tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41215634542446457842012-02-04T10:23:54.470-08:00I intend to have at least 5 rants a week. Some will be based on the experiences of the day, others about society and the mess we've got ourselves into.Campaign against the Conspiracynoreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-70628016603055035362007-05-08T15:11:00.000-07:002007-05-08T15:27:53.242-07:00

I'm starting a second job. It will take me a couple weeks to get everything worked out. I am going on hiatus until then.In that time I will be assessing rather I will still have time for my daily rants. Check back in a week or two for an update. Thanks

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-81375102328691866692007-05-04T08:41:00.000-07:002007-05-04T09:13:30.532-07:00

Rich get richer, poor stay poor, and it seems impossible for middle class citizens to make any headway towards becoming a member of the first group. This has been a fact of life in much of the world as far back as history is documented. So how does this hierarchy survive with the coming and going of generations?Well, there have always been those lucky enough to be born into wealth. This

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-1625162884878683312007-05-03T09:28:00.000-07:002007-05-03T09:45:13.054-07:00

When I read this story I immediately had extremely mixed feelings. Everything from wanting to punch this cop so hard he remembered what his badge meant, to just down right disgust and sorrow to know that people can be this cold.Some canoeists were near Twin Falls Idaho when they saw a woman jump from the Perrine Bridge into the Snake river. It seems she died on impact, but there would have been

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-37858648190779825362007-05-02T08:04:00.000-07:002007-05-02T08:21:12.187-07:00

There it is, the hex key to decode HD-DVD. It's on thousands of websites and listed on at least that many forums. So why is something like this that is usually kept behind the scenes showing up on so many front pages? The answer is censorship. The world is tired of it, and more and more people are standing up to it. At this point I'd wager as many as 75% of the websites that show this key

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-70883375117011939792007-04-30T20:56:00.000-07:002007-04-30T21:03:29.037-07:00

I just got back from a vacation with some good friends. So I'm in a pretty good mood. I don't have a rant for you today. Instead I stumbled across an article over at Ars Technica that basically says the Supreme Court made a ruling that equates to you can't patent common sense. More specifically you can't patent anything that would seem obvious to someone with ordinary skill in the field that

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-55779599118280314632007-04-26T07:39:00.000-07:002007-04-26T07:55:36.623-07:00

As far as most gaming publishers are concerned, all computer gamers are playing World of Warcraft. They don't seem to realize how many of us quit long ago because Blizzard alienated us, or simply because we got tired of them not being able to make up their mind on how some of the simplest game mechanics should work.So for those of us that have played WoW and left, we have been waiting for

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-77593445695529497792007-04-25T07:52:00.000-07:002007-04-25T08:44:40.773-07:00

Here are the top five things that piss me off the most in the world of politics right now.5: Global WarmingThis gets talked about alot, but nothing gets done. While the jury is still out rather the increase in global temperature is due to the Earth's natural climate cycle in conjuction with the Sun's energy output cycle just happening to coincide, or the so called "greenhouse effect", the fact

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Before I start today's rant, I am not going to bother with "politically correct" bullshit. Your either mature enough to read the article for its content and not nit pick at all the small stuff like grammer and PC terms, or your not mature enough to be reading my blog.Since long before I was born there has been discrimination in universities. A certain group is always being overlooked and pushed

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-38215156909177771342007-04-23T05:30:00.000-07:002007-04-23T05:51:21.692-07:00

Today's rant is short and it's on my favorite topic again, people are idiots.It doesn't matter rather you agree with the law, it's just stupid to draw attention to yourself and then break it. I personally don't take a side in the Marijuana debate as I've never tried it and don't intend to. But attending a Marijuana rally and then publicly smoking it is just plain dumb. It would be like violent

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-27457737952991241712007-04-21T05:25:00.000-07:002007-04-21T05:34:36.275-07:00

Weekend Edition by HumanFissionI'm sick and tired of the media. They latch on to the most gruesome thing they can find, then hash and rehash it across the nation as much as they can, underscoring the "horrific nature" and "terrible tragedy" of the event. Seriously; what good does this do? None, except for their ratings, which is the point I suppose. All they are doing is playing to the

HumanFissionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315798675527962951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-17325827235593347872007-04-20T09:37:00.000-07:002007-04-20T10:17:35.848-07:00

