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Comment Re:Now... (Score 1) 159

by Drak Martel on Sunday December 26, 2004 @10:29AM (#11184636) Attached to: Post-Googleism At IBM With Piquant

Unfortunately, this bit of software is not made to make inferences. What it came back with would probably depend on how many sites said the war was about oil or whatever the hell they say (Democrat sites), how many say it was about weapons of mass destruction (Republican sites that haven't been updates), and how many that just cliam that the US had a right to beat the shit out of Saddam (updated Republican sites). This is of course going on the assumption that the engine would be looking for majority. If it just looks for the first site... who knows what you will end up with. And if it tries to take everything into account in some kind of related collection, it will just tell you that no one really knows what's going on, which is probably the most accurate answer anyway.

Journal Journal: NJLIC

Journal by Drak Martel on Sunday July 18, 2004 @03:54PM

Dirk has just returned from NJLIC (National Junior Leader Instructor Camp), situated in the "scouting paradice" of Philmont. Now I'm a lot better at giving presentations and have more leadership training experience. Once I have the pictures up on the internet I'll post the link here. A good deal of the NJLIC course, furthermore refered to as NJ, was the new NYLT material because National is requiring all council JLT programs to be NYLT and they needed trained people to teach it. Since I had alre

Journal Journal: Dirk? Religious?

Journal by Drak Martel on Monday July 05, 2004 @11:40PM

Yes, very much so. It's growing on me. Almost a year ago now I was a kickass athiest, had the best anti-religion arguments, and refutations to the best of the religious arguments. I like to amuse myself with circular logic saying that I'm Christian because if someone like me could be converted, it must be the one and only true God. But really I met someone who I wanted to be like, and realized they were that way because they were Christian. I fell in love with the teachings of Jesus, that we sho

Journal Journal: The perfect government: Part 1

Journal by Drak Martel on Wednesday May 19, 2004 @11:19AM

Everyone knows that the perfect government has been philosophized about since about the time people realized they had governments. And that they mostly sucked. Today, it is generally accepted that a democratic or republican government set-up in which people vote on leaders is the best way to do things. I'm here to say it's not. There have been many attempts at creating the ideal government in the past, two of the most notable are the United States, which created a successful democracy in a world

Journal Journal: Another Philosophy

Journal by Drak Martel on Friday May 14, 2004 @12:06AM

Well, I rented Ninja Gaiden a couple days ago, and haven't slept a good ... err... haven't had a good night's sleep since then. Which is probably why things just sent me off. The biggest problem is almost cliche in how many people complain about this, but guess what, it's family. That's right, I too seem to hate my family. My dad is a complete asshole and its been rubbing off on me for the past several years. So I decided to come up with a philosophy... This is a very simple co

Journal Journal: May 2

Journal by Drak Martel on Saturday May 08, 2004 @03:50PM

Wow, it's May already. That's amazing. School's almost out. AP tests are almost over. Just amazing. Time flies when you're doing the same thing every single day and night. On that note, I guess there really isn't much all that interesting going on. Looks like hard work once again would have paid off earlier in the semester. This AP Chemistry test is going to be a real pain. Those are likely to be three of the worst hours of my life. At least up to this point. I'm just wondering, if anyone's ever

Journal Journal: Pointless Saturday Just Like Every Other

Journal by Drak Martel on Saturday April 10, 2004 @10:14AM

It's Saturday. The one that comes after Good Friday and before Easter Sunday. There needs to be a name for today. So I think I'll make one. Pointless Saturday Just Like Every Other. But in reality, this description is quite wrong. This Saturday, because of its placement before Easter Sunday, is the last day of Lent. So let me rename it again to be a little more accurate: Last Day of Lent Saturday. Ah, yes, that means it's less than 24 hours before those Christian of us can get back the things th

Journal Journal: computer, cape, poetry?

Journal by Drak Martel on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @06:14PM

I have a couple things to write about actually.

First of all, I finally finished my computer last weekend, and I used the S-video Xbox connector to connect my new TV, which has s-video, to my computer and use it as a secondary monitor. Only problem is that my primary monitor is a crappy one that a stripped from one of the old junk computers lying around my house.

Journal Journal: Backpacking is awesome

Journal by Drak Martel on Monday January 19, 2004 @11:00PM

I went backpacking over the three day weekend and brouht a composition notebook and wrote a whole bunch of stuff as follows:

Journal Journal: I assure you, there are no boring days inside my head 2

Journal by Drak Martel on Sunday January 11, 2004 @04:15PM

Not too much to say about my life, though it does seem to have changed a lot since I last updated. I was just wondering, why does everyone seem so depressed now? I suppose I only notice it now because I seemed much that way before, but something's very wrong when everyone seems to think that their life sucks. Well, I won't be like Gage and criticize you for thinking that, but there's a way to stop feeling that way, you just aren't looking in the right places.

Journal Journal: Run Away!

Journal by Drak Martel on Sunday December 14, 2003 @02:22PM

Roses and pencils are not like kings.

There is actually a multi-divergent story that comes from that, but it's really not that interesting, so I'll skip that part.

Journal Journal: The letter S

Journal by Drak Martel on Sunday December 07, 2003 @10:47PM

Today's program was brought to you by the letter S. S is for sore, sleepy, and just plain shitty. Yep, that's right, I feel like shit. But I had a helluva lot of fun getting here and would do it all again given the chance. Overall, weekend was awesome.

Journal Journal: Life is good, desipte the first impressions it gives

Journal by Drak Martel on Wednesday November 19, 2003 @03:24PM

Tusday night: ... wait... that wasnt tuesday night.
Monday night: I got no sleep. Doing homework for an entire night gives you a unique perspective through which to see the world. Which is promptly forgotten because you are too tired/wired with caffeine to remember anything. All I really remember was that day old bean borrido and two 24 oz.... make that 3, one for the next day, code red mountain dew. good stuff. Now its wednesday. Tomorrow I'm heading to William and M

Journal Journal: Its about time

Journal by Drak Martel on Saturday November 15, 2003 @10:35PM

Ok, so that last entry didn't have anything to do with my life, except the fact that all that I notice throughout the day is my own thoughts of philosophy and I remain completely oblivious to all other points of life... Yeah...

Journal Journal: Bogus theory time! 2

Journal by Drak Martel on Friday November 14, 2003 @05:19PM

I'm discontent with what little I know of the current physics system. Here are my main problems: what is keeping the positively charged protons together in the nucleus of an atom without any electrons? Matter and energy are sperate things.

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