2010 TIME person of the year: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg
For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2036683,00.html
Runner's up:
The Tea Party: Populist political movement
Hamid Karzai: 12th and current President of Afghanistan
Julian Assange: whistleblower/spokesperson and editor in chief for WikiLeaks
The Chilean Miners: Mining accident survivors (trapped for 70 days)
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2036683,00.html
Originally posted by Robtard
Well, not the first time Time has put a scumbag up.
Well, being a "scumbag" isn't a disqualifier for Person of the Year. A person becomes PotY for shaping and/or influencing world society...not for being a goody-two-shoes choir boy. I mean, what exactly did those Chilean miners do?
Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Well, being a "scumbag" isn't a disqualifier for Person of the Year. A person becomes PotY for shaping and/or influencing world society...not for being a goody-two-shoes choir boy. I mean, what exactly did those Chilean miners do?
I know, wasn't saying Suckerberg isn't deserving of the node, just that he's another scumbag added to the list.
Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Well, being a "scumbag" isn't a disqualifier for Person of the Year. A person becomes PotY for shaping and/or influencing world society...not for being a goody-two-shoes choir boy. I mean, what exactly did those Chilean miners do?
That's true, after all Hitler and John Gotti made the list before. But with regard to the chilean miners, imo, the fact that they didn't crack and held on to hope for that long showed spirit* and bravery. Desirable qualities not alot of people have nowadays. They could've given up.
*not in the religious sense.
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
That's true, after all Hitler and John Gotti made the list before. But with regard to the chilean miners, imo, the fact that they didn't crack and held on to hope for that long showed spirit* and bravery. Desirable qualities not alot of people have nowadays. They could've given up.*not in the religious sense.
Well at the time Hitler wasn't yet a badguy. It was before WW2 or any holocaust, so he was the man who revived a war-weary and Depression Era Germany.
As for the miners: entering a primal survival-mode when you have no other option doesn't qualify being influential, just because there happened to be cameras present.
Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Well at the time Hitler wasn't yet a badguy. It was before WW2 or any holocaust, so he was the man who revived a war-weary and Depression Era Germany.As for the miners: entering a primal survival-mode when you have no other option doesn't qualify being influential, just because there happened to be cameras present.
Alright what about gotti?
And with the miners there were other options. They could've lost their minds, commited suicide, killed others. Basically lose all hope.
The story is inspirational because you would need a very strong will to survive that incident.