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This is Pluto speaking here.

April 10, 2016 — leslie dean brown

>sign the petition to reinstate Pluto‘s full planet status<

Hello.

This is Pluto speaking here.

Look, I wasn’t very happy when some scientists took away my “full planetary” status in 2006 without even consulting me directly. And I’m not alone.

I’ve been thinking about it – and this whole ‘dwarf’ designation has never really sat well with me ever since. And my moon Charon is not to thrilled about it either… because that would make her the moon of a dwarf planet, aka a “dwarf moon”.

Especially when you say that I’m a dwarf planet, and then go on to say “which is not really a planet”. Imagine how Jupiter would react if you said: “Jupiter is a gas giant planet… which is not really a planet!” !!

And then you gave me a number. What do you call it? “Minor planet designation”. Wait a second. Let me look that up. Let’s see here, what have I got, I knew I had it somewhere… “134340”. That’s it. “134340”. That doesn’t sound very special to me. One minute I’m named after a God. And the next thing someone has placed this completely arbitrary bogus number IN FRONT OF my name. Not after it mind you. BEFORE! Like this: 134340 Pluto. One-three-four-three-four-zero-pluto. To a planet, this is invective! [Read more…]

Why I decided to quit facebook.

March 17, 2016 — leslie dean brown

In recent news, I just quit facebook. I quit because they are encouraging trophy hunting by allowing their pages to remain online. I believe they could do so much better with animal rights and conservation issues.

Illustration by Leslie Dean Brown

Nothing happened. My head didn’t fall off. I enjoyed real life more now. I am happier and much more productive.

I have even started this petition to get more people to quit facebook as a form of protest and defiance.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg,

The first time I logged on to the internet, the year was 1995. I had to go into a special room at university to access it. Only about 30 computers were connected to the internet for students to use — in the whole university.

A few years later, more rooms appeared throughout the campus. I remember one day in particular. My college buddy could only find a handful of Porsche images *on the whole internet*. I can even remember him printing it out. It was so rare to him it was like a prize. I remember because we had to take turns — using the same internet connection!

Four years later, in 1999, I got “into trouble” for using the internet at work! Yes. “People can see you” he’d say. I had to show my boss that I was searching for material properties online. He promptly wheeled his office chair over. He had called my bluff. And I pointed to the screen. “See?” At that time, people didn’t use the internet for work. No.

I don’t know when it was exactly. I was still at university. All I can remember was that the internet was still fairly ‘new’. The average person still did not use the internet on an hourly or a daily basis (except for email). Anyway, I got this weird “friend request” from this unknown person calling himself “Mark Zuckerberg”. It wasn’t one of my friends. I’m pretty sure it was actually you.

If memory serves me correctly, Mr. Zuckerberg, you actually came to me. I certainly never went out specifically looking for anything like facebook, because I was a nerdy anti-social science graduate. You probably found my email or something.

I decided to accept your initial “friend request” and sign up to this new facebook thing. And because I was introverted and shy, I never really bothered to say anything to you. It was when there was only a few thousand facebook members *in the whole world*. At the time I can remember thinking: “what harm can it do?”. Nobody I knew had a facebook account. I repeat: nobody. And so it began…

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GoDaddy’s official reponse about hosting trophy-hunting websites!

February 23, 2016 — leslie dean brown

Leslie Dean Brown
Oh I see you have deleted my previous post. How about answering me? I already sent a message to Blake Irving. No response.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/203/757/597/demand-that-internet-service-providers-boycott-all-trophy-hunting-websites/

GoDaddy “1/2 Hey Leslie, We deleted your previous posts because it was spammed across several of our postings and not just one. GoDaddy’s goal is the keep the Internet safe, while enabling the exchanging of thoughts and ideas, even if we disagree with their views. While this can be tough sometimes, we think it is overall the best possible experience. If something does violate our terms of service, such as Promotes, encourages or engages in child pornography or the exploitation of children, Infringes on the intellectual property rights of another User or any other person or entity & Contains false or deceptive language, or unsubstantiated or comparative claims, regarding GoDaddy or GoDaddy’s Services.”

