Thursday December 1, 2005 - 12:26PM EDT
I keep hearing from some people thinking they are taking a fair stance say that intelligent design should be allowed into the scientific debate so they should teach it in schools. First off, real hardcore scientific debate is done by real scientests not some high schoolers just learning the ins and outs. Secondly, intelligent design is in the scientific debate and it has consistently failed to pass muster. Not to mention the fact that intelligent design uses evolution as its foundation. ID basically takes evolution and its "holes" and fills it in with mystical nonsense that hasn't been proven or show any signs that it will be proven. I don't get why some people still treat evolution as a static body of knowledge. Evolutionary theory has changed since the early days of Charles Darwin and these so called holes continue to be filled in with reliable evidence. The holes are chances to explore. ID has nothing to explore because everything is filled in. I especially am baffled by how evolution is attacked for being closed off and not open to discussion. That really boils my blood. You want to introduce an idea that is intrisically restrictful and purports to have all the answers and you call people who subscribe to evolution closed-minded. ID is the epitome of closed-minded loserball. ID has to show me something and they haven't. It has said a few things but I see nothing to back it up.
You know what else I find amusing. The story of Doubting Thomas. The story goes that he was one of Jesus's followers who didn't believe that Jesus had been resurected even after another apostle told him that he had seen him alive. He declared that he would not believe Jesus was alive until he saw him for himself and touched his wounds for himself. Then Jesus shows up and Thomas becomes a beleiver. For some fucked up gansta-bitch reason this story is supposed to teach you not to doubt and always have faith. What in the hell! Don't be a doubting thomas they say. Holy shit dude! How does that story does not teach you to always question and wait to see real proof is beyond me.
Finally I come down to what has ID actually advanced or done for humankind. Absolutely nothing. Go ahead teach your population that ID is the way to go, i'll stick with the "holes" in evolution and watch your people suffer and die under the ravages of diseases which you'll probably refer to as god's will. You don't accept natural selection and it will wipe you the fuck out, maybe.
Wednesday November 30, 2005 - 1:54AM EDT
I like going back over my movie reviews. I like movies a lot. I think my movie reviews are the few posts in which I can reliably say that my expression is one that I got right the first time.
IPOD Nano on my desk - comments(0)
Wednesday November 30, 2005 - 1:44AM EDT
Tonight I am calm. These periods of calm are very few and don't last very long. The longest I think one lasted was about 2 weeks. Then its back to mania and depressive flux. Am I bipolar? I don't know, maybe, I don't really take that question seriously but maybe I should. I demonstrate pretty much all the symptons and have been for a number of years now. But symptons doesn't really mean bipolar. I've hit real extremes. I think I just got better and managing the states. Even my calm is extreme. I only think of the manic depressive thing because there are times that feel normal and its very different feeling from most other times. I can focus, accomplish things and my mind dosn't jump from thought to thought as much. I try to find triggers or things to keep the extremes in check. Its different every time though. I guess I lead a reasonably stable life so I can't possibly be bipolar. I'd think real manic depressive wouldn't be able to... Wait do I really live a reasonably stable life. I've never held a 9-5 job longer than 8 months. But I have clients that I've worked with for years. I just don't like it when I feel normal then it gives way to mangled thoughts and lack of focus. Ah well. At least it is warm outside.
Wednesday November 30, 2005 - 12:24AM EDT
Most of the time when you talk about issues it is usually all or nothing. Two opposite sides. Being undecided, in the middle, still thinking about it, etc is vehemntly discouraged and frowned upon. This is more apparent to me now than I ever realized. Thinking back to being in high school, middle school, elementary school you were always encouraged to have an opinion. Everyone was taught to quickly form opinions on either side. Insistance on forming opinions were usually qualified with "what do you think" this or that. Not all the time but a lot of the time. It wasn't really thinking that they were encouraging, it was choosing a side that they were encouraging. It was a lot of the times, what do you think then they would give you suggestions as to what to think. Ah fuck I'm bored of this post already.
Tuesday November 29, 2005 - 4:38PM EDT
I've been extra observant in listening to when football players speak now. Because of the way TO gets all this attention for the little things he says and does. Dre Bly just ripped Joey Harrington. According to the standards of all the analysts who ripped TO for ripping McNabb, Dre Bly should probably be cut from the team for what he said. To bad Bly won't get 10% of the criticism TO got.
