Happy people make the world better

Filed under:General,War on Terror — posted by 3wire on 11/8/2005 @ 5:32 pm

Happy people make the world better

By Dennis Prager, Nov 8, 2005

When you think about a Muslim suicide terrorist, is “happy” the first word you think of to describe him?
When you think about Nazis or Communists or Klansmen or child molesters, do you immediately think, “Now there are some happy people”?
Of course not.
It only takes a moment’s thought to realize that while most unhappy people don’t engage in evil, most evil is done by unhappy people. This is true on both the macro and the micro levels. We all know how much more likely we are to lash out at others when we are unhappy and how much we desire to make others feel good when we feel happy.
Given this association of evil with unhappy people, it is quite remarkable how little attention is paid to happiness as a moral, rather than only a personal psychological issue. Too often the pursuit of happiness (not the pursuit of fun or excitement) is regarded as a selfish pursuit, when in fact it is one of the best things a person can do for everyone in his life and for the world at large. The Founders of America were brilliant in many ways, not more so than by enshrining that pursuit alongside the pursuit of life and liberty.
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Sony’s Illegal Activities

Filed under:Bill of Rights,Technology — posted by Q Ball on 11/7/2005 @ 9:33 pm

If you haven’t heard yet, Sony/BMG has been using Trojan Horse programs to protect it’s music CDs, and if you try to uninstall the program it will destroy your hard drive. This is one of the reasons the EFF exists.

Xbox 360 Top Tech Home Entertainment Innovation

Filed under:Gaming,Technology — posted by Maverick on @ 4:38 pm

Popular Science Names Xbox 360 Top Tech Home Entertainment Innovation of 2005 – Xbox

Caffine Can Kill You

Filed under:General — posted by Q Ball on 11/5/2005 @ 10:06 pm

…….if you drink a WHOLE lot of it. Find out how much it will take here.

Liberality For All

Filed under:General — posted by Q Ball on @ 2:33 pm

I picked up a comic yesterday titled Liberality For All. It is awesome. At first I thought it was going to be more of the same liberal slant that I had been reading lately in comics. I thought comics would never be invaded by politics, but I was wrong. However I am glad that there are now some conservative ideas in some comics. If you have any interest in comics go pick this up. Don’t read any reviews and I think you will be pleasently suprised.
If you must review it before puchase go to ACC Studios.

FAA Data Animated

Filed under:General — posted by Q Ball on 11/3/2005 @ 5:41 pm

This guy put data about the flights of aircraft into a program which animated the paths. Very cool.

Animation

Epic 2015

Filed under:Technology — posted by 3wire on 11/1/2005 @ 6:20 pm

Epic 2015

An interseting look at News and Information in the year 2015.


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