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Name: Bill
Country: United States
State: New Jersey
Birthday: 1/17/1987
Gender: Male
Interests: Bass guitar, soccer, track, listening to music, sleeping, hanging out with friends, sleeping, doing nothing...pretty dull but thats life I guess...did I mention sleeping?
Expertise: Hmm, I'm ok at bass guitar...I wouldn't quite classify that as an area of expertise though. I guess my area of expertise is making it through the day in one piece and maybe end it knowing a little more about myself and the world around me.
Occupation: Student
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  BillW87
Member Since:
1/29/2004
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| President Obama!Obama's going to be our next President!!! I'm actually optimistic about the future of our country for the first time in eight long years, and it feels pretty damn good.
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I just realized this is my first time posting since August...thats a pretty long time. I should probably work on that.
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| I've decided that in my free time I want to write a science fiction novel. Its not something I ever intend to publish, or even show to anyone for that matter, but I just find the whole writing process relaxing. I'm getting a bit frustrated though because I've been able to write three really solid chapters, 2-4, but I can't seem to get the first chapter right. Oh well, at least its therapeutic.
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| Google Search ListI've seen some funny lists of people's Google searches stored in their browser lately, so I've decided to post mine. Don't judge me too harshly haha. I clean out the list every couple months so this is just for the last month or so.
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Affect effect
Akbar
All Star Game
Amorphization
Amorphous
Angle of gyroscopic precession
Angular Momentum
Artificial sweeteners
Barack Obama
Baseball for Brain Surgeons
Bass guitar
Benny
Benzene Accident
Blog
Broad Street Station Newark
Business Schools
Californication Lyrics
Caturday
Caturday science
Ch-ch-check it out
Challenge
Chemistry accidents
Chromium
Circuit diagram battery
Coheed
Corporate Compensation
Corporate overcompensation
Corresponding author
Corvette bass guitar
Crappy engineer
Cryogenics
Crystalline Structure Griseofulvin
Ctrl+Alt+Del
Dessicator
Devil's Advocate
Difficult
Diode laser
Diode red laser beam
EZLN
Ethics case study
Fahrenheit to Celsius
Final Fantasy XII bestiary
Final Fantasy XII Yiazmat
Financial Cost of Iraq War
Find Chuck Norris
Fluorescence
Fluorescence Raman particle size
Fodera
Forced precession gyroscope
Free translator
French military victories
GRE
Gasoline
Google
Griseofulvin
Guitar cable
Hammertime
Holy Grail quotes
How to set up a double monochromator Raman
Integral Table
International Monetary Fund
Iraq War
JaGeX
John McCain
John Stuart Mill
Kant
Kebab
Large Hadron Collider
Law of Cosines
Levitating superconducting magnet
Megan Fox
Mets
Mets scores
Mexico
Mexico national debt
Michael Vick
Mill
Muppet scientist
NBA finals
NHL playoffs
NJ Transit
NJIT
NSF
Old
Oriel Raman spectrometer
PEG
Penn Station Newark
Pie
Pie pumpkin
Planet of the Apes
Polyethylene glycol
Popsicle
Power Series
Precession top
Preventing process from running
Primus The Awakening
Primus The Awakening bass tab
Proxy
Quotes Enders Game
Raman
Raman Imaging
Raman Imaging API
Raman Spectroscopy
Raman Spectroscopy API polymorph
Randall Munroe
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Removing from Windows startup
Rocket shoes
Rotating magnetic dipole
SRX-500
Sawgrass
Scientology deaths
Sikh
Skadoosh
Sledgehammer
Small change
Solving cubic equation
Spilled milk
Spybot: Search & Destroy
Stalin death toll
Star Trek
Steamroller
Stutter
Subcomandante Marcos
Swinging sledgehammer
Team America
Team America Quotes
Tidal Wave
Tidus
Toronto Jays
Translator Malaysian
Trig identities
Vatican
Verizon
Veterinary medical requirements
Vietnam conflict
Warning
Warwick Corvette
Warwick Standard Red
Warwick Standard black ash
WebMD
Where America gets oil
World Bank
World population
World War II
acetone
atherosclerotic
boiling beaker
its it's
lego robot comics
non-Cartesian geometry
phenyl
polymorph
pseudopolymorph
solvate
spherical geometry
triangle
xkcd
Hope some of those were mildly amusing. Most of them are related to the research I was doing this summer but some are just my random wanderings through Google. You'd be surprised how many hits you get for "Rocket shoes". I got over 812,000 hits for it, and I think that is proof that I am not alone in my quest to bring awareness to society's lack of affordable and safe rocket shoes.
