean conglomerates Samsung and LG, and US-headquartered Microsoft, which have been present in the country for years.

However, while the others have invested in manufacturing facilities in Vietnam, Apple will reportedly build a data centre meant for its entire Asian operations.

Reuters reported in November last year that Apple had set up a subsidiary in the Southeast Asian country to import and sell its mobile phones directly in this market.

Samsung is one of the biggest investors in Vietnam with $13 billion direct investment in factories and a research hub in Bac Ninh, Thai Nguyen and Ho Chi Minh City. LG Electronics is also building a $1.5-billion producing complex in northern Vietnam. Microsoft has shifted its smartphone production from China, Hungary and Mexico to Vietnam in 2014.

Meanwhile, the iPhone maker has been aggressively investing in R&D with a spend of $8 billion last year. Apple already has R&D facilities in the UK, China, Taiwan, US, Israel and Japan.

“It is unclear when Apple will deploy the Hanoi-based centre, but the size of the project has shown the high potential of the Vietnam market to the US tech major,” the Dien dan doanh nghiep commented.

Samsung, as Apple’s biggest competitor in the Vietnam’s mobile phone market, is also investing in two R&D centres, a $300-million new one in Hanoi and a facility within the $1.4-billion complex in Ho Chi Minh City.

Several other global tech and electronics firms have chosen Vietnam as base for their global back-end and manufacturing activities, including Hewlett-Packard, Panasonic and Nissan Techno.

Vietnam is considered as the next manufacturing powerhouse of Asia, fueled by its growing economy, young and urbanised population and cheap labour cost.

Also, US has been Vietnam’s biggest export market for the last couple of years, accounting for the largest proportion of 20.7 per cent of the total exports, according to a latest update of Trading Economics.

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Earlier, The Star reported that our PM wants Apple to set up a research center here.
The Star

So, the question now is, why would Apple decided to choose Vietnam and not Malaysia.
Has countries like Vietnam finally catch up with Malaysia or do we actually regress backward?

As source of above news is from Vietnam, let's wait for official news from Apple.

The Last Job on Earth

Tun Sri Lanang — Sun, 21 Feb 2016 01:36:10 +0800

There goes our 20k/month job...

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Good morning /k/

Tun Sri Lanang — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 07:33:40 +0800

Good morning /k/

What's your plan for today?

So sweet

Are Malays and Jews sharing the same culture?

Tun Sri Lanang — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 13:28:55 +0800

I was listening to random world groove music on Youtube when I suddenly heard this song
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So, I paused and said, hey that sounds familiar!
The melody is the same as one of songs in Ali Baba Bujang Lapok, a 1960's movie directed by the late P Ramlee.
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Then, I googled and found this

Source

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I was wondering how can it be that almost all kind of Mediterranean jews and even greeks have the same melody and for all of them this is their traditional song?

By researching on Fel Shara I’ve find out that the original melody comes from Spain and it was cabalistic piyut for Shabbath.
After the expulsion of the jews from Spain in 1492 this piyut traveled all over the Western Europe and the Mediterranean. Some music historians are saying that the Sephardic lyrics of “Fel Shara” were written in the 16th or 17th century in some italian harbor city, because it consists not only a mix of several jewish dialects like Volgare (judeo-italian), Xuadit (jewish-french) and Ladino, but also English and Berber.

Later this song was adopted by the greek as “Apo KsenoTopo” and by the turks as Uskundar.

So, this song actually has a Jewish origin.

And it even made into a qasidah.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you solution to world peace i.e. shared culture!
Haha there you go.

Quora: How Does Death Feel?

Tun Sri Lanang — Sat, 30 Jan 2016 23:05:06 +0800

Hey /k/,

I found interesting accounts from people who actually died and later resuscitated.
This totally change my perspective, as I was told other things will actually happened when we die.
Now, I am less afraid of death. LOL.

Account 1

Account 2

Original Discussion: Quora

Izara Aishah - What is Her IQ?

Tun Sri Lanang — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 11:08:22 +0800

Dear Izara, yes you did well.

But to claim that such a story is real, that speaks a lot about your intelligence.

Don't you agree that this story is just too absurd?
Are those 99 men too stupid to be Cik Siti's husband only to know that they will die after their first night?

You have to move up the next level, Izara.
Take Lisa Surihani for example, she is a woman of intelligence and class.
Do you think she will accept a leading role for such a telemovie?

Good luck.