"When people can fulfill their potential they become innovators," Dr. Himanen argues. "The innovative economy is competitive and makes it possible to finance the welfare state, which is not just a cost, but a sustainable basis for the economy, producing new innovators with social protection." - full article
I love that blurb. I captures some of the essense of what I have been saying in so many posts.
Japanese companies form 'mobile wallet' alliance
I've been waiting for this for years now and it is happening. In Japan. The US will probably wait another 10 years before getting close. I love it.
So I want to comment more on the relationship between the Raelians and intelligent design. They propose the exact same thing. Not exactly. The Raelians theory is actually a little more complete than the intelligent design camp. Actually I just read about "Directed Panspermia" which is Francis Crick's origin of life hypothesis which says something like aliens created lifes building blocks and planted it here on earth. Francis Crick by the way discovered the structure of DNA and won a Nobel Prize for it. Anyway if you give intelligent design fair chance in school then you have to do the same for the Raelians and Dr. Crick's theory.
Behe and other keep saying that their religious beliefs have no affect on the theory of intelligent design. That statement is often a rallying cry for intelligent design fools to try and validate it. Bold statements like that are usually a load of trash. Your telling me that in your head you have completely seperated two ideas that are connected by their intrinsic structure. More importantly I'd love to meet the agnostic intelligent design advocate. HA!. I could turn lead in to gold faster than you could find one of those.
I was calm. Not until I read that some British asspirate says intelligent design is valid science. This fucker cited the work of Behe. Behe is a fucking crackpot and is a disgrace to science.
Ok let me take a different approach. Behe's hypothesis hinges on this thing he calls "irreducible complexity". We are not going to attack that I'm going to go to something else. The criticism is that evolution doesn't fully explain the origin of life. And that somehow ID does. I see a massive problem here. First off evolution in its purest sense never proclaims to solve all the questions to the origin of life. When will people understand what science is and get that dogmatic religious mindset out of their head. Furthermore saying there is a designer is no explanation it is a fucking cop out. We humans design things, right? Well that stuff we designed didn't just magic itself out of thin air. So when these ID clowns propose designer they aren't saying anything. They don't go into reasons why the designer chose what it did. This is one of the main reasons I don't understand the hole in people's mind who want to champion intelligent design as some kind of answer to the questions that evolutionary theory still has. It is no answer. It is giving up. As I mentioned before the sad part is that they have pointed out some poignant questions about evolution but have refused to explore them. They simple insert designer and call it the end all answer. They complain that mainstream science is not accepting their hypothesis and that it needs to be explored. With the way they are thinking anything can be "irreducibly complex". It is just a matter of where your understanding ends and that is variable among each person. Their own scientific arrogance is leading them away from true scientific discovery. Its weird. Behe is telling us that he is so sure of his scientific knowledge of certain things that he knows it has come to a limit. That is a paradox. Scientific knowledge is inheirently limitless, it is not a static body of knowledge but the continued discovery of things. To say that your contiued discovery of things has definitively brought you to the end isn't even logical.
Now who are these clowns that say Intelligent design needs to be explored. What the fuck are you going to explore in intelligent design. You have only two thing you really can explore. You have to find the blueprints and seek out the designer. Well seems to me that the only way to seek out the designer is apparantely through death so why don't all you intelligent design freaks just die right now. As for the blueprints, I don't hear about anyone looking for them. Tell me seriously, how else are you suppose to explore intelligent design futher? That is a fucking question. Even if you say something like, we can explore why the designer did what it did. You are going to have to either just make up reasons are start reading mystical books. You will have no evidence. Eventually in your exploration of why you'll probably get back to real science and your whole irreducible complexity arguement will go to shit. Also with this intelligent design that is being presented now as "valid science" you don't have a complete hypothesis without showing me the designer and/or the blueprints. So trying to force this crap into schools as legitimate science is irresponsible. Also I find it ironic that seemingly all the intelligent design supporters have the personal belief that god is the designer yet they conviently leave it out of their intelligent design conversation. I'd sooner believe intelligent design if they proposed alien race from across the cosmos designed humans. In fact that is what they are saying by leaving out god in their discussion. They are on the same level as the Raelians. Aliens is much more plausible than this god trash. That at least is in the realm of possibility of finding the designer and the blueprints. Funny how some religion makes this unknowable god the reason for all things. That is no reason, that is bullplop.
How can this Behe continue to teach the essence of what sciene is when he has no idea. It is shameful.
For the moment I am calm. Haven't felt this way in a long time. Probably blogged about it the last time it happened. Don't know how long it will last though. I feel normal. My mind isn't wandering in a million places, just half a million.
