Genetically Engineered Domesticated Animals

How close are we to wanting a blue eyed baby, clicking a box, and then having a blue eyed baby? Very Close.

An Atlantic Salmon that has deliberately been inserted with a gene from a Rainbow Trout is called a transgenic animal. We could take a specific gene out of a human being and then put it into a test tube baby.

Google “transgenic salmon.”

The seminal ideology behind genetic engineering is both ancient and noble by most accounts.

but once you start, where do you stop?

If the government finds out that your child will have genes that would predispose him towards a life of violent crime, will they force you to genetically alter your child? Would you resist?

Once genetic engineering of human beings begins in mass – the laws, rules, and regulations will quickly follow. The laws would establish not only when you can change your child’s genes, but when the law itself determines your child’s genetics.

I guess it is important who writes the laws.

I file the movie “Gattaca” under Sci-Future.

The gunmen was off his meds!

Steven P. Kazmierczak, the shooter at Northern Illinois University, referenced The Virginia Tech Massacre. I would label these suicidal-homicidal kids as ‘wannabe’ Martyrs. In death, they tried to spread certain ideas, bring attention to specific issues, cause some sort of societal change, or just spread their own pain and memories.

A skinny white kid dressed in black, wielding a shotgun and three glocks, used the faculty entrance to get into a geology class with 150 stadium style seats. He stood up on a table at the front of the class and fired indiscriminately, 22 people were shot, 6 killed, including the gunmen who took his own life with a bullet to the head. The fact that he was a sociology graduate student should raise more eyebrows than Virginia Tech.

Seung-Hui Cho [Virginia Tech shooter] and now Steven P. Kazmierczak from Illinois wanted to spread Memes.

Steven P. Kazmierczak was a good student with good grades and was considered to be an intelligent person by many. The Chicago Tribune reported that the school honored the gunman two years ago for his research on the U.S. prison system, including a study of self-inflicted wounds among prisoners

The title of CNN’s article is “Police: Illinois Campus gunman reportedly off medication.” Fuck you CNN. Fuck you Drug Companies.

ADHD is a gross way to pump intelligent kids full of drugs.

They “discovered” a new “disease” and are calling it Oppositional Authoritarian Disease. When a kid contradicts a teacher or talks back to his parents for being bigots, they will now diagnose that child with OAD.

They will pump 6 year old children full of ritalin and adderall and any other drug Big-Pharma thinks it can make a profit off of.

MKULTRA.

CNN gave a 2 hour time slot to “Special Investigations Unit: The Criminally Insane.” I titled the post I wrote about it: “CNN: Criminally Inane,” I still think that is clever.

A martyr is nothing more than someone spreading ideas [memes] in death.

I can’t help but think I will be misinterpreted. Let me clarify that Justifying Murder Is Defending Stupidity. I am by no means justifying anyone else’s actions, I am only trying to understand why these [intelligent] Human Beings did what they did.

Unfortunately, like in the case of Theodore Kaczynski, the focus is put on the death, tragedy, and the gruesome facts of their actions. I read multiple accounts claiming there was no motive, I heard multiple people asking for my prayers, and saw videos of mothers crying “Why!?”

It is the forth shooting at a U.S. education establishment within a week. Last Friday, a woman shot dead two fellow students before killing herself at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge. In Memphis, Tennessee, a 17-year-old is accused of shooting and critically wounding a student on Monday. A 15-year-old was shot at a junior high school in California on Tuesday.

American Society is not doing well. That fact is hardly debatable, that is what I interpret their motives as. “Wake up!!”

Seung-Hi Cho [isn't it strange to reference these people by their names?] left massive amounts of media to explain why he committed indiscretional murder. I am sure most people only saw his angry Non-Coherent video, and judged him to be a crazy.

He sent a media package to NBC. Searching through the internet I could not find a kilobyte of information that was in his own words. If you search you might come across this paragraph on NPR citing the fact that it happened, but not much else can be found.

During the April 24, 2007 edition of the Oprah Winfrey Show, NBC News President Steve Capus stated NBC decided to show two minutes of 25 minutes of video, seven of 43 photographs, and 37 sentences of 23 pages of written material and 5 of the 23 PDF files that were last modified at 7:24 a.m.

Media make Cho into whatever they want us to see.

He was crazy, but he still made some points that the media did not address whatsoever. NPR had a few clips from Cho describing the materialistic stupidity that surrounded him.

How can I possibly agree with Seung-Hi Cho or Theodore Kaczynski on anything? Because I heard what they had to say!! I did not just watch CNN and the other crap that is on television.

I did not get riled up by the issues of gun control and racism. Symptoms that this society is exhibiting indicate deep problems. Racism and Prejudice being prime symptoms of a blatantly Stupid society. Uncontrollable drug use, sex, and violence being reactions to a flawed Materialistic system.

