I've had a visitor to this page from Switzerland, somewhere north of Berne! Now I can say that my page is internationally read!
Buy nothing day. Some wise man whose name I cannot remember said, "Americans will start killing themselves when they realize there is nothing left to buy." Thats all that needs to be said about that.
Also whats the deal with America's obsession with watching others get humiliated. It seems to be the underlying theme in virtually all talk shows, reality shows and often even in the news. Americans really love to watch others get humiliated and the best part, they know how to make money with it. I guess exploitation of painful human emotions is like mining gold.
Its not really scary that the petition to change the name of LOTR: Two Towers is out there. Whats really scary is 3,598 idiots signed it!
So I was thinking the other day about speed limits and traffic regulations on a drive back from Dallas. Its weird how in America car manufacturers totally sell their vehicles on the virtues of power and performance; cars with over 300HP and top speeds well over 150. Then in the real world, only one state doesn't enforce a speed limit on its highways and the speed limit mostly everywhere in 55-75, enforced limit would be around 60-80. None the less I don't understand why people continue to buy these tremendously overpowered cars when really there is no way to use the car's full potential save for some very limited parts of the roadway. Elsewhere there are usually steep penalties for driving fast or as if in a race of any sort.
With each years new models the engine performance is touted and then maybe some piddly comments on the luxury and safety. This engine performance isn't even anything drastic like ultra-quiet operation or amazing mileage. Its usually a 5-10HP improvement. What about useful innovations like cheaply replaced body panels or easy to maintain headlights and brakelights and other actually useful conveniences. All the focus is deliberately kept on the power and luxury. If the people are too busy showing off the fake wood in their paneling and other "gee golly!" things they'll surely forget that their shiny new car pumps out sad amounts of nasties from the tailpipe.
And with the type of penalties that are exacted one would think that police enforcement on roadways was solely to benefit insurance companies. Take for example what happens when one is involved in a second party fault accident. The second party's insurance coverage goes up no doubt, but your insurance goes up as well because someone else made a poor decision. How is this logical? You make payments year on end and then you get in a single accident which isn't even your fault and you have to pay more to maintain the same level of coverage prior to the accident.
"Why don't you write to your Congressman?", you ask? Well you see my friend, sadly Keyur Parekh Inc. can't afford to hire lobbyists to go convince some, piss in his pants without campaign money, congreeman to not listen to the car and insurance companies' army of lobbyist concerned solely with maintaining the profitability of their clients while the rest of America is worried about how long it takes J.Lo to take a shit and what some Canadian called their President. The other main reason is that America as a society doesn't really like to fix any problems, as long everything can be made to appear shiny and smily on the surface it doesn't really matter. Its all about the apperance it doesn't matter if under the hood its just a bunch of squirrels wearing beanies running on hamster wheels.
Linkses:
Its not about the oil with Iraq. Bush cares about the Iraqi people.
Why not just make tanks into SUVs?! They are all terrain afterall.
Hooray for corporate funding and influence!
Humans are programmed to get fat.
Canadians are right. He is a moron.
The first one is on the hoUSe.
This is painful to read.
Calling all Hinjews.
P.S. If you're missing one sock out of a pair, throwing the one leftover with the wash doesn't mean the lost one will magically reappear when you get your wash back.
This Mark Fiore guy is really something. Its too bad I didn't know about him before. Have a look at some of his animated editorial cartoons: Meat industry's voluntary regulation, White House hybrids and Esther Investor. I need to make sure I visit Mark's site more often.
On a side note, there is truly a certain joy of pulling strings to get tickets that should cost $383 for $192! Anyway I'll be headed home on the 13th of December with string pulled tickets and back into Austin on the 11th of Jan of the coming year. Should the weather choose not to get sufficiently cold this year, or should it not snow in sufficient amounts I will make sure I put the weather machine hidden under the south pole out of its misery. I'm still reeling from last year's disappointment.
