To win back your love again
I will be there, I will be there
Love, only love
Can bring back your love someday
I will be there, I will be there
I'll fight, babe, I'll fight
To win back your love again
I will be there, I will be there
Love, only love
Can break down the wall someday
I will be there, I will be there
If we'd go again
All the way from the start
I would try to change
The things that killed our love
Your pride has built a wall, so strong
That I can't get through
Is there really no chance
To start once again
I'm loving you
Try, baby try
To trust in my love again
I will be there, I will be there
Love, our love
Just shouldn't be thrown away
I will be there, I will be there
If we'd go again
All the way from the start
I would try to change
The things that killed our love
Your pride has built a wall, so strong
That I can't get through
Is there really no chance
To start once again
If we'd go again
All the way from the start
I would try to change
The things that killed our love
Yes, I've hurt your pride, and I know
What you've been through
You should give me a chance
This can't be the end
I'm still loving you
I'm still loving you, I need your love
I'm still loving you
I still loving you from Love at first sting (1984) by Scorpions
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Lithium
Now I understand why you wouldn't look into my eyes. Now I know you weren't true, you kept dangerous things hidden. I know the reason of your lovely laugh and your sudden blue. I know why you never thought about me and my feelings. You were too busy trying to figure out yours first. Why didn't you trust me? Why didn't you tell me about it before? I fear I hurt you when I never meant to. I feel betrayed. Once you told me you loved me, and now there's nothing left of that. Did you lie to me? And I don't know if it's just another one of your crisis or for once you're telling me the truth. The worst is that I still loving you. I can love you over all those things you've hidden to me. Maybe you fear I would run away from you? I know you've felt alone for a long time, so have I. And I cannot get used to the idea that you're going away from me forever. I need you, don't you see? My love is true, I can go on with this after all. You can trust me, you're important to me. I've never had met someone as amazing as you before. I don't need to pretend that I'm person I'm not. With you sometimes I still alone, but without you I can't be. And I would leave everything to go back to the start and make things right this time. But I know I can't. It's all lost. And my heart is dying.
All the feelings you took away are coming home again. Darkness surrounds me, getting stronger. All my old ghosts are here to start the haunting again. Apathy and bitterness quickly find their place again. And the devastating feeling of being completely alone, with no one who understands... I don't know how to find a way to carry on with this. I just want to sleep and dream of us.
All the feelings you took away are coming home again. Darkness surrounds me, getting stronger. All my old ghosts are here to start the haunting again. Apathy and bitterness quickly find their place again. And the devastating feeling of being completely alone, with no one who understands... I don't know how to find a way to carry on with this. I just want to sleep and dream of us.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
About Orwell, Google and Big Brothers
A while ago I've entered Google Play in the mobile phone to check out the new apps and install some updates. When I was looking for something interesting, between the contents offered, there were some of those personal recommendations sections. And I find scaring that, actually, they fit exactly my interests. I'm not comfortable with the idea that Google knows me better than real people who know me. So I've started to think...
Internet companies which asks the users to give some personal data in order to be able to use their services don't give the user freedom to choose. They offer a unilateral contract, you take it or you can't use their service. It's the same that a work contract in a company: you accept their conditions or you'll starve. But you're not given the opportunity to negociate, to impose your own conditions. Is this freedom? I think the answer is pretty clear: no.
So, today nobody can live without a mobile phone or without an email account. All users must accept the Internet companies conditions and share personal data with them. Most of people do it without think about it, they don't realize the risks behind it.
But if they visited the Google adds section of their profiles, maybe they'd get a bit worry. There, based in the sites you've visited and other data collected about you, Google tells you your age, your gender and a top-ten of your interests. And how do they used all this information? Today, to show you ads of products which you may be interested in... but tomorrow?
Another social phenomenom that I don't like much are social networks. Apart from the fact that most of the things that people publish there (with notable exceptions) are just poor attends to reaffirm themselves and feed their ego by showing off, there everyone can have a look through a window to someone else's life, everyone can watch everyone and know where he's been and what he likes or does. Apart from that, data collected in social networks and other Internet services can be used to make marketing researches, social engineering or data mining over population servers.
Apart from all that, a lot of Internet companies let some countries security agencies to acces the information they have about their users and even read the messages they send. And, although security is something necessary, it seems to me that we're changing privacity for security. And since privacity is the ability to choose what we want to hide or share about ourselves, it's an expression of freedom. So we're changing freedom for security. And what is this? It's a characteristic of a totalitarian system. Of course, by 'totalitarian' I'm not just referring to a dictatorship, for example. A system can be totalitarist in other ways just when it cuts individuals freedom or their ability to develope theirselves in the way they desire. Or they have a great control over individuals.
A big part of planet population data in hands of a few companies, unilateral contracts, people constantly watching and be watched by others, personal comunications being analyzed, security cameras everywhere, where everything is registered... makes a person always wonder wether he's being watched or not, what he has left of his privacity. This reminds me a lot about Orwell's 1989. But here Google has turned into the Big Brother and one wonders when will be the day when we'll be watched at our own home, just in the case someone 'comits a crime'.
Internet companies which asks the users to give some personal data in order to be able to use their services don't give the user freedom to choose. They offer a unilateral contract, you take it or you can't use their service. It's the same that a work contract in a company: you accept their conditions or you'll starve. But you're not given the opportunity to negociate, to impose your own conditions. Is this freedom? I think the answer is pretty clear: no.
So, today nobody can live without a mobile phone or without an email account. All users must accept the Internet companies conditions and share personal data with them. Most of people do it without think about it, they don't realize the risks behind it.
But if they visited the Google adds section of their profiles, maybe they'd get a bit worry. There, based in the sites you've visited and other data collected about you, Google tells you your age, your gender and a top-ten of your interests. And how do they used all this information? Today, to show you ads of products which you may be interested in... but tomorrow?
Another social phenomenom that I don't like much are social networks. Apart from the fact that most of the things that people publish there (with notable exceptions) are just poor attends to reaffirm themselves and feed their ego by showing off, there everyone can have a look through a window to someone else's life, everyone can watch everyone and know where he's been and what he likes or does. Apart from that, data collected in social networks and other Internet services can be used to make marketing researches, social engineering or data mining over population servers.
Apart from all that, a lot of Internet companies let some countries security agencies to acces the information they have about their users and even read the messages they send. And, although security is something necessary, it seems to me that we're changing privacity for security. And since privacity is the ability to choose what we want to hide or share about ourselves, it's an expression of freedom. So we're changing freedom for security. And what is this? It's a characteristic of a totalitarian system. Of course, by 'totalitarian' I'm not just referring to a dictatorship, for example. A system can be totalitarist in other ways just when it cuts individuals freedom or their ability to develope theirselves in the way they desire. Or they have a great control over individuals.
A big part of planet population data in hands of a few companies, unilateral contracts, people constantly watching and be watched by others, personal comunications being analyzed, security cameras everywhere, where everything is registered... makes a person always wonder wether he's being watched or not, what he has left of his privacity. This reminds me a lot about Orwell's 1989. But here Google has turned into the Big Brother and one wonders when will be the day when we'll be watched at our own home, just in the case someone 'comits a crime'.
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