Let me refocus.

The media takes away logic and discourse, and replaces it with black and white. You are either with us or against us; you are either for homicidal maniacs or against them. We should not try to understand this kid, just like we should not try to understand any of the other worldly problems that the media shelters American Consumers from.

Industrial Society and its Future. That is the title of the manifesto Theodore Kaczynski wrote. Kaczynski sent a letter on April 24, 1995 to The New York Times, promising “to desist from terrorism” if the Times or a similarly respected news journal would publish his manifesto, it was published, and I read it.

The Unabomber graduated from Harvard at the age of 20, then received a Doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His specialty was a branch of complex analysis known as geometric function theory. His dissertation won awards, “I would guess that maybe 10 or 12 people in the country understood or appreciated it”, said Maxwell O. Reade, a retired math professor who served on Kaczynski’s dissertation committee.

Technology and society have made it very easy for us to sustain ourselves [food, water, shelter]. This leads to a lot of free time. Free time leads to boredom, which leads to a lot of things including excessive pleasure-seeking, overeating, low self-esteem, guilt, anxiety, sleep disorders, and eating disorders.

Does that sound like a Big-Pharma commercial to you? 2 Trillion dollars from the federal budget Each Year goes towards health care [the overall United States budget is about 14 Trillion dollars a year]. 33% of that 2 Trillion dollars goes FOR PROFIT to Big-Pharma and the the health insurance companies. FOR PROFIT.

They are already pumping 6 year old children full of ritalin and adderall and any other drug Big-Pharma thinks it can make money off of. If you did not appreciate The Constant Gardener, you should watch it again.

Students are scared to go to class.

Pill Popping, Ingrained Fear and obedience to the High Definition Propaganda Panel make us nothing more than Domesticated Animals.

Maybe we should pump all the Steven P. Kazmierczaks and Seung-Hi Chos full of drugs and sedate them into non-existence. But who discovers the unstable, determines the symptoms, and distributes the treatments?

I am sure Big-Pharma is already on top of that.

The World Agenda… According to Israel

A few weeks ago I attended a lecture titled “The Impact of the Middle East on the Global Agenda: A View from the U.N.,” it was held in Dodd Hall at UCLA and was hosted by the student group Bruins for Israel.

Dan Gillerman was the guest speaker. Gillerman has been the Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations since 2003. He was introduced as a successful businessman making the jump to public service.

Gillerman opened with a joke about how his father would be proud, and his mother would believe every word of the “gracious introduction.” I must admit he is a funny guy. He told a story about someone who fell asleep during a lecture he was giving… he asked “sleeping beauty’s” neighbor to wake him up, but the neighbor responded with “you put him to sleep, you wake him up!”

One of his self proclaimed “greatest accomplishments” as a member of the United Nations was the inception of “Holocaust Remembrance Day.”

He pandered to the crowd as he praised UCLA for academic excellence, referenced Lew Alcindor, and hoped UCLA “trounces” USC in the upcoming athletic event.

Gillerman then shifted gears and became serious, “The world is facing one of the most ominous times in history.”

He started with Pakistan and recalled a conversation he had with Benazir Bhutto, he claimed Israel has been searching for allies to promote peace.

He quickly moved to spreading fear. Claiming and reclaiming there were many “truly existential threats.” Specifically naming Iran as a “rogue and dangerous nation.” He made more than a few references to their nuclear program.

Israel says that Iran may have a nuclear weapon by 2009, but other intelligence agencies say it may “early in the next decade.”

Gillerman is on record saying that Israel does not have nuclear weapons. Check out this interview he gave on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, it is both hilarious and stupidifying.

Israel does not like Iran for many reasons. A very important one being that Iran supports Hezbollah, which is whom Israel fought a war with in the summer of 2006 in Lebanon.

From Gillerman’s lecture I learned that Israel wants the United States to fight Iran. I also learned that Israel will shamelessly deploy its United Nations Ambassador to University Campuses in order to spread fear and threats of nuclear holocaust to gain support for another war.

I thought it was going to be a thought provoking discussion. I was wrong.

I do agree that Israel is in a predicament, surrounded by hostile nations, but promoting war with Iran under the false title of “The Impact of the Middle East on the Global Agenda: A View from the U.N.” is both gross and very far from the truth… similar to Israel’s claim that it does not possess nuclear weapons.

My problem with the lecture was not the fact that it was war mongering, because that has become common place — It is the fact that Israel claims war with Iran is part of the world’s agenda.

I Spend 3 Hours EVERY Day on Fantasy Basketball

It went from a time filler to a time sink.

I cant play basketball, so I watch basketball on television.

I root for a team, so I want good players on the team I support.

My team doesnt have good players, so I wonder why.

