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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Loathing.

Why do I hate humanity so much? I've totally lost all hope in our species. People just continue to get more stupid. All anyone cares about is themselves. Especially when it comes to money, status, and fame. Everyone just worries about what everyone thinks of them. So much for anonymity being considered a really great thing. How many times do you get a smile from a passing stranger? There's the odd people, but otherwise people keep on walking minding their own business, just trying to make their mark. I never see someone go out of their way to help others. I hate human beings. Every single one of us.
Humans are curious about EVERYTHING. Nobody wants to take the time to just sit and enjoy life, who cares what it is for. You were given the privilege to live, so why not spend your time living instead of wasting it trying to find out where everything came from.
Maybe this isn't hating humanity, and more of just hating myself. Either way. Society is stupid.
Point proven:
http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2003/10/31/79588.html
I hate people.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Nubilous.

People respond differently to different feelings, such as negative reaction to pain or an emotion giving you the sense of "bad". People also feel empathy and shared emotion. For example, when you see someone crying, you want to cry, right? Or, if someone comes up to you with a big smile on their face, it makes you, too, want to smile.
It needs to be clarified what is significant about emotions, and why they are and should be more important to everyone. There can be an individual emotional event, but this event might impact everything else that occurs in someone's life. In that way, everything is tied in. Even words, or therapy, can impact how one views the world and influence how one reacts to emotion. For instance, being aware that a loved one likes you or loves you, consciously causes your emotions as a whole to change. So not just your understanding of one specific thing would change, but also your experience with that person. A cliché saying that explains this would be “once you let love in, the world becomes a beautiful and sunny place”. Knowing this, when you experience a 'good' emotion, nothing else matters and everything is good. That expression explains the importance's of positive encouragement, the impact of one event or person on someone’s overall emotions all the time, and the importance therapy can have. That one statement might make someone realize they love someone else and what this love does for their life. Conversely, if something very bad happens to someone, they might not care about their life anymore and start to experience all their other emotions less. Personal experience for both high end emotions tells me that I've gone through a lot in life, and I still don't care about my life, but I would never do anything to leave this world. I would much rather live on my own; stay in this world without all the stupid decisions humanity has made. But just be me. Imagine that.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

6 Questions.


  1. Is the universe finite or infinite in extent and content?
  2. Is it eternal or does it have a beginning?
  3. Was it created? If not, how did it get here? If so, how was this creation accomplished and what can we learn about the agent and events of creation?
  4. Who or what governs the laws and constants of physics? Are such laws the product of chance or have they been designed? How do they relate to the support and development of life?
  5. Is there any knowable existence beyond the known dimensions of the universe?
  6. Is the universe running down irreversibly or will it bounce back?

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Playstation 3 VS. XBOX 360.

The comparison of these two consoles is solely opinion related. There are rarely true statistics to compare the two. So, which is better?
There isn't really much of a difference between the consoles, in the grand scheme of things. If you are looking into buying a gaming system, you can't go wrong with either because both systems have popular games, although, as for special games, like Halo - Obviously, XBOX is the way to go.

Game Loading:
An interesting feature of the PS3 is that it does not have a disc tray, instead it has a slot in the front of the console that works like car CD players. The XBOX has a standard game tray that slides out to place the disc in it. As for time it takes for a game to load, i did a test to measure the time it took the XBOX and the PS3 to load up GTA IV. It took the PS3 much longer to read the game, so xbox is a clear winner there.
Winner: XBOX 360

Graphics:
Shown here, is proof that XBOX has much better lighting than PS3 does:  http://www.gamespot.com/features/6162742/index.html - XBOX  GPU is more powerful.  Overall, more money was spent on PS3's  blu-ray player so not enough expensives went into improving the terrible image quality.
Winner: XBOX 360

Game Selection:
360 has a huge headstart, and Sony knows it too. 1 year is an eternity of game creation, the PS3 was released in 2006 - one year after XBOX. Almost all multi-platform developers have made the XBOX 360 their primary platform due to timing of release-to-market, this means the games will look and perform better on the 360. The PS3 versions will be ports of the 360 versions. On another note, XBOX games are all already discounted, where PS3 games are still full price because it just launched.
Winner: XBOX 360

Live:
Even though you have to pay for XBOX live, it has a much better performance rate than PS3's wireless connection. So again, XBOX has an advantage.
Winner: XBOX 360

Remember that the outcomes are opinionated. Stick to your own opinion.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Random: Fun Facts About Nintendo!


So, enough about all that stupid life shit. One of my favorite things to do, when I still had one, was to play Nintendo. Then all my stuff got stolen when my Mom started doing coke and shit like that. Long story.. But anyway, I learnt some cool things about Nintendo's while I still played.

The word Nintendo comes from three Japanese characters, nin-ten-do. These characters can be translated into "Heaven blesses hard work" but it can also mean "Leave luck to heaven" , "we do all we can , as best as we can, to await the results" and some people think it means "The house where you leave everything to the fortune/heaven" (A casino -> gaming?)

The guy who does Mario's voice is Charles Martinet.

