tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88483581842386142192024-02-19T05:43:06.280+01:00HenryHackits view of the worldBring joy and possibilities to the world, stop negativity and restrictions where ever you can. It don't have to be pretty as long as it works.Henry Hackithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009339457591899792noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-62855323579302957352022-05-23T00:29:00.001+02:002022-05-23T00:29:37.774+02:00life is an endless series of train wrecks with only brief commercial-like breaks of happiness<p>As the great philosopher Dead Pool so aptly puts it "life is an endless series of train wrecks with only brief commercial-like breaks of happiness"<br />Accept that, expect that and enjoy the breaks when they happen and you'll be all right.<br />All we really have is Now, and we rarely get to see all of it because we are too busy trying to look into the future or being stuck in the past.<br />Nothing is inherently good or bad, those are all just constructs of our mind. Life just happens, enjoy the ride. <br />Enjoying happiness is easy but also do the hard thing like enjoying pain and sadness. Living fully, living a full life, has nothing to do with accomplishments and all to do with perception.<br />The entirety of human history is but a mere spec on the timeline of the universe, yet you could believe that all of that was necessary for This to happen Now which makes it equal parts incredibly important as totally insignificant. We are what gives meaning to life, without thought, there would be no meaning. Life just is and we are trying to make it something that it isn't. Fate is an illusion born from our desire for meaning and purpose in pursuit of trying to control our future,or mourn our failure, but Now, is where it all really happens. </p><p>Open your eyes and just Do something. It doesn't matter what.<br /></p>Henry Hackithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009339457591899792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-88554324637708024552021-05-29T11:07:00.000+02:002021-05-29T11:07:41.419+02:00How Phizer and Moderna Vaccine works<p>Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are mRNA vaccines.</p><p>They have been working on an mRNA vaccine for almost 20 years.</p><p>The clever scientists finally got it all working properly and approved little while back.</p><p>A mRNA vaccine is like a message in a bottle. The whole bottle thing is the difficult part of the vaccine. How do you get the message past all the human defenses?</p><p>Well, they have figured it out and approved a few of these vaccines and they were in use when Cov-19 hit. So since everything was approved they could just start producing. Since they only had to change the message, very few approval steps were needed.</p><p><b>This is how your immune system is taught a new lesson;</b></p><p>The message bottles get injected.</p><p>The bottles go past the defenses of your immune system.</p><p>It attaches to one of your cells, and goes in, delivering the mRNA message.</p><p>The message floats through your cell until it meets a compatible ribosome</p><p>The ribosome processes the message and makes a protein.</p><p>When the ribosome processes the message, the message is destroyed.</p><p>This protein is the same as the virus has and it goes to the outside of the cell wall where it sticks out.</p><p>The message also switches on the cells alarm system which causes the immune system to attack this cell and learn the very important lesson "This protein: bad!"</p><p>Now when your immune system sees this protein, it will attack it with furious anger.</p><p>So although the mRNA message looks like DNA and is processed in the same way that DNA is processed, none of your own DNA is changed and the message is destroyed when reading it.</p>Henry Hackithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009339457591899792noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-44559019695995481982021-03-31T11:37:00.001+02:002021-03-31T11:37:27.136+02:00The advantages of extremism<p>Allrighty then. Henry tries to fix the internet again. Let's see what happens now.</p><p>I found this really great old advert where John Cleese talks about extremism and the content unfortunately never seems to get outdated.<br />So I wanted to quote the entire thing and searched the internet for the exact text. </p><p>Unfortunately that was nowhere to be found and I took it upon myself to write it all down from what I assume is an uncut original copy on YouTube.</p><p>__</p><p>Seriously though, we've heard a lot about extremism recently a nastier, harsher atmosphere everywhere, more abuse botherboy behavior, less friendliness and tolerance and respect for opponents. All that, but what we never hear about extremism and its advantages.</p><p>Well, the biggest advantage of extremism is that it makes you feel good. Because it provides you with enemies. Let me explain. the great thing about having enemies, is that you can pretend that all the badness in the whole world is in your enemies and all the goodness in the whole world is in you.</p><p>attractive isn't it?</p><p>So If you have a lot of anger and resentment in you anyway, and you therefore enjoy abusing people</p><p>Then you can pretend that you are only doing it because these enemies of yours are such very bad persons.</p><p>And if it wasn't for them you'd actually be good-natured and courteous and rational all the time. </p><p>So if you want to feel good, become an extremist.</p><p>Okay, now you have a choice.</p><p>If you join the "hard left", they'll give you their list of authorized enemies: almost all kinds of authority, especially the police, the City, Americans, judges, multinational corporations, public schools, furriers, newspaper owners, fox hunters, generals, class traitors — and of course, moderates.</p><p>Or if you'd rather be an extremist on the hard right, no problem, fine, you still get a lovely list of enemies, only they are different ones; noisy minority groups, unions, Russia, weirdos, demonstrators, welfare sponges, meddlesome clergy, peaceniks, the BBC, strikers, social workers, communists — and of course, moderates.</p><p>And upstart actors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now once you are armed with one of these super list of enemies, you can be as nasty as you like and yet feel your behavior is morally justified. So you can strut around abusing people and telling them you could eat them for breakfast and still think of yourself as a champion of the truth, a fighter for the greater good and not the rather sad paranoid schizoid that you really are.