I need respect yo
Ok, what the fuck is the problem with athletes? Waa waa waaa I need more money. Waa waa waa, I'm not paid what I am worth. I hate to break it to you, but you are almost worthless. Except as an entertainment mediium, you have no marketable skills besides the ability catch/throw/hit a ball better than other people.
Now, don't get me wrong, entertainment is a vital part of sustaining a stable society. However, entertainment mediums are varied and widespread. It's not like the market on entertainment is cornered. There are lots of ways people entertain themselves, but somehow athletes insist they be paid the most among any of them. If it were up to me, these guys would earn a working wage, not an exorbent able-to-retire-at-30 wage. Not all athelets earn that wage, but the ones that do seem to whine the most.
I'm a huge sports fan, I love sports, I watch them all the time. Then I see shit like Terrell Owens and his enormous contract not being enough for him. I see Iverson claim he can't feed his kid when his salary is over $10mil a year. I see players hold out because they need an extra $1mil on top of their $9mil salary. I see the NHL waste an entire year because the players don't want to get paid only $2-3mil a season, because it just wasn't enough, and didn't want a cap because it would hinder how many extra millions they can make.
Now I know that most people would jump all over those millions, and of course do anything they could to get even more, because more money is better. But I see these guys and they act like they are just like the blue collar workers. They are fighting with them and want the guys who can MAYBE afford two tickets a year because ticket prices are so high because player's salaries are so high, to back them up ont heir quest for more money. They try to appeal to the common man whent he common man has nothing in common. The common man struggles to buy a new car, the players have trouble deciding if they want only 3, or maybe they should get 6, 2 different colors of each.
Stop letting the greedy players push their salaries higher with claims of "I'm not paid enough." You are paid enough. You are paid more than enough. You are paid more in one season than a majority of people will ever earn in a lifetime. Accept your fucking salaries, say "All I can say is that I am thankful I have been blessed with the ability to make enought o support myself and my family" and stop saying "Yo, these bitches only want to give me $15 mil, but I'm worth $18mil, so you all can fuck yourself until I get what I want, cause I'm the best there ever is".
Final thought: Greedy players can go fuck themselves, and as mean as it sounds, I enjoy seeing the mighty fall when they squander the million bestowed upon them, which is probably why they want more, so they won't go broke as quickly.
I can't type
WOW two posts in one sitting, I'm on a roll. Anyway, on to the topic.
I realized the other day that despite the fact I have been typing for years, I can't type worth shit. I mean I can type fast and stuff, but I make so many errors it is insane. I read back through some of my old posts, and the amount of errors I have is enormous. Just hitting the spacebar too early, holding shift down too long, forgetting a letter or typing out of order. I wonder why I don't catch them more often, because I do read along as I type.
I'll bet spell-check would help quite a bit, I really should use that more often, or type them in word so I get little red lines telling me I fucked something up. Or sometimes it fixes it for you. I have a friend who kept trying to make reports for his school (He's an assistant principle) and I forget the word now, but Word would always automatically 'correct' it to a different word as he typed. It wasn't during spellcheck, it would jsut change the word as he typed no matter how many times he deleted it and re-entered it. This caused a problem because it would always correct the word before he could spell-check it and add it to the dictionary. Anyway, just though that was a funny story.
Final thought: A useless post, perhaps, but error free (I hope).
Being Un-American
I think perhaps the most un-American thing you can possibly do, is be too patriotic. Now, I know what you're thinking: "But Berg, patriotism is what holds this nation together, it's what freed us from England, it is what makes a country great" Yes, it does, but patriotism in the wrong places is completely against the ideals for which this country was founded.
