Its defiantly been an “interesting”
couple of weeks in Canada.
I probably should just let it go, but
I've been itching to voice my concerns/grievances in a public
capacity. I usually post on a newspaper blog to do this, but most of
the newspapers have unofficially declared national censorship day/week and
chicken-shitted out of letting people express themselves in the form
of text comments.....
Anyway......
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First concerns/grievance~
The shooter last week that attempted to
take out members of parliament with a duck gun is NOT a terrorist.
That is my honest opinion on the matter. While most people will
paint him that color for convenience sake. I see him as a person
that finally had enough with the system that serves only the 1% (
term used for laziness sake).
Not saying that what he did was right,
but I can understand his anger and frustration.
Our politicians don't seem to know/care
how the majority of this country has to live and constantly sends the
shit down hill instead of sending it to where it belongs. I realize
that it's not just Canada that is having this problem, but since
it's my backyard I'll have to settle for caring for it only, for now.
If I had to summarize what is wrong
with this country, people have generally lost their freedom. Taxes
and fees are at an all time high in both quality and quantity.
Things that never got taxed before (like tips), and have been a
salvation to those that don't make a hell of a lot, are now the top
tax cheat to be rooted out......
While it may seem that people are
richer than their senior counterparts this could not be farther from
the truth. A lot of junky things have become more affordable, but the
price of necessities has skyrocketed.
Young people (and some older) are
pushed into getting a higher education to “get a better job”.
Leaving them in debt for a huge portion of their lives. And no real
guarantee of getting better employment after all the hassle.
Poverty is something that you have to
experience to understand. I'm doing pretty good right now, but I
still remember what it was like to (seriously) count pennies and
debate if I should break that 5....
I doubt very much that his motives where fulled by some jihad pep talk.....
I could go on forever on this topic but
I have other things to vent on.
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Second concerns/grievance~
The next one, I normally ignore stories
like these, but the Jian Ghomeshi allegations have PO'ed me for a few
reasons.
First off~
The women he allegedly practiced BDSM
with (to the best of my knowledge) crawled into bed with him
willingly. It really should not be his fault if he preformed in a
way that was not to their liking. They had the right to slap him and
leave. I'm going to guess that most of them put up with it for
various reasons, even if they did not like such role play.
Second~
These are not maidens that where
married off after finishing high school to an abusive husband, with
no chance of escape because women “belonged in the kitchen”. For
all intended purposes women are able to vote and seek employment. I
imagine most, if not all these women were well established older
women that have been “around the block” a few times. They where
not dependent on him in any way.
Third~
They took too long to report the
alleged abuse! At this point it's going to be a kangaroo court with
his word vs theirs. If something is important to you, you do
something about it right away. You don't wait 10 years without
making a claim or report and then all of a sudden say “hey I know
that man! He stole my wallet 10 years ago!”.
It's hard to tell if these women where
unhappy that the playboy dumped them when he got board, or a
bunch of prospectors that are grieving their rejected mining claim....
Forth~
I find the practice of firing an
employee that has not been properly convicted in a legal court,
incredibly disturbing. I have heard of too many horror stories like
his, where the man is presumed guilty on the word of a “crying
maiden”.
So to summarize~
-There is no real way to know who is
telling the truth, other than taking one sides word for it.
Considering Jian already made a public statement, I imagine that it's
going to be hard to knock him down easily, like women typically do in
these cases.
-These women where not innocent maidens
that where forced to be with him though social constraints. They may
have not known what they where getting into, but they had ample
opportunity to put an end to it themselves! Without involving the
tax payers services.....
-They waited way to long to make a
report. They where not choir boys being molested the “all knowing”
priest. They where adult women that are responsible for their own
lives.
-This will become a he said, she said
kangaroo court case that will only serve to waste tax payers money.
When it could have been handled with a slap to the face and a “I'm
leaving you jerk off”.
-There is nothing fundamentally wrong
with BDSM.
-And finally CBC had no right to fire
him without a legal conviction. Regardless of what happened.
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Third and final concerns/grievance~
It was pretty obvious that Justin
Bourque was going down for some hard time, and I can't say that I
disagree with the verdict......
So what's my problem then? The two
(possibly more) tired “justice system”, that's what!
It's so painfully obvious that police
get special treatment when it comes down to it. James Forcillo that
(allegedly~) murdered the kid on the street car in Toronto, is still
on the job waiting for his day in court while Bourque gets triad and
sentenced in record time.
What I would love to see is WIFI body
cams attached to any security or law enforcement that is allowed to
openly carry restricted weapons, that would give live coverage on an
open website so any member of the public could watch and be witness
without bias oversight.
I could write a book on the injustice
and extreme danger of police misconduct, but I already raved enough
on this post.
Suffice to say, I absolutely hate
injustice. And when I see a member of law enforcement get away with
something that would normally send someone to jail. I see great
injustice....
Now that I've cleared the air......
I'm still working on tiles in an ever
so slow and steady pace.
Example 1 shows the new ground and
grass tile (it's actually 3 tiles put together). I'm pretty
satisfied with it compared to the other one I made (Example 2). As I
was making it I realized what I could improve on, but for now
it's a lot better then the last one, has a few more variations and can be tiled more dynamically.
I haven't put them all into unity and tested to see if they all link
up seamlessly yet, but I'm fairly confident that I've found a work
flow that lets me make fairly nice seamless tiles in Blender.
Example 3 shows an example of the tile
cover I made for the “ground” tile. I made more than one and
will probably make a few more for comedic value and to keep things
constantly “fresh”.
Example 4 is just the scaled down
version of Ex 2. I made the new ground tile so that it can be used
and look (reasonably) nice at its base scale. This will save a lot of time and memory when building the stage as I'll need less tiles to make more ground.
That's it for now.
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