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What is Reasonable Evidence for Minor Annoyences?

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Let’s say you’re looking for something that has a moderate value, you would probably require moderate evidence. Say you’re asking your nerd buddy whether you should install Linux or not. Now if your friend is lying is to you, this will cause some minor irritation so instead of no evidence, you should ask for at least some kind of evidence. So your friend goes on and on about how awesome Linux is and how some versions are easier for newbs and you can even play most Windows games easily in Linux… blah, blah, blah. You take him at his word because you trust him. I think that with this level of importance, trust is a perfectly decent level of evidence. Because: 1) if your friend is lying, it does little harm, maybe a day of wasted time and 2) your friend is usually right when it comes to computers. Anyway: trust is only a good enough form of evidence if the trust in the claim will likely only cause a little bit of harm.

monopoly game in real life

Friday, June 4th, 2010

We’ve all played monopoly, and the system the banks work on is similar. The game they play is basically moving money from one tycoon to another and its all about gaining property, whether intellectual or not. The difference is that the government and regular people are the only ones who actually pay. And big banks are the player in charge of the bank/imf/national bank and there’s a screen in front of them so noone knows if the banks are playing fair.

Chubby Nickel Audio Vlog – Episode 7ish

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Chubby Nickel Audio Vlog

Recorded: 2010-04-30

Aaron: Deadly Tornado Kills 10 in Miss.
Aaron: Good Samaritan Left for Dead on City Sidewalk
Aaron: Survey: 72% of Millennials ‘more spiritual than religious’
Aaron: Swastikas Smeared in Beans Found on Capitol Grounds
Aaron: Birthers Plan To Storm Washington
Aaron: SF Officials Ban City Worker Travel To Arizona
Aaron: Suntanned women to be arrested under Islamic dress code
Aaron: Arizona agency seeks federal help on immigration law
Nicole: AZ Residents Planning Counter Boycott
Nicole: Man Doesn’t Eat Or Drink
Aaron: “America is #1.”
Aaron: FAA To Airlines: No More…
Aaron: Men in Nazi Garb
Aaron: How Rude!
Aaron: Floating Prison…

 
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Another Crappy Technological Agreement A.C.T.A.

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

A.C.T.A. is a trade agreement that is being discussed behind closed doors. It is trying to increase regulations on pirates, but not only pirates themselves. It is apparent from leaked files that they also want to regulate I.S.P.’s and force them to report any known offenders to authorities and basically want to use the government to ensure the future of big business, and that’s what the fascist states of America does is continue the symbiotic relationship between big business and big government.

Three strikes is something that was initially in this agreement and still is part of it, though not in any enforceable way, the document still contains a recommendation that it would be a good way of enforcing piracy violators. basically three strikes is a way of punishing offenders by starting light and eventually to strong punishment.

It is also evident that heavier regulations of bit torrent sites will occur in the future following passage of this document, it may not be as strong as what the RIAA wants the government to do at international airports, which is to install a spyware program to delete any and all elicit music. which is totally orwellian and wrong but thats just my unsolicited opinion. Well it’s not entirely unsolicited since you’re on  my site, reading my post.

Another part of the released document would try to force I.S.P.’s to rat out any possibly infringing parties connected to their respective services… in other words they are trying to force companies to tattle on their own customers for the “benefit” of the movie, music, and gaming industries. One would think the I.S.P.’s would put up a harder fight than they currently are, and on that same note nerds and geeks and gamers alike should also be raising hell because of this patriot act for the internet. i might have to move to Europe to get the freedoms that I thought were guaranteed in the “greatest of all nations” but it seems that the constitution is only applied when in the benefit of big business and to hell with the rest of us.

A.C.T.A.

Atheist Advertising

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

There have been more and more atheist advertisements popping up recently, now it’s still no where near the saturation level that Christian or even other religious already have, but it’s increasing. You can take this one of two ways (actually many other but just live with my false dichotomy): You can see this as people practicing free speech… or you can take this as an attack on religious freedoms.

You can be good without god

Let’s talk about the latter. So atheists are advertising their lack of a belief in a god. Most people wouldn’t see this as a big deal, but just wait until you see what they’re saying in these ads: “You can be good without god.” Oh my fucking god, what the fuck is this shit? That is a direct attack on Christianity. Holy shit we have to stop this immediately! We can’t have these ass holes telling people that they can be good without an irrational belief in some sick fuck who likes to punish people and make people attack people ordering them to rape and murder entire cities (including women and children… even their oxen)!

Of course the other way to look at it is that since there are so many advertisements for religions, an advertisement for atheism is just fair. Just look at how Christians react when they’re shit gets banned… yet they want to ban everyone else…

Corporations is people?!

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

There are many problems with this recent supreme court decision there have been many people claiming that it’s bad, or that it’s not democratic. Ha! democracy my arse! This is going to be the best country ever! The united states of Exxon, and I might move to Southern Texaco ’cause I like the area in the southern corporate division of the U.S. Exxon. So, let’s get this whole fascist thing crackin! Forget democracy, that’s old news! it’s time to let the corporations run the country… after all government is bad… right?

