02/26/07

ha ha, charade you are.....

It's so ironic how Floyd's lyrics apply to the US government too as a matter of fact they're timeless because there will ALWAYS be corruption & greed

Bus stop rat bag, ha ha charade you are.
You fucked up old hag, ha ha charade you are

-Einstein could not accept this element of probability or chance. He said that God does not play dice. But all the evidence we have suggests that there really is an element of randomness in the universe.

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did you hear Bush say that money trumps freedom sometimes? and that is sick, war over oil and it is killing the planets as well as millions of people hat are killed for living in the wrong place. do they not realize that oil is matter that lived once and it took 250 millions years to make the oil from the dead life? it has to run out because there was only so much life at that time and oil is being used much faster than it is being made.ALL FOR MONEY

2/17/07 Gross misuse of university funds

It's time to voice my opinion, state the facts and let you decide. This article is in response to Tori Allen's article entitled, "Students may soon be able to track transit with GPS"


Tori Allen's article:

" For many students, the daily wait for Tiger Transit is a necessary evil. But soon, students may be able to know exactly where their bus is on the route. The SGA is preparing to install a tracking system to allow students to view their transit bus’ location online or from their cell phones, helping them know how long they have until the bus arrives. “Once it happens, we’re going to look back and wonder how we survived without it,” SGA President George Stegall said. “It’s going to be like cell phones — how did we live without cell phones?” The system, which is run through the company Trans-Loc, is already being used at North Carolina State University where it was created by two students. “The great thing about this system is you can see it in real time,” said Henley Groves, SGA administrative vice president. “You can see exactly where the bus is and see when it’s stopping and when it’s going.” The goal of the new GPS system is to make riding the Tiger Transit more convenient, punctual and reliable for riders. “You can sleep longer, eat breakfast and you’ll know exactly when to head out,” said Christie Ducote, a junior in biomedical sciences. Ducote recommended the system at the last Tiger Feedback meeting. The tracking system may also help in more ways around campus. “The system would be easier to not only students, but us,” said David George, director of parking and transit. “It’s very accurate, and it’s a great thing for the University. It’s going to make it more efficient,” Groves said. Once the system is in place, Tiger Transit will be able to track its buses in case of breakdowns or slow driving routes. Drivers can be alerted to either slow down or speed up, Stegall said. Students will also be able to log on to the Tiger Transit Web site and click on a specific route to see in real-time where each transit bus is for its exact route. The buses will be shown as a dot in their specific route’s color. Color-blind students can also click on the dot and display the name of the route the bus is representing. Groves and Stegall said the proposed idea will go before the Board of Trustees or President Ed Richardson as early as November, and could be installed as early as the end of the year.
The money for the system, which costs approximately $180,000 a year, could be taken from an increase in student tuition. “If student fees increase at all, it would only be minimal,” Groves said. Stegall said if there was an increase in the tuition, it would be less than 1 percent. “We are in full support of this. SGA will not be purchasing it, Tiger Transit will,” Stegall said. “It will not be coming out of the Student Activities Budget.” Stegall and Groves both said they believe there will be a change in the number of students riding Tiger Transit, and more students will ride and rely on the Tiger Transit system. "



The University installing a bus tracking system is profound and will be a great addition, technology is a beautiful thing, It's just that the decision makers more or less screwed up from lack of information or just plain ignorance when selecting a solutions provider. Allow me to explain. Never once did SGA or the University itself turn to it's own School of Engineering to say, "Could you guys see if it's feasible ?", seems like a natural approach, doesn't it ? We will soon be paying a company $180,000.00 PER year to install and maintain a bus tracking system when it's very own School of Engineering could have done it for literally a fraction of the cost. Now our already inflating tuition will increase and their is no need for it. The University could have had the prestige of creating it's very own solution. I went and spoke with some of the management for TigerTransit. I was told that the contract with Trans-loc was two years in the making and that there was no backing out even if AU engineering could build an equal or possibly superior product.

It is my personal testimony that AU's Engineering could have EASILY built such a system. In fact, working as a Co-oP student for AU, a fellow work associate and I started doing just that. The project was nearly at a stage where we could demo it for the university. It's almost laughable that a few engineering students could have saved the university a substantial amount of money and the only response we get is, "Well, it's too late now, we're already in a contract".

2/15/07 crazy Austrians

While staying in Maputo the last few days of my trip I met a couple that had been riding their custom made mountain bikes all the way from the tip of Norway and were on their way to Cape Town, South Africa. They had been riding for the last two years and were just a few months from finishing. Meeting these people supersedes anything cool I have ever done... I can't even imagine what they've gone through. These are the types of people that need to be interviewed and monitored during their journey on Discovery Channel or SOMETHING. The trip, when completed, nobody will know of this extraordinary feat of human endurance other than they themselves and the people they meet along the way.

I had dinner with them one night at Fatima's nest in Maputo and talked of politics, Austrian life, and of course Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom they say is NOT at all considered Austrian anymore and Austrians generally despise him because of his views on the death penalty. Austrian life seemed to be modeled after America... In fact, they are holding on to some of the traditions that are starting to die and or get mutilated by narrow minded bible thumpers, such as holloween. I loved hearing of how they have Christmas with "San-te" clause.

2/2/07

America is a 1st world country that is REALLY a 3rd world country. Most 3rd world countries have free health care, free education, what gives .... ? It's time to start a revolution.

02/02/07 Good point

THE LAW IS THE LAW

So if the US government determines that it is against the law for the words "under God" to be on our money, then, so be it.
And if that same government decides that the "Ten Commandments" are not to be used in or on a government installation, then, so be it.
I say, "So be it," because I would like to be a law abiding US citizen.
I say, "So be it," because I would like to think that smarter people than I are in positions to make good decisions.
I would like to think that those people have the American public's best interests at heart.

BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I'D LIKE?

Since we can't pray to God, can't Trust in God and cannot post His Commandments in Government buildings, I don't believe the Government and its employees should participate in the Easter and Christmas celebrations which honor the God that
our government is eliminating from many facets of American life.

I'd like my mail delivered on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving & Easter. After all, it's just another day.
I'd like the US Supreme Court to be in session on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving & Easter as well as Sundays. After all, it's just another
day.
I'd like the Senate and the House of Representatives to not have to worry about getting home for the "Christmas! Break. " After all it's just another day.
I'm thinking that a lot of my taxpayer dollars could be saved, if all government offices & services would work on Christmas, Good Friday & Easter. It shouldn't cost any overtime! since those would be just like any other day of the week to a government that is trying to be "politically correct."

In fact....

I think that our government should work on Sundays (initially set aside for worshipping God...) because, after all, our government says that it should be just another day....
What do you all think????
If this idea gets to enough people, maybe our elected officials will stop giving in
to the minority opinions and begin, once again, to represent the 'majority' of ALL of the American people.