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"Well it should be!"

In criminology public order crime is defined as "...crime which involves acts that interfere with the operations of society and the ability of people to function efficiently"

in my book this would include enacting the DRM, invention and continued production of unstable computer OS and public phone surveys.

Gay is the new black

They have been under fire from many aspects of society, some treat them as diseased, a threat to society, sub-normal or mentally ill, religious communities have treated them as sinners and laws have been made to limit their rights and ridicule their existence even further only because they are considered as different.

Now I could be talking about a lot of things here, African descent, Women, Homosexuals, Jew, Chinese, Muslims, Anglo Saxon, Christian, Arab, Mac users, Communist or just pick any social, ethnic, political group and I mean any and I can assure you they have been ridiculed one way or the other.

Today Gay is the new black, but not in a good way.

Fun things I do when I'm bored

The U.S Second Amendment reads;

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

I'm no legal expert, I wish I was but I'm not, so honestly I have no idea what's being said here and I'm willing to bet that I don't think the majority of people REALLY understand what it's saying. So I'm going to break it down despite of my lack of knowledge (granted to me by the powers of free speech).

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State..."

The first issue here is the definition of Militia, to my understanding it's just about everyone who can pick up arms when required by the governing body (not necessarily the State) to conduct martial activities.
What of the term "well regulated"? would it be safe to assume that it means an organized regularly trained group? if so "A well regulated Militia" could mean any able bodied individual who are part of a regularly trained militaristic group. In modern terms this could fall into several categories; the military, civil defense groups and police force* amongst others, basically paramilitary.
So as a whole the first part could read as "In the interest of State security, a regularly trained force are necessary"

Now for the second part,

"...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Well, taken out off context this reads exactly like what it says, that "the people have the right and shall continue to have the right to have and bear arms" (but not arm bears which I don't think is very fair). Now since they separate "Keep" and "bear" I would assume keep means own and bear means to carry and the rest should basically be quite clear.

When the whole passage is read it would read as "In the interest of State security, a regularly trained force are necessary and that the people have the right to own and carry arms"

Or should it be read as "Every member of a professionally trained military or paramilitary group are allowed to own and carry weapons in the interest of State security"?

Like I said I'm not a legal expert, heck I'm not even American so why should I care right? I don't, really, I just have too much time on my hand.

*The Police force while not a military body conducts the role of the guardian as defined by Plato though on a different scale.

"...duh...."

This guy sounds like some guy I know back in junior high when asked about his homework, what did he say you ask? well I don't recall, I remembered he said it but I don't recall what it was.

Flickers

7:45 AM
Light: *flick* *flick*
Me: huh? meh probably temporary
8:10
Light:*flick* *flick* *flick*
Me: This is getting annoying
Light: *flick* *flick* *flick*
9:00
*light bulb in hand*
Me: Let's see you flick again!

"The spice must flow"

It's amazing how money has the ability to disappear without any sort of logical explanation, it's impossible that I spent more money in one week than I usually do in a month without any sort of major purchase. Why is it every time I decide to save some cash for something else it just seem to evaporate? and when I don't have any intention of saving money for a particular purpose it just piles up before something happens and I have to spend more than I want? I hate cosmic balance.

Oooh Pretty colors......

Me: I think I'll go change my template from that gaudy brownish to something else
Me: hmmm...blue looks good, easy on the eyes and has that calming effect to it, I'll just rid of that dumb arrows when I figure out how
*clicks "use this template"*
Blogger: Are you sure you want to change you're template? you will loose all your changes in the previous template
Me: *Click O.K*
Me: wait, wtf? NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-_-

There comes a time where someone would just stop and ask themselves "Where the hell am I going with this?"

Iovis Dies

Ah yes, Thursday, the 4th regular working day, the fifth day of the week if you believe in the "Sunday first" convention, and one day away from a weekend, which I would be able to enjoy if I don't have to work on the weekend again on BOTH days, but enough about that, we're talking about Thursday now. Has anyone ever wondered why hey call it Thursday? was it supposed to be the 3rd day of the week? or is it because it's three days before Sunday? No Thursday happens to be Thor's day, yes, the Norse god of Lightning/Thunder.

But wait, why does the predominantly Christian society that is the English recognize a germanic pagan god? even to a point where they call to it more times than they say "Jesus", while at the same time Roman culture was the predominant culture in most of Europe in the pre-Christian era. Some of the European languages makes reference to Jupiter when referring to this day and not Thor, even the Japanese call this day Mokuyoubi in reference to Mokusei or the planet Jupiter in which the planet was named after the Greek god of lightning.

So what's with the reference to a Norse god instead of a a Greek one like most Europeans do? This is because the English language and culture are more exposed to the old Germanic culture before the Romans set their foot into what is now called England.

For those overtly devout Christians who wonder "why must we make reference to pagan gods every time we refer to certain days of the week?", It's because if you don't you'll have a Mjolnir shoved up your hole and be struck down by bolts of lightning.

Go with dumb

Now, selling stupid at an affordable rate.

