[ life:revisited 2010 + 1 ]

Drink: h20 (thats water, for you people)
Soundtrack: CCR - Born on the Bayou
Weapon of Choice: A full tang, battle ready katana from Valiant Armories

The internet has given us many advances in our society. Through the pervasiveness of computer networks, we have gained the ability to share files and information over amazing distances, talk to our friends and family while in other countries, and use its boundless stores of information to write papers for school, learn to cook, and even get our degrees online.

Then we come to internet slang.

Yes the internet has a language, this language was born in chat rooms, and in multiplayer online games, in order to get what you want to say across in the least amount of time, and with the least amount of characters typed. I use internet slang or what we call "leetspeak" almost everyday. Phrases like "PEBKAC" and "RTFM" I use everyday, mainly because I support a network of people who have no business dressing themselves, yet they still work here. Other phrases, like "O RLY?" and "w4llh4x0r!" are used mainly in retort, to defend yourself against embarrassment, or to show anger at another's actions. "WTF!" and "STFU" are used cryptically in my chat area in WoW to berate morons that do things to get me killed. And the list goes on. Why am I writing about this? Good question.

Does the internet have the possibility of being its own entity? Maybe even its own country? You may laugh, and say, "we created the machines that it runs on, so no way!" Other contractors from other countries build buildings that people use for office, industrial, and residential spaces all over the world, and they build and sell buildings just like we build and sell servers on the internet, so that doesn't really apply, actually, but it sets the stage sort of. Maybe I am wrong though. Further thinking makes me feel like the internet is the last Wild West the world has now. Anonymity, crime, sex, and other illegalities abound this place, and people with proverbial "gold fever" set up shop as spam producers, online dating services and poker games, online gaming, and all the other social and business endeavors people think of to use the internet to make $$$.

And in my opinion, most of those endeavors serve little or no purpose to me, other than to fuel my rage against other stupid people. If ya wanna play poker, play with friends, if ya wanna date, do to a frigging bar, if ya wanna play games......play WoW. :) Whoops.

I for one use the internet for what is best for me. A tool, to find information that makes me smarter, and makes me laugh. It also enables me to watch movies, play World of Warcraft (which is slowly turning into the crack-cocaine of internet users) and any other random task that I can use its wealth of data for. So eventually our government (yeah, the one ran by complete and total inbred morons) will create sanctions and laws for internet usage, ban certain sites, and crack down on 14 yr old music and movie downloaders. And then we will have lost the only place that people can practice all of their vices and sins in a place that can not create any harm, save harm to the people who are disgusted by some aspects of that vice. Now, stuff like kiddie porn and chat room predators should all be led into a room and gassed, but I am talking about the 45 yr old happily married guy that occasionally jerks it to his selected porn star online, the 14 yr old who almost wets himself watching a monkey fling poo at people as a video, and people like me who rant and rave about what they think is wrong with the world on their blog. There has been a lot of talk about blogs, that are political in nature, being regulated by political parties and the government. As soon as that starts, all the people like me who think Bush is a jackass and should never even ran for office will be sanctioned and most likely fined for their first amendment beliefs that our president is a tool, and our government is totally out of control. .....whew, how did l33tsp34k end up a politically charged rant? Ah well, its Tuesday, I feel like shit, and its always fun to type about how I don't trust the gov't Yup, I hear the black helicopters coming for me right now.

This was kind of a long one today. I'm not really in an anti-political mood, I just feel like shit, and I felt like dumping off some steam. Well thats it.