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Monday, November 27th, 2006
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11:53 am
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So a few new things lately.
As of 10 minutes ago, I'm employed by Bluewater Technologies of Southfield. www.bluewatertech.com
As of yesterday, I listened to that finger eleven song, and I still want to throw up. "Dance rock" just won't work for me I guess.
As of 4 days ago, I've had turkey dinner 4 times. It was good each time, but I don't think I'll be able to enjoy turkey until Christmas time.
As of 2.5 weeks ago, I can finally play ice hockey goalie with full padding of my own, and will do so once a week at the Troy Sports Center drop in at 5:45 in da AM. I've wanted to do that for so long, so it's nice to get a chance to get hurt severely when I'd normally be sleeping. I've got goalie pads that used to belong to Robert Esche, of the Philadelphia Flyers (and formerly the Plymouth Whalers) and they are fun... If anyone who reads this plays ice hockey and likes to wake up really early... oh wait, neither Aaron nor Brandon play ice hockey, nevermind.
As of 3 weeks ago, our country decided that yep, the republicans need to go, but instead of replacing them with more hardcore republicans (the correct choice of course), they replaced em with socialists.
As of like 2 months ago, we got WOW for cable and internet and it blows Comcast away hands down. No bad picture, no frozen channels, and 30$ a month cheaper with an upgrade to digital cable. The underwater basketweaving channel rocks!
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| Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
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10:33 am
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Talking with Brandon about the corruptability of government lead me to make some connections I hadn't thought about before.
Brandon mentioned the lack of leaders (elected officials) willing to benevolently serve people without putting themselves first or getting corrupted. I was thinking that it is extremely rare for a person to do anything truly beneolent to anyone. The biggest example is the educational community. Teachers and professors are regarded as servants to the community, giving back, and all that crap. Yet they get paid like the rest of us. And most of them aren't just doing it for the good of the world, they do it cause they like it, and some of them teach just to influence others in non education fields, which is highly contemptible. Acting as an authority figure and doing anything but benevolently teaching should be regarded the same as all the other corruption out there. The amount of attempted influence by teachers and professors was crazy, even at MSU. Almost every non engineering class had some random political offshoot, whether it was some random joke or a teacher showing up frustrated due to the situation of Museums in Iraq. Now its not all that benevolent to try to teach someone if you are also trying to influence their politics (for your own selfish reasons) at the same time, and yet it is still them "giving back", caring about the future, building the foundations of society at their own expense.
If you go in to teaching to do anything but teach your science and help expand students knowledge or character, you are abusing the system. Some would argue that their politics are required to be fully knowledgeable or enlightened, and those people are idiots. It's preying on young minds. It's the same type of misleading taking place in congress. Serving the greater good while mostly serving your own need to "spread the faith" of your chosen politics to others.
I had many really good professors who knew their stuff, but its not like they werent driving BMWs and more worried about tenure than the students. They werent sacrificing themselves for the good of society, and yet they are still viewed as caring more about the greater good than their own interests. The ones who mentioned the sacrifice of being a professor and the pay they gave up by never leaving college were also the ones who seemed to be there to mold the students instead of teach them. It was their responsibility to not just educate us, but to make us view their political side as legitimate, and it was always for the left of course. Thanks, you have my best interests in heart, I'm sure. Don't want me going through life being a conservative, how kind. One teacher even admitted she knew we would complain on the teacher survey forms about her political rants but she didnt care, because she was just so appalled at the current political situation. Yeah, she has our education at the forefront. I'm paying her to let her bitch about politics for 4 minute rants at the start of class. At least with talk radio I can change the channel, her I had to tolerate or risk getting a failing garde and not graduate. She knew nothing could happen to her. It's just tolerance of corruption. The entire college of anthropology just dealt with it. Just like we deal with corrupt politicians.
Trusting anyone to benevolently serve is a mistake. There are about 0.5% of people capable of it. The rest should be be assumed to fight for their own interests whether they believe they are "serving the greater good" or not. Maybe the system should be structed to assume that everyone is a misleader, everyone who claims to put others first is lying and that people shouldn't be trusted in those situations.