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| Mr. PopularMy Malaysian stalkers have gotten much more determined lately. I have already no less than 29 footprints alone today (and counting) from the vague tag of "Malaysia".
Hi Malaysia!
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| Asking All The Wrong QuestionsHave you ever gotten the feeling that people are wasting massive amounts of their time sitting around figuring out answers to all the wrong questions? Take the immigration "crisis" for example: all of these politicians sit around spending thousands of hours and millions of taxpayer dollars trying to answer the question "how can we stop people from immigrating to our country illegally?" If they actually took a minute to run a self-diagnostic instead of continuing to bang their heads against the wall maybe they'd realize that the real question is "why do people want to risk immigrating to our country illegally?" They'd see very quickly that its because there are no jobs in their country which pay a reasonable wage. If these jobs were available I guarantee that they wouldn't be leaving their families behind to go work in a country where they don't speak the language while risking capture and deportation, or worse. So now our enlightened politicians would start scratching their heads and pondering "why are there no jobs in their country?" The politicians would then wander over to a library and check out a book titled Mexico for Dummies or something of the sort and realize that Mexico has long had an agrarian economy which, while never a wealthy nation, kept unemployment mostly in check for hundreds of years. So what went wrong?
1) American farm subsidies. It is cheaper right now to buy an ear of subsidized American-grown corn in Mexico than to grow one in Mexico as a small landowner. Therefore even if they sold at cost they'd still be getting out-competed. Because of this the small farmers have been driven out of business, breaking the back of the agrarian economy and causing skyrocketting unemployment. Unable to raise protective tariffs to protect their farmers from American competition due to the free-trade stipulations of NAFTA and lacking the capital to provide their own subsidies, the Mexican government has had to stand by helplessly while their farmers have been driven out of business by large American-based farm corporations.
2) International debt. Over 50% of every tax dollar collected by the Mexican government is spent on the interest on their internationally held debt. Unlike many Latin American countries which have been allowed to default on their debt or have been given some debt forgiveness by the World Bank, Mexico has not received such aid. Also, in order to receive these loans the Mexican government was forced to agree to "economic restructuring plans" dictated by the World Bank. In these plans Mexico has been forced to allow trans-national corporations to set up factories and harvest Mexican resources. These corporations are exempt from most of Mexico's tax and environmental legislation (which has had a devistating effect on the Mexican ecology and has caused a massive spike in cancer, birth defects, and other pollution-related illnesses in the last two decades), transfer profits overseas which leeches capital from the Mexican economy, and pays workers below living wages (wages sufficient to live above the UN-determined poverty line).
So if illegal immigration is such a "crisis" why have we as a nation stood by while our government has allowed the economic rape of our neighbor to the south, causing its inhabitants to be willing to risk injury or death just to escape? Is it really that important to us that Wal-Mart or McDonald's are able to provide that product to us for a few cents cheaper that we'll turn a blind eye to the fact that we're participating in the economic and environmental exploitation of Mexico, Latin America, southeast Asia, and the third world? When will the exploitation reach a point where it is bad enough that Americans will be willing to take a hit to the pocketbooks to stop it? Does that point even exist?
Hey, why diagnose the illness when you can just patch over the symptoms? "You know what we need Jim-Bob? A really fucking big wall. That'll keep them Mex-i-canos out yessirree."
Okay rant over...
If anyone is interested in learning more about social justice movements or other issues related to corporate exploitation in the third world let me know and I'll set you up with enough reading to keep you busy for a while haha  . Also, I highly recommend reading up on Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatistas (EZLN) who are a group in the state of Chiapas in Mexico (one of the poorest states) who are fighting to force the Mexican government to provide basic services to the poorer indigenous members of Mexican society who have long been discriminated against, and to pressure the government to sever ties with economically damaging contracts like NAFTA and the World Bank economic restructuring plans.
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