I had yes we can-telope for breakfast this morning

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

This morning I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, best of the left, it was a back episode aired on the one year anniversary of Obama’s inauguration. And I remember why I voted for the guy, his speeches were very motivational and concise not derisive nor negative like another campaign I remember. It seems to me to be the largest part of his election was the fact that he promise grandiose things which seemed to be the best thing we could possibly hope for in this country. And it should be expected that these things would take time (except repealing don’t ask don’t tell which seems to be the next thing this administration is working on). Health care has all but failed this time around because of the lack of public interest in further enriching corporations who insist on a welfare program namely forced participation in their health insurance plans. The health care issue is by far the largest issue that has come out of this administration so far and it seems he doesn’t quite know what the people want even though the polls have consistently shown that people want a public option. But it seems that our elected officials have given up on what the people want because the pressure of the six health care industry lobbyists per congressperson has drowned out our voices and I am going to propose two ways to solve the problem, eliminate lobbyists or constitutional amendment. to be continued…

Logic and morals, the best way to live a good life.

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

In the beginning, there was nothing… And sometime in the future there was a Texas oil man elected president with the penguin as his sidekick. Bush was possibly the worst president in recent history, if you exclude his dad and Reagan.  Though all three of those have something in common a vendetta against the middle east. And it seems to be not a thing is changing except that the primary war we’re going to be fighting is not going to be Iraq but in it’s stead we’re going to be killing Afghans. Why Obama has a grudge against blankets I’ll never know. Basically the reason that all of our recent presidents have been crap including Obama so far and Clinton is that they’re all guided by one thing, personal interest. But the way to live one’s life is not for the personal interest but the interest of the whole and this is called being moral, and no a moral is not a tooth in the back of your mouth G.W.

Morals are the guiding principles in peoples lives that help them make good decisions when faced with a tough choice. like would it be advantageous to start a war in the middle east and kill more people than died in all the terror attacks ever made on the U.S. combined? The moral answer would have looked at the cost to benefit ratio, if it costs more lives than it saves it’s not moral see? simple. Some things are not so simple, like do I tell my neighbor that she’s a bitch or do I remain a liar and a faker every time I see her? this time, though it’s not moral to lie it’s not necessarily the best idea to estrange yourself from your neighbors you have to live by ‘em you know. In my basic understanding of  morals it comes down to one thing, does it help more than it hurts? if so it is moral.

The morals of a person would never really apply if they never asked themselves basic questions about the beliefs they hold. Like – why do I think that the earth is only 6,000 years old? why is homosexuality wrong? and why do I want to put my old shriveled cock in the ass of a ten year old boy? that’s because you’re a christian priest and you ignorant bastard are the reason so many people in history are just that, history. Not to mention little Jimmy still has nightmares about the day you gave him sacramental wine… naughty clergyman. It is very simple to put logic into your life, ask a question about anything and if that doesn’t have an answer perhaps you’re phrasing it wrong or perhaps you need evidence to back up your answer. In order to be a logical person evidence and reason must be paramount in your thinking. Take evolution for example if you believed that creation was brought about 6,000 years ago by an old man sitting on a cloud (silly visual, reminds me of the lakitu on the mario games) you would have to look at billions of years of evidence and say “No thank you, I don’t believe in evidence I only believe in what the bible says.” In that case you would have to believe in polygamy, incest, rape, murder, prostitution, genocide, and all kinds of wonderful things! But you don’t believe in incest do you Bubba? You thought she was your second cousin? Do you believe in whoring your wife out? Abraham did, it’s in the bible. Did you ever read the damn thing? it’s all over the place! I feel kinda bad calling Abraham’s wife a whore, but she also said here have sex with my servant girl if you want a kid so bad, my cooter is drier than an English comedian’s humor in the sahara. Now ask yourself, if you really still believe in the bible, how could an omnipotent (all powerful) omniscient (all knowing) and benevolent (good) God create a man or woman knowing that they will do evil before he makes them (he’s all knowing remember). Make them anyway and punish them to hell for what he knew they would do in the first place? Logic my friend is all we have to protect us from believing in stupid things… like God.

So don’t get your moral guidance from the bible, get it from the basic formula does it do more good than bad? and use logic to attain conclusions that will make sense to anyone who uses their brain. And lastly, father Flaniggan please leave little Jimmy alone!

me: I didn’t mind Wild Hogs

Friday, December 25th, 2009

me: I didn’t mind Wild Hogs
I hate Grease
I like Dark City
Sent at 11:13 AM on Tuesday
garrett218: he was not in dark city
me: Oh right, but I like that movie
garrett218: me too
me: I wonder how it would have been with Travolta in place of Sewel
garrett218: it would have produced blood puke
me: I should make it to test it out
garrett218: ok
me: Who else can I use to change a good movie into the most vile, evil soul-devouring piece of crap known to man?
Sent at 11:17 AM on Tuesday
me: I can use snaggle-tooth in place of Connelly…
Sent at 11:18 AM on Tuesday
me: Billy Bush in place of Sutherland
garrett218: hmm
nic cage works well since he can show no emotion
perhaps cast him in a female role
me: Ok, snaggle-tooth in lace of Hurt and Cage in place of Connellly
garrett218: nice
me: Hmm, just thinking about it makes my stomach squeamish
garrett218: that is the blood puke
me: And trying to imagine them doing the lines of the characters makes my brain hurt
garrett218: that is where the blood comes from for the blood puke
me: Oh… maybe I just have to suggest and save Armageddon for later
Before I die though, that way I will leave a lasting impression
Of human suffering never before beheld
God would be jealous
I would need to find a way to make a lot of people watch it, then let them force other people into the same misery

Patton Oswalt – Christmas Shoes by New Song

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

Patton Oswalt – Christmas Shoes

Hilarious description of a really bad song.