If you don't get what point I was attempting to make, let me know. I gotta go ice skate.
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| Friday, October 13th, 2006
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7:20 pm
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Stupid Global Warming!
So, it's snowing in October. Very early October.
We had an absolute brigade of hurricanes tear through our planet this year. Oh wait. We had hardly any.
Looks like somehow, all the predictions about global warming turned out to be slightly reversed this year. Maybe Al Gore did a really good job convincing people to reduce reuse and recycle. My guess is not. My guess is that people who don't understand complex subjects should not be making judgements that could affect the future of mankind.
Global Warming is real, but it is not caused by us. Look up all the different cycles that our earth goes through. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age We are in an interglacial. Be happy. Ice Ages suck, especially in Michigan.
The hole in the Ozone layer has been another big issue, though its not current in fashion. Here's a good paper showing how it's most likely due to the change in Earth's magnetic attraction rather than those CFCs everyone is so picky about. http://personals.galaxyinternet.net/tunga/OzoneHole.pdf There's also evidence of ancient ozone holes, but no, it is those damn hairspray cans. Because of the CFC regulations, people with asthma had to change medication to a more expensive and less effective type of inhaler (less effective in my opinion at least). People with asthma needing their inhalers is what was killing the ozone layer apparently. See what stupid crap we have to go through all based on incomplete knowledge?
So, a bunch of stupid hippies needing a cross to bear rallied around the whales and the dolphins and the arctic polar bears and decided that we were to blame for things we are not capable of. And, because no one really cares that much, it becomes common knowledge that we are causing all the problems, because as a species, we seem to have a guilty conscience. Volcanos and cows do more supposed damage than all our cars. We could eat all the cows, but that would be environmentally irresponsible cause our poor grandkids wouldn't have any good stuff to eat. We aren't gonna be able to stop Volcanos though.
The environmentalists play their game well, and although they have the best intentions of humankind at heart, the same could be said for Hitler. Now if the earth either cools or warms, it is a sign of global warming. Global warming is now associated with human pollution and influence pretty much exclusively. The Earth will cool and warm, so until people are untaught about global warming and climate change it looks like we are doomed to walk around in a predetermined fate of the environmentalists being correct no matter what the outcome. When people appear correct, other people usually take that as a sign of competence or intelligence, which might end up giving them more power, which is what a lot of them want anyway.
We are on this earth and should not destroy it, but really, we've made a lot of progress in that department lately. Instead of bitching over every little inconvience to some Carribu in Alaska, people should pay attention to India, China, Taiwan, and the developing nations which have no restrictions and are making the same mistakes we did 150 years ago, but on a larger scale.
We are still learning about the patterns our Earth goes through, and our understanding is far from complete. Making harsh judgements about what we are doing or what the Earth is doing will get us no where unless there is significant evidence and not just some fad scientific study. We have to realize that the earth's natural state is change. Nothing has been standing still. If we observe a change, our first reaction should not be to fix it, but to understand all of the factors involved and how we should adapt to it. We evolved into highly intelligent creatures during an ice age, I think we should be able to enjoy a nice warm sitting by the beach age. Honestly, it's way too cold here in Michigan, you should be hoping for all the climate change you can get.
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| Monday, April 24th, 2006
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8:12 pm
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This is almost a reply to Brandon's post, but oh well...
After listening to the new CD a few times, I'm liking it quite a bit more than I first did.
I still wish there was more, but I now like all of the songs to a certain extent. Right In Two demands that I listen to it because of that awesome bass line. Rosetta stoned is even good now. It was annoying at first but now I like quite a few parts of it.
Wings for Marie takes on a new light once you know the subject matter. It has connections to my usual favorite song "jimmy" and also to Judith. The solo reminds me of "Wake up" by Mad Season.
Jambi's opening riff is damn cool. The chorus is great as well.
Intension, which is almost a segue, has a very nice sound to it. I won't skip it like I do the other segues.