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>*John Cleese</p><p>From: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNhPMQnWu4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLNhPMQnWu4</a></p>Henry Hackithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009339457591899792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-1484496908088116812021-03-31T10:52:00.000+02:002021-03-31T10:52:16.903+02:00Pro-Truth pledge<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.protruthpledge.org/hotlink-ok/ptpBacked.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="200" src="https://www.protruthpledge.org/hotlink-ok/ptpBacked.gif" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I signed the <a href="http://ProTruthPledge.org" target="_blank">Pro-Truth Pledge</a>:</div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">please hold me accountable.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">This is a real good start. More people should do this.</p>Henry Hackithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009339457591899792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-1448203788187878712020-04-13T14:47:00.001+02:002020-04-13T14:47:45.823+02:00Coronavirus: Can it even be stopped?Hey Thunderf00t, as it seems, embedding your video does make it show up in search results. So I suppose I can help it spread this way.<br /><br />
It is really sad that YouTube is doing this to you, but it's not a perfect world eh?<br /><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0ERi2cL730o" width="480"></iframe>Henry Hackithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009339457591899792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-71065884944102174732020-03-30T12:17:00.001+02:002020-03-30T20:20:13.253+02:00Covidiots<br />
Trump didn't take it seriously and now he's fucked up his country, Boris of UK shakes hands with Covid-19 patients and is proud of it, the Belarussian president organizes a ice-hockey tournament and plays in it himself saying "I don't see any viruses here, do you?"<br />
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I really do wish this virus would just kill stupid people.<br />
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Unfortunately the reality of it is that the stupid people in charge will just make it worse for all of us.<br />
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This virus is here to stay for a loooooong time.<br />
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Once we get it under control in all the smart countries, it will fester in the stupid countries and even if those are isolated, the virus will mutate there and come back at us at any given opportunity.<br />
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First thing you do if you find out there is a new virus; "containment", keep the virus from getting out.<br />
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China really fucked up that part, and lost face in a big way. The virus is now everywhere and all we can do is damage control. Keep the virus from spreading so rapidly that the healthcare systems don't get overrun. this is also called "flattening the curve". Which basically means, a lot of us are going to get infected, but we're going to try and spread it out a bit. And if we do that well, we there might actually be people who don't get infected at all. But it also means it is going to take way longer before the virus naturally dies out.<br />
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But the thing is, we ALL have to do it.<br />
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If there is just one stupid infected fuck who doesn't, the infection will flare up again at a much later date.<br />
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There are a lot of stupid fucks in this world and lately there are also a lot of stupid fucks in government.<br />
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Luckily this virus is actually rather mild for what it could have been.<br />
But we need to learn from this or the next virus will take out en even bigger chunk out of the worlds population.<br />
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Perhaps now we can start listening to the scientists again?Henry Hackithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009339457591899792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-59304317296683828312018-04-29T07:40:00.000+02:002018-04-29T17:32:51.160+02:00Writers Block<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here I am staring at the overwhelming whiteness of a blank page.<br />
Staring, dreaming dreamless dreams while awake.<br />
There is nothing more cleansing to the mind.<br />
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But I don't want a clean mind, or a clean page. I want something to shout about, something to complain and rant about. My anger and dissatisfaction put in words might inspire and make people laugh. it works therapeutically on my own mind.<br />
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I want to write. People here want me to write.<br />
But now, when I come here I can't help but think about the article that got deleted.<br />
I am angry and frustrated, but also it feels like I lost.<br />
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"<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/henryhackit/Downhome/hhvow/thebestwaytokillyourself-1" target="_blank">The Best way to kill yourself</a>" has been erased on blogger.<br />
It was a controversial topic, equally controversially written and I knew the moment I posted it that it might not be around for long.<br />
Still,. it has been around for far longer then I ever expected.<br />
This article changed what I wanted to do with this blog, it was in my way. It was also the reason to come back to my blog so many times. It was the most popular of any article I had written. It was hated and loved. But the most sad part is that there were so many beautiful and heart tearing comments there. People pouring their souls out. Farewell letters.<br />
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There is no way to fight back.<br />
This is a free platform beyond my control. They have the power to erase whatever history we have together, or whatever article I will write in the future.<br />
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I thought it would be governed by a fair process. But it's not.<br />
So here I am feeling useless, pointless. Anything I write here could be gone tomorrow, so what is the point of writing anything here? Do I pack up everything and move to a more safe place for stuff I want to keep? A place where free speech is still ungoverned by AI, where fairness is not compromised by a lack of (human) resources?<br />
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I mean, I get it. YouTube and Google, ABC or whatever, they can't be expected to treat every complaint about articles or videos in a fair way. It just takes too many man hours.<br />
