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Refrain from dwelling on ancient times. As an alternative, examine a newer prose.
Author: Sam
Microsoft, after a long time has finally decided to tackle the issues of adware and spyware first hand. Microsoft has come out with their own spyware removal/detection software, which also includes active protection against spyware installing itself when browsing the Internet.
It is highly recommended that anyone using Windows 2000 or XP install this software.
If you have a P.C. and browse the Internet you have spyware on your computer. Period. The program is free and works wonderfully. Get this program, or buy an Apple computer.
Microsoft Anti-Spyware
Note: I have found that this program detects more than Spybot and also has active shielding.
Take a look at one of the smallest WiFi laptops, made by Nokia.
This is something very random that came to my mind one day and I decided that I would let you’ll have a look at it. I think this has tons and tons of problems. And I’m curious what you think is good about this (if anything), and why you think this wouldn’t work (mainly what I’m interested in).
This picture gives a visual aid to the words below. This picture may or may not actually aid you in figuring out what I mean.
Picture yourself as one of the parents, I’ll describe what’s going on from there. You would have kids at a younger age then our society does today because; instead of you caring for your kids your parents would care for them. Thus, the persons who would be caring for your kids are people who are more mature, older, and are better established.
Since one’s body is programmed to have kids at a younger age, this would allow teens to have kids at the age their bodies are programed to have kids. With the PKC tree teens would have kids and someone more responsible and older (the teens’ parents) who would take care of them. This would create a chain where every kid would be taken care of by two generations above them instead of just one generation above them. Now why doesn’t this work?
Problems:
This tree creates many problems. And I have to say, I think it’s a really bad idea but I thought it was interesting.
In no particular order.
1. First off if your engaging in a partnership in you teen years, taking care of the baby is one thing this would solve. But you’d still have to decide on your life partner at a very young age. Which would most likely turn into a divorce later on. Then who does what?
2. This tree has no accommodations for non-heterosexuals.
3. The population would increase by double because people would be having kids at a younger age. Thus making the world overpopulation problem even more of a problem then before.
4. Instead of having two guardians you would have four (or more).
5. Things would get super complicated if one had more than two kids. Or really things would get really complicated anyway who do you actually care for?
So what do you have to say? There are more things that don’t work, what are they? What’s your overall opinion?
Track: n. (trăk) Sports
1. A course laid out for running or racing.
2. Athletic competition on such a course; track events.
3. Track and field
OR
Slang. Needle marks on the skin from multiple intravenous injections, considered an indication of habitual drug use.
That’s not a connection you make every day, or at least I don’t.
Some of you who read this blog participate in track, and as some of you probably know, I participate in track. I run sprints. Sprints is mostly done by Coach Holmes. Coach is a wonderful guy. He doesn’t really live up to his title though. I was under the impression that a coach is supposed to help one improve their running but all he seems to do is tell us to run.
Another problem coach has is listening. Coach doesn’t listen to what events people are interested in doing, or are even good at. Coach puts me in the 400m, and as some of you may or may not know. My best 400m time is 74. Seventy-four seconds is terrible and not a competing time, and I don’t like running the 400m. Every single meet we’ve had I’ve had to convince coach that I’m not good at the 400m, and then every meet he tries to make me do it again.
Another thing, coach signed me up for the high jump. What a saint! I’ve never high jumped before. No one has ever taught me and I have no idea how to. I’d actually like to learn. But the opportunity never presented its self. Coach decided that I should do the high jump because the day before I was over by the high jump. I had to correct coach and tell him that the only time I was by the high jump was when he had ordered us to put it away. It was not my own free will to hang out by the high jump. Coach didn’t seem to believe me.
Well, there are my complaints about track and the inability of our coach to coach. Coach also doesn’t seem to have an understanding for why we don’t run our hardest after we’ve run over 4 miles before hand.
Oh well.
If any of you think differently of coach Holmes. Come beat me up!
Hello Everyone,
Props to Andrew for finally fixing this site.
Now on to business, last night I ushered at CCCT. Ushering is quite a bit of fun, and I enjoy it and it’s not that hard either. I just wanted to recap on an incident that happened last evening.
One of our jobs, one that I was assigned to during Intermission was watching the entrance to the theater and to stop people from eating or drinking in the theater. This job is always a nice low stress job; one just has to politely ask people to follow a rule that’s written on the wall next to the door. As most of you know, most people can’t read. 
Well after about 8 or so min. into intermission, I noticed a lady holding an unopened cookie and walking into the theater. As I was instructed to do, I got prepared to tell her to keep all food and beverages closed while in the theater. I was about to remind her of this when she proceeded to open her cookie. I politely stepped in front of her and told her that she was not allowed to eat in the theater. She stared me straight in the eye and said
Yes I can!
I gathered that this lady was going to try to get me to give up and let her into the theater without actually barging in. So I calmly responded to her like I did this all the time (which I hadn’t because this was the third time I had ushered and so far I had never encounter a person who questioned my motives 
) I told her it was the theater’s policy (which it was) not to allow food or beverages into the theater. She replied:
Well doesn’t someone clean up in there!
By then I had sensed that this lady really was a jerk, (I mean common, what is she going to accomplish out this?) I told her that yes we did clean up after the performance, but that just because we did that didn’t void the theater’s policy. This lady started getting annoyed that I wasn’t letting her into the theater with her cookie, that she had paid a dollar for. Her final attempt to get herself into the theater was by saying:
Well I was just on my way to my seat!
I didn’t really understand how that was relevant but luckily for me her “friend or companion” made the comment of why couldn’t she just eat her cookie in the lobby. Thus, she gave up, and ate her cookie in front of me until intermission ended.
Reflection: (I love this part!)
First off, this is a behavior I would have normally expected from a rebellious teenager. Wouldn’t you? Usually when people reach a certain age they understand the rules and are willing to follow them without a fight. Something that really bothered me was this lady was well into her 60’s if not early 70’s. I would have assumed by then that she would have learned some respect. Well that just goes to show you that no matter how sweet grandma looks she can still be an *******.
Recently, about a month ago, I discovered something called Distributed Computing. Distributed computing is a program (well not really a program) that runs on one’s computer that uses one’s idle CPU time. Or in other words, takes the wasted power of one’s CPU and uses it for something else. Thus one’s computers extra stuff doesn’t go wasted.
There are many different kinds of distributed computing; mostly all of them are you volunteer for. The real point of distributed computing is to create a super computer without the cost of one. I recently started to volunteer the free CPU time of my computers to a project called grid.org in junction with United Devices; this program does scientific research for diseases and research about humans. This is important because it is quite possible that this could lead to a discovery of something very important, like it has before.
There is another distributed computing program called SETI, I am much less interested in SETI because: SETI looks for extraterrestrial life by analyzing signals from space. I feel that with the current stage humanity is in, we should be fixing problems or figuring things out on our own planet before we try to see what other “aliens” are doing elsewhere.
I encourage anyone that’s interested to take a look at grid.org and see what you think, and possibly contribute to the cause, since it doesn’t actually cost you anything. This program is fairly easy to install, but if your computer skills are extremely limited, I’d advise you to get someone who knows what they’re doing to help you. 