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George Carlin

It’s not news to many that George Carlin died the other day, but it did give me a chance to reflect. Even at my young age (21), the people I admire are dying off. Carlin and Hicks both blended their comedy with thought provoking messages about the state of society.

And despite the internet being a new medium allowing us to reach far more new creations, as well as new types of content flowing out, people like these are rare enough that even expanding the distribution methods won’t allow us to reach more like them.

Sorry I don’t have a solution, just figured it was worth reflecting on. Just remember that the people you admire are gonna die and that will be the end of them. Make sure to enjoy them while you can.

Anyone interesting in seeing Carlin’s material, there is loads on youtube, best example here. Plenty of Hicks on there as well.

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5 reasons parents should buy their kids GTA IV and why Australian censorship can go and fuck itself.

Here we go, 5 compelling moral reasons you should subject your children to digitised violence, prostitution and all those other wonderful things that make life worth living.

1. Racism – what better way to stop your twat-mouth child mouthing off at people of different skin colours, cultural background and clothing than to make them play as an illegal (Russian?) immigrant in America. One that can barely speak English.

2. Hookers – show them what real hookers are all about. The strung-out crack addled, unpleasant smelling, worse looking hookers in GTA IV should scare them away from every wanting to have sex with (or be near) a hooker… ever (their loss).

3. Gambling – in the first 10 minutes debt collectors are after you, fucking shit up and wanting their pound of flesh. Teach your kids to gamble responsibly and never borrow money from the mob.

4. Vehicular Manslaughter – nobody likes to wash their car, and blood is really hard to get off (so i’ve heard). What better way to display the damage a human corpse does to your precious car than with simulated vehicular manslaughter. I mean there’s all the cleaning… and the dents, who wants to do through all that trouble.

5. Stealing – bystanders and cops will never help you. So defend your shit kids.

See? look at all the life lessons your kids can learn just from playing a simple videogame, don’t you owe them that much?

In other news the Australian version of GTA IV has been compromised by the invisible pigeon-holing committee who’s decided it needed to be childproofed to fit into the MA15+ rating. Why the fuck don’t we have an R18+ rating? I’m sick of all these nancy-pants “protect our kids by censoring everything so we don’t have to do anything, ever” parents. How fucking hard is it to control what your kids watch, read and play. Anyway there is NO correlation between videogame violence and real violence (as much as unconfirmed internet rumours and unsolicited studies would like you to believe). And if you done brought your young’lings up right then what’s there to fear, they should be able to adequately separate fact from fiction. If they couldn’t we’d expect and epidemic of kids hunting in the woods, looking for knolls to kill so they can gain XP and level up.

I suggest you either import or pirate GTA IV, at least that way you can get the amount of violence and tits you deserve.

Maldark

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Moving onto full blown alcoholism

Following up from the last post, the list of quotes here could actually bring on full blown alcoholism due to the fact that these people are serious.

I’m well aware that most people, and even probably most fundamentalists don’t hold themselves to their views as some people express here. But the fact that these people are able to use our wonderful communication network of the Internet and then use it to damn technology, science, facts, and reality for not agreeing with their holy book… It’s mindboggling.

A quick selection

A sun denier:

One of the most basic laws in the universe is the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This states that as time goes by, entropy in an environment will increase. Evolution argues differently against a law that is accepted EVERYWHERE BY EVERYONE. Evolution says that we started out simple, and over time became more complex. That just isn’t possible: UNLESS there is a giant outside source of energy supplying the Earth with huge amounts of energy. If there were such a source, scientists would certainly know about it. [emphasis added]

A gravity denier:

Gravity: Doesn’t exist. If items of mass had any impact of others, then mountains should have people orbiting them. Or the space shuttle in space should have the astronauts orbiting it. Of course, that’s just the tip of the gravity myth. Think about it. Scientists want us to believe that the sun has a gravitation pull strong enough to keep a planet like neptune or pluto in orbit, but then it’s not strong enough to keep the moon in orbit? Why is that? What I believe is going on here is this: These objects in space have yet to receive mans touch, and thus have no sin to weigh them down. This isn’t the case for earth, where we see the impact of transfered sin to material objects. The more sin, the heavier something is.

Someone who simply can’t put 2 and 2 together

I am a bit troubled. I believe my son has a girlfriend, because she left a dirty magazine with men in it under his bed. My son is only 16 and I really don’t think he’s ready to date yet. What’s worse is that he’s sneaking some girl to his room behind my back. I need help, God! I want my son to stop being so secretive!

