Okay, so the thought of having a chip in one's body, is so unethical, and morally wrong. Yes, it may start out to be beneficial to disabled people, but it will be twisted before too long, to encompass all of humanity into using this chip as a form of currency. Even the bible mentions this happening, and that was written LONGGGGGGG before chips were ever thought of.
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a MARK in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the MARK, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Revelations 13v16-18"
See? It's definately going to happen, and is going to be a tool that will seriously have unwanted repurcussions. They're doing it to dogs now as a form of identification, and as yet, it has a weak range in that it cannot be detected unless in a certain radius. However, as technology advances, so will the chips, until it is exactly as the bible describes.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Watkins, T 1999, Is the biochip the Mark of the Beast?, viewed 4 August 2011, <http://www.av1611.org/666/biochip.html>
- Halpern, S 2011, Mind Control & the Internet, viewed 4 August 2011, <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/mind-control-and-internet/>
Sunday, 28 August 2011
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Week 2 - Tutorial Task (Part 2)
I'd say that the biggest communication technology sources that I use on a frequent basis, are; Facebook, my mobile phone, and Skype. Oooh, how long have I been using Facebook? I'd say probably somewhere around the three year mark?! ...How romantic. haha Ummmm, I only bought my mobile just before my last birthday in April, so I've had it for a little over 4 months. It's a Nokia E71 and for the first time in my life, I have unlimited use of Facebook, Youtube and texting (due to my particular cap that I'm on) on my mobile. It's fantastic. Previously I had phones that just had the basics, plus maybe the odd game of snake (Guilty pleasure). haha And since I was ALWAYS short on money, I rarely ever had credit, so there really wasn't much reason in having a phone. ahaha Skype is new to me really. I knew of it, and my parents had an account years ago so that they could talk to my relatives, but it wasn't until I became best friends with a girl that had come to Australia from Northern Ireland for an elongated holiday, did I realise I needed one. When she left to go home, I felt like facebook wasn't enough to really keep our friendship going, so I made an account, and spent one too many nights staying up late and talking to her. So Skype has really become important to me in the fact that I can both see and hear the other person, as though they were sitting right in front of me.
To be honest, I'm not really one of those people that is too concerned about my privacy. Yes, that should scare me, but I'm a very open individual, and in barely one conversation, one could absolutely know almost everything about me :) However, with those scare stories of how pedophiles and other such trolls out there have managed to pillage young girls, it has seemingly forced me to comply with the privacy settings on Facebook. That and my parents constant worrying. So now everything in my privacy settings on Facebook is set to 'Friends Only'. It doesn't really bother me that Google could use my pictures or some such. Truly, I'd be a little bit flattered. haha But it does concern me about people who can find out all my details by hacking into my account etc. That's dangerous. Not only for me, but for my family etc, so I have to be careful. And I'll admit to it...I am one of the many masses who just click 'I agree to the terms and services' button. I mean, who really has the time and patience to read them these days? haha
As I mentioned above, I have not that many qualms in talking to someone I've never met before. The most interesting are ones from other countries. Unless it's some 23 year old man who is just perverse. lol But yes, I do have quite a few people on facebook that I've never met in person. Only a handful of those do I ever actually speak to on a regular basis. Regular meaning every month or two. haha Obviously my normal friends chats are just non-stop. But I enjoy talking to complete randoms, and finding out about them. It's nice :) It is different talking to a random online than to someone you've known for years. Obviously you don't know much about this person, and you're just asking questions and answering them on just your general life details. You don't go in too deep though. You never know their background. And people that you already know, it just seems like you talk about what's happened that day or days previous if you haven't seen them in a while. Nothing really new and exciting, since you already know a lot about them.
