Prime ministers are the lowest common denominator

What should we do with PM's once they're no longer making our country's decisions?
well there's always the second most prominent job that Canada is recognized for.
Wouldn't Jean Chretien be very well suited to pouring out medium coffee's with two milks? Or how about Paul Martin serving up some appetizing bear claws? If this seems a little beneath men that once lead our country, then you should just look at their accomplishments after their terms in office. Or seeming lack thereof. Now they seem to be reduced to not only hauling their own luggage around, but doing guest stints on relatively small time television shows such as when Paul Martin went on The Rick Mercer Report

It does feel disrespectful to put former leaders on par with people that serve us coffee everyday, but really, I've barely ever put the prime minister on par with the president of the united states anytime i think of them. They really seem to be like a sidekick more than a superhero if I was talking in comic book terms.
Batman = Bush Robin = Martin

Prime Ministers can do whatever they want to do after their terms in office, because no one is going to go out of their way to try and assassinate someone who was the equivalent of the Boy Wonder in office.

Halo 3 is heaven sent

The hype leading up to Halo 3 has been happening ever since the first gamer finished Halo 2, watched the cliffhanger ending, and started writing on his blog OMG THERE'S GONNA BE A THIRD ONE!!! This has got to be the biggest game since something along the lines James Bond or Final Fantasy. This game has shooting, a good plot line, a main character that really kicks ass. And that's really all you need.

The company behind the game, Bungie Studios, has really gone to town promoting this game. Not only have they put out trailer after trailer after trailer for it, but they have used almost every conceivable mode of media they can. They have used television obviously, as well as special promtional drinks such as Game Fuel, a drink put out by Mountain Dew which features pictures of Master Chief all over it. Then they sponsered a Nascar driver and plastered the Chief's face all over that too. Toss is some added features from Pontiac and Burger King and there's almost no age group of people that they haven't gotten word out to. They even have replicas of vehicles from the game to show off.

I think that this may all be a bit much, but really, this game is so amazing that its hard to say it doesn't earn some bragging rights. Fighting off an alien invasion while simaltaneously stopping giant rings that will destroy the universe on your own? That's just cool.

Thousands of people are all looking forward to the release date of Halo 3, and speculation about whats going to happen in it is crazy. The line ups to get in to the stores to get the first copy will more than likely be just as insane. I think that i'll wait a little while before jumping into that riot waiting to happen

Shape of thighs to come

Alright so since when has some fashion show or gala opening or celebrity define the next big style of clothing and body type? ahhh thats right, ever since the some guy ran out of clean clothes, wrapped a bedsheet around his shoulders and claimed it was called a toga. The next day Rome was all over that. There must be thousands, if not millions, of people that have dressed like decked out barbarians before, but since this guy is at some fancy opening of an art show, he gets noticed. People swoon over him and mutter how great he looks. If some no-name Tom, Dick or Jane was walking down the street like that tho, he'd be compared to this guy.

But the people with mass media connections get noticed and praised for the image they present. Pfffftt. Whatever. I know that there's some kind of hypocrisy in there from me somewhere since how I dress is influenced by something or someone else. But trends shouldn't be set by someone saying its "the new thing". See something you like and want to assimilate as your own? Fine. Have a blast doing it. Just don't tell me what's the thing I SHOULD be wearing.

Robots: The up and coming lover

The thought of humans marrying and then consumating that marriage with robots is weird. Not just weird in the plainest sense of the term, but weird in that it holds a sick kind of wonder to it. Once you get over the initial disgust of such personal acts with a machine, there's questions like, "Could it be programmed with all the same interests as me? How would I ever get sick of something that I could continuously change? Is love actually more than a feeling between to humans?" I think that humans won't be as adverse to this thought however as much as they were to gay marriage. After all, science fiction shows have been painting this future for ages now. Shows like Futurama hit the topic without even being seen as controversial

http://comedy.videosift.com/video/Futurama-Dont-Date-Robots

What could be the ramifications of this possible future be though? If everyone is able to create their own perfect person in a metal machine, then it seems like the birth rate would begin to decrease rapidly. The number of women getting pregnant would have to be affected by it. After all, this would be the safest form of sex since the condom was introduced. No STD's, no unplanned babies. It's almost perfect.