Aaron , you won't be too pleased with this CD, except for the basslines I'm assuming. Not too much anger.
The Pot is good except for the intro in my opinion. You must have been "out" your head? Too many moments where it makes references to pop culture to be one of those timeless songs, but still a good radio song for them. I agree with Herr Schneider.
I'll be spending my money for it once it comes out, but at least I don't have to go to Rock of Ages at midnight like I did for Lateralus. I can wait till the next day...
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| Friday, April 21st, 2006
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4:32 pm
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Well, Angels and Demons has been exciting, there are a lot of major unforgiveable mistakes and sleight of hands Mr. Dan Brown tries to get away with. If they were insignificant details it would be easier to get in to the book, as the story is quite "thrilling". His use of cheap techniques to blurt out random facts makes me cringe, especially when they aren't all that accurate.
He's a good idea man, and once the story is moving it's quite entertaining, but there are moments when I want to throw something at him for either being too condescending to the readers or trying to sound too educated through his characters.
On the other hand, I also just read the Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum, and once again, he rocks. His writing is probably the most enjoyable stuff I've ever read.
I've found that the story and the writing are two completely different equations. Rarely do authors combine excellence in both. I had the chance to experience this in a very magnified situation by reading two Robert Ludlum books at once. However, one was not written by Robert Ludlum. Since he died in 2001, all the new books of his are compiled from his notes by a "carefully selected author". The difference was incredible. The story was there, and was interesting, but the writing was so tediuous and almost painful. The tone was basically everything I've disliked about Dan Brown but magnified about seven times. Robert Ludlum tends to include a lot of foreign dialog as his books are usually about spies moving all over the world, so this nameless ghost author tried to do the same. After repeating the world Schloss about 6 times in 2 pages, it made me think of some little kid trying to be like his mentor but failing entirely. And usually it will be something like this.
"Halto," the man yelled to the taxi driver. "Stop!".
"Si senor," replied the cab driver. "Yes sir".
If you are going to use some fancy foreign phrases to spice up your crappy writing, don't waste time by choosing unfancy terms and then explaining them. Don't waste my time by writing to me like I'm in middle school trying to take an introduction to foreign language class with Frau Large. Just don't even bother.
As for Dan Brown, he's guilty of using his characters in unrealistic ways to make points. Atleast he should maybe try to make only about half of his characters sound like pretentious dumbasses. My favorite technique is as follows:
Character A: Well isn't (insert random well know misconception)?
Smartass character B: Actually, that is a common misconception. In reality, (insert another misconception that Dan Brown didn't study enough to actually verify).
That bores me entirely. It's a cheap way of saying look how smart I am, I researched all these facts so that I could attempt to make my readers go "gosh, I didn't know that, this guy must be smart!"
Oh, actually I might be entirely wrong about Dan Brown. I forgot that the main character is a professor, and that is what professors are pretty much always like: assuming the stupidity of their crowd, anxiously awaiting the chance to correct some meaningless tidbit with some other meaningless tidbit. Manipulating conversations to get to the point where they can say, "Actually, that is a common misconception." "Oh, you didn't know that (insert some random esoteric fact releated to the special area of that professor's vastly important expertise that has no real effect on the rest of the world, especially those that produce things)? I guess I forget we're not all ____ologists." Screw you stuck up professors. No one cares. Any of us could have just stayed in school writing papers about unimportant crap until the day we die, but some of us (luckily not me just yet...) have to work in a real job. Actually pretty much all of my professors were good people, and I never had much experience with any pretentious ones except in classes relating to English or arts and what not. The college of engineering doesn't really put up with bs as much I guess.
I gotta get tickets for tool tomorrow. Wish me luck, cause about half the people reading this are going to be sitting in the seats I manage to find.
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| Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
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7:10 pm
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holy crap. I've got the new cd... There is some very weird stuff going on here. Very awesome and very different.
I'm not sure how much I will even listen to. So far I've only heard Vicarious and one other song, Jambi. I don't want to take anything away from the cd by listening early, but who cares. It rocks. It will rock even if I've heard it all before it comes out.
