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let me start this post with a metaphor. imagine a long road on the sidewalks of this road are numerous people they are telling stories singing songs and giving out information. some of these people allow comments and some even allow people to add a piece or a thought to the presentation. the road is a public place anyone can walk along it. stop or not stop and listen to the various people. if i were to stop and listen to a story told by one of these people nothing prevents me from walking away and telling that astory to someone else. the courteous thing to do if i did tell someone else that story would be to give credit to the originator. though there isnt anything that prevents me from taking credit for it. the people on the street cant copy right thier work. they cannot and should not be able to do anything to me for any use i make of the information they put out in such a public place.


and this....is the internet. the sites on the internet are the people on the sidewalk making thier ideas thier information thier thoughts public for anyone to read, see, watch and record. people who argue for copyright protection for anything they make public on the internet are ludicrus. the internet is more public then any street store or bar in the world because anyone with an internet connection in the world can visit any public site anywhere in the world.


take this livejournal of mijne forinstance. as obscure and unread as it probably is it is more public then any physical location in the world. and i have no right to try and copy right anything i make public on it, nor should i have the right. you may say but yoshi you wrote it this stuff it is yours. yeah but i say so is a story i tell to anyone who will listen on a street corner. i cant copyright that. if i tell a story to 20 people in a bar one night and one of them goes and publishes it verbatim i have no rights to that story. and as i consider the internet even more public i cant claim rights to anything i make public on it either. if i wanted to have rights to it i shouldnt have shouted it out on the internet where everyone with a computer and a phone line has the cability to see it, copy it, alter it, or do anything else they want.

ok so we got this thing going on with the planet called global warming and it is a cause for worry. especially since we humans and our massive burning of fossil fuels seems to be the trigger for this. so what is a species to do in these crazy times. well for one we -could- cut back on fossil fuels and rely more on more renewable and or less carbon heavy fuels. well thats all good and shit but the industrialized nations arent being to fast to pick up on this and the nations that are beginning to industrialize dont want to miss out on thier chance to gain economic power just cause the first ones there poisoned the well. and also these renew-ables seems to be very expensive compared to oil or are very far from being productive on the scale of oil.


ok we could heat every house in the 1st world nations and even second world nations with solar....well no some problems solar is costly up front seconds there are climate issues thirdly there are LATITUDE issues. solar wont provide me with year round power up here in canada.


what if i told you you could solve this on the short term for the cost of a couple of buckets of paint per house in the entire 1st world. thats what 10, 20 bucks canadian? see a long time ago an ice age occurred. it started small, a convergence of events led to ice encroaching from the north and probably south poles across the land. the growing ice mass reflected more heat from the sun into space and yadda yadda cold cycle leading to an ice age.

what if we painted the roof of every building in europe as white as an ice cap? ok so it wouldnt last forever, but how long would it have to last anyway to get an effect. all of europe is a massive area and the combined surface area of every roof top therein would be massive wouldnt it? still not convinced though eh. well then why not paint every roof top in the entire 1st world nation category? even if it lasted only a week the amount of solar radiation reflected back into space would be enormous. of course ijn many areas it would last considerably longer.

if you want to kick it up a notch you could cover the roofs in Plexiglas mirror stuff somewhat more expensive but with a much higher reflection ratio and if covered with a clear coating or something you could wash it off until it wasnt needed no more.

the 10 largest counties in the world combines total approximatly 2.6 times the surface area of BOTH of earth ice caps and they are in latitudes with much more powerful sunlight they can reflect. i know not every square KM of those countries is covered in roof tops but i bet you could get at least an area equaling the 2 ice caps combines in roof tops. and at more southern latitudes where the reflectiveness would count for more. the rays hitting the polar ice caps have already traveled through alot of atmosphere before bouncing off the ice sheets where as even in the canadian provinces (sorry canadian territories) and russia would reflect rays that had gone through much less atmosphere and thereby be reflecting more solar energy away from the planet.


anyway i had started on this idea when i was like 16 28 now and it is alot more refined

Current Mood: artistic

ok i aint about to go on a tear and say tech is bad. i mean i am usinbg technology right now to post this type this and later you will be using technology to read it. so technology is good......usually. but the not so usual spots are mostly for another topic. this one is on how technology is good, but it isnt all that good. all technology like the hammer the screw driver and the gun are tools. tools have no good or bad attached to them they just are. you might be thinking i am gob shit batty and just said guns are not bad or something. and i did, guns arent bad they are a tool. saying guns kill people is akin to saying butcher knives kill cows. they dont they are just used to kill people.