Or can they? I think they can. They just don't want to.<br />
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And what did I expect really?<br />
I'm using a free service to write stuff out into the world and I expect them to keep it for ever?<br />
Yeah I do.<br />
And now I think that's weird. And it reminds me of something I wrote on this blog. Something about free apples, was it not?<br />
I have come to expect them free apples from Google, even think I have the right to have them and I'm angry when I don't get them. I'm just like the rest of ya'll.<br />
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So am I going to let this Block me from writing?<br />
It nearly did there, didn't it?<br />
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The point is, to make a difference.<br />
If it is lasting or not doesn't matter, everything is fleeting anyway. Our lives will end, new lives will be created and everything always changes.<br />
A white page suddenly turned into a blog post once I started poring my unfiltered thoughts and feelings onto it. But what is the point?<br />
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All I know is that I wanted to write again. And I felt blocked.<br />
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I remember the first time I experienced writers block.<br />
I wasn't actually going to write anything, I was in class and I was supposed to make a drawing. It was free drawing, you could draw anything you wanted.<br />
Sounds amazing right?<br />
But it's way too much freedom, there was so much I could draw that I was totally overwhelmed by it and I froze. All idea's just were not there, my mind was as blank as the page before me.<br />
I think I sat there staring at the page for at least ten minutes while my mind raced in circles; "what can I draw? Everything, I can't draw everything, it doesn't fit on this tiny piece of paper, besides it would take forever. So I have to make a choice. But what do I choose, and why? What is the best choice? that depends on the goal? What is the goal? To draw something? But why? Do I have to impress someone? Or do I do it for me? And do I need to impress myself? Yes,.. but how? What am I even doing here?"<br />
Finally the teacher noticed I wasn't drawing and she came up to me to ask what the problem was. Obviously I said; "I don't know what to draw" And she just said the simplest thing and I don't think she ever knew what huge implications this sentence had on my life. "Just draw what you see"<br />
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I took what she said, thought about it really carefully and started drawing my desk, my hands and the blank piece of paper.<br />
But the blank piece of paper was now no longer blank, So I had to change the blank piece of paper to a drawing of a desk with a blank piece of paper.......<br />
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I have always loved recursion but that was the first time I realized that it is a great way to get unblocked.<br />
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Here I was staring at the overwhelming whiteness of a blank page, but now I'm thinking, "is it okay to end it here?"Henry Hackithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009339457591899792noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-50534992899412133512017-03-26T08:02:00.001+02:002017-03-26T08:02:37.857+02:00Why am I being bullied?You want to know why you are being bullied, picked on or just generally walked all over? Well here's the short and skinny. And you are not going to like what you have to do to solve it.<br />
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I don't know how people have belittled the problem of bullying for so long. Saying stuff like "it happens to everybody" or "just man up" or even "oh, get over it".<br />
Bullying is a serious problem that can be the cause of serious mental problems and it will have an influence on the rest of your life.<br /><br />
But yes, it is "normal" and there is no "cure" for this problem.(but don't stop reading)<br />
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I've had my share of bullying in school, I have analyzed it at length as to why they were doing it, and why me.<br />
But I was young, and it took a fabulous teacher to open my eyes.<br />
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It turns out that it is human nature when in a group to pick on the weakest ones so that the top becomes a more tighter group.<br />
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So there is no cure for bullying, the only thing you can do is make very clear that you are <b>not the weakest one</b>.<br />
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The best way to do that is violence.<br />
You are probably going to object to that since the ones being bullied are usually the gentlehearted non aggressive people. But you don't actually have to resort to violence, you just have to be very convincing that you will resort to violence when anybody tries to bully you.<br />
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If people are already bullying you, it is very very hard to get this in their heads. So get out of there and when you start somewhere fresh, make sure that the first time anybody tries to bully you, act aggressively and make a loud statement that you will not be treated like that or else... You probably have to practice this in the mirror and come up with some good words.<br />
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That's it, that's how I got rid of my bullies when I went to a new school. Later they tried it again and I actually kicked one in the balls. I do not approve of violence, but you have to act at the first sign of bullying. That move by the way, earned me their respect and they never tried anything again, they even made attempts to be my friends. Don't be their friend tho, be the outsider they shouldn't mess with. Because if you are inside their little superiority complex driven group, you will have to keep proving your self by bullying others.<br />
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The world is a crazy place. that is, unless you understand a bit more about human nature and group psychology. Then you will be very angry and disappointed in the people for a while and finally you will learn to accept it and use it for your own benefit.<br />
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If you are not a confident person, act confident.<br />
If you are trying to keep everybody happy, don't. Just focus on your friends and family they are the only ones who truly deserve that.<br />
