ALEX: Censor this blog post

Obviously the Australian government has decided that the internet is NSFW. The communications minister, Stephen Conroy, has campaigned for a compulsory filter over all Australian internet, claiming it will benefit the general populace by blocking out child pornography and other such things that are bad for us. What I really want to know though, is why the government has declined to publish the list of sites they intend to block.

"Experts" have claimed that this is a bad idea because the strain of the filter will slow internet speeds. I say that this is a bad idea because it limits freedoms. Now you're probably thinking, "What kind of crazy person is he to want people to be able to see child pornography and other illegal activity over the internet?" but you would be wrong. Rather than a step in the right direction, this is like putting a barbed wire fence around the continent to stop sharks getting in. Frankly, it's stupid, and there is no better word for it.

First we will have an internet filter. We will then gradually lose the right to publish free information. Slowly, personal freedoms will become a thing of the past, and our country will decline into a dystopic totalitarian state reminiscent of Soviet Russia in the previous century. We will get our new cars after those in power get them. We will not be allowed to do certain actions because those in power do not approve of them, even though these people happily live in freedom in their mansions, while we line up to buy a loaf of bread and a single egg, and spend our 25 cent a week wage, getting by with the minimal of necessities, while those above us live a life of indulgent luxury. As it was in the Soviet era, this system will inevitably be bypassed by those with the means; crime will be abundant, figures in crime will have great power, corruption will reign and our slice of the world pie will fall into chaos.

This is not so much an act on child pornography as it is an act on principle. Information, no matter what its content, should not be withheld from the public blindly. This leads to the increased belief that Australia is becoming a nanny state. And I agree with those that say this.

There needs to be a level of trust in the community for the community to function well. And that trust is breaking down, increasingly so because of irrelevant laws like this. Internet filters can easily be bypassed, no matter what sort of filter you try to use. It's the "Net principle" (pardon the pun): It is easier to cut open and eliminate the net, than to patch up crack after crack to keep it in good condition. Think about this, and it explains why there is no such thing as a crime-free society. Because it is easier to evade authority to enforce it completely. Although I will say, in no way do I endorse crime. I respect authority.

Which brings me to my second topic, related to the first; the film "Kick Ass". It has sparked controversy with certain aspects of the film, the film itself described as "an explicitly violent school holiday film starring an 11-year-old girl who shoots people in the face and uses obscene language, experts say."(SMH 28 March 2010 [smh.com.au]). What gets me here, is that the so-called "experts" say the film is not suitable for young children, although some people mistake it to be, and it should be given an R(18+) instead of an MA(15+) rating. Apparently, parents could mistake it to be a children's movie by aspects in the film trailer, and take their young kids to go see it. Except for one little flaw. The classification system. MA 15+ requires the viewer of the film to be 15 years or older. ID has to be shown when going to the cinema or buying the film. What kind of parents take any sort of young children who aren't able to handle this sort of movie to a film rated really not suitable for children. This is political correctness gone wrong, and I have so much rage it can't be expressed through computer. Conclusion; jail the parents who complain the film isn't suitable when they take their young kids to go see it. END.

Anyway, merry easter. I'll blog again soon, and yes, this one has been a while in the making.

~Alex

Anthony: Someone else has to blog now.

Really, i've had 5 or so blog posts in a row, and you guys just aren't pulling your weight. Start blogging, or i stop paying you. *serius face*

BUt as of now it is about 2AM, and I am attempting to pull an all nighter. I said once that I have always wanted to get out in the early morning under my own steam and actually apreciate the cold and wet and noisy animals and hurried commuters and whatever the fuck else the morning has to offer. I figure that since it is the Easter holls, and my sleep schedule is completley messed already, and the fact that I can never make myself get up in the morning, i should just pull an all nighter, eat some 'nanas and sleep during the day, or not at all.

It also has not escaped my notice that people need to take shit a little less seriously. Now, this is going to sound pretty screwed up, coming from the guy that bombards you with hate, bile and new things to fear/loathe/cry at every week or so, but it's a fact, just like bees and drop-bears.

