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FL STUDIO version 8

yeah! used it for the 1st time today

got down real quick played with the new shiny buttons and sweet effects

new mixer sounds warm and vintage ;)

lots of free sound samples and drumloops

new tools & instruments:
[slicex, toxic biohazard]

new effects:
maximus, fl limiter, wave candy

got me busy & made a house tune ;)
sounds massive on the speakers and sub

also made a new dnb track \m/
neuro funk techno to the core

lots of potential here
endless possibilities

check some screenshots here:
http://aljar3d.multiply.com/journal/item/28/FL_Studio_8

full list of what's new:
http://www.flstudio.com/documents/whatsnew.html

producers on there, heads up! ;)

OVERCONSUMPTION

Many nations' material standard of living is now higher than ever. Production of material things has skyrocketed – but is still a way behind consumption, and further still behind demand. Does consumerism make people happier?

The citizens of the so-called 'developed nations' consume more products, live in bigger houses, use more consumer durables than those of the rest of the world. They have a higher material standard of living. However, social indicators such as family structure, suicide and crime levels tell a different story. Family breakdown, stress, loneliness and depression are much higher in the ‘developed’ countries. This is both a result of and a cause of increased economic activity, for many reasons. One of the main ones is that depressed people are encouraged to cheer themselves up by consuming.

In the past recreation was spent mainly in non-consumptive activities, such as appreciating nature or visiting friends, but this is harder in a deterioriating social and natural environment. Isolation is reinforced by industries that have sprung up to encourage indulgence in selfish consumption - whether of food, drugs, digital culture or other means of escapism. A paradox of our system of economics is that although this tendency is disasterous for the individuals concerned it is great for economic 'progress'.

In extreme cases such as suicide, such pathological consumption may harm rather help the economy. However, although such counterproductive consumption constitutes a downward spiral for the individuals involved, it represents a virtuous cycle for the economy, which benefits from increased levels of consumption and hence work from those concerned. Shopping is the USA’s most popular recreational activity.

Altruistic actions (almost by definition) boost well-being and happiness and so decrease depression and the associated habits of pathological consumption. Moreover, activity done out of love is often given away and so is part of the unseen economy, substituting for regular spending and reducing the size of the official economy.

Obesity is an obvious symptom of over-consumption. By 2000, two thirds of Americans were overweight1 - a proportion which is still rising. One can only speculate how this affects the self-esteem of those affected, in this world in which millions of people are literally starving. Overeating is widely known to be unhealthy, so one can see the obesity epidemic as evidence of how adept large organisations (i.e. companies) have become at manipulating individuals against their long term interests. Self-destructive overconsumption applies to many aspects of society, especially in 'developed' countries. In USA, most people devote hours every day consuming digital culture while families no longer spend time together in conversation2. Many countries are following this model, in spite of the unprecedented damage to family and community life3.

Organisations exploit the vulnerable by encouraging them to see themselves as consumers. This has lead to negative social cycles of selfish over-consumption, followed by depression and further stress. Adopting an attitude of altruism is a positive way to resist consumerism. Improving relationships with others helps people feel positive about themselves as people.

   

33 of Life’s Most Powerful Lessons

source:
http://jonathanmead.com/2008/03/19/33-of-lifes-most-powerful-lessons/

Have you ever had an epiphany? One of those “a-ha” moments where something just clicks for you? Maybe it’s something you’ve been struggling with for a long time, or maybe it was a piece of advice you learned from a friend. Whatever the source of our insight, it’s these moments that bring us to a deeper understanding of our world. The better understanding we have of life, the more we live in the truth.

Below are 33 of the most powerful lessons in my life. I encourage you to share yours with us by leaving a comment below. =)

   1. Often those who aren’t the easiest to love are the ones who need it the most.
   2. Seeing children play can make even the bluest day brighter.
   3. Money is not the root of all evil, fear is.
   4. The secret to happiness is the acceptance of yourself.
   5. Happiness is not based on external status, it is an internal state.
  6. Money can’t make me happy, but self-sufficiency gives me the freedom to share myself creatively, without worrying about how I’m going to pay the bills.
   7. Every man has a right to choose his own destiny.
   8. The path is the way.
   9. Coming is going, going is coming.
  10. The hardest is found in the easiest.
  11. Heaven and hell exist here and now, within your own mind.
  12. Life is the largest stage.
13. Music is one of the most supreme expressions of life. It is art in it’s most transitory form. It is gone within an instant, and therefore, extremely precious.
  14. Follow your gut, you’ll thank yourself later.
  15. Remember what your mother taught you, it came from the most sacred place of love that exists.
  16. Never let an argument last, never hold a grudge, it will make your heart heavy.
  17. Forgive those that have yet to do you wrong, and you won’t have to worry about it should the time come.
  18. Be grateful for this moment, it is all there is.
  19. The source of most of your frustrations and anxiety are the result of living in the future, or the past.
  20. Spend time alone with yourself every day.
  21. Always go with yourself, never against yourself.
  22. You have to be your own best friend.
23. If you don’t like what someone else says to you, you can walk away. But if you don’t like what you say to yourself, you can’t walk away. Therefore, if you’re going to be with yourself all the time, you might as well be nice to yourself.
  24. The truth shall indeed set you free.
  25. Lies only exist if we believe in them.
26. Even the most fundamental beliefs about reality are not true in themselves. Our thinking makes them true in our experience.
  27. Your thoughts create reality.
  28. The biggest lie is the lie of your imperfection.
  29. Being kind is more important than being right.
  30. Your heart is your best compass.
  31. Cherish those that you love, you never know if you’ll see them again.
  32. Your beliefs are a filter for your reality.
  33. Love is the supreme expression of life, it is the essence and ground of all creation.

    

Faster internet is impossible

Faster internet is impossible
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Internetverbinding_006_2 Internet users continually need faster connections to surf the web at the same speed.

Because of their low speed, dial-up internet connections are considered hopelessly out of date. Yet switching to a faster broadband connection or even a fibre connection will only yield a speed increase for a short period. Faster connections also threaten the democratisation of the internet.

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    "Surfing the net will always test your patience, regardless of how fast your connection is."

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Telecom operators around the world introduce ever faster internet connections. Now that – at least in Europe – almost all internet users have switched to an ADSL broadband connection, operators have started offering VDSL (Very High Speed Digital Subscriber Line). The download speed of VDSL amounts to (a maximum of) 52 megabits per second (Mbps), compared to (a maximum of) 8 Mbps for ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line). Behind the scenes, fibre-to-the-home connections are warming up. These have download speeds up to 100 Mbps.

Bandwith consumption per user

However, the speed advantage that faster connections offer, is only temporary. Faster connections inevitably bring new applications, which eat up the extra bandwidth. The amount of bits that is being transported over the internet doubles every year. That’s not the consequence of a growing amount of internet users. The worldwide network today numbers 1,245,000,000 users, only 159,000 more than one year ago. Consequently, the spectacular growth is mainly the result of an increasing bandwidth consumption per user. Every year each of us downloads (and uploads) almost twice as much digital information as the year before.

Multimedia

That’s not because we spend twice as much time on the internet, and also not because we watch twice as many web pages than before. The main reason for the yearly doubling of traffic is the growing importance of multimedia: music, pictures and especially video. Moving pictures need much more bandwidth compared to text or even pictures and music. An example: all the text on Low-tech Magazine takes up 10 times less space than even the smallest picture on this website. Since video is nothing more than successive still images (about 24 to 30 per second), one minute of low-resolution video would need about 350 times more space than all the text on this website.

