Here’s an article I ran across on whether the F22 fighter jet has been a big waste of 24,000,000,000 or if it’s a good idea still. I thought these two comments below were very intriguing to say the least

Comment by commander_k

Air supremacy is a necessity. There is no guarantee that we won’t be involved in another war sometime in the future. Keeping the enemy out of the sky above us is a good thing.

Who could that enemy be? Iran, North Korea? It’s not impossible, even if today it seems improbable.

Comment by Nick Bergseng

We sold Iran their jets. North Korea is busy parading. Neither country has the capability to make a tactical air strike against American targets, except for maybe the ones that we’ve moved in next door. Anywhere. Ever.

However, to humor you Mr. Commander, it is exactly that improbability that makes this kind of spending and military nut flexing irrational. Is it possible that tomorrow I will wake up to find a meteor has decimated the world’s population, leaving only me and my telepathic dog? Sure. But I won’t ever prepare for such an event because it is extremely improbable.

We as humans choose the worst things sometimes. We invasively screen children and elderly when they board a plane, yet don’t bother to force people leaving bars to take a breathalyzer. The odds of me dying in a plane crash from a terrorist attack or hijacking are about on the level of that meteor, yet hundreds of thousands die every year from drunk driving.

So, to you and everyone else who might happen to read this post, the next time your president or presidential candidate or senator or congressman or mom or dad or kids say “Cutting military spending will put our national security at risk!” please stop them for just a second to remind them that there is a risk that quantum physics may suddenly stick their own head up their own ass.

What are you doing?!?

Btw, the chick at 1:45 on the goldRush Ralley Trailer…Smokin’!

Also, my favorite quote from the Yacht Week video is:

“When are we going to leave? Probably nebber.”

What if we built a time machine for patients, except instead of going backwards we go forwards. Can we find out what’s going to happen to you so that you can maybe change it?

Just imagine if you could collect data, compile it, and convert it into a computable understanding and change the way medicine is done and delivered.

That’s what Jamie Haywood and his brother created. PatientsLikeMe is a network of people with all kinds of diseases ranging from ALS, HIV, Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Schlerosis, and Fibromyalgia. The Heywood brothers built an ingenious website where people share and track data on their illnesses and the medicine they currently are on. What they discovered was that the collective data inputed by thousands of thousands of people did something. It has the possibility of explaining and predicting the outcome of drugs in their experimental phases before official statements are released. That is powerful.

A good question was raised though in the comments section stating, “How will you stop drug companies from creating thousands of fake accounts and entering fake stats that claim a particular drug works?”

Now, PatientsLikeMe already has a strict registration form where you need to enter data such as your phone number, adresses, and ID’s, doctors name, hospitals name, and recent lab results. But the main point here is that this website is truly powerful, and big drug companies that claim certain things about their drugs can either be verified by the data on this website or discredited.

You can compare you actually data with all the other patients with the same disease and see which drugs are working and which aren’t. See which combinations are working for others and which ones aren’t. This website is a life saver, literally. Prepare to be WOW’d.

[Note: You can only do this if your iPhone is jailbroken.]

FaceIT is available on Cydia for free. You just have to add the repository: http://apps.iphoneislam.com and then search for “FaceIT-3GS” without the quotes. Once you’ve installed it, reboot your iPhone 3GS and got to Settings -> Phone and turn on the toggle for FaceTime.

This video is not me, but the guy who created FaceIT.