Well, it's official, I can't bring up a single news website or turn the TV on without being inundated by people wanting to take away the freedoms of Americans again. Do you people seriously have nothing better to do? I'm going to break this down quick because this shouldn't even be a discussion for Americans, much less a debate.Argument #1: No guns = less murders.Wrong, wrong, wrong. The

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-46067245513970949292007-04-19T09:26:00.000-07:002007-04-19T09:43:52.694-07:00

What is it about horrific violent acts that suddenly spark thousands of wanna be trouble makers? It has been only a few days since the VT shooting, and I have heard about more bomb threats at colleges and high schools around the U.S. this week than in the last couple of years combined. And maybe the rate hasn't really gone up, it could be it's just receiving more attention right now, but I

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-20292960059367894682007-04-18T07:31:00.000-07:002007-04-18T08:07:22.802-07:00

The tragedy that befell Virginia Tech on Monday will not be forgotten anytime soon. But it has been only 48 hours since the event, and I've already had to listen to 36 hours of finger pointing. Why must America always look for a scapegoat? We already have someone to blame for this heinous act, why must we find a something as well?Neither guns or video games cause shootings. Not a single time

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I will not be posting a rant today. Instead I am reserving my page today in memory of the victims of the deadly shooting at Virginia Tech yesterday. My prayers go out to all the family and friends of the victims and to every student there that has suffered emotional trauma.

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-56533422188273798372007-04-16T08:53:00.000-07:002007-04-16T10:23:34.511-07:00

I don't think I'm the only one out here that has problems with the situation America has got itself into. In fact, I've seen alot of other people with similar views expressing themselves lately. Well, I've always been an advocate of "If you don't like, fix it" and started wondering how I could progress beyond just words.How much use would a website get if it was designed to poll it's members on

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Yesterday's rant got me fired up, so I'm going to pickup where I left off regarding our country's skew from the original founders visions.The first problem we need to overcome as a country is the huge rift between Democrats and Republicans. Of course people are going to have different ideas and the two parties will never agree on alto of things, but that isn't what I'm talking about. Different

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-7149234538308981332007-04-13T04:00:00.000-07:002007-04-13T04:34:42.049-07:00

Read the topic again, let it sink in. Immigrants are breaking into our country in hopes of finding jobs usually consisting of long hours, bad pay, and hard work. Three things that most Americans try to avoid at all costs. Then, to top it off, they risk having themselves deported to pay the very taxes that we hate, in hopes of buying themselves citizenship.As Americans we all hate this time of

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-18894421061105186642007-04-11T21:09:00.000-07:002007-04-11T21:21:11.373-07:00

I'm not gonna give everyone a history lesson on how long email has been around and when the Internet began popular with the public. Suffice it to say long enough that we should have some solid laws for punishing spammers. And not just those based in the U.S. We've had enough time that global policies should be in place. It's not my place to determine what the extent of punishment should be,

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-32326324593523041022007-04-10T21:07:00.000-07:002007-04-10T21:19:12.764-07:00

Today's rant is gonna be short and sweet. Termination fees should be every bit as illegal as price gouging. Although for different reasons. Cell phone companies have been using them for years if you terminate there 1-3 year contracts early. The fees seem to have a national average between $150 & 250 per contract. The reason for these fees is to reduce customer turnover. It brings the

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-68726613478392256472007-04-09T05:00:00.000-07:002007-04-09T05:34:01.390-07:00

What in the hell is going on out there? Apparently at a small hospital in Texas Steve Spivey was recovering from spinal surgery when he began to have problems breathing. There was no doctors currently at the hospital. As Steve's wife Tracy desperately tried to get staff to contact a doctor, she began CPR on her husband since no one else was. It was sometime in her 15 minutes of CPR that she

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I try to avoid rants with a lot of technical terms, but today it just can't be helped. So if you've never built a computer or aren't familiar with the hassles and terms surrounding such an action, then today's rant might be better skipped.In celebration of a raise in the last few months and a nice profit sharing check, I decided it was time to upgrade my rig. So I hopped on NewEgg and found

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For years now scientists have been telling us we come from monkeys. They don't have any way to prove it and it doesn't matter if we believe them or even care. But now things are going too damn far! Now people are actually questioning rather monkeys deserve the same rights as humans. That's right, they think that the same animals that can't work, are unable to progress beyond simple tools, and

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-37499174053021968412007-04-03T18:29:00.000-07:002007-04-03T19:10:03.078-07:00