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    "Faster connections do not yield faster surfing, but they do yield extra applications"

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If today the internet would be a text-only medium, like 15 years ago, surfing the web would have become extremely fast thanks to faster connections. However, because extra bandwidth is being used up by heavier applications over and over again, internet users have to switch to faster connections continually to maintain the same speed. If you hold on to your ADSL connection, in some time you will notice that the speed of this connection will become comparable to that of an old-fashioned dial-up line (you can check your speed via this website). In about 5 years’ time, even VDSL will feel increasingly slower. In short, surfing the net will always test your patience, regardless of how fast your connection is.

Instant video messaging

Fibre-to-the-home networks will not solve that problem. These connections, now only enjoyed by big companies or universities, are much faster than a broadband connection. But with that extra bandwidth, a lot of interesting applications become possible. Lots of people now dream of the distribution of high definition movies and television over the internet, or the transformation of traditional websites into three-dimensional virtual worlds like second life. Other applications in the pipeline are instant video messaging, online home surveillance or massive online gaming. These applications are in the proportion of video to text: they will eat up a massive amount of bandwidth, or to be more specific: all the extra bandwidth that will become available.

Democratizing

Of course, this does not mean that faster connections are useless. They do not yield faster surfing, but they do yield extra applications. Some years ago, the streaming of low resolution videos was simply impossible, whereas today it’s hard to find a website without at least one video on it. Advertisements have become much more visually active, which was also impossible some years ago. However, this evolution has a downside, which is mostly forgotten: it endangers the further democratizing of the internet and could even reverse that trend. Not everybody can afford to switch to a faster and more expensive internet connection every couple of years.

Distance to the switchboard

The deployment of new infrastructure at the edges of the internet is very expensive, because it has to branch off into every house. Increasing the capacity of the already existing phone line or cable network has its limits. The higher download speed of VDSL comes at the cost of two other factors: the upload speed (the sending of data) and the distance to the switchboard. If the distance to the switchboard is larger than 300 metres, performance falls back dramatically. At a distance of 1.5 kilometres, the speed advantage compared to ADSL is almost completely gone - unless the upload speed is limited, but that’s not an option since it would exclude all kinds of applications. Building more switchboards (or intermediate stations) is the solution, but of course that makes the technology very costly.

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    "Most websites will adapt to the ever faster connections, which makes them gradually inaccessible for people with slower connections."

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Fibre-to-home is even more expensive, since it requires a completely new network on the edges of the internet, supplementing the phone or cable network. Some companies propose to use the existing sewer systems, which could lower the costs. That would mean that the streets don’t have to be broken up, which saves lots of money, time and trouble. However, extra costs remain: a link from the sewer to the house will still need to be installed, unless you want the internet connection to come out of the toilet. More expensive connections not only mean higher costs for users, but also that users will be excluded from the faster lines, whether they can afford them or not: these networks will only be available in densely populated regions, if not they will never become commercially viable.

Developing countries

Faster connections in themselves are not threatening the access to the internet. The problem is that most websites will adapt to the ever faster connections, which makes them gradually inaccessible for people with slower connections. Today, most websites are impossible to download with a dial-up connection, because they have become too corpulent. A few large pictures or a visually dynamic advertisement can be enough to make a download last forever. This is especially a big issue on a global scale. In lots of developing countries, the introduction of internet is years behind. If people have an internet connection, it is usually a sluggish one. But in the meantime, the websites themselves have adapted to the broadband connections in the developed countries.

Loband

Luckily there is Loband, a website which is specifically designed to keep the web accessible for people in developing countries. You type in a web address and Loband cuts out all images, illustrations and advertisements out of the website concerned. What remains, is just the text: a very sobering sight for the makers of dazzling websites.

© Kris De Decker (edited by Vincent Grosjean) / Picture : flickr

ESCAPISM

Escapism - What & Why?

   

    "Mexico is a country of a modest, very fucked class, which will never stop being fucked. Television has the obligation to bring diversion to these people and remove them from their sad reality and difficult future."     Emilio Azcarraga, billionaire head
     of Televisa (Mexican media company)

Few would deny that relaxation and recreation, in measure, are healthy activities which enable us to enjoy life more and to engage better with others. We all need some time off. However, many people are becoming so habituated to escaping reality that engaging with others has become a scary and unwelcome prospect.

The term 'escapism' is reserved for those who take excessive time away from real life to the point at which they seem to be trying to escape from it. Traditionally regarded as extreme, escapism is in fact increasingly the norm for many people. In Japan, for example, the average household watches over 8 hours of television per day1.

Escapism is not defined by the behaviour itself but the motivation behind it. Anything from sport to fashion to sex can become escapist activities. Certain escapist options are socially accepted, such as consumerism and celebrity worship, others are not, such as recreational drug use. Modern technology has brought digital culture - television, films, increasingly realistic computer games and virtual realities that provide escapist experiences with huge degrees of immersion. Means of escapism have become increasingly varied over the past few decades, but fascination in details remains a popular one.

We interpret the popularity of escapism as an indication that people are unhappy with the lives they are leading - whether due to material deprivation or cloying overconsumption. We believe that friendship is the key to helping escapists - by encouraging them to think altruistically, it can break them out of their self-imposed prison and they can start living for real once more, enjoying their connections with others.

Ultimately, the means of escapism is relatively unimportant. Its root cause is an inability to establish meaningful relationships with other people in the real world, and it is generally associated with feelings such as guilt, powerlessness or pointlessness. It is natural to abhor a zero-sum economic system which assumes an unnatural selfishness and attempts to motivate people by fear not love. No wonder people try to escape from the depression that results from taking part in it.

FRIENDSHIPs part 0.001

Friendship

Most of us have known the joy of friendship since our earliest days. Sharing our ups and downs with someone else is a special, even sacred experience - yet modern societies are in the grip of increasingly mechanistic structures that leave little room for this crucial aspect of life.

Throughout the ages, the virtue of friendship has been almost universally understood. Plato & Aristotle, considered it to be the essential virtue. Together with family ties, friendships are the threads that form the social fabric of all real communities. Understandings vary widely, but the basic idea of friendship is that a of privileged relationship springing from mutual affection.

   

    "I remain certain that the quest for truth cannot thrive outside the nourishment of mutual trust flowering into a commitment to friendship."     Ivan Illich

Recent developments are changing the role of friendship in modern life. As the economic sphere swells through processes such as professionalisation, people are encouraged to disregard personal feelings for one another and instead to behave in less whimsical, more predictable ways, expressing charity through impersonal systems such as the money system.

To a self-interested world, altruistic relationships defy logic. In a world of generalisations, they are particular. In a world of mass production, they are unique. In a money-minded culture, friendships are beyond price. No systematic doctrine can fathom their importance - friendships are a vital part of what it means to be human.

Friendship challenges the paradigm of the world as system, because friends see one another as special, irreplaceable individuals, with intrinsic and ineffable value. Real friends care for one another and feel one another's emotions in personal ways that defy fully rational explanation. Any system which berates individual, personal input as necessarily 'corrupt', or which denies people the chance to attach special significance to personal relationships is one that is intolerant of humanisation. Eccentric iconoclast, Ivan Illich, attached tremendous importance to the concept of 'friendship'. He was concerned that community would degenerate into a set of temporary, superficial, machine-inspired and machine-mediated interactions with others. The recording below explains how he used friendships as a way to reassert the value of the individual.

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Professionalisation

Professionals are paid for their work, as opposed to amateurs who work for the love of it. Professionalisation is the process by which amateurs are replaced by professionals. Whenever this happens, we move closer to a world in which money, not love, is the main motivating force.

The pressure for economic growth is bloating the economic sphere as other arenas diminish in importance. Increasingly many activities such as looking after the eldery or bringing up children, previously motivated largely by social factors, are now being done on a professional basis.