Nintendo themselves were in a way responsible for the creation of Sony Playstation, N64's worst competitor.

Star Fox was just a testing program for the testing of the FX-chip abilities, but the designers kept working on it and finally Nintendo released it and it became a great success.

When radio and TV stores were broken into, Sony Playstations were never stolen. The product always missing was the entire stock of N64's.

Mario's surname is Mario. (Mario Mario and Luigi Mario!)

Pokemon is still really popular in Japan, so they are opening (I don't know if it is already open..) a theme park based on all the Pokemon games.

Many parents complained about their children's "blistered thumbs", so Nintendo made softer buttons for their console controllers. When this blister is developed it is called a Nintendo Blister :) I used to have three on my right thumb, they hurt.

Nintendo started with playing cards back in 1890.

Mario was first seen in Donkey Kong, but he was called Jumpman - then he became Mario, the italian plumber!

NINTENDO IS GETTING LAZY! The graphics for the N64 and Wii games, are like, the same :O. Terrible..

Nintendo established Panasonic.

Nintendo is Japanese >< <-- chink!!!1 --> no charrenge fo supaman!!

Nintendo's biggest failure was the virtual boy.

When you say Nintendo really fast about 5 times it sounds funny.

Paper Mario was fun. 8)

NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO NINTENDO!!!!

Nostalgic feeling = Rainbow mentoes and beating Bowzer in Paper Mario for N64 :) :) :)









Thursday, October 22, 2009

World's Biggest Unanswered Questions.


Here is a large list of unanswered questions that face society today.

  1. What is at the Earth's core? What we know for sure, that is about 4,000 miles down into our Earth's crust is a large ball of iron about the size of the moon. We also know that we are standing on the Earth's crust and mantle, which is made up of 1, 800 miles of rock and minerals. But what is in between the crust and the iron ball? Scientist believe that it is an ocean of churning liquid of some sort, like magma, although they do not know what it is made of and how it reacts to different things. We are confident that there is a lot of iron in our oceans, but what else? Based on what researchers understand of pressure, temperature, and density of materials down there, some maintain that the core also contains a lot of hydrogen and sulfur. Knowing more about the molten concoction would give scientists clues about how the Earth formed and how heat and convection affect plate tectonics, even earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Some scientists even suspect that the inner core of the Earth is growing. If so, it could eventually overtake the molten metal around it, throwing off the Earth's magnetic fields. [See "22 Possibilities - Magnetic Pole Shift]
  2. Is time an illusion? Plato argued that time is constant, and life itself is the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to graph it so he could get on with the more important physics.Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time is the relationship of it to our environment. For example, the faster you travel, the slower time seems to move along. The most radical interpretation of Einstein's theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn’t seem to happen at once. Einstein’s conception of unified spacetime works better on graph paper than in the real world. Time isn’t like those other dimensions - for one thing, we move only one way within it.
  3. How does a fertilized egg become a human? Imagine that you place a 1-inch-wide black cube in an empty field. Suddenly the cube makes copies of itself - 2, 4, 6, 16. The cubes begin to form structures - enclosures, arches, walls, tubes. Some of the tubes turn into wires, PVC pipes, structural steel, wooden studs. Sheets of cubes become wallboard and wood paneling, carpet and plate-glass windows. The wires begin connecting themselves into a network of immense complexity. Eventually, a 100-story skyscraper stands in the field. This is basically the process of a fertilized cell undergoes within the moment of conception. Biologists seem understand cell division and reproduction, and once thought that protiens in a cell carry instructions to the nucleus where the DNA is stored and the DNA copies itself. But what kind of information or instructions, and in what form is it given to the DNA molecule. Is it a chemical that makes the molecule of DNA to react in such a way to replicate itself?
  4. What happened to the Neanderthals? They were our hominid cousins. They walked like us, they looked like us, they may have even thought like us. So why did the Neanderthals disappear when us Homo Sapiens invaded and stayed? Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were discovered 150 years ago in Germany, paleoanthropologists have sought to understand what could possibly have destroyed the once-thriving and widely dispersed species of prehistoric human. By most measures, the Neanderthals were the equal of our direct ancestors, the fully modern out-of-Africa characters often called Cro-Magnons, with whom the Neanderthals coexisted for thousands of years. Some Scientists have decided that the Neanderthals suffered from some chronic disease, referring to odd bone structures possibly caused by arthritis. Maybe the Cro-Magnons decided to hunt down and END the Neanderthals, just like monkeys are trying to do the same to other chimp troupes.
  5. Why do we sleep? Everyone knows that if you continue to lack sleep, you can get sick easier. All mammals sleep, and those who don't, die faster. But nobody really knows why. Obviously, sleeping rests the body. But so does watching TV. The answer must be hidden in the brain. One theory states that while we are awake, a substance builds up in the brain and sleep removes it. For part of the night, the brain idles in an energy-conserving state called slow-wave sleep .Freed from the duties of consciousness, it can focus on cleanup. The problem with this idea is that another portion of each night, about a quarter, is given to REM sleep, during which the brain is anything but idle. REM stands for rapid eye movement, and it corresponds with vivid dreams, suggesting that it plays a role in consolidating memories. But there’s probably more to it, though antidepressants suppress REM sleep, patients taking them suffer no memory impairment. So to speak, sleep serves a critical purpose. Just one person is going to have to dream it up one day.
  6. Where did life come from? Natural selection explains how organisms that already exist evolve in response to changes in their environment. But Darwin’s theory is silent on how organisms came into being in the first place, which he considered a deep mystery. What creates life out of the inanimate compounds that make up living things? No one knows. How were the first organisms assembled? Nature hasn’t given us the slightest hint. If anything, the mystery has deepened over time, because more people have questioned religion. After all, if life began unaided under primordial conditions in a natural system containing zero knowledge, then it should be possible - it should be easy to recreate in laboratories today. But determined attempts have failed. A nobel prize and even $1, 000, 000 from the Gene Emergence Project awaits the researcher who creates life on a lab bench. Still, no one has come near close. Experiments have created some basic units of life, Famously, in 1952 Harold Urey and Stanley Miller mixed the elements thought to exist in Earth’s primordial atmosphere, exposed them to electricity to simulate lightning, and found that amino acids self-assembled in the researchers’ test tubes. Amino acids are essential to life. But the ones in the 1952 experiment did not come to life. Did God or some other higher being create life? Did it begin on another world, to be transported later to ours? Until such time as a wholly natural origin of life is found, these questions have power. We’re improbable, we’re here, and we have no idea why. Or how.
  7. Why do placebos work? The placebo effect is to give someone sugar pills when they have knee pain, then all of a sudden, your knee feels better! It's a miracle, thanks doctor! But why is this possible? Is it because you think it is going to get better, so it does?
  8. Why do some diseases turn into a pandemic? A pandemic - a transnational outbreak of disease - is really just a pathogen on a hot streak. After all, germs want what we all want, evolution-wise: to spread their genes. Success in the germ world means infecting a whole lot of people, reproducing, then infecting a whole lot more. The efficiency with which a microbe pulls that off depends on how the bug works and how the target - us - works. HIV, for example, loves a promiscuous-but-prudish population; human beings like to have sex but don’t like to talk about condoms. The Ebola virus, on the other hand, hasn’t found victims who exchange fluids with enough other people before dying.. horribly. So changes in culture like jet airplane travel can make a population more vulnerable to a previously contained disease. And changes in a germ - say, if avian influenza H5N1 acquires the right genes from the human version - can be like spinach to Popeye. But no one knows how to predict when either of those things might happen. So don’t forget to wash your hands. A lot.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Comet Hits Jupiter - Scientists want to get off this Earth.


