A little rant about technology…. Cameras. Arrrrgh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

See this is something I have a problem with with technology. Why do we need cameras inside everything we buy? Even my fucking Nintendo DS has a camera inside it, and I just found out that the new ipod now also has a camera.

It’s bad enough some twit thought phones would be better if we put cameras inside them. I just don’t get it. Can someone explain to me why phones need a camera? Who thought that was a good idea.

Why do you need a camera in a phone, or in an ipod, or games consode. It’s just cramming too many different technologies and ideas into one box that I frankly think we don’t need.

I no longer have an ipod. I didn’t like the propriety nature of the files for music and the fact it can’t play a wide range of formats. I instead bought a nice generic brand mp3 player with 8gig capacity and it plays almost anything I can throw at it and doesn’t have any DRM or other nonsense. Best of all it has no fucking camera.

Even Steve Wozniak former founder of Apple thinks the Iphone will soon be dead because it’s too restrictive and won’t let the user customize it. Look him up, he talks about that in a recent interview he made.

Late Term Abortions….. I feel very torn

So here we go… I think abortion is something all women should have access too. Especialy in caases where their life might be in danger if they continue with carrying the baby to full term, or if they are the victim of rape and did not want to have the child. No objection to any of the above.

But when I saw the pic in the other thread which I found I really felt torn becuse it was a late term abortion at 23 weeks.. I just feel torn that anyone would wait that long to have the procedure. I admit it made me feel a little squeamish.

OK not showing the picture because I don’t wish to offend anyone but here is a link for you to make up your own mind..

Dilation And Evacuation Procedure At 23 Weeks Old

Better Late Then Never

Well it’s back to blogging…. Better late then never. What have I been up to? Not much hehe… I’ve been busy in the photo world with a few photo shoots now under my belt and a few lined up for the future.

Half the problem is finding models to work with. Half the time they act like “Precious Princess” and will give you the run around till they finally decide that they will work with you and do a shoot.

Luckily I have only met one or two girls that fit the bill for “Precious Princess.” They are funny people actually, one insisted that I have some bottled water for her at the shoot, and the other insisted that we shoot at a certain time of the day, and begrudgingly I agreed to both of them and did the shoots.

Oh and here have a look at my links below.

And there you go another day, another blog.

The first link is for my DA (DeviantArt) page where 90% of my photos are located on the net.

This is the link to my Model Mayhem profile. This is where my official page is which I use for most of my work.

LEGO Star Wars on the Nintendo DS You bastards I want my money back.

What a fucking crap game.

I have the PC verion and it’s beautiful to play. The PSP version is even fun to play but I just got this on the DS and it’s craptactular and not worth the money I paid. I am going to try and get my money back….

I got to the second part of the first SW episode and on the way to Mos Eisley you have to change characters all the time. Well this is kind of sucky….. I got to the part where you had to free R2D2 and C3PO from a jail cell. I did that and they followed along then I changed to R2 because the enxt part of that level requires a door to be opened by him. You have to pass through an archway in a wall. But the little droid got stuck inside the wall graphics and that ended up bogging the game down and turning the fucking screen all wonky.

So first thing next week when I have calmed down sufficiently is I will trek down to EB Games and complain loudly about the crap game I bought. Aren’t these things ever tested? And that’s not the only bug.. Sometimes in the cantina where you start from you can jump through furniture or even walk through things you shouldn’t…….

This game sucks on the DS…. Nintendo fanboys of course will love this game to death….

What’s the point of being honest or living an honest life?

Is living an honest life a good thing, or should we all just bend rules and obfuscate truth and honesty wherever possible?

OK watching CSI NY tonight and this thought crept into my head.  The topic of the episode was the untimely death of this woman who was a “problem solver” in that she gets paid to make messy problems or situations go away.  Such as people who may want to sue the police commissioner of sexual harassment. She made the claimant go away and shut up.

Anyway the episode started with her being found dead. Everyone is looking for her and a flash drive that she carries that has all her files and dealings on it.  Many high up in society are now nervous that the contents of this flash drive may come out.  So obviously reputations are on the line to say the least…

I got to thinking OK this is fiction but what would be the worst that could happen if a nosy reporter or such got their hands on the flash drive ane leaked its contents in the newspapers?
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What I’m pondering from this episode is this.    If everyone is so corrupt that they wanted this woman dead and all her files hushed up if they were found then what’s the point of living an honest life?

Why teach kids to be honest when all the adults running the world do shady deals and other stuff? Why not teach kids that to get ahead in life you should lie, cheat, and backstab people around you?

Anyway I await your thoughts….

Well Mr. Rudd…. Is This Australia Or Are We Now A Defacto State Of China?…..

And with that I begin my very first rant….

For some time the Rudd ALP government in Australia has been toying with the idea of internet censorship.  But this won’t be done on a voluntary basis where individual computer users can add filter software to their own computers and control what they themselves see or not but it will be imposed on every internet user as they want the ISP’s themselves to shoulder the burden of filtering the internet.

This smacks of over zealous government as far as I am concerned, and it’s the kind of thing you will see on mainland China where the government actively filters and censors their own internet. Even google had to makc changes for Chinese users.  This sucks. 

This whole push has been done also without first asking the people if they want it or not. It’s also being fuelled by conservative religious groups and independent polliticians allied to these groups, who wish to push the censorship barrow.

The other thing that is quite interesting and bizzar IMHO is that this is all being done almost in secret.  There has been very little to no publicity about what they want to do and the whole process of implenenting this upon the populace.  Feels quite fascist and tyrannical, that they are not making any public statements about this.  At this current point in time they are supposed to be trialling the actal filter hardware with ISP’s but it’s very hard to get actual information on the trials unless you dig around.  Other forums have been discussing this such as  the Whirlpool forums and much discussion has been had over there..

Well with that in mind I now open the floor to your comments.