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[Maticus]

Flobots - Fight with Tools - There's a war going on for your minds

There's a war going on for your mind
Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks
Cover girl cutouts throw up pop-up ads
Infecting victims with silicone shrapnel
Worldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers
Now it's raining pornography
Lovers take shelter
Post-production debutantes pursue you in nascar chariots
They construct ransom letters from biblical passages and bleed mascara into holy water supplies

There's a war going on for your mind
Industry insiders slang test tube babies to corporate crackheads
They flash logos and blast ghettos
Their embroidered neckties say "stop snitchin'"
Conscious rappers and whistleblowers get stitches made of acupuncture needles and marionette strings

There is a war going on for your mind
Professional wrestlers and vice presidents want you to believe them
The desert sky is their bluescreen
They superimpose explosions
They shout at you
"pay no attention to the men behind the barbed curtain
Nor the craters beneath the draped flags
Those hoods are there for your protection
And meteors these days are the size of corpses

There's a war going on for your mind

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* nme1717 is now known as dave

<Maticus> why the nick change?

<dave> I'm teaching this hot chick how to use IRC, you know stacy right?

<Katristo> ...that's random of you.

<dave> ...<____<... I'm kinda grounded for two weeks and I can't call anyone. I figured I could talk to her here, at least.

<dave> be cool, I'm teaching her about channels and she might come in here.

<Katristo> T___T... How did you get kinda grounded?

<dave> I jokingly punched my brother....in the nose.....and made him bleed...on the white carpet.

<Katristo> I bet your mom didn't like that.

* StacyF has joined #randomshit

<dave> yeah I thought my parents were going to kill me.

<dave> oh hey, there you are

<Maticus> So you had sex with your brother on your parents' bed and they walked in on you? Wow dave, you're lucky you only got grounded for two weeks.

<StacyF> What the shit? O__e

* StacyF has left #randomshit

<Katristo>=OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

<Maticus> :/

<dave> you motherfucker

[Matrim Gallagher]

Win. <3

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youtube - did you know

Check it out, pretty neat.


Did you know?

If you're one in a million in china...
...there are 1,300 people just like you.

China will soon become the Number One English speaking country in the world.

The 25% of India's population with the highest IQ's...
...is greater than the total population of the United States.
India has more honor kids than America has kids.

The top 10 in demand jobs in 2010...
...did not exist in 2004.

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist...
...using technologies that haven't been invented...
...in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet.
(aka we are way more of a developed civilization than most of us take granted for)

The U.S. Department of labor estimates today's learner will have 10 - 14 jobs by the age of 38.

1 in 4 worker has veen with thier current employer for less than a year...
...1 in 2 has been there less than 5 years.

1 out of 8 couples married in the U.S. last year met online.
There are over 200 million registered users on MySpace.
If MySpace were a country it would be the 5th largest in the world (between indonesia and Brazil)

The #1 ranked country in Broadband Penetration is Bermuda.
#19 United States
#22 Japan

We are living in exponential times.
There are 31 billion searches on google every month.
In 2006, this number was 2.7 billion.
To whom were these questions addressed B.G.? (before google)

The first commercial text message was sent in december of 1992.
Today, the number of text messages sent and recieved everyday, exceeds the total population of the planet.

Years it too to reach a market audience of 50 Million:
- Radio (38 years)
- TV (13 years)
- Internet (4 years)
- iPod (3 years)
- Facebook (2 years)

The number of internet devices in 1984 was 1,000.
1992 - 1,000,000
2008 - 1,000,000,000

There are about 540,000 words in the English language.
About 5X as many as during shakespeare's time.

It is estimated that a week's worth of the new york times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a life time in the 18th century.

It is estimated that 4 exabytes (4.0x10^19) of unique information will be generated this year.
That's more than the previous 5 thousand years. (when records first began...EVER....IN HISTORY.....baaaam)
The amount of new information is doubling every 2 years.

For students starting a 4 year technical degree this means that half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study.

NTT Japan has successfully tested a fiber optic cable that pushes 14 trillion bits persecond down a single strand of fiber.
That is 2,660 CDs or 210 million phone calls every second

It is currently tripling every 6 months and is expected to do so for the next 20 years.

By 2013, a super computer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain.
Predictions are that by 2049 a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species.

During the course of this presentation. ( depending on how long you took to read this)
67 babies were born in the U.S.
274 babies were born in China.
395 babies were born in India.

and 694,000 songs were downloaded illegally....T____T..... yeah I'm looking at you.

[Purr-Moi?!]

Nov 29, 2009 11:28:03 GMT -8 Maticus said:

* nme1717 is now known as dave

<Maticus> why the nick change?

<dave> I'm teaching this hot chick how to use IRC, you know stacy right?

<Katristo> ...that's random of you.

<dave> ...<____<... I'm kinda grounded for two weeks and I can't call anyone. I figured I could talk to her here, at least.

<dave> be cool, I'm teaching her about channels and she might come in here.

<Katristo> T___T... How did you get kinda grounded?

<dave> I jokingly punched my brother....in the nose.....and made him bleed...on the white carpet.

<Katristo> I bet your mom didn't like that.

* StacyF has joined #randomshit

<dave> yeah I thought my parents were going to kill me.

<dave> oh hey, there you are

<Maticus> So you had sex with your brother on your parents' bed and they walked in on you? Wow dave, you're lucky you only got grounded for two weeks.

<StacyF> What the shit? O__e

* StacyF has left #randomshit

<Katristo>=OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

<Maticus> :/

<dave> you motherfucker

Epic. xD

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((An msn conversation last week))

<Katristo> god, my head is killing me, must've been last night's vodka.

<Maticus> you should drink up an advil with some vodka and a bit of weed.

<nme1717> lol, that'll take care of it.

<Katristo> dude I'm still at work!

<Katristo> where the fuck would I get any advil?

<nme1717> XDDDD

<Maticus> XDDD

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(( IRC conversation a week ago perhaps?))

Wassabi: dude im a genesis

Maticus: ?

Wassabi: i found out how you can get by port 25 blocking

Maticus: you're a what?

Wassabi: i did it on my cousins computer

Maticusi: wait...

Maticus: you're a what?

Wassabi: ?

Maticus: genesis?

Wassabi: ya

Maticus: ah ok, it all makes sense now.

Wassabi: what?

Maticus: Didn't hear you properly the first time you said it.

Wassabi: Oh.