BP told three workers from the oil services firm Schlumberger they could go home without doing a key test of the sturdiness of the cement in the hole, something that would have taken several hours; they left the rig 11 hours before the well blew up resulting in the massive 36 day & ongoing oil spill in gulf of Mexico.
Starting Tuesday, Wal- Mart is knocking the price of the 16 G-byte iPhone 3GS to its lowest price offer yet: $97. That's a savings of $100 when purchased new with a two-year contract!
April 2010 retail video game sales plummeted 11 points in year-on-year numbers. According to NPD Group analyst Anita Frazier, April was the industry's worst year-on-year decline since July 2009 and the fourth worst in year-on-year percent declines since September 2000.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Subliminal Messaging in todays Music?
So lately alot of heavy hitting musician have been releasing some very interesting music videos, which most of the time tell little or no story about the song its suppose to represent. The topic at hand is the dark nature of these videos strang symbolism's, mannerisms and almost demonic fashion statement overflow in these videos
Monday, May 10, 2010
Twitter; Hacked, Explodes & reforms in one swoop
Today do to a post from one of my favorite blogsites Gizmodo about a vulnerability in the twitter system Twitter crashed out kinda. The semi-hack which really wasn't a hack at all just some key commands in the message bar allowed people to Force people that their following to follow them back for example; maybe you were following someone like P Diddy obviously he likely isn't going to follow you back but thanks to to a trick you could force him to!
Well once this information hit the masses twitter almost immediately went to work but unfortunately destroying everyones following, followers counter setting them to 0. Needless to say the Twitter-verse went into panic mode but just as soon as the apocalypse had started it was over and twitter patched the hack up and all counts were restored however, those who were able to force people to follow them are still in abit of luck as twitter did not reset those forced-followed therefor until those people realize their following someone they didn't follow deliberately their in the clear.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Schools, what needs to change
The education system is terribly flawed right now, to be blunt there failing us literally and figuratively for so many reasons.
The Teachers:
Here's alittle story, up until 5th grade I could not read or spell worth sh*t and I was a smige of a wild child enough-so that they gave my mother an ultimatum either I would only go to school for about 2 hours a day at around noon OR be transferred to another school. My mother could not do the shorten days do to her work schedule and only other option than transferring me to a further away school was for me to be kicked out entirely, so she chose to send me to Amanda. My life took a serious turn once I reached there, suddenly being around teachers who took their job seriously and gave me direction between 4th and 5th grade at Amanda I was up to where I needed to be.
The Lesson here is when your with teachers that don't give a fuck about their duties then were going to have people just flailing threw the system. When I was in 8th grade I remember a student in one of my classes could not read and besides spelling his own name that was pretty much it, I was shocked and upset on exactly how someone without even the basic curriculum from elementary school could have made it all the way to the 8th grade without being about to read or write.
The Curriculum:
Some of the things being taught are so dated and honestly serve no value Algebra for instance is one of the most baffling subjects do-to the fact that once your out of school the things you learned from this subject almost 'never' come into use. Certain subjects should be bumped up and become either 'optional' high school classes or college coarse such as 'War' however we do need to learn more about current events and politics there are certain things that people just expect us to auto-magically(got that from a car insurance commercial) know.
When we hit 18 they just expect us to do our part and vote but in school your not taught enough about the political parties to grow your own standing that hasn't been pre-programmed into you by family or social moral or demoralization via media or whatever, your just thrown into the fray. Its high time we learn things we can truly benefit from and history that isn't so far before our time its irrelevant.
The Environment:
Schools have turned into social clubs, he said she said and red carpet runways. Overall I'm against uniforms but I think there should be a stricter dress code, cell phone usage should not even be an issue but it is their should be harsher circumstances from being caught threw-out the day with one their another senseless distraction that can clearly wait till the end of the school day, being caught smoking, drinking or doing any other illegal things should be dealt with the harshest of the schools abilities on the tv shows and movies these incidents are downplayed unbelievably but the reality is by letting them off easy time and time again were basically condoning them doing it int he first place.
Balanced Discipline:
One of the problems I noticed in my last year of high school were how unbalanced disciplinary action was handled, we had the Principle who was much to light on offenders and the assistant Principle who was basically impossible to deal with. I seen some crazy things go on(and not just with the students) that year with either extreme or non-existent repercussions. Fair and completely appropriate is what needs to be played out.
