I saw Prometheus yesterday and I am still trying to figure parts of it out. This marks it out as not your average summer blockbuster.Really because I heard it was shit.
Or a really good movie, actually.
I dunno. Fuck it.
Talking with my missus this week about the Cold War made me remember a conversation I had at work in about 1999 about what we'd do in the event of a three minute warning of nuclear attack. Always assuming that the government passed such a warning on of course.So you're married--
so presumably this is a man but I'm not betting on it.
LORD HAVE I BEEN BURNED SO MANY TIMES--
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.What the fuck?
Once we achieve hope, anything is possible.
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
If it has a second hand that means it's wrong 86,398 times a day.
But let's focus on the incidental two times it's right. No, awesome.
If it has a second hand it is right 0.000002% of the time a day.
I'm not demanding perfection from my clocks--
I know for a fact the main clock in my room loses about 30 seconds a week but I cut it some slack because it was made in like 1956 but still, you know, I expect it to be right more than a fraction of 1% of the time.
Who do you think would make a great U.S. president?Caligula.
What is a synonym for your LiveJournal?I don't have a Livejournal but a synonym for Livejournal in general is shit.
Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.Like everything but then again the government is run by idiots--
IT'S A MINEFIELD.
Let me explain my political position. I think that the life-or-death industries like the utility companies (gas, water, electricity etc) and of course health, the armed forces police, fire brigade should be state-run.Why?
I don't recall in Britain when the utilities were state-run that we had the problem of OAPs having to choose between heating and eating every winter and I don't think anyone had even heard the phrase 'fuel poverty' before the industry was privatised.The fuck are you people doing?
I thought Britain was a first world country. You already mentioned well fare-- don't you subsidize poor peoples' heating?
Can Britain really not reconcile state run everything versus privatizing industries but subsidizing the poor peoples' costs?
Things like the welfare state the prison service and the judiciary important things like that will obviously still be administered by the government as well as transport schooling etc.I'd actually like to see a privatized judiciary system. I imagine it'd actually be far more efficient and fair than the existing mess.
I'm not saying I'd want to commit to it because it'd probably end up like Robocop or some shit but I'd like to see their plan before committing to it.
Everything else we can have private firms running things, competition and all that. I mean who wants a state-run supermarket? How dull would that be!... Actually--
a state run supermarket system would be pretty smart.
Having worked at one for a while I can safely say they're not entirely sure what they're doing.
At least it'd minimize some of the fuckery I see there.
I saw someone driving yesterday. Not in itself all that unusual but they had an iPod on. No not on in their car routed through their speakers. Actually listening to it while they were driving with the earphones in their ears.That is illegal in the US and I assume in the UK although after what I've just read it wouldn't surprise me if you people had no laws at all.
I'm not a driver but I can't for the life of me think that that is safe.
To be honest I don't fully understand why it's illegal. The logic is you need to hear emergency personnel coming but as anyone who has had iPod earbuds on can attest you'll definitely hear them coming because the noise bleed on any pair of earbuds is ridiculous.
Also I like how he says "not in itself all that unusual" like someone was about to say HEY WAIT SLOW DOWN YOU SAW WHAT?
Surely you need to be aware of things around you including noises and be alert at all times when in control of a vehicle?Surely you do but I don't see how the sound being right in your ears versus being at three quarter's volume on the radio makes a huge difference.
Okay so the last time I posted about CCTV people freaked out a bit. But that was about three years ago so here goes again!Wow.
When people say we're the most watched nation on Earth in the UK I always think that they're scaremongering a bit. Mostly because if you've worked in a fast-food restaurant like I have you know that some cameras are of poor quality and the tape in them is reused so much that its practically transparent!
Good work, idiot.
"It's okay there's a pervasive program of monitoring in my country because the government is too stupid to implement it properly."
Bang up job all around, retards.
The point is when they say there are X amount of cameras in Bridlington or wherever, they don't take into account the amount that are dummy cameras to scare people off, the amount that are covered in bird crap and unusable, the amount that use the same tape over and over etc etc.I think the fact the government installed them at all is pretty disturbing but then again I live in a first world country and not England.
Which I thought was first world but the more I read the more I'm starting to analyze my position on the matter.
And as we saw with the riots in London this year, CCTV is only really good after the event. Because despite what the some say, there isn't an operator sitting behind the screen watching every single camera. If there was, there would be zero unemployment!Yeah after the race riots.
Because it's the 1960s in England still.
So I don't think CCTV is necessarily a bad thing. But then I'm not an armed robber, a drug dealer or someone that goes out looking for someone to hit with a bat!You heard it here first: police states are okay as long as you're not an armed robber.
It must be great being this stupid.
So do I agree with the British monarchy. Yes. But not for reasons of patriotism as such. Economically they make sense as they cost about 79p to each citizen per year which is small beer when you consider the tourism revenue they bring in every year.... An apolitical head of state with no actual power behind it, what?
