Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Peninsula State Park Door County vacation

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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Buying One Piece boxset 1 in January 2015

I was a ware of One Piece since 2005, but the box sets were far beyond my price range until January 2015. One Piece is better then Bleach and Naruto. I see Bleach and Narauto at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart doesn't know One Piece is better in overall score at Internet Movie Database, because they're stupid. It's wally's world. I don't see Bleach and Naruto at Target. One Piece boxset 1 costs $90 for 100 episodes. One Piece Boxset 2 costs $90 for 110 episodes released in February 2015. That's 66% off per episode over previous dvd collections

 

Top 50 disney cartoons

1                    The Lion King                8.5        1994              
2                    Beauty and the Beast                8.1        1991              
3                    Aladdin                8        1992              
4                    Finding Nemo                8.2        2003              
5                    The Little Mermaid                7.6        1989              
6                    Frozen                7.8        2013              
7                    Toy Story                8.3        1995              
8                    Tangled                7.9        2010              
9                    Spirited Away                8.6        2001              
10                    Toy Story 3                8.4        2010              
11                    Monsters, Inc.                8.1        2001              
12                    Lady and the Tramp                7.4        1955              
13                    Up                8.3        2009              
14                    Sleeping Beauty                7.4        1959              
15                    Song of the South                7.4        1946              
16                    Mulan                7.5        1998              
17                    Robin Hood                7.6        1973              
18                    Peter Pan                7.4        1953              
19                    Cinderella                7.3        1950              
20                    The Fox and the Hound                7.3        1981              
21                    WALLĂ‚·E                8.5        2008              
22                    Bambi                7.4        1942              
23                    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs                7.7        1937              
24                    Ratatouille                8        2007              
25                    101 Dalmatians                7.2        1961              
26                    The Jungle Book                7.6        1967              
27                    The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh                7.6        1977              
28                    The Incredibles                8        2004              
29                    Tarzan                7.2        1999              
30                    The Great Mouse Detective                7.2        1986              
31                    Hercules                7.2        1997              
32                    The Nightmare Before Christmas                8.1        1993              
33                    The AristoCats                7.1        1970              
34                    Alice in Wonderland                7.4        1951              
35                    Pinocchio                7.6        1940              
36                    Fantasia                7.8        1940              
37                    Wreck-It Ralph                7.8        2012              
38                    Dumbo                7.3        1941              
39                    Toy Story 2                7.9        1999              
40                    The Sword in the Stone                7.2        1963              
41                    Lilo & Stitch                7.1        2002              
42                    The Hunchback of Notre Dame                6.9        1996              
43                    Howl's Moving Castle                8.2        2004              
44                    Cars                7.3        2006              
45                    Oliver & Company                6.7        1988              
46                    Pocahontas                6.6        1995              
47                    Brave                7.2        2012              
48                    A Bug's Life                7.2        1998              
49                    The Rescuers                6.9        1977              
50                    Monsters University                7.4        2013              

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Diablo 3 PS4 review

The game looks very pretty on PS4 (1080p). The DualShock 4 compliments well with the game play. For instance, you can get to inventory by pressing on the touch pad. The hot keys are displayed in the lower left corner, so you won’t have to memorize which button to press to get to the execution/item you want. I chose to play as the witch doctor and the key difference to note here is in the PS4 version, you can actually flip and roll the character, unlike in the PC version (I believe only the demon hunters can do this in PC). When firing your weapon, you don’t have to repeatedly tap the button. All you have to do is press and hold upon firing your choice of weapon. Obviously this review is based on the first couple of hours I have played thus far, as I just got this game today. So far, I am pretty impressed with it and I look forward to play the game going forward.
1) Local couch co-op is… a… blast! You and up to three other friends can bash away at demons until the wee hours of the morning and never want to stop. The drive for better gear and abilities drives everything, and it’s contagious. The menus are well-optimized for console, but you may still have to be a little patient when playing local multiplayer. Everyone wants to get their character right, you know.
2) I bet I’m not the only one who can’t stomach getting a gaming PC for one reason or another. The PS4 version looks a million times better than ROS on my MacBook Pro, and I can’t imagine it looking better! No one would argue that the PC can give the best-looking experience, but at a cost. The PS4 never drops a frame.
3) Controllers work wonderfully in combat! The menus take some getting used to (and believe me, you’ll spend a lot of time there), but you will get used to it. You’ll get the most out of managing loot (particularly in local multiplayer when everyone has to do it) if you force yourself to tag the loot you plan to sell as “junk”. You can bulk-sell your “junk” at merchants in one press. But back to combat, it’s wonderful, yes, even for ranged characters!
I’m loving my PS4 and Diablo III is an icing on the cake.

On Instagram.... finally!

They make it so difficult to get sign up. They make you download Android x86 4.4 and then service only works with Instagram for Firefox or Instagram for Chrome. Why can't Instagram be like Flickr?

