The High Court in South Africa has ruled that Chinese South Africans are to be reclassified as black people.
It made the order so that ethnic Chinese can benefit from government policies aimed at ending white domination in the private sector.
The Chinese Association of South Africa took the government to court, saying its members had been discriminated against.
An estimated 200,000 ethnic Chinese live in South Africa.
The association said their members often failed to qualify for business contracts and job promotions because they were regarded as whites.
The association said Chinese South Africans had faced widespread discrimination during the years of apartheid when they had been classified as people of mixed race.
TED just hit 50 million videos viewed online. In celebration, they have released a list of the 10 most watched TED videos. I was going to pick out a few from this list to highlight but, in all honesty, these all are MUST SEE talks. I strongly urge you to watch check them out and you will be happy you did. These amazing talks perfectly demonstrates what TED is all about. But don’t stop there, plenty of fantastic, eye-opening, hilarious, moving, and inspiring talks can be found on TED.com.
In an effort to reduce our monthly bills, my roommate and I decided to cancel HBO. Don’t get me wrong, I love HBO; the movies, the original series, the boxing, etc. But really, the only reason we got it is for Entourage. But since the show is currently between seasons, we would go weeks without watching anything on HBO. $10 a month ain’t much ($5 after we split it), so it’s not gonna save that much money, but I’m not about to scoff at paying less money. The cable was under Shields’s name, so he called Time Warner and told them he’d like to cut HBO in order to lower our bill a little. In the end, our monthly cable service charges went from $130 to $120. Nothing out of the ordinary right? WRONG.
What really happened was some services were subtracted and some were added. In the end, we netted a saving of $10 a month and we got to keep all the HBOs… PLUS we also got Cinemax and Starz, and their respective sibling and HD channels. But wait, there’s more. We were also upgraded to Road Runner Turbo. Which more than doubles our download speed and almost quadruples our upload speed. Not a bad deal if you ask me.
