Insurance
Last week or so the insurance company charged my bank account for the insurance I have with them. A few days later, they send me a € 50 bill for some medicine. This made me realize yet another time how stupid the whole concept ‘insurance’ is.
Basically you have to pay a company a lot of money each month, just in the hope that they will return your own damn money to you when you need it. And in most cases, they won’t return shit because of the own risk in your insurance policy, or because they are simply too lazy to make a bank transfer.
That does officialy make the insurance business one of the easiest ways of making money known to man. You just charge people for nothing it all (because they were stupid enough to sign a contract allowing you to do so) and if someone is begging you to get his own money back because he needed surgery, you could pretty much just as well roll a dice and give him the money if it lands on 6.
It would in most cases probably be cheaper to just save up like half the money you pay for your insurance every month, and use that if you need health care. Or get your car fixed. Or pay your funeral. Or whatever else people get insurance for nowadays. The whole problem is that the government (or at least mine) thinks it is a good idea to require people to have insurance on certain things.
However, no matter what people say, the simple fact that – at least most – insurance companies make (lots of) profit is definately proof that in the end, we are paying others just so that we can kindly ask them to give our own money back. Which is a fucking stupid thing.
The Story of Roy
Once upon a time there was a very cool triangle named Roy. This triangle was green with red dots on his head and he was 37 years young. He lived in the Land of the Circles, which was somewhat odd, because he is after all a triangle. The Circles thought he was a bit of a strange circle, but then again most of them also thought that in some way that was cool (after all Roy is a cool triangle) and for that very reason he was chozen as the very first triangle-shaped king of the Land of the Circles.
The leaders of the neighbouring countries (Lawn and Plasticthrowawaycoffeecuptreerootjuice, which were both on the east side of the Land of the Circle because everything else on the cubic shaped planet was ocean) heard of this great news about Roy and therefore came to visit him, to have a nice cup of red paint together and talk about the relationships between their countries.
The king of Lawn was a rather fat little man, about the height of a banana, did not at all notice that Roy was actually a triangle. That is because the good man is blind for shapes: no matter what shape an object (or person) has, to him everything is simply square. Because he didn’t notice Roy was a three-angled triangle he gave him a compliment for his four perfect angles. Of course Roy wasnt’ too happy about that, because he, being a triangle, posessed only three angles (however he did sometimes wish he could find a fourth because his mother always said that would look good on his green tie). Anyway, Roy wasn’t very happy about it, but since he knew the poor man is shape-blind he didn’t take any offence.
The count of Plasticthrowawaycoffeecuptreerootjuice however, didn’t take it very lightly. He found that Roy, in all his green-with-red-dotsness really didn’t have more than 3 angles and since he didn’t like the king of Lawn anyway he declared war on Lawn. He explained that Lawn had been doing secret weapon tests in an area very close with their border, that they were doing it was fine with him but he always said ‘Lawn, not in my back yard’.
To get the war over with as soon as he could, the count of Plasticthrowawaycoffeecuptreerootjuice imediatly took out his digital watch with InstaKill function. With a little click he opened the watch, aimed it at the king of Lawn, and corrected the time because the watch was five minutes off. The king of Lawn instantly died and he fell down on the ground, walked in a circle a few times, and stood back up to lie down in his coffin (which really was a small box because an entire coffin would be a waste of perfectly good wood since he was only as large as a banana).
After doing that the count of Plasticthrowawaycoffeecuptreerootjuice apologized for the mess and left for home. He claimed that he still had to tell a story to his children, otherwise they would refuse to go to sleep.
Of course it remained to be a strange fact that the king of the Land of the Circles was a triangle. After a while the press noticed, and Roy was forced to step down as king. A new king was elected, however because the new king was a perfect circle he kept rolling off the throne, and so he was forced to step down as well.
And they lived more or less happily everafter, and they often chose new kings…
Conquer this
It’s been about a week and this are kinda up and running. I admit that at the moment of writing there’s a little subdomain that doesn’t really want to cooperate, but I don’t see any error at this moment and it’s half past eleven (PM, yes) and the weekend hasn’t been quite as relaxing as weekends are supposed to be. Oh, and mail doesn’t work. Maybe because I’m just too lazy to set up a mail system (mind you, if you think setting up a webserver is easy, try the mail part). Oh well, I currently don’t really need one anyway.
The title of this article is ‘Conquer this’, which is referring to my ‘latest’ creation. Actually I created it about two weeks ago (and in the meanwhile I’ve been watching Stargate episodes and playing some games). This creation is a litl’ song for the game Frets on Fire (a rather entertaining Guitar Hero ripoff for the PC). I found that there was a serious lack of blackened death metallish stuff, so I figured that the song Conquer All from Behemoth would be a nice addition. Initially I created it on Medium difficulty, and however the first part is more like Easy, once the song progresses it’s not so much Medium anymore. Nearly Impossible would be a better description. If you think you can handle the game (and if you don’t think so as well), go ahead and try it. Download it here: Behemoth – Conquer All (Frets on Fire).
I also have another song in the works. The song’s title is Korobeiniki, more commonly known as the Tetris theme song. I am planning to finish it this week or so 
As I mentioned, I’ve been watching (quite a lot of) Stargate episodes lately. Yesterday I saw the new Stargate movie, titled The Ark of Truth. To me it just feels like a regular two-part episode than a movie, and if you havn’t seen at least the final two seasons of Stargate SG-1 you probably won’t understand the story at all, but I rather liked it. The opening of the movie feels incredibly epic, and there’s some really nice shots in there. Now SG-1 both started and ended with a movie, and let’s be honest, this one is a lot better than the original Stargate movie which tends to get a little boring because it’s so damn LONG. I’m now close to having seen ALL of SG-1, and the Atlantis season 4 finale has aired as well (which I unfortunately havn’t been able to see yet). Luckily season 5 has been announced long ago, and let’s just hope that they’ll continue for many more seasons.
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