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		<title>Final Thoughts on &#8220;Occupy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Occupy A Job</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street (or Wherever) Over the past few weeks, this entire occupy movement has been a made a complete mockery of Freedom of Speech (See video below) It is painfully clear that the vast majority of people in the Occupy movement have no real focus as to what they are there for, what they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Occupy Wall Street (or Wherever)</p>
<p>Over the past few weeks, this entire occupy movement has been a made a complete mockery of Freedom of Speech (See video below)<br />
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<p>It is painfully clear that the vast majority of people in the Occupy movement have no real focus as to what they are there for, what they hope to achieve, or how their presence is going to change anything. People are mad, I get that. I’m mad too. I’m mad that there are people who aren’t willing to work to earn things, complaining that other people can afford stuff. Sure, some people get dealt a better hand in life; but you know what? I don’t care, they don’t affect me. Would it be nice to have a nearly unlimited pile of money or to have everything I want? Sure, but you know what. Basic economics tells us that humans have a limited number of NEEDS and an unlimited number of WANTS. Therefore, since wants are unlimited there is truly no solution. You can be rich, you can have things handed to you, and you will always want more. Where do we draw a line? Simple, you get what you earn.<br />
“We are the 99%” &#8212; you are absolutely right, you’re the 99% of America that can vote, make purchases and effect change in better ways than standing around looking like idiots. You’re mad about rich people? Guess what, rich people pay a far higher rate of taxes than you or I pay. Most people who are “Rich” that I know of, that earn around $80,000 a year pay around 35% of that money to taxes! How much do you pay? Check your pay stub some time? Guess what else, when income tax time rolls around they PAY MORE, while the rest of us get free money. YOU ALL READY GET MONEY FROM THE RICH PEOPLE EVERY YEAR WHEN YOU DO YOUR TAX RETURN!<br />
If you want to protest corporations for having an influence on American policies, right on brothers and sisters I am with you now. Okay, so let’s all cancel our cell phone services, turn off our internet, smash our laptops, stop playing video games, make our own clothes and grow our own food. Sound good? No? Then shut up. It is infinitely easy to complain, and whine when you do not sacrifice anything. How much can we devalue ourselves? Do you have any idea how much you are worth to a corporation? Look at advertising. They spend millions to entice you to purchase their products. And you know what, you do it! You go out and buy MacBooks, you buy Coke or Pepsi, you eat at McDonalds, you smoke, you drink. You buy the big name brands, Sony, Apple, Samsung and you shop at places like Walmart. If you stopped doing these things tomorrow, if all of us stopped. Change could happen. Will we do it? Probably not. Let’s all kindly shut the hell up now and go on living. If you want to make changes, do it. I’m all for it. Make changes with your wallets and convince your friends to give up their iPhones too, they probably won’t do it but give it a shot. Vote. Don’t vote for republicans or democrats because they could give two shits about you. Vote for the honest third party guy that stands no chance because he has no big financial backing (Ron Paul anyone?) Lastly, stop asking the government to give you stuff. If you want health care, get a job. If you want money, work for it. If you want anything at all, work for it. This country was built on working. Nothing has changed in over 200 years, aside from a few stupid people with Twitter and YouTube accounts bitching about the “Haves and the have nots”.</p>
<p>Thank you,<br />
Ryan Kenward</p>
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<p>Ps.) When the police ask you to leave because you&#8217;re all a bunch of filthy bastards living in your own filth and in danger to yourselves, they need to get the place cleaned but you can come back later. GET THE FUCK OUT!  Don&#8217;t start shit and say the police are beating you.  The NYPD are honorable men and women and don&#8217;t need your shit.</p>
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<p>PPS.)  Take a moment to think over these questions.</p>
<p>Do you purchase books from your local book store, or do you go to Amazon.com?  &#8212; You probably just supported the corporation, didn&#8217;t you?<br />
Do you purchase your electronics from local electronics stores or did you go to Best Buy/Fry&#8217;s/Newegg/Etc?  You probably just supported the corporations again&#8230; not looking good.<br />
Did you even know there are small local cell phone providers out there that are not AT&amp;T, Verizon, Sprint or T-Mobile?<br />
Do you buy anything at Walmart/Target as opposed to a local grocery store/farm market/etc?</p>