"I have a dream"

I usually don't talk about the things I see during my sleep, mostly I don't even remember dreaming other times it's just too insignificant. Last night however was different I can vaguely remember it clearly, it was about a new apple software called "theater", a movie making program that works just like garage band but with an interface like iMovie, sort of a cross between the two.

It works like garage band because you can pick, drop and various actors and actions from the palette, non generic speeches/sound are recordable just like in GB, all "actors" speeches are synchronized with their lip movements while non generic actions actions can personally be added with apple's camera and have the "actors" imitate the recorded action. A wide range of sample scripts are available for the users to choose and are also editable.

The tag line on the package says "Like Hollywood in a box"

Thus spoke the Sundanese

Once again proving Indonesian linguistic superiority

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After watching 300 I was reminded of something that my lecturer mentioned back when I was still doing my undergraduate studies; that societies are shaped through habits, rituals written and unwritten laws and values, and what better way to enforce values than using the various forms of mass media. The power of the media is so potent that the mass (or general public) may be socially conditioned or engineered by constant exposure of a concept.

300 is by no means the most violent movie I've ever watched but it is a prominent feature with rolling heads, detached arms and feet and an excessive amount of stabbing. Yet as I was watching it I saw some people grimaced over what was happening on the screen while some (including myself) just sat there and watched it like any other movie, I was not shocked or excited as some people may have done when I saw some heads flew, I said excited because some people do like to over react on some things (and I try to avoid watching movies with people with such reaction), I just watched it with no particular emotional thought and not because I know it's just a movie, in fact I do believe (with scientific and historical proof) wars in such period is that violent if not more, but perhaps more to the fact that I've been exposed to that amount media violence that it becomes normal.

What becomes my concern is when people personally witness such violence for the first time would they react the same way to it as they have reacted to media presented violence, with indifference, or would they react differently? Mind you that my concern is not about seeing the negative or positive aspect about desensitization but merely questioning whether desensitivity towards media presented violence translate to "real" violence.

(Long)Weekend update

I wonder why I feel so tired this morning, I just got off a 3 day weekend....oh wait that's probably why. Unsurprisingly nothing special happened over the weekend, except for Sunday. Last Friday I ducked out of work early because I needed to see someone regarding other employment options and a few other things we talked for about 4 and a half hour about the type of work, possible placement, the state of the clienteles and how to deal with them and so on and so forth.

I can't seem to remember what happened on Saturday aside from playing games and reading books I even have doubts about that......oh wait that's right I went out shopping for food.

Sunday..... now I have to say I really enjoyed last Sunday, a very good friend of mine came over to take a look at the newly born kittens. I spent the first half of the day preparing the ingredients I bought the day before and waiting for the right time to cook, the dilemma with spaghetti is that they're really easy to cook yet they cool off quite quickly so needed to wait for the right moment to cook it, even then she ended up coming in later than I thought so when she told me she was about 10 minutes away I had to reheat the food, it ended up being too dry for my taste but my friend said she liked it so I was relieved and I still can't come up with a name for my own cooking. We then chatted for a while, catching up on a few things and talked about our problems, I just don't like her comment on my tie collection, I like my tie. It's not everyday I can enjoy my weekend like last Sunday......and I do realize how stupidly giddy I was for the day.

Monday was hot, I can't see how else to describe it, it must have been the hottest day since the previous Monday, so I decided to make myself a kiwi-strawberry juice semi-slurpee to cool things off while watching a sumo match on TV. Good thing it rained at noon for a few hours, it rained hard enough and long enough to stop the silly preacher from talking for the rest of the day, sadly they came back at night.....they always come back at night.

So that was it, that was my weekend it's a bit of a mixed bag, thankfully nothing disastrous happened.

Food for thought

for some reason this just popped into my head:

Salmon wrapped fried chicken (serves 1-3)

4-6 pieces of medium sized chicken breast
4-6 thinly sliced salmon
2 eggs
50g flour
3-4 cloves of garlic

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-Heat water until half boiled
-Peel and crush garlic
-Add crushed garlic to boiling water
-Boil chicken until cooked
-Beat egg in a bowl
-Wrap each chicken pieces with salmon
-Dip salmon wrapped chicken to the egg
-cover with flour
-Deep fry until brown
-Serve with lemon slices and tartar sauce or melted garlic butter and mashed potatoes

"I hold these..."

It is said that truth goes through three stages, first it is ridiculed, then it's violently attacked and finally it is self-evident. I have no disagreement about this concept however I would not consider the third stage to be the final stage, I'd like to propose another stage of the, that is of irrelevance for the truth will remain true until it is proven false or it looses its relevance.

So awesome it's.....

This goes to my list of things that should exist but doesn't, seriously.

Serenity

While it is an awesome movie no this entry is not about the movie. I now have new office area it's small, cold and if you're claustrophobic you'd hate it but since I'm not I actually like it, it gives me space to do my own thing without a lot of distraction. The bad thing is I have to swap with my other colleague every other week so I only get to use it for 2 weeks in a month.