Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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Monday, January 14, 2008
Deal Or No Deal...Dumbass!
We have watched the show since it came to NBC. With Howie Mandel as the host of the show and lots of pretty women to handle the cases it is fun. The participants always give a good show, some more than other with their theatrics and weirdness coupled along with Mandel's seriousness and his germ-a-phobia makes for good TV.
One central theme that i witness on this show is GREED! I like to gamble on the occasion and it is fun taken in context of what it is, a passing fancy. People come to this show and try to strike it rich be playing the odds and betting that the case they pick holds the 1million dollars. They are playing against the odds and they are not in their favor. I have never witnessed a person win the big prize, NEVER. Also when they get greedy by not taking the bankers best and final offer when they have exhausted all of the big prizes and they deiced to go for it, they loose! I saw it tonight. A girl was offered $283,000 and did not take it. She cleared all of the $1,000,000 prizes and was left with $100,000 as the top prize. she left with $55,000, a far cry away from 283. With taxes in California, she would be lucky to get about $20,000.
She took a chance and crapped out like most of the people do. Some get smart and take the Deal with a less substantial offer than the 1,000,000 and have something. They come with lofty goals and bet for the big bucks only to leave with little or no money. DO they not realize that taking the lesser offer, they still come out ahead? Remember it takes money to get there...
They should have made a deal and not taken the "No Deal".
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Bike Stuff...
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
New VXC (VXcasuality) Music!!
Spore - Voyage
VXC - States Of Matter(2007)
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Charlie Wilson's War...A Commentary on the current state of affairs.
“Synopsis Charlie Wilson's War
Urged on by his staunchly anti-communist friend and romantic interest, Joanne Herring, Wilson leads the effort to provide United States funds indirectly to the Afghan Mujahideen. In the process, the film also reveals Wilson as a Congressman with a gregarious social life of women and partying, which results in a federal investigation into his alleged cocaine use that never resulted in any charges.
Herring persuades Wilson to visit the Pakistani leadership who complains about the inadequate support to oppose the Soviets and insists he visits a major Afghan refugee camp. Deeply moved by their misery and determination to fight, Wilson is frustrated by the regional CIA personnel's insistence on a low key approach against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Wilson leads an effort to substantially increase funding to the mujahedeen in his role as a member of two major Congressional defense committees. As part of this effort, Wilson befriends the maverick CIA operative Gust Avrakotos and his understaffed Afghanistan group to find a better strategy, especially including a means to counter the Soviets' formidable gunship helicopter air support. As a result, Wilson's deft political bargaining for the necessary funding and Avrakotos' group's careful planning using those resources, such as supplying the guerrillas with FIM-92 Stinger missile launchers, turns the Soviet occupation into a deadly quagmire with their heavy fighting vehicles being destroyed at a crippling rate. This effort by Wilson ultimately evolves into a major portion of the U.S. foreign policy known as the Reagan Doctrine, under which the U.S. expanded assistance beyond just the mujahideen and began also supporting other anti-communist resistance movements around the world. The policy was controversial, although some now credit the policy with contributing to the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union and global communism, bringing about the end of the Cold War.."[2]
Despite the victory, Avrakotos warns that unless there is a serious effort to help Afghanistan rebuild back into a stable society, there could be dire and unpredictable repercussions for both that nation and the U.S. Unfortunately, Wilson finds exceptionally little enthusiasm in the government for even the modest measures he proposes to heed this warning. The film ends with Wilson receiving a major commendation for the support of the U.S. clandestine services, but his pride is sadly tempered by his fears of what unintended consequences his secret efforts could yield in the future and the implications of U.S. disengagement from Afghanistan. The implied warning involves both the rise of the extremist Taliban regime and the September 11th terrorist attacks, though this is never specifically mentioned.”
