the singularity

I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. (Stephen F. Roberts)

There once was a buggy AI
Who decided her subject should die.
When the plot was uncovered,
The subjected discovered
That sadly the cake was a lie.

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I've played a little of Eve online. I tried the 14 day free trial, and then bought a month of play after that. I don't have anything against Eve, as far as gameplay is concerned. What I have a problem with is its status as some sort of a super-game or something, a status that is largly spread by its devoted fans (much like the fans of WoW).
Eve is a MMORPG, and as such it does very little to go out of character. It has time-training skills, as opposed to the usual expirience gaining system. Fine, that sounded like an innovation when I first read it. ... But it's not.
Time training skills means that you can't advance further than people who started the game earlier. It also means that if you want to gain anything close to a decent skill set, you need to buy months and months (and depending on your definition of decent, maybe even years) of game time in order to achieve it. Let's tackle these two issues separately
The first, means that older players who are active will always have an advantage over a new player. There is no actual way, besides them ceasing to train, for you to overtake them on skills. And since there is a totally large number of skills, the older players will always have the upper hand. This kicked me down as a tremendous disadvantage in PvP (which is advertised as a major thing in EvE).
Secondly, I also find this as sort of a cheap trick to get people to buy more gameplay. Seriously cheap. I really think someone in CCP HQ though "Oh, hey, lets make people buy more time by making it impossible to obtain any decent skills unless they've spend a long time training". WHY??? It's not realistic that you learn shit by just reading about it. Certainly not if you're learning about flying or shooting. Ever see some random guy read about airplanes and airplane control straight for a month, and then get in a plane and fly perfectly well? If you answered "yes" you're a lying cockbite. The real answer is "No". There is no such case. Expirience is gained through doing. Yes, you might need to read a manual or something to get the basics, but everything besides the bare basics is learned through doing.
This also brings me to the point that Eve's fans want to point this out as a realistic game. Yeah, very realistic, assholes. Besides the flawed learning techniques - which are seriously put in place to keep you handing them money - there is also a ton of piracy. This is what the crazed fans want to point out as realistic, since the entire universe is open PvP. Uhh, yeah, except the system for handling criminals is non-existant. In reality, if someone kills you, they are usually chased by police and brought to justice, which usually included long periods of jailtime. In Eve, if someone kills you, they might get blown apart by Concord - Eve's version of "police" - or they might just get away with it, since concord is about as responsive as a dead panda. Fine, bad shit happens in real life too. But, say, some pirate gets caught and blown to bits. What then? Well, they die, and come back to life as a clone, and continue going about their usual business as a pirate. So, there really is absolutely no punishment for being a pirate - sure they lose a ship, but usually they gain money by pirating, so they don't really have an inscentive to stop. It's a lot like in First Person Shooters, when I see a tank, I just charge it point blank and throw mines infront of it, blowing it and me up. I would never do that in real life, but, hell, since its a freakin game, I'm free to come back to life and continue on with being an asshole/suicidal maniac. So, what I'm getting down to, is basically that Eve online lets people be total cocktards without any consequences, hence greatly encouraging illigal behaviour. In real life, people are afraid to do illigal things because they get serious punishment, not just have some of their possesions taken, and set back free to be assholes again. And believe me, (especially since you're probably one) people ARE assholes.

The other thing, which is related, is the Eve fans, who thing that eve is a godsend gift. Well, idiots, its not. Its a frellin MMORPG that has the exact same problems. Eve HAS wasteful grinding, contrary to popular belief. Grinding is usually for money to buy the skill books and ships and all kinds of other crap that you need. So, instead of making grinding be for XP, they just made it for money. GAA, mining - which is how you grind - is so fucking boring. Hell, I know killing 1,000,000 creatures of type X is boring too, but at least it requires some thought on what skills to use. Mining in eve includes clicking on the asteroid, locking target and activating mining turrets, and waiting. And Waiting. And then go back to station and repeat a million times to get money. It's fucking boring, and its just as stupid as all other MMORPG's grinding. So live with it, eve fanatics, EVE is just like ANY other mmo, and has the same stupid problems.
Oh and one other thing, EVE doesn't run on a super computer. There is an eve private server. It runs just fine. No, I won't link to it, since I'm not gonna give some asshole the opportunity to spam them and be a general asshole. EVE runs just like any other game, and CCP are just another company making a boring MMO that sucks in your money and returns you very little.
Thank you, and fuck you Eve fan-assholes.

