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Knee Me Not

If you’re like me and you have a kind of knee pain due to over training, a degenerative disease, or simply work in relatively immobile standing positions for hours on end perhaps you’ve come up with a strategy to deal with such pain while on the go, or simply while resting.

If you actually move your legs around in a kind of slight bending actions, not all the time mind you, your cartilage will be given the chance to reduce stress upon a relatively fixed angular vector force acting upon the whole knee joint area. If you even move your legs at the knee while seated your knee pain may also reduce as well, just like my pesky over trained knees.

So give a hoot, try some Slight Knee Bending Stretching.

Cool Border Effects

  1. Looking for those cool border effects that make tooltips and containers for websites to standout
    1. As usual I utilize w3schools.com in order to test out code without touching my own work
      1. Here’s an overview explaining how to create a border shadow Web Address

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To Sue a Mockingbird

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Well I got my legal papers back from Small Claims for my suit against MBNA & Assurant, there is to be a mandatory settlement conference of which they’ll most likely attempt to force me into settling for peanuts, but I’ll see. This has taken me over one year to get both of those corrupt institutions to behave in an ethical manner and honour their word and contractual obligations. Many may be intimidated by the whole process, but really it’s not that bad. Although all of the paper work required, the duplication & triplication of legal docs is a super pain in the derriere, in the end it should be worth the efforts and great annoyances.

I’m not this bad, but damn it gets ya going.

 

Yay for me they’re trying to push me out of school, most likely to collect some kind of bonus just like what WSIB officers receive for treating injured workers like toe jam. I’ve learned a lot about the workings of the legal system from attempting to sue a corporation for breaking it’s word and contract with me and I have to say the only real justice it seems today resides in the court rooms of your local municipality. There’s so much information located online that one can easily do their own research as to what laws may be breached by others, the only real obstacle seems to be the courage to go up against high priced lawyers in a court room without being reduced to a jittery mess. But I think if you just see a judge as another human being, who went to school, and did all the same things that you did, then perhaps it would be easier for someone to conduct themselves much more eloquently in a court of law.

At any rate I’ve learned a lot, I’ll see if it all pays in the end. But still I’ll have learned some things. Just a little fyi for Ontario residents you can get court fee waivers if you don’t have enough money so that you can actually claim justice for yourself without having to earn a six figure salary in order to achieve a measure of justice.

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My Edutainment Oddysey

I’ll bet you’re wondering what “edutainment” means. If you’re like me and hate reading voluminous textbooks for school or work, perhaps you need to treat such a chore like weight training.
You see with weight training you have reps, sets, and rest breaks. For this exercise I have chosen to watch movies on tv, at each commercial I am performing (reading) 5 pages. The time in between is akin to the rest break while working out. Each hour contains a set of 4-6 commercial breaks. Thus you can easily read anywhere from 20-30 boring arse textbook pages per hour.
Now if you read this on a Sunday, and you watch 10 hours of tv, you’ve also read around 200 pages of brainy goodness.

Sounds easy huh?

Who, what, why, and wtf?

Ann as a self professed follower of Jesus isn’t it kind of a sin to hold malice in your heart? This does not make you more spiritual, in fact through your intolerance it pushes you even further away from the path that he set out.

Many people think that Catholicism is against women, then why are there nuns? Why did the Catholics confer sainthood on Mother Teresa? These are roles in a play, not value judgments. Women stand in for the role of Mary Magdalene and males play the role of Jesus or Apostles, kind of like his stand in. By saying that a woman should be a stand in for a male role is to change the entire play! But unfortunately Jesus was not a female, they’re sticking to roles here, not being against anyone. Should we turn all alpha male roles in movies into women and all female roles into males? Oh wait that’s been happening quite a lot lately, which may explain why so many males today are effeminate. 