By replacing personal relationships with financially regulated ones, professionalisation weakens friendship, crowds out altruistic transactions and minimises individuals' room to exercise personal considerations, eroding the give and take that make up a healthy community. It is also part of the vicious social cycle underway in many societies, in which productive activity is threatened by a spiralling of competitive claims over resources.

Professionalisation is often accompanied by stricter certification of competence. Apprenticeships and other relationship-based methods of skill sharing are replaced by formal, automated methods of instruction. Rent-seeking centralised bodies are established that monopolise assessment of competence. Laws are passed, often citing grounds such as public safety, that make more and more activities the exclusive remit of certified 'professionals' - that is, individuals who have bought in to a particular power structure.

Professionalisation is often justified on grounds that it raises standards, but in fact this is just one of many possible effects. The clearest effect it has on professionals is probably a homogenisation of the range of services provided. The effect it has on non-professionals is clearer. Erecting such barriers of entry to 'professionalised' activites increases their potential for revenue by discouraging individuals from doing (or even understanding) such activity themselves. Feelings of powerlessness are promoted as a disempowered base of individual consumers is encouaged to trust neither in their own, nor in one anothers' capabilities, but only in accredited 'professionals', whose main motivation is money.

Although damaging to both the individual and to the social interplay that characterises healthy community, professionalisation continues apace because it is associated with economic growth. We are privileged to be able to work as amateurs, who aim to ignore money and work for love instead. Our work on an altruistic theory of economics is an effort to extend this freedom to others.

Depressed for a Reason

    "To demand that our children feel well in the world which we leave them is an insult to their dignity."     Ivan Illich The World Health Organisation defines depression as a 'disorder that presents with depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy, and poor concentration'. It declares that it is the leading cause of disability, worldwide, and by 2020 it will be the second most important disease worldwide. WHO goes on to say that in most cases, drugs are an effective treatment. This reflects a materialistic worldview that focusses on symptoms, not root causes. A multinational drug company has claimed that "depression is caused by an imbalance of brain chemicals", but this fails to explain why it is more widespread than ever before, (9.5% of US adults suffer from a depressive disorder in any one year) and why it is still spreading. Depression is not just another disease. If it is not caused by pathogens, how can it spread? Maslow's hierarchy of needs predicts that if securely fed and housed, people's well-being depends less on material goods, more on factors such as good relationships with and love of others. However, most people are in the thrall of an economic system that ignores this fact, punishes generosity but rewards unnatural selfishness. This results in cognitive dissonance, because people feel forced to do things of which they disapprove, leaving them feeling guilty, disempowered and depressed. This would seem to explain why depression is booming even amidst materially prospering populations. Although a human tragedy, this epidemic of depression is a boon for the economy, since consumer culture feeds off people's low self-esteem by encouraging self-indulgence and escapism, resulting in a vicious circle of increasing consumption and decreasing well-being. We believe many depressive symptoms are a natural response of the mind to an unhealthy, unsustainable, diseased and generally distressed society. Many of those who dismiss it as being an 'illness' of the brain, are sadly mistaken, others cynically exploiting it for their own benefit. Among the chief causes are the priority given to the competitive money system which discourages healthy human relationships to the point where, starved of friendship, some people even question the validity of loving others. Altruism is a side-effect free, natural way to cope with depressive symptoms and to live a longer, healthier and happier life.

Things You Learn From Anime

1. War sucks. 2. You CAN have too many women. 3. Smart people wear glasses. 4. Music foreshadows plot. 5. The less you care about sex, the more opportunities you'll get. 6. (Inversely, the harder you try, the less you'll get.) 7. When you die, make a long speech, and don't finish the last sentence. 8. Snow means love. 9. The best teams come in fives. 10. In space, you can hear everything. 11. There's always room for flashbacks! 12. When in China, listen to your tour guide. 13. The good guy always has the BLUE glow. 14. Speak quietly, pilot a big mech. 15. Believe in goddesses. 16. Teachers have excellent aim with small objects. 17. Vengeance with a mallet is the sweetest revenge of all. 18. Honor is sexy; villainy is irresistible. 19. Women are attracted to losers; men are attracted to ANYTHING. 20. The coolest weapon is still the sword. 21. The hero is never really mad until they hurt his girlfriend. 22. Female androids are sexy; male androids are....male androids. 23. The green-haired alien girl will always betray her people for the man she loves. 24. School uniforms are cool only when the collar is open. 25. A show without sexual tension isn't worth watching. 26. Love knows no race, species, or logic. 27. If it's homemade but tastes bad, grin and bury it (discreetly). 28. Never trust a huge corporation. 29. Romance never comes simpler than in a triangle. 30. Never fall for the girl who names her mech with a French name. 31. Never fall in love with a psychic. 32. You can never have too much hair. 33. Sweating is a sure sign of stress. 34. Daydreaming leads to accidents. 35. Everyone wants to conquer Japan. 36. The cute, fuzzy creature isn't what it seems. 37. Cherry blossoms mean nostalgia. 38. Always take gravity into account. 39. Settings and faces are self-generating. 40. Losing your temper can be therapeutic. 41. There's nothing sexier than high heels on a mech. 42. You can never have too many subplots. 43. If she sings, she's doomed. 44. You always remember the sad endings. 45. Double suicide is romantic. 46. Outrageous vehicles only make the hero cooler. 47. Nothing delays romance like unruly neighbors. 48. Fancy ice cream is for girls only. 49. The most virtuous character will die. 50. Hot water has innumerable benefits. 51. No matter how much blood is lost, no one can die by a nosebleed. 52. (The same theory above applies to vomiting.) 53. The girl with the curly hair is always the seductress. 54. If a sister falls in love with her brother, somewhere down the line you will discover that they're not blood related. 55. The guy in the baseball cap is always more powerful than he seems. 56. All demons/monsters have enormous genitalia. 57. All young children can pilot mecha, you just need to give them a few days. 58. It is possible to incorporate martial arts into any aspect of life. 59. All high school kids in Japan have parents that are away on extended business trips. 60. The oldest sister is the nice one, the youngest sister is the brash one. 61. You can do anything to the human body as long as you hit the right pressure point. 62. Consuming enormous amounts of alcohol daily will never have ill effects. 63. All major villains either want to take over the world or blow it up. 64. When someone paints up their face, they mean business. 65. Everyone in Japan has excellent singing voices. 66. No matter how many times you rebuild, Tokyo keeps getting destroyed in a massive fireball. 67. The martial arts expert is always defenseless against a slap from the girl who loves him. 68. TAKAHASHI'S LAW 1: Food is a powerful motivator. 69. When women are sent out to fight the bad guys, there's always a hunk busily watching over them, often in secret. 70. The longer it takes to say what your punch is called, the less effective it is. 71. "Baka" does not mean a student going for his baccalaureate degree. 72. The more possessive a woman gets, the less likely she will end up with the man of her dreams. 73. TAKAHASHI'S LAW 2: The two-foot-tall old geezer is someone to be feared. 74. No matter how big the mech/labor/mobile suit is, if it runs around the corner, the guy chasing it loses the trail. 75. Extraterrestrial, demons, time travelers, etc. all want to alter the course of history by letting Oda Nobunaga win. 76. The fate of the planet rests in the hands of the seemingly normal high school student. 77. The heroine must shred her clothes while transforming into something to fight the bad guys. 78. True evil can never be destroyed, only banished to some nether realm where it awakes after a few hundred years. 79. TAKAHASHI'S LAW 3: When being hit on the head, it's the most natural thing in the world to tuck your third and fourth fingers in while keeping the others extended. 80. Even the bravest souls can be made weak and helpless by the sight of a cute little puppy or kitten. 81. Never love a Gundam pilot : you're just destined for disappointment (or a funeral). 82. All persons under the age of 50 can do a ten foot vertical jump from a standing position. 83. Never trust a guy with shiny teeth 84. ESP causes more trouble than it solves 85. The vampire isn't _always_ the bad guy 86. Nice things can come out of video stores that appear from nowhere 87. Idiot captains win battles against impossible odds 88. Order takeout at every opportunity--you might get lucky with a wrong number. 89. The police are never anywhere there is a large amount of property damage. 90. All high school principals in Japan are clinically insane. 91. All people with esper powers give off multicolored auras. 92. Just about any outer space villain has his sights set on destroying the Earth. 93. (in conjunction with #92) No other planet in the universe will be able to stop said villain except the Earth. 94. Any character can make a leap of 300 ft or more if given a good running start. 95. A samurai sword can cut through anything. 96. All characters over the age of 60 shrink in height in direct proportion to their age. 97. When uncovering a fabulous treasure, the thing will be large enough to completely destroy any surrounding structures. 98. TAKAHASHI'S LAW #4: An anti-climax is a good climax. 99. Anime villians have the best deaths. 100. Any love interest will always be possesed by a demon. 101. Mallets can be stored anywhere on anybody. 102. If the anime has the word "idol" in the title, then you know that it has to be good. 103. Takada Yumi really does sing that bad, and people still buy her CDs. 104. If you make enough porno movies, eventually you can get famous enough to star in commercials. "Iijima Ai desu! 'Manga manga no mori mori!!'" 105. There is no such thing as a public anime showing without heckling. 106. You can spot how popular a show is by looking at the number of H doujinshi it has. 107. The smartest people on r.a.a. never post, which is why the conference's overall IQ is so low. 108. If the lyrics to the OP song are printed on the screen, then you're watching a show that's not for your age group. 109. The sexiest girls are drawn by artists whose last names start with "U". 110. The English words in Jpop songs are put there only because they sound good, since they don't make any sense with the rest of the lyrics. 111. If you post on the MLs more than Hitoshi does, then you probably post too much. 112. The hero always loses the first fight with a new enemy. 113. The guys with two earrings are from the Negaverse. 114. Don't trust the guys with two earrings. 115. Any truly evil person who changes sides for the woman he loves will die in that episode. 116. You CAN do it, but only when it's funny or REALLY important. 117. You can never have too many carrots. 118. Hair comes in every shade of the rainbow - and we do mean pink, purple, blue, green.... 119. The song "Cry Me a River" takes on a whole new meaning.