I've been telling everyone I know, friends, family, and any stranger in a game store I happen to see that violence in video games is the least of a kids problems if he's even once contemplated picking up a weapon to use it on another human being. Unfortunately till now, most video game studies were performed on children that already had violent tendencies, or were based entirely by watching

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-7339679465967185062007-04-02T10:45:00.000-07:002007-04-02T10:57:47.951-07:00

I just came in from mowing my weeds. My grass is probably a few weeks off from being ready to mow yet. Which brings me to my point. Why haven't we adapted weeds for our yards instead of sticking with grass? You wouldn't have to spray paint your yard green anymore, and they come back earlier from winter. There are lots of weeds to choose from, and several would actually make very fine turf by

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-21686292485660473652007-04-01T17:05:00.000-07:002007-04-21T05:33:22.253-07:00

Weekend Edition by HumanFissionIt truly astounds me how the human race has come so far with the overwhelming majority of us being complete idiots. I used to think my point of view was biased or tainted because of the work I do, but more and more I find that it just seems to be the standard. Stupid people have overtaken the world. If you are reading this, and are already offended, just stop

HumanFissionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315798675527962951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-86022894722058122442007-03-31T11:30:00.000-07:002007-04-21T05:33:45.554-07:00

Weekend Edition by HumanFissionI am a friend of Icenode and will be a guest writer on The Daily Rant. From what I've been told I will post mostly on weekends. Enjoy.While many of the "rants" you've seen here focus on some specific point of idiocy that has drawn the public eye, mine are more general. You see, I (and those who know me can generally back this up) just dislike people in general.

HumanFissionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13315798675527962951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-44141004699446919082007-03-30T08:21:00.000-07:002007-03-30T08:38:21.800-07:00

Circuit City is laying off 3,400 of its highest paid employees. Probably not the CEO and a few other of the highest paid elite I'm sure. Even thought this move proves they should be the ones let go. A large portion of those employees were being paid higher wages because they have been with the company for a long time and know their field of sales well. They will be replaced by low salary low

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-43087571275217089322007-03-29T07:47:00.000-07:002007-03-29T08:06:44.707-07:00

For most people negative numbers start when counting backwards from zero. Apparently however my bank has their own counting scheme. Counting backwards from somewhere around $22 is when the numbers go negative for them. So far I've been unable to find any documentation stating that $22 is equal to $0 from my bank. And since I have a "no minimum balance required" account, I know that I'm not

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-63335483507695846752007-03-28T07:38:00.000-07:002007-03-28T07:49:16.406-07:00

I read an article this morning where Mexico will trade you an Xbox for your gun. If its a larger caliber or machine gun, they'll trade you a computer complete with a legal version of Windows installed. You can read the article here.While this probably isn't a long term solution, and you probably won't see any of the crime syndicates trading in their weapons, it just might do the trick at

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-34930499087603253852007-03-26T09:47:00.000-07:002007-03-26T10:03:46.817-07:00

Its become a popular trend over the past few years. Instead of a short preview with just enough tidbits of information to get your mouth watering, studios are putting out the movie condensed down to a couple of minutes. Nearly all of them include all their best one liners and what they hope will be memorable and quotable sayings. But some go as far showing not only the tidbit of information

Icenodehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499480344964906603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-33145870166876100382007-03-24T08:23:00.000-07:002007-03-24T08:58:22.922-07:00

Today I read about a lawsuit in California. You can read it here. The short version is a car impaled itself on a light pole at 45 mph. Lisa Torti was a witness to the accident and took it upon herself to take action and help. She ended up lifting the front passenger Alexandra Van Horn out of the car and to a safe location. Most people would find this a modern act of heroism. But not Van

Campaign against the Conspiracynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-15472670659353483782007-03-23T09:14:00.000-07:002007-03-23T09:52:37.928-07:00

Today's post isn't so much of a rant as a "I told you so". Over at The Consumerist they have been polling to find out which company is the worst in America for 2007. This years winner despite not actually being a company most consumers have ever had direct dealings with, the RIAA. It beat out 15 other companies. Those included in that list are some of the biggest titans of their industry and

Campaign against the Conspiracynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-32157576732920525772007-03-22T09:13:00.000-07:002007-03-22T09:29:43.188-07:00

