Merry Christmas

A Merry Christmas from the Gaming Community. (I know a little early)
Here are videos made by the Gaming Community (of course I did include the console people) since we do not judge people for their faults. n_n
A note before you watch any of these, they might contain some language that you do not like...so don't watch them in that case. Second, Yes they all contain some degree of violence so if you don't want to see that either do not watch.
Otherwise have fun watching n_n.

HMV Hell Trailer...watch this first. (Halo)


HMV Hell the movie...n_n (Halo)


And now to the PC. (CSS)


Enjoy the Holiday season n_n and if you did not like the clips you should not have watched them n_n...anyways as you know my e-mail account and the Forum have moved to avoid any further angry comments or mail...so do not even try to sent them...since they would never arrive...yeah ok I admit that was lame.
So simply put angry comments as well as happy comments and of course the same counts for mail is still allowed and neither e-mail nor Forum have moved.
And with this I will take a break from posting for sometime...maybe until early next year or until the first of you begin to miss me so greatly that you have to send e-mails to me asking when I will be writing again n_n.

Iraq..again...

Iraq has been a hot issue with Iran pressing the US to leave, the US population doing the same as well as many other countries. Now this of course has been answered by President Bush with the statement that the US-Troops would remain in Iraq until 'the Job' is done. Further a recent survey showed that 90% of the Iraqi population (Al Jazeera) believe that their country is worse off then it was before the war in 2003.
This and many other concerns such as the enormous strain on the economy which the war is causing indicates that the leadership of the US is the only party really wishing that the US-Troops remain, why is unclear.

Here is a relating article
Survey indicates Iraqis in despair

Guantanamo

What is in Guantanamo? A Prison which is run by the US government, this prison has been criticized repeatedly because of human rights violations. Further the many countries asked the US to close the prison and to move the inmates to other more humane high security facilities.

Recently a Prisoner appealed to the US Supreme court and won that appeal, sadly the case was dismissed on the basis of a new Anti-Terrorism law which took juristiction from the Federal court.

Here is the full article
US judge dismisses Guantanamo case

Halo?

Many have argued that warfare in Games and in the Movie world supports violance in real-life. But I know in this context no-one wants to hear that or rather you want to watch most likely the Halo3 and Halo Wars Trailer. Halo3 is the net sequel to the Halo series while Halo Wars is a strategy game based on Halo.

Halo WARS


Halo3


These are the Advent Presents for this Week...enjoy n_n

Israel

Now Israel is facing two great conflicts, the conflict with the Palestinians and the brewing conflict with Iran over whether or or not the Holocaust actually took place. In the latter conflict Israel has the support of European countries as well as other countries around the globe.
The Conflict with Palestine has been wearing on for many years now and claimed even more lives. Many countries have spoken against this conflict and that Israel 'would not be doing enough to settle the conflict' and some even suspect that Israel's ambitions could be compared to those of Austria in 1914 when Austria tried to destroy Serbia to get rid of a threat. If any of those allegations are correct is hard to say since the conflict has been wearing on for many years. Recently South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu wanted to shed some light into this issue by starting a 'fact' finding search in Israel as to why the conflict with Palestine began. Israel declined his request, which does put Israel in a disadvantageous position in International relations. Further the UN has been criticizing the Israeli human rights abuses by shelling the Gaza Strip.

Articles relating to this event:
Israel 'blocks Tutu Gaza mission' (BBC)
Israel 'turns down' Tutu mission (Al Jazeera)

Further the conference in Iran concerning the Holocaust or rather it's concern with the non-existence of it. Has caused great concern and many have spoken out against the conference as well as questioned how anyone could ever question that event. Which cost millions of lives which further was also well documented. The survivors which were able to tell the tales where then once more support the events actual occurrence further one has to remember that the facilities speak for them self. Labor and concentration camps by the way they were constructed clearly speak for them self. This then again begs the question why would anyone doubt the events actual occurrence. The participants of this conference are among others people that have been convicted for certain related crimes in France and Germany.
Here is a link to another article
Iran defends Holocaust conference (BBC)

Yeah...well...the un-geek you know?