Stop freaking the fuck out, CTFD and at the very least, be quiet about it. Maybe if we did this a little more then the USA wouldn't have a 10% depression rate.

Also, Caro, stop making me feel guilty about swearing.

Anthony: Sticking to Standards.

I don't mean standards as in markers of QUALITY, I mean standards as in markers of CONTENT.

Has is never occurd to you braindead, unwashed masses that if you insist that everything fits a certain criteria, you get NO FUCKING PROGRESS?
No? How the FUCK do you miss that?

When I see someone who believes in evolution trying to hold things in place like this, it sickens me. Why? Because it's a paralell, if flimsy, connection. Evolution practically = change! How can you ever understand the theory and not understand that this applies to everything we know and have?

Go and fucking die in a hole, and dont you DARE inconvenience me with the placement of your cold, smelly corpse.

Anthony: Have I Mentioned How Much I Hate Other People?

Just wondering. I'm sure I don't tell you all enough how much I hate the general population.

Anthony: Understanding is where you fail.

My little world of ignorance and hatred would be a much better place if people could somehow find it in their small, shrivled hearts/brains/thinking organs to actually take some time to try and UNDERSTAND shit, instead of passing instant judgement or ignoring it altogether. Believe me, this is more common than you'd think. But I'm not here to solve problems for you, I'm here to whine about my own, so let us run with my experiences for now and see where we end up.

People constantly fail to understand me. This is not surprising, given that I am so complex and illogical in every way I sometimes perplex myself.
But what gets me is they fail to understand the most basic things about me, which in turn make my life a fucking trial. It's a VERY easy thing to understand, which irks me all the more.

Problem: JUST BECAUSE I CAN HAVE SOME FUN IT DOES NOT MEAN I AM AN IMMATURE SHIT THAT CANNOT HANDLE ANYTHING.
This is not an extreme of the problem in any way. This is what most people seem to think of me. Now, it's true that I am 'somewhat eccentric'. I do defy social norms.
I am different. I behave erratically. But I have demonstrated on many occasions that I can behave like a boring person, stand up to pressure and all that bullshit. But of course, none of this is recognised. The only thing anyone ever seems to see is some silly shit with no eyebrows who gets far too angry at things they cannot understand.

Fucks sakes. It's not enough to have to explain my every abnormal actionm, i now have to deal with the disbelief when I act like a normal person to get shit done, just like you think I should.

There shouldn't be an unwritten rule about this shit, but there is. It seems that you have to have every aspect of you displayed proudly on your sleeve at all times to get it recognised. Nevermind my competence, let's all disregard it because I'm not ALWAYS acting like he could be solving, fixing or improving something.

I have explained numerous times that I act the way I do because of several reasons, which I shall state again:
1)It irritates stupid people. Unfortunatley, there are too many of theese people around.

2)It would kill me to act like a normal, boring person all the time.

3)Repressing ones inner desires to act silly and break shit will inevitably lead to more mental trauma than giving in (moderatley) to these urges.

But no matter how many times I repeat myself and make it ever clearer for those with small brains and limited memory spans, I'm inveitably categorized as stupid and slow. I'm also categorized as insane, but I can run with that because it's mostly true. It's just not true that you can't be insane and smart at the same time.


Also, speaking of UNDERSTANDING things, I have more to yell about.

I am generally regarded as a pretty intolerant sort of person. This is, for the most part, true. But I am actually a fairly UNDERSTANDING (here comes that word again) person.

I don't reject things because I don't understand them. I reject them because I disagree with them. The world would be a better place if this was the norm.

Of course, there are exceptions, and some things are blanketed when I disregard others, because I am too lazy/busy to research EVERYTHING, so I make do with a fair ammount of things. I am an informed sceptic, for the most part.

But, as is evidenced in society (and me) people fear and alienate what they do not understand. This is not a healthy attitude, and neither is treating understanding like belief.

