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Leave the oil be

April 1st, 2009 | Author: admin

These days there are a select few lunatics running things everywhere, and they connect to each other to make very important decisions. It’s incredible how those in charge always make bad decisions, it makes it seem like they’re humans or something. The problem is that even if they are rambling mad, there’s really nothing you can do. They’ve been elected at some point, so they call the shots, and the only ones there to call them out when they do their deeds is the media, and while the media would rather cover the love life of some backwater singer that no one has heard about, humankind suffers.

Right now there’s the issue with oil. There’s a number of people working to create a world for future generations, there’s a few elected officials, there’s the oil companies that lobby for the elected officials, and then there’s the rest of us. So the oil companies go to the elected officials and scream and shout about how the economy will collapse if they’re not allowed to drill for oil in protected areas, even while statistics show that the opposite is true. Then the elected officials in the capital gets on the line with the elected officials from the districts. These elected officials have somewhere along the line been convinced that oil is the only way to keep their regions populated, despite the people expressing something completely different, so they agree wholeheartedly, and next thing you know the protected areas are no longer protected, and there’s a brand new pumping platform.

This would not be such a bad thing, after all the oil keeps us relatively rich, if it weren’t for the fact that it has certain effects. The first noticeable effect is the disappearance of fish. Even the tests that they do to see if there is any oil at all drives away and kills fish. The truth is that the only substantial wild cod population in the world resides in the Barets Sea, just north of Norway and Russia. So what does this have to do with oil at all? When they breed the population temporarily migrates to Lofoten, one area that the oil companies are showing an unhealthy amount of interest in.

Because of this, these areas have traditionally been populated by fishermen, and everything grew around that. Nowadays the ministers and mayors don’t seem to have much respect for this, and all they see is the wonderful oil, that will solve all the problems and cause immense growth for all. This is of course a fantasy, the oil companies offer a measly 2000 jobs if they do get to drill.

Then of course there’s the environmental perspective. Even the oil giants admit that they can’t be completely safe against accidents. They tried saying that after an accident once, and the next day there was a major one. There will be leakages, which we can’t really do anything about once it’s started except bring out the shovels. The whole oil way of doing things is very damaging anyways. Exhaust causes terrible air in cities, toxic rain destroys forests and water, gasses break down the ozone layer and in all probably causes global warming. It’s not pretty.

So what do you do? Vote Red. If SV gets enough power, and Red is there to see to it that they actually do what they’re promising that they will, things will all work out for the best. New cars will have to be able to run on alternative fuels after 2015, we’ll cut our emissions, and we’ll be able to do what our prime minister says is so easy to do: Just let the resource stay where it is. He said it about rainforests, why doesn’t the same apply to oil?

Sincerely

Bjørn

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Zero Punctutation

March 31st, 2009 | Author: admin

There’s this mentally unstable Australian guy reviewing videogames!!! Go go go before he gets taken down by the FED! He speaks really really fast! And he’s awesome!

He reviews videogames, like I said, but he does it in a quite different way. Instead of writing an article about it, or just talking to a camera, he has nifty and simplistic animations going, all in like four or five colors, materializing what he says. The rule of thumb is that he hates every game he plays, because all modern videogames are shit. He doesn’t hate videogames, he just gets a bit passionate about finding good ones.

Oh, and he designs simple games himself, but they aren’t really any good.

If you’re into videogames, and appreciate crazy people with funny dialects you should totally check him out. His videos are hosted on The Escapist, and you can check out his other stuff at Fullyramblomatic.

Song of the Blog: Genjitsu Touhi

Sincerely

Bjørn

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Reforms

March 30th, 2009 | Author: admin

I swear, these people have got too much spare time on their hands. Yes, I am aware of the hypocrisy.

These beaurocrats man, I am going to go postal one day, and it will all be because of them! They have absolutely nothing to do, so every now and then when they’re about to be fired for lack of need, they deliberately misinterpret some statistics, and start screaming and flailing, telling everyone that there’s something seriously wrong with the educational system, and that they’ve got all these brilliant ideas! Now everything will be better! And in one, two, three, we have a reform on our hands. Sometimes they’re in such a rush that they don’t even have the time to call it a reform before they get fired, so they just send out the proposal to teachers, and pretend that that’s what they’ve been working on all along, and that it’s actually just a part of the previous reform.

And somehow the shockwaves stemming from the actions of these raving lunatics always manages to hit my generation first! I believe it’s time for a short summary.

1st grade: Screw you! You’re not going to start in first grade! We’ve got a wonderful new reform, so you’ve got to skip directly up to 2nd grade!

8th grade (first year in middle school): They did something to the structure of teaching, can’t even remember what. Wasn’t major.

11th grade (first year in high school): We’ve got this brand new idea! We’re going to change the names of all of your subjects, the structure of the entire grading system, which subjects you can and have to take, you have to buy brand new books, plus a computer!

13th grade (last year of high school): We’re not going to let you leave one week early unless you show up to these lectures during your only free block!

13th grade (still last year of high school): We’re putting together a commission to make your exams guys! And they’re not going to be like anything you’ve done before, ever! Aren’t you lucky!

I swear, if they chuck one more reform at my generation they’re going to have either a mass suicide, or riots in the streets. Either way, it won’t be pretty! That last one we were informed of today, with exams less than two months away. Honestly, couldn’t they have waited two more friggin months? No, I suppose not, after all, they didn’t even have the time to call it a reform this time. I’m starting to believe that they’re doing it on purpose, just as an experiment to find out how much a generation can take before it crumbles. Don’t they have anything better to do?

