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Name: Kenny
Birthday: 7/28/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: God, Paintball, Hunting,Target shooting, Fishing, Camping, Computer programming, playing Soldat (even though i get pwned most of the time.. its still fun),chatting online,watching movies, snow (as long as im playing in it... ) , Linux, the criminal justice system
Expertise: being myself... thats about it.
Occupation: Other
Industry: Construction
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| Lets have some fun with a statistic! How about this one! Sound's pretty frightening doesn't it? How about when you consider the fact for a moment that only includes firearms which could even be traced. Yes, some firearms cannot be traced. Say if you buy it from a Somalian for a few goats or something. How are you going to trace that? So while "87%" of the guns that were traced point back to purchases in the US, it is most likely actually only a small percentage of the countries which would be represented if they could all be traced. The statistics are then heavily skewed because the weapons being traced are weapons that already have a high probability of coming from the US. Certain weapons could be "guessed" as coming from the US without even tracing them , and placed into the "to trace" bin. and then that is how they get such a high percentage. It's propaganda preparing you to hear an excuse to give up more of your rights. I also know that If i was a warlord/drug dealer etc I would buy as many weapons as possible for as cheap as possible. If you've been gun shopping you'd know they're quite expensive, I think taking a trip to Africa or the middle east would be a much more efficient way to equip an army.
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| Do you ever wonder what the people of the UN spend their time doing? I used to think they did things like help out violent unstable countries, and bring bags of rice to starving people. It appears they have better , more important things to do. Like banning plastic shopping bags. They choke animals in the ocean supposedly. Which would be a non issue if we would quit dumping our trash into the ocean. create a landfill, and when its full cover it over with dirt and make a park. One thing I find interesting... assuming they are banned, what is the alternative? Paper of course. Weren't we supposed to use plastic to save trees? I'm sure Al Gore will like us cutting down more trees. Anyway I think the UN even considering this joke is ridiculous and should be grounds for the UN being disbanded. I mean seriously, do you not have anything better to do with the time and money allocated for you?
Obviously, with a name like ih8censorship censorship issues concern me. I realize there is a time and place for it (for example not broadcasting every military plan and troop movement on CNN and for the sake of decency in society) But China takes it to the extreme. Requiring certain software on peoples machines? If Richard Stallman spoke Chinese he would be all over them haha. It's stupid though. They claim its to protect people from porn and dangerous websites. What is dangerous is defined by them, Like for example the bbc and the wikipedia page on tienamen square protests amoung others, including countless bloggers.
What people dont realize is this sort of thing happens everywhere, and people dont realize the government as a whole doesnt want to help people it wants to control them. We're lucky in the USA because the founders just got out of a situation of opression so they did what they could so that it would never happen again. Little by little though it's going back to more of the same, and politicians do whatever they think they can get away with.
I havent done much of a personal blog entry in a while have I . I'm not that interesting I guess, at least not as interesting as current events. What have I been up to? Well after a long period without work i'm currently working like a madman so thats good. I'm still finding time to program, lately i've been using PHP for a project. Still doing construction work! I did have a shot at a programming job though, but it just seemed like a situation where it would have been too much for too little. Anyway time to do other stuff!
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| Statistics can be pretty stupid. Take this one that has to do with the illegal copying of digital media. The amount of money they claim is being lost is astronomical, especially with the current state the global economy seems to be in. I don't know how they can claim they are losing that much money, it's like they assume everyone who downloads a song or album or movie would otherwise be buying that legally. I'd buy something i listened to or watched a lot, but I wouldnt buy something that i just wanted to watch once or listen to an album a couple of times and throw it away. We're talking what, $12 dollars for a music cd, and around 20$ for a new movie release? And I'm supposed to buy them even if I might find out they suck when i get them home? What then? I cant take them back, and second hand stores give you pennies on the dollar. So really it's all greed on the part of the people who conduct these sorts of studies, because of making rediculous assumptions about what would be happening if users werent downloading stuff.
looks like the slumdog kids got new places to live, so that is good. As you remember i was pretty unhappy about the fact that they were getting exploited nike style. I still think it was either a publicity stunt, or just stupidity and greed, but whatever.
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| Some people and/or situations just make me sick. This is one of them. Granted they had no legal right to be there, that's fine and dandy. The problem comes with the film makers using them to make a film which they make millions off of, and the people go back to poverty. It wouldn't take much to pay them with a little piece of land of their own and a decent living space of their own and some cash for living a bit. Yet they don't. They can get by cheap. Or perhaps they are using them and their real lives to get at their agenda of exposing poverty in India, which to me is still wrong because that's what they did with the movie, or at least so I was told I haven't seen it, and now I'm glad for that. The whole thing makes me want to add a Nike swoosh to every dvd or poster of slumdog millionaire I ever see. It's the same thing. In fact it's worse, because Nike doesn't act like exploitation bothers them.
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| I'm kind of annoyed right now. I've been trying to figure out how to do something (well legally anyway, illegally it would be easy) and it shouldn't be near as difficult as it is. That's what I get for living in civilization in a free country I guess.
I'll back up and describe the situation. For a long time I've wanted to spend a rather lengthy amount of time in the wilderness , with just what I could carry in on my back, wits, and training to support me. Ideally I'd fish and hunt and gather wild plants to supplement my food supplies to the point where the ones I brought in were no longer necessary.The problem with this, is to do it legally Id have to wait for the fishing and hunting seasons, and because of that if the fish weren't biting I couldn't just shoot a few squirrels instead on the way back to camp. So that cuts my chances of getting something to eat every day down. I would read a lot of my Bible and explore too. I remember a few years ago I went camping with a couple before they got married, and one of the days I was by myself and I just sort of wandered around the woods and sand dunes along Lake Michegan and read my Bible because I didnt have much else to do. It was really nice.
My second problem comes with packing firearms. I found out that for legal hunting purposes guns are allowed in national forests. That's great. What happens if I come across a wolf pack that thinks I'll make a good dinner or something and all I have is a gun for killing squirrels?... I mean I wouldn't exactly be staying at a campground next to someones RV I'd be out of cell range and even if I weren't the rangers wouldn't find me in time. In Minnesota I could carry a hand gun for protection/hunting as I have a permit for that... but here in Wisconsin there's a huge grey area about the carrying of guns for protection so I'd be stuck again with a small game gun if/when i needed it to shoot something that was trying to eat me or otherwise hurt me. Also the national forests themselves have, in my opinion, idiotic rules about weapons that seem to tend to change now and then from what I've seen.
Why is it so hard to detach from civilization for a while? You'd think in a country that prides itself on being free, that an ambitious, law abiding young man like myself could still go in the woods and stay there for a while. Just kinda live like an old time indian or grizzly adams or something ya know?
Whatever the answer, I'm going to keep trying to figure this out... it sure is frusterating because it shouldnt be this difficult to plan something like this... if it wasnt for all the legal crap I'd pack a bag tomorrow and be in northern wisconsin or minnesota by nightfall. Well maybe friday sometime (again, hypothetically speaking) , I have plans tomorrow.
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