Read my other post <a href="http://henryhackit.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-being-nice-makes-you-unhappy.html">how being nice makes you unhappy</a><br />
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Being timid and trying to keep everybody happy is a sign of an inferiority complex. The main cause of this is you being bullied. People with a inferiority complex are going to get bullied. It is a vicious circle that you have to break out of before you end up killing yourself.<br />
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You feel like you are worthless because you are bullied, so you think there has to be something wrong with you. No there is nothing wrong with you. you are just better then them and they hate it. You are a better person then they are for not wanting to fight or hurt anyone. But they don't have to know that.<br />
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So go kick some balls. Preferably not literal, but be prepared to do it so that you are convincing enough. And trust me, the bullies will stay away.<br />
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Ow gawd, I really can sound like a smug know-it-all sometimes.<br />
Anyway. That's my thoughts on bullying. Hope it helps.<br />
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Special thanks to :<br />
<cite class="user" style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://henryhackit.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-best-way-to-kill-yourself.html?commentPage=6" rel="nofollow" style="color: #cc6600;">AN</a></cite><span class="icon user" style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;"></span><span class="datetime secondary-text" style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 6px;"><a href="https://henryhackit.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-best-way-to-kill-yourself.html?showComment=1469943199439#c3631343671313653698" rel="" style="color: #cc6600; text-decoration: none;">July 31, 2016 at 7:33 AM</a></span><br />
for inspiring me to write a comment which turned into this post.<br />
Blogger.com /blogspot for it's incompatency to create ab link to a comment.<br />
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HXPanda, this is for you and everybody like you.<br />
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<br />Henry Hackithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009339457591899792noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-10112241453053887422015-11-12T01:55:00.000+01:002017-10-06T07:20:26.528+02:00How being nice makes you unhappy<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/henryhackit/Downhome/hhvow/howbeingnicemakesyouunhappy"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Article also on my site</span></a><br />
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Free apples for everybody</h2>
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Dear reader, you are the kind of person that wishes to make the world a better place, you are doing that by being a better person yourself and you consider it your job to do so.</div>
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I appreciate that sentiment very much and I love you for it.</div>
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But now it's high time to take a nice vacation from that job and I will tell you why.</div>
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Even a workaholic takes a break, so why would you always be such a nice guy/girl? There is no reason why you shouldn't take a break from being the wonderful person that you are. It is refreshing and in fact, people will appreciate you more for it.</div>
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If I gave everybody at work a free apple on every Friday for a few months, people would expect free apples every Friday. At first they would think "whoa, what a nice guy for doing that". After a while it becomes a regular thing and they would just expect a free apple on Friday.</div>
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But this Friday I don't have enough apples for everybody. And lo and behold, the people who didn't get an apple are pissed off and mean to me because they didn't get what they deserved. Now they don't like me so much anymore.</div>
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Strange how that works eh? I was just trying to be a nice guy but all I get is slack for a few tiny things that go wrong.</div>
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Sounds familiar?</div>
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Now I could make it my responsibility to deliver free apples for the rest of my life, or I could turn it around.<br />
I pick Bob who said especially mean things to me and tell everybody, "no more free apples because of what Bob said, and I don't feel that my kindness is being appreciated at all".</div>
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Boom! everybody turns on Bob for ruining the free apple deal for everybody. And I am a really nice guy again.</div>
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Now I know I was being a real asshole. My relationship with Bob has been ruined, but now I can give free apples every once in a while which is much more appreciated.</div>
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This is a really simple example just to show you how people perceive your kindness and how it progresses over time.</div>
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If you are the "good guy" all the time, people will walk all over you, use you and abuse you. That's not because they are the bad people, psychology tells us that is just the way humans work. I know you are not like that at all, you try to fight those natural tendencies. You are truly a better person for it. But you are also really flat and unhappy.</div>
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You are flat because people walk over you, get it? Okay, bad joke, I'm gonna leave it in anyway.</div>
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But why are you so unhappy?</div>
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You get negative feedback for things that go wrong, that you do wrong. Being such a nice person as you are, you take these criticisms to heart and even start believing them to be true.</div>
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You see, we hardly remember the things that go really well, because there is nothing to fix. The things that go wrong are remembered because they may contain information that helps us change future similar situations for the better. So we are hard-wired to focus on and remember the things that go wrong.</div>
