something interesting

I read a very interesting Blog post. Apparently some guy was super crazy and went on a rampage. So in the beginning, way before all of this happened, this man was the owner of a muffler shop. His name was Marvin Heemeyer, a former soldier but now a muffler repair man. His friends and family stated that he was violatile in personality if he was mad and that he was being mistreated by the justice system. Even though he spent years attending protests, petitions, and town meetings, the thing that pushed him over the edge was when the Docheff family offered to buy his property. Heemeyer wasn't angry or anything but his inability to make a final decision on the selling price led to the beginning of this devastating event. The buyers of his plant decided to go to the city council to get a rezoning request approved. Even though Marvin attended the meetings and everything, the final decision of the council was to approve the rezoning request and then to add insult to injury, they fined him for the junk cars scattered throughout his yard. Even with all these odds against him, Marvin perservered. He even tried to comply with the city's ruling, offering to install sewer pipes underneath the concrete plant's land. The owners denied him access and cut off the route to his shop. Again Marvintried to compensate by renting a bulldozer to pave a route to his shop which the city ultimately denied. This led to rumors of corruption or the like of it, the plant cooperating with the city.
The revenge begins. After trying all possible solutions to his dilemma, Marvin finally loses his patience and begins work on the the deadly killdozer. Marvin used the Komatsu D335A bulldozer as his vehicle of choice. Over the span of one and a half years, Marvin spent all of his resources working to complete the last task he would ever do. He started by adding home-made composite armor–cement sandwiched between thick sheets of steel–to protect the cab, engine, and parts of the tracks. He installed front and rear cameras to feed images to monitors in the cab, and several gun ports were set around the control center. A stockpile of food and water was stored inside, as well as an air tank to help provide air circulation. On June fourth, a Friday Marvin sets his plan in motion. He used the winch controls to lower the concrete and steel shell onto the top of his vehicle. Nothing short of a crane would be able to lift the thirty-ton armor shell off the vehicle once it was in place. With that fateful metal clap, Heemeyer was sealed in a concrete and steel box that he could never escape and drove off to fulfill his duty. He drove to a list of targets destroying them while authorities tried with no effect, to stop this mechanical behemoth. The concrete tank destroyed everything in it's path until it was stopped by a shallow basement. Heemeyer, with no other choice killed himself, leaving the impression that a man can be pushed beyond his patience, and do drastic actions. And in the end, the rampage lasted 2 hours 7 minutes, and caused about $7 million in damage.

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Was ist Völkermord? ( What is genocide)

Was ist Völkermord?

     Genocide by definition is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. The term "genocide" did not exist before 1944 when Polish Jewish scholar Raphael Lemkin used it to describe the atrocities of Hitler's Nazi Germany. Genocide is a term created during the Holocaust and declared an international crime in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The Convention defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:


1. Killing members of the group.
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Genocide is generally considered one of the worst moral crimes a government (meaning any ruling authority, including that of a guerrilla group, a Soviet, a terrorist organization, or any kind of authority) can commit against its citizens or those it controls.
     It is impossible to say who participates in genocide. People could debate about it forever and still not come up with an answer. On one side of the topic, we could argue that everyone commits genocide. They commit genocide when they watch the news and see people getting killed, but do nothing about it. Well I can’t really explain why because I simply don’t know. I guess when people watch the news, it’s just like none of their concern and they don’t have anything to do with it since it’s halfway across the world. But on the other hand what can they do from across the world? You can’t stop genocide even if you wanted to. I remember someone saying that there will always be one person that disagrees with the majority. Which is like there will always be that one person to ignite the spark which starts the fire. Individuals opposing this statement may dispute that only people that actually has some substantial links to participating in genocide. Essentially, those who commit genocide are the ones who harm others in some way or another. It doesn’t matter if you’re paying someone to do it for you, you are paying that individual to go out and kill others. Some historians argue that only people that are contributing to the cause participates. This issue about who and who don’t take part in genocide is like the numerical value of Pi. It will keep going and going, there is no end in sight, possibly there never will be. It’s just another one of those unsolvable problems.
     Why does human nature allow genocide? On that same note, why does humanity allow the abuse of animals, and the environment, and resources? Great. Another one of those unexplainable problems that we seem to be running into more and more often. My take on why we allow it? Humans are not perfect. There has never been a perfect human, we are built with flaws that a lot of us call “unique traits”. There will never be a perfect human because that’s how we function. The closest we would ever be to perfect would probably be Leonardo Da Vinci. The reason? He was probably the most diversely talented person ever born because he was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, botanist and writer. Scientists just found out that his painting, the Mona Lisa was actually a self-portrait. Humans need something to obsess over because we are humans, and we need stimulation. The problem is that our lives need to be interesting coded into our minds. The same reason drug addicts take drugs, is for the excitement. We allow it because we have to have something to talk about, something to rant, write, blog, report, think, and get angry, sad, happy, scared, or nervous about. Like the book Night, the Jews that were living in the community didn’t even worry about the Nazis. When the Nazis came to their town and starting taking people away, they still didn’t do anything. Though the Jews were the ones whom the Nazis were committing genocide on, they didn’t do anything. I guess most of us have just become immune to these things, what with the violence in entertainment today. I’m starting to believe that we’re just going to keep ignoring these problems until it happens to us.