100 quotes

Albert Einstein Funny Quotes 1. The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. 2. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. 3. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. 4. The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. 5. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. 6. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Fredrick Nietzsche Funny Quotes 7. In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God. 8. A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. 9. Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. 10. Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders? 11. Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. Mark Twain Funny Quotes 12. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. 13. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. 14. I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. 15. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. 16. The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. 17. “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” Voltaire Funny Quotes 18. Prejudices are what fools use for reason. 19. If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him. 20. Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do. 21. No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. 22. The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. 23. It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere. 24. There are men who can think no deeper than a fact. 25. Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. 26. Anything too stupid to be said is sung. 27. By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. 28. Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. Plato Funny Quotes 29. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. 30. No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern. 31. This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are. 32. Courage is knowing what not to fear. 33. The measure of a man is what he does with power. Winston Churchill Funny Quotes 34. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. 35. If you are going through hell, keep going. 36. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. 37. It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. George Carlin Funny Quotes 38. Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. 39. A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff. 40. Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money. 41. You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. 42. Reminds me of something my third-grade teacher said to us. She said, “You show me a tropical fruit and I’ll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala.” 43. I never fucked a ten, but one night, I fucked five twos. 44. What year did Jesus think it was? 45. The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment. 46. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. 47. “No comment” is a comment. 48. If a man smiles all the time, he’s probably selling something that doesn’t work. 49. The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it. Steve Martin Funny Quotes 50. Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything! 51. There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won’t stand for that. 52. Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It’s something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town. 53. I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. 54. You know what your problem is, it’s that you haven’t seen enough movies - all of life’s riddles are answered in the movies. 55. First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. 56. Why is it we don’t always recognize the moment when love begins, but we always know when it ends? * As Harris K. Telemacher in “L.A. Story” (1991) Steven Colbert Funny Quotes 57. “To sit here at the same table with my hero, George W. Bush…I feel like I’m dreaming. Somebody pinch me. You now what, I’m a pretty sound sleeper, that may not be enough…Somebody shoot me in the face.” -Roasting Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ dinner 58. On this show, your voice will be heard - in the form of my voice. 59. There’s a phrase we live by in America: “In God We Trust”. It’s right there where Jesus would want it: on our money. 60. Folks, the President needs a break. He’s like a Black and Decker cordless Dirt Devil vacuum. If you don’t recharge his batteries, he can’t suck. 61. I’ve always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can’t judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book? 62. Now, I don’t see color. People tell me I’m white and I believe them because police officers call me “sir”. 63. Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people. 64. “There’s nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends that are going to hell.” 65. Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals. Jon Stewart Funny Quotes 66. I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. 67. Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. 68. We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There’s just one problem - it’s in North Korea. 69. We declared war on terror—it’s not even a noun, so, good luck. 70. Here’s how bizarre the war is that we’re in in Iraq, and we should have known this right from the get-go: When we first went into Iraq, Germany didn’t want to go. Germany. The Michael Jordan of war took a pass. Jon Stewart’s Stand-up performance at RIT, 2005 Bill Maher Funny Quotes 71. Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. 72. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. 73. Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don’t need. 74. They’re talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that’s used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can’t even smoke in bed. Jerry Seinfeld Funny Quotes 75. Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom. 76. Dogs are the leaders of the planet. If you see two life forms, one of them’s making a poop, the other one’s carrying it for him, who would you assume is in charge. 77. There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, “I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.” 78. Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? “Sweetheart, let’s make up. Have this deceased squirrel.” Larry David Funny Quotes 79. Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there’s your diamond in the rough. 80. If you tell the truth about how you’re feeling, it becomes funny. 81. I’m surprized Hitler didn’t round up the toupee people.” Dennis Miller Funny Quotes 82. A recent police study found that you’re much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run. 83. The average American’s day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles’s dart board. 84. “The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq.” Jay Leno Funny Quotes 85. Here’s something to think about: How come you never see a headline like ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’? 86. The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t for any religious reasons. They couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin. 87. Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution. 88. The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. Rodney Dangerfield Funny Quotes 89. My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet. 90. Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes. 91. I’m at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to. 92. A girl phoned me and said, “Come on over. There’s nobody home.” I went over. Nobody was home! 93. Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. Sarah Silverman Funny Quotes 94. When God gives you AIDS - and God does give you AIDS, by the way - make lemonAIDS. 95. I was raped by a doctor. Which is, you know, so bittersweet for a Jewish girl. Chris Rock Funny Quotes 96. Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to. 97. I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot. 98. If a woman tells you she’s twenty and looks sixteen, she’s twelve. If she tells you she’s twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she’s damn near fourty. 99. “You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America’s Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn’t want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named ‘Bush’, ‘Dick’, and ‘Colon.’ Need I say more?” 100. “You won’t be able to take your eyes off the next four presenters: Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz.” Chris Rock while hosting the Oscars 101. Gas is getting so expensive I’m gonna ride a mexican to work.

Desiderata

WHETHER OR NOT IT IS CLEAR TO YOU , NO DOUBT THE UNIVERSE IS UNFOLDING AS IT SHOULD...