The boys over at Tech-Report have put together this rather nice piece on why the new GeForce FX isn't really worth it. Just like Intel brute forcing more performance by upping the clock on the Pentium 4, this is essentialy whats NVidia is doing. The pixel shaders 2.0+ are cool, but not a single game in the market is taking advantage of anything like that and I doubt any game will be using such complex pixel shaders for the foreseeable future. Another thing about the GeForce FX is that its got massive cooling, which means they've taken the architecture to the highest clock possible before it just won't go anymore and this too at the .13 manufacturing process. ATI's R300 is on the .15 process and uses the complex but awesome 256-bit wide memory bus and will nearly match the FX's performance. Imagine what will happen when ATI drops the R300 to the .13 process, cranks the memory bus or moves on to DDRII, yea the FX is going to get blown away all over again like the Ti4600 did. NVidia seems to have really missed the beat on this one. Also the whole sacrificing a PCI slot to allow my video card to cool business isn't going to fly with me and probably a lot of other sane people as well. Previews of the GeForce FX architecture: 1, 2, 3.
So Bush's version of the clean air act is out. Take a deep breath and try not to cough.
If only I actually knew girls who actually wore this or this or this. But wait, what if the stereotype for a male geek (of which I am a clear exception) carries over to the female side? Eeeeeewwwwww
There is a common misconception that women are clear in their intentions and mature. Let me set that straight. Women aren't really ever clear about much. By women I mean women not related to you. For example ask a girl if she wants to catch a movie. She says sure and then completely forgets the follow through. Thats called being confusing. If she never wanted to go in the first place why not just make up some lame excuse or just say no straight up. Or just don't call the person the movie is supposed to be seen with. Maybe that will be perfectly clear. Stupid people hurt head. Ug.
P.S. Eating rocks can be painful. Black beans are tasty all the same.
What would Jesus drive?!? What the hell kind of question is that? Well if it gets people to actually even consider the fuel efficiency or lack thereof of SUVs then I guess its not so bad to ask, "What would Jesus drive?". However its more important to ask, "What would Ram drive?!". However, we already know the answer to that one though, a blue 2002 Honda Civic.
Kids my age are smrt. S-M-R-T, smrt! No really this is scary. I can somewhat understand not being able to find individual middle-eastern countries, but not being able to find Iraq or Saudi Arabia is just perplexing to no end, seeing as how America was fighting a war there just a decade ago. As if that wasn't scary enough, 29% couldn't find the Pacific ocean and 11% couldn't even find America on the map! Yea buddy! I just find this really really hard to believe. Maybe its because I'm in a big, moneyed university in a rather liberal town but the people around me are pretty damn smart. I want to meet the people that participated in this survey. Statistically though its rather hard to find a good cross-section of the general population and nothing on the actual survey setup is discussed so potentially they could have interviewed a segment of the population that biased the results. Even though, how could one not find the Pacific ocean or America on a world map is beyond me. Far beyond me. It sort of hurts in that "holy shit I can't believe it" sort of way, but I still want to giggle.
Lately on campus as I walk from lab to class to lab to work to library or some combination of those I've found myself reading signs posted by student organizations on kiosks, walls and such. Usually I'm walking by too fast to actually read the real name of the organization or any content on the sign, but I just catch the acronyms in their big bold lettered fonts. So I decided I'm just going to make up my own names for the organization's whose acronyms I see. Here are the first ten in a Top Secret order:
1. Pre-PAS - Pre-Programmed Androgynous Stableboys
2. APSA - Agoraphobic Pot Smokers in Austin (word up Cassie)
3. MAHPO - Mothers Against Humping Penguins Outside
4. AGDI - Accounting Gurus Distributing Inchworms
5. KSFC - Kentucky Stir Fried Chicken
6. ILASSA - Introverted Llamas Against Safe Sex in Argentina
7. EMS - Elephants Mouthing Slurs
8. SAHPA - Stupendous Aggregation of Horny Programmers in Austin
9. NSBL - Naked Student's Bowling League or Naked Students Belching Loudly
10. UTNSA - Unusual Transvestites Noticing Student Activities
Linkses:
Die Another Day: A glamorous plot based infomercial?
Ummmmm cheap solar power.
