The Burning Questions

  Sometimes when I am sitting around listening to all that is going on around me, I have these random questions pop into my head based upon the collage of information that I take in.  In this case, I am not quite sure what triggered the question at hand, but I would like to know what you think!  Which is more important:  Your Family or Your Soul?

I know the answer should be obvious, but there are many different belief systems in this world and I for one want to know the priority of family versus soul/spirit of each.  Of course I can not perform this investigation properly without seeing what the viewers here have to say, so please comment.

In light of all of the crazy changes going on in the world today, the question “Will robots take over the world?” is a quite valid one.  In fact, at the rate mankind is going to destroy all that is wonderful about the world, robots should take over.  However, what’s real in the world of robots is this .

Do we REALLY want that to happen?  I say hell no!  It is bad enough that many of our children are taught by the television and video games.  What the heck are people thinking…having Robots teach kids! This can only lead to job loss and dehumanization.  If someone were to tell me that my son were going to be taught by a robot…Oooh…I’d have to let them in on a little secret-No robot is going to teach my kid how to do anything, except maybe how to destroy robots that are trying to take over human jobs and tell humans how to think!

Okay enough of all that.  Now I would like you to see this .  Is it really important that we all have a personal robot assistant in the future?  I don’t think I would ever enjoy the “Jetson’s” lifestyle even if I were able to afford it.

Next thing would be this.  You need to read the article below the huge-breasted robot chick with no hair!  Sega is about to release the first plastic girl that can pucker up for the creepy ol’ perverts!  I was sickened by the whole thing, although you may get a girl to have some sort of sex encounter with jealousy from only one of the two “women”?  Not my kind of thing, but to each their own, I guess.

So there are many ways that robots are preparing to take over humans’ positions in society.  That just means more rich people will get to keep their money and more poor people will have less due to the lack of medial positions open to humans.  Robots don’t sue for worker’s comp, they can’t bitch about company policy if they aren’t programmed to, and if they give you too much trouble, you can melt them down-if they don’t get you first!

Here’s a list of robot-type stuff just for fun..(Click on them)

N.A.I.R.

EATR

ASIMO

 I am sure there are lots of us who simply hate our car, but try not to do what this teen did.

A New York teen is facing arson and reckless endangerment charges after he set fire to his BMW. Long Island police have quoted the boy as saying his motive was “he hated the car”. Now typically I would say “Who cares”, its his property,  however surveillance vidoe showed the vehicle was parked directly next his aprtment building at the time he set fire to it, like less than five feet.

The sad thing is, half the country is offering “Cash for Clunkers” the thing would have likely brought him in two or three thousand in trade somewhere! Now thats burning hatred here on The Burning Questions.

Well, first of all let me apologize for the lack of updated material here as of late.  I am always in the wind with whatever I do.  I simply do with whatever I am given at the given moment.  I am currently trying to track down a strange mechanical problem that has plagued our most recently purchased vehicle.  I am sore that I have not been able to narrow down the problem to certainty as of yet.  Here are eight tips for those of you who know little about the car that you own.

1:  If something changes about the way your vehicle runs all of a sudden…There could be something going wrong even if it seems only a minor difference.  There could also be gremlins living in your breather box.  Who knows?

2:  Check your fluids regularly.  That means every week.  Every fill up.  Something more than waiting for the check engine light to finally come on…OKAY?

3:  If a fluid is low, it could mean something is wrong.  Now, if you have ran your vehicle three thousand miles past the oil change deadline and you are a couple of quarts low on oil, well… GO GET IT CHANGED!

4:  If your car changes color on its own…Sorry ’bout your luck…you have probably just been punked!

5:  Have you checked your muffler bearings?  Just thought I ‘d ask.

6:  If your car makes a terrible squeal when you push on the brakes…Well, you probably need new brake pads…or tires!  You should probably buy quality in either or both of these categories.  They are technically the two most important parts of going and stopping on your four wheels.

7:  That grinding noise that you hear… the one that goes away when you turn up the radio… probably IS something to look into!

8:  When you look under your car or where you generally park your vehicle, is there are large dark spot of nasty yuck pooling up?  That would lead me to believe something is leaking out of my vehicle.  Might even get out of the car and look for a wet spot somewhere on the undercarriage.  Might even think about getting that leak taken care of.  But that’s just me…you do what you want.

  I searched last night for the official New Moon Trailer and found that there were a ton of sites out there that claimed to have the trailer before its release.  The problem was that none of them actually had it.  There were some that had teasers and/or unofficial content that was related to the subject, but none had it before the release on MTV music awards.  My wife wanted to see Edward and Bella so bad I had to keep trying, only to find the one kiss scene that she had already viewed.

So should I be abusing the search engines to get my views as others are doing?  Is this the way of the future Internet?  Claiming to have something that one does not have?  I know, I know…My title is misleading as well.  However, I do not claim to have something I do not have.  I am simply trying to deal with a question that could make the Internet a place that consists solely of spam and useless content.  For example, I peered at least twenty sites that came up in the first pages of my search for the New Moon Official Trailer and found not one trailer.  I did find one teaser in that twenty and close to ten widgets that claimed to be a countdown widget that would allow me to view the trailer as it was released.  A bunch of possibly illegitimate poster pictures and several pictures that were claimed to be extracts from the movie also appeared with those sights.  There was absolutely no official trailer.

I wonder how many sights there were out there that used this bait to lure in viewers to a sight with claims that were basically false altogether.  Most had some sort of way to avoid being called a flat out lie, but few actually told the truth.  If I searched only a tiny portion of the possibilities but came up empty-handed with the top results, how many were actually out there claiming the same thing?  The numbers had to be staggering if it were crammed into the category of a statistical poll.  People sure are hard up to get clicks these days.

What would happen to the search engines if people stopped viewing the first page of results, instead linking to the last page and checking out the sites there?  It would probably cause some sort of search engine mass hysteria!  Google and Yahoo would terribly confused by that, now wouldn’t they?

Is it inherent that news be bad?  Turn on the “boob tube” and someone somewhere is telling everybody about all the death and destruction in the world.  Change the channel, and they’re talking about how someone was sexually assaulted or their child was molested.  Another channel, another tragedy.  What the…?

Are we addicted to the bad news?  Would we really rather see about Britney’s next poor decision?  Is there anyone out there that turns off the television when it seems to be nothing but bad?  I know I do.  I have a hard time understanding what the deal is.  The news broadcasts obviously get better ratings for bad news or they wouldn’t produce such lousy information.  Why do they get better ratings?  Because most people would rather watch the crap that these broadcasts smear all over the backs of their retinas than learn of something beautiful or inspirational.  One answer I received for these questions was “That kind of stuff should be on the learning channel or PBS.  The news is for telling us what is wrong with the world.”  WHAT?  Is this really the way most people think?  I have no idea…but I have to do something about this way of thinking.

I’ll make up my own good news!  The following are fictitous representations of what I believe would be good news for today…Today in North Korea, an explosion blew up the nuclear weapons production facility…no one was hurt except for those that believe they were doing a good deed for society by producing such devices…Next, a wildfire saved a family…their campfire got out of hand and spread rapidly across the wooded area in which they had setup camp…they were all thinking how much of a pain in the ass this last ditch effort of a camping trip was until they had to work together to save themselves and the forest…they now realize how important life and family can be and will take care of each other from here on out…One more…in the news today:  People threw out their televisions.  Digital converters will no longer be needed as all people threw out those infernal televisions and went outside to see the world.  There was a massive amount of happiness and reflection as the general public realized that television news was sucking the life out of them and rejected it.  Good job, World!