GoDaddy “2/2 We take action &, when appropriate, alert the local authorities. Just as you are entitled to voice your opinion on a specific topic, we believe the other side has a right to voice theirs, as long as they stay within the rules. On another note, if a website is registered here but not hosted on our service, there is a not a lot we can do. I noticed the list you sent over had several examples that were just like this. The way the Internet works, the domain name is only the pointer to the hosting server, we have no control over the content. If you feel that this site does violate our terms then feel free to submit your request to abuse@GoDaddy.com and it will be reviewed, by that team.”

Leslie Dean Brown

“1. I had to spam you because you didn’t respond through the official channels. I emailed no less than TEN other very important people besides Blake. No reply from any of them. Hopeless! Absolutely hopeless!!

2. It’s not “overall the best possible experience” for the tigers, lions, leopards, rhinos, hippos, giraffes and zebras that are shot dead by poachers, is it? What you have written is by far the lamest thing I have read so far this year.

3. Yes, you have made it perfectly clear where GoDaddy stand with respect to trophy hunting. Don’t worry, 20,000+ people are now going to get CC’ed your “official” (and quite lousy) response.

4. I’ll actually be hosting this transcript.”

Letter to GoDaddy regarding hosting trophy hunting websites.

February 19, 2016 — leslie dean brown

Hi there,

I’ll get straight to it: I have started a petition against GoDaddy and other ISPs. Why?

Well, you’re hosting half a dozen trophy hunting websites and millions of people around the world don’t like that. Actually, it’s really the lions, tigers, leopards, hippos, giraffes, elephants and other endangered animals that are mainly the ones that don’t like it, but they can’t start petitions, write letters, or speak for themselves, can they? So I’m doing it for them!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/203/757/597/demand-that-internet-service-providers-boycott-all-trophy-hunting-websites/

So far some 16,745 supporters have signed this one petition and it is growing by the minute. I’m sure you don’t want to lose any potential customers. Does *anyone* living in the year 2016 with a conscience want to make it any easier for poachers? I certainly hope not!

It’s not the first time GoDaddy has been in the news with respect to hunting; former GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons previously admitted to hunting elephants and showed zero remorse afterwards!

So it would be really nice to get some positive news from you about GoDaddy’s real intentions on their hosting of unethical content… that way, I can update my signatories and the world can be a much better, nicer place to live in.

Talk to you soon,
Sincerely
Dr. Leslie Dean Brown

Petition to ban the publication of unethical lethal whale research

January 26, 2016 — leslie dean brown

I have started a petition to ban the publication of unethical lethal whale research.

I have attached a transcript of my letters to SpringerLink regarding this issue in chronological order because it makes for more interesting reading. It’s interesting to see Springer’s official stance change completely when they are called out.
Maybe this will make interesting reading for someone… in about 300 years time when people realise that some animals are more important than humans:

From: Dr. Leslie Dean Brown [mailto:info@lesliedeanbrown.com]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 9:56 AM
To: Onlineservice, SCSC
Subject: TN606818 “I speak for whales” [petition: banning lethal whale research] FS

Hello,

I’ll get straight to the point.
As I’m sure you’re aware, people all around the world are getting more and more annoyed with the Japanese that continue to kill whales and do unnecessary scientific research on them. Many people thought the research was all lies. The really scary part is that it is actually true. Yes, they are in fact researching whales… :-(

I am writing to you because some of these papers have been published in the Journal “Polar Biology” with the latest appearing in 2014:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00300-013-1424-3

I have started a petition to ban lethal whale research:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/656/717/561/ban-japanese-%22research%22-that-is-lethal-to-whales/

I hope you take notice of this petition and reject all publications by the Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research, North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO), the International Whaling Commission (IWC) or any other organisations that are involved in the slaughter of whales and the whale meat industry.

Did you know that the Japanese Institute of Cetacean Research openly sells whale meat in exchange for financial support from the public? [Read more…]