Cold Constructs Blog

I love modern technology. I also despise the shit for it’s weak and sometimes counter-intuitive interfaces, it’s unreliability, cost, pathetic efficiency (both productively and concerning energy), and not to mention how much it has made life that much more complicated and quite different, in more than one way.

Basically, technology has nullified natural selection. Today, retards make it through life (and what a life it is) thanks to technology. Kill them off and life would suck less for a lot of us though. The less-retarded (but still regarded as so) struggle through society and sometimes reproduce. Thanks to those assholes several million unwanted genetic traits are kept in the gene pool. People with diseases still reproduce, probably thinking it’s a good way to keep their kid on his toes (har har). Old people last much longer than they should. Layin’ there, veggin’ out. It happened to my grandpa. I watched him die as they unplugged the machines and he drowned in his own fluids. No one deserves that. Then there’s the kids who wouldn’t have died if it weren’t for the doctors ’saving’ them. They come out dysfunctional, weak, stupid, or all of those. Those kids shouldn’t have made it, but now they get to live a life of suffering (thanks, Doc!).

So people that shouldn’t survive, do, thanks to technology. And because of this, there are idiots, diseased, and the deformed everywhere. If they were born without limbs, then they shouldn’t be able to survive, yet they do. How are we supposed to continue to thrive if we don’t allow nature to do its thing? There are growing numbers of stupid people, which is a Bad Thing no matter how you look at it. And yes, if I found out I carried a disease or some sort of dysfunction, then I would get myself neutered without a second thought.

Solutions include stopping hospitals from keeping people alive when it is clear that the patient has either lost his mind or has become inactive. We could also terminate children who have a fatal virus or any dysfunction that will keep them from living a normal life. If they couldn’t survive a life on their own, they shouldn’t survive at all.

Why not adopt GMT (a.k.a. UTC) as the standard of telling time? Yes, 0800 could mean it’s actually the middle of the night where you are when you usually think it means it’s time to get up in the morning. Change, while sometimes harsh, is essential - but we’ll adapt and be better off than before. We’ll adapt by living in our locality long enough to understand that x in UTC means it’s time for bed or lunch or whatever. All it will take is a little getting used to. Benefits? Set your watch once, and only once. International communication will be a whole lot easier (e.g. Japan: “hey call me at 2300.” London: “I know exactly when that is without having to do any math. Damn I love UTC”). One time everywhere. Simple. Useful. Beautiful. Daylight savings time won’t be used, since… that wouldn’t work. Besides, it was mainly created to conserve energy. At this point in time we tend to use electricity almost as much as at night thanks to computers and the GameBoy Advance.

Anyway, I’ve started using it all the time, even though no one else is. Everything starts somewhere, eh? I’ll see how it works when I go to Europe too.

I may talk like an idealist, but what I’m trying to do is let everyone know how it should and very well could be, and that how it is right now is pathetic. I know we can do a better job in most areas, and I point out what those areas are and how we can improve them.

I’m very pessimistic, impatient, and frustrated at the world. We need to get ideas out on how to make it better. Great changes start with great ideas, dammit.

Television: An organization still holds the right to a certain channel. Cable providers charge channel networks a fixed fee for using thier fiber. Channel networks would charge viewers by how long they watch their channel, and streaming can be replaced by interactivity. Instead of viewers being forced to watch whatever is on at the moment, a list of shows should be displayed and the viewer could then choose whichever one he/she wants to watch. Networks provide trailers for each show so that viewers get an idea of what it’s about. New episodes that the viewer hasn’t seen should be highlighted somehow. Even better, there should be a channel that provides a list of all available channels that can be searched for by type (e.g. educational, action, gender-specific, movie, comedy, etc.). Features can be added to set-top boxes such as being able to record a show (wish I had a TiVo, but I don’t watch enough TV anyway) or a surf button that chooses among a set of channels/shows and displays one at random (you’d be able to surf to the next random one with a punch of a button, and none are repeated until you’ve come to the end of the current list). People would probably waste less time mindlessly surfing and power would be saved since no one would leave their TV on so much.

Music: Apple has it goin on. Still too expensive and the artists are not getting their fair share. The middleman needs to be cut out completely and replaced by a non-profit organization (NPO) that has a massive database of all artists. Listeners can browse by genre, artist, etc.. Of course a slight percentage goes to the NPO to maintain servers and facilities. Artists could have the option of making CDs by paying the NPO the cost for materials and production, then hire contracters to make CD cover art. Charge less for them than however much it’d cost to buy the songs seperately online. I can dig it.

Movies: Buy movies the same way you buy music.

Best way to discover new bands would be to listen to the radio. For content in general, word of mouth is best, naturally, as well as websites/magazines that focus on one subject, etc.. All of this seems so obvious, just a no-brainer… am I missing something?

I’ve been aware of blogging since it all started before the dotcom boom/bust, but unwilling to join since I figured it’s too good to be true. I mean come on: a global network where everyone exchanges ideas in the most efficient way to date. The internet was just used as a place to get money somehow, not to allow people to communicate freely, right? Well now, it seems blogging is here to stay. By God, I’m in.

I want to exchange ideas with intelligent people, learn new ones, and improve my old ones. This isn’t a personal blog. People have enough problems of their own and I don’t want to share mine. I’m new at this, so it will be a learning process but it will be one that I’ll embrace in the hopes of gaining a better understanding of the world with the help others.

Lastly, I want to let you know that I have a busy life, so do not expect constant updates. When I have something to share with you, Killusion is where you’ll find it.