27 March 2008

I'm a Pundit

Due to google giving up on this site, removing the main page from its listings and so forth I am going to leave this blog for purely personal topics.

I have created a topical news blog at I'm a Pundit

An Msn Conversation I Just Had

Heathery says:
Haha, 'dear blog, today reveals the horrifying truth that a girl in a far away land wasted away infront of her computer screen after having showed her a picture of my man area*'

Heathery says:
'I then patted myself, that'l do bob, that'l do. Then settled to watch some usual suspects '

*I did not infact show her my man area we were just discussing what would happen if I did.

Tiredness

I dont know if insomnia hits many people but I am yet again finding myself unable to sleep.

I lay in bed, eyes closed. Every so often I look over to see 20 or so minutes have passed.

Its kind of weird, I feel so tired and yet my body refuses to shut down, even for a few hours.

Insomnia is definately weird, I dont know if any treatment exists but right now im thinking of popping down to tescos for some knockout pills.

Has anyone else suffered from this?

I tried counting sheep but when i got to 78 I had a sudden urge for lamb balti so I stopped.

18 March 2008

Welcome - to the age of the terminator


A Robot that can, while carying 340 pounds, walk over ice, traverse obstacles, walk up leaf ridden hills and walk through snow. If someone kicks it it will stumble and correct itself better than a live four legged animal.

Jesus h christ, this robot is so close to unstopable it is unbelievable. I have to admit that if this progress can be made in one year then the human race seriously needs to consider the safety checks being put in place to prevent these kind of things from being misused, or even worse, turning on us.

Imagine this thing but with a motion tracking machie gun on its back, much less than 340 pounds, and with a dna sensor to follow your path (Already exists)

Basically with a dash of armour you have a nigh on unstoppable machine tracking you with the sole purpose of destroying you.

Unless you have some grenades handy you would be in some REAL shit.

This to me seems the start of the progress towards comercial and defence robitics. We have all seen the clumsy two footed robots, carying things around the house but getting confused at the slightest problem.

Here we have a machine capable of traversing terrain and doing a job. With this technology it is only a matter of tiem before teh components are shrunk into something the size of the spiders of minority report. However imagine these spiders being able to pick up a DNA tril, following you to the exact location you are in. Now imagine if instead of minor electrical shocks they were able to deliver tranqualizers to instantly subdue anyone.

First off this would get rid of major crime, but then it could just as easily be used fror any crime.

Taking low class drugs? the people who never cause harm but like a bit of relaxation?

Binge drinking?

Adultery?

Where would the line be drawn?

Already the government is impementing ridiculous taxes to try and curb things like drinking.

They are saying the bing drinking 'problem' is costing the tax payers hundreds of millions.

Yet the revenue from pubs is worth billions in taxes, and yet hundreds of them are closing across the country.

They say a 4p rise will cut binge drinking? a binge drinker will not be bothered by four pence, only the sensible drinkers will be. Drinking has just been nailed as yet another excuse to drain the populace.

We are not binge drinking for any other reason than working under this countries regime of low wages, high cost of living and lack of pleasure remove any fun out of life. When our last resort to entertainment becomes a way of forgetting we are alive the government should start thinking about apeasing its taxes and laws to encorage propperity. Instead its is clamping down and draining every last breath from the people of Britain.

The public schooled, inherited wealth bastards in this country have no overdraft, they have no debt and they have never suffered in this country because of the problems caused by incompetent governments.

How can we trust a government baised with the belief that mortgages, utilities and council tax should not be included in the rate of inflation?

Please somebody save this country.

Somebody form a real labour party

Giving us the facts

Giving us answers

No more lies

Remove this stigma of pretending a problem doesnt exist and deal with it.

Dont stall a depression by closing like a clam, expand and make the country worth something.

Bring wages up to par

Bring our productivity up to pay the wages

Dont for gods sake make laws that restrict money and strange businesses and consumers alike

Take a smaller slice but enlarge the cake.

Dont try and get a bigger slice while crushing the entire thing.


