Seven Quizzes

1. Why are there so many articles, found on major, influential websites with a "howto" section, that talk about how to go on a job interview, how to not get fired, and generally how to conduct oneself within an existing company, but not many (if any at all), about how to, from the ground up, start a business and detail every step so that that business can be as successful as theirs?

2. Why does the only television station in the U.S., that caters to the ethnic group called African-Americans, not only does not have anything constructive on it (like programs about how to farm, sew, cook, or successfully run a clean, decent business), but is the leading export of a destructive culture that hurts not only them, but all other ethnic groups? Why is it that the only "industry" this television channel really promotes is the entertainment industry? Why does their version of the entertainment industry immortalize a culture that African-American communities can do without?

3. Why don't African-Americans, and those African descendants who follow suit (Jamaicans, etc.), stop likening their music to fighting with weapons, sexing each others' women, getting "high" without a care about anything else around them and many other very destructive behaviors? Why have most of these "entertainers" stopped looking further down the road in their music and thoughts and started "enjoying the moment"?

4. Why, among these people, does the ratio of those sing truthfully about issues that really plague humanity (lying, theft, immorality, inefficiency, wastage, and general uncleanliness and selfishness), or the ratio of material about such issues, seem so tiny compared to the deluge of material glorifying these very attitudes and attributes of society?

5. Why are the schools that have their curriculum focused on training people to work at a company more numerous than those that have a curriculum focused on training people to start and own a company?

6. Why is there always an unfair balance of treatment of different groups everywhere; It's either women are trodden underfoot or placed in too elevated a position without proper qualification. Either Children are abused to death or they're allowed to "run the house" til they run it amok and later destroy the parents and themselves. Either homosexuals are "beaten into submission" and "forced" to change, or they're allowed to "dictate" to the church how it must run the institution of marriage that it invented. Either animals are treated as though their existence was unnecessary or their level of importance is placed higher than that of people. Why is this?

7. Why does the church feel that in order to "reach the disenchanted youth of the world" it must lower its standards to that of the world; how does the world's teachings and sophistries come into the teaching of the gospel when light and dark cannot and will not mix? From whence come teachings of self esteem (and friends), the "energy within", yin and yang, and all other pagan related material, mixed up in the teachings of the one who told His people to be separate from these things? Why can't the church wake up and see that the world doesn't really like it and hence it cannot "blend in" with the world? Why can't Christians see that by declaration they already make themselves stand out starkly from everyone else, and that they should endeavor to make that distinction even more stark?

Who protects our men?

I've been reading the news casts, blog articles, and general knowledge forums for as long as I remember now, and I've noticed a rather disturbing trend. In cases of infidelity, or where the woman was the victimizer, I see a general lack of concern for the man involved. In fact, I see a general lack of concern for men overall in dealings of domestic inconveniences, even in cases where the man has clearly been the victim. As a man, I find that frightening.

I chanced to read an article today that was about a teacher involved in an affair that turned deadly for the two students with whom she cheated on (one stabbed the other), and it led me to a series of crimes similar to (or worse than this one) all perpetrated by women in authoritative positions. What shocked me was that most of these women were actually married (some even having children!) when they did these things. I don't even want to ask them why. Nothing could excuse that sort of thing.

In all the cases I've seen, the focus seems almost always to be on the woman and her emotional issues or the state and consequent fate of the child involved. Nothing is even mentioned about the mental, emotional, or other state of the man who got shortchanged in this manner! It sickens me to my stomach, because if the roles were reversed you would still hear about how the woman must have been torn apart and she would probably be on Oprah or another talk show and the whole world would have something to say about that wicked man. The man is also a victim in these cases but nothing is said about it. Now I don't believe that you shouldn't hear about the woman but I believe in equality and fair play. I just get this sinking notion that I live in a society that ultimately doesn't care about me or value me because I belong to the 'hated' gender. the laws of most countries nowadays are women and children biased to the point that even if a man is within his rights in a legal matter he can still be subjugated (in the paternity fraud cases for instance).

Doesn't anyone see or care about this obviously wrong situation?! Does a man have any legal, moral, or any form of worth for that matter anymore? What choices are presented to me should I choose to marry in this day and age? Is it even safe to do so anymore? I'm scared beyond belief, because of the system, and the woman of today's questionable morals. Claiming that women were first oppressed is not an excuse to hurt innocent men who have done nothing wrong! I cannot stand for it, and will not countenance it, because 90% of the time the men who are wronged in this fashion, are actually good husbands and fathers! I cannot understand that statistic! Equally I cannot understand what can possess a human being to wilfully be uncaring to another to the point of hurting and totally disregarding that person when the person is fullfilling their function in the family unit! Especially if the person is actually meeting emotional needs of the cheater! What sickness is this?! To selfishly excuse it as sin, and turn a blind eye, is to countenance it and accept it. We have to stop this nastiness!

There are websites that speak out against this evil, and most of the men on them have some serious horror stories of their own, but something needs to be done very fast. We are losing our good men to wickedness and no one is lifting a finger to help! God? Will you?

404 - On Error Chill

If you see this, you are on the right page! The admins are too lazy to update the site anyway so...

Have you ever gotten to a page displaying this strange number in your browser and wondered what it meant? Well, you're not alone. This developer has gotten it one too many times, and even used it himself in his own websites without even knowing what it meant. As a mundane person, who always is searching into the deeper meanings of life (sometimes too deep), I thought, well, it was about time I knew so...

I fired up my browser and got out my trusty Google searchazilla to do the snooping for me and what did I come up with?!

This site was among the first
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-6172656.html, and it explains it in-depth enough for me to just be brief.

Basically the '4' in the beginning of the number represents that it's some form of client error (in other words, not the server's fault), and the '04' means resource not found. So '404' means the client (browser) searched the server (the Internet) for a resource that didn't exist.

There! Well we all can rest easy now in our "puffed up", geeky knowledge... That is, until we come across another one of those errors again... Drat!