Quotses:
"Gravity may go up, it may go down. You're definitely going down......on us." - god pimp Frank
"Peace corps: see the world, get kidnapped." - crazy John
"...fucking green panties!" - girl talking to friend on campus sidewalk at Speedway&24th
"one banana two banana three banana four
four bananas make a bunch and so do many more
over hill and highway the banana buggies go
coming up to bring you the banana split show
tra la la la la la la
tra la la la la la la" - from Nandi Being Random
P.S. When you're cleaning your ears with a q-tip don't bop your head to the music. You can hurt yourself.
wearing wrong shoes
standing in a mass
mass like grass
grass as human
as humans themselves
lone guitar
fascination with cum
voice like raspy fairy
too much to drink maybe?
girls around me scream
scream again for want
want for rhyme
oh gyyyyyhmmmmm
more hating choice of shoes
random blues fills smoky air
mary jane floats about
captain stick not far behind
hey lady do you want
to try the flavoured version?
out with a drummer
a bassist
and two guitars
lyrics like day old yogurt
beats like sugar
in an empty stomach
fuck you Jimmy Fallon
send a note next time
you frontin'
no showin'
son of a biatch
bright lights
guitar playing fro
singer like a cousin
riffs same for seven songs
girls ride shoulders
communal swaying
gets wild like the serengeti
10 ft. forward
11 ft. back
jacket will not escape
half hours goes
blinded
rocked out
hungry for more
it can't be over
its over
what a waste
next time i'll send
parker instead
Linkses:
PS3 explained.
This is Slashdot.
How I feel about the Xbox controller.
In the post about spam I mentioned about how spam wreaks havoc on the lives of IT admins. Here is first hand evidence.
Also on the post on the Michael Pollack article in the NY Times Magazine I said I'd talk to my friends of whom one went vegetarian and still is and the other is now vegan. Well anyway both of them talked to me via email and they both said that they've never really felt a deeper need for meat. When they initally went veg. their meals felt incomplete and they stopped eating while still "feeling" hungry but not really being hungry. They figured out that to stop that feeling they had to eat real substantial veg. food like veggie burgers or rice and beans and meals with a strong tofu or soy meat component. Salads, breads and cheese didn't cut it for them. However both of them admitted that they still find the sight/smell of meat rather appetizing and sometimes they really want a large meal with lots of meat, but its more a craving then a deeper hunger like for water or something more basic along those lines.
Hey get a look at this story about the Christian right. Bloody morons. As one of my friends put it, "...even Bush is smarter than that."
Get a load of this bullshit about citizen information compilation. (More.) I cannot believe that this type of implementation is even being considered seriously. But after watching Bowling for Columbine, I should have learned that it makes sense. Pump Americans so full of unbased fear, that they consume anything you feed them to make them feel even falsely safe or anything to make them feel detached from the reality that scares them so much. Check out the video clip of Michael Moore's interview with Marilyn Manson. That Manson is far far smarter than anybody gives him credit for. I guess the whole judging books by covers thing comes to mind. Also on that same page with links to the Manson interview is the wonderful animated short, "A Brief History of America." If you have the time, give that a go, its well worth the few minutes it runs.
That is all. Enjoy the below random goodness. Its creamy, but fat-free.
Tee hee Quoteses:
"If he gets a girlfriend, he is going to cease to be." - Daniel H.
"...those motherfucking average bears!" - Juan R.
Tee hee Linkses:
T-shirt Keyur should get.
"It is, truly, The Tie of Ties. The One Tie To Rule Them All And In The Hallways Mock Them..." - Godpimp Frank
West Punjab. - A to the motherf'in K
I love Arnold.
Good advice.
P.S.
Ode to sleeping bag
oh sleeping bag
how i sleep in thee
let me count the ways
oh but i cannot
for snuggling in your faux plaid
after a long day
is like being in a womb
your warmth and comfort
shall i forever remember
even though your filling
is no longer evenly distributed
you sleeping bag
are my only true shield
from the world of man
oh sleeping bag
how i sleep in thee
let me count the ways
It really blows when you think you've gotten over a traumatic event in life, but in reality you haven't gotten over it all. Its just swept under the carpet of reality. Then one day you are just boppin' along listening to some rock song. As you're listening to this song, the bullet of the memory just goes right through your heart and all you feel is hot searing pain. The kind of pain where you just buckle down and feel like your stomach and everything in it is going to jump out of your mouth. You don't know why it happened, but it did and the worst thing is, there is nothing that can be done. All you can is hope your knees don't give out and can atleast get you home.
