Category: Stupid Human Tricks
6:11 More Stupid Human Tricks
While waiting for his water to boil, Gareth surfed his feeds on his phone. On one of his favourite sites, libertariansocialismgonewild.org, he stumbled across a piece that made him smile.
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A comment appearing after a CBC.ca article talking about a billionaire suing Forbes for miscalculating his wealth:
A brilliant example of what is wrong with this world.
No worries, there’s only a few million starving right now … and a few million more suffering without medical assistance.
While I sympathize with the reasoning behind the this comment, I find it, well, ironic, that the thing that is most wrong to teh commenter is the billionaire doing the stupid things that billionaires do while the commenter him-(or her-) self seems to think there are only a few million people suffering in the world. If one is willing to stretch few to mean 925 then they might be more accurate.
In round numbers there are 7 billion people in the world. Thus, with an estimated 925 million hungry people in the world, 13.1 percent, or almost 1 in 7 people are hungry.
Personally I think the thing that’s wrong with the world is that the numbers have gotten too big. We cant really comprehend the disaster that we are living in so we in the privileged world just reduce the size of the problem so we can wrap our minds around it then end up marginalizing it because it doesn’t seem so significant any more. And yes, I do it too…
Just my 2 cents.
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“Huh,” he thought, “Be sure brain is engaged before putting mouth — or keyboard— into gear.”
LOL Cats
Found online while surfing randomly… People are mean…
Communication Fail
120,000 out of 180,000 corporate customers of IT giant KPN failed to change their default password (welkom01), forcing them to shut down their portal due to the inherent security risks.
The first question that pops to mind is whose fault is it? Then you realize it was everyone’s: from system designers to customer relations to customers etc. Overall it was a complete communication failure. You can see how everyone assumed that the other realized the implications and would act to prevent such a ridiculous situation. Yet no one did.
This is really why I have my job. The things people assume… Sigh.
iPhone fanboy…
I especially like the graphic that shows the iPhone, all by its lonesome, is now bigger than Microsoft or Coke… I love my phone but, holy capitalist society Batman!
Why I don’t have a pension…
Beacuse I would never, ever in a million years put up with a bullshit policy like this:
Before leaving employment, all Parks Canada employees should disclose their intention of future employment and discuss potential conflicts with their supervisor.
Before Leaving Office
Parks Canada employees must disclose, in a Code of Ethics Report to their Human Resources Manager, all firm offers of employment that could place them in a real, apparent or potential conflict of interest situation. They must also immediately disclose the acceptance of any such offer.
http://www.pc.gc.ca/docs/pc/guide/code/page04.aspx
Seriously?
Simply LOL
Remind me why…
Seriously. I know its way more complicated than I think, but why is having a conservative government a good thing fiscally?
From the CBC website
An all time low
Those of you who ever bother to listen to me know I like to rant about CBC.ca‘s comments but this one takes the cake. I mean I know generally when you read something this asinine its someone’s poor attempt at satire or sarcasm, but this… this takes the cake…
Even in these days of internet illiteracy… seriously… sigh…
This is uncalled for he is going into that uncharted, undesturbed and prestine landscape and killing all the animals that live there, he must be stopped because next thing you know he will have oil and polution down there when it does not belong and he should call the wild life protection agancy and arrest himself and put him in jail because the money it spent on going there we could of went to voyage a new planet for NASA and then the little pretty fishes at the bottom of the sea would thrive in the environment!
From a story about James Cameron’s descent to the bottom of the ocean.
Condoms & QR Codes… who knew
Far from its humble beginnings in the automotive industry, now these matrix barcodes, scannable if you use a QR-code reader, are now beginning to appear on condom wrappers in the United States. Why? To allow the users to post and record the location of their sexual activity online for the world to see.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/qr-code-condoms-tracking-teenage-trysts/15358
LOL, just LOL. I can only imagine what the more ingenious of the crowd are going to do with this…
People, huh
“It is good to have a standard,
but a standard is not “good.”
—Ghomeshi