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
                and remember what peace there may be in silence.
                As far as possible without surrender
                be on good terms with all persons.
                Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
                and listen to others,
                even the dull and the ignorant;
                they too have their story.

             

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
                they are vexations to the spirit.
                If you compare yourself with others,
                you may become vain and bitter;
                for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
                Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

             

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
                it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
                Exercise caution in your business affairs;
                for the world is full of trickery.
                But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
                many persons strive for high ideals;
                and everywhere life is full of heroism.

             

Be yourself.
                Especially, do not feign affection.
                Neither be cynical about love;
                for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
                it is as perennial as the grass.

             

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
                gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
                Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
                But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
                Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
                Beyond a wholesome discipline,
                be gentle with yourself.

             

You are a child of the universe,
                no less than the trees and the stars;
                you have a right to be here.
                And whether or not it is clear to you,
                no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

             

Therefore be at peace with God,
                whatever you conceive Him to be,
                and whatever your labors and aspirations,
                in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

             

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
                it is still a beautiful world.
                Be cheerful.
                Strive to be happy.

             

Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, Copyright 1952.

DADA

DIGITIZE THE WORLD. (A new life awaits you). TECHNOLOGY is speeding ahead:
are you following the integrated golden horizons?
Take technology apart and see what it really is!
Reuse everything!
Make sculpture out of polystyrene, computers, plastic, metal, anything!
Become a techno junky. Wear technology!
ANYONE can make or be art. Exhibit on the street.
Exhibit on yourself. Glue your piece to Alan Bond's front door!
Right of access to all data.
Graffiti artists: start cyber-tagging.
DON'T be rude: talk to your fax machine.
Work things out for yourself, go beyond current standards and values and
make
your own.
Master computers and you will have hacking power over banks, governments,
and the military through technology.
Psychoactive designer foods.
Subversive cultures are starting to seep from the rotten foundations of
our society - cut their hydraulic lines.
Civilization destroys the world so lets digitize it and save the entire
human
society on mainframe laser disk.
All humans and the junk they produce will be sealed inside a huge
computer.

Forget the meat of your bodies. Full-on brain experiences await you inside
a computer. Even have sex with a computer.
Interface!
Your true life and aspirations are inhibited by the weak flesh of your
body - your body is a burden. It is simply meat. Wetware can enhance it.
Cyborg implants bring you closer to true experience.
Jack in to neuro-circuits. Once all people, objects, senses, and
experiences
are digitized onto laser disk (with backup copies) the real world can
finally breathe a sign of relief as man has disappeared forever.
He has already tried to create his own environment, now the potential is
here!
Organic life is no longer a valid lifestyle. Fully synthesized
environments
where all physical and emotional feelings can be chemically simulated.
Soon it will be possible to inject a biological computer to program
your brain, extend your life, anything.
This is your future.
You are your consciousness, don't let a physical existence fool you.
Physical bodies are now superseded, replace your body with machine
and computer components. And become superhuman!
Self sufficient society, solar powered.
We can now venture to the limits of the cosmos because we are not bound
by earthly dimensions. Cybernetics does not discriminate by looks, race,
disabilities, sex, species because it is pure brain to brain
communication.
Jack in your neurons to complete expression and communication to self.
Be free of disease, food, be totally efficient. Learn technology.
Moder man's aesthetic is grounded in pre 20th century decorativeness and
over indulgent art theorising.
The new aesthetic is computer generated CYBER DADA.
The new species are cyborgs, man/machines, precise superior flawless
beings to house our consciousness and create a new world.
DON'T BE AFRAID : LEARN TECHNOLOGY : DON'T BE AFRAID.
By wearing circuitry you will represent the new age.
Take electronics apart and see what they are.
Learn electronics, computer programming : the arts of the future.
Don't be intimidated by flashing lights and buzzing, and computers
that look like microwave ovens!
Master technology so it wont beat you as it rapidly fills the world.
Technology controls the world so if you control technology...
The end of the world is coming, but it is the beginning of a perfect
techno world. STOP reviving old cultures - HAVE NEW ONES!!!
The youth of today have become complacent and apathetic, easily controlled
by advertising, the media, and unscrupulous governments.
Let the top of hierarchy know that they can't use technology to control
us, but that we are fully integrated with technology and it is ours.
Digitize the world!!!
It's time to interface with technology and understand it.
KNOW IT personally.
Get TECH. out of the establishment and into the streets.
Dive in CYBERSPACE where all feelings and physical realities can be
psycho-chemically simulated.
DON'T BE AFRAID : EXPOSE YOUR CIRCUITRY.
COME TO TERMS WITH TODAY'S MATERIALS.
The future will come whether you like it or not so be ready for it.
PAINTING HAS DIED AGAIN : stop using purely old materials like oil and
canvas.
It will not last in a cyber world.
(WHICH WILL COME WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT).

Art, life, and the world are becoming increasingly meaningless so
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CYBER DADA IS POPULAR CULTURE, IT'S TODAY'S SOCIETY,
AND IT'S FUTURE!

Cyberpunk Manifesto

A Cyberpunk Manifesto

We are the ELECTRONIC MINDS, a group of free-minded rebels. Cyberpunks.
We live in Cyberspace, we are everywhere, we know no boundaries.
This is our manifest. The Cyberpunks' manifest.

I. Cyberpunk

1/ We are those, the Different. Technological rats, swimming in the ocean of information.
2/ We are the retiring, little kid at school, sitting at the last desk, in the corner of the class room. 3/ We are the teenager everybody considers strange 4/ We are the student hacking computer systems, exploring the depth of his reach. 5/ We are the grown-up in the park, sitting on a bench, laptop on his knees, programming the last virtual reality. 6/ Ours is the garage, stuffed with electronics. The soldering iron in the corner of the desk and the nearby disassembled radio- they are also ours. Ours is the cellar with computers, buzzing printers and beeping modems. 7/ We are those that see reality in a different way. Our point of view shows more than ordinary people can see. They see only what is outside, but we see what is inside. That's what we are - realists with the glasses of dreamers. 8/ We are those strange people, almost unknown to the neighborhood. People, indulged in their own thoughts, sitting day after day before the computer, ransacking the net for something. We are not often out of home, just from time to time, only to go to the nearby radio shack, or to the usual bar to meet some of the few friends we have, or to meet a client, or to the backstreet druggist... or just for a little walk. 9/ We do not have many friends, only a few with whom we go to parties. Everybody else we know we know on the net. Our real friends are there, on the other side of the line. We know them from our favorite IRC channel, from the News-Groups, from the systems we hang-around: 10/ We are those who don't give a shit about what people think about us, we don't care what we look like or what people talk about us in our absence. 11/ The majority of us likes to live in hiding, being unknown to everybody except those few we must inevitably contact with. 12/ Others love publicity, they love fame. They are all known in the underground world. Their names are often heard there.
But we are all united by one thing - we are Cyberpunks.

13/ Society does not understand us, we are "weird" and "crazy" people in the eyes of the ordinary people who live far from information and free ideas. Society denies our way of thinking - a society, living, thinking and breathing in one and only one way - a clichc. 14/ They deny us for we think like free people, and free thinking is forbidden. 15/ The Cyberpunk has outer appearance, he is no motion. Cyberpunks are people, starting from the ordinary and known to nobody person, to the artist-technomaniac, to the musician, playing electronic music, to the superficial scholar. 16/ The Cyberpunk is no literature genre anymore, not even an ordinary subculture. The Cyberpunk is a stand-alone new culture, offspring of the new age. A culture that unites our common interests and views. We are a unit. We are Cyberpunks.