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You are unhappy because you are not being appreciated, everybody needs appreciation. Also you don't know how humans really work, how they can be manipulated and how you are being manipulated every single day of your life.</div>
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Also there is this weird feedback loop going on.</div>
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You think you are something, so you act like it. People perceive that(consciously or subconsciously) and act accordingly thus amplifying you belief.</div>
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In short. Negative feedback from multiple sources makes you believe you are a fuck up. But you should be asking yourself, why do you get this feedback? Are they right? And what are their real reasons?</div>
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What can you do to be more happy? Simple, just focus on the good things in life, you under-appreciate them. Read some things about psychology like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias">Confirmation bias</a> and other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias">cognitive biases</a>, or this excellent article <a href="https://www.geekwrapped.com/cognitive-bias-survival-guide">Cognitive Bias Survival Guide</a>. I really think every one should learn that by heart in middle school. Do that, and you will figure out that the world might not be what you always thought it was. Knowing yourself and other people will give you a greater understanding of the world and help you achieve your goals.</div>
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Also, practice being an asshole.</div>
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Try it, it feels great and gives you a lot of freedom. Just think about it, have you ever seen someone like that apologize or feel bad for the things they have done? No! because they own up to it. Or they don't even think about it. If they call you out on it, just say that you are practicing your assertiveness training or something. Or tell them Henry Hackit made you do it. Balance is the key to everything. This includes being an asshole sometimes.</div>
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People will like you much more if your kindness is something rare and to be earned instead of given away for free every single day.</div>
Henry Hackithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04009339457591899792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-85953182479326778632015-04-06T14:25:00.000+02:002015-04-06T14:27:30.376+02:00What is the meaning of life?Well there's a fun and lighthearted question for you :)<br />
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Dear reader, if you are human, you have probably asked yourself this question more then once.<br />
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So what if I told you I have the answer? I know the meaning of life and I am about to tell you. Would you believe me? Or would you question my claim?<br />
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Sure you would question my claim, you would debate and give me other meanings of life, but then how could we possibly know which one answer to life, the universe, and everything really is The Answer?<br />
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You could ask God. But he generally doesn't pick up the phone or do conference calls. So you'd have to wait till you are dead and ask him/her yourself. Which is of no use to us now, so that is not really an option.<br />
You could turn to science, and the scientific method is really great at finding out things that might be true if they can be repeated and tested by other people, if the same result pops up, it is probably true. But it can't really answer this particular question.<br />
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There is just no way that we can prove that one particular meaning is the meaning of life so all that we are left with is an endless debate and many different opinions.<br />
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One answer that science can answer though is "why do we ask this question?"<br />
It is in our nature. We have asked ourselves the "Why" question many times and when we come up with an answer it helps us to deal with the situation at hand in a better and more effective way.<br />
"Why did that window pop up just now?" "Because you clicked the banner" So if you don't want any windows popping up, don't click banners. Situation dealt with.<br />
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But what if there isn't any answer?<br />
Well then, our nature keeps nagging us with the question over and over again. Which is kind of what is happening right now and has for centuries so perhaps there is no answer?<br />
That's it ok, end of article.<br />
The answer to the meaning of life is, there isn't any.<br />
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But there is really no stopping this nagging feeling, is there? Unless you give up. But that is not really in our nature either, is it?<br />
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What if you knew the meaning of life, if you knew the reason why you are alive, what would that do for you? How would it affect your life? Would you be living your life in a more effective manner, would you achieve this apparent goal faster? And is that really what you are after?<br />
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And what about not knowing? Not knowing the answer to this question makes us aimlessly wander in all kinds of directions like we have been doing for centuries.<br />
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One of the reasons religion is so popular is because it gives us a goal, the meaning of life in almost any religion is to achieve enlightenment or a kind of promised land like Heaven or Nirvana. But the problem here is that there is no scientific proof that this is the real reason, goal or purpose of life in general or your life in particular. It is based on belief. But it has helped us give our lives a direction, it makes us feel better because we now have a purpose and a goal.<br />
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So religion gives us the answer and if you are not the kind of person who asks a lot of questions, then this is the time to stop reading. <br />
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Still here? Good, let's figure out the real answer then..<br />
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While science is unable to give us a definite answer, we could just have a look around us and see how things work and possibly infer a meaning from that.<br />
So where do we come from? Evolution theory says that once upon a time, a long long time ago, we were just a bunch of amino acids in a pool on a planet with a lot of lightning storms.<br />