Wages:
Pay the damn teachers what they deserve they are over worked and underpaid and that unfortunately goes to both the bad and the good ones, I can see how it could effect ones ability todo their job effectively & enjoyably if they are not paid appropriately.
To bring it all to a close we need better teachers, teachers who enjoy their job sonority shouldn't mean shit if the teacher sucks at hes/her job and can be replaced with someone who can actually make a difference, the schools themselves need to cater most to the education itself without allowing all outside superficiality to be apart of their school structure things that have no business being in the school have no business being in the school and the students need to learn whats relevant to their time surroundings and events.
~EZB
(Shout out to Ms. Miller, Mrs. Case, Mrs. Mason, Ms. Withraw, Mr. Carpenter, Mr. Stanger, Mrs Stevens. Mrs Gould & Mrs Van Gordon there all fantastic teachers!)
The Teachers:
Here's alittle story, up until 5th grade I could not read or spell worth sh*t and I was a smige of a wild child enough-so that they gave my mother an ultimatum either I would only go to school for about 2 hours a day at around noon OR be transferred to another school. My mother could not do the shorten days do to her work schedule and only other option than transferring me to a further away school was for me to be kicked out entirely, so she chose to send me to Amanda. My life took a serious turn once I reached there, suddenly being around teachers who took their job seriously and gave me direction between 4th and 5th grade at Amanda I was up to where I needed to be.
The Lesson here is when your with teachers that don't give a fuck about their duties then were going to have people just flailing threw the system. When I was in 8th grade I remember a student in one of my classes could not read and besides spelling his own name that was pretty much it, I was shocked and upset on exactly how someone without even the basic curriculum from elementary school could have made it all the way to the 8th grade without being about to read or write.
The Curriculum:
Some of the things being taught are so dated and honestly serve no value Algebra for instance is one of the most baffling subjects do-to the fact that once your out of school the things you learned from this subject almost 'never' come into use. Certain subjects should be bumped up and become either 'optional' high school classes or college coarse such as 'War' however we do need to learn more about current events and politics there are certain things that people just expect us to auto-magically(got that from a car insurance commercial) know.
When we hit 18 they just expect us to do our part and vote but in school your not taught enough about the political parties to grow your own standing that hasn't been pre-programmed into you by family or social moral or demoralization via media or whatever, your just thrown into the fray. Its high time we learn things we can truly benefit from and history that isn't so far before our time its irrelevant.
The Environment:
Schools have turned into social clubs, he said she said and red carpet runways. Overall I'm against uniforms but I think there should be a stricter dress code, cell phone usage should not even be an issue but it is their should be harsher circumstances from being caught threw-out the day with one their another senseless distraction that can clearly wait till the end of the school day, being caught smoking, drinking or doing any other illegal things should be dealt with the harshest of the schools abilities on the tv shows and movies these incidents are downplayed unbelievably but the reality is by letting them off easy time and time again were basically condoning them doing it int he first place.
Balanced Discipline:
One of the problems I noticed in my last year of high school were how unbalanced disciplinary action was handled, we had the Principle who was much to light on offenders and the assistant Principle who was basically impossible to deal with. I seen some crazy things go on(and not just with the students) that year with either extreme or non-existent repercussions. Fair and completely appropriate is what needs to be played out.
Wages:
Pay the damn teachers what they deserve they are over worked and underpaid and that unfortunately goes to both the bad and the good ones, I can see how it could effect ones ability todo their job effectively & enjoyably if they are not paid appropriately.
To bring it all to a close we need better teachers, teachers who enjoy their job sonority shouldn't mean shit if the teacher sucks at hes/her job and can be replaced with someone who can actually make a difference, the schools themselves need to cater most to the education itself without allowing all outside superficiality to be apart of their school structure things that have no business being in the school have no business being in the school and the students need to learn whats relevant to their time surroundings and events.
~EZB
(Shout out to Ms. Miller, Mrs. Case, Mrs. Mason, Ms. Withraw, Mr. Carpenter, Mr. Stanger, Mrs Stevens. Mrs Gould & Mrs Van Gordon there all fantastic teachers!)
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