ANYWAY back to something more relevant to my mind. see the luddites in the story were afraid of losing thier jobs and shit to this loom which could do all thier jobs fdor them. now technophiles will say but this kis good it will produce it for us and all we have to do is move the merchandise.....and thats mostly the sort of thing that happens. jobs arent lst they simply move to a different usually lower paying sectors like retail or transport. if you got more goods you need to move more supplies for it and move the goods themselves and hire more people to sell it. now this is where i get to my personal point in the question were the luddites right. see i seem to remember a dream among society where machines did all the hard work. or better yet practically all the work period. they drove our cars moved our goods, produced us and sold to us everything we would normally do for ourselves. well workwise anyway. we were and still are a long way off from machines running our businesses surveying for raw materials and other such odds and ends but for te most part the dream of society used to be that machines would eventually be doing all the hard crap for us.


this dream seems to have died and it isnt hard to see wy. the economies of the world arent set up for it. we simply arent setup for a startrek style life. and thats what it would be for most people. aside form some basic odds and ends and management/repair jobs machines could do it all. they could extract our raw materials refine it, we currently would still have to transport it and anything built out of it ourselves but that will come too. problem is with the fact economic strength is based on how few unemploted you have, how much the employed make and how much everyone buys. in a world like i am describing 2 of those would ngo drastically in a bad direction as far as current methods to calculate economic strength are concerned. unemployment would rise and per capita income would drop, at least in the transition period.

there would i think be a very rough patch of transition. if we started building and retrofitting every factory in one country to set it up to do all the work then everyone from every upgraded factory would be out of a job and until the economy had mostly switched over they would be in a rough spot. not enough machine production to give them all money as they would have gotten and to many people would wind up straining the welfare system.

and then also there would be the sudden rush of people with nothing to do all day. and then there is the question of how do you define the strength of an economy where all the production is being run by machines. operated only by a skeleton crew of maintenance technicians. there are currently alot of jobs machines couldnt yet take over but this is mostly because there isnt anyone really reeally trying. there isnt as much financial backing on this as there could be and if there was then very very fast everyone would find thier jobs being done by machines.


the question i pose though is this one. is that really such a noble goal. do we want machines doing all that for us. sure it would give us all alot of time with our families friends and free time gallore. i guess in a way we as humans possibly need our jobs they give us something to do for one third of they day. but maybe thats just cause we dont know anything else. children grown up in a world where machines do almost all if not all the work might feel different about it. we need our work because like the old people who retire we dont know what to do with our days if we dont have it to do. but if you never had to do a job in the first place would you ever miss it? i doubt it though we dont really have to worry so much about it until decent andriods and such are built and then we can think about the ramifications of replacoing an entire countries workforce with robots

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i do not have the phds in any necessary fields to prove or disprove the things i am about to posit on. as such these are mostly just logic and mental exercises. if anyone reading this has sufficient background to prove or disprove anything i post here please do so in the comments section. if your going to say i am wrong but have no proof then get lost, no seriously get lost, as you'll be ignored. and yes i realize that any proofs or disproofs will probably involve maths that are beyond me but i am sure intelligent people with backgrounds in such things can get thier point across even to people like me.
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anyway lets begin a while back i posted a journal entry called human error in life the universe and everything. in it i explain why i think hawking radiation couldnt kill a blackhole. though it could conceivably steal the heat contained within the blackhole. this one is on something else i have been thinking on almost as long as i have hawking radiation.


as stated in the aforementioned article virtual particles come in pairs they appear sucking energy from the vacuum and then wink out when they collide giving the energy back. allot of really smart people with the background in the appropriate fields of science figured this out way back.


waaaay back when i was in grade 12 my during a physics class while my teacher was giving a lesson, on some part of electronics and electrons and stuff i think, i was busy having already learned that stuff positing on virtual particles i had scribbled down three ideas on a piece of paper and asked my physics teacher about them after class. the ideas where virtual particles have virtual mass ,meaning they have virtual inertia. and then as a fanciful though i added virtual atoms?? my teacher told me i was right on the first 2 but virtual particles werent of the right type to form atoms so the third one would never happen. i walked off happy with that result and didnt think on it for some years.