We then found a way to replicate and build cells. Then we came up with the bright idea to clump together a bunch of cells.<br />
Why did the single cell organism clutter together?<br />
When you work together, you have more chance of survival.<br />
The single cell had less chance of survival just on it's own. With dehydration as one of its major threats, it is far likely to survive in a big groups where only the cells on the outside take the big hits.<br />
Each and every cell, is working together even at their own expense to keep the entire organism safe from harm. And it is That Decision that still governs each and every cell and with each and every cell of our body, also each and every decision we make. Because the brain are cells too.<br />
It's simple, you just go from the micro scale to the macro scale. We humans are a weird bunch tho because we took it even further then our own bodies. We started working together in groups of humans and achieved grand things. That no single one of us could ever have done.<br />
We don't even question why we work together anymore. We just do it because it is our nature.<br />
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From that first clutter of cells came a huge variety of creatures. Some went extinct and some of the oldest are still alive now.<br />
So what is up with all that diversity? Well Evolution theory also teaches us that if a species gets too specialized they are more likely to go extinct if that specialization is no longer relevant. Situations have a nasty tendency to change just when you got used to them.<br />
Now we have this system of life with a huge variety in all shapes and forms and even when most of this planet is somehow destroyed or has become uninhabitable, life is so diverse that it will most likely continue.<br />
Life is like a brute force attack, it just simply tries every variation, every possible option until it finds the right answer and then they get to survive.<br />
But what is the answer?<br />
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Through the ages life seems to have had one single drive, one reason and that is, to survive, to simply stay alive, procreate and try again.<br />
Every organism dies, but when it does so, it will have passed on to it's offspring, all that it could to ensure the survival of that offspring.<br />
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So there you have it.<br />
The meaning of life is to remain alive, produce, and ensure the success of offspring and be as diverse as you can.<br />
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Or in simpler words; <b>Stay alive.</b><br />
Because the rest comes naturally.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-5260071412235123842015-03-20T15:06:00.002+01:002015-03-20T15:06:44.633+01:00Why is this blog still up?Straight to the answer: <b>It is not in violation of the Terms of Service(TOS)</b><br />
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One particular article on this blog is, to say the least, controversial.<br />
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Twice this blog has been deleted now. People are able to report the blog for violation of the terms of service. The automatic response to this is to delete the entire blog and send me an e-mail about it.<br />
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I have been very careful not to violate any of the TOS but I am even in doubt about parts of it.<br />
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After the automated removal of my blog I am given the opportunity to appeal to this, which means that a Google representative of the blogger team has to have a look at the blog and decide if it is really in violation of the terms of service like the automaton has decided. It seems that it is <b>not actually in violation </b>because the blog has been reviewed and <b>restored twice</b> now.<br />
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I think it is odd that in the time that this blog has been up, only two people took the time to report it especially with <a href="http://henryhackit.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-best-way-to-kill-yourself.html">one post</a> being so popular that it has about 1500 views a day. I really thought I would piss off more people then that.<br />
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"<b>So why did you write it?</b>", everybody keeps asking.<br />
I think I have explained it in the article and in the comments a few times, but people still think it is satire, so let's go again...<br />
I am pro-choice. It is your life, you should decide what you do with it. But religion and governments based on religion have made it illegal for you to take your own life. My intended original audience is not the depressed,"my life sucks", "please kill me now" kind of people. <br />
But if you do decide to kill yourself, you should really, really think about it. Think about the consequences, the people around your, the people who have to clean up your mess, and most importantly, the success rate of a suicide attempt.<br />
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I am just trying to make people really think about what they are thinking of doing. After that, it is still always your choice.<br />
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And then there are the people who, like my late friend, are really better off dead, but nobody will help them or let them die peacefully.<br />
Another reason for me to write "<a href="http://henryhackit.blogspot.com/2012/11/its-my-life.html">It's my life</a>" and "<a href="http://henryhackit.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-best-way-to-kill-yourself.html">The best way to kill yourself</a>" is the unfortunate and torturous demise of a good friend of mine. Struck with one of the most painful and incurable diseases this existence has to offer, he had nothing to live for nor any hope left. The only thing in his future was a painful death or a quick death, if only there was one person able and willing to help him.<br />
He found none, not even me. So yes, I have thought about ways to kill him and have been searching the web for a way to do it quickly, painlessly and without any trace back to me.<br />
Many hours have I spent. but my conclusion at the time was that I would have to train to be an MD and start my own practice before I would be able to help him.<br />
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Most religions say you will go to hell if you kill yourself, or anybody else.<br />
But what if you already are in hell on earth?<br />
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Helping people in such a position is controversial and a crime and it is my opinion that it shouldn't be.<br />