To be honest, I'm not really one of those people that is too concerned about my privacy. Yes, that should scare me, but I'm a very open individual, and in barely one conversation, one could absolutely know almost everything about me :) However, with those scare stories of how pedophiles and other such trolls out there have managed to pillage young girls, it has seemingly forced me to comply with the privacy settings on Facebook. That and my parents constant worrying. So now everything in my privacy settings on Facebook is set to 'Friends Only'. It doesn't really bother me that Google could use my pictures or some such. Truly, I'd be a little bit flattered. haha But it does concern me about people who can find out all my details by hacking into my account etc. That's dangerous. Not only for me, but for my family etc, so I have to be careful. And I'll admit to it...I am one of the many masses who just click 'I agree to the terms and services' button. I mean, who really has the time and patience to read them these days? haha
As I mentioned above, I have not that many qualms in talking to someone I've never met before. The most interesting are ones from other countries. Unless it's some 23 year old man who is just perverse. lol But yes, I do have quite a few people on facebook that I've never met in person. Only a handful of those do I ever actually speak to on a regular basis. Regular meaning every month or two. haha Obviously my normal friends chats are just non-stop. But I enjoy talking to complete randoms, and finding out about them. It's nice :) It is different talking to a random online than to someone you've known for years. Obviously you don't know much about this person, and you're just asking questions and answering them on just your general life details. You don't go in too deep though. You never know their background. And people that you already know, it just seems like you talk about what's happened that day or days previous if you haven't seen them in a while. Nothing really new and exciting, since you already know a lot about them.
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Week 1 - Tutorial Task (Me, Myself And I)
Hello :) My name is Crystal Ginn, and I am studying a Bachelor of Communication at Griffith University on the coast. I am a Christian, and I enjoy singing at the top of my lungs; often in 'off-pitch' just for the fun of it so I can annoy my siblings when they try to actually sing well! haha But I can actually sing, and I enjoy it very much. I've only been a Christian for four years so far, but really only this year I've tried to knuckle down, learn more about Jesus, try to follow His example, and to familiarise myself with the Bible! :) My aim is to try and be as much like an ideal Christian as possible, so through me I can show Jesus' love to you! :)
In relation to this course I am studying; New Communication Technologies, I am hoping to further my computer skills, learn more about technology, and basically have a rather cruisy class. But I doubt that will happen unfortunately.
I am looking foward to this semester, as I am still in my first year of uni and in my second semester. Through my 'Bachelor of Communication', I hope to major in 'Marketing' and 'Communication and Media', and be a travelling advertising advisor to big companies. I hope to do a big advertising campaign with one company for a certain period of time, and move on to another. I like change! The two subjects I am most looking foward to this semester, are 'Intro to Music Programming and Production' where I basically make music from scratch, and 'Communication Performance' where at this stage, we are learning how to operate a news room studio. They sound fun!
Till a later date, I am signing off...
Crystal xx
Week 5 - Tutorial Task
Today I am answering the seemingly unecessary questions below with information not found in Google or Wikipedia. As this is getting me to use other search engines.
Where was the first University established and in which year?
Stephen plays the keyboard for his band, Black Assassins. The names of the first ten songs off the bands site are, ASIO, Azaria, Barricades, Beggin' The Bullet, Death Comes To Townsville, Death Take Me Now, Drugs, Fear & Loathing In Toowomba, FMFMD and Going To The Wedding.
--------The site's url that I used to gain the name of Stephen Stockwell's band name and instrument is <http://live-wirez.gu.edu.au/Staff/Stephen/default.html> [Acessed 24 August 2011] and after that I went on the band's actual site and looked at their lyrics option, and that gave me a list of the songs names that they'd created<http://www.blackassassins.net/Lyrics.html> [Acessed 24 August 2011]. I found this site by typing into Bing the name, 'Stephen Stockwell' and clicked on the top link, which was a sort of bibliography for him.--------
What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? How much did it cost to build?
I'm not sure if the above picture is the biggest machine in the world, but it definately is the world's largest ship ever constructed. It weighs a whopping 564 763 tons. Although I don't know how much it cost to build it, I'd say a lot.
Where was the first University established and in which year?
According to the site that I clicked on, it’s not a 100% fact. Some say that it's Bologna, others say the Karuine at Morocco, and still others say the Al-Azhar of Egypt. Apparently there is no Archaeological evidence to back up these theories. However, Takshashila or Taxila has been proved to have been the international seat of learning where students from as far as Babylonia (Iraq), Greece, Syria, Arabia and China came to study. The university could accommodate up to 10 500 students and was the Harvard or MIT standard university at that time.
--------The site's url that I used to gain this information is <http://bdheritage.info/blogs/entry/What-is-the-First-University-ever-established-on-this-earth>[Acessed 24 August 2011]. I found this site by typing into Bing (As it is a different search engine that I'd personally never use unless I had to, as is my current sitation) the phrase, 'the first ever university established?' and clicked on the second link, which was the first link that wasn't wikipedia or a question/answer site.--------
What is Stephen Stockwell's band called and what does he play? Can you name a couple of their songs?
