Giving to Those in Need [at any time] Is Noble, But a Living Wage Would Be Better.

China: five years in prison for running a VPN.

Transplant Patient's … Plea: Talk to Your Family about Organ Donation.

I won't make a plea for anything in the name of Christmas, which means nothing to me, but any time is the right time to think about saving other people's lives with your organs.

I don't think relatives of the deceased should be consulted about organ transplantation. Corpse fetishism is not a valid reason to deny other people life-saving medical treatment.

However, if the laws where you live give your relatives authority, it is important to make sure that they won't block your last contribution to other people's well-being.

A dream wedding is not a good start for a real-life marriage.

If you are thinking of marrying a woman, and she is lost in a dream of a wedding, best wake her up first and see if you really get along together and then have a non-dream wedding.

The wedding dream may explain what seems so surreal to me in many Hollywood romcoms. All the characters are caught in the wedding dream/trance and nobody ever asks "why?"

Apple is being sued for programming some iPhones to slow down when the battery gets discharged or gets old.

Ethically, this situation is complicated. Apple says it slows the phones so that they won't shut down unexpectedly. That, in and of itself, does not seem wrong to me.

However, the real fix for the problem of failing batteries is to replace them. It could be that Apple chose to slow down the phones so as to cover up the problem and avoid replacing them. That would be wrong.

There is also the ethical question of whether it is legitimate to build phones with batteries that can't be replaced — or removed, for privacy.