Think for ourselves.

Today we live in a world/society where complaints are made about the amount of people who leave school with no real education, I'm sure you get me there...Anyway why is it that ''today'' we have so many problems regarding the aforementioned...well keep on reading an I shall show you my take on it...

Imagine the following; the all the World's discoveries/knowledge and so forth in the form of a hypothetical 'paint-by-numbers', each era/part of time has filled in a section (or more), from using rudimentary tools, to abstract concepts/ideas, to technological advances. However the more you fill, the less there is to do, so when you had Greeks wanting to know everything about anything, Outer-Space, Science, Language, Philosophy, generally ''how things work''; there was a, seemingly, innate desire ''to want to know and find out'', and a lot of them showed this.

I think that today, well my friends you can judge me on this but, we take everything as ''the norm''. ''We'', unlike those who went before us see the point of life as ... living, being famous, having money. ''We'' don't seek to know, we seem awfully content in the environment we live in* (* Yes, I can appreciate the fact this is generalising a tad, but roll with it). I'm not suggesting that 'today' we ALL sit around doing nothing getting bored, there are very clever people, Stephen Fry, David Mitchell to name a few, as well as the many scientists, linguists, and people dealing with technology. There are things being improved on, made, found out today. My point being that today discoveries aren't viewed as a big thing, it seems ''bigger'' to watch a celebrity and so forth.

Moreover, obviously society has changed since the times of the Greeks, but still I don't think that's an excuse, people should take upon themselves to think outside the box. For example I think for a lot of the time, we are force-fed information, and a lot of the time people take it as read, everyone should have the ability to be able to challenge something that is said, and not just feel pressured, or agree just for the sake of it. Myself, personally, I like to think about things, sorry if that makes me mad, within the realms of Sixth Form, I know that if need be I could freely challenge something using the knowledge I have acquired over the years...there are some who will just accept it.

Television is especially something I blame, reality based TV shows offer the audience with no real reason to think, the best attempt at pushing the envelope will be debating if someone is nice or not...to be honest I could watch any reality TV show and make a fair judgement about someone in five minutes, and so could anyone; hence why I say, ''best attempt at pushing the envelope''. Comedy shows (mostly in the UK) show no...well hillarity. A lot of them are just pumped out so certain people are happy to be in work, but hey thank God for DVDs of classic sitcoms and stand-up performances.

I'm by no means using this to say ''I'm perfect'', I'm probably guilty of a few things I written about here, just within the majority of society shouldn't there be a personal interest in simply knowing and learning? What will it be like in years to come...?

I'll leave it there folks, I hope you have enjoyed this, I could have gone longer but fear what I have already put is fairly all over so to speak.

Callum

*Insert topics of rant* AND MORE

Before I start...*annoyed manly grunts*...
that's marginally better...let's begin.

First problem came just today infact, regarding my iPod...ok let's just confirm we are all on the same page, iPods are ''music listening devices'' (in their simplest form), and are used as (usually) a private source of entertainment. Some people still haven't clicked onto this - and some of them have iPods....

Yes the today thing...I was looking a some posters in the Geography department, and happened to have my iPod on at the time...some Geography teacher, frankly I don't care for her name, said *WHILE I HAD MY IPOD ON*...''Oh if you took Geography you would have gone on excellent trips like that'', after taking my headphones out she said it again, to which I shrugged my shoulders, what else was I to do? I didn't really know, or care, for this teacher, so to be honest she should have just left me alone.

Maybe it's more that I have a bone to pick with her, see once I kissed my girlfriend before she went to her lesson, no harm in that is there? She had a go, saying ''You two need to stay 6 feet apart''. I've not seen anyone really careless otherwise...even if I do kiss my girlfriend I've received humourous comments from passers by, which is ok...I didn't like her tone then, and then thought she was ignorant today....Shudder to think if she has a husband...

In more news, I've finished my French A levels...which is actually quite sad as there will be no teachers telling me that my adjectives don't agree or I've used 'le' instead of 'la', oh how things go so quickly, still I'm looking to further my French by learning more colloquial versions etc. The teachers in question have really helped me along the way, so thanks to them :D.

Other than that, erm, I think I just have an English Language exam this Friday - then 4 more in the following week then I'm done, and all my A-levels will be done...

Callum.

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F1 Ideas - Closing the gap, and making it really fun :D

''Formula 1, the fastest car chase in the world'' - or something to that effect is said by the man who voice overs the opening of the F1 title sequence (UK - BBC)
This may be so, but despite the new rules and regs to ''transform'' the sport into wheel-to-wheel racing, as it was in times gone by...Jenson Button has won all but one of the first few races of the 2009 season. Not to take anything away from both Button and Brawn GP, they've done their job...but because other teams haven't made 'as good' cars, Button's victories are almost empty...fair enough he got the car from point A to B, but if it were somewhat closer between rival drivers the watching of it would be considerably better.

Here I list a few suggestions as to what could be done to improve things...

I've heard a few people say - ''it would be better if the slower cars were at the front, there would be more passing etc'', this may be, however I regard such an idea as impractical, moreover I can't see how you could enforce the rule, and that's not even taking into account how happy the Alonsos, Massas , of this world would be if they had to start nearer the back. As a compromise there should be one race (near mid season) hosted by Las Vegas (you'll see why) where by EITHER i) a lottery system is used to draw grid positions in order to throw to unpredictable grid together, however I prefer this - ii) Take the Drivers' Championship standings reverse them in order to create a ''one off'' grid, so e.g. as it stands the Brawns would be on the back of the grid. The Las Vegas thing is to do with ''gambles'' ''risks'' and etc. And just generally would be a good one off race idea.

Balast - Possibly, and I've seen it used in BTCC, the use of balast. The idea being if a driver wins, he would get ''X amount of weight'' added to his car for the next race( be it the whole weekend, or just race session, not too sure...) 2nd place would get ''Y amount'' and so forth for the top 8 scorers. It would reset itself after each race, so a driver who won 4 races in a row wouldn't be weighed down by (e.g) 40kg. It would be...

• 'Normal' - Race win + 10kg for next race.
• 'Normal + 10kg' - Race win + 10kg for next race
• 'Normal + 10kg' - Race win + 10kg for next race etc.

Unless anyone thinks it would be better if it just kept being added on regardless.

The possiblity of playing a ''joker''. For those who have ever watched ''It's a knock-out'' will be familar with the term. Still I'll explain. Every team awarded a 'joker' at the start of the season, which can be used at any track, however must be submitted before first practise session. The idea being this joker allows a team to double their points for any race points bagged, there is also the posibility that both your cars wont finish so no bonus. Try to imagine the following...

'X' circuit. Finishes before any joker consideration.

1st. Vettel - 10pts/ 2nd. Alonso - 8pts/ 3rd. Button - 6pts/ 4th. Webber - 5pts/ 5th. Hamilton - 4pts/ 6th. Sutil - 3pts/ 7th Raikonnen - 2pts /8th. Rosberg - 1pt.

Note: in this scenario Renault, and Ferrari elected to play their jokers....so points would be allocated as thus...

1st. Vettel - 10pts/ 2nd. Alonso - 16pts (joker)/ 3rd. Button - 6pts/ 4th. Webber - 5pts/ 5th. Hamilton - 4pts/ 6th. Sutil - 3pts/ 7th Raikonnen - 4pts (joker) /8th. Rosberg - 1pt.

As you can see, even though Alonso finished behind Vettel, Alonso bags more points due to played joker. And same goes for Raik. Piquet and Massa don't score joker points as they didn't finish in top 8.

Anyway that's all for now. thanks for taking time to read :u)

Callum.