but if virtual particles have mass and inertia then they can interact with each other and other bits of matter around them. though the likelihood of any virtual particle bumping into an atom is well probably many orders of magnitude smaller then the other thing i am about to suggest. if they can interact with each other then why couldnt two pairs form in such a way they one of them bumps into the other. such a collision could possibly disrupt the pull of one or both pairs such that the two virtual particles dont manage to recombine. in other words they though sheer random chance make themselves into real particles. or maybe they are still virtual particles but destined to never meet up with their original partner.


what i think is even far more likely is two pairs being formed close enough together and oriented just so that they wind up attracting the partner from another pair. obviously in most such cases the other two particles would be close enough together that they would attract eachother and also vanish back into the void. but every now and then it wouldnt be the case, lets take and example. say we have 2 pairs of virtual particles and they form parallel next to eachother. except they pair A has the orientation - + and pair B has + -. since they formed parallel of eachother and they did form close enough together to attract eachother then pair A's + would attract pair B's -. and vise verse for the two remaining particles. all 4 particles would then vanish back into the vacuum. but what if pair A and pair B formed with a different position relative to one another. lets say pair A forms - + as before but pair B forms not parallel to pair A but perpendicular to pair A and oriented so that it's + is move toward pair A's - and it's - moving away. if the two pairs formed close enough together then pair A's - would combine with pair B's + and they would vanish but the two remaining particles would be to far for their electromagnetic forces to overcome the momentum of their initial formation. so instead of flying toward eachother they would fly away on the vectors they were moving on when they were formed (see diagram for clarity. drawing coming at a later time sorry i suck at using gimp.)


if such a thing could happen there would be a gradual build up of such particles in the universe. plank scale and unobservable by anything we have currently made but with mass. such a build up could explain dark matter.


further posits: 1) if enough of these events happened in one area it could form clouds of these particles over time. the clouds electromagnetic pull, i dont even know if it is called electromagnetic pull in the case of these particles, would probably grow with the size of the cloud pulling the two clouds into eachother. what the collision would look like and what if any EM radiation they may release upon impacting one another i have no clue.

2) if the particle formations occured far enough away from eachother or the particles formed drifted far enough away from eachother it may be possible to get larger nebulous clouds over time possibly coalescing into larger solid bodies. this one is far fetched though and i concede this is just a fanciful thought like my virtual atoms.

3) if one of the twin particles had more mass or a higher density then the other it is possible for that heavier particle to gravitate toward stellar bodies or possibly even congregating around the edges of galaxies near their formation. i have read of theories involving "halos" of dark matter around galaxies to account for why they spin faster then they should be considering the amount of stars gaged by brightness and such other measurements of which i dont fully know or understand. it may be possible that it isnt even a ring around the galaxy itself but merely the amount of these virtual particles building up inside of it. this could be confirmed or falsified by seeing if older galaxies spin more faster then they should then younger galaxies. since older galaxies having been around longer should accumulate more of this type of dark matter. (i couldnt think of a better way to say it then more faster)

4) this could have been happening since before the time when matter could solidify out of the plasma stage. meaning this process might have started very very early in the life of the universe

Current Mood: accomplished

this is going to be a multi topic post but i put global warming in the title because i want googles spiders to find it and pull it up when anyone searches global warming.

now before i go on rant here and ask people to demand blood for carbon pollution i have 2 simple questions. when was the last day your city had a snow day?

and when was the last time that fall as the season where the trees lost thier leaves before Halloween.

for me there hasnt been a snow day (for school of course) in at least 6 years it just hasnt snowed enough in that many years. time was when i was in high school it was a given that there would be at least one in any winter. so like noone in grade 6 and possibly grade 8 in my city has seen a snowday ever. forget the glaciers and and the distant icecaps and think on this one this year most trees in my city had thier leaves green until the frost came and some of them still do. hell we still got green grass here. now this is November 28th 2 days until December and 27 days until Christmas and we still have green leaves and grass. and i live in a Snowbelt in southern Ontario. now those of you who have been able to not notice such oddities your either not looking or in other places like further north of me. but there are probably still other signs of nature being confused.