Stephen plays the keyboard for his band, Black Assassins. The names of the first ten songs off the bands site are, ASIO, Azaria, Barricades, Beggin' The Bullet, Death Comes To Townsville, Death Take Me Now, Drugs, Fear & Loathing In Toowomba, FMFMD and Going To The Wedding.
--------The site's url that I used to gain the name of Stephen Stockwell's band name and instrument is <http://live-wirez.gu.edu.au/Staff/Stephen/default.html> [Acessed 24 August 2011] and after that I went on the band's actual site and looked at their lyrics option, and that gave me a list of the songs names that they'd created<http://www.blackassassins.net/Lyrics.html> [Acessed 24 August 2011]. I found this site by typing into Bing the name, 'Stephen Stockwell' and clicked on the top link, which was a sort of bibliography for him.--------
What is the weight of the world’s biggest machine? How much did it cost to build?
I'm not sure if the above picture is the biggest machine in the world, but it definately is the world's largest ship ever constructed. It weighs a whopping 564 763 tons. Although I don't know how much it cost to build it, I'd say a lot.
--------The site's url that I used to gain this information is <http://www.bukisa.com/articles/40463_worlds-largest-machines-ever-built> [Acessed 24 August 2011]. I found this site by typing into Bing, 'the biggest machine ever made' and clicked on the link below the pictures.--------
Who is Justin Bieber's lawyer, and what is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact the lawyer?
I couldn't find this :S I tried Bing, then Bieber's actual official site, but with no luck.
Week 5 - Response to Content
I'm so upset, because I wrote so much and then the STUPID computer removed all of it without saving automatically as it usually does!!!!! ARGHHHH!
The film Rubber, produced in 2010, is an alternative story that follows the adventures and journey of a car tyre. The scene is introduced in the first act to different angle shots of chairs, and the film heavily used the rule of thirds. This is a very artistic way of filming. The car tyre is then introduced, and we see it 'learning to walk' so to speak. With it's wobbly and awkward rolling, we imagine it to be like a baby foal or deer, seeking to use its new legs and walk. This tyre finally learns how to roll by itself, and we sort of gain a small attachment to the object. That is until it tests its skills, and just by concentrating, can blow the heads off other objects, animals and humans. Using screenplay structure (Subtext: The Meaning Behind The Words 2011), the storyline adds to the scene before and after it, and progresses in a chronologically pleasing way, so that we follow the storyline better. The film is almost in real time, in that each scene is a long drawn-out one.
As the tyre doesn't speak throughout the film, the subtext (Sharda 2003) is determined by the music that was used to gain support and sympathy from the viewers.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subtext: The Meaning Behind The Words 2011, viewed 23 August 2011, <http://www.filmscriptwriting.com/subtext.html>
- Sharda, N 2003, 'Combining the Art, Science and Technology of Multimedia with The Multimedia Creation Circles Paradigm ', The Melbourne University, Victoria, vol. 1 no. 1, pp. 0-8.
The film Rubber, produced in 2010, is an alternative story that follows the adventures and journey of a car tyre. The scene is introduced in the first act to different angle shots of chairs, and the film heavily used the rule of thirds. This is a very artistic way of filming. The car tyre is then introduced, and we see it 'learning to walk' so to speak. With it's wobbly and awkward rolling, we imagine it to be like a baby foal or deer, seeking to use its new legs and walk. This tyre finally learns how to roll by itself, and we sort of gain a small attachment to the object. That is until it tests its skills, and just by concentrating, can blow the heads off other objects, animals and humans. Using screenplay structure (Subtext: The Meaning Behind The Words 2011), the storyline adds to the scene before and after it, and progresses in a chronologically pleasing way, so that we follow the storyline better. The film is almost in real time, in that each scene is a long drawn-out one.
As the tyre doesn't speak throughout the film, the subtext (Sharda 2003) is determined by the music that was used to gain support and sympathy from the viewers.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Subtext: The Meaning Behind The Words 2011, viewed 23 August 2011, <http://www.filmscriptwriting.com/subtext.html>
- Sharda, N 2003, 'Combining the Art, Science and Technology of Multimedia with The Multimedia Creation Circles Paradigm ', The Melbourne University, Victoria, vol. 1 no. 1, pp. 0-8.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)