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<p>Look people, sure corporations do indeed affect politics, no doubt there.  If there&#8217;s an endangered amoeba in an area Walmart wants to build a Super Center, kiss your one celled ass goodbye.  On the contrary, if you&#8217;re looking for a job that will give you insurance&#8230; maybe that Walmart isn&#8217;t so bad.  Oh, did you know they give MILLIONS of dollars a year to charity?  This is true for almost any big corporation.  There are pros and cons to every choice you make.  You need to decide as consumers and Americans what is really important to you.  Do you want to support local business and perhaps be inconvenienced or pay slightly higher costs?  Do you realize that most local businesses can only employ a handful of people, whereas super corporations employ HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people.  Think about it.  Don&#8217;t just run with a crowd because your friends think its cool, your idioditic idealistic academic leaders told you that Karl Marx was actually full of great ideas.  If you want to see what communism and socialism are like, then you are more than free to move to China.  I guarantee you won&#8217;t like what you find there.  Do you really want your neighbors who work half as hard as you to get the same stuff you have?  Next time you get your pay check, go donate half of it to a homeless man.  He has less than you do, so it is only fair by the Occupy Wall Street logic which so many people blindly support.  There are some good ideas in Occupy Wall Street, but you need to put your time in and actually think about it.  As I said, there are an infinite number of choices.  We are where we are today because THE MAJORITY made choices that let corporations get to where they are at.  I personally have no problem with it, and am happy to purchase an iPhone, or drink a Coke once in a while.  There are so many bigger problems in this nation that are being over shadowed by this stupid &#8220;Movement&#8221;.  There are two wars going on that are depleting our money and young American lives.  There are people who are crying out for free healthcare, but are not willing to help themselves.  The government of the United States was not designed to give you anything but the ability to carry out your lives in the pursuit of happiness in a nation that protects your basic freedoms.  No where were you promised unemployment pay, or free health care.  THERE ARE NO FREE LUNCHES.</p>
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		<title>Future Technology Predictions and Theories</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 06:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been giving a lot of thought to weird things lately and I figured I&#8217;d share my thoughts. All known ailments to man will be cured via nano technology: My thoughts here are, that with our current rate of advancement with technology; in just a few more decades we will have advanced computers that are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been giving a lot of thought to weird things lately and I figured I&#8217;d share my thoughts.</p>
<p><strong>All known ailments to man will be cured via nano technology</strong>: My thoughts here are, that with our current rate of advancement with technology; in just a few more decades we will have advanced computers that are so small they we will be able to scale them to the size of a white blood cell which can be pre-programmed to augment the immune system and also detect and destroy cancers as well as even reversing the affects of AIDS and HIV.</p>
<p><strong>Space travel will be possible: </strong>When we realize that the object does not need to be propelled through space, yet space needs to be moved around the object.  I believe space time is something that can be manipulated, but our current technologies and scientific theories haven&#8217;t quite nailed it down yet.  Think of it like this, you have a coin on a piece of paper with the letter A written on one side and B on the other side.  You can use some sort of force to push the coin from A to B, or you could simply move the paper quickly while the object remains stationary, much like a magician removes a table cloth from underneath the table settings.</p>
<p><strong>Parallel dimensions could be accessible: </strong>Energy is visible by observing different frequencies.  I have read elsewhere that each human has their own distinct frequency, if this is true then consider the universe to be a giant radio and each person being a station.  It would theoretically be possible to alter the frequencies to change ones current perception of their own reality.  If every choice you have ever made exists in some multiple world, which could very well be running simultaneously as the one we currently perceive &#8211; a change in ones energy could unlock different &#8220;worlds&#8221;, the key question in my mind is would one remember the previous &#8220;world&#8221; or would they immediately become a product of their new perception?  Is this naturally occurring way of the universe that we are unable to perceive?</p>
