Rants/Raves

Do you think President Bush and his administration know what they are doing? I honestly think not.

Going after terrorism on the offensive seems to have made things worse despite what the media will tell you. He has turned Iraq into a mass terrorism recruiting ground while killing thousands of innocent Iraqis (collatoral damage they say).

Iran and DPRNK see this and think US will come and do the same to their country, prompting the development of Nuclear weapons.

Iran has Israel to worry about too since they(Israel) has nuclear weapons. However, Iran says they are using nuclear for energy, but the press says otherwise. Theres never been any shred of evidence.

Wasn't it Israel that provided the false intellegence to US that Iraq had weapons of mass distruction? I think this may have been Israels doing from the beginning. Israel has shown symptoms of an evil government - take their handling of the palestinians and Lebanon for example.

All this Nuclear activity is prompting other countries to consider building their own nuclear arsenal to protect themselves. Is this the cold war all over again?

U.S. is the sherif in this global community and they need to respect that. They also need to respect the fact that other countries have different cultures and cannot always fit in the democratic model they so love to force on them.

I not saying USA is the bad guy, but I'm not saying they are the good guys either. Their seems to be no good guys in this playing field. They've all done their share of gross atrocities towards innocent civilians.

I feel the Bush administration is either making mistakes repeatedly or theres some greedy ulterior motive for their stupidity.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,71724-0.html?tw=rss.index

It's just a shame that we as human beings can be stupid enough to create such a potently fatal material that cannot be reversed to the point that we have to take such great lengths to discard it miles underneath the surface.

Ah what can I say except, ARGG &&*#%$ spammers!!! Excuse my french...

There seems to be a huge increase in spam email lately and I'm sure you have gotten a few of those viagra, rolex or much needed "enlarger" email ads.

Usually when I get them I am speaking fluent french as I delete them one by one and thinking how I would twist off the spammers head if I ever met one.

BUT... I got thinking about it some more this week and thought to myself? Why do spammers spam? Because there is $$ in it... Lots of it. So how do they make that money?

So spammers themselves are only HALF the problem. We are unwittedly the other HALF! Take away one half and the other will falter.

There are many people actually paying attention to these emails and actually ordering some Viagra so that they don't roll off the bed at night!!!

STOP!! When you get these emails - HIT THE DELETE KEY!

Thank you!

I came across this article this morning "Spain's new law sends shivering smokers onto street."

I applaud Spains attempt to cut down on smoking just like Utah did several years ago, but there was one comment at the end that erked me. Smokers just don't get it!

"Non-smokers should respect those who smoke," he said, adding he would have quit his job if the bar had gone smoke-free."

No no. I cannot beleive the comment above from the article - If smokers would respect people who do not wish to breath the polluted air - this probably wouldn't be happening anywhere. Smokers don't care or they are too ignorant.

I get so tired of going to the trains to get to work and people smoking on the platform while I have to wait. I never hear them ask me if its ok to pollute the air around me.

Plus what is it with smokers that think they aren't littering when they toss their cigarette on the ground, stomp it and leave. Geez they are ignorant people.

I once witnesses city crew having to come clean up all the cigarette butts in the rocks around the tracks with portable vacuums. They started in the morning and they were still there when I headed home in the afternoon!

After I had restored to 10.3.3 and upgraded back up to 10.3.9, the machine wouldn't boot. I tried to restore again but it would fail each time.

I finally talked to Apple and it turns out the hard drive is bad - despite the fact it passed all the test we threw at it.

Well guess Ill have to wait on getting Tiger, HD is gonna cost me $150 to replace.

Problem with getting Tiger and ignore the restore is that I will lose my iLife license that came with my laptop. I found that after you pay $124 for Tiger upgrade, you have to shell out another $99 just so I can use iPhoto out of the iLife bundle.

I guess thats what America is all about - $$$$$$$

Ok I promised myself last night I would balance this blog with some raves, too much negative vibe going through me lately.