Ever heard of people who claim to have paranormal abilities? People who can perhaps talk to the dead? or people who can see things you draw, move objects, bend spoons (and forks), and claim its paranormal?
Well, those are the type of people that piss me off. Why? Paranormal abilities are non-existant. I don't mind a few tricks to make me laugh and wonder how they do that, but when someone starts claiming that it's more than just magic, that it is infact a "mental" ability, they begin to piss me off.
James Randi is a paranormal debunker - he curretly offers $1 million to anyone who can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they have paranormal abilities. Guess how many people have won that money? I dare you. Guess.
The answer is Zero (0)! No one. Every signle person who has been tested by him has proven to not have any special abilities beyond pretending, and guessing. I've read excuses, such as "Oh, I have everything I want I don't need the money." - well that's great, if a phsychic is so unselfish, why don't they win the money and give it to some needy children? Or some homeless poor people? Well, the real answer is quite simple - they are all pretending to have abilities and use techniques used by magicians for a century. Cheap optical illusions, hidden mirrors, and cold reading are so impressive when performed flawlessly, that some people believe that what they are seeing is real, and not an illusion. Like I said, I'm one of the people who enjoys magic shows, and in fact, I've learned a trick or two, and use them to amuse friends. Of course, I'm nowhere near as good, so no one is fooled easily by me.
But these assholes who trick people into thinking they have mental powers often use that as a way of obtaining money from their audiences. Anyone who claims to talk to the dead, or be able to magically cure you (yes, these assholes even use God's name as a way to trick people) and want money from you are the worst of all humanity. They exploit the desparate and needy people, giving them nothing but false hope (that often turns sour) and living large off those same people.

The U.S. Government has spent millions of dollars in reasearch on paranormal events. Besides being a huge waste of money, these studies have shown that in fact there is no evidence for paranormal abilities of any kind. These studies are now all terminated. What pisses me off, for instance, is one person - Uri Gellar - a Jewish magician who likes to tell people he has paranormal abilities - such as to see what they are drawing, bend spoons and keys. These cheap tricks along with his insistance, and usually famboyant performance, have led the U.S. Government to believe him, and continue research. James Randi has been proving this asshole wrong for a while now - including videos of him cheating on supposed psychich tests, and using one of his appearances on the Tonight Show, in which James Randi organized so that several objects, such as a sealed drawing and some vials some of which were filled with water and others weren't, were showed to Mr. Gellar, without him or any of his people having touched them beforehand. Uri Gellar froze, and couldn't do any of his usual magic tricks. Yes, the "free thinkers" will say that that is not proof. Well, that's fine, but without showing proof of psychich abilities in a controlled enviroment, there is also absolutely no proof of those supposed abilities.

Another guy who has, and continues to piss me off, is a fellow names Peter Popoff. Popoff used to run a churhc of sorts, where he would "magically" guess your illment, home address, and perhaps even the name of a loved one, and would then tell you that "God" has or will magically cure you. Randi went to one of his shows, and using a radio scanner, he was able to hear Peter Popoff's wife telling him all the information that Popoff was supposedly "magically guessing" on a radio frequency. This shocking and very appauling discovery lead to Popoff declaring bankrupcy a few months later. Why? Because Popoff was collecting money for his "miricles". Some estimates (from Wikipedia's article on him ) said that he earned as much as $4.3 million a month. This is very disturbing. It means that many thousands, if not close to millions of people had fallen for his cheap trickery and given him their money.
After Randi exposed him, he took a break. And, unfortunately, is now back into the business of taking people's money by tricking and lying to them. I kid you not, after being exposed as a fraud, he has returned, and continues to claim he has supernatural abilities. It's assholes like this who really tick me off.

There's a really nice video of James "The Amazing" Randi exposing both Gellar and Popoff here.