More counting errors

I can sum it all up in three words: Evolution is a lie

Someone with undeniable rebuttal of evolutionary theory

[Replying to 'as for not seeing evolution it takes several million years... incase you missed that memo...']

several million years for a monkey to turn into a man. oh wait thats right. monkeys dont live several million years.

And the reality deniers

“Make sure your answer uses Scripture, not logic.”

Jesus is not a Jew. Jesus was Jewish.

And the scary

so you think if no one believed in any religion there would be no wars or fighting? i think it would be worse. i know if i didn’t fear god’s judgement i would have killed many many times.

And this is just some of them in the top 100…..

For April so far, they’re up to 7 pages. We’re not even half way through the month yet.

I fear that even the sweet nectar of liquor won’t calm my mind having read through so many of these quotes.

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Reasons why I drink…

This is of course only one reason why I drink… Alcohol being the delicious substance that it is is another reason …. Others will be added to new blog posts and the UST Hitlist in due time…

Discovery Institute - Centre for Science and Culture

Figure 1: Fucking stupidity

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UNSW Atheist Society – Leading the Way.

As from the very emotional Australian today:

EYEBROWS were raised on the University of NSW campus this week when all students received an email from pro-vice-chancellor (students) Joan Cooper, reminding them of the rules of engagement, as it were.

“Whether you are a new or returning student, as you begin your studies at UNSW, you will meet people from different backgrounds and those who have values and ideas which vary from your own,” Professor Cooper wrote.

Continuing carefully, she said: “I want to remind you that while UNSW is a place where we cherish academic and student freedom of expression, vilification of others is both unacceptable and is of course, against the law in NSW.”

What gives? According to a university spokeswoman the reminder was prompted by “hate flyers” being distributed on campus regarding scientology and “an offensive blog”.

I’d just like to personally congratulate the head of the UNSW Atheist Society, and the members of said society. What is life if not a non-stop trolling expedition. I would recommend that you escalate the campaign forthwith.

Particularly the anti-scientology stuff. No one batted an eyelid when UTS was absolutely plastered with anti-scientology flyers in the lead up to the raids on Scientology, and yet UNSW plays the tolerance card all a-crazy with the hatin on the man.

I swear to christ I hope the hate-filled blog was our blog, and if not, someone links me to that blog and I aggregate their content. Anonymous blogs on the internet that completely tear people to shreds on utterly circumstantial and rather anemic evidence are the best form of things.

Say what you want about the democratisation of media, blogs are the cheapest and nastiest way to make vitriol fact.

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Bellicose Blather

Protip: If you actually refer to Kevin Rudd as “Prime Dickhead” I have a simple and quick recipe for you. Mix two parts you with one part fast-moving inter-city train. Add a splash of realisation of mortality and leave to sit until an underpaid cleanup crew gently convinces your rapidly drying remains to relieve themselves of their rail-centric bonds.

It’s not as if this comedy of errors we call the ‘factional response to political change’ has been enough, it seems we are to be inundated with faux-intelligent monocultural ignoramuses hell-bent on making joke groups on facebook (or for the more culturally-oriented; in small café’s) about the integrity and quality of a Rudd PM. There, I’ve said it, it’s over. If you can’t deal with having to learn the name of a New Prime Minister, you have serious issues with rationality, humanity and the underlying concepts of information retention. My course of treatment? A thorough application and analysis of the underlying physics of yourself-ground interactions when compelled from a great height. Excuse me if I’ve just interrupted a consistent echo-chamber of indulgent miasmic onanism that seems to have been stewed in its own brand of cliquish ignorance for such a period of time that the individual participants are literally ecstatic with joy whilst trying to catch each other’s ejaculate in their braying mouths.

You might be snorting with indignation at this point, having just hastily clicked the “Accept” button on a group on Facebook with the title “I won’t call Kevin Rudd PM I’ll call him Earthen ButtFart to better Convey my level of angst at the current political situation”. That’s all well and good, but you my friend have a thing known as a ‘party line political allegiance’. Were someone higher in the polity/party to say jump you would quickly draft a press release about the height of the jump and how comparatively, your opposition has not even begun to jump and their planned jump is paltry in comparison with your olympian vector.