What is the deal with this supposed lawsuit against apple for scratching on the IPOD nano. This is even more ludicrous than the suits against fast food companies for making people obese. Which although legally insane still contained a valid subtext to be explored. This IPOD nano thing is ridiculous. First off, scratches don't prevent operation, second scratches hasn't injured anyone. This is just mind boggling. The truth of the situation is that apple put out a crappy design. You don't get sued for crappy design unless as I mentioned it hurts someone. You have a crappy design people don't buy your products. That is where I think this whole thing comes from. People still want to buy the nano regardless of its crappy design because everything else about it is right and no one else has something on the market like it. They're simply caught and are using litigation to remedy their anger. I already mentioned a while back about the scratches and how there is no way they couldn't come up with a better plastic. But you don't sue somebody for that. That is the epitome of frivolous lawsuits. Fact of the matter is that Apple will probably fix the scratching problem with the next iteration of the nano. They have proven that with so many version of the other IPODs that they are willing to examine and change the design. But a lawsuit is just wholly uneccessary. There was already a lot of vocal criticism and even Apple admitted to the IPOD being scratch prone. Although on only a small percentage. This lawsuit talk is crazy.
For whatever reason tonight I got to thinking about animal behavior. Not being the zoological expert my knowledge is limited but I've studied some. The pervading question in my mind is in regards to human behavior and its percieved uniqueness. I would qualify that question with the statement that there are still many aspects of animal behavior that remain a mystery. I had a lot to say but now I am tired.
Some ass-wad on ign.com gave Doom a 3 star review and called it the best video-game to film adaptation yet. That clown must be smoking meth. The reviewer is clearly a videogame fanboy who will take any movie that comes out as the best adaptation. What's next, bubble bobble. That game was tight though. Best movie was Resident Evil by far. Because it was just honest in being a pretty god zombie flick. Doom was a disgrace of a movie that would only impress jackoffs like this clown. This person literally fabricated some of the things he thought appeared in the movie. Like a boatload of weapons. Two grenades an couple of guns, not much. Nothing was named or explored. More weapons appeared in Terminator movies. And saying that The Rock and Karl Urban did a good job with the thin plot is crazy. The plot was so thin there was no job to do.
For whatever reason I start reading a bit on the Free Exercise Clause in the first ammendment and came across a few summaries of Supreme Court decisions. One recent one (2004) involved the decision to uphold a Washington State decision to restrict state scholarship money from people pursuing a religious degree. In other words if you get this certain scholarship you can't pursue a degree in theology with the money. If you do you get no money. Make a joyful noise. I'm glad that fucking kid who tried to pull that shit lost. What a loser. Got a scholarship and wanted to waste tax dollars on theology. Damn fool.
This makes me really think about the dynamic between freedom of religion and seperation of church and state. It is such a brillant idea but who was to forsee the collisions of it over the years. Both seemed to be of paramount importance to the framers of the constitution. When they do collide people take a side. I'd like to think that the founding fathers would hold seperation of church and state always higher because of the deeper philosophical effects. That they would see any blow to seperation as a double blow to freedom of religion.
As for me personally. I'd like to give religion a one way ticket from the tip of my boot to the core of the sun. Damn fools. My hope is that these wacky religious beliefs are eliminated by natural selection of sorts. In other words those crazy beliefs lead to the detriment of the believers so that eventually they just die out. I think it happens already anyway. As long as technology continues to advance and the population grows to force advancement those "believers" are the ones who are going to die out and the "non-believers" are the ones who will survive.
Wasn't college supposed to be fun? Then why was it the 5 most depressing years of my life? I'm still fucking depressed. College sucked ass. I should have rode the tech boom to some job in Silicon Valley and then lost it all. That would have been better than crap college. I'm a loser.
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I read about this vote on a gun ban in Brazil and it is a puzzling situation. First I think what would it really do when such a large percentage of the guns are illegally trafficked. Second I hear about the NRA leading an ad campaign to vote against the ban. That is just plain evil. Sure the NRA has become an international organization but what the fuck kind of shit is that. How do you go into another country to export your rhetoric. Espcially since their constitution says nothing of right to bear arms. That is just sickening. Then most disheartedly I hear that polls and opinions show that a lot of Brazilians think they have a right to defend themselves so they will vote against the ban. I don't know why this mindset keeps appearing so much. It is not so much as defending yourself as is the way people think they need to do it. With guns. Thinking that guns represent the right to defend yourself is the mark of ignorance. Or maybe what I mean is that it is something that people don't think about just an idea that has been put in their head. An ideaology that has become entrenched. An ideaology that doesn't belong in modern society. It is an idealogy that need more thought in modern times. Posession of a gun has become the last resort and worst way to defend yourself. It seems that people always go to guns for defense before anything else. Funny how some will cheerish a gun as defense then say something about valuing human life. Not to say you won't run into those tough situations but to think that those are your only options every time is ludicrous. You have to at least give the making guns illegal a chance. The negative effects of gun owenership far outweigh the perceived benefits.