the rerun generation.

not to long ago i did a post about people messing with classical music and my opinion still stands you dont add a guitar piece to air in g. but i was thinking recently and i dont think the rerun generation is that bad of a thing. i mean ok so those of us who are older see it as appalling that people arent coming up with anything original but ask yourself this how is then youngest generation supposed to ever find out about some of the really great songs we grew up with

ok so i am walking to the farmers market today and what do i see in front of the entrance? one of those poppy sellers selling poppies for the veterans. now i have a choice do i put some coins in his box or not? i decide not i dont hve any to spare but i also think about how i dont like november the 11th holiday.


now it isnt that i dont support the vets or think they arent deserving of a holiday i just think it is a crappy way to honor our vets. and by vets i mean every vet of any war. or soldiers in general. i dont think of nov 11th as something just for the veterans of the world wars although thats why it was originally made a holiday. no to honor our veterans and our soldiers we should be taking care of them. so they dont have to be selling poppies in the cold of the morning outside of a farmers market (or have someone selling poppies for them)

think of it like this we as a country sent these people to some distant land to stare death in the eye every day they are there. and possibly every damn night too. you try sleeping with the thought that some sniper could pick you off maybe not in your cot but when you get up for chow the next morning.

but when they get back do we offer them as much assistance as we possibly can? no it doesnt seem like it to me, we pay them lip service give them a remembrance day and then try to forget about them and the war they fought in.

a very blasé title i know but i just spent almost 2 hours watching a video abou the new world order and how we're all gonna die. though to it's credit this one ended with possible solutions. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8545414779301935419 thats the video i have been watching.


but a curios thing happed about halfway through, a sort of it's all been done feeling hit me. i've read some of the articles and watched many a video on this subject. the whole 9/11 thing is played out and the new world order thing is large in the non mainstream media now adays. and maybe this is the problem. it really has all been said. i know it needs to be said over and over and over because people tend to forget when something drops off of the media channels and the word needs to be spread. but it has honestly all sort of been said. even when new information is added or a new lecture presented on some new topic aspect or otherwise new piece of the puzzle comes out i have this overwhelming feeling of does it matter. i am asking the question now because i think it needs asking.

so does it matter?

can we stop it? is it even true? it probably is or at least parts of it. the various dangers stated are definitely there and the signs have begun to show in a way even an ignoramus can point out if they looked. the Canadian dollar has overtaken the american dollar an event that has never happened in all my relatively short 27 years of life. and as far as i know since americans have never taken canadian money as currency in thier country it probably has been much longer if ever since this has been the case. the question however isnt whether it is true or not. i believe the dangers are there and something will happen. whether or not these events are being manipulated by a single group, a single person, or random convergence is to me a rather academic question.

Can it be stopped is the question. the american economy is going to fall, it has been for quite some time. the US as a country owes more debt then it is owed and there isnt enough gold and oil in the entire US to pay off it's debt in it's entirety. so america is heading for a depression a massive one. so does advertising the fact that our deaths and enslavement matter now? some would say yes if only because we have a chance to fight back. but humans as a species love to rally together in thier tragic dieing moments. or at least thats what the movies show us. the heroic struggle against overwhelming odds win lose or draw we're gonna go down fighting. ask yourself this question though. if every american picked up a gun and stages a civil revolt against the government and corporations could the people win? i mean the civilian population those not on the police force or the army. or hell even the people with the police? could they win?


so you're probably inclined to ask me, whats the solution. whats my great answer? i dont have one, i am not even sure there is one. this may after all be a random convergence of events

Current Mood: jaded

as promised i am writing an update in my journal of my attempts to make cheese. i have only actually tried 2 methods 1) adding vinegar to make curds and 2) letting it curdle naturally. both were successful i however dont recommend using vinegar you get very few curds for the amount of milk used and it ruins the whey.

