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In this JUMBO post we take a retrospective look at paradoxes that we bet you can't solve! look at some of the some of the things you wish you thought of in the past which could have made you billions, browse the world uncovered by Google Maps.  Do you know what 'Engrish' is?  Ten explains in an article about typo's, we have a predicted look at the facts the US need to face up to in the future (co-written by Jen Green), reveal which member of staff was posted in the 'Guess the Baby Photo' competition, announce the present winners of our FITC competition, and show you couple of videos from YouTube.com. So if you have room for all that, pull up a chair and I shall tell you a tale of time.


FITC COMPETITION:
There was no FITC competition last week so in its place we posted a picture of one of our staff members when they were all innocent.  Guesses included Hannah, Darryn and Kelvin.

The answer which I'm sure you've all been waiting for is.....Lukas.  Yes that's me, and I've got no idea what we were up to.


PROPOSTEROUS PARADOXES TO PONDER:

Life's little conundrums are at times mind bogglingly paradoxical or puzzling, not just little things like why men have nipples but more crutial concepts such as the idea of being free, and that you need rules and restrictions to keep freedom from becoming anarchy or what the hell are the principles of thermodynamics all about?  And just in case that happens to be one of the questions you happen to be asking, then click here for an explaination - good luck.

Swinging back from the tangent, the following are questions to which there are answers which will challenge your lateral thought.  Perhaps this is what Theologists do at their Christmas party - assuming of course that they could avoid the debate of the existance of an omnipotent entity or a regenerating messiah. 

1. Free will

If God is omnipotent and knows what we will do before he created us, how can we have free will?

ANSWER: This paradox is explained by God being outside of time–he knows the future just like he knows the past and the present. Just as the past does not interfere with our free will, neither does the future.

2. Crocodile Dilemma

A crocodile steals a son from his father, and promises to return the child if the father can correctly guess what the crocodile will do. What happens if the father guesses that the child will not be returned to him?

ANSWER: There is no solution. If the crocodile keeps the child, he violates his rule, as the father predicted corretctly. If the crocodile returns the child, he still violates his rule as the father’s prediction was wrong.

3. Grandfather paradox

A man goes back in time, and kills his grandfather before the grandmother can meet his grandmother. This means that one of the man’s parents will not have been born, and the man in turn, will not have been born. This would mean that he could not have travelled back in time after all, which means the grandfather would still be alive, and the traveller would have been conceived allowing him to travel back in time and kill his grandfather.

ANSWER: The moment the time traveller changes something in the past, a parallel universe splits. This is supported by quantum mechanics.

4. Paradox of the heap

There are 1,000,000 grains of sand in a heap. If we remove one grain, it is still a heap. If we remove another grain, if it still a heap. If we continue removing one grain at a time, when we’re left with one grain, is that still a heap?

ANSWER: Set a fixed boundary. If we said 10,000 grains of sand made a heap, then anything below it would not be a heap. Yet, it seems unreasonable to distinguish between 9,999 and 10,001 grains of sand. The solution can therefore be altered to say there is a fixed boundary, but they are not necessarily knowable.

5. Omnipotence paradox

Can God create something so heavy He cannot lift it? If he can create something so heavy he can’t lift, then his lack of strength means he is not omnipotent. If he can’t create something so heavy he can’t lift, than he is not omnipotent.

ANSWER: The most common response is that as God is omnipotent, “can not lift” does not make sense. Other answers include the question being a contradiction, like a “square circle”.

6. Epimenides paradox

Epimenides, in a poem wrote: “The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies!” However, Epimenides himself was a Cretan. If Epimenides is a Cretan and a liar, then his statement, “The Cretans, always liars” is a lie. This means all Cretans are truthful, then Epimenides’ statement is the truth. The paradox will infinitally regress.

ANSWER: If Epimenides knew of at least one Cretan (other than himself) who is not a liar, his statement is a lie (because he asserts all) even though it correctly describes the speaker as a liar.

7. Unstoppable force paradox

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an unmovable object? If the force moves the object, then it is not unmovable. If the force doesn’t, the force is not unstoppable.