I had planned on ignoring the leaks, but man, I gave in... Oh well.
This is so much better than anything else out at the moment. The old tool stuff almost doesn't even compare.
I read in the Guitar World interview with Adam that he is using a lot of tremolo and variable speed stuff and it's now obvious that it true and that it rocks. He even uses a talk box.
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| Sunday, April 16th, 2006
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| Monday, April 10th, 2006
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| Thursday, April 6th, 2006
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4:01 pm
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Few random things. This should be slightly offensive.
First off, we need to cut the number of immigrants allowed from Mexico down to about 3. It is unfair to Mexico when we steal their best and brightest, leaving them with about nothing. Hah. No, seriously, the border needs to be sealed. I have no problem with Mexicans at all, but honestly, this is a bad situation. If people assimilate, it is cool. If they rufuse, then we should refuse them. We need some people to do the jobs that fat union pigs refuse to do, but we do not need 11 dishwashers crossing the border every day. Union pigs think they deserve as much as smart people even though the average malnutritioned starvin' Marvin from Ethranopia can do the same job better and faster, with fewer breaks and less complaining. Mexicans do the job and do it well, and generally like this country. Some however, live in LA, where it became cool for them to complain and worry about gangs and La Raza or whatever. The educated Hispanics told them to embrace their culture and better themselves by not working and by holding placards instead. I would however, gladly exchange all Union leaders for Mexican workers.
Maddox thought we could solve the problem by forcing companies to pay all people more than minumum wage or something, but Maddox is a simple idiot who tends to be funny. (Sometimes very funny) Hillary Clinton thinks we can solve the problem by complaining about whatever idea Republicans have, and then doing whatever polls show support for, but Hillary is ... Bush thinks there should be some amnesty, but Bush cares a bit too much about the Hispanic vote. McCain will do whatever he thinks will get him elected president, and John Kerry will do exactly nothing, but make a lot of noise doing it. The only people actually doing something are the border Minutemen, who are totally awesome (said like Cartman of course).
Paying someone an inflated amount for no particular reason is stupid, or just charity. Enforcing charity is enforcing morals that not everyone is required to have. Enforcing stupidity is usually referred to as law, but that's a bit too typisch of a joke used by much too typisch people.
Next off, screw all unions. They are the death of this country. They served a purpose for about a week. Then they became a cancer. People just need to know their f'ing place and shut the hell up. Yes, you are worth less per hour than others because others do work that you cannot do at a faster pace, and that work is more valuable to more people. I know that I am never going to play professional hockey, but do you see me asking for a $10 million dollar salary from the Wings? (I'd need atleast 30 mil to play for that team anyway...) People accept that certain athletes are better than others, but some people cannot accept the fact that certain people are better workers than others. Oh, you happen to be good at sewing coats? Big deal, so is that machine over there. No one pays an enforcer type player (NHL again) as much as a skilled all-star because an enforcer just aint worth it. Would you pay some no name rookie the same as some awesome player just because he happened to be in the same industry or put in the same amount of time? No. Results matter. Unions have fought to take results out of the equation. Piecework is evil to them. Being paid correlated to what you produce? Never. Being paid to how long you've been a drain on the company bank account? Always. A young kid starts up with a union job, tries hard, gets yelled at by his coworkers for showing them up, goes a bit slower, takes more breaks, grows up like his union elders and then yells at the next young kid who displays effort. I am severely generalizing here, and I know atleast 2 or 3 good union people, but this is the culture they live in. They hate white collar workers, and they generally hate the company they work for, as well as scabs, immigrants who take less pay, and foreigners in their own countries who "steal" their jobs. When efficiency is despised, and effort rewarded with threats and intimidation, something is severely wrong. Union workers have problems with nonunion shops. It's quite funny. They bash the quality of nonunion work, while failing to realize that nonunion work can be much better, and is usually done in half the time. Effort is good. Efficiency is good. Competetion is good. Unions are bad.
