Seems more and more scientists are starting to stand up in opposition to Global Warming Warning that is coming from Al Gore and the Media. This could get interesting.
http://www.m4gw.com:2005/m4gw/2008/12/650_scientists_dissent_over_ma.html
Space Station … Yes it is a real plan
Below is a link to an article about some plans to build an elevator to go to a orbiting space station. If this was being done in America (not to say this won’t happen anyway) I would expect to see a McDonalds and maybe a small version of Wal-Mart on the Space station. Maybe even a Kum & Go or a Casey’s on the way up.
So is there a restroom in the elevator? I mean that’s a long way up. People are either going to need to go, or get air sick.
Kidding aside, I think this is really cool, but I have a hard time picturing the elevator shaft itself. Is it solid or is it flexible for the space station to make adjustments? What exactly besides the station is holding up such a tall, skinny, vertical structure?
One last joke, in the event of a fire or power failure will there be stairs that go up along the elevator?
Take your pick. I put up different links because some of the lesser detailed articles had better illustrations. And another one just for fun.
http://www.techtree.com/India/Future_Watch/Japan_To_Skip_Stairway_Build_Elevator_To_Heaven/551-93524-505.html
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2008/09/23/recent-progress-made-in-the-field-of-convert..
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/24/2372988.htm?site=science&topic=latest
Third Party
Hmm.. McCain reached the magic number and ole’ Huck dropped out.
Guess I’m going with a third party canidate.
Apparently, even Elmo has a darkside.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/22/when-good-toys-go-bad-x-elmo-makes-death-threats-to-toddler/
So this article explains a certain problem with the “Elmo knows your name” doll.
And he also knows where you live …
News coverage of Celebs
Wow, I know I’m late to the comment board on this, but I don’t always like it when the press goes beyond their call of duty of coverage simply because someone is a celebrity.
Like with Britney why can’t the press leave her alone. I’m not really so much as just simply tired of hearing about her, as I am saddened that her whole life is in shambles and put on display.
My life has been in shambles before, and I didn’t want anyone to know. When people know they want to help.
This in itself isn’t bad, wanting to help, but this is a matter for close friends and family not a bunch of well meaning fans and paparazzi that can only see what is projected on the surface by their cameras.
They totally miss the internal struggle that we all face each day. This lack of privacy and constant barrage of analysis seems to be sending her further down.
This may seem to be similar to what the press is doing by me simply commenting on it, which is why I’m trying to refrain from making comments about Britney herself and trying to focus more on the press and how it would affect any one of us if we were in her shoes.
As far as that goes, I can only really speak if I were put on camera when my dark times came.
I can only be thankful that God found me when he did and that my dirty laundry wasn’t put out there while I was in the middle of it. I don’t mind talking about it now, but I’m thru it now. It would’ve been maddening to have everyone talking about me as if they knew me while I was going thru my pain.
Heath Ledger’s death seems to be taken the same way. Another blog/note I read from Facebook | Bryan Edward Canny’s Notes talked about how all the experts and press discuss the man’s work so passionately as if they knew him. But they are only talking about the man’s work and not who he was.
In this respect if the press covered my death in the same way, they would talk about all the computers I fixed and how I could’ve put together a great data network one day. If they did this we’d think they were weird for not talking about who I am, like what kind of son, brother, uncle, or friend that I was. Whether I walked with Jesus or not. After who I am is discussed then they could say what I did for a living, but after I’m dead does it matter as much what I did for a living or who I was?
After all what do they normally put on Tombstones?
Loving friend, brother, and uncle
or
Computer Tech … yeah, didn’t think so…
In the same sense they should talk to people who really knew the man and only then if they are ready to talk about it.
But then again, it’s all about the entertainment value isn’t it. Ratings and such. Shame. What have we become … Or am I the only one who really feels like this?
Feeding people good, starving bad.
http://www.wftv.com/news/14289861/detail.html?reddit
Feeding people good, starving bad.
Now if the government could only reason this logically.
Megadeth and Steve Taylor
Megadeth and Steve Taylor
I came across some really wierd stuff this weekend. Since it all came to me in such a short amount of time and somehow they all seem go together, I thought I would post them all together here. I don’t normally go looking for this stuff it just sort of lands in my lap.
There’s symbolism in Megadeth’s Washington is Next song with some additional symbolism and clarification added by the video. Interesting ideas.
Then there is Steve Taylor’s satirical points on how good intentions get bathed in the machine of hopelessness to the point that we dump all our good intentions altogether, these two videos seem to lay the footwork of an examination on our political culture.
Anyway it’s just food for thought. If you want one more thing to consider, Check out this CNN Article
Megadeth – Washington is Next
Steve Taylor – Since I Gave up Hope
To leave you with something inspiring here is the Declaration of Independence which oddly enough also in some round about way has something to do with the rest of the stuff here.
It’s the Declaration of Independence
If you’d rather read it:
July 4, 1776
The Declaration of Independence
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:
Column 1
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett
Lyman Hall
George Walton
Column 2
North Carolina:
William Hooper
Joseph Hewes
John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge
Thomas Heyward, Jr.
Thomas Lynch, Jr.
Arthur Middleton
Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
Column 4
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Franklin
John Morton
George Clymer
James Smith
George Taylor
James Wilson
George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney
George Read
Thomas McKean
Column 5
New York:
William Floyd
Philip Livingston
Francis Lewis
Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton
John Witherspoon
Francis Hopkinson
John Hart
Abraham Clark
Column 6
New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett
William Whipple
Massachusetts:
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Robert Treat Paine
Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins
William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman
Samuel Huntington
William Williams
Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
Matthew Thornton
Computer freedom and reasonability
I’m at the end of my lunch so I’ll post a couple of links about this later, but it seems that PC manufacturers and PC/Service providers are beginning to stop fixing hardware that isn’t running the Windows OS that it was sold with.
So in other words if you get Windows Vista on a computer and it doesn’t do what you need it to, so you load Linux or even Windows XP(or older) and then your hinge breaks or a crack in the case appears then the Manufacturer or Service provider will say you voided your warranty and then not fix it.
This is not only unreasonable on the business’s part it just plain falls under the stupid category. I can understand not providing drivers or software support, but the software is completely separate from the hardware in this regard. Installing Linux doesn’t make the hinge break. Although if it did, it’d be a pretty cool trick.
Update:
It looks like PC World finally decided to fix the laptop, but the local store manager still hasn’t gotten the news. Anyway it sounds like there is still confusion here. Here’s the links for the story
http://www.theregister.com/2007/09/13/pc_world_linux/
Here’s the link to the fellow’s blog that is trying to get it fixed.
Xbox360 warranty
Apparently, Microsoft admitted to there being hardware problems with their Xbox 360 and extended their warranty.
If you have a problem with yours you should call them to see if you can get it fixed for free.
Gathering of Eagles
Note*Reposted from Email*
Please post the following information on your blogs and websites. It is imperative that we get this word out as quickly as possible.
There are two petitions now up online. One for people to sign only if they WILL be at the Gathering of Eagles on March 17th:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/GOE31707/petition.html
The second petition is for those who will be with us in spirit:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/GOE317/petition.html
This will be very helpful in giving us some idea of how many Eagles will be in attendance on the 17th and how many will be supporting us from home.
If you plan to be there, sign in. Those who just can’t attend but stand with us in spirit are asked to sign the second petition.
755 so far have signed in as attending.
940 have signed is an with us in spirit.
(as of 1214 CST, March9th)
This number is a fraction of what we know to be true, but we need ALL BLOGGERS and WEBMASTERS to get this word out!!
If you encounter problems signing, please persevere and try again later. We need your count!
Steve
