20090331
Life - Earth Day...Grrr.
K. Here is the aggravating thing about Earth Day. Turning things off when you don't need them = A good idea. Only doing it for an hour when there is some 'hip' event on is BS. It's like green-bling, which is a fucking oxymoron if ever there was one. It's like running out and buying a Prius or installing solar panels just because everyone else is. Power crisis? Turn stuff off to save power! How about turning shit off all the fucking time when you're not using it, whatever is going on around you! *sigh*.
20090324
MONEY/POLITICS - You're being robbed
Here's a question. Someone breaks in to your house, holds a gun to your head and says "Give me money". What do you do? Well, firstly, you give them the money. You note their features and other details and when the crooks are gone, you call the police. If you're lucky, they catch the crim, perhaps you get some of your stuff back and, in theory, justice is served.
So here is the headline on CNN:
Dow posts best one-day gain since November -- nearly 500 points -- after Treasury details bid to buy bad bank assets
...Well of course it did. You're going to take on board all the debt, and they get to keep all the profit. Here's the analogy. A family member is in debt. You borrow money from a friend (Who will be charging YOU interest) and lend it to the member of your family. Will this person be able to pay you back? Hope so, as your mate who lent you the money will be coming around with the tumb screws if you can't pay him back. So in the mean time, the family member who you've lent the money to is going to the odd movie and out to dinner, and they're like "Well if I don't do these things, life will kinda suck, and I don't want my life to suck do I?".
You're being screwed. You're being robbed. In ten years time, when you've got no job, no savings, no healthcare, you're bankrupt because you can't pay your mortgage...What do you expect me to say? I'll ask you "What were you doing while you were getting mugged?" and your answers will be either "I was busy working", or "Nothing" or "I expected someone else to deal with it".
So here is the headline on CNN:
Dow posts best one-day gain since November -- nearly 500 points -- after Treasury details bid to buy bad bank assets
...Well of course it did. You're going to take on board all the debt, and they get to keep all the profit. Here's the analogy. A family member is in debt. You borrow money from a friend (Who will be charging YOU interest) and lend it to the member of your family. Will this person be able to pay you back? Hope so, as your mate who lent you the money will be coming around with the tumb screws if you can't pay him back. So in the mean time, the family member who you've lent the money to is going to the odd movie and out to dinner, and they're like "Well if I don't do these things, life will kinda suck, and I don't want my life to suck do I?".
You're being screwed. You're being robbed. In ten years time, when you've got no job, no savings, no healthcare, you're bankrupt because you can't pay your mortgage...What do you expect me to say? I'll ask you "What were you doing while you were getting mugged?" and your answers will be either "I was busy working", or "Nothing" or "I expected someone else to deal with it".
20090306
LIFE - PIO
INTERWEBS - FTW
Whenever you see a funny video on YouTube, particularly if it has people chasing each other in it, the best thing you can do with it is apply the Benny Hill music filter. Here is the filter used to great effect in a video recently linked on Reddit.
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