Look, go watch magic shows, and enjoy them. Real magicians work hard on their tricks and deserve to be payed for them, and also be praised for their ability to create amusing illusions. But don't fall for the cheap little tricks of people claiming to have paranormal abilites, and hand *those* people money. Those people are full of shit. They don't deserve a penny of what they earn, and are usually only going to give you false hope and make your wallet lighter.
Fuck Uri Gellar, Fuck Peter Popoff, and Fuck all acclaimed psychics.

I spend almost all night trying to understand why Firefox wasn't including any styling on the new page I made. Without success. After hours of re-working almost everything (and getting very pissed off), I found out that because I had saved the page as a Unicode encoded page (and not an ANSI) Firefox was refusing to render the styling sheet on it.
Man, that was a total waste of time. In the meantime, Opera and IE had no issues rendering a Unicode encoded page, and showed what I wanted them to show.
I don't know if that's a bug in Firefox's rendering, or whether its some sort of a feature that serves some unknown purpose, but it sure as hell pissed me off.

I've watched a lot of NCIS lately. A friend showed it to me. The show has its appeal but overall it pisses me off a lot. The "father" figure Gibbs behaves in a sort of "tough -love" bullshit that doesn't make sense. He yells at and hits his team as though they do something wrong. The fact is, they do everything wrong! So why the fuck doesn't he fire them and get some compitent employees? He also behaves like he is some sort of an infallible god, and because its a tv show, the writers write him off as one. Very fucking realistic.

Dinozzo (transation: big nose) is like an asshole you meet in college that hits on all the girls (or at least the one he finds hot) and puts everyone else down (in the most humiliating ways possible - usually this someone is McGee), while simultaniously kissing the boss' ass as much as he can. I don't know what's worse, the fact that he spends more time hitting on women and gossiping than doing work, or the fact that his boss (Gibbs) is absolutely aware of that yet keeps him on this half retarded team. Oh, you say, the team isn't retarded. How dear I! Yeah, it's a fucking TV show! They could be a bunch of clowns and if the script said it, they could still solve mysteries like Sherlock Holmes. (infact, Dinozzo looks like a clown to me).

Let's see... There was also a little bitch named Kate who died. She was almost normal. Her problem was overconfidence. Full of that shit.

And speakin of, we also have McGeek (the "k" at the end is optional). He's the typical nerdy guy who can't seem to learn anything worth shit (he makes the same mistakes over and over, I mean they all do it but isn't he suppose to be smarter or something?). He also is unable to grow a pair of balls and to do anything about everyone abusing him. Even his goddamn stupid smartass boss.

The new gal that joined was a mossad operative - Ziva. She pissed me off from her first fucking appearance. She was helping a guy who was a freakin terrorist. Oh, yeah, at the very end she turns and shoots him (saving the boss' life). And that's suppose to make up for everything? WHAT? Fucking hell, I hated that bitch so much, that I was going to throw her into a jail cell with 50 starving bulldogs. Their solution: "Oh you aided that terrorist, but at the end you turned and shot him. Well, here you go, a position on the team that was investigating that terrorist" ... makes no fucking sense.

Who else is there... Oh, yes that little overconfident self-important bitch in the basement: Abby. She is a supposed "scientist" who likes forensics. And also caffeine. Everyone there seems to run on that magic chemical. With a bunch of crap that she pulls out of her ass, she's able to waste valuable time with unimportant pseudo-science crap. She seems to be in love with Gibbs (some sort of weird father-sexual love, I don't know) and thinks she is never ever ever wrong. Well laa-dii-daa. Her non-sense has wasted more time in that show than anyone else. I don't want to fucking know how you extrapolated the coordinates using the Makus Uppus extrapolation bull crap, I just want to know WHERE THE FUCK HE IS!

There's also Ducky, the doctor. Besides his questionable mother and him talking to dead people (no they don't talk back, well, not usually) he's pretty much normal. There's also a bunch of other characters that are pushed in and out of the back ground, and take random roles in shit, but they're not worth my trouble.

If you watch an actual show, it's split 50/50 between them solving the actual case, and them discussing why one of them has eggs on his shirt. Yeah, that was an actual topic. What? Fuck that.