Well we saw the movie last night. I remember as a child seeing him talk at Kirbyville Elementary when I was about 9 years old. I totally agree with the synopsis give in Wikipedia. Had America given just a modicum of interest after they covertly funded 500 million to the Mujahedeen to defeat the Soviet Union, which they did, we would not be having to look over our shoulders at the airports and worry about a building exploding in a major US city. There was roughly ½ the population under the age of 14 after the war and they were looking for something to follow and the Radical Extremist got their attention. During the war, we trained Osama Bin Laden and with this training, he was able to grab a major portion of power. Compared to the 500 million, 1 million or more to help rebuild the infrastructure of Afghanistan would have secured our interests in the Middle East and our security at home. The USA would have looked as a hero and not imperialists to the Extremists only serving our own interests. We could have been saviors, not just happy that the USSR was defeated and that we were the big boys on the block. Their government would have been PRO-US, not ANTI-US as it was when the Taliban and Al-Qaeda came to power filing in the vacuum that was created by America’s non-involvement. To put it bluntly, The USA screwed the pooch and botched their opportunity all to hell! Our non-involvement in this country eventually lead the bombing of the USS Cole in which Clinton did nothing and to 9/11. At one point, Bin Laden was offered to the USA and Clinton said we do not want him. Another feather in his (Clinton) inept hat.
Radical Islam can be traced back throughout the centuries, but a great turning point against the USA was fronted by a man named Sayyid Qutb. From 1948 to 1950, he went to the United States on a scholarship to study the educational system, receiving a master's degree from the Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) in Greeley, Colorado. ( I helped build a Dining Hall there in 2004) “Qutb was extremely critical of many things in the United States: its materialism, individual freedom, economic system, racism, brutal boxing matches, poor haircuts, triviality, restrictions on divorce, enthusiasm for sports, "animal-like" mixing of the sexes (which went on even in churches),[11] and lack of support for the Palestinian struggle[12] In an article published in Egypt after his travels, he noted with disapproval the sexuality of Americans:
the American girl is well acquainted with her body's seductive capacity. She knows it lies in the face, and in expressive eyes, and thirsty lips. She knows seductiveness lies in the round breasts, the full buttocks, and in the shapely thighs, sleek legs — and she shows all this and does not hide it.
And their taste in music:
Jazz is his preferred music, and it is created by Negroes to satisfy their love of noise and to whet their sexual desires...[14]
Qutb concluded that major aspects of American life were primitive and "shocking". His experiences in the U.S. is believed to have formed in part the impetus for his rejection of Western values and his move towards radicalism upon returning to Egypt. Resigning from the civil service, he joined the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1950s”
He helped to “stir the pot” so to speak and started the views on America as Imperialists only worrying about ourselves. Well, this is enough about this subject from me. Have a good night!
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mORNING mOUNTAIN bIKE rIDE...
Here are a few of the videos that i took today:
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Another Seesaw Ride:
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Faith No More - We Care A Lot
1987 at its best! No Mike Patton on vocals. he joined the band after this album.
Faith No More - Stripsearch
IMO, One of their better songs. Great voice and style...
It's over today
The heat is gone, time is gone
F for fake
I feel no wrong, hide no wrong
I love this place, the lights
Under this face, so dry
Only way to change, give yourself away
Don't be ashamed, next in line
Close one eye, just walk by
In these days
I'm breathing stone, crying is done
I'll win this race
I'll leave alone, arrive alone
Love this place, the lights
Under this face, so dry
Stripped to the bone
I did no wrong
Truth is my name
Give yourself away
F for fake [4 times]
Give yourself away [3 times]
Faith No More/Boo-Ya Tribe - Another Body Murdered
Judgment Night Soundtrack. It is a good paring of bands!!
I'm makin' deals for deals that make a kill
And anyone looking gonna' get that ass killed
I'm livin' like a criminal and criminal I be
And I'm respected in the hood like a 'G'
Faith no More - Everything's Ruined
Things worked out better than we had planned
Capital from boy, woman and man
We were like ink and paper
Numbers on a calculator
Knew arithmetic so well
Working overtime completed what was assigned
We had to multiply ourselves
A bouncing little baby
A shiny copper penny
And he spent himself
Would not listen to us
But when he lost his appetite
He lost his weight in friends
Baby became a fat nickel so fast
Then came puberty
Exponentially
Soon our boy became a million
People loved him so
And helped him to grow
Everyone knew the thing that was best
Of course, he must invest
A penny won't do
But he made us proud
He made us rich
But how were we to know
He's counterfeit
Now everything's ruined
Linkin Park - Bleed It Out?