ANSWER: This situation can never happen, as if there is an unstoppable force, there couldn’t be an unmovable object and vice versa. More interestingly, there can never be an unmovable object. An unmovable object would have to have infinite inertia, and therefore infinite mass. Infinite mass cannot exist in our finite universe, therefore an unmovable object cannot exist.


ENGRISH:
Engrish refers to grammatically incorrect variations of English, often found in East Asian countries. From poorly translated signs, menus, and instruction manuals to bizarrely worded advertisements and strange t-shirt slogans, here are the top 20 engrish pictures.




Deformed person???


"Eliminate horniness"


"A time sex thing"??.. a horrible translation for what it should read "articles for (daily) use"


"Keep out of children"


"I'm cock"


Dishonest trick?  
"Don't fall down"


"Enviro Mental Protection Area"... yeah, we hate those enviros!


"Horny Care"  
WTF?!


On a T-Shirt


Interesting service...


So profound...


Those STUFF people...














Want to fill your car's fuel tank in Italy? No problem -- just make sure you "out to the spy of the select bomb, to take the supplier."



FACING THE FACT FOR THE FUTURE (U.S VERSION):

A good friend of mine worked on the Barrack Obama Campaign trail 2008, and has privelidged acces to information from the vaults of the US government.  Often we sit and discuss American politics and how, by comparison, its much nicer living in England!

It could be suggested that the U.S bully is about to leave the playground and all the nerdy kids are going to take charge.  And that a life of complacency, Illuminatés, and mass conglomoration is no more infalable that the economic structure of Iran.

"Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point, answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of the things that May be only?"

Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood.

"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!"

The Spirit was immovable as ever. -- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Even the United States of America is not immune to the rules of nature and commerce that govern other nations. Over the last few decades, our country has made some very foolish economic choices. It seems as if they have come to believe that the rest of the world is going to finance our government spending in perpetuity (a situation where there is no definite ending), even as it becomes clear that they have no intention of getting spending under control or paying back their debt. Because the wheels of history turn very slowly, the U.S has got away with this for a long time, but as the baby boomers are starting to hit retirement age, the time to pay the piper is drawing nigh. In the next decade or two, they're likely to face a financial crisis more dire than any that nation has ever seen.

What is that going to mean in real terms? It means that barring an unforeseen miracle, out-of-control spending is going to lead to some very painful decisions that will make a lot of people, including conservatives, very unhappy. What you're about to read are the ugly truths about behavior today and logically what means for the home of the brave.

1) Entitlements must be cut. By 2030, the Congressional Budget Office is estimating that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will make up 75% of the budget spending. In other words, unless they regain control of entitlement spending, it will be impossible to get their deficits under control. That means the age eligibility for these programs must be raised and the amount spent per person will need to be dropped to try to close the gap between what they take in and what they pay out.

Given how explosive this issue is politically, it's not going to be easy to accomplish. However, it's not realistic to believe that future generations of Americans are going to be willing to live like servants for decades to support their own personal senior citizen who's lying around in a hammock somewhere, enjoying a 25 year long retirement. The sooner changes are made, the easier it will be on everyone and the less shock there will be to the system when the inevitable changes start to take place.

2) Their military is going to weaken. By historical standards, the United States is not spending an extraordinary percentage of the budget on defense. However, they are spending an extraordinary amount of money on defense for a nation that's flat broke. Is this sustainable? Is China going to keep loaning the money the U.S need to keep their military going when it's the only thing standing between them and Taiwan? Are Americans going to keep spending billions to defend foreign countries that are ungrateful for our help when they don't have enough money at home? The answer to that question is, "No, they're not." And that's a shame, because the United States military is doing more to promote world stability than any other 20 nations combined, but they simply can't afford to keep it up. They'll be forced to cross theirr fingers, cut back on military spending, and hope that the world doesn't completely fall to pieces when the sheriff hangs up his guns.