Tuesday November 29, 2005 - 3:09AM EDT
Its warm outside, I can't sleep, I can't focus enough to do any website work and I have to go to work tomorrow. Going work doesn't bother me, but I'd rather be doing something else. I just can't sleep, I'm too amped up. And I can't settle enough to focus on anything constructive. Knowing that I have this impending obligation to go to work soon isn't helping.
Monday November 28, 2005 - 3:31PM EDT
What is the deal with so many people having peanut allergies. Where is George Washington Carver when you need him. I bet he could fix peanut allergy lickity-split.
I keep hearing some clowns decry the "criminalization of conservatism". I might take them seriously if only conservative republicans were not continually being indicted for criminal acts. Its just funny to hear clowns try and defend these people or blame democratcs for houding them. First off, the houding thing is a given secondly, since when is the justice department and special prosecutors democratic hounds.
I think I wrote about Singapore and their ridiculous sentencing laws for crimes. But now I hear they are excuting someone for trafficking heroin. In the U.S. I'm pretty sure you can only be exuecuted for killing, being involved in killing or treason. Apparently Singapore's anti-drug laws don't work because people keep smugling and keep getting executed.
Monday November 28, 2005 - 12:35PM EDT
So I read this article about young people who don't see music as a "paid commodity". The article basically laments that fact and the fact that the industry can't transform them into paying customers when they get older. I am now physically ill. How did it become such a villanous crime to listen to music. This is sickening. Has the industry and artists become so full of themselves and the system that they only want people who pay to listen to their music. It betrays the essence of music. I don't know what to say about this. This is a outstanding example of that perverse drive for wealth that twists so many things. The arguements against file sharing are valid within their own limited context. Music cost money to make, there are laws that you break when you skirt copyrights. But that is all they got really. Copyright law, and their own inefficient system of creation. Those are piss poor reasons to be so vehemently against file sharing. Some change occurs when you start getting a lot of money for music. In the begining you are basically begging people to listen, then you get money for it and you then want to restrict who gets to listen. That is the topic worthy of discussion. What makes the artist change. Because if no one listened when you were begging you'd get no money. Rich artists particularly have no excuse for attacking file sharing. They don't get hurt. Lesser artist probably benefit from it. So who dies here. The excutives, the marketing people, those that make up the ineffecient excess of music are the ones who get manhandled by file sharing. Why didn't I see this before. I did see it but never in this way specifically. Never saw the whole picture as clearly as I do right now. Copyrights don't exist for the artist, they exist for the manager, the middle men, the record companies to protect their profits. Yet somehow artists have been bamboozled into thinking copyrights protect them. Noteriaty protect them and their work. I guess in the purest sense copyrights were created to give protection to artists who's work was unscrupulously duplicated for fame or monetary advantage. I think very few people care whether the crappy ideas they had were copied. So the purely ideological stance is rather weak for copyrights. But now companies and middle men have used copyrights as a basis for their industry. An industry that certain artists rely on so they sort of have to protect it. You now just have to modify the industry not get rid of file sharing. Music downloading services aren't going to cut it, they are a slight modification. So how do you modify the industry? This question seems almost too easy to answer. But for some odd reason is stupendously difficult for anyone to even begin to think about solving. Dare I say that the future foundation of the music industry will not be per-unit consumption of melodies in pre-packaged form in trade for money. That is the current foundation and it is being attacked. Attacked is not the right word to invoke the right analogy. Saying attacked would imply that you need to mount a defense and that is what is going on now. Crumbling would be a better word and would imply that you need to create something new to shore up the foundation. The download services still use the same per-unit idea. They use two things to be successful. Fear of the law and respect of the law. However, if they had appeared about 5-7 years earlier they would have been much more effective because you would have preempted the idea of getting music of the net for free. It would be more normal to pay than to download for free in the majority of users minds. So that is the industry's own mistake. People had been trading music online for years prior on IRC and FTP servers. MP3 format had been out for while so it is not like this stuff was news to the industry. I bet if they had done it much earlier, it would be talked about as if it was some kind of fairy tale, the idea of millions of people trading music online without paying. It would be as if that is the domain of the fringe.
Monday November 28, 2005 - 11:15AM EDT
I bleed green but the eagles are pissing me off. I hope the cowboys pickup TO and they win the superbowl. Maybe the eagles would finally learn what a stupid move it was to get rid of him was. They still think they did the right thing and it is pathetic. No wonder they never win the big game.