Now, I'd like to disagree with one of my statements above, patriotism did not free us from England. In fact, anti-patriotism is what freed us from England. If people had been patriotic to their homeland, they would have never revolted. What does this have to do with modern time patriotism though?
criticism of the President, his policies, and his actions is commonplace, or at least it was. For some reason with Bush Jr. in place, people feel the need to support him no matter what, because of 9/11. They feel that if you don't back up the president, you aren't American. First, I'd like to give each of these people a good hard smack to the face and say "CRITICIZING THE PRESIDENT IS NOT ONLY OUR RIGHT BUT IT IS OUR DUTY AS AMERICAN CITIZENS TO LET THE GOVERNMENT KNOW WHEN WE ARE NOT HAPPY!" Whew, ok, now, I'd like to smack them all on the face again. Seriously, if the government worked in a way in which the public just agreed with everything, nothing would ever change for the better. It is only because the people in power rely on us to put them there, and as a result need to indulge in our wishes from time to time in order to stay there, does this country run. Any idiot that thinks we should automatically agree with Bush because he was president during 9/11 just plain need to be committed.
The worst part is, the people who try to call out Bush's critics do so by calling them un-patriotic and un-American. They say that if you don't support Bush, you aren't American. I say if you don't criticize Bush you are un-American. Just because Bush had the unfortunate fate to be president during 9/11, and we had the unfortunate fate to have him as president during 9/11 (Opps, I'm un-American), doesn't mean we should blindly follow him giving him appraisal for every thing he does. If the public doesn't respond and say "We don't like that" he could just run things however he felt like. Granted he kind of does that anyway, and still somehow got re-elected, in part because Kerry was a terrible candidate, but that doesn't mean we should stop voicing our opinions and letting the government know when we feel wronged.
Like I said before, this is what this country is founded upon. The US revolted and broke free from England because they were being critical of the laws. They protested and England ignored them, so they fought back. Maybe the modern idiots should criticize the fore fathers for being un-American by questioning their authority figure? No wait, then America wouldn't be founded, they are American! We can't do that now though, no sir, we should just do whatever Bush says with a smile on our face, because he was here during 9/11 don't you know, that makes his ideas the right thing to do, considering it was the mayor of NY, not Bush, that got us through that. I feel like ranting more on the pure stupidity of this idea, but I think I'd go in circles.
Final thought: Bush isn't a complete moron, like a lot of people say, but he does have some incredibly bad policies that we should be allowed to disagree with.
Duuuuhhhhhhhhh
I haven't done a post complaining about true idiots in a while, so I think I'll do one right now.
I work part time in the summer for a baseball stadium. It is an independant professional baseball league, these guys are not associated with any major league organization, it is its own entity. The stadium was built near some residential homes, but not incredibly near, so to keep noise away from them. Then some genius saw a huge opportunity. They would build houses RIGHT NEXT to the stadium! In fact, some would only be 10 feet away! What downside could there be!?!?! How about 5,000 fans screaming and yelling, and a PA system announcing batters and other announcements all the way until 10 or 10:30 at night?
But hey, they moved in, they asked for it, right? That's what you are probably thinking. BZZZ WRONG. People call up and complain that it is too noisy! What fucking morons. You build your house next to a STADIUM and then don't expect any noise to arise out of it? What to go guys, I'll bet you didn't expect those 70 foot tall light towers to shine in your house either, huh? You know, the ones that have been there since the stadium was built.
I mean seriously, why would you build your house next to a stadium? Did you not know what goes on in stadiums? Did you think it was like a golf match where everyone stays silent until something ood happens, then they clap lightly? I can't believe these people have the nerve to call up and tell us to quiet down! If I were to answer the phone I'd say "Yea we can quiet down, as soon as you get smart enough to realize how stupid you are". Some nights we have firworks, that must really drive them nuts.
I'm pretty sure at one point the people in those houses tried to pass a noise ordinance, but the city was just like "Um...it's a stadium, how do you expect us to stop it from making noise, except by closing it down and wasting about $4million of the public money that went into building it and getting a team?" Plus the city owns the stadium in general, which i guess is the reason the homeowners thought they could change it. It's not like the stadium moved next to them, they moved next to it, and then expect everything to change because they arrived! "You may have been here first, but people who want to move in next to stadium should have the right to close down the stadium so that we can live with less noise. Sure there might have been prime real estate in other places I could have moved to and not had this problem, but that doesn't matter. All that matters is I moved in next to the stadium, and now the stadium needs to move because I decided I don't want to live next to it" I don't know if anyone said that, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Final thought: You know som real estate agent got rich off selling those properties and jacking up their value because of the nearby stadium. What idiots.