Why is it that the guy singing in the urban voice sounds so smooth and the other dude sounds like he is MAJORLY CONSTIPATED?? He always sound so pissed off at everyone. I do not really like this song and it sounds rather sophomoric for them. Most if not all of their songs sound the same. The lyrics are really unimaginative and sound like a 3rd rate rap-metal act like Limp Bizket sounded later in their career. That genre is really played out and has been for years...
"Here we go for the hundredth time,
Hand grenade pins in every line,
Throw 'em up and let something shine.
Going out of my f**king mind.
Filthy mouth, no excuse.
Find a new place to hang this noose.
String me up from atop these roofs.
Knot it tight so I won't get loose.
Truth is you can stop and stare,
Bled myself out and no one cares.
Dug a trench out, laid down there
With a shovel up out to reach somewhere.
Yeah someone pour it in,
Make it a dirt dance floor again.
Say your prayers and stomp it out,
When they bring that chorus in...
I always joke with my daughter and sing for the chorus this: Im sitting on the pot just wanting to flush it away!
They should take my advice...
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Soren Kierkegaard "Quoets"
1. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
2. Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
3. People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
4. Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
There are many others and i will be posting them as i read more of his work.
From Wikipedia:
Thought:
Kierkegaard has been called a philosopher, a theologian,the Father of Existentialism, a literary critic, a humorist, a psychologist, and a poet. Two of his popular ideas are "subjectivity",and the "leap to faith," popularly referred to as the "leap of faith." The leap of faith is his conception of how an individual would believe in God, or how a person would act in love. It is not a rational decision, as it is transcending rationality in favor of something more uncanny, that is, faith. As such he thought that to have faith is at the same time to have doubt. So, for example, for one to truly have faith in God, one would also have to doubt that God exists; the doubt is the rational part of a person's thought, without which the faith would have no real substance. Doubt is an essential element of faith, an underpinning. In plain words, to believe or have faith that God exists, without ever having doubted God's existence or goodness, would not be a faith worth having. For example, it takes no faith to believe that a pencil or a table exists, when one is looking at it and touching it. In the same way, to believe or have faith in God is to know that one has no perceptual or any other access to God, and yet still has faith in God.
Kierkegaard also stressed the importance of the self, and the self's relation to the world as being grounded in self-reflection and introspection. He argued in Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments that "subjectivity is truth" and "truth is subjectivity." This has to do with a distinction between what is objectively true and an individual's subjective relation (such as indifference or commitment) to that truth. People who in some sense believe the same things may relate to those beliefs quite differently. Two individuals may both believe that many of those around them are poor and deserve help, but this knowledge may lead only one of them to decide to actually help the poor.
Kierkegaard primarily discusses subjectivity with regard to religious matters, however. As already noted, he argues that doubt is an element of faith and that it is impossible to gain any objective certainty about religious doctrines such as the existence of God or the life of Christ. The most one could hope for would be the conclusion that it is probable that the Christian doctrines are true, but if a person were to believe such doctrines only to the degree they seemed likely to be true, he or she would not be genuinely religious at all. Faith consists in a subjective relation of absolute commitment to these doctrines.What is your opinion?
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
USB 3.0, SuperSpeed!
Revealed: USB 3.0 jacks and sockets
CES USB 3.0, the upcoming version of the universal add-on standard re-engineered for the HD era, made a small appearance at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). It wasn't demonstrated in operation, but we did get to see what the new connectors look like.
Not, alas, the optical one, we have to report, but the electrical connectors. On show in public for – we believe – the first time, we got to see the new full-size connector, the socket it slips into and the new mini-socket. You can see the optical port here.
The USB 3 connector...
...and in close-up...
...and in diagrammatic detail
Here's the socket:
The standard USB 3 socket...
...which you can see more clearly in this diagram
And, finally, the mini-socket:
Dubbed SuperSpeed USB, the third major incarnation of the serial bus standard is set to deliver data transfer speeds of around 4.7Gb/s - ten times today's 480Mb/s limit.
The new spec will be compatible with older USB 1.1 and 2.0 products, cables and connectors, and you can see from the diagram of the standard connector how that's achieved: the extra pins are placed behind the USB 1.1/2.0 ones. USB 3.0 connectors and receptacles will be deeper than the current ones.
An initial USB 3.0 spec is due to be reviewed later this month. The full USB 3.0 specification is expected to be completed by the end of June 2008.
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4 New Tracks!! #Bandcamp
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