<p><strong>Time travel forward is theoretically possible: </strong>Person A remains on earth whilst Person B is blasted into space travelling at the speed of light.  Time is relative, so Person A could have experienced 20 years while Person B will have only perceived a few minutes.  When Person B returns to Earth after travelling at the speed of light for some time, they would find that many years had passed in what had been for them perhaps a few hours.  Going backward in time would probably not be possible though there is little to nothing known about black holes.  If a black hole is a rip in space time, then if one were able to withstand the journey it is possible that going through one could possibly send a person back to an earlier point in space time.</p>
<p>Just some things I have been pondering, not your typically every day thoughts.</p>
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		<title>Ugh, I can&#8217;t watch anything with Alton Brown anymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 07:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So a few years ago I started to watch Iron Chef and I really thought that Alton Brown was pretty cool, much better than the Chairman who I cannot stand.  Then I started to watch Good Eats and thought it was a pretty good show, all of that changed last night.  Perhaps it was because [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So a few years ago I started to watch Iron Chef and I really thought that Alton Brown was pretty cool, much better than the Chairman who I cannot stand.  Then I started to watch Good Eats and thought it was a pretty good show, all of that changed last night.  Perhaps it was because I was sick, but I cannot stand Alton Brown anymore.  When you really watch him, he is utterly annoying on TV.  I glanced around the internet to see if I was alone, and I am not; but I don&#8217;t dislike him because I think he is a know-it-all or because he is cheesy.  I can&#8217;t watch him because he&#8217;s such a spaz.  I can&#8217;t stand the way her stammers around his overly worded statements of the obvious.  He just speaks so damn fast, and the stuttering or whatever you want to call it.  Completely drove me nuts and made me turn off the episode.</p>
<p>This reminds me of when I stopped watching Diggnation because I realized I don&#8217;t like Alex Albrecht.  He comes across as such a phony and his voice, ugh.  I can&#8217;t listen to him for 30+ minutes.  Interestingly enough, I met him at E3 last summer and he was a very down to earth kind of guy.  Even though he was really nice, I still do not watch Diggnation.</p>
<p>Enough ranting for now.</p>
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		<title>Attempting to Revamp the Site</title>
		<link>http://ryankenward.com/archives/867</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I keep pretty busy these days, one would assume I&#8217;m a fairly interesting person.  Or, so at least I would like to hope that is the case.  I am going to attempt to start using this again to share some of my stories and experiences of my every day life.  Ew, that sentence sounds [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since I keep pretty busy these days, one would assume I&#8217;m a fairly interesting person.  Or, so at least I would like to hope that is the case.  I am going to attempt to start using this again to share some of my stories and experiences of my every day life.  Ew, that sentence sounds extremely vain&#8230; Not that anyone cares, or that I&#8217;m anything special, but yeah&#8230;. And now time for something else.<br />
Starting the 14th of next month I will officially begin my culinary education at Le Cordon Bleu in Sacramento.  I am very excited to begin.  I&#8217;ve enjoyed cooking since I was a kid, but it took me a long time to realize that is the sort of job that would make me happy.<br />
Meanwhile, I&#8217;m still anchored to the USAF &#8211; for better or worse (or worse).  Recently passed my fitness test with a 93.8% or something like that, which I suppose is pretty decent.<br />
In March I&#8217;ll be going to Boston to attend PAX East, and I am taking a team of 9 to cover the event for Vagary.TV.  I&#8217;m looking forward to it, I&#8217;ve somehow never been to Boston.  My stay will be short because I don&#8217;t want to miss any classes, though I will definitely miss one.<br />
E3 is registration is open, I need to figure out my team this year and hopefully I won&#8217;t be limited to 5 slots like last year.  E3 was pretty awesome, and Los Angeles from what I could tell was decent; although I still prefer NYC.  Even Seoul is more interesting IMO.  Los Angeles seemed to have two sides, superficial and dirty.  I&#8217;m not really in to either one, but still there is a lot to see there.<br />
Today (or yesterday now) was my 2 year anniversary, holy crap.  We haven&#8217;t killed each other yet, and it seems like we&#8217;ve got at least 2 more years in us.  Wish I could have done more, unfortunately this month more than ever has been a firm reminder about that whole &#8220;money&#8221; and &#8220;trees&#8221; saying.  I was gifted a new Shiba Inu by my wife.  Despite my initial opposition about getting another dog, I&#8217;ve been won over.  I&#8217;ll get around to posting pictures eventually.<br />
Well, 4 AM &#8211; time to call it a day&#8230; lets see if I can build up some blogging momentum again.  Apologizes in advance for my incoherent ramblings.<br />
-Ryan</p>
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