If I believe that cannibalism in remote pacific islands is wrong, that's all cool. But If I understand WHY they partake in this, and show my knowledge of such, I would be immediatly labeled as in favour of canibalism, and most probably served up to the cannibals as food by people who think they understand irony.

This is not the way the world should work. People are getting dumber and more narrowminded, and it seems the only way to fix this is with hammers.

Possibly even flaming hammers.

Quote of the Post:
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
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Alex: On study

Once again, I make my news-worthy opinionated posts, although this one isn't about why some vice or other is being stomped out by those that 'used to be cool', this one is about questioning everybody and almost everything they've done at one point or other. Yes, I'm talking about study.

Chances are, you've studied on at least one occasion in your lifetime. Maybe it was because you were forced to, maybe you decided that it would help you do better at whatever it was that you were attempting to do better at. Maybe it was because you needed to pass the [insert subject here] final and you stayed up all night only to get an E in the exam the next day because it was all the Red Bull and No-doz could do to stop you from falling asleep. I have never done this, although I almost inevitably will at some point due to the cyclic and hypocritical nature of human stupidity, i.e; I see someone doing the same thing and say to myself "I will never do such a stupid thing", but eventually I will and then my previous statement has just been proven wrong. But hey, I'm rambling.

Studying is something that people can claim there can never be enough of. Of course you take breaks, but apart from that, study like hell! To this I say, [put on voice of assumed grandeur] you sir, are WRONG!

Why? I'll tell you why. You ever been to the test for the selective schools? I did (I actually did well enough to get into North Sydney Boys High School, but really that's another story) and no racism or anything, at least half the kids are asian. To take an example from a certain person I know, these kids work very hard to get into the selective schools, and due to their amazing work ethic (something I admire in a way) they study non-stop until they get into that school, then study non-stop once they're there. This, I think, is wrong.

Pardon the cliche, but it is always said that childhood is the best time in your life, and while horribly depressing as it may be, it is almost certainly true (with the exception of retirement, which is kind of like Childhood: Uncensored and Uncut. I really won't go into detail with this reference). When you are a young child, you have little if any responsibilities, you have your own misinterpreted sense of freedom, you never need to 'mind your language' as you don't know any foul language (and if you do you don't know how to use it properly) and you can get away with anything really. This I like, but unfortunately one of my biggest life regrets is that I didn't realise all this until it had slipped through my fingers, filtering out the goodness and leaving me with work and all other types of painful effort.

Childhood is freedom in a sense, and to rob someone of their childhood is akin to robbing someone of their brand new European luxury car before they even got to drive it, or if they drove it once so they know how good it is but can never ever get a new one because they're so damn expensive. Anyway, when you force your child to study every day of the week so they get into a school where they can study every other day of the week so they can get into college to study some more to pass their exams to wind up in a job where they work all day and sleep all night until they die, you have done something wrong. Give your child a life! I mean, if you must, make them study for exams or something, but don't force them to study around the clock so they can work for the rest of their lives.

My one "advice of the blog post" however, is don't not study at all. If you don't study at all, you will probably eventually fail your exams, and then you end up working all day and sleeping all night, except your working will be packing boxes and we all know that gets dull after a while, and before you know it, you'll want to do something else, which starts the cycle all over again as you try to re-enter university. And guess what? This time, you'll have to study, because no amount of "real-world experience" can match word for word what is written in your textbook (note: the previous sentence was part sarcasm and part not, in case you were wondering. If you ask a university professor, they'll tell you it was not sarcastic, which just goes to show you whether you'll fail uni or not).

Long story short; study, but not too much.
I'll find something else to blog about soon

~Alex.

P.S: Comment if you have any interesting points, complaints, or incoherent ramblings around this subject.

Anthony: Valentinez

I have naught to say on the topic other that: Most women just think of it as an excuse concocted by men to get laid more often.

This is, of course, probably the case.

Is there anything wrong with that?

Quote of the Post:
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
Tom Lehrer (1928 - Some Time )