Sony Sued! Playstation Network Down!

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It's been more or less than a week since Sony switched the off-switch and now the horrible and enormous details are slowly slithering out.

Users and members of the press alike are having a field day at Sony's expense with critique and rambling messages of hate. This is now due to escalate as Sony's latest blog update confirms user details (including credit card and address) may have been compromised and gives them specific instructions on how to handle identity and credit card fraud!

Have they made a rod for there own backs? Is it better to be safe than sorry? Negative news is what it is and if the PR team cannot spin a healthier (and less grim) light into this current (HUGE) issue, Sony will lose consumer confidence!

The rumour mill is buzzing at the moment that Sony knew about the attack way before they switched off the service and to that extent, one Kristopher Johns, 36, of Birmingham, Alabama has taken Sony to court for not being able to take reasonable care to protect, encrypt, and secure the private and sensitive data of its users.

He also believes Sony took too long to notify other customers of the risks they face concerning credit and identity fraud!

This could possibly be the largest digital-data heist ever. With no time frame on when the Playstation network will be brought back up and no solid confirmation on how many of the 70+ Million customers worldwide may be affected by the data theft, this could possibly be the worst crisis to ever hit a Corperation as big as Sony, its console AND it's customers!

10 Reasons' Why.....

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________.Facebook is Evil._________

1)    It promotes unhealthy boastfulness – nobody cares if you get a new car or have just upgraded your cable to a superior package. Advertently, nobody cares also if your child/significant other/family member is really sick – you should not be on Facebook at this time, you should be by there side if you really care.

2)    It isn’t monitorable – There are paedophiles’ in this world who do find it easier to approach children via Facebook – and they will try and do it. They don’t have to use their own pictures or say who they are and there is not one person going to question the credibility of their profile until it is too late.


3)    It has spawned a very nasty trend called cyber-bullying. This is now recognised as a genuine problem amongst schools where children AND TEACHERS are being victimized and bullied via Facebook. There does not seem to be a solution to this problem as removal of the abusive messages from your own wall still leaves them on your friends and families.

4)    The bullying and threatening behaviour do not always stay on Facebook – it is not an unfair comment at all to point out that most violent behaviour (domestic and schoolyard) has been planned for OR has been the direct result of something written on Facebook.


5)    People can blatantly abuse their freedom of speech to praise terrorist attacks or murders on Facebook. Although a few cases have been brought into question in the past few years, all new cases remain unresolved due to sheer-number.

6)    Because of the above, it can be a great cause of emotional distress. If your child has been killed in Iraq, you do not want Islamic Extremist using their right to free speech to express how pleased they are about it.


7)    Thieves now read your Facebook pages to determine if you are at home or out before they rob your house.

8)    The Government monitors its pages to check to see if people claiming benefits are telling the truth about their current employment/disability status. This had led to a lot of totally innocent people losing the benefits they are entitled to (thus braded a benefit cheat) because they said one thing to arouse the suspicion of the welfare office.


9)    Places of work also use Facebook for reasons to fire unsuspecting employees. This had led to some totally innocent people being removed from work because of a post that could possibly relate to employer being posted on facebook.

10)    THE BIGGEST REASON I THINK FACEBOOK IS EVIL IS:

It encourages you to lie. Whilst not all lies are bad; some lies just have to be told out of necessity and some things you should just keep to yourself.
There are also things you should not know (or want to know) about your family/friends. Some things that can question your entire belief system about them, and all because they post them on Facebook.

If, like me, you have read Dante’s Inferno, you will know of the following saying:

“The tenth circle of Hell is reserved for those who lie to themselves”

Facebook encourages you to do this. Whether it be pretending that everything is going to be alright, to a pandering post on somebody else’s wall telling them it will be – even when you know it won’t be alright.
Even when you know that you are not alright.

Facebook encourages you to lie... to yourself more than anybody else.

The Curse of Being (anti-)Social

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Being a people reader (I dont just say that for the fun of it, ask anyone who knows me and they'll tell you, I can spookily read a lot out of a first impression) is sometimes more a curse than a blessing.

Sure, it has saved me from some of the most barmy and weirdest relationships (one guy was into his mother - in a sex way) that have approached me, but it is at times when family...

Yeah, you know where this is going! This is why I think Facebook is remarkably evil -  (Thats tomorrows blog-post!) there are just some things family members should not share. Some things they should not know about each other. Some aspect of their lives should just be kept to themselves... being a people reader, however, I tend to look a little deeper into everything.

My sister (the one from previous posts) said something... amazingly awful about me, in front of everybody - but in a funny way, so therefore, it isnt an insult and I shouldnt over-react because she ment it - but in a funny way.

I know right?

Im in a bad place right now. I dont really want to blog about my emo-side too much because it just fuels my saddness rather than quells it. But im in a bad place emotionally and its making me both angry and timid.

If I were my old self, she wouldnt have standed a chance after saying that - I would have been down her throat (verbally) so fast that she would gag with horror on the torrent of truth I would have unleashed.