Many years before I was born, probably quite some time before my parents were even born the media was already doing what everyone claims government is doing today. Taking away the privacy of U.S. citizens. Not all citizens mind you, which is the reason they get away with it. They specifically prey on people with fame. They intend only to find the worst things out about anyone famous to

Campaign against the Conspiracynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-74917890520437797382007-03-20T21:20:00.000-07:002007-03-20T21:40:02.833-07:00

As a company grows in size, it generally becomes responsible for larger and larger amounts of money, customers, and personal information in the form of both paper and data. Most companies that have managed to grow out of their garages are smart enough to implement a backup plan to recover this information in case of disasters. However, very few fully test those plans, and even fewer come up

Campaign against the Conspiracynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-53365336713095128182007-03-19T04:23:00.000-07:002007-03-19T05:04:25.437-07:00

Rather you believe in a god or in evolution the fact remains, allergies have no beneficial traits. There are many types of allergies, but I'm going to concentrate on allergies to airborne particles that cause your head to swell up like watermelon and your sinuses to produce enough mucus to fill a sink 2-3 times a day. Since these symptoms are very similar to a "common cold" a lot of people

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Khalid Sheik Mohammed was an Al-Qaeda leader and has been responsible for over 30 terrorism plots including Sept 11, 2001. He's now claiming that he has been mistreated and abused during the three years he was in CIA custody. - Washington Post First things first, if we didn't mistreat him, we should have. This is not the same kind of war that the Geneva Treaty was drawn up for. This is a

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According to historian Paolo Pezzino: "The mafia is a kind of organized crime being active not only in several illegal fields, but also tending to exercise sovereignty functions – normally belonging to public authorities – over a specific territory."- Wikipedia The RIAA spends a good portion of its time harassing U.S. citizens and businesses alike. It makes numerous false accusations and then

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In what will be a continuing theme with my rants on how stupid people are getting, I present to you this article http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703130391 as evidence. To sum up the article, Melanie McGuire performed Google and MSN searches on how to commit murder. She did this research on multiple computers and just days leading up to the methodical murder of her husband

Campaign against the Conspiracynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-3516654537829419482007-03-14T08:05:00.000-07:002007-03-14T08:28:46.060-07:00

It wasn't long ago when comedy TV ruled the evening hours. You'd come home from work/school and flip on your favorite show and be in a better mood within minutes. Then came survivor, the show that started it all. There is nothing particularly bad about Survivor, it's the never ending horror of new reality show copy cats being puked out by the dozens that Survivor represents that makes me hate

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The longer the Internet has been around the harder it is to find what your looking for. Search engines such as Google have gone a long way in simplifying our quest to find a particular tidbit of information. However, as more and more web pages are created, the percentage of pages that actually contain our gold nugget of info gets smaller and smaller. If you search for something abstract or

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Its that time of year again. Benjamin Franklin proposed the idea of a standard daylight savings time but time and time zones had not even been standardized yet. The United States didn't start using Daylight Saving Time until March 19, 1918 when it was promoted by Robert Garland as the U.S. was entering World War I. It was used in times of war and optionally by each state otherwise until

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Have you ever stopped to think about why car manufacturers bother to put turn signals in cars? The times they would be most useful to fellow drivers no one bothers to use them. Its those times when traffic is pretty bad but hasn't come to a standstill yet. Your driving along and out of nowhere the 1.5 car lengths of space you were allowed before suddenly becomes basically none as someone

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I can't recall exactly when it became ok for software development companies to release their product when it reached the 75% complete milestone, but I can't even describe the things I'd to whoever set the trend. I can remember a day when you could go buy a piece of software off the shelf, take it home, install it, and then actually run it without having to update it or patch it first. Then it

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Patent Farming, for those that are not familiar with the term, referers to an individual or group that does nothing other than sit around applying for patents all day everyday. They have no intent whatsoever of ever producing any product that resembles any of these patents, infact they prefer to receive their patent as quietly as possible and not tell anyone about it. What is even worse, quite

Campaign against the Conspiracynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4121563454244645784.post-47741228301560590022007-03-04T16:52:00.000-08:002007-03-04T17:18:32.225-08:00

People of society today are seemingly incapable of forming opinions on their own. Its simply easier for everyone to turn the TV on, flip it to the news channel and then agree unconditionally with whatever BS flows into their brains. They don't bother to educate themselves on anything because that would require too much effort, so they simply take everything presented to them from the news as

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