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08:06 am
[Link] | I saw this Asian girl walking her dog.she had a plastic bag on her hand. The dog took a poop on my lawn, and she bend over and picked on the poop with her plastic bag. And I thought:
"What a white washed fucktard. In a rational society, MAN DOES NOT PICK AFTER DOG. Not the dog poop, not even the silver nuggets dropping out of its ass. She's a mindless drone adhering to senseless and arbitrary western rules. She probably showers everyday and would expect me to do the same."
Then I realized I too shower every morning, on the days I have to go to work/school, to put on my mask of civility, in order to fix in this pussified western country, and that maybe one day, I too may be reduced to a dog-poop picking fucktard if I don't do something about it.
In conclusion, I need to go back to China and married a daughter of a rice farmer
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11:11 am
[Link] | http://forum.alternativeonlinemarketing.com:8080/AutoWeb/
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12:56 pm
[Link] | I went over to East Palo Alto with my $50. Saw this guy standing in front of the liquor store, inhaling a butt-end Newport like it's the hit of crack on earth. I asked him if he's got some grass, i'm looking for a twenty. He said "yeah sure. You gotta take a ride though." So we got into my car, he said "follow that green car right there. we're going to this McDonald's next to the Ikea."
As I drove toward Ikea, diligently following his directions, I asked him "so some guy stole $20 from me the last time I was here. How am I going to trust you?"
He said, "here's what I'm going to do: I will give you my ID. You hold it until I come back with the herb."
I figured it was a trustworthy exchange, since it takes $22 to replace an ID in California. I took his ID and it looked real: his name is Tyrone C...., born in 1977, 5'11, 250lbs.
So Tyrone got out of the car with my $20, and went to the back-end of the McDonalds. Not 30 seconds later, he came back.
"You got a gun dude?" he said.
"wtf, no." I said
"What about a knife?"
"Maybe. What the fuck is going on??"
"That nigga robbed me man. He stuck a gun to my head and took your $20." Tyrone tried to sound sincere, but I could see that there's not a hint of fear on his face. He doesn't look like someone who's just been robbed at gunpoint.
"God What the fuck! I ain't getting robbed in East Palo Alto again." I got out of the car angerily, "I'm gonna go motherfucking kung-fu on this nigga!"
"WAIT COME BACK!"
I kept on walking
"I don't want you getting shot!!!"
I ignored him and walked to the backside. There was indeed a green car parked there. He saw me walking up to his car, and rolled down his window. I asked him "You got a gun??"
The black guy inside the green car: "No dood. You're trippin'!"
"Tyrone said you have a gun and you robbed $20 from him."
The dood laughed and said "He makes that shit up. You got burned nigga."
At this point Tyrone caught up with me, since I'm still holding his CA Drivers License. He resigned to the fact that his scheme failed, and said to me "damn nigga, let's go get yo weed."
Turns out finding weed in East Palo Alto was hard work. Most black people sold crack. We had to drive to 3-4 houses before we found someone. When we did get it, it was good. Bomb shit ass purple, straight from Compton, I mean EPA.
After we got the weed, we smoked a little in my car, and we decided to drive around a little and go to his sister's house.
Tyrone's sister, MelLyshia, has 5 kids, and she gets very decent welfare checks to raise these kids. And she has a nice house in East Palo Alto. When Tyrone and I drove up to her house, the fence was locked. He had to call his brother, and complained that her sister locked him out. His brother said there's nothing he could do. So Tyrone was like "fuck it, I'm going to hop the fence." He turned to the front lawn in the next door house, and said to that general direction in darkness, "y'all better not call the poh-lice me." and hopped over the fence.
Mellyshia was home. He explained that I have some weed. So she let me in and lend me a pipe.
Her kids were running around like crazy in the house. I commented how raising 5 kids must be a full time job.
She is like "MMM-HMM, that's right".
"must be like 80 hours a week. You should get overtime for that."
She glared at me with those pretty black eyes, and said "ONE kid is a twenty-FOH-seven job." The she walked to the kitchen and screamed at her 2-year-old daughter "IMA GONNA WHIP YOU SILLY IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP."
The daughter shut up and cried softly. I got out a pack of Camel Lights and said "would you like a Camel?"
"They make menthol now???" her eyes sparkled with excitement.
"hrm, no." Feeling that I'm losing street cred, I quickly added, "I used to smoke Newports."
"Newports are good! They help bring you down after you smoke weed. Otherwise you would be high all day." She turned to the kitchen counter, sticking out her bootilicious back-end in full glory. I stared at them and couldn't wipe the smile off my face.
(to be continued)
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11:01 am
[Link] | I went to People's Park in Berkeley this morning, bought some weed. Shared it with a bunch of street bums, including this girl with purple hair and makeup on. I drove my car there, so she assumed that I had money. She was like "wanna chip in $2.50 for a Joose?" I knew that Joose (energy drink with 10% alcohol) only costs $2.00. But I gave her the money anyway.