Truth is, where I am now, I just went into another room and tried to stop myself from crying. I didnt want to give her the satisfaction.

I cant stop reading between the lines about it. Just the way she said it; the way she looked at me when she said it - so pointedly and with a smirk-- this is when being a people reader is a curse. You cant stop reading them. long after they're gone. Long after the damage has been done.

Working the Words

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The power of words is unquestionable. Or at least it should be.

Today, I found a few mundane words that, when put together, envoke an emotive response that - has 16 times out of 20 - been extreme enough to request the discussion cease.

I am going to share with you the words and tell you how I placed them in a sentence but I cannot tell you how to do it.

I was merely hostage to a very dark and Bad Memory last night. I was in a group of people who were full of distractions for me to pull away from it but this Bad Memory continued to pull me back in.

The day after, I was subject of a rather Good Memory but that experience was all too fleeting. When you experience the Bad Memories like I do, you try to hold onto the Good Memories

when you get them.

That is how I worked it into a conversation. You are probably reading this and thinking "WTF are you talking about you weird fucking-goose!" - read it again.

If you have refused to do so as, by your reasoning, "it makes no sense!/I understand it already and dont need to!/It is senseless so what is the point!" then I have got you.

If literature is to be believed, then (should you be educated enough to understand their meanings) I should have trapped you in an emotive enviroment and your unwillingness to reread it in order to understand it as I am telling it is due to the fact the highlighted words have envoked an emotional response.

Yes. It is as simple as that. It is the same as telling somebody not to look down; but on a much finer median. This is how a lot of cold readings happen, your reaction to a specific word trees off into a small number of different - but predictable - possibilities. For example:

If I were to walk upto you and say nothing else other than "Bad Memory." your brain would breifly fire up images of a bad memory you have experienced. Depending on your strengh of character, you would be able to shake off this memory and carry on trying to work out the context of the words I have said.

However, if I were to bombard you with these words, I would be able to trap you in a very emotional reaction.

I have tried and tested this. If you are direct like me and have very little in the way of friends, then their feelings become less of an issue to mess around with and more of an intriguing idea to study.

I was caught in a bad memory when I discovered this, but at the time I was able to pull myself out of it by confirming it was a bad memory. When i replayed the words "Bad Memory" in my head, it kick-started the bad memory I was experiencing - this intrigued me.

I decided to experiment: I turned to another person sitting across from me, made eye contact and said "Bad Memory" aloud. His reaction was one of puzzlement, so I said it again and a thid time before he became flustered and asked me "Please, what are you doing? What do you want?"

If a single word can envoke such an emotional reponse, then you have a power over that person. Obviously, it does not work on 100% of people (nothing ever does!) but to catch somebody in it is almost satisfying - if you crave power like I do (If I were a superhero, i'd be evil)

Bad Memory - provides a negative emotive response.

Good Memory - a Positive emotive response.

Bad Memory.

Bad memory.

Bad Memory.

Another - this is important. When you get somebody in the cycle, when you can see that by saying "Bad Memory" to them you are actively making them remember a bad memory, simply say "Another" next, to change the bad memory for another one, and then continue with the cycle:

Bad Memory.

Bad Memory.

Bad Memory.

Another.

Bad Memory.

Bad Memory.

Bad Memory.

Another.

Bad Memory.

Bad Memory.

This is usually the time when the person loses emotional control. Depending on their personality, they're either likely to cry or punch you.

My nose is sore today, but I learnt something new about the human condition! Yay me!

Shock Saturday!

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I had the most amusing idea today. It is kind of shocking and I only entertained the idea itself as it is something I would never ever think about - but I did.

Ok, my idea is a simple one:

PPI - Procreation Protection Insurance.

We all know that some of our most wonderful children in the world happened accidentally. I mean, let’s not pretend that quick romp in the broom closet at work was the most romantic place to try and conceive a child, but 50% of the time, children conceived this way turn out to be an amazing addition to our lives.

But what about the other "accidental" 50% which suddenly turn our lives upside down? They can be traumatic, stressful, can halt or finish careers and tear families - even the couples themselves - apart. These children can sometimes grow up in unhealthy, un-dynamic families where they can suffer all kinds of abuse which can scar them for life.

This is where PPI comes into play.

Let’s say that you are a man who has PPI insurance. Now you start paying a monthly fee (much as you would dental or health insurance) and you are required, by law, to always wear protection whilst engaging in sex.

Now let’s say you sleep with a woman and your protection fails and she falls pregnant. You decide you do not want a child at this time but the woman decides to keep the child - your PPI would cover this. The woman would receive insurance payouts for all the hospital and medical costs during pregnancy and then for the first year of the child’s life (to cover maternity expense and loss of earnings) - and that is it.
As you are covered with PPI, you wave your legal right to be a parent to this child. Including all the costs that go with it.

