Australia Day

Caucasians are celebrating successful invasion of the indigenous Australians. Indigenous Australians celebrating (?) being invaded by caucasians. The Labor government are trying to look like they're celebrating reconciliation between indigenous Australians and caucasians, amidst failing to deliver on core election promises.

Obviously Asians are celebrating a PUBLIC HOLIDAY FTW!!!!!1111oneoneone.

PS. Political correctness FTW as well

Worldwide Economic RRRRecession

The good thing about economics, as opposed to politics, is that everyone looks at both sides of the bullshit. The bad part is it goes on my generic blog instead of my political blog with a light bulb. Now of course, the first side is that everything will become a muddle piece of economic faeces, but there is "light shining through the clouds". If you live in a place that's significant enough to have a small share market, but insignificant otherwise (eg. Philippines, New Zealand, that tiny island that's too insignificant to have it's name known, etc.), you're going to suffering much less than the countries that enjoy everything else better than you.

Commercialization of Christmas/etc. Part II

So today, the people that fell for the big rip-off company's Christmas message that it's about giving, buying stuff, etc. are exchanging the by-products (presents) of gifts that they gave to the large corporations (money).

Being hypocritical seems to pay off for big companys, preaching a message of giving when they're the ones that are raking everything in and the only people they're giving to are advertising companies.

Also, I feel sorry for anyone that actually believes one of those bags that Westfield put out that say "I believe in Santa". If you do, I just want to tell you, you are really sad, believing a make believe commercial character, like elves, gremlins and eskimoes.

Commercialization of Christmas (and variations)

OK, so basically there's all this crap with rich companies shoving the idea into peoples face the idea that the true spirit of Christmas is giving (the products that the companies make money from).

It doesn't take a genius to notice that marketing ploy, but while it takes advantage of people that are stupid enough to fall for them (and rightly so), but then it also boosts the economy, at the cost of people who are stupid enough to go bankrupt in the process of feeding big corporations.

The commercializers can hardly be blamed for people being idiots, but maybe Julian Morrow could step in and make a "public service announcement" like "Christmas is not for giving. It is just a scam to cheat you of your money. Thank You!".

Getting away with bullshit

Now without a doubt, we've all heard of the APEC summit. Not much people even know exactly what it stands for or what it's about. Now we probably have a vague idea amounting to something like this:

• A heap of leaders from different countries coming to Sydney to do something


• A large section of the Sydney CBD is closed off by an expensive 2.8 metre wall


• It's a public holiday

But what most of us probably don't know:

• It goes for a whole week and only one day is a public holiday


• It actually stands for Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation


• It's supposedly to discuss ways improve economic growth, etc.

What I find disgusting is that they spent something in the order of $10 million (or billion, I forgot) setting up a zoo for the wives of the APEC people. I hardly consider that economically benefical. But then again, no one really cares because it's a public holiday. So if you're a politicial reading this, I have this to say you you:

1. You're gay

2. Give us more public holidays and you will recieve less criticism. It's called inverse variation, if you ever got to grade 8 maths...



Thanks for reading, and now you know the ultimate way to get away with bullshit.

More Political BS

Now, today in assembly at school, we were read a (supposed) message from the Director General of the NSW DET. It said something that read like: "If you play pranks with fake weapons that look like real weapons and the victim of the prank gets a heart attack, you have committed a crime". Let's look at the implications of that. In effect it's saying that it's illegal to indirectly cause someone a heart attack. Let's look at what could potentially be illegal activity according to what was said:

• Giving back a test with a 0% mark (teachers)


• Unexpectedly patting someone on the back (anyone)


• Telling someone that they have been charged with indirectly causing someone a heart attack (police, teachers, principals, director generals of the NSW DET, etc.)


• Seeing a scary movite (movie makers)


• Filling a bag with air and popping it (anyone)


• Suddenly screaming unexpectedly (anyone)


• Seeing a blog post telling them that indirectly causing someone a heart attack is a crime (me)


• Many more...

So accoding to what this director general has said, everyone is a criminal. I consider this to be worthy of "CryptWizard's Bullshit of the Month" award. I will make some sort of Photoshopped medal for it soon. Thanks to the Director General of the New South Wales Department of Education for indirectly delivering that speech.

My Science Comp Answers

are stored encrypted in this text file: http://up.cw.siteoz.info/encryptedsciencecomp.txt (I've been told I'm good at science)

Now here's an introduction to the fine science of cryptography.

The encryption is given by the formula:

Where:

E is the encrypted text

P is the plain text

n is the position in the text

K is the key



E_n = P_n + (n + K)^2



By simple algebraric moving stuff around, you can find the formula for P_n. In the case of these answers, the key I used is between 0 and 5, so it's easy to brute force.

Science Comp etc.

The UNSW Science Competition was today, and for the benefit of anyone that hasn't done it, I will post some answers using my very own Quadratic Caesar algorithm shortly. Also, my CityRail ticket collection has officially piled up to the height of the length of one cable tie!