Nomen Est Omen

Discovering Glitches

I peruse Craig's List Rant and Rave quite a bit and one entry was from someone who asked if anyone else felt a bit worried about this upcoming Discovery launch. I wasn't at first but after reading this:

Shuttle May Launch Even With Glitches, I have to agree with that person. Unlike many people, I think the NASA program does us a lot of good but do we really need to keep rushing up into space over and over again if there are problems that need to be addressed, here, on the ground, before sending astronauts out there to deal with the consequences? Haven't we had enough of space shuttles exploding and tearing apart over small glitches?

I'm already losing sleep over something else right now and this launch is tomorrow morning...guess I'm not sleeping at all tonight.

Course my sleeping patterns may be monitored by cell phones in the future:

Big Brother Goes Wireless

Cell phones know whom you called and which calls you dodged, but they can also record where you went, how much sleep you got and predict what you're going to do next.

At least, these are the capabilities of 100 customized phones given to students and employees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- and they may be coming soon to your cell phone.

Oh how delightful. This phone can take your data and predict what you will do next and be absolutely correct 85% of the time. Further, large companies are interested in this because they want to know what's really happening over what reports say is happening.

Hmm....it's called having a true "open door" policy you nitwits. It's been in place for years but is either never utilized or there is retaliation despite the company saying there will be no retaliation. You wanna know how things are really running in your company, go to the lowest paid, most unappreciated department, they'll tell you the truth. And it really is none of the company's business who I choose to hang out with or not.

But you can also create a life time diary with it. Goody. Want to know how much sleep you got in October? Your oracle phone can tell you. Want to know when you last saw a buddy of yours? Big Brother phone can tell you. OR, you could write these things down in a date book or palm pilot if it truly was that important to you.

The defense for this is that these things are already being monitored. Uh, no they are not. No one knows how much sleep I get a night. No one knows if I'm at home or not based on my cellphone because I don't answer the phone half the time and the other half, I forget to carry it around with me or I leave it in the car. I don't see these "features" as being a good idea but people are sheep and will buy right into it.

Just like they've bought into the drug companies who tell us we need drugs to function in every day life and people march right out and get themselves a prescription. Of course there are times when people actually do need drugs, I'm not Tom Cruise for crying out loud, but this garbage of popping a pill every time you're feeling a little blue or can't concentrate or for every single child on the planet who gets a little bored in class is absolutely retarded.

It's amazing the power television has on some people. This sums up what I think of those drug companies and the people who buy them:

It May Cause Death But It's Worth It

Can I hear a "baaaaa"?

Posted by S. Faolan Wolf at July 25, 2005 12:34 PM | TrackBack