Next, I'm sick of seeing Presso numero dos on my ATM when there are zero spanish speaking people in Plymouth. Why favor one minority over another? There are more arabs and indians here than mexicanos. Why not have it in Esperanto, Aramaic, Inuit, and Turkish? We don't want them feeling left out too! To show such political correctness to aide the minority of the week is so fake. I say just keep it in English with a bar at the bottom saying "You donta speaka English? Go home then!" Okay, no, something more like "Presso numero 2 por Mexicano; Clicken sie Nummer 3 fuer Hitleresque; Pooshen siee nuumbar 4 ef du biin ein Sweedish Chef." etc etc. But keep it at the bottom so that the rest of us 99% who speak english passably dont have to deal with your attempt to be diverse.
Okay, gotta go build some ADRs, getting paid per board. 92 solder joints, and 12 parts per board, wahoo.
Adios anyone who actually made it this far.
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| Monday, March 20th, 2006
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10:26 pm
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Got a new video card, an nVidia Geforce 7800 GS, so tomorrow I can play Oblivion, wahoo..
This is rediculuous: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188537,00.html
I think I'm switching to Geico now. If it "should be illegal" for them to have rates that vary with education, it probably should be illegal to hire people based on education because that also is "unfair" to "minorities". What an f'n joke. Walking around any college you would see that minorities rule the campus, but unfortunately for Asians, they apparently aren't the right minority. I'm quite sure college campuses are pretty close to accurate representation in society except that there is a disproportionately small number of white males there, along with an inflated amount of Asians (including subcontinentals). Certain people will refuse to understand that having 10% of the college made up of African Americans makes sense when 10% of the population is black. Minority recruitment is basically crack for these stupid dipscheisses. Oh, we need more minorities! It's so hypocritical and racist that it makes me sick. Why is there never any question about male recruitment? When some campuses are over 60% female, and almost every campus is well over 50%, shouldn't there be an issue made about sexual minorities? Don't forget that males are the minority by a good half percent or more. Well it never will be an issue because white males aren't good. Black males are good. Asian males are okay. Mexican males are good. Any female is good. White males, not so good, we have enough of them anyway.
Back to the point. If you live in the ghetto, your car is more likely to be a piece of crap, vandalized, and/or stolen if it happens to be nice. If you make barely any money, you are more likely to live in the ghetto. If you don't have an education, you are more likely to make barely any money. Damn it's simple. Plus, if you don't have money, how the hell are you gonna have the same car as the rich white collar worker? And what about teenagers? Shouldn't it also be illegal to discriminate against them? Making them pay twice as much as even poor factory workers must be a crime! Or wait, no, not at all. Since the average teenager drives worse than pretty much any old lady, it's completely fair. Insurance is all about odds. You make the odds and you set your prices so that people will actually pay it, and so that you can actually make money.
If I were them, I would do the same thing. Rich people don't attempt to rip off insurance companies, or commit fraud, and they take better care of the cars. It is much riskier to insure an uneducated man's car than an educated man's car. Plain and simple. If they think the price is too high, well they can abstain from dealing with Geico.
Enough complaining for now, as it has been a happy day. Got our hotel arrangements and everything all set for our trip to Indy. Yahoo...
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| Sunday, March 12th, 2006
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Formula 1 is finally back on. With hockey being shown about once a week (and rarely the Avalanche), it's good to have something worth watching on TV, though it causes severe damage to my sleep patterns.
Tool CD comes out May 2nd, wahoo. (I hope they don't make it like eMotive).
Oblivion comes out March 20th, wahoo. (Awesome video gameness)
Katie and I are going to the US Grand Prix at Indy in July, wahoo.
Finished a book about British decyphering of German messages during WWII. Quite good. I didn't know how close the Battle of Britain was to going the other way, which would have changed things a bit.
Iran is going to withhold oil because we don't want them to have nukes. How bout we agree to that. If everyone said screw you Iran, I'm not taking your oil, Iran would shut up already. But no, Russia will be comforting and say, okay, we'll take your oil and oh, I happened to leave some Nuclear Bomb plans lying around. Russia consistently sides with whoever our enemy is, even now. If we just open up ANWR and turn all the moose and bison, and polar bears into gasoline all will be well.
