Life Crash

The site crashed the other day. It made me a very sad panda. We lost posts. I salvaged what I could from MSN Search's cache.

It's amazing by how much one's day can change depending on the operation of electronics.

Sure, this server crash was an inconvenience. For some perspective, you should see the shit hit the fan when the code repositories lose power or real time systems crash. Those are very exciting times.

If I was a terrorist, I'd blow up the power grid. No lives would be lost and it would effectively piss off the entire city. After sitting in the dark for a day wondering what I might blow up next, people would have a better grasp of my ability to seriously screw with their lives and might have the time to listen to whatever I wanted to tell them. Unfortunately, the crazies of the world prefer to fuck with transit systems. This only proves that they are bloodthirsty, cowardly, psycho, not at all imaginative and not worth our attention.

I would have finished this by saying that maybe we'd all be better off without electricity, but I've discovered that we need the complexities of technology to amuse us. Living the simple life would mean that babymaking would once again take the forefront in entertainment and economic options. Which may not be all that bad, but with increased population growth we would eventually have the same problems we have today anyways.

Then again, I have no data about Amish population growth. As with everything, this could be totally made up crap.

Also, somehow the Amish manage to be religious fanatics without being terrorists. There is hope for the other extremes in the world.

The only real anti-technology terrorist that comes to mind at the moment is the university educated Unabomber, and as far as I know he had nothing to do the Amish.

But the Amish had something to do with the site crash for sure.

Damn Amish.

Comments...

leo - first post!

Hmm.. "If I piss people off enough, they will listen to my ideas". The classic fallacy of the terrorist.

I'm sure the people will be very receptive to your ideas once they've realized that their ice cream went all melty in the fridge. "Oh my god, he took the ice in cream! Well that's it, he's got my respect!"

On amish fertility, "The completed marital fertility rate was 7.7 (SD 3.6) births per woman." (source: [Link]

leo - more amish

"With an average of seven children per family, the Amish population has been doubling about every 20 years since at least the 1940s"

Indeed, when you have no entertainment, you make your own.

sheldong - holy crap

I never really expected numbers like that, I expected something to say that I was making up shit. I was especially sleep deprived when writing that.

Imagine if everybody on the planet had that many kids. Even if we cut down consumption per capita by a shitload, we'd still fuck over the environment eventually.

sheldong - terrorism

People won't really directly listen to a terrorist's ideas, so in this way terrorists don't really gain sympathizers.

But it would seem terrorism does work in some way.

Only a short while ago, people would be saying "Osama who?".

Now it's hard to find somebody that doesn't think that getting the hell out of mideast politics is a great idea.

While we want to shoot these people, we may end up doing just what they want us to do in the long run.

tim -

dong you're a terrorist

sheldong -

I just don't have a cause.