Its funny how, when something bad happens, such as the victorian fires that have occured lately, there appears to be business, utlising the event, for their own advitising gain. Companies such as banks etc all placing adverts saying they are fund raising, "come to the bank and find out how". Im all for the aid, just not for the sake of advertising. Even if they just placed an ad saying "bank x, now taking donation to aid victims of bushfires in victoria. But they dont, they use it to try and change your image of the bank etc. It frustrates me to no end.
Something that coincides with this, is that just about everything in Australia is marketed at women. Even things like mens diodorant. Some people might say, well thats smart marketing. But I think thats irrelevent, because firstly, it gives me the shits, and secondly, thats all that should matter. A typical Australian woman, buys for herself, her family, her husband. They buy the grocerys for the family, they buy the news paper, hell 99% of them get to control what tv channel to watch. Even situations such a business large or small, its always the receptionist that buys everything the business needs. There are such stupid campains that run around, like make up ads "because your worth it". Or magazines that come out weekly and make it seem like its a womans right to sit on their ass and read a magazine. Or chocolate commercials that show a woman doing something stupid, like having to stop their child running out the front door without their lunch, making it seem amazingly difficult, and for doing so they have earnt the right to sit down, read a punch of crap and eat a chocolate bar.
News papers have been structured simmilar to drama television to suck women in, tv has been shaped towards woman, because they are the ones that react to the ads, that are aimed at woman. It is known that woman have more control over what car is purchased for a family, so cars are made to suit woman now. Gone are the days of good engineering, crisp handling.
Now its all front wheel drive bullshit "0h the hazard button is such a nice colour", "oh it looks like the car has eye lashes", "i dont know the difference between a car sold in germany and a car made in germany". These are common thoughts amongst woman. Hell the vw beetle comes with a vase next to the steering wheel. Stupid things like woman not being able to drive manuals properly and most cars being designed to be auto, so manual versions drive like crap with poorly matched gears. Steering is stupidly light and vague. The brake pedals are so damn wide they almost touch the throttle. Abs kicks in when your just trying to drive firmly.
But even the stuff they should design properly to help woman, like features to stop them smashing doors on other cars in car parks, or doors that open a certain way to make it easier to get a child out. Special door handles to stop them scratching the crap out of the paint around where the key goes. A bonnet that doesnt slope off at a stupid angle so they actually know where the front of the car is etc etc. But that stuff would probably cost money, and what they are doing now obviously works.
One more offtopic thing while im off topic, but whats funny is what people consider the most macho car in australia, the big v8 holden commodore, is mainly driven by woman and metrosexuals. Easiest way to find out your driving a womans car, the drivers side sun visor has a mirror :-).
Beall out
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Rudds a Dudd, and so are people who believe in global warming
Uncle Rudd wants to get rid of indecent bulbs in replacement for wound fluro bulbs. As they are
better for the environment. Guess what, they're not, sure incandescent vacuum formed bulbs use more energy,
but energy is made by power stations. Power stations, especially coal, produce pollution. Make a better
god damn power station, his government is the one that wiped nuclear power off the table in government discussions,
Australia is the best country out of ANY in the world to have nuclear power, and we DONT. We have the best space to build it, the best resources in the ground to feed it, and the best space in the ground to store its crap. It is the
best cleanest most efficient energy.
People don't realize, to make a fluro bulb, chemicals have to be produced, for chemical production, there are waste chemicals that go somewhere. When the fluro cracks open on its way to the dump, more chemicals are disposed into the world. They might use less energy, last a bit longer, but the light they make is shit house. They are expensive to produce and are NOT a solution to energy. Which was never a problem.
This comes back to his speil about carbon emissions, carbon emission tax, he wants to tax Australians for the carbon they produce, which is plain silly. Firstly, as some of you might not be aware, carbon is a heavy molecule, it doesnt go into the atmosphere, hell even oxygen cant even go high into the atmosphere. An example is the top of Mt Everest, where oxygen levels are low. What makes you think a heavier molecule can go higher? Secondly, a chap name Dr David Evans (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24036736-7583,00.html), who has numerous accolades, a few phds and degrees to his name, USED to work for the Government finding information about this crap. He resigned, no longer works for them, he could do nothing but find information that disproved the carbon theory. Basically in 1997 earth core data analysis found certain things, but only accurate to a few 1000 years. New tests show much more accurate results. Especially the fact that put simply, the temperature of the atmosphere, effects how much carbon can be supported, not the amount of carbon effecting the temperature. He goes on to explain how the higher the carbon level in the atmosphere, the more plants consume, and the greater plant growth is. It goes through cycles. If there are less plants on the earth, they do get cut down which sucks, which means there is less absorbed, and more in the atmosphere. But the plants left, through the process of photo synthesis, absorb more and become bigger and more plentiful. Yeah we produce a fair quantity of carbon, but carbons not the issue, there are many more bigger issues. The greatest being methane from cattle production. Which could quite easily be collected and used from cattle, with some seedy device that goes up their but and separates methane from poo, but it would never happen. Even though livestock cause more damage to the atmospheric environment that anything else. The temperatures recorded for global warming data, were put in places over 50 years ago, towns have crept up to these units and what is known as a phenomenon, whereby a city emits hear in a several kilometer radius effects these readings, but data collected from satellites, three dimensionally mapping the earths temperatures, actually show a decline in temperature world wide by a small amount over a long period, no signs at all of a temperature increase in any country.