Hey Vitamin V dealer, if you're reading this, yea it still happens. You gonna give me some medicine? Or does the embargo stand? Even if the embargo stands...heres a song for you.
"Butterfly"
Yesterday I went outside
With my momma's mason jar
Caught a lovely Butterfly
When I woke up today
Looked in on my fairy pet
She had withered all away
No more sighing in her breast
I'm sorry for what I did
I did what my body told me to
I didn't mean to do you harm
Everytime I pin down what I think I want
It slips away - the ghost slips away
I smell you on my hand for days
I can't wash away your scent
If I'm a dog then you're a bitch
I guess you're as real as me
Maybe I can live with that
Maybe I need fantasies
A life of chasing butterfly
I'm sorry for what I did
I did what my body told me to
I didn't mean to do you harm
Everytime I pin down what I think I want
It slips away - the ghost slips away
I told you I would return
When the robin makes his nest
But I ain't never coming back
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry
-- Weezer
Self professed "spam queen" Laura Betterly was caught by WSJ for an interview. I really can't believe that there is that much money to be made in spam, but it figures when one can break even at even a 0.001% response rate. Anyway its silly how she thinks its fine to abuse resources that are meant for public access to send people material they never wanted to begin with (0.001% response). Furthermore she goes on to say that this job allows her to spend time with her children and enjoy her life, yea but what about the IT guys and ISPs whose life she makes hell? What about the people who get this garbage and have to sort through it? Don't these people have lives they want to enjoy? Somehow she also seems to harbour the idea that anyone who has ever even mistakenly forgot to uncheck the checkbox to opt out of third party offers is eligible to get any and all offers. Ironically even offers for anti-spam software.
Furthermore Ms. Betterly needs to come to terms with the fact that she is stealing bandwidth. A 40K message going through a conservative 8 hops to get to its recepient wastes 320K worth of bandwidth along the way. Multiply this by say a 2,500,000 possible recepients and you've got 762.94GB of data being transferred and this doesn't count any sort of bounce backs. The concept of spam mail in the traditional postal sense doesn't transfer over to the email world because with postal mail an immediate upfront transport cost is exacted upon the sender. This is not so with email and it shouldn't be so with email. She is abusing a medium of communication for her monetary benefit, and yes it is abuse, just read the comments from her server admin to hear first hand what methods they use to send mass emails and how they manage to avoid filters.
With all that in mind, I'm sooo happy to say that there is the coming of a new defense against spam thats very very promising, not to mention smart, called a Bayesian filter. Currently I'm the happy user of POPFile, which is a very simple Perl script implementing the Bayes Theorem (formal definition). POPFile acts like a proxy between your mail program and your mail server, classifying every mail you get into as many different categories as you defined. Personally I just want it to filter spam from non-spam, I've got regular mail program organization filters to categorize the rest. The way Bayesian filters work is that you give it a lot of your regular non-spam messages and let it make a word frequency table out of that and then you give it a bunch of spam and let it make a word frequency table of this. These filters go through the entire message from the headers to the actual body including HTML, as opposed to just the headers like regular filters do. The more of each type of email you give it the more accurate it will be (paper explaining this). When these types of filters see a new message they can check out the words in the message and compare them to the existing word tables to see how many of the words get categorized as appearing more often in spam or normal mail. Then it calculates the total probability of the message and then classifies it as either spam or normal mail. This is how it works for me, Bayesian filters can be taught to classify messages into as many categories as you'd like.
These Bayesian filters are a totally different idea than the group based block lists that filters like SpamNet, SpamAssassin and Brightmail. Those systems work on the concept of block lists. For SpamNet users can directly contribute addresses to this list, I'm not too clear on how SpamAssasin and Brightmail develop their block lists. There is a fundamental flaw in this system because potential friendly addresses could be blocked because enough people in the community get spam from them. For example, an entire address block like mail.com could be blocked because enough people who contribute to the community block list feel that @mail.com addresses cause too much spam. Bayesian filters are by nature designed specifically for each and every user.