That said and done I’ve learned a very important lesson over the last few weeks; political allegiances are about as safe and as useful as Hasbro™’s ‘Chokables – The infuriatingly small but unresponsive to natural reflux, plastic doodads’ around a group of existential and suicidal three and four year olds. They serve little to no purpose, they often make you hate yourself, and at the end there’s a dead kid and a bunch of angry policemen looking for answers.

I try to have some sort of reason for everything that I write, otherwise this whole didactic and one way nonsensical stream of utter gibberish goes to utter shit and ends up with me sitting in the corner with a half-eaten dictionary and a tank of nitrous talking about fake Korans.

If there is any form of message in this poorly-scribed madness, it is this; wake up to yourselves you bunch of self-indulgent priapic, genetic addendums. If you’re supposed to be the sane ones that wake up to the insanities of the mindless echo-chamber self-indulgence of the most left wing of the left wing, why are you letting yourselves fall into the same nonsensical trap?

If you want to convince those that aren’t party faithful that you are the true and the brave, on the straight and narrow then stop falling into the same idiotic habits as your opposition.

Otherwise we’re left with the nonsensical gruntings of idiots on both halves of the political stage, and then we’re well and truly fucked.

EDIT: Also, Justin’s in Melbourne for a few days, so you know what kids, Fuck David Clarke. He’s a moronic Fat Cunt that is trying to enforce his narrowminded idiotic views onto a group of people that are resisting it.

David, you singlehandedly lost the Liberals the State election and the current abysmal state of NSW rests entirely on your head. I hope serving God was worth it; you crackpot fuck. I give it ten or fifteen years until you Religious Right cum-splashes realise the indelible stain you leave on modern politics certainly isn’t admirable. You and your kind are the watered down excreta of a baseless, thoughtless class of arbitrarily-bemoraled drones whose only true victory will be the obvious expunging of your genetic dross through the Darwinism you so hopelessly bemoan.

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Hey Andrew, where’s my Subpoena?

So it appears Herr Andy has thrown hate at Patriot and loveable hero/teddybear Andrew “Hero” Landeryou.

So here’s a list of things you should know about Andrew Quah:

  1. According to the pictures he’s super not well endowed, and this is verifiable
  2. His comments that the pictures, particularly the third picture were not him are LIES, filthy filthy lies.
  3. The pictures of the ‘women’ he was talking to on MSN that were sent to him were taken from the Myspaces of underage women. The pictures themselves did not qualify as pornography but it means that Randy Andy sent those pics to people he knew were probably underage. Oh wait a minute he just gave pornography to a minor! Oh snap, that’s an offense! Wait isn’t that a serious sex crime or something to send sexual material to a minor… alls I’m saying is that this could quite possibly not be the first time that quah has wantonly sent sexual material to a minor… we can’t rule that out at all.
  4. He’s a freaking nutcase who is so disgustingly misogynistic and so afraid of sex that in posts on the BoredOfStudies forum he made comments about hitting his penis with household goods in order to suppress desires!
  5. He may or may not drink the blood of puppies.
  6. We also have decent (Read: completely fabricated) evidence that he was involved in a sexual encounter with livestock.
  7. He may or may not engage in ‘bugchasing’ behaviour. From what information we have obtained, he allegedly has rough, unprotected, anal intercourse with HIV positive men in order to contract the disease.
  8. He did 9/11

So there you have it, Quah’s a nutcase horsefucker that sends porn to children and it’s statistically likely that he’s HIV-positive, as well as he was integrally involved in the greatest act of terror perpetrated against the great nations of the west.

He’s also pretty shit.

In the words of El Jobso, SIOOMA, motherfucker.

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Dismiss the passionate at your own Peril

This obvious simpleton gets column space to rip on Ron Paul (I’m personally a huge fan of the man, by the way, despite not legally being allowed to donate to his campaign), and yet Andrew Keen says that the Media is the Vanguard of the Professional and the blogosphere is Amateur Hour?

I’d honestly think very long and hard about that Andrew, not being technically proficient enough to take part in the revolution in information that the web has created, doesn’t give you carte blanche to immediately dismiss all of the creativity ability and passion on it.

To me his bilious raspings sound like the church folk who told Gutenberg he was mad to create the printing press, or the president of IBM who said the world would only ever need six computers.

We have the old media, we have the luddites that are struggling so unashamedly to be relevant again, in the face of this wealth of content. Like with anything, you have the brilliant and you have the mawkish and saccharine nonsense, but the greatest thing about this culture revolution.