II. Society

1/ The Society which surrounds us is clogged with concervacy pulling everything and everybody to itself, while it sinks slowly in the quicksands of time. 2/ However doggedly some refuse to believe it, it is obvious that we live in a sick society. The so called reforms which our governments so adeptly use to boast, are nothing else but a little step forward, when a whole jump can be done. 3/ People fear the new and unknown. They prefer the old, the known and checked truths. They are afraid of what the new can bring to them. They are afraid that they can lose what they have. 4/ Their fear is so strong that it has proclaimed the revolutional a foe and a the free idea - its weapon. That's their fault. 5/ People must leave this fear behind and go ahead. What's the sense to stick to the little you have now when you can have more tomorrow. Everything they must do is stretch their hands and feel for the new; give freedom to thoughts, ideas, to words: 6/ For centuries each generation has been brought up is a same pattern. Ideals is what everybody follows. Individuality is forgotten. People think in a same way, following the clichc drilled in them in childhood, the clichc-education for all children: And, when someone dares defy authority, he is punished and given as a bad example. "Here is what happens to you when you express your own opinion and deny your teacher's one". 7/ Our society is sick and need to be healed. The cure is a change in the system...

III. The System

1/ The System. Centuries-old, existing on principles that hang no more today. A System that has not changed much since the day of its birth. 2/ The System is wrong. 3/ The System must impose its truth upon us so that it can rule. The government needs us follow it blindly. For this reason we live in an informational eclipse. When people acquire information other that that from the government, they cannot distinguish the right from the wrong. So the lie becomes a truth - a truth, fundamental to everything else. Thus the leaders control with lies and the ordinary people have no notion of what is true and follow the government blindly, trusting it. 4/ We fight for freedom of information. We fight for freedom of speech and press. For the freedom to express our thoughts freely, without being persecuted by the system. 5/ Even in the most-developed and 'democratic' countries, the system imposes misinformation. Even in the countries that pretend to be the cradle of free speech. Misinformation is one of the system's main weapon. A weapon, they use very well. 6/ It is the Net that helps us spread the information freely. The Net, with no boundaries and information limit 7/ Ours is yours, yours is ours. 8/ Everyone can share information, no restrictions. 9/ Encrypting of informattion is our weapon. Thus the words of revolution can spread uninterrupted, and the government can only guess. 10/ The Net is our realm, in the Net we are Kings.11/ Laws. The world is changing, but the laws remain the same. The System is not changing, only a few details get redressed for the new time, but everything in the concept remains the same. 12/ We need new laws. Laws, fitting the times we live in, with the world that surrounds us. Not laws build on the basis of the past. Laws, build for today, laws, that will fit tomorrow. 13/ The laws that only refrain us. Laws that badly need revision.

IV. The vision

1/ Some people do not care much about what happens globally. They care about what happens around them, in their micro-universe. 2/ These people can only see a dark future, for they can only see the life they live now. 3/ Others show some concern about the global affairs. They are interested in everything,in the future in perspective, in what is going to happen globally. 4/ They have a more optimistic view. To them the future is cleaner and more beautiful, for they can see into it and they see a more mature man, a wiser world. 5/ We are in the middle. We are interested in what happens now, but what in what's gonna happen tomorow as well. 6/ We look in the net, and the net is growing wide and wider. 7/ Soon everything in this world will be swallowed by the net: from the military systems to the PC at home. 8/ But the net is a house of anarchy. 9/ It cannot be controlled and in this is its power. 10/ Every man will be dependent on the net. 11/ The whole information will be there, locked in the abysses of zeros and ones. 12/ Who controls the net, controls the information. 13/ We will live in a mixture of past and present. 14/ The bad come from the man, and the good comes from technology. 15/ The net will control the little man, and we will control the net. 16/ For is you do not control, you will be controlled. 17/ The Information is POWER!

V. Where are we?

1/ Where are we? 2/ We all live in a sick world, where hatred is a weapon, and freedom - a dream. 3/ The world grows so slowly. It is hard for a Cyberpunk to live in an underdeveloped world, looking the people around him, seeing how wrongly they develop. 4/ We go ahead, they pull us back again. Society suppressses us. Yes, it suppresses the freedom of thought. With its cruel education programs in schools and universities. They drill in the children their view of things and every attempt to express a different opinion is denied and punished. 5/ Our kids grow educated in this old and still unchanged system. A system that tolerates no freedom of thought and demands a strict obeyance to the reules... 6/ In what a worlds, how different from this, could we live now, if people were making jumps and not creeps. 7/ It is so hard to live in this world, Cyberpunk. 8/ It is as if time has stopped. 9/ We live on the right spot, but not in the right time. 10/ Everything is so ordinary, people are all the same, their deeds toos. As if society feels an urgent need to live back in time. 11/ Some, trying to find their own world, the world of a Cyberpunk, and finding it, build their own world. Build in their thoughts, it changes reality, lays over it and thus they live in a virtual world. The thought-up, build upon reality: 12/ Others simply get accustomed to the world as it is. They continue to live in it, although they dislike it. They have no other choice but the bare hope that the world will go out of its hollow and will go ahead.13/ What we are trying to do is change the situation. We are trying to adjust the present world to our needs and views. To use maximally what is fit and to ignore the trash. Where we can't, we just live in this world, like Cyberpunks, no matter how hard, when society fights us we fight back.14/ We build our worlds in Cyberspace. 15/ Among the zeros and ones, among the bits of information. 16/ We build our community. The community of Cyberpunks.

Unite!
Fight for your rights!

The Eight Reasons Why Introvert Is OK

Many times, introverts felt that something is wrong with them. This happens especially when they are in the middle of crowd, among the extroverts. Many people are saying that introverts are bad, while extroverts are good. I read a book from Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D, titled "The Introvert Advantage" and it gives me a lot of insights to be thankful for the introvert character. The introverts have an advantage and they supposed to make use their uniqueness instead of resenting them.

Here are the eight reasons that I have compiled why introvert is OK!

1. Introverts are not antisocial

Introverts have social skills, they like people, and they enjoy some types of socializing... Introverts enjoy one-on-one conversations, but group activities can be over-stimulating and drain energy.

- Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D

2. Introverts enjoys being alone to recharge their energy

  Introverts are like a rechargeable battery... extroverts are like solar panels.

-Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D

To summarize what Marti said, introverts are similar to rechargeable battery, they need to stop expending energy and rest in order to recharge, while solar panels need the sun to recharge, they need to be out and about to refuel.

3. Introverts may not good verbally, but they can become good listeners.

The next time you are intimidated when you are not talking as much as the others, remember the following quote:

  If nature intended us to talk more than listen, she would have given us two mouths and one ear.

-Anonymous

    4. Introverts are self-reflective and good learner

Introverts are intuitive and analytical. Use that skill. What is working? What isn't? Where do you get the most bangs for your buck?

    5. Introverts are thoughtful

Extroverts are like lighthouses, focusing their beacon outward toward the world. Introverts are more like lanterns, radiating a glow inside themselves.

-Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D

Introverts have a lot of thoughts and ideas, they are creative. They may have problem showing them, and that is the reason why they need to learn on sharing their thoughts to the world. If it's too difficult for introverts to beam our light to the world, we can at least make our lantern transparent.

6. Introverts are not necessarily shy

As I explained above, introverts enjoy meeting people, sometimes one-on-one, and sometimes in a group. But shy people is not, it's because of lack of confidence, shy people need to be more confidence, believe in their idea, and learn to share those ideas to others.

7. Introverts value being authentic

This might be the reason why the introverts do not like to talk much when they have nothing to say, they are just authentic, just being who they are. This may make them not becoming a people-pleaser and others should be able to see that they hold fast to their principles.