To my surprise she actually came back, instead of just running away with my money. We shared the drink right there in the park, passing it back and forth, in a brown bag. I told her my gf just dumped me (a lie, of course) and was feeling lonely. She got more and more friendly and told me it's "ok don't worry, tell me what you like to do." I smiled, finished the drink, and smoked more cigarettes. Then I told her "I might be a cop. Be careful who you hang out with. Get help."
Now I'm home alone watching Sex and the City on channel 4 with all the sex scenes taken out.
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05:58 pm
[Link] | Yesterday i was at the library, minding my own business. this girl sitting next to me said "can you watch my stuff for a couple minutes while i take this phone call?"
I said "I don't think you should trust me. I'm on probation for two felonies. I stole my car from East Palo Alto. And I smacked up my record producer who fucked up on my rap album."
She looked at me, speechless.
"But most importantly, i don't know you."
she cracked a nervous laugh, packed up her stuff, and left.
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11:48 pm
[Link] | http://sites.google.com/site/mudbotting/Home/ScaboroughFair.mp3
hey everyone!! check out me playing Scaborough Fair on the piano!!
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03:30 pm
[Link] | This coming quarter i'm taking these classes at De Anza Community College:
1. Advanced Java (evenings)
2. Oracle Database (online)
3. Intermediate Problem Solving in C (evenings)
4. Distributed Processing with Java (evenings)
5. Management of Outsourced Projects (seminar that meets for 2 weekends in june)
6. Basketball (mornings)
Last Quarter (ending this week) I took:
1. Project Management
2. Project Planning (click to read my awesome 45-page project plan)
3. Java
4. Circuits Analysis
De Anza is a high prestigious junior college where working professionals from Silicon Vally take classes that enriching their skill sets and advance their careers. The instructors have years of industry experience, both as software engineers and as project/program managers, and executive consulting experience . The cost is only $22 per unit. I highly recommend De Anza College.
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11:05 pm
[Link] | http://sites.google.com/site/mudbotting/Home
I'm starting a site on writting scripts for MUD bots check it out!
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11:37 pm
[Link] |
Unification Theory of Marxism and Liberal Capitalism
In these following paragraphs below I will:
- Give an insider’s look at the insurance industry and their covert collusion scheme to keep prices high;
- Show how “free market” is an idealized concept and an unstable equilibrium.
- Demonstrate Karl Marx’s observation about capitalism can be explained within the frameworks of Adam Smith’s theory of the free market.
Who decides how much you pay for car insurance? Is it the market? Sure. But it's mostly the Society of Actuaries. Here's why:
Actuaries assess risks and advice insurance companies about the rates they should charge. To be an actuary one has to pass a set of exams, all written by the Society of Actuaries. So he learns about the standard industry rates from the standard set of text books. Then he reports these rates to his insurance company.
This is a form of collusion. SOA manipulates the sellers curve, and makes it extremely elastic (all the companies charge about the same). This makes them the price-setters. The rates set by SOA are far higher than what should be for insurance companies to be reasonably profitable, and therefore far higher than the free market price.
You might think otherwise because you get drastically different rates from different insurance companies. If you think about it, that doesn't make a lot of sense, because there is no reason, in a free market, companies will charge different rates like that. They should have a pretty good idea on how much you are willing to pay. Companies that charge too much won't be able to stay in the business.
The explanation is that insurance companies divide up the market like a piece of cake. One company will cater to one demographic, and another company will cater to another. How do they pull it off without anyone noticing? Again the SOA teaches actuaries different models that predict different prices for different sets of people. When an actuary works for one particular company, he is instructed to use one particular set of models, different from other companies, so they'll have non-conflicting price ranges for their targeted portion of the market.
Therefore sellers of insurances act collectively with a high degree of unity, much tighter than the buyers, who rarely compare rates among one another. No one really realizes any of this unless they pour over thousands of pages of tedious math in obscure books. Even most actuaries don't realize any of this. The low level ones work like a small part of a large machine. They don't have any oversight about the process. Only the very elite actuaries, having passed many exams, realize these dirty little secrets. By then they already have too much vested in the career. So even if they want to be whistle blowers, they just can't afford to.
Insurance companies are not the only ones doing covert collusions. Doctors manipulate the sellers curve by creating a ridiculously tough path to become a doctor. There are only 125 licensed medical schools in United States. The admission process is a bottleneck. There's no reason there has to be that few med schools, and therefore that few doctors, besides the fact doctors want to keep the supply of doctors low, and charge more than their true value. Most types of professional careers have some sort of regulating commissions that define the standard professional practices and rates. They also issue licenses that identify pros from non-pros, so they can limit the supply. These commissions allow one side of the market to operate with considerable more unity that the other side that doesn’t have such commissions. And with unity the can collectively move up the prices.
The "invisible hand" theory of Adam Smith predicts that a free market will push the price to the intersecting point of buyer and seller's curves, and this would be the equilibrium price that maximizes the overall surplus. But he also realized that one side can manipulate its curve to act like a monopoly/monosoly, and capture majority of the surplus. He failed predict how covertly modern industries strive for collusion. “Free market” is an idealization. There are numerous ways to compromise a free market for one’s own benefit, made only easier by the abundance of lawyers. The government must actively counter these colluding, and rent-seeking, behaviors, but they just don’t have enough resources and incentives to match private army lawyers.