Friday November 25, 2005 - 4:39PM EDT
Noriyuki "Pat" Morita died. Usually I could give two good goddamns about someone I don't know dying. But you just don't let the guy who played Mr. Miyagi, the character that redefined the student teacher relationship to American audiences go without making a post about it. Everyone wants to have a Mr. Miyagi or a reasonable facsimilie. I say we replace the standard english word "mentor" with "Mr. Miyagi" to honor him. Actually we should have done that while he was alive, dammit.
Friday November 25, 2005 - 1:23AM EDT
I am going to stop giving ratings to movie on the 1 to 5 scale. It is too simplistic a measure to judge movies by. Just read the review.
Friday November 25, 2005 - 1:22AM EDT
Solid movie. Enjoyable thriller. Some of the plot was painfully obvious but only if you really thought about it. Still it didn't take away from the movie if you figured out what was really going on before they revealed it. They still had some very tense moments and twist situations. I think the thing that makes a good movie like this is getting the little details right. You have to be very technical and follow all the rules to make a good thriller. You can't get away with bullshit plot twists or unbelievable occurances. Acting was solid all around. Aniston didn't have that much of a part though. Her character although integral to the story was very flat. I thought maybe they should have revealed something ugly about her character to fit in with the rest of the characters. But again I don't think it took away from the movie. I wouldn't be a too tough a critic on Aniston's role as she didn't really have that much to do. Clive Owen was good as was everyone else. It didn't seem like a formulaic thriller but it sort of was. So it follwed a basic formula but it was well done enough that you didn't notice too much. Its a fun movie that will deliver a bit more than you expect.
Thursday November 24, 2005 - 9:05PM EDT
Fucking Donovan McNabb somehow has escaped criticism all year for blowing every single Eagles loss this year. He also blew the Superbowl and every single NFC championship game loss. Funny how that fucker can do that and TO somehow is the one who gets punished. Even Jim Kelly wasn't directly responsible for the Bills superbowl losses like McNabb was for their playoff losses. That fucker needs to also stop being a pussy and feeling slighted when someone tells the truth about his fuck ups. I don't know if you watched the same Superbowl as I did but McNabb WAS TIRED or something fucked up I remeber the annoucers asking themselves what the hell is wrong with McNabb. Damn eagles, here comes another 10 years of futility. Get rid of Reid he has no more ideas left in his little book of plans. Promote Childress or Johnson to head coach. Fuck, TO was going to deliver a Superbowl not McNasty. TO did deliver and McNabb turned away the package with three fucking picks.
Thursday November 24, 2005 - 12:04PM EDT
I need to get my postings back to corporate shenanigans and everyday happenings.
Wednesday November 23, 2005 - 12:30AM EDT
The worst part about Hugo Chavez is that with all his crazy ass behavior and ideas his insistance that capitalism doesn't work is somewhat correct. Captitalism is useful up to a point and under certain situations. But capitalism is not the perfect economic method we would like it to be. That fucker talks a good game but Venezuela is falling apart and has been since its peak in the early 80's and this clown Chavez is doing nothing about it except riling up poor people and ruining any chance they or anyone else has to make a better life for themselves. I don't see how he can promote socialist policies when there is no existing infrastructure to support these things. Venezuela doesn't even have a functional railroad system, terrible water and sanitation systems. Electrical power systems are pathetic.
Wednesday November 23, 2005 - 12:07AM EDT
I always read in these news stories online that Ford and GM are dealing with health-care costs as part of their troubles. I don't quite understand what that means. Do they have higher health-care costs than say Wal-Mart or any other company of similar size to themselves?
Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 8:26PM EDT
So my new area of study is harmonics.
Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 5:15PM EDT
There is a 25 year-old teacher having sex with a 14 year-old student. There is a 23 year-old race car driver who just married a 40 year-old physical therapist. And there is me sitting here writting this blog. I don't like ridiculous blog posting like this because it is just ignorant pessimisism or something like that. But what are my choices?
Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 2:55PM EDT
Don't Go Tasteful On Us: The Titans and Texans cheer-babes showed lack of professionalism by coming out covered head-to-toe despite pleasant autumn temperatures in Nashville and Houston. Needless to say, the football gods punished their teams. - full article
I was just reading an NFL.com article and I found that piece hilarious.
Tuesday November 22, 2005 - 7:04AM EDT
Well, XBOX360 has launched. I could care less about playing that thing. But it just makes me want a Nintendo Revolution more and more. I love the small size of the Revolution and the old school game downloading. Not to mention the free online connection and ridiculous possibilities with its controller.