by Seán Walsh
Sometimes it's difficult going to a Polling Station and marking an 'X' in a box but truly knowing that democracy is already dead and the Imperialists have already won carried forth on a palanquin of lies.
How so many people can be deluded into thinking that being ruled by an unelected body in Brussels is a good thing I'll never know but I know this:
Within the next century the
pseudo-democratic European Union will collapse in blood and flames like so many European empires before it.
Expect an update tomorrow sometime.
by Seán Walsh
This is a small and probably pointless blog entry but I wanted to talk about something that pisses me off, a pet peeve if you will.
Watching people at traffic lights or specifically crosswalks as I think Americans call them (Someone want to clarify that for me?) I tend to notice people will repeatedly bush the button again and again and again... and bloody again. Why!?
There seems to be this popular idea that repeatedly pushing the button will cause the lights to change fast.
This is complete and utter tosh! No matter how many times you push that button the lights will not change faster.
Traffic light systems are integrated and the majority of them run on time sequences. As in a set amount of time passes before a light goes from green to red. When you press that button the pedestrian lights are entered into the sequence and a countdown begins. After that first push you cannot alter the countdown in any fashion.
If the lights are taking forever to change it is because someone programmed the time sequences to take that long.
Newer traffic light systems are more dynamic and use a range of sensors to monitor traffic flow and will adjust their time sequences accordingly. Again repeatedly pressing that button will not hasten your journey across the road.
I know it's petty to get riled up about such silly things but it never hurts to learn about everyday things we take for granted and if someone walks away from reading this and doesn't repeatedly push that button then I'm happy.
by Seán Walsh
Life is full of options, yes? Let me provide you a scenario. You have 10 million euro (Substitute dollars, pounds, whatever) and you have two options to spend.
1. You can spend said money on a national cervical cancer vaccination program which is a huge benefit to the healthcare of women in your country.
2. You can spend said amount on a 7km bicycle path in your nations capital. An expensive option for a bicycle path that doesn't go that far at all but it's green...
If you're me then the no-brainer option is the cervical cancer vaccination. It's needed, it's massively beneficial and anything this helpful that combats cancer is surely worth the cost?
Well if you're the Minister for Health, Mary Hearny, or Minister for Transport, Michael Martin, of the Republic of Ireland then during this summer you would've shelved a €10,000,000 cervical cancer vaccination program and then earlier this month announced a 7km bicycle path costing €10,000,000.
How they can spend that much money on 7 kilometers is beyond me. How they can spend that much money on a bicycle path that benefits few compared to the vaccination program which benefits nearly every woman in the country is well and truly beyond me.
by Seán Walsh
I haven't blogged in a while and this will probably be short but I find it important. So take a look at this:
This is what I got when I tried to go to the PirateBay today. I have never, ever seen this before. I think my freedoms just got violently raped. Thankfully there's always isoHunt.com. At least for now. Does it bother anyone else that ISP's have the powers to do this?