Song of the Blog: Fuck You Very Much

Sincerely

Bjørn

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Computers

March 29th, 2009 | Author: admin

They are made of fail and AIDS. I swear, anything that steals my Sunday and keeps me more or less constantly annoyed does not have the right to exist, and yet I can’t destroy it, because this thing belongs to my sister. I could ofcourse tell her that it spontaneously combusted, but she might find that hard to believe, I don’t know.

So it all started as soon as I got up this morning. I get up at around half an hour past ten, I scrub the sleep out of my eyes, go upstairs, look upon the selection of breakfasts with displeasure, head back downstairs, and I ask my sister if she feels like tacos. “Nah, I’m leaving in 20 minutes. Hey my computer doesn’t work anymore, I turned it off last night, and it won’t turn on today. I got into recovery mode. Here fix it lol brb”
Well, that last part might not have been there, but otherwise it’s an accurate depiction of what happened. Me having been awake for a whole ten minutes or so stand unable to react to the flood of information. You got into recovery mode? Well what did you do??? Nothing, no ofcourse you didn’t, except you did, you just don’t know what you did, so you just shrug and leave me with the mess, isn’t that right?

So I try to save Windows first. It takes me all of 30 minutes or so to realize that this is hopeless. I can’t even get to the bloody login screen, and there’s no way to get into safety mode, because of this new vista implementation thing (recovery my ass). So I get out my Ubuntu live cd, thinking that as usual this will solve everything. But the bloody thing still doesn’t even make it to the login screen before it freezes! I might have cried a little, as I saw my sunday disappear like the morning dews before the rays of the sun.

So I whip out my Debian recovery cd, remembering that there was a problem with my friend’s Ubuntu too, and that he had the same computer. Because of this I make the erroneous assumption that it’s her wifi-card that’s gone bonkers, which probably wasted another hour or so. I try getting into a gparted live cd so I can set up an entirely new system, but gparted won’t let me do squat because the NTFS partition wasn’t unmounted properly. I’m getting really FRUSTERATED by this point, and YES it’s FRIGGIN spelled like that! Do you have a problem with it??

So I dig down to the bottom of my nerdpile, and locate my last shred of hope. Puppy Linux. To my intense glee, it boots perfectly! Little did I know that this was the worst thing that could happen, and was a stroke of incredible misfortune. It boots, so I assume that the hardware is working almost perfectly. Puppy doesn’t load any wifi drivers, so my theories are further strengthened. Now Puppy won’t touch the partition either, but it does let me mount it, and steal the files, butchering my own external harddrive in the process, just in case we have to send it off to be repaired. And then it freezes, and I’m like wtf?? But it’s chill, I probably just left it to its own devices for too long.

So I reboot, mount, unmount, reboot, and windows gets into recovery mode. By this time I have absolutely no idea why anything is working, but it does, so I don’t really care. Until it freezes ofcourse… Reboot, hey! Safety mode? Yes please! I don’t even make it to the login screen, it freezes whilst loading drivers. I’m about to start doing backflips over here. In desperation I try to just boot it normally while crossing my fingers and beating my head against the wall… And it works. I even get to log in as a guest… I try to get online, I have got to get a ccleaner! But I don’t even make it into the browser.

Puppy goes back in the cd-rom tray, mount, unmount, ubuntu goes in, I get into the system, gparted won’t do squat, and then a kernel panic. Puppy goes in again, but this time it doesn’t boot! Eureka, there’s an error while copying to RAM. Is the error reproducible? No, but it does occur randomly. Gentlemen, we are on to something, but it will be another hour until I actually whip out my screwdriverset and do something about it. If that damned microsoft memory-test had been any good at all, I would have had my Sunday, but no, of course not, we can’t trust those bastards to do anything right. After removing the first RAM chip, everything is coming up roses. You would think that I’d at least have to go through both of the chips before actually fixing anything, considering the incredible amount of bad luck I’ve been having today, but I guess once you’ve figured out what’s wrong, the gods of tech stop being assholes, it’s not funny anymore when it’s just postponing the inevitable.

So I’m actually sort of disappointed when the microsoft “recovery” thing claims to fix everything, and windows claims that it’s working like a charm despite having its memory chopped in half. I’m just itching to drive out Vista with holy water, just so I can get some peace of mind, I hate having that thing in the place that I call home.

I won’t write anything this geeky in a while, I promise, but had to vent. I’m sure some of you understand. Also, I know I’ve used this song before, but come on, I’ve got nothing else for this.

Song of the Blog: Hail to the Geek

Sincerely
Bjørn

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AIG Britons Have No Morals

March 28th, 2009 | Author: admin

So there are these AIG employees that have gone to the media and said that they refuse to give back the bonuses that they were given, because they see nothing morally wrong about keeping them.

Are these people truly that far removed from this world? How can anyone see that their business is going down the shitter, say oh well, and proceed to help themselves to millions of said business’s money? Anyone doing this simply must be aware of the moral implications of this action, there is no way around this. The money was given to the company so that it could survive to repay the money that they owe, so taking a piece for yourself is downright theft.

I know the AIG bonuses are old news, and they’re not really what angers me, it’s the audacity that these people come out and publicly announce that they have no ethical sense! They’re telling normal people that they think it’s perfectly okay to steal from them. They’re giving Obama the finger, and he can’t really do anything about it aside from talking to them in his mean-voice. They’re saying that having a lot of money gives you the right to take more money, no matter how rough times are for others. They are living proof that money corrupts.
The solution seems obvious to me, we must achieve Socialism.

Song of the Blog: Kryptonite

Sincerely
Bjørn

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