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am sick and sad.
it seems lame to be upset over what i’m upset over- but i am. i am just fucking tired of this shit . i dont do many great things on a day to day basis- or in my life, in general… but i know one of my most valuble and strongest traits is that i am never intentionally uninclusive. NEVER. if i love you , and you are my friend , i will do anything in my power to make sure you never feel leftout. And i will , hopefully, always cultivate this trait/chacteristic as part of me… This is because i find exclusivity the worst club ever created and the human behaviours associated with it: secrecy-deception-lying-concealment-(any behaviour thats carried out due to a root mal intention) are the seeds for shitty human-being-ness. By this i refer to The kind of human that blows you off till they need something from you – like help with their computer or to borrow your(fill in the blank)or help getting in da club … Or they just seem to never think of you when the fun stuff comes across their desk. They are the same friend’ who never seems to see who is infront of them; only who isn’t- and they cant wait to get to that ‘other’* group they are the one’s who dont remember to tell you about something you’d love- because they want to tell the others* first- *( you know..the “others’-those who r higher on the guest list or closer to all the good shit?). Its the friend that never asks or listens to whats going on with you- but seems to have you as a friend solely to criticize and give advice to, based on their idea of how or who you are.. etc etc.*** ( the truth is they did seem to be your friend in a real sense at one point…but you forget when ) It’s these people , these friends, that always seem to end up getting their needs met….seemingly easily and consistantly….but the catch is that its usually via meanspirited intentions..either directly or indirectly…it doesnt matter because its the root intent that matters…
Intentions that hurt others knowingly are fucking Lame (suckass shitty bad wrong)
Enough , i say.
this is a call for action for all of us ; because i know me and my friends are just off track..and i m sure you or your friends are too….
So,Please… Lets all just try and stop it, then it will be alot easier and more enjoyable for all(even YOU-dear,mal-intentioned-overlooking-shitty friend….)
I mean c’mon, if you really think about it, how hard is it going to be? to act -and more importantly BE, more thoughful of others? to all those who are around you, whether they’re around by choice or by force(ie:work, partners of friends etc) It would only mean(mind the pun) remembering this easy childhood firefighters phrase: STOP DROP AND ROLL …i’ll explain: STOP: talking about others faults and instead DROP them a compliment or STOP bringing up events or things that others arent going to be invited to, or hey…novel idea? DROP: them an invite .. ROLL within their world ** -How about asking how their week is going? What amazing feelings you instill just by checking in with people, without needing them for stuff.just ROLLing with it. without wanting invites or favours..just DROP a message to say hi. those make me feel great. and so do the feelings i have from the intuitive sense that you (my soon-to-be-more-thoughtful friend) just give a shit about me today. It helps me to want to give a shit about life.
See…then its easier for those of us that you intentionally were nice to , do the same thing.. It is a bit gay that im writing this- but im rea lly and trully deeply affected by these things.. To know you are hurting someone because it would be awkward for you to do otherwise is definetly not good for u them or for the planet:if u cause intentional unecassaciry hurt=you cause more seperation and this isnt how the war is stopped or how kids learn to be loving humans or how we create a community or help each other to help ourselves. its silence about these behaviours that keeps them ok and thus prepetuated..So STOPit-DROPsomeLuv and ROLLeasy …
**when you start with great intent- you’ll find others really want your advice and opinion..fancy that huh?)
why you acting so egotestical?
Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.
Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
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Words To live by ( or die trying..no pun) From Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address:
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
…Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
The govt is about to pass a bill that will enable censorship of the internet.
PLEASE HELP or the world-wide-web will be VERY different .
Check out arstechnica anti-SOPA reasoning :It’s the best reason i’ve read :
SOPA Resistance Day- By Ken Fisher
PLEASE STOP INTERNET CENSORSHIP HERE
Congress is about to pass internet censorship, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill – PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity.
REACTIONS TO THESE BILLS, “SOPA” H.R.3261 AND PIPA S. 978
See how the internet fought back: American Censorship Day in Numbers.
“The potential for abuse of power through digital networks – upon which we as citizens now depend for nearly everything, including our politics – is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age … This is no time for politicians and industry lobbyists in Washington to be devising new Internet censorship mechanisms, adding new opportunities for abuse of corporate and government power over online speech.”