EVERYONE CAN PARTAKE.

While Keen and the other ivory tower types might scoff at the ‘proles with their typewriters’, I think the degree of urgency of the intellectual superiority he feels about this situation lends a certain delightful irony to this situation. Quite plainly the fact that his own erudite and ebullient argumentative stance in favour of the intelligentsia-caste, has been made to look utterly-pedestrian in comparison to the sheer force and energy used to expound how utterly, utterly facile his argument is.

The Ron Paul argument, you might ask? They face a similar battle. The individuals on the internet, voting in online polls that they are then told are ‘irrelevant’, categorised as ‘nutters’, support ‘only in the blogosphere’. The thing is, much like Keen’s argument against the internet, the Old Media and the Old Political systems rail against the Ron Paul supporters because they just don’t understand them. However, just like Keen, they too have been made to look foolish under the pure brunt of support and energy that the internet and the ideas that Congressman Paul espouses have allowed people to express!

While the Keens of the political world may scoff, they fail to see that, these pedestals they cling to in such a vaunted fashion are made only from their delicate and fractured hubris. All it takes is the right force, and the right level of passion to see these self-absorbed twats come tumbling down.

No such tool exists that can kill an idea, and while set backs may seek to dampen or dull passion, passion is only limited when you seek to let go of your beliefs and your commitment. One thing that we have seen in droves is that Ron Paul has ignited the passion of a dedicated following and brought people to the political arena who would never have once taken an interest. Just as the Internet has allowed those of us who are so very creative, yet could not access traditional avenues, share our passions and loves and creative abilities with the rest of the world.

For while hubris and intellectual arrogance can create for you a glorious empire, all it takes is the passion of those whom you laugh off and disregard, to bring you to your knees and force you to watch your axioms dissolve from underneath you.

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We Ron Paul People

It seems like the Washington media are really going out of their way to fill up column space:

We have been doing a little political research … of the kind we do best: anecdotal. To wit, we have observed a unique phenomena — the Ron Paul supporter.
Every time we pull up and see one of his bumper stickers it is invariably on some mud-covered early ’90s beater, the backseat so jammed with implausible items that it looks like it belongs to one of those cat hoarder people, and/or Fred Sanford.
We like to drive up alongside and look in: and pretty much, the driver is always someone kinda cock-eyed who would be perfect for a bit part on Twin Peaks or perhaps a random Jim Jarmusch movie. What to say, what to say.

This obvious hardworking journalist of the old-media supported superiour types surely has her work cut out for her. “Those people that support Ron Paul, they’re all so… well they’re a bit odd… and one of them looked at me.”

I mean seriously, I’m taking it as a compliment that apparently as a Ron Paul supporter I’m the odd one out. I’ve got to say it’s a lot better than trying to choose between which Democrat hack will just continue destroying the foundations of the USA.

I’ll admit this idiotic dill has got such a minute idea about what Patriot Ron stands for that her current state of ignorance makes no child left behind look like a good idea

What’s up next week, “Makeup tips from the Constitution?”

Yay Journo-Centric Hactivism!

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Why are we still Censoring stuff?

Seriously, what’s the go? Phillip Ruddock’s department is Censoring BOATLOADS of stuff and it’s completely ineffective:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_films#Australia

What with the internet enabling us to share full digital reproductions of content, banning it to ‘think of the children!’ is beyond moronic. Censorship can never work in today’s society so why do we even bother? It’s just like the OFLC doesn’t have an R Rating for Videogames, yet it has that rating for everything else. Hell, Nintendo and Sony’s comment that they won’t carry AO titles lead some hero to leak Manhunt 2 The Super Gruesomeinating before it was bowdlerised.

Are there any actual decent arguments for Censorship that aren’t white elephants given the nature of the internet?

Censorship is essentially thoughtcrime, when you think of it, and leads to a serious slippery slope. You start with censoring physical copies by not allowing reprinting or importing, but then you have to filter all internet access and monitor all internet access and out people for wanting to read or view something you say they can’t?

In fact, here’s a list of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Australia

Why the hell are we bothering?

Australian customs also actively seeks and seizes books imported by individuals.

Fuck, thanks for protecting us from the naughty written word, guys!

NOTE: The contents of this post do not apply to Child Porn as that is pornography made involving individuals who cannot legally consent.

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