Scary thing is Microsoft owns a general patent on all probabilistic email filters. Oddly MS has owned this patent since 1998, but even today Outlook (all of the different versions) doesn't seem to have any robust junk mail filtering. Apple on the other hand is already using a probabilistic algorithm in Mail.app that is now shipping with Jaguar. Mozilla's mail app will have its very own version of a Bayesian filter soon as well. I wonder when Eudora will respond with something along these lines, not to mention MS and their gamut of Outlooks.
When Bayesian or other types of probabilistic/learning mail filters become common, what will spammers do? Based on the trend I've personally seen they will just make their messages more and more innocuous to the point where a spam message will actually be a very subtle, almost subliminal, sales pitch. Hmm, I wonder how effective that will be. I guess as long as they are 0.001% effective, it won't matter.
In the mean time though, I raise my champagne in a toast to a wonderfully spam free Inbox.
Update: Godpimp Frank pointed me this very useful page for webmasters who don't want email harvesters to siphon addresses from your page.
Rant:
It sucks when you have someone on your buddy list that you don't want to talk to, but they catch your attention like free money. You know you shouldn't talk to them, but you can't take them off your list. And then when they're no longer online, you sort of feel sad. Yea I'm weird. Sosumi.
Tee hee Quoteses:
"If he gets a girlfriend, he is going to cease to be." - Daniel H.
"...those motherfucking average bears!" - Juan R.
P.S. If any of yous want to learn how to setup POPFile on your computers, contact me and I'd be more than happy to help.
Today the BBC reported on the environmental impact of microprocessor development. Yea this is actually rather horrible news to someone like me whose life is almost 75% centered around manipulating the electrons that whiz around inside those chips. I'm not really sure where to go with this. I suppose to some extent I'm happy that I don't purchase new video cards every 6 months and a new computer every 2 years. My old computer was with me for 4.5 years before I retired it. However this matter cannot and should not be ignored. Now that I do know I'll surely keep my eyes and ears open and contribute to the cause whenever I should get the chance. In the mean time though there should be an overwhelming demand from the industry to lower power consumption on microprocessors. The Pentium 4 and the Athlons suck 65+ watts on the high end and around 60W in the middle level. This is crazy! Thats a whole lightbulb. Now combine this kind of processor with the upcoming NV30 from Nvidia which is going to have 125M transistors. Allegedly this video card is going to require its own external power supply or it will require extra power via a HD power connector. This is insane. Its like a double fuck. First fuck during manufacturing. Second fuck during the entire usable life of the product. I guess this is sort of like the car industry where the focus is on power when clearly its not actually needed as opposed to a balance between real world processing requirements coupled with reasonable power usage.
While I was at the PML today, I figured studying would be too logical, so I thought I'd check out the wayback machine and went to the CNN website from June 20, 2000. This is during the midst of the huge economic boom. Its stunning to see the way news was reported back then. The news thats on the front page is genuine news. There isn't an ounce of gossip or celebrity bullshit until three quarters of the way down confined appropriately in the Entertainment section. Looking at their page today makes me want to puke all over their server farm. No, actually I feel bad for the servers having to serve that shiznit. They should use that server capacity to serve Linux ISOs or something.
Linkses:
Republican party: Behind the smile.
Are people so sad that they have to live through J. Lo???
The New York Times Magazine has struck again with a rather good piece on the whole concept of humane treatment of animals and the moral quandries of animal consumption.
I have a couple of issues with points Pollan makes in this essay. He seems to imply that the notion of meat eating as being something deeper, instinctual if you will. In my opinion he is contradicting himself because prior to saying this he said that human beings have evolved beyond instinct, beyond our animal past. Furthermore I have personally have known people who stopped eating meat after eating it for 20+ years and they never said anything about feeling a deep need for it. I'll ask and make sure and report back. People have an acquired taste for eating meat, fostered from childbirth through adulthood due to cultural norms. People can be weaned off that taste and the psychological requirement for that type of food as being the only way to satisfy hunger.
