Reviewing Pirated media is like driving in a stolen car…

car-lightWell it seems reviewing a pirated copy of X-Men Origins cost a Fox Columnist his job.  After all reviewing pirated media today is like driving in a a stolen car, even if your not the driver.  Its not like you stole the car, you just needed a lift to work.  After all, you don’t even know the guy who stole the car, he seems like a nice guy, heavy accent and calls you ‘My Friend.’ But you were in the car, got a peek under the seat and maybe drank a little from the whiskey bottle.

At this point we all have come across Pirated material since it is so easy to find, however, no one seems to realize what copyright really means.  Some will see it like driving in a stolen car. You might get out of the car before the police catch the criminal or you might be thrown in jail.  We are on that thin gray line that the law of copyrighted material hangs, like the metal thread holding a painting.

So after you get out of the car, the first thing you do is tell all your friends and write about it in a column for a national media company.  This way your telling the world, how you broke the law and how easy this can be done.  While there currently is a gray line for copyright material, I think that this journalist is currently removing frames from his office that use to hang on a metal thread and placing them in box.  You can bend the law, but maybe you shouldn’t write about it to the world.

Bill Gates Opening some windows…

Bill Gates is no longer on tv commercials sharing a room with Jerry Seinfeld.  No.  He’s showing the caring side, the loving side now.  His foundation is the largest non-profit. He’s still the richest man alive and it looks like he’s talking with the future president through the future vice-president.  A couple of years ago this would have been scary.  But today’s economy maybe having Bill Gates advise the president-elect might be something helpful.

After all Microsoft is still a global enterprise, despite a huge disaster of Windows Vista.  Hmmm.  The United States is still a world leader despite the huge disaster of the Iraqi war.  That is only the beginning of the similarities. This country has had its share of poor leadership and buggy software as it glides through a stormy economy and a changing world.  If you look at popularity in the world market, both Microsoft and the United States have been declining in popularity.  Now that the president-elect is making the world take a new look at the USA, is Bill Gates trying to do the same for his founding company?

Bill Gates will never be the president of the United States, but he might hold a political position in the government.  This new face of Mr. Gates will help Microsoft, since he will always be the mascot of his founding company. While he helps the world through his foundation, people will respect that and not mind a blue screen or loosing all there documents to a new virus.  The cost of the software will increase and corporations and individuals will purchase the overpriced bugy software knowing that they are helping humanity.

However, few of us will hold tightly to our Unix based computers systems as we watch the average consumer file for bankruptcy. They will wonder why it costs over $400 to fix there system at Best Buy and other retailers but will be quickly reminded that there continue support of the Microsoft empire has allowed the Gates Foundation to help the world and make Bill Gates a political adviser.

Obama is one sided too! 100% Democrat vote record.

All over CNN today is Obama’s campaign saying that McCain has voted with Bush 90% of the time.  What they leave out is from the same data Obama voted for bush 40% of the time.  On top of that he has voted for Democrat party vote 100% of the time, while McCain in the past had crossed party lines and has voted on Democrat party issues as well.  It seems that Obama is taking numbers that don’t mean anything since Republicans seem to vote on Republican policies while Democrats vote on Democrat Policies. If you look at who has crossed the party lines more then that is McCain.   What really gets me is that CNN, which I’ve always read, seems to be supporting Obama 100%; Even to the extreme of having an article about Obama’s view on McCain that sports a pro Obama Advertisement. The article in question is titled “McCain is just part of Washington crowd, Democrats say” and spots an advertisement from Obama’s supporters on the page. (The screenshot of the site is posted above.)  I haven’t seen one McCain advertisement over the entire site and to me this is a sure sign that the Obama campaign is buying its news material.

What is wrong with that?  Here I write things about what is Technically Foreign, those little things that don’t make sense for the majority but for a few it might be perfectly sane. What doesn’t make sense to me is why is the Obama campaign keep on repeating McCain’s voting record and not explaining how Obama is going to be able to do what he says while he voted 100% of the time with his Democrat party?  In all politics are messy and numbers and percents never add up.  Why can’t both sides drop the blaming game and explain to us why they will be the leader that we need during these hard times.

Source for records of percentages: http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/is_it_true_john_McCain_voted_with.html

Picture is a screen shot of CNN page that shows the Ad purchased with the Pro Obama article.

ISP Screws up Internet Connection and Arrests Customer

Next time your Internet Service Provider (ISP) stops by to fix your computer connection be very careful what you say to him.  Apparently a new policy from ISP’s is: if we can’t fix the problem we will have you arrested.  A Nova Scotian playwright was arrested for threatening an ISP Technician, telling him that she would keep him hostage until her Internet was up and working.  If the technician felt like a hostage then aren’t we hostages to the Internet Service Provider?  When we are cut off from the Internet that is the equivalent of being placed in a cold white cell and feed bread and water.  Now this story is from our wacky northern friends,  referred by some as Maple Lovers or for the rest of the world just Canadians. But I’m sure the Internet Service Provider’s will love to use this Police State policy to arrest anyone who complains about there Service. Next time your talking to the Customer Care Representative over your Cable, Internet or Phone issues just remember to be nice because if they don’t like your attitude they can send you to Jail!

VIA: CTV.CA

When your missile fails, photoshop it in!!

By now everyone has seen the pictures of the missiles that Iran news media altered. I will be the first to defend them since it seems that most people failed to see that there is a forth missile still on the truck, it just didn’t fire.  Everyone has had some sort of malfunction and that is just plain embarrassing.  The look on the girls governments faces. So here is my take on the situation.  Four missiles were setup on there little missile trucks in the middle of Mars ( did you notice even the fence is red).  Then three of them launched leaving the fourth one on the ground still in the back of the truck.  That doesn’t give a good sense that they mean business.  That is saying 3 out of 4 will kill you. This just won’t do, so someone with a digital brush and one of those funny hats copied the red martian ground, covered the fourth missile truck with the real missile and moved that grounded failed missile to the sky with his friends where he was suppose to be.  Now do you really blame them, I mean that missile was probably missing his friends that he spent the last couple of years in the same warehouse next too. You tell me, how would you feel if you were that lonely missile while your friends were out exploding?  For further information the New York Times explains it in there own words.

Lonely Missile

Big Bad Bill is Sweetly Retired Today!

As the Van Halen song says.. “Big Bad Billy is Sweet William now!” Most Internet and monkey wrenched technically non-foreign people have heard that this is the last day on the job for Bill Gates.  Yeah you know him as the richest man in the world, the super-man of Microsoft, the geek-with-the-mostest or just the founder of Microsoft.  In tribute to the last day there are three questions that I will never get to ask Billy, three questions that have been ripping me apart for the past 25 years (Yes I’ve been following the guy since i was 6!).

Question 1:  Why do you still wear those dorky glasses when you can obviously aford laser surgery? (Who do you think you are, Clark Kent?)

Question 2: Do you really use Windows Vista? (yeah we know secretly your still playing World of Warcraft on Windows XP.)

Question 3: Why don’t you make a game show to give your money away?  (‘Who wants Bill Gates Money?’ might not crash as quick as Vista!)

So good-bye Bill Gates and hello Microsoft 2.0, a day without Bill, a day many of us thought would never happened.  We will miss you even though we barely saw you, heard from you or even wonder what you really were doing behind that large oak door in your office. Oh and I wonder if Steve Jobs is having a party today too!