BaSH PR0MPT

On earth we use a network of sattelites in orbit to operate our global positioning systems. Most people know by now that those sat’s are reaching the end of their lives and ceasing to function or being burnt up as orbits decay. The US Government put the GPS in place for their military originally, so I understand their reluctance to replace it when their opposing forces often use their own GPS network against them for targeting of smart devices or navigation. Whilst the European space association is already begining to roll out a new network that is mean to be accurate down to the meter, another issue popped into my mind regarding the future of space travel and deep space investigations. How will satellites like Voyager 1 & 2 communicate back to earth when they’re half a light year away?

Radio waves are a very inferior form of technoloy compared to–say as was suggested in Project Longshot, a proposal to fly a space craft to Alpha Centuri (4.3LY)–a laser to transmit data. It was proposed that: -

“The reactor would also be used to power a laser for communications back to Earth, with a maximum power of 250 kilowatts. For most of the journey this would be used at a much lower power for sending data about the interstellar medium, but during the flyby the main engine section would be discarded and the entire power capacity dedicated to communications at about 1 kilobit per second.”

This brings into question the degree of accuracy of targetting a laser over such a vast distance as well as the dispersal of the photons over their travel back home, which would use the diffraction limited Airy disk, an angle of 1.22 times the ratio of the wavelength of light–lambda–to the diameter of the aperture–d–leading to a feature size of 2.44 * lambda/diameter * distance. This means with current technology of lasers over a 4.3LY distance you end up with an estimate of around 3M Kms bathing a large region of space in our solar system with the output.

The manner in which this can be mitigated, signal quality can be enhanced, and the overall chances of an aimed shot over such a distance of data being sent would be significantly improved with a series of SOLAR orbiting craft that act as detectors and relays of the information, cross-referencing material that is sent back to earth by a much more accurate and concentrated aimed shot with their onboard lasers to a reception device (or possibly a geo-orbital satellite to retain quality of downstream) on earth. Whilst this is a ‘not happening any time soon’ kind of matter, it is essential that such a network of communication relays be put into a solar orbit if we are to have any hopes of deep space exploration at any point in the future beyond the quality and means that radiowave communication can avail us; as it is there’s significant delay using radio waves even to astronauts on space stations, so utilising my favorite constant, c, would mean that it would be the fastest means of signal transfer, and with such a system in place, the most accurate and conclusive.

I was reading Wikipedia like you do. It’s not often I learn something new. But this is something I wish I could unlearn. Only read ahead if you’re fine with perpetually being grossed out forevermore.

“Most species evolved as the climate in Africa changed, to adjust their thermoregulation to the intense UV and sunlight at the equator, mostly by panting. Early hominids likely possessed fur similar to other large apes, but about 2.5 million years ago they developed a greater distribution of sweat glands that enabled them to perspire over most of the body. It is not clear whether the change in body hair appearance occurred before or after the development of sweat glands. Humans have eccrine sweat glands all over their bodies.[24] Aside from the mammary glands that produce a specialized sweat called milk, most mammals just have apocrine sweat glands on their armpits and loin. The rest of their body is covered in eccrine glands. There is a trend in primates to have increased eccrine sweat glands over the general surface of the body.[24] It is unclear to what degree other primates sweat in response to heat, however.”

You drank your mothers boob sweat! What’s more, you’re drinking cow crotch sweat right now as you sip your tea or coffee reading this. I never put two and two together, but they’re right! Fucked up? Yes. Very. D:<

CANNOT UNLEARN :’(

A lot of pseudo intellectual journalists harped on the story I’m sure you all heard about a Faster than Light (FTL) measurement. It caused a bit of a stir in the scientific community, but the general response was an overt skepticism and dismissive attitude which many people didn’t understand. I’ve been asked this question enough times that I’ll hash out a general example of why it’s more probable that they were measuring things wrong to get the results they mentioned, and why FTL is still not proven (or possibly how Einstein is still right!)

Regarding Supernova 1987A: Astrophysicists had long theorized that when a star explodes, most of its energy is released as neutrinos—low-mass, subatomic particles that fly through planets like bullets through tissue paper. Part of the theory is that in the early phase of this type of explosion, the only ob- servable evidence is a shower of such particles; it then takes another few hours for the inferno to emerge as visible light. As a result, scien- tists predicted that when a star went supernova near us, we’d detect the neutrinos about three hours before we’d see the burst in the visible spectrum. (The Long Tail by Chris Anderson p58)

Many people have cited 1987A as an example of FTL, which is an inaccurate representation. Whilst it would appear that if the neutrinos arrived hours before the light of the supernova it seems that FTL is possible, and even probable.