Being anti anything pretty much means hate or something close to it. Christianity has always had males as priests and such because that is the tradition and all of the Apostles were men. I’m sure if Jesus wanted female priests he would have, who are you to impose your reality on one who you profess to follow, that sounds kind of like heresy against the founder of your faith Ann. I’m not a Christian though but I see many liberals who claim to be Christian attempting to warp it in order to fit it snugly in with their own reality. Really if you don’t want to be a Christian then don’t.
Just because someone is gay does not mean that they’d go to Hell. Remember Christ said that we’re all sinners, basically imperfect beings. But to become a priest one would have to strive to not sin and to be openly practicing such would contradict the whole point of there being priests as shepherds. But then so many Christian denominations openly protect paedophilic priests that one has to figure out which sin is worse, obviously the pedophile is much worse. So perhaps by default more and more Christians are opting to choose the lesser sins?

This smells like a publicity stunt though, one cannot love Jesus without being a Christian. It’s like saying I love bathing but hate getting wet. Any Christian church that bars gay people is of course committing a sin by doing that, Jesus never turned away a sinner after all. Whatever she switches to will have its own controversies and such. Posting that to twitter is publicity plain and simple. Perhaps her ego is at play here though, maybe needing attention from others in order to cement your decision?

At any rate this is humanity at its best, not humble, judgmental, ego driven animal behaviour.

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As I thought about it one day, I wondered just how on Earth should this quite sizable ecological disaster be successfully resolved while at the same time changing the whole way in which offshore oil drilling is conducted.

Taken from a past television show, on I believe it was the Discovery channel or A & E my memory is atrocious I came across an episode covering how offshore Wind Turbines are embedded into the ocean floor.

A rather large ship slowly sails out of harbour for the properly designated location. Once there a large pole is driven into the ocean floor by a huge piston like machine hammering it again and again until the Turbine base is at an optimal level.

The only variable that would be required is such a ship, with such a piston like machine, to have a greater force capacity than the force which is currently pushing out the oil & gas from that oil well. By this method the hole shall be plugged with more than just a puny cap, it would have a much greater length embedded into the well shaft.

Now this method should be followed whenever a new well is discovered, all oil rigs should have such a mechanism just in case of the possibility of such an occurrence to take place.

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Here is one example of a company that creates such ships

Wind Turbine

Canada may soon now only permit bilingual ONLY Supreme Court judges. Do these idiot politicians even realize how much work it takes to be completely fluent in another language, maintain that fluency for perhaps decades, and become a lawyer? Look forward to Supreme Court judges coming mostly from Quebec because no one has that kind of time to maintain another language without practicing it.

So I guess their next step is to only allow bilingual people to run for Parliament. I’m still confused as to why we’re even allowed to speak English in this country anymore. Funny, the politicians went against more than one law society on this one. Pander pander pander!

Here, in an old video is Pierre Trudeau explaining why a “special status’” for Quebec is utter nonsense…

 

In the above video, Trudeau shows how the federal liberal party of Canada has completely lost its way. It has stooped to being the “natural pandering party”, lusting after votes in the vain attempt to become the “natural governing party” again. This does make sense though, no one of substance seems to want to run for government anymore. I would argue in fact that there is no MP right now that would be accused of having any grand visions for Canada. The only aim of an MP and even MPP seems to be that of a legislative lawyer, with political parties acting as their law firms, whose services are paid for in voting blocs (notice I misspelled blocks, ie: the BQ) and cash “donations” ie: bribes. Canada has no vision of itself other than an old beer commercial…

 