What a horrifically bad movie. Plot, none. Characters, terrible. It looks like it was a lot of fun to make though because of the elaborate sets and monsters. They didn't even try with the plot though. I feel like I could have written the plot in 11th grade study hall. In fact I think I did write a Doom story in high school. I wonder where that is now? The weird part was the The Rock wasn't the main character but he was promoted as the star. I guess that is the only way they though people would see this movie. They could have went the zombie route and salvaged something decent but they didn't. This movie was just bad all around. The characters were so weak and flat it was like there wasn't even characters. Just people running around the screen. The one part that I liked about this movie was the few minutes towards the end were the movie took on the perspective of a first person shooter. It was what I imagine first person shooter games should look like in about 2 generations of consoles. Other than that I probably should have waited until this came on HBO.
Raining hard. Been raining a lot lately.
How stella got her groove back is on TV right now. It serves as background noise along with music from my mp3 collection. Saturday 3pm. What am I doing? The same. Nothing. Drinking now, but other than that nothing. Cleaned my bathroom this morning. It needed it big time. It is sparkling now. It was quite grimey before.
I love how the catholic church still thinks it has any power. Ha. Well I guess they never really held that much power over their history as various contries have taken turns at thumbing their nose at them. But today they really are rather powerless. They only hold sway with a small number of devout catholics and controlling them is no real feat.
You ever watch people talk to each other and it not really talk to each other. You see it all the time on TV. Especially cable news channels. All these shows were they interview commentators, analysts, politicians and whatnot. When people look each other in the face and just completely ignore what the other person is saying and spews whatever they want it is sickening. But somehow this is the standard.
I could care less about human life. But I'm sick of these "the death penalty" works people. What kind of delusional talk is that. I don't get the death penalty as a deterrent. Deterrent it is not. It is a space saver. Rather just have some ashes to bury than a person to house. The fucked up reasoning that the death penalty somehow reduces crime is ludicrous. If you support the death penalty at least do it for logical reasons. Like revenge and space saving. Don't ever give me the reduces or deterrs crime arguement. Also what is the deal with all the methods of execution. Have we not found an effecient way to kill people in like .08 seconds. I mean seriously. The least you could do was standardize an instant vaporization process. That is why this death penalty arguement is so stupid. They are argueing over the wrong things.
You know what I hate? The way american media portrays "Arab nations". Not the what they say about them, although that is another topic. The fact that they lump a whole bunch of countries together as if they are on big happy family who are universally opposed to the United States. I guess people seem to forget the wars between those countries. It is sickening that they have to make up this boogeyman called "Arab nations" to make themselves feel good or something. They just lump the countries' policies together on so many subjects. It is always arab nations feel this way or arab nation support this. Besides the fact that "arab nations" is an ambiguous phrase they further complicate the situation by blanketing countries with similar policy. How does one stop this trash? What is even more disturbing is the slack jawed troglodytes that believe in that trash.
So the NBA has issued a new dress code. And there are people on both sides of the issue. People on both sides need to have their ass kicked and the dress code creator as well. What a fucking farce. This is just another example of the piss poor ideaology that comes from modern society. The detractors need to get a clue and face the real issue instead of responding to the smoke and mirrors that is the dress code. The supporters need to do the same thing. All you hear surrounding this dress code is image problem and racism. Racism be damned that is ludicrous and not worth focus in itself. I went over why many posts before. Image problem. Holy flipping shit. Image problem. When I hear that the dress code is addressing and image problem I shit my pants. Both sides are taking this as valid reasoning for argueing the point. How fucking shallow and shortsighted can people be. How is it that the NBA wants to correct an image problem by dressing their players in spiffy clothing. And how is it that the opponents aren't calling them out on this sham proposal. This decision is of the same ilk as the new age limit in the NBA. They both skirt the real problems and leave them to fester.
They want to fix an image problem, they need to fix the substance problem. That is the problem. These fools have no substance. Those thinking dress will fix an image problem are idiots. These guys are playing loserball. How is it that moronic losers like this are at the top of things. A couple of READ posters and a few public service announcements is no effort to establish substance. They have age limit for whatever self-serving reason and even have the nerve to say that it is helping the players by forcing them to go to school. If they can force them out of the league they can force them to study while in the league. There is no real effort on the part of the NBA or the union to establish substance. I don't see them requiring classes for players or promoting education. How is it they can be so hard-assed on the way someone dresses yet not give two good goddamns about whether their players have advanced writting skills or known american history. That is how you address an image problem. Maybe instead of blasting hip-hop culture you delve into where it came from and eventually you get to the connections to all the history of america. There are so many things wrong here I would take 50 posts to explain them all. I just hate watching losers play loserball and still be considered the best of the best.
I read today that NATO has pledged 500-1000 troops/workers to help in the Paskistan quake reliefe effort. And I thought the US government was pathetic and slow. NATO has shown me a whole new level of incompetance.