大河报5月12日报道 深圳的陈书伟以惊世骇俗的方式表现他的公益诉讼(本报于2006年11月和今年5月1日、7日曾有报道)。近年来，在陈书伟和广大电信用户的努力下，电信管理部门出台了一系列法规和制度，全国约8亿手机用户因此受益。
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大陆油画《与但丁讨论神曲》描绘了这样一个图景：毛泽东位于全画中心；成吉思汗与拿破仑并立；乔治布殊手持望远镜；拉登站在他身后；东条英机跪在秦始皇面前；斯大林和达·芬奇谈话；普京挨着泰森席地而坐；撒切尔夫人背着手提袋，神情高傲地注视着一切。
据说台湾某地把太上老君、释迦牟尼、弥勒佛、耶稣、基督（不是笔误，该处认为耶稣、基督是分开的两位，不是一位）、保生大帝、孔子、默罕默德、狐仙、夜叉、金刚等通通塑像供奉起来，称为万教宫。
这幅《与但丁讨论神曲》与万教宫可谓有异曲同工之妙。
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关于万教宫，参见抗议台湾万教宫的耶稣与基督像。
人民需要的是被服务而不是被管理，而官员最需要的是被管理而不是被服务，我们很多地方不和谐是因为我们不小心给整反了。不需要管理不是说让你随便杀人放火，看中一个女人就上去强奸，而是说，当一个极其有权有势的人烧了你的房子杀了你的亲人强奸了你的女人的时候，你可以让他得到应得的下场，而不是在上访的路上被相关部门管理了，并且把你说成是精神病，你找媒体曝光，结果新闻得到了管制，消息全部被封锁，然后你被官方描述成一个虐妻的妄想症，后来在看守所跳橡皮筋摔死了，最后还把你当成丧心病狂的典范写进历史书里。
韩寒
Swoopo has invented a new auction business. Different from Ebay, Swoopo is with the following features:
As some netizens commented , this new way of auction is “manipulating game theory to tap stupidity, the greatest resource on this planet.” Think about a tiny deal–if you buy something worth 20$ with a successful bid of 15$, there have to be 100 bids, which equal to 75$. The bidders including yourself collectively have paid Swoopo $15+75=90$. Any item worth 150$ or more will bring Swoopo 750$ net profit. The auction is very much like a casino machine gamble. Only in Swoopo’s design, human beings form the machine. And because of human stupidity, Swoopo is going to run just like a machine, with the result and profit very predictable.
Swoopo calls it “entertainment auction”–this is disgusting. Swoopo makes bidders reveal their stupidity, watches, and mocks them while money piles up on its account.
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Now, how do we beat swoopo?
Since the design of swoopo is based on the assumption that human beings collectively will act in a stupid way, we can beat swoopo if we somehow reshape our collective action in swoopo auction.
Here is how we do it:
Outside of swoopo, bidders have to form their own association–Association of Swoopo Bidders (ASB)–make some decisions based on simple calculations, and enforce the decision.
Example:
One item is posted on Swoopo, and its value is 225$. The Association of Swoopo Bidders (ASB) figures that if the item worth 225$, the highest bid should not exceed 37.5$. (Just follow this formula: highest bid=value/6) THe ASB then makes a dicision that no member should bid more than 37.5$.
Then ASB will enforce the rule, meaning for any rule-breaker bid more than 150$, the rule-breaker’s name will be published on the ASB website immediately, and at the same time ASB will appoint its enforcement force (some members with free bids provided by ASB) to bid against the rule-breaker, who therefore will not be able to get the item or pay substantially more than the price the rule-breaker wanted. The enforcement force will continue to punish the rule-breaker in the future auctions ruthlessly until the rule-breaker apologizes and convinces ASB nothing against rule will happen again.
–Note the point is whoever places the first bid above 37.5$ will NEVER get the item. In addition, the rule-breaker bidder will not get anything in the future.
Consequently, rule-breakers will be prevented from unnecessarily bidding high, and all members of ASB will have a fair chance of getting cheap goods.
[近来出现很多关于普世价值的讨论，看来看去，都不如王小波说的实在，特此引用。]
我有些庸人的想法：吃饱了比饿着好，健康比有病好，站在粪桶外比跳进去好。
–王小波《极端体验》
WHEN Siemens, Europe’s biggest engineering firm, adopted the slogan “be inspired” in the mid-1990s, bribery was not what it had in mind. But no one can accuse its managers of lacking inspiration when it came to devising novel ways to funnel huge sums in backhanders to corrupt officials and politicians across the globe.
-Economist
两个苏联人相遇，聊起来工作。
–您现在在哪工作?
–中学当老师.您呢?
–克格勃
–啊,您在克格勃具体干什么?
–我们负责揪出那些对国家不满的家伙。
–您的意思是….还有人比较满意?
–这些人不归我们管.管他们的是纪委。
（Please see past posts of this site on Wu Mao.）
环球时报这篇报道的含混之处在于数量–记者并没有说瑞士媒体《20分钟》到底说有多少这样赚5分钱欧元的网民。如果瑞士媒体说的是全体中国网民的话，那肯定是污蔑，我们也应该义愤填膺；如果说到是部分的话，那倒没什么失实，因为确有拿5毛钱的网民–也就是通常所言中国的五毛党。这些人其实算不上网民，该算是网监（奸）。
常识告诉我们，“赚5分钱欧元”的所谓网民多半指的是中国的五毛党。如果这些成立的话，瑞士媒体也就谈不上污蔑，最多算是侮辱–在法律上，污蔑（准确地说是诽谤）与不实之词对应，侮辱与客观存在的事实对应。例如，张三本来是个小偷，如果有报纸报道说他贪污公款，应追究报纸污蔑的责任；如果说他是个小偷，最多算是侮辱，因为张三本来就是个小偷–这样的侮辱法律常常不管，因为让小偷觉得羞耻不算是件坏事。
[Han Han, a famous young writer and influential blogger, has come up with seven joking reasons to boycott French products as the following (translated by Oiwan Lam, from Global Voice Online ):