when i went shopping for the materials so i could try my hand at cheese making i went first to a fabric shop to pick up some muslin cloth and then to the walmart across the street for some sewing supplies (no idea why i didnt just buy them from the fabric land i was in) anyway i have never actually looked around when i was in a walmart. i have always known what i wanted and where it was before i went in. but this time i didnt so when i walked into the walmart i looked around for any signs that might point me to the sewing supplies. what i noticed , and it is blindingly obvious if you actually look, right in front of me when i walked in was the makeup and lingerie section for women , and here i think to myself as they are telling us that this is of the utmost importance in our society right?, and to my right was a bunch of junk food. to the right of me is a bunch of crap that they had on sale for their anniversary. and of course the stuff that was actually useful to save you some money was at the back. it irked me that the sewing stuff was crammed into the back of the store and at about the time i found it i thought why not just buy it from fabric land, whose staff had been rtather helpful in helping me decide which cloth might be best for cheese making

Current Mood: pessimistic

ok this month you guys get at least 2 entries due to my long absence. this first one is gonna be on a little thing i am trying. i am trying my hand at cheese making i've done some research and it isnt all that hard to do on a personal scale. at least not for the softer cheeses. the hard cheeses require special equipment. anyway this week i bought 2 extra liters of milk instead of cheese (milk from the farmers market) it wasnt organic milk like i would normally drink. i took a swig from one of the bottles and BLEH damn it tasted wrong somehow. anyway i will keep you all updated on how things work out.

Current Mood: groovy

i have been fascinated by all things science since i was old enough to comprehend such things. now when your very young you cant comprehend so much so you read big books on general things where science is generalized with small words and big pictures and you take things at face value because you don't know otherwise.

Though as i started getting older and reading more complex explanations about the generalized things and the specifics of the how and why things are the way they are some things just seemed.....assumed. i didn't understand the math that probably went into these things and mostly i still don't but it has always irked me. The most irksome of these seemingly assumed things revolved around the nature of matter and energy itself.

Energy cannot be created nor destroyed and entropy is always increasing this concept was something i didn't like it just seemed to depressing it also seemed something that was presumed because how would one prove you cant make or destroy energy? in the 10000 or so humans have been around we've never had the tools to really try have we? though i suppose all those attempts at perpetual motion machines over the centuries that have failed do stand as a testament to this but just because a very crude technological era couldn't do it doesn't mean it cant be done. science has been wrong ....well not wrong but uninformed in the past many many times it has been uninformed and the facts have changed as we gained a better understanding of things. as we invent better technology at investigating the universe we have found many times before that what we thought was right is actually wrong.


I think though these presumptions on the fundamentals of energy and matter itself may have some psychological cause. there are a few concepts that seem to scare humans as a whole. the primary ones to note here are nothing, infinity and the unknown. an example when scientists started investigating the electron they're equations were telling them that the electron's core had infinite energy in it. instead of accepting this might be a possibility they worked hard to negate this. now as i have stated i don't know the math involved but what they came up with is that an electron actually instead has an infinite number of electrons winking in and out of existence around it. this seems a little contrived to me.


There is however something i consider an even bigger blunder. the black hole issue, i presume everyone with a 6th grade education has heard of a black hole. and probably everyone who is reading this will. if you don't you can google it. anyway there was an entire physics war surrounding these things because someone named stephen hawking discovered that black holes radiate. it's called hawking radiation and is probably a lot less known so I'll give a brief explanation. everywhere in space and even right on this planet under your nose there are these things called virtual particles constantly being created they always come in pairs as far as i know. one with a positive charge and one with a negative charge. they are like matter and anti matter to each other. they form travel a tinie tiny distance away from each other and then their opposite charges pull them back into each other and they disappear.

like i said this is happening everywhere and constantly and these particles have mass so when they are created on the border of a black hole sometimes one of the two falls into the blackhole and the other one doesn't and they both get to become real particles, thats hawking radiation. well he discovered this and then figured out via some equations that blackholes have heat and if they have heat and radiate that means they must die right? after all the laws of the conservation of energy are absolute. if they weren't then they never would have been called laws right??? though it still seems to me these are very contrived laws that haven't been fully proven at least some of them are. i cant disagree with the conservation of angular momentum.


now for one moment lets think of what a blackhole really is. a blackhole is a force of gravity, a mass so dense that it creates a gravity well that not even light can escape. key word MASS meaning made of matter particles and stuff. anything that falls into a blackhole only makes it bigger. so how would the fact that one half of a pair virtual particles falls in and becomes a real particle adding to the mass of that black hole while the other particle gets to go free also becoming a real particle make a black hole evaporate? by all reckoning this constant or near constant feeding which created hawking radiation should make the blackhole bigger.