The general manager of a professional team drafts players out of college, makes trades, signs free agents… he shapes the team’s roster. If my local professional team has a bad roster, its because the general manager sucks.

In a fantasy basketball league, the participants are the general manager of a team.

It starts with the fantasy draft… I have heard of people having dozens and dozens of teams so to practice their drafting skills.

You pick players based on their “fantasy value,” which is decided by what statistics they get in real games.

Once the draft is over, and the season starts, its like quicksand.

You check how your players did each night, make trades with other managers, keep track of other players, edit your roster, and talk shit. I dont even talk much trash, so I dont know how I spent 3 hours a day on this stuff.

I guess its because I know things like Rashard Lewis of the Orlando Magic averages 2.8 3 pointers made per game but averages less than 5 rebounds per game or Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets shoots the ball a little above 50% but turns the same ball over 3.5 times per game… and these players arent even on my team.

I had to get out.

So what I did was “waive” all of my players. When you waive a player its like putting the player back in the picking pool, so that other teams have a chance of scooping him up.

The rest of the league did not take it lightly. I guess I did not think it through. I did not consider how my actions would effect the dynamics of the league.

Anyway, I asked to be let back in the league, I will serve a two day suspension… and I will go back to spending 3 hours a day on Yahoo! Sports.

Now said I “spend” 3 hours a day on fantasy basketball… is it spending or wasting?

What else do we “spend” time on?

traffic, television, sports, movies, alcohol, eating, reading, Nine To Five… some of which are not things my mother would be proud to advertise as her child’s life work.

“I am so proud of my son! He makes $100,000 a year punching numbers into a computer for 8 hours a day, sits in his new Mercedes SL500 for 2 hours a day, comes home to his multi-million dollar mansion, watches his 70-inch high-definition-television, has a few beers, has dinner with his family, and sleeps in a Tempur-Pedic bed for 6 hours every night… I am so proud of the life he lives!!”

Many people are happy when they are productive. “Productive” generally has to deal with working towards some goal.

When we dont have goals that require effort, we suffer the human condition.

We ultimately choose to do what we Think will make us happy [or least sad].

Theodore Kaczynski wrote a manifesto. It is titled Industrial Society and Its Future. Technology allows [many of] us to expend little effort to sustain ourselves. So we, as a people, have a lot of time to make ourselves “happy.”

I guess that is why fantasy basketball and television Waste so much of people’s time. Fantasy Sports and Television provide us with ways to easily entertain ourselves. Much of our free time is used to entertain ourselves, and therefore, to make us happy.

The masses want to be entertained while the world goes to shit. Its easier that way.

how real is too real?

Digital Molecular Matter (DMM). That is the new physics concept in video game design. I aint gonna get technical, because that shit is over my head.

From what I understand, DMM refers to creating objects in the video game, molecule by digital molecule.

The physics engine in some of these games is ridiculous. Shooting R2-D2 at plywood.

The artificial intelligence and interactive environment is not lacking either. Each individual video-game-character has a central nervous system, I dont know what that really means. You should click the above link.

My 11 year old brother, who is a skinny little indian kid, had a 21 day vacation for winter break. He sat in front of his laptop for most of the break while breaking in a nifty laptop cooler.

I asked him if he wanted to do something during break, like go to the zoo, he said “ehhh, not really, I am looking at… stuff.” [He shrugged and pointed at his screen, and went back to clicking]

People spend 40 hours a week playing World of Warcraft. I have heard people play that game as a job; they sell game items that other players find valuable on ebay… for USD.

Electronic swords, shields, and magical boots traded for [faith based] currency, over a “series of tubes.” Sounds about right.

It has become the purpose of many peoples’ lives. It desensitizes and engrosses us.

Stupid gamers have died playing Warcraft (not hating on gamers, but they died while playing a video game, which makes them stupid). They died because they did not eat, sleep or drink while playing video games, past the point of exhaustion and to the screen that says “game over.”

Its not too difficult to fool our brains or our senses. Its even easier to addict and indoctrinate young people.

The average American child is exposed to 20,000 thirty-second television advertisements a year.

Watching television is not that different from playing a video game, where you sit in front of a screen and move your thumbs.

What if the state starts providing us with virtual vocations and vacations, which will allow us to avoid the office and the outside world all together?

Could we do “work” virtually? [we can control machines through the internet]

A video game is a virtual vacation. [play to escape the drudgery of everyday nine-to-five]

Less human interaction means less agitation for human rights and less opposition to the state.

We never have to leave our homes. The state will deliver food to our door while enforcing curfew and checking our production.

That maybe too Orwellian… but I dont think The Matrix, I, Robot, or The Terminator are that far fetched either. Well, The Terminator is further fetched than the other two.

The American people have been tamed by an “American Dream” that can now be achieved through simulation.