The short answer is that the neutrinos must have got a lead on the light. When supernovae occur, neutrinos AND photons are created at the core of the stars gravity well and start pouring out into space, but the other layers of the star are still in the way. Neutrinos fly through anything, they’re applied physics’ answer to ninjas, so they reach deep space far sooner. Photons however can be blocked, deflected, redirected, et cetera, even by the gaseous material getting blown away from the star so it appears it takes a few hours for the photons to begin to emit through or get through anything blocking it’s path. Logical? Very. It’s that difference that gives neutrinos a head start.

If neutrinos DID travel faster than light, there would have been a significantly different time span in arrivals in SN 1987A, which occured more than 150,000 light years away; which would mean neutrinos had a significant amount of time to overtake photons if they would or could. If the recent claims of FTL neutrinos were accurate, then the neutrinos from this event would have arrived SIX YEARS earlier than the photons did.

This doesn’t mean FTL is impossible, but it is highly improbable. If the above logic holds then the measurement is wrong; if the measurement is right however there could be something else more complicated than we can empirically measure at present occurring.

Yes, another inflammatory title, if you’re American you’re probably having a knee jerk reaction and defensively furrowing your brow reading this post wanting to go all USA world police on my arse, with an R, you see, because I speak English. I am, however, not seppo bashing, I am just doing my usual misleading topic to engage the audience I want to reach to make THEM think about something that affects them and may help their quality of life.

In this instance, the statue of liberty should be confiscated from the US and returned at the end of the year if good behaviour and better grades (ie: behaviour has a U, your English sucks!) then you MAY get it back. First and foremost, before reading my argument, I want to tell you what I want you to do. I want you to think about this, I want you to talk about this to three other people, perhaps even link this to them. I want you to spend 120 seconds to defend your liberty, the ‘freedom’ you so gladly instill on backwater middle eastern countries and tearing over sixty nations apart in the past thirty years.

I want you to write one email to your member or parliament, senator, or whatever representative comes up when you google your states government officers. It will take you less than 120 seconds, because you can cut and paste this URL and pass it on to them, letting them know you agree with this post and will vote accordingly. THEN! I want you to remember this, I know all American’s have a VERY short memory, I mean Bush did get voted in for two terms, even after being the most protested man in human history, more than Hitler! So try REALLY hard to keep this one in your goldfish brains. Next time an election is up, I want you to google the parties up on offer and GLANCE at their POLICIES. Policies are what you vote for people on, voting isn’t like football, you don’t go for the team your dad does, or your mates do. You vote based on your INTELLECTUAL evaluation of candidacies for the betterment of your country for your people. I know there’s some big words there, but still, hang in there kiddo, we’re almost there.

Your nation is full of infringements of liberty and lacks fundamental human rights and freedoms the rest of the world, especially Europe, Canada, Australia, etc still retain even though we have the same batshit insane September 11 based ‘anti-terrorism’ laws which give far too much power to law enforcement.

In the United States, during even a routine traffic stop, the police may place handcuffs on you, make you lay face down, make you stand somewhere, do something, or otherwise lose your freedom of movement. This is being placed under arrest. The second someone lays their hand on you and you feel you are no longer free to move of your own will, that right there is arrest. So, before you’re even SUSPECTED of anything criminal, they can arrest you.

Guilty until proven innocent? I think so.

The Patriot Act (one and two) allows the arbitrary kidnapping of US civillians without warrant, without having to inform them what they are charged with, without due process, without habeus corpus, with absolutely no human rights retained; and they are slipped off to countries with no human rights for ‘interrogation’. Keep going kids, you’re almost at the level of a 12 year old politically conscious Norwegian kid.

Human nature dictates that self-preservation surpasses all requisite needs of civility. Running from the police, evading arrest, destruction of evidence, and impeding a police investigation is the DUTY of every person arrested or persued by the police for self-preservation. It is a fundamental normality that every person wishes to live their life without infringement upon their liberty, and even criminals have a hard coded genetic urge to survive and live and enjoy their lives.

To criminalize these actions or deeds is to criminalize human nature, an unavoidable instinctive reaction in panic, fight or flight, et cetera. It is impossible to avoid such events, and it is purely the nature of the beast that such things occur. It is patently absurd, ignorant, and pure arrogance to claim otherwise, let alone to allow it to be the SOLE CHARGE that people are brought up on.

If the police chase you, and you’ve done nothing wrong to give them suspicion to chase you (therefore their chasing you isn’t warranted) in the United States THIS alone is a criminal offence, and you then get arrested just for not wanting to be arbitrarily arrested (or ‘detained’, or ‘cuffed for their safety while they ‘talk’ to you’) and have your entire day and possibly life derailed by some skin head chubby angry divorcee with nothing better to do than try and inflate his or her ego by dicking other people around.

