Jaime's Rant

one last one

2006-05-31T15:39:00.000+10:00

well i'mt trying to blog as much as i can before 5. yes i should have blogged earlier but i'm a

well the topic which springs to mind, is technological sweatshops.
technological sweatshops, so from what i understand they are sweatshop like places established in 3rd world countries where people are paid to create personalities for onlne games which are then sold to western countries and their players.

this is considered morally wrong, yet the people who have access to these computers which are used for teh technological sweat shops ahve access to items which noramlly they wouldn't. that is computers. so it forms a double edged sword. you may notice that my thoughts on alot of topics have both a positive and negative side this isn't becuase i cannnot make up my mind but becuase i choose to see both views.

the comparison i make with techno sweatshops, is to a story my own parents have told me. In El Salvaddor during the late 80's sweat shops were far and wide, this was not a result of evil, tyrants who controlled or owned the factories it was due to the political policy of teh time. See if sweat shop oweners paid their workers more, then prices would go up, which meant that foreign companies would go to other nations and get sweat shop labour from them. This couldn't happen, the government needed this money to help fuel the war which was going on. Thus factory owners were forced in many circumstances to continue the sweat shop trade. what fualt do factory owners have if they are pyschically forced, sometimes at gun point to continue the trade.

so many of the owners paid sweat shop owners in alternative motives. They paid minimal wage, but gave out housing, food, medical supplies and other life nessecities. In other words, sweat shop workers recieved access to materials which they otherwise would not have access to, not to mentoin that in 3rd world countries, while sweat shops pay minimal wages it's still alot more than nothing. Which is what a large part of the population may recieve. If there are people working there it's becuase they need the money.

so thats teh link i see with technolical sweat shops, yes i know they are terrible things and i do not endorse them in any way shape or form, but they do give people access to items which would otherwise be unatainable.

Also the benefits from using these items is also important.
education in computing, technological education.

well there is otehr but i can't think of any at the moment.

and thats is my rant
i'm going to eat, tehn bust out another of these blogs. if only i could figure out the date and time written so i could make john think i have been blogging all semester.....

jaime francisco marin

yeah, thats my full name

Worst Blogger Ever

2006-05-30T22:36:00.000+10:00

Well i'm sorry. I am officially the worst blogger ever.

It's not my fualt, i just alwasy forget, adn when i'm out and about i think, hey, thats something good to write about but then i never do, and you know why. becuase i'm the worst blogger ever. Sorry John, i know this might not make you happy. Ohh and i'm a really bad typer and speller.

On another note, something that has stuck with me from out recent online chatroom sesssions is this. People and the social rules which dictate their behaviour. More specifically we talked about how in a virtual world, people can openly and with greater ease introduce themselves to strangers and recieve a positive response, that being that the person you contact responds. However, we can't do that in the pyshical world. I think that sucks, and i was wondering why we can't. Social rules have evolved, in such a way that at university, I feel like i cannot sit down next to someone in a lecture and start a conversation. Even in a tute unless forced to by a group activity it is rare that the collegue next to you will begin an open conversation, but why?

Is it driven by a sexual motive. I am a male, does this mean that if i started a conversation with a female, it would be automatically assumed I am attracted to her? If i started conversing with another male is that also seen as inappropriate? Does me being open to meet other males make others question my sexuality? As bold as this seems i sometimes feel that is the case.

Or could the social paradigm be caused by social reasons and subculturaly grouping classifications. By this I mean that, would people only feel comfortable talking to me, if i appeared to be from the same or similar subculture. By this i mean, i appear to be either a skater ora jock for example. Or that we share similar interests such as music, films, clothes etc. Lets face when we select who we talk to, often it is based on the persons appearance and our mindset to wether we would communicate similar interests.

However and bear with me i'm getting to my point. Online i feel these discrepencies that we evaluate when selecting our newly acquired friends. We select certain chatrooms, certain interest groups and basically my biggest point being whilst we have the ability to seek new interests, we ignore most other options. Thus how can we become interested in new groups, ideas and differently cultured people.

although at the same time, we are convinclingly more open to meeting new people. It's a weird paradox, we are more open to new things, yet, we tend to seek out information and people who are into the the same similar interests.

Whoa i just read that and i started off going somewhere with it, then i got confused, relooped and now i'm here debating the existance of humanity as an entity.

thats why i'm the worst Blogger Ever.

Jaime

Well well well

2006-05-14T22:13:00.000+10:00

well well well i tried to join a communty today. I have actaully tried a couple of times and did join a few of thoe msn communities and my space group which are great fun. Also i Joined Downloader.com which is rad. I have been listening to DFA's album all week and franklly, i'm impressed.

My apologies

2006-05-14T22:00:00.000+10:00

well i do apologize that i have been away for a while, with uni sanctions going on and plain laziness my bolg at the moment sucks and lacks well everything.

Worst community member ever.

well anyhows, most important thing htat happened lately in my world of kcb 21 was the group presentations. They were tops, ours was great i thought, and i was really happy working with the team members. we propposed Q Film Scene, largly based on Counrtney's idea, (word courtney) we came up with a really good concept.

also i missed a aocuple of lectures here and there, but i was working alot and it wasnt my fualt, i really had to work, so the last lecture i got was about trains. It was pretty cool, to be honest i thought that at first it wasn't going to be interesting at all, but suprized me. Actually was a little impressed by how people got so into the trains idea and how people could manipulate the direction of the game so much. I was stoked withAlex teh Kid of my Master System 2. but wow, trains was a bit intense.

anyhow i am off to camp and mould hte lives of young children til thursday so expect a large numbes of entires then. I have to catch up for my lacking all semester.

cheers

jaime

2006-03-30T12:07:00.000+10:00

Well i guess i should propably start by introducing myself.

My name is Jaime Marin, I am 20 years old and I live in Brisbane, Australia.
I study at Queensland University of Technology and i do a Business and Media Communication degree. It's alright, it has it's moments but at other times it becomes obsesivly boreing and repetitive.
I enjoy things, normal thing like most people.

well that is me for now. There is more but, I'd like to keep a degree of anonymity after my first two blogs.
See I refered to the anonymity of creating a virtual medium of communication over the internet. My Kcb 201 lecture will be a little pleased with that i hope.

jaime

Jaime's Initial Rant

2006-03-30T11:56:00.000+10:00

This is the first official blog that i have ever posted.
I was sort of forced into creating a blog, but it's nto such a bad thing, i hvae been debating about creating a blog, but laziness had held me back. Now i have to do it and this is it, my rant and thoughts over all that happens and all that wont. Also there will be some talk about the course which i am doing, kcb 201.

it's great

jaime