Marx's observation of capitalism can be explained within the context of the buyer-seller curves. He saw how the capitalists inevitably become more and more unified, because the more efficient capitalist will eat up the lesser ones. So eventually there's one monosoly of the labor market, with an extremely elastic buyer's curve. It can set the prices whatever it wishes. Because of industrialization, laborers become disconnected spare parts of a machine. So they're bought and sold like separate commodities. Marx believed that it is their lack of unity that makes them powerless, and therefore become price-takers of the labor market. Capitalists will give them barely surviving wages, so they can work another day, until they're old and washed up. He urged the workers to unite, just like how capitalists have already done, so they can take back part of the surplus.
What Marx failed to realize is that workers could unite without starting bloody revolutions. They hired lawyers and formed unions, and then waged mostly peaceful negotiation to claim their fare share. So Marx was wrong about workers being perpetually disconnected unless they overthrow the system. He was also wrong about capitalists engage in bloody competitions until there’s only one left standing: instead they hire lawyers to do mergers and acquisitions, as well as making covert and legalized collusion schemes.
Marxism was falsely claimed by rebels like Lenin and Mao, who didn’t quite understand his theory and took over unindustrialized countries in Russia and China under the flag of Marxism. They failed to realize Marx’s theories are irrelevant without industrialized capitalism. These leaders then antagonized capitalism with Marxism as a political tool. The forty years of Cold War only fueled the polarization of Marxism and Liberal Capitalism, which, as I’ve shown here, aren’t really so contradicting.
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06:12 pm
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Importance of enforcing Ethics
In the last post I showed that ethics really are enforced in real life. Bad ethics is punished in the form of loss of good reputation, and less people want to associate with you. This post I'll try to elaborate on why it's important to enforce ethics.
What's illegal is only a subset of what is unethical. Like I pointed out in the last post, the government's resource in enforcing bad behavior is limited. The punishment from the law only comes in limited, finite terms like $2000 in fine, or 2 weeks in jail.
But people who commit unethical acts are a danger to society. The law does not provide enough punishment. That's where society comes in to apply the rest of the punishment. People with criminal record are listed. You can look up who had a DUI or who tried to sell drugs. These people must further suffer from the loss of good reputation, and perhaps getting the best job.
Driving drunk is an unethical behavior. It puts innocent people in danger. It's a menace to society. We must enforce this ethics for our own good. So it's important to enforce ethics beyond the limit of law.
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09:49 am
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Enforcement of Ethics in Real Life
A lot of you think that ethics do not matter, that ethics do not get enforced in real life. Let me show you one of many possible counterexamples:
When Michael Vick was accused of killing dogs, he lost his Nike contract long before he was convicted of anything. This is because the court of public opinion swiftly deemed his conducts unethical. Even if Nike didn't want to deal with ethics, they had to consider the verdict of their customers, who didn't want anything to do with this unethical person.
Businesses generally avoid blatantly unethical behavior, even if the businessmen themselves don't believe in ethics. They want to protect their reputation, because bad reputation means bad business, especially if they are dealing with B2C business. Some of you think it's only to leer at 14-year-old girls. But you would not admit this when your real life reputation is attached to this.
Ethics serves as a supplement to law. What is legal may or may not be ethical. This is because the government have limited resources to deal with unethical behavior. So what is illegal is only a subset of what is unethical.
Why must we enforce good ethics? Because we live in a society that gives us certain protections. Unethical behavior undermines these protections. If we don't condamn posters on this forum leering at underaged girls, one day you might be leering at our own daughters. Ethics, in short, is what keeps a society from falling apart. We as citizens all have the responsibility to enforce good ethics.
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10:44 am
[Link] | Obviously McCain needs a hail mary pass tonight to turn this election around. He can't just take each question and make a mini speech on his talking points, then let Obama take his turn and do the same thing. Obama is a much better orator than McCain, and this strategy has simply not worked in the past 2 debates for McCain.
What McCain needs to do is ask Obama a series tough, direct questions. Not talk to the audience or the moderator. He needs look Obama in the eyes and ask him questions. Throw him off his script and make him answer to you.
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07:29 am
[Link] | McCain walks like Dr. Zoiberg.
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03:45 am
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10:07 am
[Link] | Why did Palin wink so much?
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10:28 am
[Link] | I actually know two people who worked at Lehman Bros it crashed. I guess that's slightly more prestigious than knowing 2 people who died in Iraq. Only poor people have friends who volunteer for the military. I think only one of the 300+ people from my graduating class in high school actually enrolled in armed forces.
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09:40 pm
[Link] | I hope Pam hooks up with Roy this season. I hate Jim.
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11:55 pm
[Link] | i broke my no-trolling rule for 5 minutes, wrote 3 sentences on San Fransisco, stopped reading the comments like 5 days ago, and they are still coming. 46 comments, only 5 was mine, and some of them were quite effort taking.
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05:18 pm
[Link] | cigarettes taste like sunshine!!
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02:37 pm
[Link] | Dani: My husband gets out of jail tomorrow
Me: But he just went in!
Current Mood:  disappointed
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