Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Americans still don't know how to drive

Bad driving in America... care to go for a swim?

A recent study conducted by an insurance company revealed that more than 1 out of 5 Americans (that's ~36.9 million) are not fit to drive and would fail a driving test today. Now that is scary!

Here is a quick summary of what the study revealed:
- 85% of surveyed drivers did not know what to do when approaching a solid yellow light
- only 1 in 4 knew safe following distance
- avoid young people, women and drivers from Northeast
- 27% of women failed the test
- 13.6% of mailes failed the test
- the worst place to drive is in Washington, D.C.
- the best place to drive is in Wyoming
- drivers from Midwest did the best
- drivers from Northeast did the worst
- elderly, between the ages of 60-65 had the highest average score of 80.3%

I find it ironic that a car nation such as ours would even have this problem. After all didn't we create the car culture? Didn't we invent the concept of a drive-through? Proportionally we have more people driving in this country than anywhere else in the world and we still don't know how to drive? Shouldn't we then be more or less the best drivers? This is weird! Our children start driving at an early age. Many teenagers drive their own cars to school. Most people spend some amount of time in their cars on a daily basis while going to and from work and we still don't get it?

She's been driving since the age of 15 - and still looks proud of herself!

No comment...

[Yahoo]

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Against gay marriage? Just remember straight people make gay babies!

This is so TRUE - straight people make gay babies!

Finally after much unnecessary deliberation the state of New York legalized gay marriage! And its about time. This is yet another rightful victory for the gay community which has been the cause of much celebration across the nation. The fact that this even had to come to a court hearing is insulting. Those of you who are against gay marriage should hold a 'come to Jesus meeting' and re-evaluate your moral convictions as well as your definition of what a 'good' person means. After all isn't that what the Bible teaches - love your neighbor as you would love yourself? And yes that teaching still applies even if your neighbor is gay or a lesbian.

I think its pretty clear what the gay people are fighting for here but what are their opponents trying to push? And why is it any of their business anyway? Here is a simple rule of thumb that everyone should adhere to in order to make this world a better place: "mind your own business and don't stick your long nose where it does not belong!" I have been hearing some really poor and sorry excuses from the so called 'good christians' as to why gay marriage should not be legalized and honestly there is not a single excuse that anyone can come up with that can justify taking away someone's freedom and choice. You should always put yourself in their shoes. How would you like to be told what religion you can believe in and when?


Lets just take a look at some of the lame excuses that people have come up with:

- Marriage originated from religion and it is against the teachings of the church!
  Sure, whatever, it might have originated there but this is the 21st century and we have come a long way and our definition of marriage has evolved as well. Also, just to remind everyone, the Constitution of the United States clearly states that there is a complete 'separation of church and state' - google it if you don't believe me. Also, in case you just awoke from a very very long sleep the state has its own legal definition of what marriage is and it has absolutely nothing to do with church or religion. Also, a lot of people around the world these days skip the antiquated ancient rituals and get simply married in court.

- It is just morally wrong!
  You are entitled to your own believes but you have no right to push it onto others as this violates their basic constitutional freedoms of religion, sex and speech. This is the same constitution that allows people to pursue whatever religious believes they hold. If you deny people the freedom of sexual expression that will also make it ok to attack religious freedoms.

- This is not how nature intended it!
  Perhaps you should watch more nature and animal shows instead of soap operas and reality tv. Animals exhibit plenty of gay behavior in nature.

- I am homophobic!
  A lot of men are. I am no exception but that does not stop me from doing the right thing and from respecting personal freedoms of others.

- It's dangerous for health and causes AIDS!
  It is no more dangerous then christian sex. There are many ways to contract STDs this is just another one of them. Contrary to popular belief gay people did not introduce AIDS. Instead AIDS was introduced into the gay community in the early days as an attempt to put an end to the movement. Instead the plan backfired and AIDS spread worldwide affecting all communities. I guess what comes around goes around.


And those of you that are still not convinced that it is ok and perfectly acceptable to be different in sexual orientation don't worry a day will come when your child or a close family member will come out of the closet and then you will have to face the music and to learn acceptance and open mindedness one way or another. Karma has a way of catching up to people and you are no different and won't be spared - feel free to pray all you want!

Friday, June 24, 2011

Microsoft's Bing still sucks!

Microsoft Bing URL Submission page

Ok, I am not exactly sure where to beging because Microsoft sucks at just about everything they do these days except the BSOD(blue screen of death) - which I think they might have actually pioneered. Anyways, I wanted to register the URL of my new website with Bing and so I went to the Bing URL Submission page to do just that. This is not the first URL I have submitted to search engines for indexing so I did not expect to run into any difficulties. Boy was I wrong! The 'captcha' would not let that happen. After trying to get past the captcha for about 20 minutes my frustration mounted to dangerous levels and I gave up on Bing - that's right f*** Bing! I mean c'mon this is the basics after all. If I can't easily submit my URL for indexing how in the world is Microsoft supposed to provide and accurate and up-to-date search of the web when it's missing a bunch of content? The reason Google is dominating the search is because they are on top of this shit unlike both Microsoft and Yahoo who take weeks to index a new site once submitted to them. After studying Bing's URL submission page I noticed just how poorly it was put together. First of all the last sentence of the first paragraph is missing a period. That's right, this kind of sloppiness does not look professional nor does it instill trust into users. Second, nowhere on this page does it mention whether 'captcha' is case sensitive or not. I mean for someone who is having a hard time getting past the damn captcha this is a critical piece of information when it comes to answering the very personal question of: "Am I being retarded or is Microsoft f***ing up?" Well naturally I tried it all: camel case, lowercase, uppercase - to no avail.

Captcha - camel case

Captcha - all lowercase

Captcha - all uppercase

Saturday, June 4, 2011

USPS Jedi mind tricks

R2-D2s come in different shapes and sizes...

USPS Jedi Master mail box masquerading as R2-D2

This is what R2-D2 actually looks like

Yet another R2-D2 wannabe
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