I was always told by my father and CNN that Israel always has to defend itself against people who just hated them for no reason. When 9/11 happened, I was pretty sure I was still going to join the Air Force. I got my glider pilot’s license the next summer, and my private pilot’s license the summer before 12th grade. I was not uncommon for my father to have a military themed wallpaper on his office desktop background.

This is a tomahawk cruise missile warhead delivery system being launched from a naval vessel. It can deliver over 1,000 lbs of explosive over 2,500 kilometers. I’d see things like this on Extreme Machines and love it. I can just picture the narrator saying something along the lines of “With technology like this, the bad guy doesn’t even have a chance to fire a single bullet.”.

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Nowaways, my perspective is a little different. I see Israel as a bully, I question our involvement in Afghanistan, supporting a false government, when only about 100 taliban are actually in the country (they’re all in Pakistan now). I can understand if we’re making money off of their drugs, which is what it seems. Funny they don’t tell you that Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, is the brother of a major drug lord. It’s also funny that the Allies only burn southern opium crops, not northern ones.

I see this senseless violence, and greed that is to a level no different than telecommunications companies screwing over the public, or ticketmaster charging you $25 in “convenience fees” per event ticket, and wonder where we’ve gone wrong. We’re all just greedy motherfuckers, it seems.

Now when I look at a photo of a tomahawk cruise missile, I see the real result:

This child was at a distance from the target. I think its safe to guess that whoever was in the blast radius could now only be poured into a vial. This shit happens nearly daily in Iraq. How about if one cruise missile were to hit a rural community in Pennsylvania?  It would be a massive tragedy. Hit a few brown people in the desert? Meh.

Let’s pretend that is a photo of a child in Canada who died at the hands of, say, the Chinese. Would they be winning our hearts & minds, or would we sign up to kill those invaders at any cost?

My point? I do not believe that our tactics are helping us at all in reducing the threat of terrorism.

Some of you may have noticed a new search engine called “Bing”. It’s Microsoft’s counter to Google (B.I.N.G. = But Its Not Google). If you shop online ussing Bing, you get a 2% to 10% Cashback on any item you see with your search. A writer at Bountii.com posted about a discrepancy. If you search for an item in Bing, it inserts a cookie in your browser. So if you search for, say, a camcorder, you will see a listed price of $758 at “Store X” minus 2% = $742.84. A $15.16 savings, right? Not really.

If you either delete that cookie, or open a different browser (say, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer), and search for the same item on “Store X”.com, it will be listed at $699. Huh? Yeah, That Bing cookie just tricked you into thinking you were saving cash when they were really jipping you.

Microsoft sent in a defense, but I still think they are complete goons.

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Next up is the Amazon Kindle. Not many people I know seem to be aware of it, but I’ll let you in on a secret: You don’t actually own the books you pay for. Amazon just sells you a license to read it, that they can revoke at any moment. It’s basically renting out books. Don’t believe me? Ask the hundreds who found that Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm were deleted from their own damned Kindles. Oh, the irony.

That’s right, Amazon deleted books from people who thought they bought the book.

Remember, every time you see an advertisement, hear of a sale or an offer: they’re just saying whatever the fuck it takes for you to give them your money. They’ll make you think you need their shit so bad that your head will explode, if it means you’ll give them your money.

Nobody goes into business to give people great value.

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Simply by placing three full beer bottles next to my toilets ballcock (couldn’t pass that up), I think I may have saved between 300 and 500 litres of water in the amount of time I’ve lived here. I don’t do it to save money. I do it because I think it’s right.

Koko’s favorite TV show was Mr. Rogers’ Neighbourhood. Check out the vid where they meet!