Plus there is the important thing. Having an apolitical head of state.
So the British Medical Association said yesterday that smoking in cars should be banned.This is an interesting stance from someone who just admitted having the government monitoring its citizenry constantly isn't a bad thing as long as you're not a criminal to take.
Now, I am an ex-smoker (I quit two years ago) but I don't think everyone should be like me. Obviously smoking-related illness is a bad and very painful thing. But it is a lifestyle choice and your car is your own property.
Government said it's bad--
Better comply, citizen, or prepare to be assigned to a reeducation facility.
If I walk through a cloud of cigarette smoke when I'm out I don't mind all that much, a couple of steps and you're through it. In a car, yes it is an enclosed space, but any kind of a parent should know themselves that subjecting their kids to second-hand smoke is bad. They're acting as if every parent is the most irresponsible person in the world!Are you questioning policy, citizen?
But it is a choice. And banning smoking in cars, while probably a good thing in the long run for personal health, is unworkable. Don't the police have enough to do with all the cuts coming their way?LIKE MONITORING ITS CITIZENRY.
When you watch things like Ice Road Truckers and see that they have an Alaskan oil pipeline through some of the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, the narration always makes it sound like its a great feat benefitting humankind. Which of course it is. But what would probably match if not better that would be if we could do the same with water with pipelines taking it to the most drought-heavy regions of the Third World.... Why not?
Well why not? It seems like a no-brainer to me.
Are you joking?
$$$$$$$$?
The gas pipes in Alaska pay for themselves--
water pipes in Africa would only cost.
And it could also potentially offer a partial solution to the problem of rising sea levels in the future, with desalination plants on the coast purifying the water before sending it through the pipelines to inland areas for drinking and irrigation.Am--
am I getting trolled?
That would solve the rising water levels?
Yes because when you drink water it just vanishes from reality and doesn't wind up back in the ecosystem at some point.
And, you know, expensive salt water purification plants and transportation lines are completely sustainable in an area of the world with about 0 infrastructure.
All right, boss, you have your pipes but WHOOPS ONE BROKE WHAT NOW?
The desert and the jungle especially are really hard on man-made structures so where's your staff to keep the jungle foliage from literally growing through your pipes?
Where do these pipes even wind up? Are you seriously feeding them through the entire African continent?
You'll have to transport them from the main saline treatment plants on the coast--
the coast of Africa, incidentally, which a quick Google search confirms is 16,000 square miles--
and the water will have to go to some sort of containing facility which will then have to feed into the various villages and shit--
who will need some sort of basic sewage system at this point to keep your waterworks from becoming tainted--
Do you have any idea how much this would cost?
You were just complaining about your country being broke. This would be enough to completely decimate the economy of the top 20 economies in the world I imagine.
And because the technology already exists it would probably be relatively cheap too....
Wow.
Yeah, pipelines just lay themselves.
Idiot.
I didn't even get into the astronomical sums it would cost to move that much piping over from the US (I assume the US would be donating the pipes) to Africa--
or Jesus Christ, moving the facilities to make the pipes over to Africa so they can make their own pipes?
Are we talking about a 70 year project or what?
Now, look, I'm no expert on logistics or supply routes here (despite people telling me I should go back to school for that, what) but one thing I do know is all logistics pretty much boil down to having material where you need it and Africa doesn't have material and it isn't where most people need it.
That might sound cold (because it is) but that goes a long way towards explaining why this plan won't ever happen.
I didn't even get into the fact that saline treatment isn't cheap at all and this guy's an idiot but let's skip over that for now or my head will explode.
It may even prove to the populations of the drought-affected countries that the West does care about them and stop them from being driven into the arms of extremists through mistrust and disgust of the richer nations.Drought is a problem in Africa but it pales into insignificance compared to AIDS and conflict materials.
And you can't just propose people get their materials from somewhere else like during that whole blood diamonds nonsense because some of those metals are only found in that area of Africa.
You could deprive the first world of its metals that it needs to make processors but the effect that would have on Africa would be catastrophic compared to letting them persist in this conflict state.
I'm not even getting into what kind of effect that would have on the first world because this is only about Africa.
And I'm using effect instead of affect because at this point this level of idiocy has a direct cause and effect on the planet if he's in charge.
He means to do this to the planet.
Every day vast numbers of people have no access to plentiful water supplies and yet more drink polluted water doing untold damage to themselves because there is simply no other option if you want to survive until tomorrow. This is wrong and one of the greatest scandals in the world today. The simplest ideas are usually the best too.Can't just teach them to filter their water with simple mesh nets and boil it, no, we have to create the most complicated water management system in the history of the entire fucking world.
This would make the New York pipelines and the entirety of the Roman aqueducts system look like a retard playing with tinker toys by comparison.
Why not propose we travel to Europa and mine its frozen ice lakes to bring back to Africa? At least some important ancillary technology would come from that.