For the past few weeks, some images from the Hubble Space Telescope captured some spectacular images of Jupiter, providing information of proof of a vast impact - roughly around twice the size of Europe - which has scarred the surface of Jupiter making such an event the first in 15 years. The impact which is thought to be a small comet or ice block, left a 5,ooo mile gash in the surface of Jupiter, described elsewhere as a massive black eye. When Comet P Shoemaker-Levy 9 blasted its fragmentary self into the Jovian atmosphere between July 16th and 22nd, 1994, the world witnessed a shattering impact hundreds of millions of miles away that would surely have destroyed much of the biosphere including our civilization.. had it occurred here on Earth. Although such events were considered rare, the fact that almost 15 years to the day there has been a similar and completely unexpected impact, implies that not only that such occurrences are more frequent, but that we are vulnerable to even a small strike - the object that recently hit Jupiter is described as being 'twice the size of several football fields', and the resulting explosion was thousands of times more powerful than the object that is thought to have exploded over Tunguska on June 30th, 1908.
Jupiter, in the past, has been described as acting as a cosmic shield of the Earth, because it's enormous size and gravitational strength are thought to pull in any large objects that could feel like flying farther into our solar system, where we currently reside. However, we cannot sit still by and hope that Jupiter will catch everything hurtling through space on a trajectory with Earth, and there will certainly come a day when as in 1770, Jupiter actually diverts a comet in our direction, and quite possibly, directly at us. By coincidence, perhaps, this latest impact comes in the same month that Apollo astronauts have called for a manned mission to Mars, where President Obama has called for a rethink at NASA, and Tom Wolfe has commented on how the original plans to put humans on Mars have continually been put on hold over the past 40 years and Rand Simberg looks at the way in which NASA might change policy direction. So, maybe man on Mars won't happen for another 40 years? Apart from the fact that exploration of Mars by humans in the near future is not only technologically already possible (and would be of great interest to us all) it is becoming crystal clear that we need to have at least back-up system of human and other life somewhere away from this planet, and at the moment, by far the best candidate is Mars. As far as we know, we are the only beings alive in the Universe today.. granted, many believe that the sheer scale and numbers of other galaxies makes it very likely that complex and intelligent life abounds across the Universe, but until we encounter it, we're on our own. Thinking about how stupid our society is, do you think there could be something better?