We’ve all watched Cops, we know it happens, hell it even happens where I live sometimes; I personally have been dicked around by the police in all states except Western Australia and the Territories where the police are amazingly civil and polite and legitimately feel like they’re there to help you. I’m a nobody, an everyman, therefore an easy mark who will cop it, pay the fine, not fight the matter, and give them their figures that their entire budgets are based off (a whole other rant about how that sort of setup encourages bullying and corruption rather than protection of the innocent)!

And don’t even get me started on stings, or entrapment, let alone the fact television shows are made up entirely of corporate muppets staging such entrapments and causing criminality then liasing with the police to have them storm in and arrest people who otherwise without encouragement and baiting may not have committed a crime to begin with.

Or arresting you if you refuse to sign a traffic citation, which would be signed under duress of threat of imprisonment anyway, thus would be void even if signed; so that’s just a whole other circle jerk of assinine logic and poor understanding of the law enforced by your police and judges right there. Hell, your law enforcement think so little of you they make you place an inked hand or finger print on the back of citations, just as the English did in India to scare illiterate peasants that they could ‘track them down’ and made them ink a palm print on the back of contracts instead of signing them. I shit you not, google the history of fingerprints. You’re an illiterate Indian peasant to them, and you take it like a bitch and love every minute of it.

Now, that is the short and sweet argument I wanted to put forward, the inflammatory title line and my attempt at being abrasive is purely to make sure you’re somewhat bitter whilst reading this post, and now you should (provided you’re not mentally handicapped) realise that I just dropped some pretty profound wisdom on you, for your sake, for the sake of your family, and for the sake of your children; and in a round about way I am providing you with the right to arms you lost that was purely in place to overthrow tyranny and injustice when encountered.

I’ve armed you with an outsiders view, and the weapons of mass destruction I’ve tucked under your belt are your votes. Your government MUST fear you, they MUST know that if they do not provide what you demand you WILL sack them. You control this, and only you right now are responsible in my eyes for where your nation heads. Don’t vote another Bush in, don’t forget to vote, vote hard, on policy, and make fucking sure the pricks give you back your freedom!

Then and ONLY then will I have words with France and see if they’ll give you back your confiscated statue. Peace. <3

This is a written complaint in the way of a customer experience. I hope Xbox Australia actually read it, because they should be ashamed of themselves and the sub par service they offer, most companies do follow social network call outs, but given how difficult they make everything I won’t hold my breath.

(For social network henchmen of both companies, who don’t know who I am, My social network and readership of my blog and demographic reach is pretty epic, my webbie award nominations put me ahead of folks like Ellen Degeneres, hell I even trumped Stephen Fry, and we know how prolific a social network whore he is. So, to Xbox AND Playstation, don’t miss the opportunity to thumb around my numbers and figure out just how much having me as a customer is worth and let’s talk.)

Many years ago, I registered my email address, and when it asked where I was I listed Australia; at some point it nagged me to move my files to the Australian Live servers, I didn’t want to, and left them in the US. When I bought my Xbox and made my account, it accepted my billing info to pay my XBL subscription but rejected any attempt to buy or do anything as I was apparently in the United States.

This took several days worth of messing around to rectify, and rather than fixing it their end, Xbox made me abandon my gamer tag and adopt a shitty variant of it (xBaSHxPR0MPTx) and I can’t even paid gamer tag name change it, not that I should have to as it was their own incompetence.

I’ve had many, many troubles between then and now, but this is the kicker that has me about to step off as an Xbox player.

In July Lullssec hacked Xbox Live and posted a tonne of accounts online. Xbox claimed it was a lie and were all DOODLOL NO SRSLY. It wasn’t a lie, they had been hacked.

I hadn’t logged into the account they forced me to make since the day I opened it, and recently after trying to GIVE THEM MONEY to buy something and them rejecting ALL of my payment methods (including new ones I added that do work) I went to their billing site to edit it on my PC because I was sick of using a controller to type.

I couldn’t remember the account name, so I had to search it in my Xbox, on logging in I had a message saying that my account was suspended (the email, not the XBL) and I had to give them a mobile number for them to send a four digit code to.

I did so, and the SMS directed me to a website that wasn’t the website I was actually on asking for the confirmation. I disregarded this as yet another unprofessional Microsoft negligence of oversight, with all their thousands of sites all interlinked with no passport like they claim to provide for universal access, I just punched in the numbers.

155 emails. All in Mexicanese or something. Apparently I was Darby Eldred though, not a very Mexican name. No fucking idea. Two people were on my MSN messenger though, which was interesting as I had never used it, ever. I asked both of them if they knew who Darby Eldred was, or why they were on my MSN, they replied in moonspeak so I gave up. I resecured my account, then went back to the Xbox site.

