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Love brings us up
Brings us down
The aching of a beating heart
Struggling to hold on

What is life but love, war and death.

War, a thing of hatred
Started by hideous deeds
The trials of strength, people, things
Struggling for life and preservation

What is life but love war and death.

Death, the worst of the three
So much pain, not for one but many
The lost soul must feel loved
One must hope he or she is with the almighty.

One leads to another sometimes,
Love, War and Death.

You’re so distant,
Are you playing hard to get?
Some days you seem great and others…
well lets not go there.

Are you confused?
Just as I was and still am?
Its nothing to be ashamed of
and I’m here to help.
All you have to do is ask
And be willing to talk…

Like a tree leaf waiting to fall,
I hope your wating for someone to just come along and help.
Don’t seem so far away.
I feel something for you
And sometimes I wonder It you feel the same.
I guess I will probably never know.
Distance one of my worst enemies.

People are consuming more bandwidth than ever these days. What with the on-demand video and renting movies online, a single household could download around 1-5GB per month. The problem is the internet service providers might spoil the fun.

Most ISPs say they have unlimited service when they mean “unlimited”. Recently there has been news about how ISP’s have little tricks in ways to get around their so called “unlimited” service. These tricks, what do they do for the online on-demand video?

An average movie to rent and download these days is around 1GB in size. It could be more or less. Streaming video depending on the bandwidth being used can take up just as much mainly dependent on how long one is connect to a stream. We have internet radio and television that also take up bandwidth.

If ISPs put a cap on a persons bandwidth after they’ve consumed only 3GB then you could only watch two movies a month or you could only listen to you radio station for certain time per month. “Why are ISPs doing this?” one might ask. With more bandwidth per second available these days many people may use it for Peer-to-peer technologies and download file illegally. By automatically assuming people are using their service for illegal things, they punish those people who are downloading stuff legally. There are ways of monitoring certain traffic but that would just make everyones connection slower. A server would have to check every packet of data coming through an internet gateway.

ISPs have to learn that no matter what they do people might abuse their service. They can’t really do anything about it. And personally I don’t think its fair to those who are doing stuff legally. They also need a reality check in which we do have on-demand services out there. If people are going to use them, they need to have the means to do so.

Related Article:
http://www.last100.com/2007/05/28/will-isps-spoil-the-online-video-party/

It surprises me on how many current youth seem to be not interested in our countries future. Recently, I’ve been looking at the primary candidates and looking at the major issues. Even though I can’t vote until the main selection (not the primary) I still feel like I should stand somewhere in politics.  I’ve talked to some friends about my views and choices and I ask theirs.  But, They don’t have any.  That just shows you how uninvolved they are.  I’m not sure what it is, but I wish it could change.  I wish many things could change, but that doesn’t mean they will.  Being involved in a country’s government, I believe, is important.  We live in this country(US) and since we are in a democracy we have the responsibility to make the decisions of our leaders(whether they be good or bad).

One other thing that would be nice is that people who are educated in the issues and who is for what should VOTE!  We have some people that just pick a person no matter who it is. If you don’t know your stuff don’t vote, you’ll just mess everything up.

All in all, people need to be involved and educated.