Something interesting about electric vehicles. If you made a regular gasoline car that had 30 horse power, weighed about 1400 lbs and decided to run it only on sunny days through flat areas, 90 mpg is quite achievable. When an actual electric car performs like a real car, then we can start saying they are practical.
Blahblahblah, Go Schumacher, Go Avalanche, Go teamplayingredwings, go odbye.
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| Friday, February 17th, 2006
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Update from the civilized world...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Pakistani cleric announced a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew the Prophet Muhammad caricatures, as thousands rallied across the country Friday and authorities arrested scores of protesters.
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| Thursday, February 16th, 2006
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So if its torture to force feed someone in custody, I assume its perfectly cool to withhold food for bad behavior? Or atleast to say, okay, well, good luck with that hunger strike, and save some money on the food bills? Seriously, isnt force feeding someone so they don't die a better option then letting them die? Nope, apparently torture. I say, stop the food and let 'em waste away. Give the unneeded food to some Cuban starving kids, they will appreciate it more. Oh wait, they get caviar and steak from their weekly ration line, so nevermind.
The whole cartoon about Mo' is quite frighteningly amusing. I wrote something about CIVILIZED people a long time ago, and this is exactly what I'm talking about. Europe better wake up and realize that publishing a cartoon does not make them the aggressor in this situation. At least some people will see this and go, uh, you know what, rioting for a cartoon that offends you is um, quite severe, and uncalled for. These people are sheep and will follow the will of whoever claims to represent Allah at the moment, no matter what the cost, or how unrational or violent the path may be.
Its not a racial thing at all. It is a cultural domination forced upon the Islamic children from their birth. Indoctrination on a scale we can't even deal with. Here it's indoctrination if someone mentions a religious holiday (unless its Ramadan, of course). The culture is inferior to western culture absolutely. It is like a dangerous infestation that we tolerate. Well sir, you have some killer bees making a hive in your living room, and I think we should call the exterminator. No, that's okay, I don't want to offend them. (and I'm not for exterminating them, it was an analogy). The culture of radical Islam is incompatible with other cultures. Radical Christianity is annoying, but telethons and free bible handouts are hardly Molotov cocktails.
Instead of bending to the whims of a dangerous sect of society, we need to stand up and go, No, it is not okay to riot and burn things over a cartoon. Their mothers slacked at their jobs of being mothers because they were busy being beaten. Which is another point I fail to understand: the alignment of hippie causes like feminism with respect for radical islam. What a contradiction.
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| Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
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| Thursday, December 8th, 2005
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Epiphone Les Paul Custom Midnight Edition - Dual EMG-81s, Grover Tuners, All Black (except for da purty binding).
Wahoo.
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| Sunday, November 20th, 2005
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6:09 pm
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7 songs or something....
1. What if that guy from the Smashing Pumpkins lost his car keys - Stephen Lynch (Julie, if you read this, download this song, or let me know and I can get you a copy some how, you will enjoy it)
2. H. Tool
3. Intro song to Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (hah)
4. To Return - Chevelle
5. Other Light - Finger Eleven
6. Favorite Game - The Cardigans - It has that weird guitar riff that keeps getting stuck in my head, it's not hardcore, its not heavy, but it's not horrible and I heard the song yesterday...
7. Battery - Metallica
This was hard to do since I haven't been listening to much music lately other than in Katie's car, and the radio sucks, and most of her CDs are country...
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| Saturday, November 5th, 2005
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5:18 pm
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Just thinking about the cancer analogy for evil provided by Herr Steffka.
Originally it was something like, if left alone, even a small cancer can kill you...
What happens if you leave evil alone? It flourishes. Cancer? Pretty much same.
How do you get rid of cancer? By destroying it by force through chemical treatment, radiation, or various other means. What about evil?
You do not just turn your cheek on cancer, nor do you with evil or violence. If it can be prevented, you prevent it, and if it can be stopped, you use any means necessary to stop it, so long as you aren't doing more damage to the victim than the cancer would.