The next thing is peoples obsession with electric things. Like solar power, people don't realize that the amount of energy used to create a solar panel, is never recouped in its lifespan. Ie the factor equipment uses more energy to produce them, than they produce. So they are only a solution for people who need power and are unable to get it from another source, not a replacement. Not to mention most decent setups need batteries, which use a lot of energy to produce, and have finite life spans and are in effect very inefficient. Not to mention costly and hard to dispose.
This applies also to hybrid cars, like the Toyota prius. The initial purchase price over say a yaris, is NEVER recouped through fuel savings. They dont even use that much less fuel than a yaris. But the worst part is that the batteries they hold cause a hell of a lot of pollution in the creation, are expensive, and need replacing. Its just not viable, and people who buy them, and their i phones will tell you all these little facts, but in the end, they ARE NOT viable. You ar better off having a tiny car like a polo tsi (turbo supercharger induction) which still goes pretty well and uses basically no fuel. Which can be a renewable source of energy if society put enough effort in.
better for the environment. Guess what, they're not, sure incandescent vacuum formed bulbs use more energy,
but energy is made by power stations. Power stations, especially coal, produce pollution. Make a better
god damn power station, his government is the one that wiped nuclear power off the table in government discussions,
Australia is the best country out of ANY in the world to have nuclear power, and we DONT. We have the best space to build it, the best resources in the ground to feed it, and the best space in the ground to store its crap. It is the
best cleanest most efficient energy.
People don't realize, to make a fluro bulb, chemicals have to be produced, for chemical production, there are waste chemicals that go somewhere. When the fluro cracks open on its way to the dump, more chemicals are disposed into the world. They might use less energy, last a bit longer, but the light they make is shit house. They are expensive to produce and are NOT a solution to energy. Which was never a problem.
This comes back to his speil about carbon emissions, carbon emission tax, he wants to tax Australians for the carbon they produce, which is plain silly. Firstly, as some of you might not be aware, carbon is a heavy molecule, it doesnt go into the atmosphere, hell even oxygen cant even go high into the atmosphere. An example is the top of Mt Everest, where oxygen levels are low. What makes you think a heavier molecule can go higher? Secondly, a chap name Dr David Evans (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24036736-7583,00.html), who has numerous accolades, a few phds and degrees to his name, USED to work for the Government finding information about this crap. He resigned, no longer works for them, he could do nothing but find information that disproved the carbon theory. Basically in 1997 earth core data analysis found certain things, but only accurate to a few 1000 years. New tests show much more accurate results. Especially the fact that put simply, the temperature of the atmosphere, effects how much carbon can be supported, not the amount of carbon effecting the temperature. He goes on to explain how the higher the carbon level in the atmosphere, the more plants consume, and the greater plant growth is. It goes through cycles. If there are less plants on the earth, they do get cut down which sucks, which means there is less absorbed, and more in the atmosphere. But the plants left, through the process of photo synthesis, absorb more and become bigger and more plentiful. Yeah we produce a fair quantity of carbon, but carbons not the issue, there are many more bigger issues. The greatest being methane from cattle production. Which could quite easily be collected and used from cattle, with some seedy device that goes up their but and separates methane from poo, but it would never happen. Even though livestock cause more damage to the atmospheric environment that anything else. The temperatures recorded for global warming data, were put in places over 50 years ago, towns have crept up to these units and what is known as a phenomenon, whereby a city emits hear in a several kilometer radius effects these readings, but data collected from satellites, three dimensionally mapping the earths temperatures, actually show a decline in temperature world wide by a small amount over a long period, no signs at all of a temperature increase in any country.
The next thing is peoples obsession with electric things. Like solar power, people don't realize that the amount of energy used to create a solar panel, is never recouped in its lifespan. Ie the factor equipment uses more energy to produce them, than they produce. So they are only a solution for people who need power and are unable to get it from another source, not a replacement. Not to mention most decent setups need batteries, which use a lot of energy to produce, and have finite life spans and are in effect very inefficient. Not to mention costly and hard to dispose.
This applies also to hybrid cars, like the Toyota prius. The initial purchase price over say a yaris, is NEVER recouped through fuel savings. They dont even use that much less fuel than a yaris. But the worst part is that the batteries they hold cause a hell of a lot of pollution in the creation, are expensive, and need replacing. Its just not viable, and people who buy them, and their i phones will tell you all these little facts, but in the end, they ARE NOT viable. You ar better off having a tiny car like a polo tsi (turbo supercharger induction) which still goes pretty well and uses basically no fuel. Which can be a renewable source of energy if society put enough effort in.
