Writing by burn on Friday, 22 of September , 2006 at 11:00 pm
thank god
sony has announced that the price for a ps3 will be dropped prior to its release in japan to around 44,800 yen ($410)
Merrill Lynch is predicting a price of $399 in the U.S.
this is creating a major major shift in next gen console sales forcasts
the ps3 is still thought to be the third popular of the three
however news of the price decline from around $600 has turned heads
will i buy one if it is priced at $400?
no.
because of the early uproar the $600 price tag caused, game companies parted ways with sony and banded with the xbox and wii
which means all the games we have come to love on the ps2 will ship for the wii or xbox as well
sony is also slate to lose $1.18 billion with the lower price tag of the ps3
compared with the $458 million loss with the ps2 whose launch price was $299
sony is going to have to round off that $1.8 billion somehow…
i figure they will do it with games… sell enough people on the system, and you WILL sell games, no matter what price they are
so i no longer feel that sony is going the way of the dreamcast, i now feel its going the way of the jaguar.
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Writing by burn on Tuesday, 19 of September , 2006 at 7:15 am
so jonquil and jess got into this big heated argument
it boils down to this
i caught jonquil cheating on me
(for lack of a better word)
she made a blog post telling about how she felt
she made it “friends only”
no big deal…
within ten minutes it was deleted
in that ten minute period jess read it
and somehow or another told dj, and heather about it
again… not so much of a big deal
i would have told dj and heather anyway, i just kind of wanted to sort everything out in my head before i asked for advice
when i went into work heather asked me if i was pissed
me= “why would i be pissed?”
her= “because of jonquil and the internet thing”
me= “how do you know about that?”
her= “guess”
me= “no im not really”
up until that point i hadnt really thought about any of it…. i had put it out of my mind on purpose
when i am working… i am alone… all i have are my thoughts
this was the last thing i wanted on my mind. but there it was… large as life
i started crying…. i came home
i told jq what happened the next day
she got upset…
here is why
when jq first came here she had no friends
so i introduced her to jess
her and jess talked alot, everything was fine, until jq and i had a fight.
jess told dj everything jq had been saying
it was irritating because
#1 jq told jess to keep things private
#2 when jq gets upset she exaggerates
things were being passed from jess to dj… that were untrue
at least from what dj told me was said
this happened a few times
dj and i never had a problem with each other throughout this mess
at least i never had a problem with dj…. and he said he didnt have a problem with me.
things went on as normal
eventually it got to be more than he and i could control… so we decided it would be best if jess and jq didnt talk to each other anymore… we hatched a scheme to make it look like the idea was actually jq and jess’
it worked
peace was regained in the kingdom
until now
jess did the same thing
granted i dont expect jess to not tell her husband something
there are very few things i dont tell jonquil
in fact she knows everything… unless im told not to tell anyone.
trust and honesty is something that must be shared between two people for the relationship to work
jq sent her a message telling her she didnt appreciate jess telling dj and heather…
jq sent jess this
“You are not helping make things any better for either me nor George. I took that post down at George’s request because he wanted to keep this private. I put it up in the first place because I thought I could trust my friends with it. Obviously, I was wrong on that one. George had to come home early last night and he probably won’t be working tonight because he keeps getting crap about this.
This is our life. I would appreciate it if you would show some respect and maturity and let us decide who knows about this.”
an immature message? i dont think so…. but abit rude
what followed was a series of “fuck you, you’re stupid” messages between them both.
when i go into work tonight heather is all pissed at jonquil because of things she said to jess… which i cant find anywhere, in any of these messages.
but that dosent matter, heather is jess’ sister. she is supposed to take up for her sister.
but she assured me this would be the end of it
jess would drop it, if jq would drop it
that turned out to be a lie
but a good one
jess brought me into all of this
an issue that centered around jq and i…. but the problem had nothing to do with me…. i was an innocent bystander
until now.
jess sent jq a very hatefull email about how dj jess and heather were only our friends, only hung out with us to “be nice to us” no one else likes us because we create drama for everyone
you see
jess lives in this fantasy world i like to call “moronville”
in moronville jq and i only have 5 or 6 friends
the only time we do anything with anyone….. is when we do it with them
you see, we live our lives online, we blog because we have no one else to talk to.
please… spare me
if the only people i had, who cared about me were the people jess is referring to i would have hung myself by my shoestrings long ago.
so jess, dj and heather dont want to be our friends anymore…
oh dear lord whatever am i going to do for the two hours, one night, every three months that i hung out with them
i care for dj
he has been a very good friend over the years
but if an issue as small as this, that has absolutly nothing to do with either of us could destroy that friendship
then it wasnt as strong as i thought it was
in essence it was to weak for me to even care
did jess think she would get a rise out of me by bringing me in this?
did she think she would cause more problems with jq and i?
she was wrong
all she got is a listing on my tags
jess(1)
jess keeps saying in every one of her messages that “jq and i need to tell her whatever we have to say to her face”
she wants us to be honest… face to face
and she tells us this…. through emails
dear jess, they do have telephones in moronville
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Writing by burn on Monday, 18 of September , 2006 at 7:32 pm
In the seventh conversation [between Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an unnamed "educated Persian" on the subject of Christianity and Islam sometime in 1391] edited by Professor [Theodore] Khoury, the emperor touches on the theme of the holy war. The emperor must have known that [S]urah 2, 256 reads: “There is no compulsion in religion.” According to the experts, this is one of the suras of the early period, when Mohammed was still powerless and under threat. But naturally the emperor also knew the instructions, developed later and recorded in the Qur’an, concerning holy war. Without descending to details, such as the difference in treatment accorded to those who have the “Book” and the “infidels,” he addresses his interlocutor with a startling brusqueness on the central question about the relationship between religion and violence in general, saying: “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” The emperor, after having expressed himself so forcefully, goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable. Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul. “God,” he says, “is not pleased by blood – and not acting reasonably is contrary to God’s nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body. Whoever would lead someone to faith needs the ability to speak well and to reason properly, without violence and threats… To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death….”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/featherstone/featherstone62.html
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Writing by burn on Monday, 18 of September , 2006 at 6:46 pm
christian: OMG!!!!!!! Jesus!!!! you wont belive this… ANOTHER animal that further supports evolution has been found!!!!!
jesus: tell me about this animal
christian: well its a shark found in papua new guinea that can walk!!!!!
jesus: it can walk?
christian: YES!!!! instead of swimming this shark uses its fins to actually walk across the bottom floor of the ocean…. at this point it further supports darwins theory that we evolved from fish! what shall we do?
jesus: fuck it….christians ignored Lev 11:20-21 where i said there are four legged insects….they ignored Deu 14:7 where it is said rabbits chew their cud, they ignored the multiple times it is said the earth is flat…… they will ignore this too
view footage of the shark here
http://www.conservation.org/video/fak_fak_low.mov
* note tthe images is not of the shark…. but a relative of the shark
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