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So, that's my honest answer, now you can stop asking.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-65891313582080730122014-08-19T00:11:00.000+02:002014-08-19T00:11:21.164+02:00life WTF lifeLife,<br />
Life is the only thing that can make you go WTF!<br />
And even after you said that,.. make you want to put some extra Exclamation marks after that.<br />
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It really doesn't matter who you are, what you are, who you think you are, or who you really are. Life will always find a way to surprise you in good or bad ways. Because life is just that.. surprising.<br />
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You think you know everything? Bang, life slaps you in the face with something you didn't know.<br />
You think life is boring, shabam!, life turns upside down, lets see how you handle yourself now.<br />
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I hate surprises.<br />
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Almost as much as I love them.<br />
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Besides surprises, life also seems to have a sense of humor, mainly irony though.<br />
Love marathon running? you will loose a limb.<br />
Love looking a beautiful paintings, you go blind..<br />
You know, and we have all seen the buttered end of the toast hit the floor. Irony. Life loves it.<br />
Personally I always say, "life only knows one kind of humor and it is called Irony".<br />
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So if you would summarize life, it would be somewhat of an ironic tale filled with surprises.<br />
Now that doesn't sound too bad, does it?<br />
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Well, then lets summarize our lives... Right now, I am a healthy 41 year old with a wife and young child. Sounds good right?<br />
Now add the fact that I don't have a job, no source of income, huge hospital bills because my firstborn was 9 weeks early, my wife has severe headaches and has now gone blind, also has to be hospitalized and we still have no clue what is wrong with her.<br />
Life has thrown us some punches.<br />
Right now, the only thing keeping me upright in the ring is the fact that I have a small child whom I'll have to take care of, who depends on me. Who I promised to be there for.<br />
I really don't know how long I can keep this up, but I will try. I will fight for her and those I love. I will face another day, come up with ideas to make another months rent, I will fight, I will fight for another day. I will fight till the bitter, or the bitter sweet end. I will fight, because I am alive and I have a choice. I choose my family.<br />
I have a wife and child who love me, life can throw me any punch and it won't hurt me, I will go on, we will go on, life goes on.<br />
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Don't complain, there is always someone out there that has it worse then you.<br />
Lets compare notes in the comments below, shall we? What are you still alive for today? What keeps you going?<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-88746483446578136582012-11-04T11:36:00.001+01:002012-11-05T01:02:39.043+01:00It's my life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I claim the right to be stupid, irresponsible and take risks with the life that has been given to me. I claim that right and I will fight to the death any one who tries to take that away from me.<br />
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I don't need your protection don't force it upon me.<br />
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We humans are sentient beings who are able to decide. If that decision does not harm any one but our selves then we should be allowed to make it and it is a crime to stop us.<br />
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If I am drunk and try to drive a car, I should be stopped. If I am not and try to drive off a cliff, harming no one but myself, you have got to let me go.<br />
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Why are there always people who try to protect us from our free will? Do we really need that protection? I know we make stupid mistakes sometimes and I am all for a hefty discussion with someone who is about to make one. But if after all that you can not find any logical counter argument for the decision this person has obviously made, you have NO RIGHT to interfere.<br />
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There are people in this world who have been given a death sentence by a disease that will ultimately kill them in a most horrifying and painful way. Why are there people out there trying to stop them from killing themselves? Why do these people prevent them from taking experimental drugs that have not been tested yet, but give that tiny bit of hope they so desperately need?<br />
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Drugs that could save lives now have to pass so many tests that it takes years before any of them can hit the market. Such delays are unacceptable to people who are on their deathbeds right now. Even if you are willing to take the risk of taking such a drug that might end up killing you, you are not allowed to take that risk. Why! Why do these people have the right to decide over your life? Why do they have the power to obstruct science and progress in such drastic ways?<br />
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Just tell me why!!<br />
And make me understand.<br />
Perhaps you guys are right after all.<br />
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But I doubt it.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com64tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-60462659163583257272009-04-23T01:13:00.003+02:002009-04-23T01:58:03.407+02:00Chat addict<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDmtLv18HlQZ_kuSmVXh71WARTBzmU6wd1CxQxlIzQenJ30qHrjKdliMsuiIyA8If5YyDrA6OESy2tQGkk_-8W10KBwreAxFmpyOgsYkV8mKQrLbYwyxiv0tgwzRow4lt-WwQ5tlK-xeg/s1600-h/The_beetles.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDmtLv18HlQZ_kuSmVXh71WARTBzmU6wd1CxQxlIzQenJ30qHrjKdliMsuiIyA8If5YyDrA6OESy2tQGkk_-8W10KBwreAxFmpyOgsYkV8mKQrLbYwyxiv0tgwzRow4lt-WwQ5tlK-xeg/s320/The_beetles.