That's what I'm all about
Seemingly in tune with my previous post, someone did something asshole-like today. So I'm drivin down 270 and trying to get in the exit only lane to get on 370. Meanwhile, an asshole has been tailing me hardcore for like a quarter mile, but I don't spee dup for those people. Just as I get the space to get in the lane for 370, with my blinker on, the asshole pulls out into that lane, passes me, then comes back into my lane. If he had just waited for me to get in the lane it all would have been fine, but instead he HAD to pass me RIGHT THEN and almost block me from getting ont he highway I needed to be on. He should have a bowie knife put his tire, his leg broken with a bat and his license taken.
It's those kind of people that piss me off. Wait 2 more seconds and you'll be in the clear, but they can't do that. Why wait when you can drive dangerously? Obviously the 2 seconds saved by passing me was well worth the risk of me merging lanes at the same time they were trying to pass (And nearly clipping me) and potentially dying or being seriously wounded in a car crash. Same goes for buckling up. Why be not even mildly uncomfortable and waste a whole second of time? Just because the chances of dying in a crash increase subtantially, that's no reason to be restrained from being able to turn around and look for CD's on the floor. Just because you haven't crashed yet doesn't mean you won't, and it only takes one to end a life.
Final thought: There are a lot of yahoos that really do need to have their licenses taken because they are a danger to everyone on the road.
Gimme your license, bitch!
I've come to the conclusion that I should be the one to say whether people should get a drivers license or not. I base this on the fact that 90% of the people on the road are complete idiots. I'm sick of people riding my ass when I'm already doing 75 in a 60, then peeling out as soon as an opening comes around. Or how about when some idiots tries to enter the highway doing 25 and you are stuck behind him. WAKE UP YOU MORON. Going to get everyone killed doing that shit.
This is why I should have the right to pull people over and take away their licenses whenever they piss me off. I'll get a team of people to patrol the highway with me. No more wimpy tickets and insurance hikes, you make an ass of yourself by doing some stupid shit like blocking a person from entering or exiting the highway by not moving, or cutting across 4 lanes to pass one truck only to cut right back across those 4 lanes to get to your exit which was right there, and you lose your license.
Want it back? You have to prove you can drive in a manner that won't kill people. And just to make sure you don't drive off when we pull you over, we'll stick a bowie in your rear tire as we walk up. That's when you know you lost you license. Of course, there would be some instances where you wouldn't lose a license, like an emergency, but for the most part you'd lose it.
Then, I'd pull them out of their car and whack them on the leg with a bat, so they can't walk home either. Man, with penalties that harsh, people would actually drive like they are sane!
Anyway, in all seriousness, I do believe that penalties for driving recklessly should be toughened up and enforced more. Cars are deadly and you can kill people or yourself by doing stupid stunts. It might seem like it is all in fun, until the car smashes into your side. Respect the rules of the road and the world will be a much safer place. I break the rules sometimes too, but that doesn't make it any better.
Final thought: People just don't realize how much power they have when they get behind the wheel of a car, and they dont know how to respect that power.
Thanks for fixing it!
I recently had to send my laptop back to the manufacturer to be fixed. It had two problems, a fan was dying, not dead, but dying, and there was a loose connection to the screen that made it flicker from time to time. So I packed it up and sent it off, they paid for it all of course, and I expected it to take a few weeks.