What's up?

            Ha-ha. So this week, I couldn’t think of anything to blog about...again. So I spent a couple minutes just browsing through people’s blogs, seeing what they wrote about. There didn’t seem to be much to talk about and I was getting kind of worried. Then an idea slapped me across the face. I went to Google and typed in “interesting stuff.” You would be amazed at the stuff you end up getting when you search something so simple.

            Sorry if you already knew this, but I don’t so deal with it. Apparently, there’s this substance called Aerogel. It is basically like I guess you could say Styrofoam but it’s kind of transparent and stronger. Someone defines Aerogel 99.8% air and is made by high temperature and pressure-critical-point drying of a gel composed of colloidal silica structural units filled with solvent. The resulting silica dioxide structure is sponge like with micro porosity on a nanometer scale. (No idea what it means). Aerogel looks like something that was badly photo shopped into a picture because it just seems all fuzzy. This stuff is so cool; I mean something that weighs almost nothing, but can still hold four thousand times its own weight is pretty awesome. It looks like you’re holding a piece of light. I wouldn’t mind having some but some of them can be toxic or like irritants.  But Aerogel is really expensive. I think you can get it from eBay, and it would set you back around eighty dollars for 0.8 grams of the stuff. NASA uses aerogels for their space suits because it like excellent at insulating. They also use it to trap space dust. I don’t know what space dust is but I know that the dust vaporizes when it hits solids and passes through gas, but gets caught in aerogel.

commercials

Meh I don't rally have anything to talk about this week, my mind is just like......Bleh. But really I just spent like five minutes just sitting here. I still can't think of ANYTHING to write about. Not much has happened this week. I had a history project that I had to do so I couldn't really do anything else on top of my pre-cal homework. I don't really like math, I never understand it and I think I'm like the only one... Hahaha.... I mean it would be great to not worry about math. But it will always be a shadow over me. Great..... ._. Now I'm starting to say random things.... Eh what's up with all this dumbass commercials? They've either been done a hundred times are they're just plain stupid. I mean there's this commercial with a woman that's "depressed" and she's talking about having to wind herself up all the time. I mean what the hell does a wind up doll have to do with depression. Oh yea I just thought of about some others. Ok. Here we go! There's those stupid annoying ass hell head on commercials. Yea we get it. You put it on your forehead. Oh another one of my favorite most hated commercials are the ones with some celebrity telling some people that saying "gay" is bad. Like some girls are looking at clothes and one comments "that's so gay" and then god knows which celebrity came out of nowhere. She thens says " you shouldn't say gay, would you like someone to say, that's so... Girl in a skirt." I mean do they really think that that's really going to affect us? Yea so I don't have much to say. Well I do have other commercials but it's like 11:55 right now and I can't type fast enough on my iPod so that's the end of my blog for this week.

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Death and it's iron grip on life

So I don't really have time to write this since I just forgot about it until the last second. I guess today I'll talk about the universe. Sometimes I just start thinking about the universe and what may be in it. Like just randomly, in a car, watching tv anywhere. It's usually when I'm all by myself and it's very quiet. I start thinking about what's in the universe and the human population and stuff like that. It isn't really specifically the humans that I'm thinking about our life now. As we all know is pretty good. But we take it for granted. I read in like newsweek about probably the biggest crisis the human populace has ever or will ever face. I have to say.. Admitting this is not easy for me. Whenever I think about these things I get really creeped out. I can't really explain it well. It's like this have you ever thought about life and what happens after you die? Like is it just total darkness and then it's just empty.
And then another thing, what will happen to the memories of this life. If you do get reincarnated, will you know what your former was vaguely about? If when you die.. I can't think about like what the earth and it's inhabitants will face when I die. Or when the fucking world gets cremated by our sun.... What will happen then? If the human race is extinguished... Wouldn't the universe be any less different? And then noone to remember us. As I am writing this, my heart beats rapidly and I feel panicked.. I guess.. I don't want to die so that I can see what the future will be like. With all these fascinating technological wonders and what will happen to our ways of life, the environment, races, animals, water, food, and climate

I am afraid of Death. But if I must... I will go with as much courage as I can muster

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