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			<h1>#chat</h1>
			<p>Day 00561: Sunday, 2016 September 18</p>
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	Current countdowns:
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	<li>20 unfinished weblog entries in <a href="/en/weblog/2016/07-July/">July</a></li>
	<li>1 day until mobile voice/<abbr title="Short Message Service">SMS</abbr> service with my current carrier ends</li>
	<li>31 days until mobile data service with my current carrier ends</li>
	<li>28 days until my old domain registrar can no longer counter my charge dispute</li>
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	I read large chunks of this week&apos;s reading material, but I also skimmed other parts.
	There&apos;s more to life than constant schoolwork, and I simply don&apos;t have time to read all of that right now.
	I have a pending move to deal with, a social life, and I&apos;m going to need to look for work soon.
	After reading and skimming, I wrote up my discussion post based on the material:
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	Globalization has lead to a more uniform definition of human rights.
	This uniformity is both because it is accepted globally and because it applies globally; a woman in Austrailia has the same human rights as a man in Egypt.
	After the United Nations formed, they drafted, voted on, and formalized the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document accepted by every then-member of the United Nations.
	This document took into account the rights that all members believed should be global, cementing the definition of human rights that we use today.
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	This document marked a huge shift from previous patterns of thought, in which basic rights were granted by the government or by religion.
	As governments and religions don&apos;t always view their people as equals, this helped level the playing field, but there&apos;s also the question of people without a government, such as refugees.
	Before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, these people had no basic rights, as they had no citizenship to draw these rights from.
	Furthermore, many of the rights spoken about in this document have become a part of customary international law.
	Unlike other forms of international law, customary international law binds even those countries that reject it.
	If I understand correctly, there is no formal way of making something a part of customary international law, nor is there a list of laws that are a part of it.
	Instead, it&apos;s more of a general consensus that allows the majority to overrule those that disagree.
	I have mixed feelings about this.
	In the case of enforcing human rights, such a thing is a force for good, but I can also see it being used for evil.
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	While the United Nations tries to protect human rights, some countries that are notoriously abusive to their own people managed to barter for seat in the United Nations&apos; Commission on Human Rights, using these seats to prevent the commission from doing anything about those countries and their actions.
	Non-governmental organizations have risen up to protect human rights though, and they don&apos;t suffer from this same weakness.
	Governments can&apos;t simply buy a seat in one of these groups, as they aren&apos;t groups that governments have power in.
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	As human rights violations continued to happen, especially genocide, the United Nations set up the International Crime Court as a permanent court to try violators, eliminating the need for temporary courts to be set up each time that an offender was to be tried.
	This new court prosecutes individuals only when their own country refuses to stand up and defend human rights by prosecuting these individuals themselves.
	Not every country is in favor of this court though, and one country in particular, the United States, is trying to corrupt this court by getting a double standard put in place in which United States citizens are treated differently than citizens of the rest of the world.
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	Until I read this week&apos;s reading assignment, I thought that the word "inalienable" meant that you couldn&apos;t deny it to someone on the grounds that the person is foreign.
	I&apos;m not sure where I got that false definition, but I&apos;m glad that I now know that it actually is a word to describe something that you can&apos;t part with.
	The assigned reading also talked about the need to put an end to female genitalia mutilation, which I agree with, but it&apos;s not just females that deserve not to have their genitalia mutilated.
	Male circumcision is also quite rampant and needs to be stopped.
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	Having finished my discussion post, I wrote up part of my essay on the <abbr title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">EFF</abbr>.
	The assignment is to write about a non-government organization that&apos;s fighting on behalf of human rights issues.
	I&apos;m not sure that the <abbr title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">EFF</abbr> is exactly what was meant, as they&apos;re fighting for higher-level rights such as privacy, but they&apos;re still fighting for human rights, and I want to bring their existence into the view of my professor and whatever three students end up grading the essay.
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	I&apos;m a bit behind in getting my work done for the week, but I&apos;m much less overwhelmed than last week.
	My break yesterday really helped.
	I can do this.
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	Though I&apos;m still not clear as to why, Ronsor has made me an <a href="http://www.openstar.ron-sor.net/index">operator</a> of <a href="ircs://ronsor37xl7tqn7p.onion:6697/%23chat">#chat</a>.
	I suppose that I can be trusted with that power, seeing as I mostly don&apos;t know how to use (and thus abuse) it, but not knowing how to use it also makes me a pretty useless operator.
	Basically, the only thing that I know how to do as an operator is set modes on other users.
	So I could, for example, make someone else an operator.
	I suppose that I also know how to set the channel topic as well, though again, that&apos;s not really going to help keep the peace (non-peacekeeping doesn&apos;t require multiple channel operators, as it&apos;s less time-sensitive), and if they want their channel topic changed, they&apos;ll have a better idea of what they want it changed to than I will.
	Some day, I&apos;ll learn to use <abbr title="Internet Relay Chat">IRC</abbr> better, but that&apos;s a low priority for now.
	First, I need to finish my research on the scheme-specific syntax of <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr>s and work on building the tools needed to parse <abbr title="Uniform Resource Identifier">URI</abbr>s into <a href="https://git.volatile.ch./y.st./include.d">include.d</a>.
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