Urgent!

Thank you dear friends for your encouragement. It is a bit depressing and I confess to feeling a bit overwhelmed. Things seem to be spinning out of control and I keep telling myself that it's darkest just before the dawn. Lol.

I miss my friends here but think it best to keep my distance for a while so as not to bring others down. I know you all understand.

xoxo
Di

Diana, you are a sight for sore eyes!  Thanks for the warning.  I'd not gotten one from your address, but I did from Andy Edwards' address. 

I hope everything turns around.  I know several people who've been out of work for many months who are now getting job offers, so keep your chin up.  Something will come up soon.  You know who's in charge.  And I echo what Krissy said, we're your family.  Keep checking in with us until you're able to be back here on a daily basis, OK?  We LOVE you, kiddo.

XOXO

I agree Diana. You could never bring us down. You all stood by me in the "dark days" and it really helped to share my troubles here on POE. We miss you.

Incidentally I didn't get an e-mail - or of I did it went straight to the junk mail box.

An Italian judge said he convicted three Google bosses of violating the privacy of an autistic teenager because the internet giant tried to profit from an online video of him being bullied.

Milan judge Oscar Magi said in his ruling he believed Google executives bore responsibility because the company intended to make a profit by selling advertising on the site where the footage was posted.

"In simple words, it is not the writing on the wall that constitutes a crime for the owner of the wall, but its commercial exploitation can," judge Magi wrote in the 111-page document, obtained by the Associated Press.

The three employees were given six-month suspended sentences in a criminal verdict that drew swift condemnation from defenders of internet freedom.

Google said it was studying the decision, "but as we said when the verdict was announced, this conviction attacks the very principles of freedom on which the internet is built", it added.

"If these principles are swept aside, then the web as we know it will cease to exist and many of the economic, social, political and technological benefits it brings could disappear. These are important points of principle, which is why we and our employees will vigorously appeal this decision."

Judge Magi said his decision should be interpreted as a requirement that internet service providers must screen the enormous amount of video that passed through their sites.

"But on the other hand, there also is no such thing as the endless prairie of the internet where everything is allowed and nothing can be banned," he wrote.

The trial, he said, should be read as an "important signal" that a danger zone is being reached for criminal responsibility for web masters.

Hey, Diana, come back more often, when your times are difficult are when you need friends the most. All things "change"..its an fact of life........sometimes talking about what you have been doing is an "release" of things also. You have to release them to keep moving onward you know. Out the door with the old...and in with the new.