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See the world
Posted Jan 18, 2001
Noone sees the world as it actually is; instead, we see the world as we are.
-Unknown (to me)
So, as a media analyst for various big evil companies, I thought I'd paint the world as I've seen it over the last half year or so.
Researchers in Australia attempting to create a virus capable of killing off crop-eating mice instead created a viral superweapon capable of wiping out humanity in a heartbeat. Ooops.
On another front, it is now legal to patent lifeforms. If I edit a string of human DNA in a very minor way, I can patent the new formula and legally clone people for slave labour, medical research, warfare, or whatever. Not that this is really so very different from just breeding them for that purpose, but oh well. It's actually a fact that a few of my Big Pharma clients are very interested in any information pertaining to the ethics of cloning humans for laboratory subjects. You'd have to be an idiot to think that someone, somewhere, hasn't already done so (duh we cloned a sheep in scotland, hyuk hyuk).
I can't believe it's the so-called "smart" people who are doing all this s**t. That's economics for you.
I can't believe we're finally running out of oil. I can't believe the polar caps are finally melting.
HEY WORLD. CANADA HAS LOTS OF FRESH WATER, JUST INVADE AND TAKE IT; IT OUGHTTA KEEP YOUR ECONOMY GOING FOR ANOTHER TEN FUTILE YEARS OR SO.
Man we really blew it; the apocalypse happened two years ago and we were all too watching television to notice. This is all aftermath. I alawys wondered as a kid if the future was going to be more like Mad Max or more like Blade Runner. Blade Runner... unless you live in the Congo.
Btw, if you saw an advertisement in a Marvel Comic Book to the effect that Captain America sez smoking ain't cool! then you should know that it was Big Tobacco companies that payed for the ad. It's part of a reverse psychology campaign to hook ten-year-olds on smoking. No s**t.
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See the world
Posted Jan 18, 2001
Noone sees the world as it actually is; instead, we see the world as we are.
-Unknown (to me)
So, as a media analyst for various big evil companies, I thought I'd paint the world as I've seen it over the last half year or so.
Researchers in Australia attempting to create a virus capable of killing off crop-eating mice instead created a viral superweapon capable of wiping out humanity in a heartbeat. Ooops.
On another front, it is now legal to patent lifeforms. If I edit a string of human DNA in a very minor way, I can patent the new formula and legally clone people for slave labour, medical research, warfare, or whatever. Not that this is really so very different from just breeding them for that purpose, but oh well. It's actually a fact that a few of my Big Pharma clients are very interested in any information pertaining to the ethics of cloning humans for laboratory subjects. You'd have to be an idiot to think that someone, somewhere, hasn't already done so (duh we cloned a sheep in scotland, hyuk hyuk).
I can't believe it's the so-called "smart" people who are doing all this s**t. That's economics for you.
I can't believe we're finally running out of oil. I can't believe the polar caps are finally melting.
HEY WORLD. CANADA HAS LOTS OF FRESH WATER, JUST INVADE AND TAKE IT; IT OUGHTTA KEEP YOUR ECONOMY GOING FOR ANOTHER TEN FUTILE YEARS OR SO.
Man we really blew it; the apocalypse happened two years ago and we were all too watching television to notice. This is all aftermath. I alawys wondered as a kid if the future was going to be more like Mad Max or more like Blade Runner. Blade Runner... unless you live in the Congo.
Btw, if you saw an advertisement in a Marvel Comic Book to the effect that Captain America sez smoking ain't cool! then you should know that it was Big Tobacco companies that payed for the ad. It's part of a reverse psychology campaign to hook ten-year-olds on smoking. No s**t.
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Death
Posted Jan 15, 2001
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
-Norman Cousins
Another weekend of nothing. Another week of work ahead. Eat, sleep, play computer games, work, and once in a while, write. I feel so exquisitely empty.
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Well, so much for that millenium
Posted Dec 29, 2000
I'm one of those weirdos who insists that the new Millenium isn't actually starting for a couple more days. Don't get me wrong.. I don't associate any special significance with the Gregorian calendar or the rolling over of a digit, but considering that humanity seems to be in some sort of state of apotheosis right now (or ecological escape or whatever) I do tend to get swept up in indulging a bit of armageddon-esque fantasy about such things.
And I have to say that this year sucked for me. So long 2000. I spent the first eight months of it flailing around from job to job. I'm thankful it is ending on a reasonably good note, with me employed and not evicted.
Christmas was ok, ran around visiting family and stuff. I'm starting my weekend now, and hoping to spend at least some of it socially... night shifts don't lend themselves to a lot of interaction.
Resolutions? I have a few.
Quit smoking, lose some weight, work on my book some more, write a few more entries for the Guide, get a promotion on the job... f**k, I'm starting to sound a lot like everyone else at this time of year.
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Ugh
Posted Dec 13, 2000
I can't believe I survived that three month stretch of work. I can't believe how depressing it can be to know so much about what's going on in the world ( I read news sixty-some hours a week ). We're all doomed, by the way. Sorry to tell you that.
I'll be working at six AM on the morning of the 25th. Stupid holiday. I have to go in the office, and, get this, make sure I videotape all the network newscasts for the day. Then, on January 1st, I get to do it again. Stupid holidays.
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