One of my pet botherings is the way people misrepresent the very thought of universal socialised healthcare as 'socialist' and something to be avoided at all costs.Well based off your previous post about water in Africa I'm guessing the concept that things cost money is a new one for you.
They say socialist like its a bad thing! I wonder if these people charge their next door neighbours for a band-aid.A single band-aid has literally no resale value but if my neighbor is expecting me to foot his expensive treatment I might object a little bit.
See what I mean when I say this guy has no concept of value?
Is he seriously expecting the band-aid analogy to work?
Healthcare is not left wing its not right wing its not centre either. Its completely apolitical. It is the most noble thought to have occured to the human mind. To help your fellow human being in their hour of need. Health is a right not a privelege.He makes it seem like everyone but the poor are so rich they can afford whatever the fuck they want and are just denying the poor to be assholes. Do you have any idea how many people are barely scraping by and an expensive medical problem would nearly break them, such that they now can't afford to help anyone else?
Where's the compassion for people like that?
"People like that", incidentally, are the most populous group in any developed nation.
They're called the middle class.
Things people say that don't make sense.Can we start with "piping sterilized ocean water through Africa is a viable solution to drought"?
*"Don't knock it until you've tried it".Oh shit. You sure got them, smartass.
Hmmm lets see. I'm anti-fascist and I don't need to try fascism to know that it'll never be for me. And the same goes for jumping from a 20-storey window and shooting myself in the face.
*"I don't vote in elections".I never understood this logic. If all of my choices are inherently shit and I choose not to deal with this garbage don't I have the right to complain?
The king of stupid sayings. It took us decades to get the vote and world wars to keep it. The least you can do is put an X on a bit of paper you selfish fuck. And if you don't, you surrender the right to complain about anything. Ever.
You picked the idiot in office, or worse, you picked the idiot so bad he couldn't even win so don't you lose your right to complain?
Do you believe in UFOs? Do you have a gut dis/belief or do you rely on empirical proof?If there's empirical proof for what it is--
it's no longer a UFO, is it?
What does the 'U' in UFO stand for, dipshit?
Yes. I say this because I saw...something one night that changed my opinion from being a dyed-in-the-wool sceptic to being aware that there is more to this universe than us and thats it.UNIDENTIFIED flying object.
And its not only me, at least 75% of the people I grew up with or am friends with now have seen some strange goings-on at some point above our town. I know, I know, it sounds like a Stephen King novel or something where there's a town that loads of people have seen this and treat it as an everyday thing! But its true.
MUST BE ALIENS!
Well you've now identified it, haven't you?
Of all the things that it could be why do you automatically conclude it must be aliens?
Never mind, actually. I gotta pick my battles with this idiot, clearly.
"We've got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money". - Barack Obama.Apparently Obama meant "by demographic" because he's certainly fucking over the middle class.
Actually the wealthy still have more money by demographic so I guess he's just a liar.
Do you believe in luck? Do you think some people are luckier than others? Do actions cause reactions or are there intervening forces beyond our control that govern our destinies?Man I sure miss writer's block.
No no and no. If fate really existed and we couldn't alter our course in life there would be no point in doing anything, ever. Fate is often confused by stupid people with coincidence.After the shit you've just said I think you've lost your right to call anyone else stupid.
Also that's bulletproof logic. If fate were a real thing do you really think you'd be capable of understanding fate as a reality?
And the same with life. If you didn't get that job/girl/whatever its not down to luck its down to how much you wanted it and what you were prepared (or not prepared) to do in order to succeed.That's an awfully utilitarian view from someone who said all that other shit in this blog.
So I see from my Daily Mirror today a pic of one of Girls Aloud (not sure which, but one that isn't Cheryl) looking ultra-skinny and gaunt with the predictable 'before and after' side pictures showing a healthy-looking young lady a few years ago that contrasts with the whippet-thin girl in the main article.Girls Aloud?
Is it 2004?
Now I'm not sure at this second if she's ill or whatever and thats the reason for her sudden weightloss. But plenty of celebs are super-skinny out of choice. But why?Well there you have it. No one wants skinny chicks. This dude and his friends have deemed it--
Every bloke I've ever talked to about this says the same thing: that they don't like ultra-thin women. And neither do I.
so it is.
Is it because they think its what geezers want? Because they're wrong if they do.I've seen this logic a disturbing number of times.
Us lads want women to be...womanly. Any fella that wants a girl with a body like a 12 year old boy I find slightly disturbing.
Like skinny chicks?
Nope fuck you you're either gay or a pedophile.
Well have fun, fatty fucker.
Obviously its the woman's choice what she does with her body but...all that effort if its in an attempt to attract boys is a little wasted on us.Yeah yeah go work on your salt treatment, asshole.
Thats what most males think anyway!
Evaporation is the fastest way to do that shit, incidentally.
Saved you a lot of time I'm sure.
Anyway this has already gone on way too long so I'm going now.
Goodbye.
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