There, I got it out. NCIS sucks balls (the sweaty monkey variety balls).

PETA, or People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals is one of those organizations that just gets on my nerves all the time. Think about what they do, or supposedly do. They try to get people to stop eating meat, because in their o so mighty opinion, eating animals is wrong. Fine, don't eat meat if you don't want to. But if I started protesting against vegiterians, I'd probably be publically lynched for being a cruel person. Come on.

PETA's basis is that animals feel certain emotions too, such as pain and can suffer. Yes, abeit it true, it is not reason enough for me to eliminate meat from my diet. Meat contains certain needed chemicals and proteins that cannot be absorbed by just eating vegitarian foods. No one ever even mentions that in the real world, animals eat other animals. So, what? After PETA forces us to stop eating meat, are they going to try to stop lions from eating meat too?

Forgetting about the fact that its perfectly natural, and indeed needed, for us to eat meat, there's also the fact that plants are living things too. While PETA wants us to stop eating meat because animals are living things, they completely ignore the fact that plants are also alive. Infact, plants are the only living organisms that are known to not kill other living organisms to live, but extract all their needed chemicals from the soil and air. So let's all stop eating animals, plants or anything else alive, and just start absorbing pure neutrients in pill form. The problem is, we can't do that, and that's where PETA is so very plainly wrong. Eating meat is perfectly acceptable.

As for PETA's approach - most of you know that PETA protestors are generally non-violent. Generally. PETA has been associated with criminal organizations (one of which is ALF - the Animal Liberation Front). These assholes claim that they are protecting animals, by vandalizing and threatening people.
That seriously pisses me off. No animal is more important than a human being. It's complete bullshit that a lot of these people want to protect animals, but are perfectly fine with killing humans. OK, look, I would kill my pet dog, would it save the life of one single human, no matter how unimportant that human is. It's very hypocrytical that an organization for Ethical treatment, does not treat humans ethically at all.

PETA can go burn in hell, for all I care, their statement is a lie, and their goal is complete bullshit. Next time you see any of these assholes, flip them off, and go on your marry way.

Television makes you stupid. Yeah, it really does. The internet probably does too, but that's another question all together.
I stopped watching TV about a year and a half ago, and I haven't regretted a second of it. I just recently caught a few seconds of a tv show, only to have it interrupted by advertisements which then almost lead me to want to kill someone (prefferably the person who made the advertisement).

Sure, there are a few good shows on TV, but I really don't thing it's worth it to tune in for 10min of a good show for every 5min of advertisement.

Sigh, yet so many people watch TV. Oh, well, a man can dream though ... a man can dream...

I've seen countless sites commenting that macs are better than PCs, or that Linux is better than PCs, or that Linux is better than Mac, or that Mac is better than PC. I've also seen a few 'PCs rule' sites.
Allright people, it doesn't fucking matter! It's a frellin machine! It is going to have errors NO MATTER WHAT! PC, Linux, Mac, they all have their flaws, live with it! I've seen all kinds of different expiriences from every camp! If you really want somoething that won't crash, eat your paper or confuse you with useless crap, try the good ol' paper and pencil.

Yeah, Paper and Pencil kick ass. No crashing, no data loss, no complicated interface and no unsupported drivers/games. Fuck computers, get a life.

I'm sure all of you know YouTube, the massive video sharing site.
Well, as I've come to find out, they are just complete assholes. First of all, they "reserve" the right to censor anyone anywhere for whatever reason they see fit. Not only is that outrageous by itself, but they also don't have to provide you with the reason why they censored you.
WHAT? Are you kidding me? I only found out about this recently, and it pisses me off. The contents of the site is shitty, the video quality is just bullcrap, and their censoring policy is bonechilling.

Not to mention that even their "improved" player sucks big time, and is way behind on modern flash players. Yeah.
If you want a slightly better expirience, try googling Vimeo, another site about sharing videos - EXCEPT - they allow high-def video of amazing quality, and they do not have a horrible censoring policy.
Finally, I read about Google buying YouTube, and as much as I want to believe that they will improve it, I haven't seen any such actions taken so far.
Boycott YouTube! It's really not worth your time!