- Rebecca MacKinnon (New York Times)
“These bills were written by the content industry without any input from the technology industry. And they are trying to fast track them through congress and into law without any negotiation with the technology industry.”
- Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures)
“SOPA, regrettably, represents a big step backward in Washington’s efforts to support the digital revolution, one of the only sectors of the economy that continues to grow.”
- Larry Downes (TechFreedom)
“When civil liberties organizations describe the bills as encouraging “American censorship,” a weighty charge, the legal analysis by Professor Tribe and I support that conclusion. At least, according to the American Supreme Court’s established First Amendment jurisprudence.”
- Marvin Ammori (& Laurence Tribe), Leading Constitution Scholars
“It contains provisions that will chill innovation. It contains provisions that will tinker with the fundamental fabric of the internet. It gives private corporations the power to censor. And best of all, it bypasses due legal process to do much of it.”
- James Allworth (Harvard Business School)
“The main “enforcement” mechanism in these bills is to put liability on third party service providers coming from the tech industry, undermining the safe harbors of the DMCA and the legal framework that has allowed tons of important internet platforms to evolve.”
- Mike Masnick (TechDirt)
“[SOPA would] overturn the long-accepted principles and practices [of the DMCA] in favor of a one-sided enforcement mechanism that is far more broad than existing law while not attempting to protect the rights of anyone accused of copyright infringement.”
- Gigi B. Sohn (President of Public Knowledge)
“When ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled and people constrained in their choices, the Internet is diminished for all of us.. There isn’t an economic Internet and a social Internet and a political Internet. There’s just the Internet.”
- Hillary Clinton (United States Secretary of State)
Found this very awesomly funny example of human being-ness at
http://porkrind.org/missives/kharma/
“Kharma”
Posted on September 20, 2008 by david
My sister accidentally left her phone in a McDonald’s in LA the other weekend. When she went back, someone had taken it and not given it to the lost and found. When she called her number they would answer and then immediately hang up. So she called Verizon and reported it as stolen. Soon after a woman name Sheila called my mom and said she found my sister’s phone out side a Food For Less store in Santa Clarita. My mom asked if she would mind mailing the phone back down to us so that she could avoid making a 140 mile round trip to pick it up. Sheila balked (it was way too much trouble for her) and so my mom offered to mail a self addressed, stamped shipping envelope to her. She grudgingly decided that would be OK.
Today they got the phone in the mail (yay!) along with a folded up note. Here’s what it said:
whenever this ad for Pj-jeans comes on,
a couple things happen inside my brain:
1) i feel shame- as it forces me to acknowledge to myself that i’m watching LIFETIME, or LMN.
2) i ponder their claim of paying an astronomical 80$ for jeans? where ? i dont recall paying less than 200 in past 10 years.
Hockey Night in Canada Theme Song- as performed by Rush Drummer,The Neal Pert.(Sure to please Heshers everywhere-
Hesher:
Reebock-wearing, mulleted person in acid-washed jeans and a Judas Priest T-shirt who, at the age of 28, still lives in his/her parents’ basement and swears that he/she can really rock out on his/her Ibanez Stratocaster copy guitar and probably owns a Nova that hasn’t run in 5 years but you just wait, that fucker is gonna smoke those fuckin Japanese rice burners once I put a new head gasket on it.
….and i Like it.
this morning i received these 2 amazingly constructed comments on on a post:
Number one:
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- All the perfect
All the perfect?
that line may become my new email sign off, ..it’s kind of all encompassing/well-wishing new-agey huh?
Number two:
hello!,I like your writing so much! share we communicate more about your article on AOL? I need an expert on this area to solve my problem. May be that’s you! Looking forward to see you.
dude…OF COURSE we share communicate on AOL, just name the time!
i solve your problem, maybeeeee
look forward to you two!
23 things, about this screenshot, strike me as FUNNY.
One:
the no-access,denial message , tempered ever so canadian-lly with :
“Sorry Aboot That”
and the other thing?
being denied access to Canadian media / culture online, by none-other than the penultimate pushers of all things canadian-media related..the CBC.
and the third item of humou, you will find in the comments below. seems someone is mad at something bigger than this post, i think.
et porqoui?
je pense ca must be some serious ass stealth canadian style content they are protecting, not fit for oootsiders eyes/ears..