Also, just how much artificial intelligence would they have? Would it be like that movie where they become so smart that they begin to rebel and take over the world? If that's another possibilty then I'm not so sure that it's worth it. A great man once said that, "with great power comes great responsibility." So with the power to create this artificial love, is it not also our responsibility to make sure that we don't get carried away playing God. It almost seems like the same type of deal as genetically designing how your babies will be born.

http://geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=122

It just isn't supposed to be that way. Technology is reaching a point where almost anything is becoming possible. Maybe in like 100 years we'll be able to travel through time and be able to pick anyone out of history to love, or save people that we loved and lost. But the implications of all this tech is so unknown that it seems to be moving a bit fast.

Critical Communication 2

Perception is a critical device that affects how anyone will view the world personally. It affects how people will communicate with other people, groups or ethnic groups of people, and even byproducts of those people, such as films, books, music, or art. How I perceive the world has been shaped by influences such as how my parents raised me, along with how my friends talked about everything from a persons cultural background to which genre of music is acceptable.
Like everyone else, I have condensed all of these different perceptions of the world into my own personal outlook and preconceived notions. As evidence as to how my perceptions influence my attitudes towards people, I will use one of my own personal experiences.
There is a woman at my work who I dislike very much. This stems from my first impressions of her, and how they were all negative. When we first met, she did not know what she was doing, asked me questions constantly, did not stay where she was supposed to, and she also told me that she had not graduated highschool yet despite being two years older than most people who had. These first impressions were all such negative images in my mind that now I see everything that she does with a negative connotation. My perception of her is consistent with the perceptual tendencies talked about in lecture, as well as in Understanding Human Communications. (Adler, Rodman & Sevigny 42 - 44).

Adler, R., Rodman, G., Sevigny, A., Understanding Human Communication. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Critical Communications 1

If I am not talking to someone in person, then there is no such thing as a conversation that does not include the constant use of slang words as well as jargon. Slang is, "language used by a group of people whose members belong to a similar subculture or other group," (Adler, Rodman & Sevigny. 101), and jargon is a, "valuable kind of shorthand for people who understand its use."(102). Using short terms for rather long phrases is a time saver in a world that is moving so fast, it has become a necessity.

Some people argue that some of these slang terms make no sense to people that have not heard them before, but that is true with any word at all. All they have to do is ask what the slang term means. Every single day, I use numerous slang terms without even thinking about it, such as saying, "Let’s bounce," instead of, "Let’s get going." The place where I, along with most kids under the age of twenty, use jargon the most is over msn messenger. When talking to my friends over this online chat site, I use a multitude of jargon terms to save time. There are widely known ones such as "LoL," (laugh out loud), "idk," (I don’t know), and "ridic," (Ridiculous). More common terms like these can be found in the UHC textbook (103). I also have terms that are unique to my group of friends, such as, "DQYDJ," (Don’t quit your day job), and "tots bruts," (Totally brutal).

Although these little short-hand terms seem pointless, when you use each of them tons of times throughout the conversation, it saves a significant amount of time. They make communicating with friends much more simple which is proof that it is a useful tool for communication.

Adler, R., Rodman, G., Sevigny, A., Understanding Human Communication. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Refer-End-Um

I have almost no clue about anything involving politics. I didn't even vote this year because I have no idea who stands for what or what, if anything, they will do. Even the different parties involved hold no distinction for me. So in order for the government or potential MPP's to reach me, they would need to come up with a way to reach me through some form of media that catches my attention. Or at the very least, holds it.

This does not keep me interested.http://yourbigdecision.ca/en_CA/Media.aspx

The media that has been put out there for the vote is next to nothing as far as I have seen. Never once did I see any commercial for the vote on television (at least as far as I could tell). Though they did place vids on youtube, the odds of a person looking up Ontario Referendum are slim



Again, this doesn't hold my attention at all.

The information on this thing was not put out nearly well enough for the general populace to get wind of. Especially for people like me, kids really, barely old enough to vote and that are supposed to take part in something as large as deeming who is fit to make the rules. This is why I didn't vote. No one explained to me well enough why I should vote to change the elctoral system we have now. I mean, when wikipeida does a better job describing what the vote is all about than the people saying "Vote for me!", you know there's been a ball dropped somewhere