of course now though cosmologists who are studying the universe and trying to figure the how everything came to be and whats going to happen to it are starting to think in ways that arent conventional. and they think they have found out that the speed of light may actually be a variable and not a constant and other stuff which was thought to be a constant is also not constant. if it is true then alot of presumptions and anything based on the fact that the speed of light is a constant is probably going to have to be re-evaluated or thrown out completly

Current Mood: contemplative

well i did it and i am damn proud of myself for being able to do it even though a good buddy gave me much support and help. i have installed gentoo the long and hard way, which means without an install cd or a cd of any kind. although now i have to figure out what went wrong in configuring it's network settings and get it online. one step at a time eh *shrugs*

Current Mood: good

Ok i didn't know what to name this one folks if any of you have a better name let me know. This issue i can soooo see it. it is going to just get bigger. Microsoft is starting to go down a bad path and not everyone like apple's. Linux with it's low cost is going to be where many windows users turn and some distributions are recognizing this and preparing for the coming onslaught of newbs. i am a newb to Linux myself using Ubuntu, Ubuntu has come under quite a bit of attack from hardcore Linux communities like those of Slackware who sneer at it because it's turned away from what they consider the "roots" of Linux. in a conversation about Slackware ,which i do like but lack the understanding to use, with a friend who suggested it i mentioned to him that i like my operating system to boot to a desktop GUI like Ubuntu does instead of a command line like Slackware does. he promptly stated that booting to command line is the true Linux and what i really wanted was a windows look alike.

i don't think this is particularly true. i do want something different then windows. more secure more customizable, lets face it i think alot of people would, but i NEED something that like windows just works. in other words i NEED an operating system that can be run and operated by someone with little knowledge of hardware and software protocols and i would prefer something that doesn't require me to read a 200 page manual just to figure out how to install something.

Also lets face it most programmes these days require a GUI in order to operate. anyone know of a single instant messenger in use these days that can be run from a command prompt? how about a about any games? while there are some of those there aren't many relative to the total number of games.

There is an already well established Linux community. A very experienced army of users well versed in the ways of hardware and code . And i do believe they must be respected, they are after all very leet. I however don't think they like what they are seeing as they look around the operating system they grew up on. They see all us uneducated people coming, the ones who just want something to replace their windows as well as the ones who just don't know about hardware and the ways of coding. They see Ubuntu and other such Linux distributions coming into their own and they go on the attack. It doesn't work the way they think it should. it uses protocols and stuff they know or believe , probably the former, to be inefficient. While we newbs praise it because it works they would just as soon tear it all down and tell us all to either go to what they have or get out of their sand box.

I do believe this issue is going to grow. As more newbs turn to Linux they are going to clash with the old guard who built this great operating system from the ground up. what happens will depend on how the two groups act during this time of clashing.

Current Mood: pessimistic
Current Music: furious angels by rob dougan

warning the following is for stupid parents only and may contain tid bits of reality and hard truth. you parents who spend time with your kids in person instead of trying to cover they're entire world in bubble wrap can skip this months post.

aside from being a very funny song by the worm quartet which can be found at http://www.wormquartet.com/ and the lyrics can be found at http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=15447, it used to be a cute little ditty sung sung by a blue puppet on sesame street called the cookie monster. I remember this song and I am betting so do all of you people reading this. it was all of three lines and the cookie monster was almost always singing it when he wasn't stuffing a plate of cookies into his mouth in 3 seconds flat. me and you and our generation and the generations before us watched him do this every day for YEARS. were you a fat kid ....ooops I am not allowed to say fat am I? no I have to say obese or overweight. well NOOOO it's FAT and I wasn't a fat kid I would bet my bottom dollar you weren't either. think really hard here for a moment people, how many fat kids do you remember having in your school? now I know there were some but it wasn't an "epidemic" like it is called today. think for a second, are TV shows for kids really different today from back when we were kids? ummm that would be a big fat NO. of course our parents made us home cooked meals that were balanced and while we had desert it was after the meal and we didn't get to gorge on snack food. kids today are buying their lunches from their snack food machines at school or convenience stores or *shudders* fast food chains. plus our schools had mandatory gym class with activities like dodge ball and baseball. we played ball hockey in the streets instead of living on our 4 different video game consoles. our parents told us to go outside and get some fresh air instead of letting us sit in front of the idiot box all day long.

