At current rates, an SMS (or text, if you’re reading this in a country that does not use this term) in South africa will cost you 85c to a local number, and multiples of that if you’re sending internationally.

For simplicity’s sake we’re not working with bundles of any kind, which work out a lot cheaper, also not including the polling costs (where the phone regularly contacts the mail server, checking for new mail)

Lets say your SMS is a total of 160 characters (the limit on a single SMS I think), this works out to paying 0.53125c per character, as there are no overheads or they’re included in the price.

The cost of a single megabyte’s bandwidth in SA is R2.

Sending and receiving an email from my phone for the same amount of characters, came to close to 2 Kbytes, so at a cost of R2 for 1 Mbytes, it works out to 0,0002c per byte, and 0.4c per email (of 160 characters). Now you’d also have to pay to read the email so lets say that it will cost you 0.8c to send and receive a single email.

So you can either pay 85 cents to send and receive a single SMS, or

you can pay 85 cents to send and receive 106 emails.

Your choice

2. If you throw a midget into a tub of hot water, he makes Sleepytime tea!

3. 7 midgets thrown into a sausage machine makes 2 pounds of Kielbasa.

4. it takes 2 midgets to make one order of Midget McNuggets.

5. They have little hands…..and little eyes….they go around telling….little lies…….

6. If you lose a fight to a midget, you become one.

7. If you use a net and capture a few midgets and keep them as pets and train them to follow instructions, you will sell your dog

8. Little people (midgets if you will), need a little passport to go to Little Italy….

9. A studio apartment is a mansion to a midget.

10. A Ford fiesta is a limo to a midget.

11. A nerd candy is a jaw breaker to a midget.

12. A bathtub is an olympic sized pool to a midget.

13. small hands, smell like cabbage

14. Midgets must never cry. If they do their eyes fall out.

15. If you add water to a midget, they make their own gravy..

16. Midgets are scared of oral sex because one wrong move and they’re back in the womb.

17. A midget looses no weight at the time of death. Proof that midgets have no soul?

18. The chinese midgets are more rare and cost more.

19. If you hit a midget in the groin it makes a noise that only dogs and little children can hear

20. During WWII, Nazis kidnapped 100 midgets to polish the insides of shell casings.

21. “Midgets are the cause of all wars” – Mel Gibson

22. Midgets are reportedly the ONE and ONLY thing that Chuck Norris is afraid of.

23. Midgets explode in a violent chemical reaction when exposed to common sea salt.

24. Midgets have hollow places in their bodies where they hide very small weapons, and for that reason are often used for industrial espionage.

25. Midget limbs fall off easily and regenerate as a self defense mechanism.

26. Although midgets shed their skin every 22 months, they DO NOT grow.

27. Ivory Soap floats in water, so do midgets, but they can’t at the same time.

28. Midgets do not dream.

29. From 1691 to 1695, midgets were legal tender in Austria.

30. Topps and Fleer used to include them with baseball cards during the bubble gum shortages of WW II.

31. If you rub a midget vigorously against your sweater, you can stick them to a wall

32. those tiny pellets you see in the woods arent rabbit-turds….

33. Every time a midget gets thrown down a flight of stairs, an angel gets their wings….

34. Midgets were used to repair the tracks to the underground railroad during the Civil War…

35. Midgets cannot be sold on Ebay… (but can be on Overstock.com in certain circumstances….)

36. Seven midgets have won the Congressional Medal of Honor, the last one for crawling down the spider hole to grab Saddam…

37. Midgets have 3 kidneys and are born without an appendix…

38. Midgets are born with the ability to speak Norweigan, nobody knows why…

39. Midgets are an excellent alternative fuel

40. Midgets NEVER get the extended warranty.

a. they have made a bona fide attempt to pay for a service in the normal way,

b. their lives would otherwise be in danger; or

c. they really want to.

Invoking the third rule involves giving the emperor a cut.

In alphabobical order:

Ministry:

Pope Dan Bandi:
Leader of the Discordian Church
Minister of things shaped like funny squiggles

Charlene Abate:
Chief Bodyguard
Right hand of the emperor
Minister of all things cute and fluffy

Wayne Coetzee:
Minister of making things go really fast
Official Wingman and Bro
Grand High Whatsit of the Empire’s Vehicle Corps

Kevin Coetzee:
Minister of really cool things that go BOOM!
Grand high Whatever of the Empire’s Army

Debi Coetzee:
Chief Grammar Nazi
Representative for mental instability

Eugene Koekemoer:
Representative for Hello Kitty merchandise
Fallen bachelor

Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent each year in the United States doing studies of the characteristics of a site for long term geologic storage of spent nuclear fuel. Much of the money is aimed at ensuring that no material ever gets out of the storage area. The material that seems to cause the most concern is the small amount of plutonium found in the irradiated fuel assemblies.

Some pundits have suggested that plutonium, even in quantities far too small for a nuclear weapon, could be used as a terrorist weapon to poison water supplies. It is said that such a use could cause thousands of deaths.

Exposure by Ingestion

Other writers and scientists, often with far less publicity, have published detailed analyses of these claims and used statistics and experience to prove them totally false. One man, Dr. Bernard Cohen, went so far as to volunteer to eat as much plutonium as Ralph Nader would caffeine in an attempt to demonstrate the folly of the severe toxicity claims.

Mr. Nader refused the challenge. Many anti-nuclear groups now try to claim that Dr. Cohen is an unreliable source of information since he volunteered to expose himself to such a dangerous substance.