Pollan also discusses that an animal scientist in Oregon thinks that more animals will be killed due to farming. Are there any more than one study that concur on this result? One man does not an authority make. Also he writes as if killing animals while farming is the only alternative and we have no other way. If after factory farming and mass death of animals for food has been stopped, I have no doubt that animal rights activists will take it upon themselves to ascertain that farming also takes on more humane approaches during harvest time so as to not slaughter animal life that makes a home in the fields where we grow our food.
Pollan then delves into the issue of the majority of the world's land not being arable. This is true but, in general eating animals is a very inefficient way of using the land. As of now we have the distribution capability to move vast quantities of food over vast distances efficiently. Animal consumption works on a small scale as in individual farms, but animal farming to feed a burgeoning world population is suicide. In the same book Peter Singer cites (pg. 166) very specific resource requirements to raise one lb. of steak from steers raised on feedlots, and they go as follows: five pounds of grain, 2,500 gallons of water, energy equal to about one gallon of gasoline and about 35 lbs. of eroded top soil. Basically it boils down to what we can do per acre of land to get food and raising plants is the way to go. Especially plants like soybeans, legumes of all sorts, nuts and seeds and other greens. If you think of acquiring energy as a process (sun -> plants -> animals -> people), its inefficient to get energy from animals based on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics, we lose efficiency with each extra step. This is shown by the scary fact (page 165) that it requires 21 pounds of protein feed to return 1 pound of beef protein. This is a 4.762% ROI. Singer offers even more statistics on pg 167, but it comes down that using land to grow crops is about 5 times more efficient on terms of caloric energy than raising beef or other forms of meat.
Compounding the already presented evidence animals for slaughter in the US produce 2 billion pounds of heavily ammoniated waste, this is 10 times more than the entire human population of the US. Just think about that, animals produce waste which is far far more concentrated than human waste in terms of ammonia and other chemicals and disposing of an amount 10 times greater than what people produce. Yea buddy. On top of this all grazing cattle and other animals require land which competes with forest land. Forests are cut down to turn into grazing land. Once the forest is gone, rain washes away the top soil the forest was holding down making that land where the animals grazed worthless after 1-2 seasons, making the return of any forest highly improbably. Think about this when you hear how many acres of rain forests are destroyed each year.
Based on where man stands technologically and evolutionarily it is no longer necessary at all to consume animals other than purely for a gastronomic pleasure. Even then it just boils down to people doing what we want to because we like to live in the lap of luxury come hell or high water. Probably high water, because cows and pigs and sheep and chickens like to fart. Fart has a lot of methane, methane is a greenhouse gas.
I just wish Pollan had made a more fortified argument. Forget animal suffering and cruelty and all that, purely from an environmental perspective, cutting down on an animal diet or switching to veganism would change the ecological picture so dramatically. I wonder how that article would be influenced if Pollan had actually stopped to consider the environment aspect of the whole bit.
Linkses and quoteses:
Bush says, "I hate national parks."
World according to America.
Give it back you anonymous bastards.
I need to go shopping.
"A person without real curiosity has no hope of functioning very well, it seems to me ... ... The trick is to know what facts are relevant, and often to dig them out from disciplines far removed from your own, and to imagine how all these disparate pieces fit together." - Ann Zwinger, Plateau Journal 2000.
Hey Japan and Norway, I'd like to welcome your dumbasses to the 21st century, but I cannot because I'm too busy getting sick. Where is Greenpeace when you need them most?
Quoteses:
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men." - Alice Walker
"People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It’s ludicrous. It’s not as bad as mass animal death in a factory." - Richard Gere
"I’ve always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don’t fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal creatures on Earth. And somehow we humans think we’re smarter—what a joke." - Pink
Linkses:
Angry animal retaliates.
Republicans to host 'Fuck the Forests' orgy.
Back that ass up.
Kazaa lite is good.
Drool inducing machine.
I need to get voicemails like this..
Warning: This post not suitable for minors or the easily excitable.
Turns out that major U.S. chocolate powerhouses like Mars and Hershey's have been using cocoa beans harvested off the western coast of Africa by means of slave labour. (More info: 1, 2, 3, 4) Slave labour? Is this 2002? Somewhere along the line the entire world got retuned to make every god damn thing cheaper. No one wants to shell out money, but everyone wants to make gobs of it. Every major ethical/moral/social difficulty with bad business is rooted in making shit cheaper yet still turning out a bloody red profit.