3) Taxes are going up. Ronald Reagan was right when he said that, "The problem is not that people are taxed too little; the problem is that government spends too much." Unfortunately, the U.S government has spent so far beyond its means for so long that it's going to be almost impossible to close the gap by merely cutting spending. Taxes must go up on the rich, the middle-class, and, yes, even the poor man too. The whole idea that more than 40% of the population can avoid paying any income taxes at all when they're running trillion dollar deficits is sheer madness. Everybody is going to end up having to pay more - and sickeningly, it won't even be for more services; it'll simply be to pay for what they've already spent.

4) Economic growth is going to stagnate. The bigger the government grows and the more it borrows, the less virile the economy becomes. We've seen this in Western Europe where policies - the type of which the Obama Administration is now pursuing - have led to the kind of perpetual sluggish growth and jobless rates we associate with economic downturns in the U.S. As the Congressional Budget Office has said:

Large budget deficits would reduce national saving, leading to more borrowing from abroad and less domestic investment, which in turn would depress economic growth in the United States. Over time, accumulating debt would cause substantial harm to the economy.

Less growth means less jobs, less prosperity, and handing future generations of Americans a country that doesn't hold as much promise as the one that they grew up in.

5) They will have a world where the United States isn't a super power. As the growth of the US economy slows, the military declines, and they become ever more dependent on the foreign powers that hold their debt, the United States will cease to become a super power. They won't have the cashflow to engage in another Marshall Plan, the manufacturing capacity to gear up as they did in World War II - eventually - or the dominant military needed to score decisive victories over their growing opposition opponents.

Certainly, the United States won't become completely insignificant, but Reagan's description of the nation as a "shining city" above the rest of humanity will no longer be true. Instead of being a colossus striding the globe - They'll be like Russia, China, France, Britain, or Germany - just one of many.

Are these events that "will be" or "may be?" If they depart from the course the nation is on, will "the ends" change for the nation or are they too far gone down the road to poverty? Sadly, the U.S have run so aggressively towards a socialist oblivion that the country may be on a downward slope and unable to climb back to the top. Time will tell, but after all the privileges they've had growing up as 'Americans in this great nation', they have a solemn duty to bear whatever they must as a country to pass on the promise, the potential, and the dream of 'America' to future generations

Oh, and then there's this guy on the right, the Cheif Risk Officer for the U.S, Michael Alix.  He doesn't really have anything to do with the article, he's more of the 'Brussels' of the U.S, but he is well worth watching as he is becoming the next brilliantly inappropriate representative of a major nation.  During an interview Alix was quoted as saying "The public is so stupid!  America sucks".

God bless the USA! 


THE WORLD OF GOOGLE MAPS:
Its seems like an everyday occurance, that we find a new way of sticking a camera to something, or someone is publishing our image all over the world for all to laugh at.  Google has provided us with another way to look busy at work and the opportunity to catch something amusing.


You'd walk your pet dog, so why not a pet boa constrictor? Leon Kidd, 25, who has five snakes, was photographed by Google Street View with his 10ft red-tailed boa Nibblez as he carried her along Clarkson Road in North Earlham, Norwich.

If you're out cruising in Spain with the company Ford Transit Connect, try not to get busted by the Google Street View car when soliciting a lady-of-the-night wearing a barely-there thong.
Woman caught on Google Street View allowing young boy to lie in road outside Gateshead's law court.

If you are driving in upstate New York, there's a good chance you'll see deer crossing the road. The Google Street View car did just that and more, while recording it all on their 360 degree camera. Google admitted that one of his drivers hit the deer but stated that the animal was able to move and had left the area by the time the police arrived.

Let's just say he might habe forgotten his keys!

Nate Heagy, a musician from Saskatoon, Canada, decided that the best way to promote his career was to get pictured on Google Street View. So he followed a Street View picture-taking car around his town until he could predict its path and get his image captured.

Google Street View caught an image of a transient crapping on a D.C. sidewalk. Outside 519 H Street, in the middle of the day.

A Google Street View Car in Bradford, England, got pulled over by the police. The vehicle's roof-mounted camera captured the moment it is stopped by a marked patrol car Godwin Street in Bradford. Eyewitnesses described how the car entered a 'bus, bicycle, taxi only' lane before it was followed by a police patrol vehicle with sirens blazing.