I refreshed all my billing details (mind you my XBL gold membership comes out monthly with no problem at all) and kept being met with (aside from server lag on their site): Your payment instrument could not be authorized. Please contact your provider, or try a different payment option.

I entered every credit card I own to get the same message, I even entered two paypal accounts. All of the CC’s are fine and work elsewhere, as do the paypal accounts, but nope, no joy.

Either way, over the years I have wasted several days of my life chasing them up to fix their own fucking mistakes. The fact they deny that any accounts were hacked, and yet clearly my account was, and the date the emails started were conveniently the same month, is more of a sign of their inability to 1. offer a legitimate functional service, 2. make life easier for the consumer, 3. tell the truth.

So, I’m finally done. I’ve had enough of their shit, and I encourage any of you who are wondering why people prefer PC games over console games to seriously consider whether you play your Xbox enough for your subscription. If you don’t, cancel it. Every dollar you starve them will make them realise that their service dropping off will yield players dropping off also.

So, Xbox Australia, the ball is in your court. You can contact me at bashprompt@ymail.com or on +6145 003 BASH (2274) and tell me why you’re a big bunch of jerks who can’t run a business, fix my gamer tag back to what it should be, and fix my account so I can give you my money for your stupid products that are all overpriced in Australia (for international readers, over here we pay anywhere up to $150 per game, whereas you pay $20-30, and our Australian dollar is much stronger than the US dollar so there is absolutely no reasoning why) and a bloody good excuse as to why you make my life so hard.

If you choose not to, I’ll give you 31 days to give it a shot, then I’m open to communication from Playstation. Use the information as above, make me an offer, and win me as a gamer.

Round one. Fight!

A repost that just deserves reposting.

Like trying to translate the Ancient Greek poets into modern languages, there’s simply some deep meaning lost without the original words. Unless you speak Kardashian, you probably read the words of the Kim Kardashian apology letter, but perhaps missed what was actually being said. Having studied Kim now since the day she was celebrity baptized by Ray J’s number one, we can provide a Kardashian-to-English translation:

This is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write.
I haven’t written more than ‘LOL’ and ‘Luvs’ in five years.

I see all of the support and I am so thankful for my fans, friends and family who are helping me through this difficult time.
Suckers.

I am trying not to read all the different media reports but it’s hard not to see all the negative ones.
I don’t really read, but I watched Bruce reading and he looked really mad.

First and foremost, I married for love. I can’t believe I even have to defend this. I would not have spent so much time on something just for a TV show!
Ignore the fact that I spend ALL my time just for a TV show and what I just wrote might seem plausible.

I share so much of my life on a reality show, that contemplating whether to even film my wedding was a tough decision to make, and maybe it turned out to not be the smartest decision. But it’s who I am!
Negotiations with E! Channel were brutal, but they finally showed us the money.

We filmed Kourtney giving birth, Khloe getting married, break ups, make ups, our best moments and our worst moments. These were all real moments. That’s what makes us who we are. We share, we give, we love and we are open!
We have no shame whatsoever.

Everyone that knows me knows that I’m a hopeless romantic!
I give head on the first date if you’re a pro baller.

I love with all of my heart and soul.
I’ve got lots of love to give. Call my mom and she’ll give you a good rate.

I want a family and babies and a real life so badly that maybe I rushed in to something too soon. I believed in love and the dream of what I wanted so badly. I felt like I was on a fast roller coaster and couldn’t get off when now I know I probably should have.
I’ve suffered to keep my waist smaller than my tits and ass and I’ll be damned if I’m going to let some dude ask me to go get him a Coke from the fridge.

I got caught up with the hoopla and the filming of the TV show that when I probably should have ended my relationship, I didn’t know how to and didn’t want to disappoint a lot of people.
Our TV contract held 50% of the money back until after the wedding

I’m being honest here…
As opposed to before.

…and I hope you respect my courage because this isn’t easy to go through.
Despite what it seems, humiliating yourself for money isn’t all cocks and gravy.

But I do know that I have to follow my heart.
I mention my heart a lot, it makes me seem earnest.

I never had the intention of hurting anybody and I accept full responsibility for my actions and decisions…
I borrowed this from Lindsay’s speech in court.

…and for taking everyone on this journey with me. It just didn’t turn out to be the fairy tale I had so badly hoped for.
Wait, is King Midas a fairy tale?

There are also reports that I made millions of dollars off of the wedding. These reports are simply not true and it makes me so sad to have to even clarify this.
I made eighteen thousand thousands!

I’m so grateful to everyone who took the time to come to my wedding and I’ll be donating the money for all the gifts to the Dream Foundation.
As in, in your dreams are you getting your Williams-Sonoma waffle iron back.

I’m sorry if I have hurt anyone, but my dad always told me to follow my heart I believe now that I really am.
It’s not like I killed Ron and Nicole. Get over it already.