While trying to navigate a website, this picture came up with the message:"The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request."
Best photo of a service error ever.
Speaking of things that make me want to go killer-octopus on their ship of stupidity, the house down the street has had their Christmas lights up for a week. It's September. Three months early and wasting energy to celebrate the two-thousand and seventh anniversary of a birth seems a bit excessive to me. I know people that cannot be bothered to celebrate their twenty-third birthday.
However, this indiscriminate over-illumination irks me far less than the new prevalence of public service announcements. I am a fan of small states and the principle of survival of the fittest, two ideals that are not upheld by such announcements. Usually I could not be bothered to protest a specific state-sponsored nanny-ing announcement, after all, the fewer people playing in traffic, the less likely my car is to get hurt and the more perverse the Darwin Awards become. Even Alberta's new campaign about eating healthy does not sufficiently raise my ire to illicit objection.
However, I have extensive reservations about the newest safe driving radio campaign. I do not have a problem with the message that speeding kills, nor with the use of stand-up comedy as the setting for the commercials. Rather, I object to the campaign slogan of "speed limits save lives". Speeding may kill, not speeding may reduce deaths, however, speed limits are just numbers on a sign. The limits in and of themselves do not do anything; the mere existence of these limits does not save lives. The signs do even less - think of the additional property damage done when people run into those signs. Following speed limits may save lives, but there is a dramatic difference between the idea that compliance with a rule saves lives versus the idea that the mere existence of a rule has such an effect. And it is that technicality that has me eye the possibility of finding myself a killer-octopus.
However, I have extensive reservations about the newest safe driving radio campaign. I do not have a problem with the message that speeding kills, nor with the use of stand-up comedy as the setting for the commercials. Rather, I object to the campaign slogan of "speed limits save lives". Speeding may kill, not speeding may reduce deaths, however, speed limits are just numbers on a sign. The limits in and of themselves do not do anything; the mere existence of these limits does not save lives. The signs do even less - think of the additional property damage done when people run into those signs. Following speed limits may save lives, but there is a dramatic difference between the idea that compliance with a rule saves lives versus the idea that the mere existence of a rule has such an effect. And it is that technicality that has me eye the possibility of finding myself a killer-octopus.
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Let's not forget that rules are often poor enforced.
- Mustafa Hirji
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