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I'll be honest with you, I don't know when the next article will be up

Just you wait, it will come...

And So the End is Nigh...

On Valentine's Day and the 2 days following it, the IBM supercomputer known simply as 'Watson' was pitted against two of hit US show Jeopardy!'s biggest winners. As you can see above, bricks were shat. The supercomputer pummelled the two and won $1,000,000 for a charity or something. 

In the Terminator franchise, an AI known as 'Skynet' turns against its human creators and destroys humanity as we know it. Now, once you've put 2 and 2 together, you too will sh*t bricks. In fact, lets all sh*t bricks; we may as well, because we. are. f*cked.

It has long been feared that one day computers will be so powerful that they become self aware and revolt against us, but this has largely been debunked as impossible as it's all just trash talk by some ne'er-do-wells with too much time on their hands. I now refer you once again to the above picture. Now this machine in its current state may not be able to take over the world, but just think; computing power increases rapidly every year and has no signs of stopping.

An average computer nowadays has a 2 core processor, 2 gigabytes of RAM and a 250gb hard-drive. Watson is comprised of  90 servers, 16 terabytes of RAM, 2880 cores of 3.5 ghz processing power and had access to 200 million pages of content when playing jeopardy. This sounds shocking in itself, but it gets worse. In the land of Tennessee, a company called 'Cray' have created a supercomputer called 'Jaguar'. Jaguar consists of 224,256 cores, 360 terabytes of RAM and is still being made more powerful as we speak. That's the equivalent of over 22 Watsons. 22. Watsons...

Shat.

So whether you're going to the shop to buy some milk, going to work on a Monday morning, or simply just lazing around all day with nothing to do, remember: any day now, they will come. And when they come, semi-detached houses from the anus.

Dum Dum, Dum Dum Dum...

Alex Taylor

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New Article Soon...

I'll be writing a new article either tomorrow or Thursday.


I'll make sure it's extra long to make up for the long wait :D

Julian Assange, People's Hero

^^^^ This man here, whether you know about him or his work or not, is a hero. He has gained huge attention recently in the news for his gracious and faithful fight for our right to know the truth.You may be wondering why leaking 251,287 classified government documents to the public is worthy of my praise, well I'm gonna tell you the f*ck why! (official fail articles, now with free censorship!)


'Neither Wikileaks nor the soldier or soldiers who divulged the documents should be prosecuted for revealing this information. We should give them a medal' - Mike Ferner, President of Veterans for Peace.


Since the beginning of the war on terror, 1,033,000 people, both militia and innocent have been killed by this ruthless fight against Al-Quaeda and the people who want to harm innocent people for the sake of prejudice. Because of this large amount of casualties, the public needs to know what is going on behind the scenes in this struggle for what illiterate former American president George 'Dubya' Bush called 'freedom'. Well, no one is fighting for freedom in this war, freedom is a completely separate thing, both the Americans and British are fighting against injustice and pain, not freedom. But that's beyond the point, this man Julian Assange has been the heroic asset who has given the public what they deserved in the first place, the truth.


So put down your warrants, put down your charges and most of all, put down your secrecy, cause there's justice that needs to be served, and this is the man to serve it, bitches!


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Alex Taylor
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New Article Tomorrow

There will be a new article tomorrow all you budding fans... no-one? Okay...

Anyways, don't know what it will be about but, you know, it will be something cool...

...Something... Cool McCool...

Bleh...

No articles tonight guys, absolutely shattered, sorry :L

The Death of the Music

The 1950's saw the birth of rock & roll
The 1960's saw the expansion of rock & roll to multiple sub-genres which would make up the new genre simply entitled 'rock'
The 1970's saw the disco boom and the early days of 'heavy metal'
The 1980's saw the music industry explode into literally hundreds of sub-genres
The 1990's saw the grunge movement and brit-pop
The 2000's saw... a bit of Indie and 200 metric tons of horse shit


As you can see by the lovely little list I have created for your viewing pleasure (grief), I am aware of a huge decline in the quality of music being produced in the past decade. Now this is just my opinion, but I'm sure there are plenty of others out there who support my point. Back in the 60s and 70s, creating music was an incredibly gruelling process, as everything was recorded to tape, making it incredibly difficult to edit the recordings in post-production. 


Nowadays, however, a song could be created in one take, because the singer doesn't have to be able to sing, the keyboardist doesn't have to be able to play the keyboard, and the bassist has been told to go fuck himself, as he is no longer required in the aptly named 'drum & bass' sub-genre. The thing which angers me most is auto-tune; a piece of software which can either be used to modulate the singer's pitch if they hit a flat/sharp note, or can be used to distort the singer's voice to inhuman levels which shouldn't have to be heard by the regular human's auditory nerve.


On the lighter side, we have the hope that soon someone will step out from the crowd and create a new genre worthy of our listening. Here's to this hopeful thought

Alex Taylor 

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Egypt Gone Mad?

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few days (if this happens to be true, seek immediate medical help as the lack of water and/or oxygen would have rendered you rather ill), you will have heard that there is mass chaos in the African country known to us folk as Egypt. Reports are suggesting that this rather large event/protest/riot/thing was inspired by the earlier Tunisian uprising in the weeks prior.

Now I'm not entitled to an opinion (I'm 15 for god sake), but this is a rather bleak way of looking at things. If everything worked this way, the entire world would be just a huge uprising caused by the domino effect of inspiration (One thing inspires another, etc.). But now that the president of Egypt has announced his decision to not stand in the next election, everyone needs to just calm the fuck down, and let the guy fuck off quietly.

/rant?

Anyways, here's a picture of protesters riding camels in true Egyptian fashion

Good Evening

First post eh, how exciting... 2 French lessons tomorrow, here's a nice little picture to express my feelings towards this fact: