Let me start off by saying, I don't care for politics, politicians or their excessive salaries. I don't buy the courier mail anymore because the first 20 pages are absolutely ridden with politics. Makes trash like The Bulletin seem interesting.
More to the point, I am strongly disappointed by the Government's 'cleen-feed'. Pornography and R-Rated video games are what keep the nerd community alive. Suicide rates will increase rapidly once these nerd-addictions are vanquished.
Seriously though, self righteous people and their little shanty towns, comprised of over protective mothers and church groups, can jump. Like actually jump, I'm serious. Splat, please, do it.
We already pay a fortune for broadband in Australia, and this add in will only add to it. Plus, the censor will be a mandatory, and if you wish to opt-out, you will be asked why, and possibly secretly monitored by the government.
This is Australia, the beautiful land down under, and if I want to watch X Rated porn, play online casino-style poker, saw off heads in R-Rated video games, then by God, I will. We don't need an excuse for our participation in these things! Up yours, Labour party.
What place does cencorship have in democracy?
NONE! Democracy was founded on freedom of choice/speech/will, God made us with the gift of free will (if you're an athiest, shut your hell-bound mouth), and the concept of a bigger, supposedly more important figure telling another figure what they can and can't watch is a contradiction.
I'm ashamed that we've joined the likes of China.
Blog over.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Week 8 Task
Let's get political!
1. Sign an E-Petition
Check it out at this link, it was for the children's hospital.
http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_QLD/CurrentEPetition.aspx?PetNum=1319&lIndex=-1
2. Respond to a professional blogger:
An NME.com blog by Luke Lewis discussed buying shares in a band, or contributing towards their album production. So I replied
"Marillion have been doing this for years and regardless of what you might think of their artistic credibility, it's kept their career going strong and they still sell tens of thousands of albums."
You can look at my reply on this page, user name Spunky:
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&blog=10&title=buy_shares_in_a_band_think_of_the_possib&page=1&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1&disp=single
3. What's Barack Obama up to today?
Well I would suggest something to do with the 30,000 pound bomb, which is supposedly the pride and joy of the pentagon!
At least that's what this blog had to say: http://ochairball.blogspot.com/
4. Who are my local federal/state representatives?
I don't care, however, I will find out:
Michael John Crandon, Senator the Hon Joe Ludwig, Anna Bligh.
5. When did they last speak in parliament?
As for Joe Ludwig - 17/9/09.
6. I had this to say to Mr Ludwig:
The lecture discussed democracy, cyber democracy, online democracy or something like that, point is, it covered a large amount of material working off a few different tangents.
It's hard to 'pursue a couple of topics that you found most interesting' when you honestly found none of them even remotely interesting. Last time I checked, this subject was New Communication Technology, not the dreaded News and Politics which I sit through for 3 hours a week. Politics is like religion - everyone argues about it, everyone talks about how important it is, everyone thinks if we don't pay attention to it, we will suffer in the end, but like religion, YOUNG PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT IT!
Thankyou :)
1. Sign an E-Petition
Check it out at this link, it was for the children's hospital.
http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_QLD/CurrentEPetition.aspx?PetNum=1319&lIndex=-1
2. Respond to a professional blogger:
An NME.com blog by Luke Lewis discussed buying shares in a band, or contributing towards their album production. So I replied
"Marillion have been doing this for years and regardless of what you might think of their artistic credibility, it's kept their career going strong and they still sell tens of thousands of albums."
You can look at my reply on this page, user name Spunky:
http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=10&blog=10&title=buy_shares_in_a_band_think_of_the_possib&page=1&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1&disp=single
3. What's Barack Obama up to today?
Well I would suggest something to do with the 30,000 pound bomb, which is supposedly the pride and joy of the pentagon!
At least that's what this blog had to say: http://ochairball.blogspot.com/
4. Who are my local federal/state representatives?
I don't care, however, I will find out:
Michael John Crandon, Senator the Hon Joe Ludwig, Anna Bligh.
5. When did they last speak in parliament?
As for Joe Ludwig - 17/9/09.
6. I had this to say to Mr Ludwig:
The lecture discussed democracy, cyber democracy, online democracy or something like that, point is, it covered a large amount of material working off a few different tangents.
It's hard to 'pursue a couple of topics that you found most interesting' when you honestly found none of them even remotely interesting. Last time I checked, this subject was New Communication Technology, not the dreaded News and Politics which I sit through for 3 hours a week. Politics is like religion - everyone argues about it, everyone talks about how important it is, everyone thinks if we don't pay attention to it, we will suffer in the end, but like religion, YOUNG PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT IT!
Thankyou :)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Week 7 lecture thoughts..
Jason is quite entertaining and engaging; a fresh change from the boredom of "news and politics" lectures.
As I've mentioned, he discussed in detail freeware, including issues such as viruses... and how they're made out to be worse than what they are.
There's not a whole lot I have to say in this post, because I pretty much said it in the previous, so as some form of consolation, please look at the muscular man.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Week 7 lecture freeware download
During the week 7 lecture, the long-haired lecturer ventured into freeware, including the differences between legitimate and fake ones, the beauty and uses of freeware, his own online creations and so forth.
Encouraged in tutorials to download some form of freeware and discuss it, I decided to download the always popular Windows Live Messenger. The program is an instant messaging system on which you can add other users and view when they're online, communicating through typed messages sent instantly.
This program allows me to speak to someone I have on my contacts list from anywhere in the world where internet is available. I have several contacts from the UK who I am able to speak to instantly. The program also allows for fellow contacts to be able to see which song I am listening to through media player or iTunes if I choose to enable that function. Emoticons, animations and the infamous 'nudge' can be sent to other users, to grab their attention or perhaps speak a message which could not be said another way.
Another active function of the program is the ability to personalise it, including the use of a display name, a display picture and a coloured frame surrounding the conversation window.
Easily the most prominent instant messaging program on the internet, Windows Live Messenger is a personal favourite of mine.
Thanks.
Encouraged in tutorials to download some form of freeware and discuss it, I decided to download the always popular Windows Live Messenger. The program is an instant messaging system on which you can add other users and view when they're online, communicating through typed messages sent instantly.
This program allows me to speak to someone I have on my contacts list from anywhere in the world where internet is available. I have several contacts from the UK who I am able to speak to instantly. The program also allows for fellow contacts to be able to see which song I am listening to through media player or iTunes if I choose to enable that function. Emoticons, animations and the infamous 'nudge' can be sent to other users, to grab their attention or perhaps speak a message which could not be said another way.
Another active function of the program is the ability to personalise it, including the use of a display name, a display picture and a coloured frame surrounding the conversation window.
Easily the most prominent instant messaging program on the internet, Windows Live Messenger is a personal favourite of mine.
Thanks.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Week 6 lecture
The week 6 lecture provided an interesting insight into the consumption and production of content by humans, and its relation to new communication technology.
The 'big' screens of life are television, the pc and the cinema. Through these mediums we passively consume content, in large doses often, because they are made quite readily available to us.
The 'small' screens of life are mobiles phones (which are becoming increasingly convergent) and personal music players. These allow for increased involvement of productions, and for identities to be formed during product consumption.
Niche-markets are increasingly targeted, with the production of fan films. Websites promoting and producing this activity are available online as mentioned in the lecture.
News consumption is greatly affected by technology. Mobile phones create yet another social networking frame in which information freely passes at a fantastic speed.
This more or less sums up what I learned in the lecture. Oh yeah.
The 'big' screens of life are television, the pc and the cinema. Through these mediums we passively consume content, in large doses often, because they are made quite readily available to us.
The 'small' screens of life are mobiles phones (which are becoming increasingly convergent) and personal music players. These allow for increased involvement of productions, and for identities to be formed during product consumption.
Niche-markets are increasingly targeted, with the production of fan films. Websites promoting and producing this activity are available online as mentioned in the lecture.
News consumption is greatly affected by technology. Mobile phones create yet another social networking frame in which information freely passes at a fantastic speed.
This more or less sums up what I learned in the lecture. Oh yeah.
Damn dirty Google Map
Here is my ultimate google map, a Jackson Haswell original.
View The Map, The. in a larger map
bone appetit (no typo).
The map seems to display from a very zoomed out point, and thus it could be hard to see where I made the lines, but zoom into surfers paradise and you will see.
View The Map, The. in a larger map
bone appetit (no typo).
The map seems to display from a very zoomed out point, and thus it could be hard to see where I made the lines, but zoom into surfers paradise and you will see.
Week 5 lecture
Not in the right order of weeks obviously, my first attempt I wasn't happy with so I deleted and re-did. Enjoy!
Social networking is an aspect discussed in the lecture material, and displayed on the course blogspot site. It's an activity which seems to have really spanned the past decade or so, and is only growing in popularity, with the likes of myspace being rivaled and surrounded by facebook, twitter, hello world, bebo and so forth.
If you have to have a little part of the web which is there to express your creativity and individuality, perhaps it could be done in a more subtle way. Listing your every like or dislike, sexual preferences, potentially indictable offences and what not on the internet is likely to cause problems for you eventually.
As mentioned on the course blogspot, imagine a potential boss or business client staggering upon some particularly low-brow, drunken photos of yourself from the weekend. It boggles the mind!
This online social networking has become so extensive and frequent, it is a modern journalistic tool for news. Politicians all have twitter pages! They're completely fake of course though, and would only post pre-meditated and approved twitter comments etc.
Who knows how far this online phenomena could go? Perhaps one day everyone will remain in their homes and all communication will be done via facebook? Let's hope not...
Social networking is an aspect discussed in the lecture material, and displayed on the course blogspot site. It's an activity which seems to have really spanned the past decade or so, and is only growing in popularity, with the likes of myspace being rivaled and surrounded by facebook, twitter, hello world, bebo and so forth.
If you have to have a little part of the web which is there to express your creativity and individuality, perhaps it could be done in a more subtle way. Listing your every like or dislike, sexual preferences, potentially indictable offences and what not on the internet is likely to cause problems for you eventually.
As mentioned on the course blogspot, imagine a potential boss or business client staggering upon some particularly low-brow, drunken photos of yourself from the weekend. It boggles the mind!
This online social networking has become so extensive and frequent, it is a modern journalistic tool for news. Politicians all have twitter pages! They're completely fake of course though, and would only post pre-meditated and approved twitter comments etc.
Who knows how far this online phenomena could go? Perhaps one day everyone will remain in their homes and all communication will be done via facebook? Let's hope not...
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