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Journal Journal: How To Backup Your Data

How To Backup Your Data

Our computers today store all kinds of important information: schedules, work documents, family photos, annual audits and various Internet account details. Whatever we're working with on the computer, we daily rely upon the information it provides us with. Despite this, few people today are backing up their data to secure both private and company information. This article is a quick and easy guide to how you set up your own backup system and avoid a future disaster.

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Editorial

Journal Journal: Thoughts On The Subprime Scam 2

Thoughts On The Subprime Scam

By now you've all read and heard about the subprime mortgage crash in America and its possible future implications on the economy as a whole. Millions of families have been forced to leave their homes, subprime lenders across the country have filed bankruptcy and the effects have even spread to Asian and European markets. What's all of this really about?

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Editorial

Journal Journal: Entertainment Is Control

The dominant paradigm (DP) states that you go to work or school, then come home, and deserve a little reward like dessert after dinner, so you pursue "entertainment." Other than the hilariously condescending nature of that term, most people have no warning that movies, TV, video games, pop music, stand-up comedy and pornography are all part of the same genre of "entertainment." If you're a good slave, you get a little break. This little break is designed to pass your time painlessly, like a drug but without interesting hallucinations.

It is entirely passive in that you do not direct any of your thoughts during the process, but you react to something someone else has scripted. Your goal is not to expand your mind or your abilities. It is to pass the time, and think what you saw was funny or interesting or "entertaining" in some other way.

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Editorial

Journal Journal: Hindu Extremism And Christian Crowd Revolt In India

It was days before Christmas Eve that a group of Hindu extremists burned and ransacked eight rural churches in eastern India, upsetting the 2,5% of the population in the country that identifies itself with the Christian faith. This act is just one in a historical line of events where Christians in India have been attacked by Hindus who want to stop the missionaries to convert people over to Christianity. Let's take a brief look at why this is.

Christian psychology is very simple: life on earth includes pain, horror, suffering and death. Because we cannot change these aspects of reality, we naturally have to look for comfort elsewhere. That comfort is in Christian faith called "Heaven," an imaginary place where competition, destruction, death and pain don't exist. And what better way of justifying all of this, than an absolute authority that we cannot perceive but is still "there," beyond earthly logic? Convenient, isn't it?

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Editorial

Journal Journal: Mike Huckabee Leads Election By Losing Weight

The Pew Research Center released a survey of the American presidential election with a startling conclusion -- that Mike Huckabee will take the lead not because of his political views, but because Americans can identify with his struggle for weight loss.

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Editorial

Journal Journal: The Why And How Of Organics

There has been a lot of talk recently about organics, but is there any legitimacy to the argument? Simply put, yes...and for one simple reason: If you wouldn't voluntarily put chemicals into your body, why pay someone else to do it for you?

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Editorial

Journal Journal: Facing Passive Enemies

I think we've all been there; coming to work and noticing how someone has made a mess out of your otherwise organized desk, or walking up to the locker at school and finding it being covered with provocative slurs. It's that "secret" enemy of yours that doesn't like you but is too afraid to tell you between four eyes. What to do?

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Editorial

Journal Journal: Waiting For Christmas

Christmas has become one of the most pathetic holidays of the year. This is the time when broken families attempt reconciliation over excessive dinners, and feed their children expensive plastic presents to supplant absent parental attention. Co-workers compete on sucking up to their boss for higher salaries while Christian missionaries give money to the poor, to feel good about themselves and appear in the local news.

It's all about wrapping up our modern dysfunctions inside neat packages and exchange them to satisfy our ego. As if our culture wasn't commercialized enough, Christmas today is little more than an excuse to shop for all we've got and then wasting the last money on people who will use it for beer, drugs and sex.

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Editorial

Journal Journal: Colour Is More Than Skin Deep

James Watson who, together with Francis Crick, discovered the double helix as the structure of DNA, has been found to have 16 times more genes of African origin than the average White European. He has 16% compared to 1%.