Cancer is such a good analogy for either violence or evil. Too bad I can't take credit for it myself.
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A socialist does not believe in property rights, and therefore is willing to break one of God's commandments for his own uses, since he is entitled to use other people and their resources for his own master plan to help society. He is willing to enslave the masses for what he feels is right.
Socialism is government sponsored theft for the benefit of society as according to a certain group that pretends to know what will benefit said society.
Socialism predicated upon the government monopoly of the use of force is actually theft by force.
Money is nothing other than a method of exchaning goods and services in an efficient manner using a medium other than goods and services. To be limited to exchange only goods and services would be impractical and pointless. Money is not evil, it is just a medium of exchange. It is labor, time, and resources abstracted into a paper or metal object. Those who hate what money symbolizes are instead hating greed, or jealous of their lack of money for reasons they cannot understand.
Taking money from people is the same as taking their own property.
Stealing is against God's laws.
Unvoluntary taxation by threat of force or explusion is stealing.
Socialism forced upon people by random chance of birth locale is not voluntary.
Socialism is stealing and against God's laws.
Socialism is stealing for the purpose of the good of society as determined by an entity that is smaller than society itself.
All decisions must be made by people. Collective decisions come down to individual voices and opinions. Individuals make decisions that affect the masses. Individuals use the threat of force to steal from the masses in order to provide what they feel is the best for society. Individuals steal from the masses and tell them that they themselves know what is best for them, while the enablers of the the entire process are forced to submit to the will of others.
Working unvoluntarily by threat of force is slavery.
Society becomes enslaved by socialist masters to do what the masters think is in the best interest of the whole collective.
Everyone is enslaved for "their own good" as decided by a subset of society.
This subset is elevated to a status where they have control over people's lives.
This is slavery.
Socialism is slavery of the masses for the benefit of the masses as decided by someone other than God.
Is slavery to be tolerated because God has not outlawed it? If God has outlawed slavery, show me where.
Is stealing to be tolerated due to the good intentions of those that steal? Stealing is outlawed by God. Stealing is wrong even without the existence of God. Why should it be tolerated?
Is socialism just the lesser of two evils? Are socialists willing to accept the fact that they wish to enslave others for the supposed benefit of the masses? Are they willing to accept the fact and let it be known that they are willing to steal from you for you own benefit, without your permission? Why are they to be trusted to rule as opposed to anyone else? Good intentions do not make stealing or slavery anything other than what it is.
Where am I wrong here?
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| Thursday, October 27th, 2005
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| Tuesday, October 25th, 2005
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randomness:
Isn't planning something in ADVANCE for the day after the 2000th soldier in Iraq dies somewhat sick? How bout we plan a party for the day Castro dies, or even Cindy Sheehan herself? Isn't that kind of um, tasteless, evil, and indicative of her media whore status? I mean, planning something for when some poor guy dies, just replusive. She must care about the soldiers so much... so much that she's willing to use their deaths for her own agenda and need for attention.
What the hell is drifting? Actually, I know what it is. But why? What is the point of the whole gaZn sport crap? Why would you put a spoiler on a car when you want the rear end to break loose? Could it be because NONE of them know or care about anything other than following some gay fad? Probably. Also, why would you want to compete in a race where you don't try to go fast? Also, why are they all so mockable? Putting a turbo and nitrous on a civic is just so stupid that it pains me. Putting a huge wing on a cavalier and an exhaust pipe that drags on the ground makes me laugh and point at them while doing a horrible rendition of Nelson's HA-HA. Does anyone like real cars with engines bigger than 2L that don't sound surprisingly similar to an old beat-up 4 banger with a hole in the muffler? Other than Aaron of course, he hasn't been affected by this metrosexual car fad.
Subway rocks.
The wings are on a tear and the Avs have been mediocre. DOH!
Read another Ludlum book, and it was okay. Not as cool as the last. It was The Gemini Contenders. Started a new one already...
Okay, bye
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