Why the obsession with lining our mortal pockets? We exist on this earth for 65-80 years, some longer. Why bother with money? Yes its a means, but means to what? Should human existence be so fiercely tied to the concept of making money and living a life of luxury? From a very early age parents dream of their children to be doctors (who rip everyone off), engineers, etc. Professions that inherently are related to making a tidy sum. Obviously no one wants their child to be unhappy but why the association with money? Why not an obsession with an enlightened child? A child who will become a human being that pushes the concept of humanity to the next level. We've been stuck on this level of cash money for too long. So long in fact, that the earth can't support it for too much longer. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying theres anything wrong with making money. I would love to have a cool billion burning a hole in my pocket, with more coming in regularly. However, I don't want the blood of people, animals or the earth all over my cold hard cash. Yea I want a Lambo, let me know when it runs on renewable fuel.
Why can't hoards of money be made without fucking the world?
What the hell is going? If we aren't busy fucking the environment, we fuck each other, if we get tired of that we fuck some animals, when we get tired of fucking all that the earth has to offer we'll move on to something extraterrestrial or we'll figure out new ways to fuck the earth once again. Why? Why can we as human beings not survive without fucking everything up? For every beautiful thing man may have done/created/thought of we have 50 things that are just pure spawns of hell. Purely from a behavioural perspective, human beings can absolutely be categorized as viruses, hairy viruses.
Linkses:
Keyur is...
New Jersey: my home in America.
Movie everyone must watch.
P.S. I've gotten weak with my cold sensitivity, I need to move to Siberia and harden up.
From this little web dingaling to all your other dingalings out there, I wish all of you a very happy new year. I hope this new year brings you good tidings and little sack lunches with hot mom food.
Although its the new year and all, it just doesn't feel like it. Mom and dad aren't cleaning the whole house top to bottom. There isn't a lot of good food being cooked in the kitchen. We haven't even put out the "good" Persian carpet. Not to mention the utter and total lack of guests and oh yea family. Yea this whole lack of India thing needs to be solved quickly before I implode on myself and become an idiot like Looney Tunes characters.
Anyway heres to a bright new year of traveling to India, getting a job and continuing the fight against pants!
P.S. Don't eat other people lunches, you can never be sure if they might have egg stuff in them.
P.P.S 101 things Mozilla can do which IE cannot. Kinda techie, but still nice :)
pitter patter like liquid marbles
on this day of days
when the holy trinity of swaras
is oft repeated in my land
here i sit in this lab
a xeon box my companion
while my mouth yearns
for the best mithais
my eyes yearn
for the decorated dieties
for the shimmering fireworks
and the intricate rangolis
my ears scream their wants
for the rat-a-tat-tat and booms
of the street vendor fireworks
the missed sal mubaraks
and the special holiday carpet
here i have pujas
and privacy with my own god
happy diwali
Why is it that when I make points or pose arguments that put major corporations, say for example McDonald's, in a bad light that people tend to automatically defend these entities?
Do people forget that these large corporations don't need any help making money or defending themselves?
Do people forget that most large corporations have more lawyers than the total combined population of the Dakotas?
Do people forget that these corporations are really engines created solely for the creation of profit, everything else be damned?
Do people forget that it is unprofitable for corporations to care about the anything that is easily replaced/silenced/covered up?
Do people forget that these corporations only listen to the whims of the consumer?
Do people forget that getting a large corporation to do what is socially/morally/ethically right will benefit society/the environment/migrant workers/the whales as a whole and still get you your damn burger fries and soda for $3.44?
Do people forget that advertising are a sales pitch and not advice or truth or reality or anything else other than a sales pitch?
Do people forget that the free market is possibly the greatest business machine ever in human history and works tremendously well as long as everybody plays by the same rules?
Do people forget that the corporation's job is to make money and the people's job is to enjoy sharing in the profits but keep the corporation in check?
Do people forget that waking up to a better world tomorrow is not a bad thing?
Why do people forget....?
