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Forever Living,Ponzi Schemes, Banks, Interest

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I was invited to an event on marketing organised by Forever Living few months back. The guy started by explaining all the types of jobs that exist: white collar, blue collar, etc and proceeds to say all jobs suck. Wouldn’t we want the perfect job. A job where we wake up when we want, we work how much we want and blah blah.

They say you have no earning limits. It really sounded like a “perfect job”. The only catch here is that you need to pay around Rs 18,000 and you get a bunch of products for you to try and sell. Isn’t that a pyramid scheme? Your recruiter invested, when he hires, he gets his money back and so on?

Ofcourse, if the people really sell, money can infact come into the company by “normal” means of selling. If the selling activity is higher than the pyramid amount, the pyramid will not crash. It is a risk.

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British American Insurance (BAI) has been on the news a lot lately. Why are they being sued? I’m no accounting guy. Let’s say BAI makes a ponzi scheme. But invests the money collected into other businesses so as the revenues are higher than the pyramid amount. Everyone can get money back. It is a risk again.

Banks don’t keep your money idle. They invest in something. If it is profitable, then they return with interest. But they only invest in stuffs they are sure to win. Loans to people who have to pay back or they go bankrupt and live on the streets. But hey, remember Global Economic Crisis? Legal banks with legal methods caused it from my understanding. It crashed just like a ponzi scheme can.

The only thing legal is “interest”. The thing destroying the society.

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CSE 1010e

Was helping my sister for her CSE 1010e test. WTF is this module about? So much theory for nothing concrete? Why the need to learn these nonsense?

On the website, it says still says bring 3.5″ floppy so you can be taught Windows 2000

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4. What is the difference between a compiler and an interpreter? What role would these tools have in programming with natural languages? — source

Why would you force an entire university population to learn this and vomit this in exams then forget? Just an exam for the sake of an exam.

Exam preparation question:

A server is a special type of computer that is used to provide services to other computers. In which type of computer, does a server fall into? Suggest some examples of servers.

Hmm. No f***in idea. Didn’t know a server was special.

9. What is the Front Side Bus? How can it be used to overclock a computer?

Why force people to learn? A 5 year old kid who is interested in doing it will be interested to know this. Why force the poor souls to learn?

The best for the last:

10. USB, pen drives and flash drives

(a) Have similar storage capacity like a floppy
(b) Can store less data than a standard floppy
(c) All mean the same device that can store lesser data than a standard floppy
(d) All mean the same device that can store more data than a standard floppy
(e) Are different storage devices that can store more data than a standard floppy
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Can you answer this?

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Call of Duty is my favorite FPS game. Think it is the only FPS I “enjoy”. I had played like 25% of Far Cry due to its beautiful scenery. Then it became dark and zombie-like. Stopped playing. Tried Far Cry 2 to test my laptop graphics. Awesome! But still, too difficult on easy mode. I get bored.

Team Work

What I like about Call of Duty franchise is that you are never alone. It is strongly focused on Team-work. You see your team mates, they talk to you. You work together. It is much less scary than other FPS games where you are running along in a dark jungle or building full of zombies.

Recruit mode is really recruit

I’m not a pro gamer. I play on the lowest difficulty available. I can easily walk with 10 enemies in front of me and they will not shoot me. I take my time to kill them. Point is, I do not have to “stress” in order to complete a mission. Autosaves happen very often and exactly just before a difficult moment. No need to try same event like a hundred times again and again before getting it right.

Vehicles

You get opportunity to ride helicopters, boats, vans all in a seamless manner. e.g. you just finished a mission in a building and at the top, you find a helicopter, you just board in and start flying. No need to wait for a loading screen or something. It’s a seamless transition.

Conclusion

If you need to relax and play a game, Call of Duty recruit mode is awesome. I really don’t want to try the expert level for now. I just need to enjoy 🙂