Dr. Cohen, a tenured research professor at the University of Pittsburgh, stated that he had calculated his risk from the challenge as less than that of a typical draftee during World War II. Dr. Cohen feels that wise use of nuclear energy is as important as winning the war. He wanted to do his part in the battle to achieve public acceptance of the low level risk involved.

An indication of the risk one would face from ingesting small amounts of plutonium, of the amounts postulated for accident scenarios at an operating plant (or fuel storage facility) is shown by the following story.

Accidental Ingestion Studied

During the Manhattan Project in 1944 and 1945, 26 men accidentally ingested plutonium in quantities that far exceeded what is now considered to be a lethal dose. Since there has been a consistent interest in the health effects of this brand new substance (first discovered by Glenn Seaborg’s team at the University of California in 1940), these men were closely tracked for medical studies.

Forty Years Later

As of 1987, more than four decades later, only four of the workers had died and only one death was caused by cancer. The expected number of deaths in a random sample of men the age of those in the group is 10. The expected number of deaths from cancer in a similar group is between two and three.

The sample size is quite small; even during a crash wartime program, people normally handle plutonium with extreme care. Even people who work directly with the material in a manufacturing process that involves grinding and shaping can be adequately protected.

It is, of course, possible that the differences between expected deaths and actual deaths is just a statistical aberration. With small sample sizes, it is likely that large variations in mortality rate will be seen.

It has to be considered important, however, to know that at least 22 men have been able to live more than 40 years after ingesting “the most toxic substance known to man.” It should make one question the motives and accuracy of Ralph Nader, a public figure who has actively promoted such an obviously inaccurate statement.

One final thought. Glen Seaborg, Nobel Laurate, discoverer of plutonium, a man who spent much of his professional life determining its chemical properties, has recently been selected the honorary chair of the American Nuclear Society Special Panel on the Protection and Management of Plutonium. Dr. Seaborg is 83 years old and he still maintains an active schedule of committees and speaking.

Here is a helping video.

I think we’re all criminally insane in our own way,
We’re all doing it together,
We’re free styling on the wheel of life.
We’re trapped on the words of life.
On eternal dialogue,
Endless commentary,
Unending noise,
Infinite inane chatter.
We will not sit in silence enjoying the quiet sure presence of another human being.
Human beings we are no longer,
We have become Human Doing.
We march in endless rows.
Step by Step.
Perfect Unison.
We are conditioned to see the world as the economy wants us to see it.
When was the last time you did something fun that cost nothing?
When did you see a notice that wasn’t urging you to buy anything?
We are commercialised.
We have been standardised.
Two point Four Children.
Married.
House in Suburbia.
Bank account.
Job.
One person is not strong enough to break free of the Human Ant Cycle. We’d need a mass of people. There again, we have the Human Ant problem. Of that mass of people, How many are truly dedicated to the cause? And how many are just there just to follow the ‘in’ crowd?
So tell me? How do you follow, if everyone is a leader?
How do you lead with no followers?
Our conditioning is so strong we have no more original thoughts.
We refine and regurgitate ideas already aeons old.
There was a saying I heard once, and I will now regurgitate that to you.
Never worry about someone stealing your original idea, it’s probably old, and if it were original, you’d have to ram it down their throats anyway. But I am getting away from my ‘original’ subject.
Silence.
Why are we incapable of it, if we are naturally quiet with out mouths shut? Why do we constantly make small talk to further our own relationships? Do not talk to someone to get to know them.
Feel the energy of them. Feel the energy? You’re thinking what kind of new age bullshit is this? By feel the energy I mean remember the emotions that you experienced while in their presence. And there are many many emotions. Or should I say many variations of the two core emotions, like water and flour, you decide on the stickiness of the dough. Pay attention to the more subtle emotions portrayed to you by the vehicle of the soul before your immaterial eyes. Push away the overpowering emotions such and love hate happiness sadness, and you’ll find a myriad of smaller more subtle, less coarse emotions. Peace, calm, chaotic and many many more.
So ‘feel out’ this conglomeration of not-so-randomly firing synapse before you and you’ll find an unchanging soul.
Listen to the beat of the soul’s rhythm.
But first know yours. And from then on, you’re a piece of music looking for the right symphony. Judge not by words. Words are simply noise in the air that anyone can utter.
We are not as evolved as we think we are.
We are primitive.
Barbaric.
Savage.
We are. It’s no use in looking what we have built.

No, I’m talking about our interaction with the others of our kind. We allow beggars, rape, hunger, war. We allow it. If we had the determination, we could stop it today.
Forever.
But no, we don’t care.
How many times have YOU uttered that you hate the beggars/hawkers/street children next to the road? Is that compassion? And do you still consider yourself to be compassionate? You’re probably thinking as much as I, that I helped that other one a while ago and then there was the time… Is this enough? NO it is not. You’ve helped one person, but for every person we help, one hundred stand behind him/her. We need to stop being selfish and let basic foods and services be free. And expect no return or even gratitude from them. That is what’s holding us back. We want them to tell us how grateful they are and just generally make you feel important.
You’ve given them something in return for instant gratification.
All they have to left is pride, and you wish to diminish that.
If this offends you, look away, I don’t care.
This letter is to myself as much as the rest of the world.
This is the way I feel about myself, about you, him, her, them…
So take the lessons to heart, live by them, and breathe, eat and sleep by them.
Or do like most people would, read it, be inspired for all of a day, then let it slip away like last night’s dream…