  • As an aside, what this video purports is only a half truth. Canadians have no idea of what Peacekeeping is all about. They do not understand that it has always been dangerous. Forcing a soldier to become a police officer when those you have to keep separate have lethal and powerful weaponry displays an incredible ignorance as to the realities of life outside the rich western world.
  • Canada has never been about diversity, it has always been about not fomenting anger and hatred. That is pretty much why The United Empire Loyalists left the American colonies to come to Canada. That is why the U.E.L people never carried with them large scale slavery, although it did still exist, but only minimally. This is why racism is so much lower in Canada than what it is in the United States. But by artificially codify something into Canada that doesn’t need to be, it artificially creates the need for an opposition. By creating an opposing viewpoint for “multiculturalism” you succeed in planting the seeds of hatred where none existed in the first place. No association can legislate behaviour into existence. Not to mention the billions that are now wasted on useless programs, instead of applying those funds to help lift people out of poverty, the true source of disunity if there ever was one. A funny thing though, the actor is a “typically Canadian looking” person, white, blue eyes, etc who rants how Canada is multicultural. A feel good gesture perhaps?
  • Hockey is yes somewhat of an obsession in Canada, I guess you could say it’s like the Brazilian obsession with soccer.

Canada has no national sense of itself, not of its past pre 1960s, the French minority imperialists know this full well, but what really could be the reason behind this? Think back into history, to a place in Europe, in the 19th century. The Austrian Empire was a Germanic one with a restless Hungarian populace close by. You see this Hungarian minority, a significant one at that, demanded more “equal rights” that did not fit its position within the political structure of that association. So what the Austrians did was give them more or less an “equal” footing with Austrians, thus the Austrian Empire was to be known the “Austro-Hungarian Empire”. Now is this a move to purposely subvert the very foundations of a society? By allowing this assault on the spirit of the system, the Austrians showed the outside world that it does not view itself as having the right to govern its own sovereignty anymore. By projecting weakness both from within and from without that empire slowly lost itself, to the point where a dramatic breakup occurred, albeit a World War didn’t help much either.

Do Canadian politicians believe a sovereign Canada does not really matter anymore? They’ve permitted Chinese, American, Russian, and other such foreign military vessels to violate Canada’s northern boundaries repeatedly over the decades without a strong answer; why they even allowed the Dutch to plant their flag on Canadian soil with a toothless protest of dropping leaflets from the air.

Given Canada’s federal government’s past predilections with acceding sovereignty to foreign powers, it makes sense that Canada would allow Quebec to slowly erode its very foundations. The rights of the one outweighs the rights of the many.

Now there’s nothing wrong with maintaining interpreters for judges and Parliament. But when the government legislates people who are lesser qualified into positions of great power, just because they happen to speak a language, that structure and everything that it nourishes will suffer from incompetence.

 

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No one should ever purchase any slate tablet to replace even a laptop. I’ve read some reviews on the other slates that can be tested and they’ve found that the touch isn’t as accurate as the ipad. I believe that the ipad’s main use will be to replace the printed word, with some wikipedia look ups for terminology and definition. As for the price, the other tablets look to be overpriced as well.
I shall be purchasing the ipad 3G when it comes out in Canada, and that will give me enough time to see how the U.S. users find it. My use of the ipad will be to replace all the textbooks that I need for school each year, multitasking wont be necessary for me really. As I’ve been using my ipod nano for music and podcasts for some time without a problem, and seeing others with non Apple players, I find that what Apple does best is creating closed systems, for particular needs. I wont ever replace my Windows PC for an Apple because frankly Apple is far too small and closed off for being a proper multifunctional tool, which is what a full fledged computer truly is.
Therefore the ipad is a specific device for a narrow use, it does that well. As for the HP Slate, I don’t think so. Apple allowed reporters to handle the ipad even before it had launched, and HP seems to only be willing to offer commercials and hype, from that behavior alone they must not trust their own product.
Companies that are successful in the Windows market never seem to do very well in narrow market products, like the way Apple can. I think that HP should have stuck with the development of their tablet laptop line, they could have snapped up those who were disappointed with the lack of multifunctionality, webcam, etc of the ipad.

What I shall Use the ipad for:

  • Textbook Replacement
  • Light Web Use
  • Mobile Video Viewing
  • Video Podcasts
  • Video Lectures
  • IM communication
  • Online News & Magazines
  • Idea Generation, with a possible lengthier writing with the addon keyboard.
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