Just a few days after I sent it, I got word from Fedex that they it was being shipped back to me. My first response was "Wow, that was fast!" And indeed, they did get to my laptop that fast. So I came back from NO to find my laptop waiting for me, I open it up, and nothing has been done. They marked it as "Could not duplicate failure". Well did you TRY? I mean, if all you did was flip it open and say "Yep, it turns on" then no, you won't duplicate it. It has to be on for like 10-15 minutes before it starts having problems. And if you put a CD in, then the fan dies out as quickly as it possibly can. Yea, thanks for fixing it, thanks for trying even. Try opening it up next time and see if maybe just getting it to boot to windows isn't enough. After all, I didn't say it didn't boot, or the it died after 10 seconds, did I? I told them exactly what was wrong, and they did really feel like checking into it I guess. I'm going to have to call them again and give them a piece of my mind.
Final thought: Now I'm probably going to have to send it back to them AGAIN. Hey, they are paying for it, it's really their problem more than mine.
Vacation in Florida? No thanks, I don't want to get shot.
Ah, some free time to just do I want, so I'll make a post. Hopefully my schedule clears up, it hasn't yet. Studying for the LSAT, researching stuff online, working, doing yard work doesn't leave much time to come up with good ideas for blog posts, and I don't just want to post absolute crap just to post. Anyway, on to the topic....
Florida has recently passed a law that when enacted will allow people to discharge their guns (Which are legal to carry concealed there) in a situation where they feel threatened. Wow. I understand that being able to carry concealed weapons is pointless unless you can fire them, but in my opinion that's a reason to repeal the concealed weapons law, not make it ok to shoot people.
Basically, if it is you and someone else with a gun, and no one else around, they can feel free to shoot you and then claim they were threatened. As one lawyer put it "Now when you get road rage, not only can you point the gun at another car, but you can fire it as well" Hey, I don't think I'm even going to DRIVE through Florida now.
Man this law is stupid. I can forsee a ton of legislative problems trying to figure out if people were actually threatened or just felt like shooting the person. I can also see a lot of unwarrented deaths. Perhaps crime will go down as people start to shoot criminals, or maybe criminals just won't rob as much for fear of being shot, but in either case I don't think this is the proper way to reduce crime. I think it will reduce certain types of crime, while increasing violent crime, but then making the violent crime not a crime.
Those people down in Florida sure are smart, they can't figure out how to vote and now they can shoot each other. We need more people like them running our country. Heck, Jeb Bush should run for president! Fuck George Jr. He doesn't pass awesome laws like letting us shoot each other!
Final though: I think California and Florida compete for who can pass the worst laws.
You don't know everything
First, i'd like to start by apologizing for the lack of posts. This isn't because I've become lazy, but because I've become incredibly busy. I am not getting home until like 11 at night, and by that time I just want to go to sleep. Hopefully it will clear up soon and I can continue to post on a regular basis. Now on to the topic.
Lately on campus there have been a lot of high school students. Either for band competitions or whatever, and these kids come waltzing into campus, trying to act like they own the place and they're so cool. They do thier little high school thing, making sure the college people see it so they'll all know how cool the high school kids are. Hey, guess what, most college kids don't look at high school kids and say "Wow, that's cool". They look at high school kids and say "Wow, was I really that stupid in high school?". I don't mean to offend anyone from high school, but it's true.
High school kids think they know everything, they can survive in the world, and no one can tell them what to do. Why? Because they know everything! Geez, stupid adults trying to tell them what to do so they don't make mistakes. They wouldn't make a mistake, they don't need to take secondary consequences into account, because they won't exist, right? You don't know how to handle money, you don't know how to live in the real world, and you arn't that smart. Once you get to college, you realize just how incredibly naive you were in high school. I'm still naive! There's still a lot I don't know, but I guarantee you that high school students don't know any more.
I really wish someone would pound some sense into those kids, cause they really piss me off. Strutting around like the world owes them everything and there isn't a thing they don't know. oh, but if they don't know, it's because it isn't important. I should get to carry around a bat and hit any high school kid in the knee cap when they piss me off with their know-it-all-I'm-so-cool-cause-I'm-in-high-school attitude.
Final thought: Yea, I was probably that way as well, but that doesn't mean I have to accept their attitudes.