8. Introverts are capable to shine as well

Marti Olsen also compiled some of the public figures who are introverts, such as Emmy award-winning Diane Sawyer, award-winning actress Joan Allen, Julia Roberts, and also Albert Einstein. Here is her conclusion about their life:

So introverts are definitely not wallflowers. However, what drives introverts onto centre stage is often different from what drives extroverts. Introverts come into the limelight because of their quest for work that has meaning to them, an unusual talent, or extraordinary circumstances.

-Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D

In conclusion, it's okay to be introvert! We should make use of your strength, like being self-reflective, analytical and thoughtful. Only one thing that we need to do, believe in yourself and learn to share your insights to the world! You won't know how much your thought can be a blessing for others before at least you try.

Enjoy your uniqueness!

How To Thrive And Survive In The Future

How To Survive And Thrive In The Future

Many people assume that by the time the future arrives, they'll be ready to deal with it. After all, time has sort of just slogged around for umpteen billion years, waiting until the last minute to even produce a sentient race. But the problem, as Ray Kurzweil pointed out in the thinking man's Bible, The Singularity Is Near, is that the rate of progress keeps changing. It was 12 billion years until life evolved on Earth, another few hundred mil until having more than one cell became the cool thing to do, and then in that same amount of time it went to dinosaurs (with lasers and a space-faring empire? We'll never know, but that would fuck up my theory a lot. But I wouldn't care at all). It was then a mere 65 mil to humanity, a few dozen thousand to civilization, and then suddenly we're all playing Tamagotchi in middle school. According to that scale, it shouldn't be that much of a surprise that the jump from Tamagotchi to Skynet should be happening any day now. Although God knows Bush will leave it for the next President to deal with! Hahaha. Seriously though, this isn't a political column.

The moral is that by the time next year rolls around, it's gonna be 2169, we're all probably gonna be Asian, and you're gonna be fucked unless you can flip on your simstim and ride that deck straight into the Metaverse to, uh...blade...run.

4.) Be Addicted To Drugs
The alienation of modernity was a constant theme for 20th century philosophers, and a constant feature of their visions of the future. That shit ain't got nothin' on the future. Sharing wallet photos of your (probably Asian) kids will be replaced by scamming strangers for some cold Chinese cash, a warm bed, or just some uppers to keep you going. Rather than Fritz Lang's seas of mindless workers and vapid dilettantes in Metropolis, the populace of the future will consist of eleven billion unemployed computer hackers with nothing in common except a seething emptiness for the love that left them, a seething need to make one last run in cyberspace, and a seething hunger for one more fix of those sweet, sweet amphetamines. Oh, god, to just slap on one more dermpack, to have your central nervous system light up like an old pinball machine, until finally your senses ratchet up into a high-pitched whine like the turbine on a PanAm moon-jet as the atmosphere gives out and the blades are spinning at frictionless speed. That kind of high. FUCK! Basically, this will be the basis of all your short-lived but extremely intense friendships in the future, until you discover digital drugs. Those are going to be awesome.

3.) Be Insanely Good At A Skill No One's Had To Be Good At For 200 Years
Sometime this spring, everyone will be able to replace all their muscles and read Wikipedia on a display fed straight to their retinas. Being smart will not help you, due to a combination of everyone being smart and you being really high on amphetamines all the time. So, for some reason, it will suddenly become insanely useful to be an excellent clockwork tinkerer (immune to viruses), martial artist (ok, always cool and useful), and world-class piano player (yes, a computer/Asian can play the piano...but not with soul). All of these, precisely because they are so fucking cool and out of date, will be both exactly the method to defeat the ultra-intelligent AI's taking over the planet and the one thing those ultra-intelligent AI's failed to take into account. Because it was so human. And because robots are allergic to the piano.  But mostly because it was so human.

2.) Be Ready To Go Back To 10,000 B.C. At Any Moment
Yes, cars will fly, the human brain will be downloaded onto computers, and women will run around in latex kicking ass. Also, an unstoppable computer virus will wipe out every digital entity on the planet, someone will fuck up and pour too much fish food into the ocean, and the invention of something way bigger than the hydrogen bomb will be pondered for about five minutes before it goes off by accident. If anything is certain about the future, it is that it will be the last thing 99.9% of humanity sees before a big flash. Don't be caught on the ass-end of global extinction. Either get the fuck away from the planet or have a backup club and loincloth at the ready, because whatever else survives with you will probably take the form of being huge and angry (and still probably Asian). On the plus side, your girlfriend will have to reluctantly thank you for locking her in your underground cavern.

1.) Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Work For A Giant Corporation
If there's one other thing any good survey of the future reveals, it's that in the future big business is way, way bigger. There may be eleven billion unemployed computer hackers, but there will also be about 50-70 billion employees of humongous, probably Asian, mega-transnational-corporations. And they all have plans to destroy the world. Plans to destroy/take over/enslave the world are very popular in the future, not only among robots and AI programs, but among normal evil businessmen as well. We've all heard the reasons for working for one of these huge corporations: good pay, health benefits, and top-of-the-line brain implants that contain devices which will turn you into a zombie as soon as your company enters Phase Omega. Granted, a nice person like you will work in the part of the company that manufactures cute pink toys for all the (probably Asian) children of the world. Aside from the fact that those cute pink toys will also have a bloodcurdling role to play in Phase Omega, the central narrative in each of those eleven billion computer hackers' lives will be their epic battle with your corporation. And when the internal security system of Awesome Toys, Inc. is compromised, it will be you and your family (probably Asian, and also employed by Awesome Toys, Inc.) who are turned into quivering jelly by the nerve gas burped up by those pink bears. The line between henchman and bystander is too fine for a death toy to distinguish.

How To Thrive And Survive In The Future

How To Survive And Thrive In The Future

Many people assume that by the time the future arrives, they'll be ready to deal with it. After all, time has sort of just slogged around for umpteen billion years, waiting until the last minute to even produce a sentient race. But the problem, as Ray Kurzweil pointed out in the thinking man's Bible, The Singularity Is Near, is that the rate of progress keeps changing. It was 12 billion years until life evolved on Earth, another few hundred mil until having more than one cell became the cool thing to do, and then in that same amount of time it went to dinosaurs (with lasers and a space-faring empire? We'll never know, but that would fuck up my theory a lot. But I wouldn't care at all). It was then a mere 65 mil to humanity, a few dozen thousand to civilization, and then suddenly we're all playing Tamagotchi in middle school. According to that scale, it shouldn't be that much of a surprise that the jump from Tamagotchi to Skynet should be happening any day now. Although God knows Bush will leave it for the next President to deal with! Hahaha. Seriously though, this isn't a political column.

The moral is that by the time next year rolls around, it's gonna be 2169, we're all probably gonna be Asian, and you're gonna be fucked unless you can flip on your simstim and ride that deck straight into the Metaverse to, uh...blade...run.

4.) Be Addicted To Drugs
The alienation of modernity was a constant theme for 20th century philosophers, and a constant feature of their visions of the future. That shit ain't got nothin' on the future. Sharing wallet photos of your (probably Asian) kids will be replaced by scamming strangers for some cold Chinese cash, a warm bed, or just some uppers to keep you going. Rather than Fritz Lang's seas of mindless workers and vapid dilettantes in Metropolis, the populace of the future will consist of eleven billion unemployed computer hackers with nothing in common except a seething emptiness for the love that left them, a seething need to make one last run in cyberspace, and a seething hunger for one more fix of those sweet, sweet amphetamines. Oh, god, to just slap on one more dermpack, to have your central nervous system light up like an old pinball machine, until finally your senses ratchet up into a high-pitched whine like the turbine on a PanAm moon-jet as the atmosphere gives out and the blades are spinning at frictionless speed. That kind of high. FUCK! Basically, this will be the basis of all your short-lived but extremely intense friendships in the future, until you discover digital drugs. Those are going to be awesome.

