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The first CD I never bought

I'll just start off by saying that the blog title is a bit misleading. It is supposed to be a parody of a different blog post.

I have to admit, I am what one could call a pirate. Like most people, I wear an eye patch, an awesome hat.

CDs are way to expensive to own a wide variety of music (and a wide variety is important so that one doesn't get driven crazy by hearing the same set of songs over and OVER AND OVER AGAIN!). At more than 10 dollars per CD, or 99 cents on iTunes which equals about 12 dollars for a 12 song CD, music is just too expensive. In my lifetime, the majority of the CDs I buy were advertised (such as early sum 41), and with no way of listening to the CD before I bought it, at home, I later learned it was terrible.

What I choose to do now, is be a pirate, and if the CD, movie or game is good, I'll go out and buy it. This idea would not be a very successful way of releasing most CDs, movies or games because most people who pirate things don't buy anything.

October 28, 2009 | 2:15 PM Comments  0 comments

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Religion
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Why do people feel so strongly about their religion? It is very easy to "invent" a religion, and many religions probably were just, invented.

I can create a book about a flying spaghetti monster touching things with his noodly appendage and turning those things into worlds. And if I were to publish it with enough controversy (having it possible that his noodly appendage were to write this book and not me), then someone is almost guarenteed to believe it, and spread this belief to other people.

October 21, 2009 | 1:10 PM Comments  3 comments

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Art

Why is it that "artists" can sell a bunch of colourful lines for over 1000 dollars? Sure, maybe they are expressing the way they see the world, but does it really look that good? People shouldn't be charged $3000 for a picture of a distorted lady playing a flute? I find it weird that in most industries, a seller will try to sell whatever they're selling for a bit more than they created it (as in, maybe 500 dollars for a bike that costed 200 dollars to make).

I can go into any kindergarden and find a 5 year old who can make curved lines on a piece of paper, say it was made by an autistic guy who cut off his tongue and sell it for two grand.

October 21, 2009 | 1:00 PM Comments  0 comments

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The news, the most important thing we don't care about
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The news (be that radio, tv, or newspapers) are usually considered uninteresting to teens. It gives us some very important information, such as new laws that effect us, new places we can visit, new city clubs we can join.

I must admit, I don't sit down in front of the TV and watch the news each day, but every now and then, I find it very helpful to just watch what's going on in the world.

October 21, 2009 | 12:47 PM Comments  0 comments

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Power of language
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I think it's important that we as developing human beings continue to remember past languages. It gives us a bit of a portal into the human brain, and it gives different Countries something to be proud of.

Currently, there are a few commonly used languages. The most commonly spoken of these are English and Chinese. These are standard languages, they are important to trade and international communication. But just because we have a few languages that most people speak, doesn't mean we shouldn't preserve our heritige languages. It's not difficult for humans to know more than one language, so why don't we want to communicate in multiple languages?


"The spread of English, Spanish and Russian wiped out many small languages. 'As long as people feel embarrassed, restrained or openly criticized for using a particular language, it's only natural for them to want to avoid continuing to do what's causing a negative response", as different groups of people started becoming the ruling class, wouldn't it also be logical that people want to communicate with the ruling class fluently. For example, why would I want to continue learning Welsh when English is what the city's mayor speaks? And besides, the mayor doesn't like it when he can't understand what we, the Welsh speakers are saying. We want to be sure we can communicate fluently with others, and if everyone now knows English, who needs to communicate in Welsh? This is one of the main causes of language extinction.

"In the United States and Australia in past decades, the government forced native peoples to abandon their languages through vehicles such as boarding schools that punished youth for speaking a traditional tongue. Many Native American and aboriginal Australian languages never recovered."
Another cause could be when a group is invaded and the invaders force people to speak their language or be punished. An example of this is when the aboriginals were sent to schools and forced to learn English and forced to not speak their own language (they called this modernization), in fact, many teachers at these schools thought they were doing the aboriginal children a favour. What does this say about our ignorance? We thought that by being like us, they become better.

Besides pride, there are other reasons why one group's language can be useful in the future, it could become a code for the next world war. "The United States found out how useful native languages can be during the Second World War when it used native-speaking Navaho Americans as radio talkers to pass along sensitive information over unsecured frequencies"

September 25, 2009 | 11:54 AM Comments  0 comments

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