TV ratings, your giving it to them.
Tv ratings are collected when you watch tv, when I was younger and stupider I thought they collected them buy gathering a hundred or so random people, throwing them in situations and seeing what they watch, but they dont, they can see how much of their content is watched, buy knowing how many receivers are in use. When you watch channel 10, your tv is now a receiver for channel 10 waves.
So every time you leave your tv on neighbours and walk away, its another rating, to make shit house drama like that stay on the air. So do your part, turn the crap off, dont watch stupid shows, just because they are on doesn't mean you h ave to watch them. Get a hobby, do something active, go hang out with friends and make your own stories.
http://www.afc.gov.au/faqs/aust_tv_ratings/faq_128.aspx
So every time you leave your tv on neighbours and walk away, its another rating, to make shit house drama like that stay on the air. So do your part, turn the crap off, dont watch stupid shows, just because they are on doesn't mean you h ave to watch them. Get a hobby, do something active, go hang out with friends and make your own stories.
http://www.afc.gov.au/faqs/aust_tv_ratings/faq_128.aspx
Traveston dam the travesty oh the travesty
NO DAM on every car, my land this, the platypus that, lungfish this, something or other that.
They were never going to build it, they kept your occupied while they built a tube from
sunshine coast to Brisbane, which they screwed up and didn't weld properly and needs redoing,
the concrete trusses they bought, millions upon millions of dollars worth, was the wrong size
and they cant do anything with it now.
The fluoride campaign to get fluoride going, basically another distraction and enabled them
to install equipment to monitor water between sunshine coast and Brisbane. They don't just walk
up the water source with a few sacks and pour it in.
Worked for the government I guess, the water shortage was due to lack of future planning, and a little thing called the el nino effect. Which while we have drought, south America has floods, vice versa, in basic terms currents of warm water flowing around the world. The news, papers, government miraculously forgot about a million year old well documented process. For the sake of selling papers and tv ratings.
They were never going to build it, they kept your occupied while they built a tube from
sunshine coast to Brisbane, which they screwed up and didn't weld properly and needs redoing,
the concrete trusses they bought, millions upon millions of dollars worth, was the wrong size
and they cant do anything with it now.
The fluoride campaign to get fluoride going, basically another distraction and enabled them
to install equipment to monitor water between sunshine coast and Brisbane. They don't just walk
up the water source with a few sacks and pour it in.
Worked for the government I guess, the water shortage was due to lack of future planning, and a little thing called the el nino effect. Which while we have drought, south America has floods, vice versa, in basic terms currents of warm water flowing around the world. The news, papers, government miraculously forgot about a million year old well documented process. For the sake of selling papers and tv ratings.
The radio still sucks
Apparently MTV killed the radio,
But the radio just sucks,
Where I live, on the Sunshine Coast, the radio stations do the same jive every day. They start off by buying the paper, raising a stupid question, taking calls from people who are obviously thick as two planks, and extends these views to people who dont know any better. You get people at work discussing the radio and agreeing with what they say, about stupid scenarios and situation. The words "calls for harsher penalties" springs up about once every 5
minutes. They separate all this crap with the music they are GIVEN. Yes they don't seek out good music and play it,
they play what they are given, what they are payed to play. People make assumptions like its on the radio it must be
the best song thats out at the moment, no its not, there are millions of musicians world wide making far better music on a daily basis that dont get the recognition the deserve.
I wont even get started on the ads, people think they need the ads to keep the station going, but they have made a profit before the ads are even implemented. They are just bonuses.
At first I just assumed that most of the music they DONT play has swearing or something in it, or something like that, but the crap songs with swearing make it on there two, 19 times a day for 3 months.
Over it, over the radio, there was an awesome local station here that played good music, but their land got bought out by woolworths.
Meh
But the radio just sucks,
Where I live, on the Sunshine Coast, the radio stations do the same jive every day. They start off by buying the paper, raising a stupid question, taking calls from people who are obviously thick as two planks, and extends these views to people who dont know any better. You get people at work discussing the radio and agreeing with what they say, about stupid scenarios and situation. The words "calls for harsher penalties" springs up about once every 5
minutes. They separate all this crap with the music they are GIVEN. Yes they don't seek out good music and play it,
they play what they are given, what they are payed to play. People make assumptions like its on the radio it must be
the best song thats out at the moment, no its not, there are millions of musicians world wide making far better music on a daily basis that dont get the recognition the deserve.
I wont even get started on the ads, people think they need the ads to keep the station going, but they have made a profit before the ads are even implemented. They are just bonuses.
At first I just assumed that most of the music they DONT play has swearing or something in it, or something like that, but the crap songs with swearing make it on there two, 19 times a day for 3 months.
Over it, over the radio, there was an awesome local station here that played good music, but their land got bought out by woolworths.
Meh
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