3.) Be Insanely Good At A Skill No One's Had To Be Good At For 200 Years
Sometime this spring, everyone will be able to replace all their muscles and read Wikipedia on a display fed straight to their retinas. Being smart will not help you, due to a combination of everyone being smart and you being really high on amphetamines all the time. So, for some reason, it will suddenly become insanely useful to be an excellent clockwork tinkerer (immune to viruses), martial artist (ok, always cool and useful), and world-class piano player (yes, a computer/Asian can play the piano...but not with soul). All of these, precisely because they are so fucking cool and out of date, will be both exactly the method to defeat the ultra-intelligent AI's taking over the planet and the one thing those ultra-intelligent AI's failed to take into account. Because it was so human. And because robots are allergic to the piano.  But mostly because it was so human.

2.) Be Ready To Go Back To 10,000 B.C. At Any Moment
Yes, cars will fly, the human brain will be downloaded onto computers, and women will run around in latex kicking ass. Also, an unstoppable computer virus will wipe out every digital entity on the planet, someone will fuck up and pour too much fish food into the ocean, and the invention of something way bigger than the hydrogen bomb will be pondered for about five minutes before it goes off by accident. If anything is certain about the future, it is that it will be the last thing 99.9% of humanity sees before a big flash. Don't be caught on the ass-end of global extinction. Either get the fuck away from the planet or have a backup club and loincloth at the ready, because whatever else survives with you will probably take the form of being huge and angry (and still probably Asian). On the plus side, your girlfriend will have to reluctantly thank you for locking her in your underground cavern.

1.) Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Work For A Giant Corporation
If there's one other thing any good survey of the future reveals, it's that in the future big business is way, way bigger. There may be eleven billion unemployed computer hackers, but there will also be about 50-70 billion employees of humongous, probably Asian, mega-transnational-corporations. And they all have plans to destroy the world. Plans to destroy/take over/enslave the world are very popular in the future, not only among robots and AI programs, but among normal evil businessmen as well. We've all heard the reasons for working for one of these huge corporations: good pay, health benefits, and top-of-the-line brain implants that contain devices which will turn you into a zombie as soon as your company enters Phase Omega. Granted, a nice person like you will work in the part of the company that manufactures cute pink toys for all the (probably Asian) children of the world. Aside from the fact that those cute pink toys will also have a bloodcurdling role to play in Phase Omega, the central narrative in each of those eleven billion computer hackers' lives will be their epic battle with your corporation. And when the internal security system of Awesome Toys, Inc. is compromised, it will be you and your family (probably Asian, and also employed by Awesome Toys, Inc.) who are turned into quivering jelly by the nerve gas burped up by those pink bears. The line between henchman and bystander is too fine for a death toy to distinguish.

Phil. Drum & Bass Compilation

coming out this march 2, 2008

i think it will only be available in the manila area

but i will post tracks online

a collaborative work compiled from dnb producers all over the philippines

all the massive drum & bass subgenres ranging from :
the cool vibes of liquidfunk
soothing atmospheric  and brainy IDM
to crazy neurofunk, darkside hardstep and freaky electro/trance

artists: [search for these in myspace]
flipperbaby
evo evolver
cardinal zen
pao chec
demolee
dnb jared
makkina
greatest forces
and lots more

its all patented, legal and original
will be later played at a canadian radio station, and in clubs in manila

Dumb Jokes

1. How Do You Catch a Unique Rabbit?
Unique Up On It.

2. How Do You Catch a Tame Rabbit?
Tame Way, Unique Up On It.

3. How Do Crazy People Go Through The Forest?
They Take The Psycho Path

4. How Do You Get Holy Water?
You Boil The Hell Out Of It.

5. What Do Fish Say When They Hit a Concrete Wall?
Dam!

6. What Do Eskimos Get From Sitting On The Ice too Long?
Polaroid's

7. What Do You Call a Boomerang That Doesn't work?
A Stick

8. What Do You Call Cheese That Isn't Yours?
Nacho Cheese.

9. What Do You Call Santa's Helpers?
Subordinate Clauses.

10. What Do You Call Four Bullfighters In Quicksand?
Quatro Sinko...

11. What Do You Get From a Pampered Cow?
Spoiled Milk.

12. What Do You Get When You Cross a Snowman With a Vampire?
Frostbite.

13. What Lies At The Bottom Of The Ocean And Twitches?
A Nervous Wreck.

14. What's The Difference Between Roast Beef And Pea Soup?
Anyone Can Roast Beef.

15. Where Do You Find a Dog With No Legs?
Right Where You Left Him.

16. Why Do Gorillas Have Big Nostrils?
Because They Have Big Fingers.

17. What Kind Of Coffee Was Served On The Titanic?
Sanka.

18. What Is The Difference Between a Harley And a Hoover?
The Location Of The Dirt Bag.

19. What's The Difference Between a Bad Golfer And a Bad Skydiver?
A Bad Golfer Goes, Whack, Dang!
A Bad Skydiver Goes Dang! Whack.

20. How Are a Texas Tornado And a Texas Divorce The Same?
Somebody's Gonna Lose A Trailer

Now, admit it. At least one of these made you smile.

What do you expect from such simple creatures?

Why Men Are Just Happier People

	Your last name stays put.
	The garage is all yours.
	Wedding plans take care of themselves.
	Chocolate is just another snack.
	You can be president.
	You can never be pregnant.
	You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.
	You can wear NO  T-shirt to a water park.
	Car mechanics tell you the truth.
	The world is your urinal.
	You never have to drive to another gas station rest-room because this one is just too icky.
	You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
	Same work, more pay.
	Wrinkles add character.
	Wedding dress $5,000.  Tux rental -- $100.
	People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them.
	The occasional well-rendered belch is practically  expected.
	New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
	One mood -- all the time.
	Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
	You know stuff about tanks.
	A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
	You can open all your own jars.
	You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
	If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend.
	Your underwear is $5.95 for a three-pack.
	Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.
	You almost never have strap problems in public.
	You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.
	Everything on your face stays its original color.
	The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.
	You only have to shave your face and neck.
	You can play with toys all your life.
	Your belly usually hides your big hips.
	One wallet and one pair of shoes one color for all  seasons.
	You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
	You can "do" your nails with a pocketknife.
	You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.
	You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives on December 24th in 45 minutes.

 

No wonder men are happier!

The Guys' Rules

*** Disclaimer:  Although I do think this is funny, I do not necessarily agree with the below "rules." ***

 

We always hear "the rules" from the female side.  Now here are the rules from the male side.

1. Learn to work the toilet seat.  You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down.  We need it up, you need it down.  You don't hear us complaining about you leaving it down.

2. Sunday sports.  It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides.  Let it be.

3. Shopping is NOT a sport.  And no, we are never going to think of it that way.

4. Crying is blackmail.

5. Ask for what you want.  Let us be clear on this one:  Subtle hints do not work.  Strong hints do not work.  Obvious hints do not work.  Just say it!

6. "Yes" and "No" are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

7. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it.  That's what we do.  Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

8. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a problem.  See a doctor.

9. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument.  In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 days.

10. If you won't dress like the Victoria's Secret girls, don't expect us to act like soap opera guys.

11. If you think you're fat, you probably are.  Don't ask us.

12. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one.

13. You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it done.  Not both.  If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.

14. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials.

15. Christopher Columbus did not need directions and neither do we.

16. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings.  Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a color.  Pumpkin is also a fruit. We have no idea what mauve is.

17. If it itches, it will be scratched.  We do that.

18. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing,&quo