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Owning dogs is better then Sex

The fewer babies Americans give birth to, the more small dogs they seem to buy.
Birth rates in the US have fallen from nearly 70 per 1,000 women in 2007, to under 63 last year—a 10% tumble. American women birthed almost 400,000 fewer little humans in 2013 than they did six years before. The drop-off has come exclusively among 15- to 29-year-olds. This chart, taken from a recent report by the US Department of Health (pdf), does a pretty decent job of showing how much of the growing disinterest in having babies is due to younger women:
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Meanwhile, the ownership of small dogs—that is, pets weighing no more than 20 pounds (9 kilograms)—is doing just the opposite. Americans have been buying more and more small dogs each year since 1999. The population of little canines more than doubled in the US over that period, and is only projected to continue upwards, according to data from market research firm Euromonitor.
“You do not have to go to many pet shows to realize that the numbers of small and tiny dogs are on the increase,” a report by Pets International opened in 2010 (pdf).
And rightly so. The number of small dogs has grown so fast that they are now the most popular kind nationwide.
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It could just be a coincidence that Americans are birthing fewer babies at the same time as they’re buying a lot more little dogs. But there’s pretty good reason to believe it isn’t, Damian Shore, an analyst at market-research firm Euromonitor, told Quartz. “There’s definitely some replacement happening there,” he said.
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One telling sign that the two are not entirely unrelated is that the same age groups that are forgoing motherhood are leading the small dog charge. “Women are not only having fewer children, but are also getting married later. There are more single and unmarried women in their late 20s and early 30s, which also happens to be the demographic that buys the most small dogs,” Shore said.
There’s also evidence people are treating their dogs a bit more like little humans these days. Premium dog food, the most expensive kind, has grown by 170% over the past 15 years, and now accounts for 57% of of the overall dog food market.
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There are now tools to monitor your dog’s fitness, ice cream trucks exclusively for canines, and vacations designed exclusively for dog-having people. “The animals in our homes are family. They’re like children,” David Grimm, the author of the book Citizen Canine, told Wired this week.
Of course, small dog ownership isn’t rising just because people want kid substitutes. Fashion trends aside, small dogs are also emblematic of a national migration to cities, where big dogs are harder to keep. Nearly 80% of Americans live in urban areas. “Smaller homes and apartments are also helping drive the growing popularity of smaller dogs,” Shore said.
But the national trend towards later motherhood is certainly playing its part. And those who treat their pooches and pugs like babies may be on to something. A study last year found that dogs form bonds of dependency with their owners not unlike the ones babies form with their parents.

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

multiculturalism failed in Europe

German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that in Germany, multiculturalism  (Critical Theory) has "utterly failed." Both Australia's ex-prime minister John Howard and Spain's ex-prime minister Jose Maria Aznar reached the same conclusion about multiculturalism in their countries. British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that multiculturalism is fostering extremist ideology and directly contributing to homegrown Islamic terrorism. UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said the United Kingdom's push for multiculturalism has not united Britons but pushed them apart. It has allowed for Islam to emerge despite Britain's Judeo-Christian culture. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the roots of violent Islamism are not "superficial but deep" and can be found "in the extremist minority that now, in every European city, preach hatred of the West and our way of life."

The bottom line is that much of the Muslim world is at war with Western civilization. There's no question that the West has the military might to thwart radical Islam's agenda. The question up for grabs is whether we have the intelligence to recognize the attack and the will to defend ourselves from annihilation.

Multiculturalism is Islamists' foot in the door. At the heart of multiculturalism is an attack on Western and Christian values. Much of that attack has its roots on college campuses among the intellectual elite who see their mission as indoctrinating our youth. In past columns, I've documented professorial hate-America teaching, such as a UCLA economics professor's telling his class, "The United States of America, backed by facts, is the greediest and most selfish country in the world." A history professor told her class: "Capitalism isn't a lie on purpose. It's just a lie." She also said: "(Capitalists) are swine. ... They're bastard people." Students sit through lectures listening to professorial rants about topics such as globalism and Western exploitation of the Middle East and Third World peoples.

Some public school boards have banned songs and music containing references to Santa Claus, Jesus or other religious Christmas symbols. The New York City school system permits displays of Jewish menorahs and the Muslim star and crescent, but not the Christian Nativity scene. One school district banned a teacher from using excerpts from historical documents in his classroom because they contained references to God and Christianity. The historical documents in question were the Declaration of Independence and "The Rights of the Colonists," by Samuel Adams.

The U.S. is a nation of many races, ethnicities, religions and cultures. Since our inception, people from all over the world have immigrated here to become Americans. They have learned English and American history and celebrated American traditions and values. They have become Americans while also respecting and adapting some of the traditions of the countries they left behind. By contrast, many of today's immigrants demand that classes be taught -- and official documents be printed -- in their native language. Other immigrants demand the use of Shariah, practices that permit honor killing and female genital mutilation.

Multiculturalists argue that different cultural values are morally equivalent. That's nonsense. Western culture and values are superior. For those who'd accuse me of Eurocentrism, I'd ask: Is forcible female genital mutilation, as practiced in nearly 30 sub-Saharan African and Middle Eastern countries, a morally equivalent cultural value? Slavery is practiced in Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan; is it morally equivalent? In most of the Middle East, there are numerous limits placed on women, such as prohibitions on driving, employment and education. Under Islamic law, in some countries, female adulterers face death by stoning, and thieves face the punishment of having their hand severed. In some countries, homosexuality is a crime punishable by death. Are these cultural values morally equivalent, superior or inferior to Western values?

Multiculturalism has not yet done the damage in the U.S. that it has in western European countries -- such as England, France and Germany -- but it's on its way. By the way, one need not be a Westerner to hold Western values. Mainly, you just have to accept the supremacy of the individual above all else.