Now, before you start to fire off the angry e-mails to me, let’s take into account some facts from this fictional case:

A man cannot demand a woman have an abortion as it is her body.
A woman can demand a man pay for child support - even though he requested his desire not to have children.
For PPI to work, sexual protection in the form of condoms or the morning after pill or a diaphragm becomes a legal requirement during sex. If you were to have sex, whilst covered with PPI and not wear protection and then express your desire not to have anything to do with your child, your claim would become void and you would legally have to pay child support for the rest of the child’s early life.

Let’s reverse the role now and say that you're a woman. You have PPI insurance but you have managed to fall pregnant. You do not want to keep this baby; however, your significant other would love a child and requests that you keep it.

Legally, as it is your body, you are entitled to an abortion without your other half's consent. With PPI insurance, if your significant other requests it, you would (legally) have to bring the child to full term. All medical expenses would be paid during the pregnancy and for a year afterwards until you have returned to work or found meaningful employment.
After the birth, as you have PPI and have requested that you do not wish to be a part of the child’s life, you wave your right as a parent as well as any child support you would (usually) be required to pay.

Again, before you start to fire off angry emails to me about women's rights, let’s take into account some facts from this fictional case:


That a woman can have an abortion, even if the father is ready, willing and able to take care and provide for the baby, is grossly unfair. This should not be about a woman’s right to give birth or not, it should be about the equal right of both the man and the woman as it is required by nature itself for two people to conceive a child.


The woman in this case is covered by PPI, which would pay out every expense during the pregnancy, birth and for a year afterwards.
Also keep in mind that contraception is a legal requirement.


If either parent were to falter - example... they say "No I want to keep the baby" but they don’t do it - they will be prosecuted for fraud. They would have to pay out 18 years worth of insurance so that this baby can be cared for, free of charge, by a foster/adoptive family. They would also wave their legal rights as parents.


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I know its kind of lame and it probably legally wouldn’t work - I mean how could you tell if that guy was wearing that condom? Or if she did take the morning after pill or not!


And again, as shocking as it sounds, this is just something I thought about whilst reading the newspaper. Just one random thought that I found entertaining to entertain.
So this is in no way my view of how the world should work.


Wow, my mind thinks of some weird things.

Thinks'a'lot

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If you were to know me personally, I would hazard a guess that you would think my magazine subscriptions bizarre - not that I read Bizarre (much too crass) - but I am more inclined to the more alternative thoughts and opinions that people lay grace to paper.

For example, I read a most intriguing article the other day about the Phelps' Family and how they had reasoned that Obama was the anti-Christ (and, thusly, the world would end soon, that is if God doesn’t 'tarry) - apparently, just after he was elected, they watched him on TV and... They just KNEW he was the anti-Christ. And from that day forth...

You get the idea? Not that I agree with most of the views I read: I do it purely to experience something new; to try to ascertain the answer WHY somebody would think that way.

For the Phelps'... it is simple - an abusive father. A Patriarch who ruled with a rod of iron and installed an AWEsome fear within his children.

I digress though. Sitting in the paper rack of my coffee table, you are more likely to find the latest issue of Fortean Times or Paranormal Magazine than you would... Men’s Health and... I dunno... gay porn?

I was reading a very long (seven fucking pages) laughable article on Bram Stoker (and how he came about with his Dracula book) which was accompanied with really bizarre pictures of a woman (headshot) who was drooling blood and had a bite mark on her neck. They were not even good pictures, she looked about 45 trying to be 35 - I digress again though! - The article was by some amazingly pretentious chap (whose name I have forgotten) and... Well, he didn’t tell us anything that hasn’t already been written about Bram Stoker.

"I was looking for connections to Bram Stoker and Freemasonry - turns out he wasn’t a member... or was he and it’s all a big conspiracy?" - As you can imagine, it was truly gripping stuff.

I doubt anybody would care if Mr Stoker was a Freemason though... and if they did well... he's kind of dead now (Or is he? WhooooOooOoOoOo!) And is less than forthcoming about his experiences about it.

So what was the point of this seven pages article (which summarized the book itself for 3 pages!)? "We already knew pretty much everything but here it is again JUST INCASE!"

They pay people for that. I sit here giving out spiel in my blog for free and this chap is making a mint giving out spiel in magazines. How is that fair?

Annoyance

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I'm annoyed. Things are currently not going to plan - instead, they have decided to screech to a halt until another few years of my life have passed me by.

Is it/Am I wrong to think that , if you KNOW you can do it, you should just be able to jump into the role and do it?

Perhaps so. According to law, indeed it may be (dependant on what you do) - hmm, perhaps I shouldnt have snapped back so thusly when my employer questioned my motives?

True to my life and as pathetic as it sounds, I have always been a late-bloomer. By no means am I slow on the uptake! But dipping my toe in the water takes time for me.

I know, im ranting on here and I said I would never do it again and, I swear, I wont after this! But if there was ever a time for the universe to cut me a break - now would be it! Forget about my compulsive need to win the lottery Universe! Help me achieve a meaningful life!