Let me start off by saying that this is a rant and not an article. As the Label says, just to clarify...this way I might get fewer e-Mails.
So now I recently was told that I' am geeky now that was not told me because of my appearance but rather because of what I said -_-. So now I recently a good number conversations in which the following words or combination of words appeared. "LAN-Party, IP, HD, CPU, Sci-Fi related quotes and references that were not understood, e-Journal, Blog and many other similar things." Now why am I telling this? Well simple those things were often answered with unknowing, blank stares or some also came up with nice, very interesting new meanings to those abbreviations. For example "IP? Oh right that is that new license plate" Yes, I was laughing quite hard after hearing that. Now I realized that I have to address this issue with some form of response. Which is I will define people that do not know what the hell I' am talking about as 'un-geeky' now being an 'un-geek' is not a positive thing as matter of fact it is bad,...very bad. The 'un-geek' is the opposite of the geek they are often the once screaming that you have to fix their PC because it does not start and their papers are due tomorrow. When you then finally ripped yourself loose from the screen and are already annoyed by having to leave the game that was just running so well or the code where you finally had found the error until this 'un-geek' appeared and screamed into your ears that you have to fix their PC. Of course you will spend the next several hours finding that error again...-_-. Then when you finally find the PC and try to start it...and indeed it does not start. Then more out of routine then actual believe you check the power connection and what do you notice? Well interestingly enough the power cable is not plugged in, and since a PC needs electricity to function it could logically not start. That is what an 'un-geek' would do now of course I might be a little judgmental here since I really am a...geek. (u_u sniff.) Now we have to consider that there are some studies that do tell us that Geeks are better parents, why? Because they keep their children up to date on new developments and confront them with new technology with which the children learn to deal with at a young age which then makes it easier for them to deal with technology en-mass. Like it becomes more and more today. Now that I have said my bit I want to point out that Geeks are the really cool people...lol...and the 'un-geek' is simply not. n_n
I know most of you people are now looking at this last sentence with shock widened eyes, similar to this O_O and saying 'This guy is not just a geek he is also crazy...crazy I tell you' and you are free to think that since who is to say what sanity is anyhow? n_n

P.S. I have a feeling that either I will get no responses and people will stop visiting this Blog after that article or they might come back to see what 'crazy' stuff I say the next time or they might flood me with e-mails. Now at this point I would like to say that this Blog has a Forum and a comment option as well and you are welcome to use either or both...n_n.

Iran presses the US

Iran presses the US to leave Iraq for many month now, this began with the US asking Iran for help in Iraq to insure the safety of the civilian population. Initially Iran declined but then stated later that they would be willing to support Iraq as an independent nation without or with only a reduced number of US soldiers. Which as the Iranian leadership termed it were intruders which would, because they were intruders never be able to insure peace in Iraq. But rather create more problems. The US leadership responded by insuring that the US support for Iraq had not changed and the US president stated that US troops would remain in Iraq until 'the Job is done'. Which if the Iranian prediction is true will never occur. Iran now offered to help the US withdrawing by supplementing the reduced US troops with Iranian troops. Iran states that since their men are more closely involved due to the proximity of their homes to the problem zone and due to greater social, ethnic and religious similarities Iranian troops would have a greater chance of not being seen as an occupational force. As which the US troops are often seen internationally at this point. The Iranian leadership attempted to communicate directly to the US population and the US government was repeatedly attacked for its policies further the letter stated repeatedly that the 'noble' people of the US were not responsible for those problems at this point because their leaders had made the mistakes leading here.
How the US will react to the increasing pressure is to be seen.

Here are links to some related articles
Iran 'will help US to leave Iraq' (BBC)
Iraq Policy (Paladin101)
Iraq (Paladin101)
Iran and Iraq (Paladin101)
The US government uses 'the' term now too (Paladin101)
Iraq... (Paladin101)
US-Jet Down? (Paladin101)
Trail Flawed (Paladin101)

Wii mania

Nintendo shipped Globally four million Wiis of which in Europe nearly none are left int the stores, North America and many other areas suffer under the same problem. Four million Wiis gone almost instantly people left wanting more because the market was not covered sufficiently. Nintendo expects that all Wiis should be absorbed by the market by today, and states with some luck (for the consumers) Wiis will suffice until Sunday.
This extreme boom does make the Wii a rapid starter and is likely to put it into direct competition with the current sales leader the XBOX 360.
Yet there is still some ground to cover since the XBOX 360's sales are close to 20 million units sold Globally.

Here are some related articles
Wii shortages frustrating gamers (BBC)

A Mars with flowing water?

The National Space Agency or NASA has been looking for flowing water on Mars because that would make the Colonizing or creation of an outpost easier. In the past years it was understood that there was water on the Mars but that this water was in a frozen state due to the low temperatures on the Mars. The NASA has continued to monitor Mars to gather general information concerning the planet. Recent pictures of a crater on Mars show a surprising picture which shows a crater with a small amount of frozen water there, water which had not been there in 1999. This brings an old question once more, which is there life on Mars since if there is a flow of water it is likely that there would be some sort of life form on the Mars. Further flowing water would make colonization and/or an outpost a great deal easier.
Colonization and an outpost differ in the following ways a colony is a collection of civilians living in a new territory claimed by a certain group while and outpost is a military and/or scientific installation which usually is rotated with other crews in a certain cycle which means that they a) do not live there and b)are being payed to sit there or make certain experiments but not produce anything.

Relevant articles to this issue
'Flowing water' found on Mars (Al Jazeera)
The first Space colony? (Paladin101)

And here is a link to Google Mars (Google)

First Advent present...

Here is a small gift to bring you slowly into a more 'Christmasy' moot, I will provide a video Clip each week until Christmas...n_n...I hope that you can enjoy them. This also might help you to relax after those other articles... The Music Video is titled: Weird Al Yanlovic-Amish paradise