1. Don’t pick on the weak. It’s immoral. Don’t antagonize the strong without cause, its stupid.
2. Don’t hate women. It’s a waste of time
3. Invest in yourself. Material things come to those that have self actualized.
4. Get in a fistfight, even if you are going to lose.
5. As a former Marine, take it from me. Don’t join the military, unless you want to risk getting your balls blown off to secure other people’s economic or political interests.
6. If something has a direct benefit to an individual or a class of people, and a theoretical, abstract, or amorphous benefit to everybody else, realize that the proponent’s intentions are to benefit the former, not the latter, no matter what bullshit they try to feed you.
7. Don’t be a Republican. They are self-dealing crooks with no sense of honor or patriotism to their fellow citizens. If you must be a Republican, don’t be a “conservative.” They are whining, bitching, complaining, simple-minded self-righteous idiots who think they’re perpetual victims. Listen to talk radio for a while, you’ll see what I mean.
8. Don’t take proffered advice without a critical analysis. 90% of all advice is intended to benefit the proponent, not the recipient. Actually, the number is probably closer to 97%, but I don’t want to come off as cynical.
9. You’ll spend your entire life listening to people tell you how much you owe them. You don’t owe the vast majority of people shit.
10. Don’t undermine your fellow young men. Mentor the young men that come after you. Society recognizes that you have the potential to be the most power force in society. It scares them. Society does not find young men sympathetic. They are afraid of you, both individually and collectively. Law enforcement’s primary purpose is to suppress you.
11. As a young man, you’re on your own. Society divides and conquers. Unlike women who have advocates looking out for them (NOW, Women’s Study Departments, government, non-profit organizations, political advocacy groups) almost no one is looking out for you.
12. Young men provide the genius and muscle by which our society thrives. Look at the Silicone Valley. By in large, it was not old men or women that created the revolution we live. Realize that society steals your contributions, secures it with our intellectual property laws, and then takes credit and the rewards where none is due.
13. Know that few people have your best interests at heart. Your mother does. Your father probably does (if he stuck around). Your siblings are on your side. Everybody else worries about themselves.
14. Don’t be afraid to tell people to “Fuck off” when need be. It is an important skill to acquire. As they say, speak your piece, even if your voice shakes.
15. Acquire empathy, good interpersonal skills, and confidence. Learn to read body language and non-verbal communication. Don’t just concentrate on your vocational or technical skills, or you’ll find your wife fucking somebody else.
16. Keep fit.
17. Don’t speak ill of your wife/girlfriend. Back her up against the world, even if she’s wrong. She should know that you have her back. When she needs your help, give it. She should know that you’ll take her part.
18. Don’t cheat on your wife/girlfriend. If you must cheat, don’t humiliate her. Don’t risk having your transgressions come back to her or her friends. Don’t do it where you live. Don’t do it with people in your social circle. Don’t shit in your own back yard.
19. If your girlfriend doesn’t make you feel good about yourself and bring joy to your life, fire her. That’s what girlfriends are for.
20. Don’t bother with “emotional affairs.” They are just a vehicle for women to flirt and have someone make them feel good about themselves. That’s the part of a relationship they want. For you it is a lot of work and investment in time. If they are having an emotional affair with you, they’re probably fucking someone else.
21. Becoming a woman’s friend and confidant is not going to get you into an intimate relationship. If you haven’t gotten the girl within a reasonably short period of time, chances are you won’t ever get her. She’ll end up confiding to you about the sexual adventures she’s having with someone else.
22. Have and nurture friendships with women.
23. Realize that love is a numbers game. Guys fall in love easily. You’re going to see some girl and feel like you’ll die if you don’t get her. If she rejects you, move on to the next one. It’s her loss.
24. Don’t be an internet troll. Got out and live life. There is not a cadre of beautiful women advertising on Craigslist to have NSA sex with you. Beautiful women don’t need to advertise. The websites that advertise with attractive women’s photos and claims of loneliness are baloney. All they want is your money and your personal information so that they can market to you. The posts on Craigslist by young “women” seeking NSA sex, and asking for a picture are just a bunch of gay troll pic collectors. This is especially true if the post uses common gay lexicon like “hole” as in “fuck my hole” or seeks “masculine” men, or uses the word cock (except in the context of “Don’t send a cock shot.”) There are women on Craigslist. They are easily recognizable by their 2-5 paragraph postings. Most are in their 30′s or older.
25. When you become a man in full, know that people will get in your way. People who are attracted to you will somehow manage to step in your path. Gay guys will give you “the look.” Old people will somehow stumble in front of you at the worst time. Don’t get frustrated. Just step aside and go about your business. Know that these are passive aggressive methods to get you to acknowledge their existence.
26. Don’t gay bash. Don’t mentally or physically abuse people because of who they are, or how they present themselves. It’s none of your business to try to intimidate people into conformity.
27. If your gay, admit it to yourself, your parents, your friends and society at large. Be prepared to get harassed. See rule 14. If someone threatens you or assaults you, call the cops. Have them arrested. You have no obligation to self sacrifice because of who you are. As a gay person, you’ll have more social freedom than straight men. Use it to protect yourself. Be prepared to get out of Dodge if your orientation makes your life unbearable. Move to San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, or New Orleans. You’ll find a welcoming community there.
28. Don’t be a poser. Avoid being one of those dudes who puts a surfboard on top of their car, but never surfs, or a dude with a powder coated fixed gear bike and a messenger bag, but was never a messenger. Live the life. Earn your bona fides.
29. Don’t believe the crap about the patriarchy. More women are accepted and attend college. More degrees are awarded to women than men. Women outlive men. More men commit suicide. Men are twice as likely to be victims of violence, including murder. If you consider sexual assaults in prisons, twice as many men are raped as women (society thinks prison rape is funny). The streets are littered with homeless men, sprinkled with a few homeless women. Statically, women are happier than men. The myth that girls are being cheated by are educational system is belied by the fact that schools are bastions of femininity, mostly run by and taught by women. Girls outperform boys in school. It is the boys in school getting fucked over, and prescribed ritalin for being boys. Real wages for men are falling, while real wages for women are rising. Just because someone says something enough times, doesn’t make it true. You have nothing to feel guilty about.
30. Remember, 97% of all advice is worthless. Take what you can use, and trash the rest.

[Source | San Francisco Craigslist.org by vicioustwist - 02-15-07]

ac·count·a·ble /əˈkountəbəl/ Adjective
1. (of a person, organization, or institution) Required or expected to justify actions or decisions; responsible.

This was a very interesting topic I ran across a couple of weeks ago that I emailed myself the link so I could share it with everyone else. TED if you don’t know is a annual conference to help promote “ideas worth sharing”. The conference brings in very prominent speakers discussing upcoming and popular topics about how to improve or design something that can better the world. This topic in particular is about keeping your goals to your self by Derek Sivers.

Nuff said, this is the best costume EVER! This guy is Bumblebee from Transformers…