Mind Soup

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Lebanese bloggers were able today to postpone the Lebanese E-Transactions Law. According to SMEX,org , the vote on the E-Transactions Law was postponed for one month, sent back to committee for revision. After many long awaited years and after many opportunities and money wasted the Lebanese are finally getting their e-transaction law. But instead of cheers and hallelujah, the online community is greeting this law with a big big gloom and anger. This law, if passed, will take us backward in time and will drive all foreign investments away. [...] This is simply like looking up to a light at the end of a very dark long tunnel only to find out that the source of this light is a burning fire that you can’t even avoid. ( link )                                                            ...

This is an article I wrote about the upcoming AUB elections. Tell me what you think. So imagine this: there's this someone who adds you on facebook with a million AUB friends in common, you accept, but still have no idea who the hell she is. Next thing you know she sends u a message saying: "Heyyy [insert name here]. how are you? wen hal ghaybe? (long time no see). You know i'm running for SRC right? i'm counting on your vote, ok? don't forget me (since I'm you're friend n all)! and btw good luck with your exams :D" which brings us back to "Vote for me, I'm your closest bestest friend!". and you have this look on your face: "say whaaa? do I know you?" and she's like: "you know I was with you in that class and I sat behind you (but you are beneath me and I wouldn't be caught dead talking to you in regular circumstances, but now since I need your vote we should get to know each other, since you know, I am your clo...

BEIRUT: A proposed reduction in the minimum voting age will not be in place in time for this summer's keenly contested parliamentary elections even if the change is adopted by Parliament next month, electoral reform campaigners have said. Speaker Nabih Berri has proposed a parliamentary session to decide on whether the voting age should be reduced from 21 to 18. But electoral reform activists say that if it is passed by Parliament, the change will only be adopted after the voter lists for this summer's poll have been finalized, leaving thousands of 18- to 21-year-olds unable to take part in the election despite having the legal right to vote. Nadine Farghal, coordinator and legal consultant of the Civil Campaign for Electoral Reform, told The Daily Star that the changes would come too late for this year's crucial poll and expressed "regret" that the issue has been raised so close to the deadline for the voter lists to be finalized. "The Parliament will discus...