I am kind of sad to hear the sort of things happening to sesame street. it's good to teach our children about health and nutrition but thats a job that ultimately rests on the parents. you can change the song of the cookie monster and fuck sesame street up all you want but in the end if you dont take the time to personally get involved in making sure you children eat healthy they wont either. they are going to go to school with the money for their lunch and buy lunch from the nearest fast food restaurant or junk food machine. and then what? are you going to demand that Mc donalds stays 500 feet away from all schools at all times? that wont work in the end they'll go to the convenience stores to get their junk food. End of point

Current Mood: aggravated

HA more like welcome to the age of weak immune systems and super germs. the war on disease started with penicillin, and it was GOOD. there is such a thing as to many bacteria and very bad virii. penicillin saved alot of people and started the birth of antibiotics. AND they have saved alot of lives. BUT we have moved into the age of the war on bacteria by use of mass amount of chemicals. mothers are now laying down a smothering fog of lysol and unleashing entire oceans of antibacterial soaps on the house and home meanwhile everyone is carrying antibacterial gel bottles and alcohol wipes everywhere else. heh next thing those stupid white masks will be worn by everyone in the public.

and what the result of all these weapons everywhere being lobbed at every virus and bacteria in sight??? well it would be good if any of these weapons or any combination actually managed to kill everything they came in contact with. but they dont, instead the survivors get together go on dates and have little babies who are more likely to survive the next attack. meanwhile all our kids have immune systems that arent getting to meet these little bugs.

yes getting sick sucks big time. for adults and children alike. BUT getting sick or at least coming into contact with the occasional germ or virus is the only way to make an immune system stronger. thats why we give you kids shots filled with crippled and or dead virii and we get flu shots that contain dead flu virii. thats whats in a vaccine.

I have already admitted antibiotics ARE good, and getting sick is not fun. but we are only hurting ourselves with the overuse of household antibiotics because nothing we have can kill all the germs. you wanna clean your home use soap without antibiotic crap in it and if your really wanna help your kid let them catch the occasional bug. it wont kill them and it will let them get off of school :) which every kid loves wether or not they are sick.

Current Mood: cynical

i went for a walk tonight at like 2 am i usually when i go out i go out either really late or really early. i like the fact i can go for a walk at these hours and not have to expose myself to the idiocy of the common person. But for some reason cops like to pull over and stop me as i walk along the streets at the dead of night. now if you saw me you wouldnt think i was doing anything serious i usually have blue jeans on and can be seen walking around in my bright yellow winter jacket as late in the year as mid to late spring. yet cops over to pull me over. i of course dont give them any grief, they guy is just doing his job but it unnerves me that i am stopped for just walking down the street.

Current Mood: pessimistic

and the WOW starts here, this is NOT an endorsement of windows new operating system. in fact vista is so bad it has driven me to try my damdest to find a version of linux i like. ok leaving aside the gaping flaw which are the "tilt bits" consider the various properties of windows vista a 3d desktop (did we really need this) among other "pretty" visual additions all designed to sugar coat this new super heavy version of what is essentially windows XP or as i like to call it Xcess Powerusage. From what i have read and i am sure i have read very little compared to the amount of data on the subject. Windows vista gives more protection to "premium", by premium i mean any video or audio media you had to pay for, then it does to the information concerning means by which to buy it, by which i mean your credit card and banking information. for example say you have some free videos downloaded from youtube horay my first plug. it runs at a good quality and stuff but then you buy some video or audio from apple ipod sites or whatever as soon as that video or audio file is on your system your entire video and audio output is degraded and locked down (for you gamers who love the high tech super quality stuff this is important) this is so that you cant copy the files at any decent quality.