A young Canadian elevator mechanic named Stephanie was trying to sell her car on the internet. She didn't have any photos of her 1978 Lincoln so she decided to use images from Google Street.

WISH I THOUGHT OF THAT!:

The concept of genius has changed.  Back in the day, you need to develop some magical and fantastic thing like an operating system to become a Millionaire. The internet has changed that. Nowadays, all you needs is some cute or weird concept of a website and you will find yourself receiving hundreds of thousands of dollar walking to your door.

Below is a list of the weirdest and craziest website ideas that unbelievably made people millionaires. Read them, it’s… wait for it… amazing.

10. I Do Now I Dont

Owner:Joshua Opperman
Joshua Opperman was heart broken when his fiancee and him separated shortly after he proposed.
With nothing to do with the engagement ring, he went to a jeweler who said he will get about 32% of what he paid for.  Losing the girl was hard. Losing the money is just unacceptable so he set up a site where people with the same fate can go and sell their ring.
He may have lost a girl… but he gained millions. I’ll take the trade.

9. LaserMonks

Owner:Our Lady of Spring Bank Cistercian Abbey
If you ever find yourself running out of ink, turn to God.
Well, not quite. Turn God’s soldiers – the monks who refill empty cartridges. Although the monks don’t earn a dime out of the millions worth of transaction they do, be assured that your money goes to the church.

8. Trade Paper Clip To A House

Owner:Kyle MacDonald
According to Reader’s Digest, it all started when Kyle MacDonald took a photo of a little red paper clip that was sitting on the desk and put this notice in the barter section of the local craigslist, the classified-ads website: “I want to trade this paper clip with you for something bigger or better, maybe a pen, a spoon, or perhaps a boot. If you promise to make the trade, I will come and visit you.”
Someone actually agreed to trade the clip to a pen… the pen to a knob… the knob to a camping stove… the stove to a neon bar sign… and so on. He put up a site – oneredpaperclip.com to attract more people and he did.
The appeal of the whole thing is the silliness of it. So silly, in fact, that you just can’t help but be a part of it. You can’t argue with a formula… that’s his final trade up there – a house.

7. PickyDomains

Owner:I don’t Know
The most expensive URL is insure.com. It was sold for $16million. That only goes to show you that it is a freakin’ serious business.  Pickydomains knows this and set up a business where people who are thinking of a url for their business can go to ask other people for a suggestions. If what you submit gets picked, you get paid.

6. Doggles

Owner:I don’t know
They sell goggles for dogs. The owners are millionaires now.
Don’t ask me.

5. Antenna Balls

Owner:Jason Wall
They sell balls that you put on the tip of your antenna.
It’s… well… the… you see…
Oh darn it. I have not explanation as to why people are even buying for them. Why would you want to put a ball on your antenna? And why would you go online to buy one?!

4. Positive Dating

Owner: Paul Graves and Brandon Koechlin
So the concept is… you can go online and set up a date with people who are HIV positive.
You don’t have to be positive to be a member, you just need to want to go out with someone who is positive.

3. SantaMail

Owner:Byron Reese
Byron Reese is the online Santa Clause. He purchased a P.O.Box in the North Pole. Then set up a website where you can log on and ask him to write a letter to your kid… for $10.00

2. Lucky Wishbone Co.

Owner:Ken Ahroni
If you ever find a time when you are in dire need of a wish but you don’t know how to get it…
Or of you are a vegetarian and feels the world is unfair for not making it possible for you to make a wish from the turkey wishbone…
Get in touch with Lucky Wishbone and they will gladly send you an artificial wishbone – for a fee.
Wish away.

1. Million Dollar Homepage

Owner:Alex Tew
So this kid wants to become a millionaire, right?
So he put a website called milliondollarhomepage.com. It has 1million pixels. He sold each pixel for $1.
When you buy the pixel, you know what will happen? Nothing. You can just put a photo of whatever you want there and it will stay there forever.
Again, the novelty of it worked so well that he is now a millionaire.


SOMETHING ELSE:
With the theme of time, here are a few videos about things that you could happily waste your time with. Apparently its all about the neodymium supermagnets.







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