General

You all will have heard about the current conflict between Russia and Georgia, but when they signed a deal yesturday to cease fire, everyone (well, I say that) believed that this was a crisis averted. Of course, the obvious nature of what is really going on here - the US fighting a proxy-war against Russia within Georgia - and so we have got even closer to WW3 than we did even during the Cold War - seeing as people have actually died this time.

Not to mention of course the West's support of Georgia, even though they started it in the first place, and Russia simply moved in forces as a response. I can assure you that if it had been between anyone else, and Russia, the West would have supported the others, hell, even if it was Afghanistan.

Oh wait - that already happened.

Surely it can't get any worse?

But no, the fuckers decided to tax me (even though I had filled out all the paper work over 6 weeks ago, it is only meant to take 2 weeks to get processed) almost £300 - when you include Nation Insurance - which leaves me enough money to pay off my over draft, and then buy the graphics cards...

And then be £2 BACK INTO my overdraft.

I really didn't want to have to go back to work after the fucking festival - but at the rate they are cocking up my pay - and the amount of money I'm going to waste on dodgy food and beer over the weekend - it is certain I'll have to go back for at least 2 weeks, probably 3 - which means the Mrs is not going to be best please when I arrive in Newcastle in an almost comatose state after being on a train for 6 hours after a 10 hour shift, and not sleeping on said train due to the shear amounts of changes such a trip takes.

FUCK YOU JUSTIN AND YOUR ENTIRE FUCKING COMPANY.

Hopefully the call to HMRC will get me my money back sooner than April.

Scuzzmonkey.

Scuzzmonkey.

or do something to get the cobwebs out of your cunt, you blind-fucker.

[T]rue gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made up of 50% women is perceived as being mostly women. A situation that is perfectly equal between men and women is perceived as being biased in favor[sic] of women.

Jesus fucking Christ - true equality would be perceived as equal because that is what it is - in fact it doesn't need to be perceived as anything, as it exists in the state that is. There would be no need to "be biased" in favour (learn to spell you dumb shit) of women in the truely equal society - there would be no "Equal Opportunity" anything, be it Laws or movements, as it would exist.

In fact, "Equal Opportunity" is anything but equal - going by today's usage. Government Departments have this worse than anyone else - especially the Civil Service - because they actually have a quota of how many men/women black/white/asian they have to employ. It is - admittedly - set to the national demographic. I have heard stories (from people I know within the service) when they have had to refuse a better candidate purely on the bias he was a white male - even though he was the best. During this same time - admittedly a rather drastic one - they had to cut down a few departments to get back to a "status-quo" with the demographic, and had to fire the worst employees of a certain demographic. This actually led to a major uproar and the half the department quitting - but that's a story for another day - actually, I've probably already said too much.

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/

I'd be surprised if you haven't seen it already, but as today needs a filler, I can't think of any better.

Hopefully, we'll be back to proper articles soon - apoligies for the shitness this place has fallen into recently.

Scuzzmonkey.

I don't really care that much about the Olympics - in fact, I'll do an article on just how much I couldn't give a shit soon - but this was amazing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00cpf8p/

Watch it! It is, however, 4 hours long.

Scuzzmonkey.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/28/warp-speed-engine.html

So it begins...

Scuzzmonkey.