I'll admit i dont know as much about this stuff as i like but if the above stuff isnt enough for you perhaps this will. This is the flaw i understand most about windows vista and in my mind makes it the most hackable and unstable operating system ever conceived. I mentioned before about "tilt bits" These are basically little bits of info windows uses as a check system to make sure all the systems of the OS and motherboard are working and not tampered with. And it runs this check of the tilt bits constantly which means even when idle windows vista is using up a fair share of processing power. The worst thing about these tilt bits is if even one of these things it out of whack the tiniest amount the OS freezes and you have to reboot. now tiny fluctuations of these channels and data are a normal thing power fluctuations from the power source of internally if the hard drive and cdrom activate at the same time sort of thing then a tiny glitch can occur. insignificant in todays operating systems but a critical system crash in vista. whats worse is hackers can now disable a windows OS with no effort at all. virii makers everywhere must rejoice at the fact they can now make your system completely useless with no effort. all they need to do is make a virus that alters one of the tilt bits or inserts one of it's own. it could even be made to do this at startup and the OS would never boot.


yes ladies and gentlemen the WOW starts here and to use something i saw on royale canadian air farce WOW stands for Wont Often Work

Current Mood: discontent

ok pay attention now this one is probably gonna be a bit long and i may ramble but thats ok i guess. first let me start by saying a few things. I watch tv i watch alot of TV usually while doing other things as i find doing only one thing at a time dull. I also watch and have always watched and rather enjoyed programmes not just only at my own age group but some of the shows a group or two below. hence i like cartoons even though there arent many cartoons on my basic cable for adults i like them anyway, i enjoy a good episode of fairly odd parents as much as i enjoy naruto, ghost in the shell or aqua teen hunger force/robot chicken. But it should be said i seldom ever just zone out and mindlessly watch television. since i am almost always doing something else while watching it when i do just watch TV i am analyzing what i am watching, methods and probabilities that something i see might be able to work how one might make it work and the psychology of the characters, though sometimes i do actually just watch a show for the fun of watching my brain simply doesnt like just doing nothing while i watch a TV show.


anyway this post has to do with something i saw on an episode of fairly odd parents. for those of you who dont enjoy this sort of programmeing the show is about a 10 year old kid with fairy god parents and the short sighted wishes he tends to make with the predictable calamities which happen therein. the episode in question was the one where the kid has his grand pappy babysitting him instead of vicky the baby sitter from hell and he is trying to find something in common and he finally turns to cartoons. old grand pappy shows him a spoof of pop eye the sailor man and timmy makes a wise crack about gratuitus violence. now heres the part to pay attention to ole grandpa ackowledges this and goes on to say (dont remember exact quote here) the generations that grew up on these cartoons started three wars 2 civic rights movements and a police action.....


think about that for a second and you realize there is a grain of truth there. and then look at todays rather apathetic youth. I lived and grew up in the latter part of that generation of that TV. i watched as tom and jerry beat the living hell out of eachother and elmer fudd tried to kill bugs bunny on a daily basis. and while the tiny toons ran around kicking each others asses every afternoon when i got home from school. before everyone everywhere started useing television and now video games as a scape goat for the bad behavior. boy we sure did see alot of violence every damn day and i didnt turn out violent most of my generation isnt violent or out of control and most of us werent out of control as kids either eh?


it's funny while braidy bunch leave it to beaver and saved by the bell were teaching us that violence should be used as a last resort pop eye tom and jerry and looney toons taught us that violence could be an effective alternative when non violent measures failed, and told us that we didnt have to take the shit if we didnt want to. kids today arent getting that message any more and the generations are only getting more apathetic and more interested in fucking off and running around, jack ass and prank patrol which i dont watch are teaching kids that throwing mouse traps at your friends is fun so is shaving thier entire body bald and throwing yourself in sewage.


and when they grow out of that they get entertained by jack, oprah and other simpering crap shit 24 hours a day.


and now the last bastion of gratuitus violence is under attack. violence has gone into the video games, parents dont want thier kids watching it daily on TV but it is to sweet a racket to just give up on. it isnt the same message as a TV show can give but i am rather relieved that our youth still have some outlet for one of the rather natural parts of the human experience. violence and agression are inherent in our genetics. we needed it to hunt and to prevent big and nasty things from killing us in the night. you cant do away with it by just not showing it to your kids.

Current Mood: contemplative

oh damn boy is it cold it hit 20 below in C this week and they say that all of February is gonna be cold cold cold. looks like the planet finally decided to make up for the warm winter, i hope all you global warming skeptics are paying attention to the weather the last few months

Current Mood: cold