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327658325392757506" border="0" /></a>Yeah, I am a chat addict too. And I'm not afraid to admit it. I said to myself I'll never chat again, but that's just silly in today's world. The key is moderation. Not the kind where people remove your posts, but where you force yourself to spend only a couple of hours a day, give yourself a quata, and punishment if you go over that. The punishment could for instance be to not log in to any chat rooms for 3 weeks. You have to be strict on yourself because if you are not careful as a chat addict your life will be spent hehind the screen and keyboard. Don't underastimate it. Although many people use it jokingly, It is a real disease and could ruin your life. So after a long time on IRC with my favourite friends on Starlinks #ircbar, a long time ago. I picked up my chat addiction again at nobodyhere.com. Where they have this great chat application where you are a bug in a sink. I first heard about it because they recieved a webby award and It's such a creative site. The one who we fondly call our Creator publishes under the pseudonym "Jochem Niemandsverdriet" where he shows us his strange flash creations and view of the world he supposedly lives in.<br />Also he has allowed all of us to log in to his site and leave messages. There is only one condition: you have to pick a bug as an avatar, but don't let that bug you. So we are all bugs and that's just fine. I'm proud to be a bug! I love being a bug!. So in Second Life I got myself a bug avatar aswel. Go BUGS!<br /><br />This is where the nickname Henry Hackit originated from. Being a flash designer and web-application designer myself, I soon figured out some stuff about the chat application and some bugs in the website. Now you don't go about doing some potentially irritating things under your real name, so I needed a cool nick. Hence Henry Hackit was born.<br />It didn't take long before the entire community either loved or hated me or were about to leave in fear. I like it when you love me, I hate it when you hate me but please don't leave because of a few small bugs(pun intended) in the system. The amount of commotion that I caused startled me. And I had become to love the site and their bug people so much that I had no choice but to apologise and promice to help our Creator to fix the problems. So I did. And the temporary nick that I used to stir up things grew on me so much that I kept using it.<br /><br />So don't worry bugs, I don't have any dangerous hacker powers, I can't steal your identity or figure out your IP numbers(even if that were important)<br />I am however still able to read your private posts and pose as your bug. But that's just because Jochem never implemented the changes that I sugested. I just choose not to do that anymore. I mean, what's the point in pointing out errors if they are not going to be fixed?.<br /><br />Don't bother to ask me for the stuff I know, or how to do it because I won't tell you. I just love the community too much.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-89521688896917167442009-04-01T04:22:00.002+02:002009-04-01T04:40:35.720+02:00CopyrightCopyright is not nescesarily bad. I fully endorse that people who create works of art should be properly paid for their efforts. But not indefinately and certainly not enforced as a means to stop other people from creating related works. And most certainly not for the berichment of third parties who pretend to stick up for the rights of the artists while giving them only a small percentage while violating the fundamental rights of others in this persuit.<br /><br />But Science and knowledge is another matter. Once knoledge is not allowed to be spread, and even hindering a very useful product in its development by a form of copyright or patent then I rebel. Because knowledge, in my opinion has its primary goal in the greater good of all mankind and therfore should be spread freely and without restriction.<br />The berichment of a single man or group should never hinder mankind as a whole.<br />That is why the funding for research projects should not be left to an open market by means of patents, because the open market is all about restricting the competition.<br /><br />Copyrights, good.<br />Patents, bad.<br /><br />Do you have any idea how long I have wondered why the multi-touch system was never created? How long I have been waiting for it? The thechnology was not the limiting factor here, it was a patent and someone wanting a lot of money for simply writing up the idea and filing it. Finally Apple bought it and now, we find multitouch gestures in many devices. Lets just hope Apple will be wise and generous with it's new patent that anybody could have thought up but was afraid to use.<br />But why should we hope? lets get rid of the patent system and find a better system that actually pays the real contributors and lets everyone benifit at a low cost. That shouldn't be so hard, now should it? Or does someone have a patent on that idea already?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-5536634756504966392009-03-31T17:10:00.002+02:002009-03-31T19:07:31.030+02:00Henry Hackit is a HackerYeah.. but don't get all scared Nsuch.<br />A hack is simply using something for something what it was not originally intended for.<br /><br />Lemme give an example: A screw is meant to be screwed using the tool "screwdriver" but if you hit it hard enough with a hammer, you can still hang your painting without the aid of a screwdriver.<br />And presto, your first hack!<br /><br />Now computer hackers generally create little programs to use things what they are not initially intended for. Sometimes these little programs, or tools can't even be called real programs because they are only meant for a single task, don't have a real user interface, or don't work all the time. These are called tools too.<br />Ofcourse these tools can be used to do illegal stuff just like the hammer can easily be used to break into houses and cars. That doesn't mean the hammer or the one using it is a criminal.<br /><br />So there you go. I'm a Hacker, but it can't be determined if I am doing anything illegal (unless ofcourse I'm careless) Muhahahaa!!!!<br /><br />A hack is nothing more then the crude application of science in order to perform a specific task.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8848358184238614219.post-40666937378710518862009-03-31T16:58:00.002+02:002009-03-31T19:09:27.292+02:00WoDIE!!!!You poor guy.<br />Loosing an hour.. not good..<br />Youtube not showing movies cos yer in Australia.. not good..<br />So you just relax with this nice movie someone tried to show you.<br /><br />Can't promise it will be up for very long tho, it's prolly something to do with copyright and such.<br />Copyrights.. not good.. .. but not bad either.. Just the way it's enforced.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwqxS4nnGyKtZv12_X1M6R-nKXOafbZML0XNx-kf2lk7QKNb1hODLH7miQq2uLeMbajoY5X-QLBjzzrKX-UZg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br />If I do infringe on anybodies copyright, please leave a message and I'll remove it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4