MIcroshaft Fucks the Wii Wii

Microsoft has done it again: ripped off a product invented by someone else.
You'd think with the sort of numbers that Microsoft employs, they'd have a little more creativity, but no, after they figured that ripping off Mac OS in every possible way wasn't good enough, they've gone after the Wii.

Bullshit: Microsoft is serious about intellectual property. When you pirate our stuff, you're stealing from our children! (Actually that's what Bungie wrote somewhere in the packaging for the game Marathon)
The Truth: Microsoft steals from the children of many creative folks anyway.


Nintendo Wii? More like Microshaft ass fuck

Seriously, can you look at that picture above and tell me that is NOT a Wii rip off?

Check this video out.

It's basically sound from a Windows Vista presentation but the video is from Mac OS X.
Wow, how are these Microsoft guys not in jail?
So what's more illegal? Getting something for free and not making a penny off of it or getting something for free and then packaging it as your own and then making billions off the stuff?

But that's not all. If the NXE (New XBox Experience) wasn't enough, they've come up with something else: Project Natal.



Even the opening sequence of that video is like some kind of Sims 2 rip off.
Some things on that look original (especially the no controller thing that I'm sure is bound to have many glitches and provide hours of frustration) but I've got to hold my judgement on that. It's possible that they were leaked by Microshaft employees working as spies in other companies.

Intellectual property laws: so only the rich with lots of lawyers can rip people's ideas off.

"So young" - bullshit regarding age

The latest news on the pirate who was captured after his buddies got wasted by Navy SEALS: He's undergoing trial in New York and the question is how "young" this guy is.

As stated in an Associated Press Article: "The decision by the federal government to bring Muse to justice here has thrust the skinny teenager into the international spotlight, and raised legal questions about whether the U.S. is going too far in trying to make an example of someone so young." (Pirate comes to NY, world away from home in Africa, - AP Tues April 21st 2009)

Common quote: "He's just a 17 year old boy."
The Truth: "17 year olds can fucking kick your ass."

Apparently the guy is around 18 but they can't be sure if he's exactly 18 or slightly under 18, whereas others will try to push for some bullshit about how he's 15. It's impossible to go for the records because such things don't exist in Somalia and from what I know of my experiences in 3rd world hell holes, you could have them easily fabricated. But the real question is, is 16 or 17 even that young?


Poor kid surrounded by real pirates?

Seriously though. This guy is only small because he is so malnourished. For all practical purposes, 16 and 17 year olds look just like adults. I don't know where this "he's just a boy" thing came from. Ever had to deal with a pissed off 17 year old twice your size? Not such a small "boy" anymore is he? Add an AK-47. Get the fucking picture?
16 and 17 year olds are NOT "kids." Look at the picture of the pirate. The guy looks older than I am though I've been around about a decade longer than he has. It's not uncommon either. Happens every day. But when the Press or the bleeding hearts get a hold of some 17 year old "boy" who's caused a lot of grief, they try to paint the picture like it's some 5 year old who spilled milk on the carpet. No. Hell no. It's bullshit and just because they're not old enough to fuck legally doesn't mean they shouldn't be sent behind bars for seriously long periods of time for screwing up badly. And when I mean screwing up badly, I mean hijacking a vessel for ransom money kind of screwing up.
If the whole thing about being a "boy" comes from immaturity and lack of judgement, well hell, I don't see why that should be limited by how many years you've had in this world. So I guess if you're a fucking retard and you just smashed every car in a ten block radius, you should get a more "lenient" sentence.
Bullshit. Ass whipping smartens people up.

ROEs about Piracy

The Rules of Engagement - basically a set of rules that prevent people like myself from levelling everything, feeling good about themselves and celebrating a hard day's work with cold beer and warm pussy.
Anyways. The hot topic these days is about piracy off the coast of Somalia (and beyond!) and how the world's major powers are powerless to really do anything about it.

A line I've been hearing lately: To solve the piracy problem coming from Somalia, poverty in Somalia must be eradicated.

The truth: Piracy will stop when it stops being profitable. i.e. once a dude goes out to sea with an AK-47, sharks start getting a hard on.

Seriously. When you have the most advanced warships in the world unable to tackle a bunch of dudes with AK-47s travelling on crappy "speed" boats, you have to ask yourself some serious questions. This is the same sort of problem that was tackled pretty successfully in the past and that was when the technological gap between pirates and the authorities were not as big as they are now.


AEGIS Cruisers have nothing on these guys

You see, what's changed fundamentally between the world back then and now is that back in the old days, if there was no law regarding fighting pirates, it meant everything was OK. Now when there aren't any laws about them, it means you can't lift a finger. Yeah, your local law now is in effect in those cases but laws that apply back home don't neccessarily apply half way around the world. Shit, the rules even change from one side of the city to the other.
Like an event that happened a few days ago:
The Dutch had to let seven pirates go because... "They can only arrest them if the pirates are from the Netherlands, the victims are from the Netherlands, or if they are in Netherlands waters."
(Source: Sky News)

Yeah a few hostages were saved, but the trade is still lucrative enough for pirates to still take to the seas.
So how do you solve it? Stop making it profitable.
Create an exclusion zone where any small vessel discovered will be blown out of the water.
Imagine you are a pirate or a guy thinking about going into piracy and your buddies are coming back rich and even those who fail come back in one piece. Why on earth WOULDN'T you want to take part in piracy? But if not a soul who went out to sea to hijack a large vessel made it home alive, that's something to think about isn't it?

But wouldn't eradicating poverty also work?
Some places are hell holes and are meant to be hell holes. If they want to get out of poverty, they'll have to do it themselves. Certain things about people don't change and one of the biggest mistakes you can ever make is to think that other people think like you do. Sending aid to these countries is a complete waste of time and the fact that aid does arrive there means that those in power will have no motivation to end the poverty. In fact, it will be in their best interest to keep the people poor and starving, so that some NGO can show up, snap another photograph of a starving child which will inevitably fuck our consciousness into donating aid money which will be ripped off just enough to pay for some corrupt dude's new Mercedes and his son's gold AK-47 and have just enough aid go through to keep the regular folks starving, but not starving to death.
PHEW. That's a run on sentence isn't it?

Hell I think I tackled more than one subject:
- Violence doesn't solve anything: BULLSHIT!
- Eradicating poverty will work: BULLSHIT!
- Motivating people through fear doesn't work: BULLSHIT!

All the high tech weaponry we have is only as good as the will to use them.
Make the ROEs work and let fly some steel rain.