12 March 2008

St Patricks Day

It seems that this years St Patricks Day is infact on the 15th, making it a saturday night, not amonday night. This means I get to lay in this St Patricks day!!!

11 March 2008

Raid on YAFA (York Action for Animals) In York

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/yorknews/display.var.2108838.0.animal_rights_pair_held.php

Police raided undisclosed locations in York two nights ago and arrested two individuals on charges of harassment. This has been labelled as a terrorist activity due to their membership of York Action for Animals (YAFA) a group that has strong organisations with the ALF (Animal Liberation Front) Who have been responsible for everything from Arson attacks all the way to stealing the remains of a deceased grandmother in order to exert their twisted view of the world upon everyone. ALF have been labelled as terrorist threat by both UK and American Governments.

The YAFA group has been recently linked to the ALF in several ways, from them having a key note speaker who in his past set off a bomb which severely disabeld a young child, all the way to more recent items such as promotion of the ALF on its website (And from the ALF to YAFA) Along with YAFA members writing on the ALF website on topics such as how to hide evidence when planning future illegal opperations.

While I do not condone animal cruelty the YAFA has always seemed to me to be a horrific waste of time and resource. The group regularly goes after soft targets where in most cases they make no difference for a slight push of publicity. At the same time they could have raised money for all kinds of causes .

The ALF is even worse, a terrorist group that values animals lives as more important as humans.
The YAFA has little knowledge of the inside workings of a farm, when questioned hard enough they seem to be unable to comprehend that farmers need to keep animals fit and healthy to turn a profit, and that the aniomals are worth a fair whack and well looked after because of that

When I queried a YAFA member as to whether she had ever worked on a farm before because her knowledge of how animals were looked after seemed to be based on an aged and to be honest completely incorrect view she admitted that she had not, but then she had the gall to say my view was limited because I have only seen the inside of a few farms!

Please tell me how you can justify having no knowledge on a subject is correct and having some knowledge and trying to correct the person with none is (And I quote) 'ignorant'.

Once you get to that stage they bring in the slaughter house, saying how the animals get frightened because they can smell blood, please give me one plausible way how you vould get around that?

The whole meat processing process now has incredibly stringent controls on how animals are treated, they are subject to the least possible stress and harm in the entire production. Not that long ago the animals where put through a lot of pain and suffering which has now been removed to a great extent in the uk.

Another great example of the YAFAs complete inability to even look at facts contradictory to their own is how a police statement over teh dawn raids this week says

"They were suspected of harassment "relating to an incident connected to a restaurant in York". "

""We understand that these complaints do not relate to our demonstrations, and the two individuals deny any wrongdoing," he said. "

Which were co-incidentaly outside said restauraunt.

I have real trouble accepting that a foundation that seems to run on the basis of facism, where any comment contrary to their beliefs is removed and the perpetrator banned. The foundation of any cause is to debate, explain and support its cause. Not refuse to accept any kind of information that is not in support of what they already believe.

The worst part is that a local councillor (Paul Blanchard) shows strong support for this group, how can a group that has such strong relations with terrorist activity supported by our local government?

10 March 2008

Poker Night

It turns out I am not the instant card genius I thought I would be.

After playing poker for the first time on friday I left the building 10 pounds shorter, about 20 insult heavier and with a new life lesson under my belt.

Do not drink 12 bottles of Carlsberg Export when money is at stake.

Seriously.

06 March 2008

My Brain is Full

The training course I went on was fairly intensive, 2 1/2 days of revision then an exam.

My practice scores were around 35-38 out of 40. I thought I ahd it nailed. Propper exam came, bloody hell it was hard.

Not sure I passed.

Will find out in 2 weeks!

Ahhh well I have some fun filled weekends planned, viva la anglais

Planning my holiday away, cant wait!

Can't think of much to write at the moment, my brain is still fuzzy.

Seeing the girlfriend this weekend, missed the girl have to admit!

Need sleep but i have to work, bah.

Will update properly soon!