This stunning revelation has led to Watson, who recently sparked controversy by suggesting that Africans are genetically less intelligent than other people, being accused of being unintelligent himself. Read more

Editorial

Journal Journal: Modernism Comes To China

The next culture to fall victim to modernism is China. For a long time the West has observed its Asian enemy with great interest. Its most recent developments have included an explosion in economical and industrial expansion, combining communist totalitarianism with capitalist free trade; an interesting symbiosis that so far has proved to both fuel a military threat to a decaying West, but also point to environmental damages of such large proportions, that the general health of its still enormous population, now is under threat.

But things are still changing in China. Recent news describes a country undergoing a hasty transition to a modern welfare lifestyle, defined by financial prosperity, competitive individualism and liberalization of traditional culture. Families are torn apart and replaced with short-term relationships where money and social status dictate the norms. The spoiled generation of children who only think of and care for themselves are now taking over.

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Journal Journal: Universexuality: The New Sexual Revolution

When Robert Stewart was found at the Aberley House Hostel in south west Scotland, desperately trying to have sex with his bike, he couldn't possibly have foreseen the immense effects of his deviant act. Although critics told the case off as "absurd" and "impossible," Robert's case would turn out to be just a small drop in the ocean of a growing trend in our modern society: universexuality.

Just last monday, a middle aged man from Britain was caught trying to insert his penis into a vending machine. "If I hadn't run out of coins, I would have come," the man told the local press. Another shocking incident occurred in the remote town of Bergen, Norway, where the parents to 14-year-old girl Marit Andersen found their daughter trying to masturbate with the gear lever in their new car. "Every time I backed, it was like being banged by an elephant," Marit said before she was taken into custody.

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Editorial

Journal Journal: Why Open Source Won't Save You

Cults appear everywhere today; in religion, politics, business and media. Technology is not an exception. What defines a cult is the insistence that a certain way, right or wrong, can be the only way for characteristics independent of its effect. What matters in the real world is how well something works, but cults replace this with a symbol or doctrine.

Open source was originally the idea that knowledge about software programming should be shared within a community, independent of financial reward, to compete with the costly corporate software out on the market. So far, really smart. What's happened over these last years is that the open source community has slowly transformed into a cult phenomenon that dogmatically divides software up into two binary categories: open source (good) and closed source (evil).

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Journal Journal: The Eugenizer (Terminator Redux)

In the Year of World Dysgenics, 2008, the oligarchs in control of the Western civilization devised the ultimate plan to enslave mankind and turn it into a brainless, grey robot race. By subtly manipulating people with television, fast food, sex and Hollywood entertainment, the power would remain in the hands of a few selected who had realized that most of humanity is stupid and therefore can be used for bureaucratic slavery (also known as "jobs") and colonial projects (referred to as "war on terrorism"). Only one man, one unstoppable war machine sent from outer space, would dare to challenge the mass tyranny of the crowd and their political handlers. His name was The Eugenizer.

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Editorial

Journal Journal: Nazis Rejoice At Annoying Civil Rights March

WASHINGTON, DC (N3) - American neo-Nazis gathered to celebrate and pray as yet another civil rights march descended on this ghetto-strewn city, home to the capitol of the United States, which still insists it is not a third world nation.

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Editorial

Journal Journal: In The Search For Status Quo

One of the most difficult challenges for a leader is to know how many rules you should enforce, in order to maintain order and discipline in a group of people. There is no absolute guideline how to do this right and the results will vary among cultures and individuals. Parents face the same dilemma every day: if you let your child do whatever it feels like doing, it will end up being driven over by a car or kidnapped by some local lunatic. If you restrict it too much, that will eventually back lash when it grows older and realizes that you destroyed its childhood.

Human nature is very simple: in any given environment where's there's a group of individuals living together, certain norms and principles will be established over time, that seem to benefit the group as a whole. This may of course also include taboos and not all rules are necessarily stated in public; in fact, if you think about the social norms in our society today, they consist of quiet agreements that all people assume you agree with and follow: don't walk naked to work, stand in line to the concert, avoid wearing the Nazi uniform at school etc.

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