The Will To Perfection (Part 23) : Morality vs Social

Moral value and social value won't mix because moral is about being right or wrong while social is about acceptance by a community or society, which means even if a community or a society accepts a morally wrong acts, they are still being immoral. In other words, just because your actions are accepted by your community or society, it does not mean what you are doing is right, because a community or society itself may subject to right or wrong as an individual person would do as well.

Islam

Islam is not just about the Koran and hadith only. It is a system that includes the whole way of life. Not even a single element of life is not covered by a true Islamic system. It covers everything from the moment we wake up until the next time we awake. This makes Islam different from the rest of other existing religion, not even the other Abrahamic religions like Judaism and Christianity.

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Friendship between guys

I'm not sure if any girls out there really understand the friendship between guys. Once a guy find himself a true friend, even if all girls in this world become his girlfriends can't replace that one friend.

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Hi! My name is Akmal Rizal Shah Putra Mahayuddin ibni Hariffin Shah Putra Jammalullail, otherwise known as Halfey halphstein, the person who writes the stuff here on Right-o-matic. I'm currently a freelance writer and a brain surgeon whose patient is myself. I previously worked as a guy who disguise myself as myself (?) at some corner in the world and my job was generally being myself, coaching myself and managing myself.

My interest falls under a wide range of 'serious' subjects namely: anime, manga, games, figma, cosplay and many other 'interesting' stuff. You might get the impression that I think I know so much, but please know that my fragile memory can only lasts for a fraction of a second before being overwritten by new wrong information. If I have the ability to store all information inside my head, I would have owned the internet and my name would spell like Akmal Rizal Ph.D. M.D. MSc. Abc. Etc. but the chance is people will have trouble remembering it so I decided to just stick to something simple. Besides, I already have trouble with my long real name so I'm not going to add any new problems to the existing ones.

Just like any (ab)normal person, I also encounter difficulties in life, have many questions about life, the universe and everything. However this blog has nothing to do with my quest for the answer of those stuff. I created this blog so I can have a place that serves as a virtual extension to my mind, to share everything that I know, everything that I think i know, and everything that I don't know at all. Now that people are virtually connected to each other by the internet, I'm sure some of my thoughts will be able to annoy and give trouble to other people and I think THAT would be very much amusing to me.

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Right-o-matic is a blog about you, me, and that person about self-destruction, the mind twisting, and weird way of life in general. This blog has undergone several transformations since I wrote my first article in 2008 BC. I was seeing a lot of improvement back then in terms of public attention, but I had to leave blogging for a few centuries (because the Romans confiscated all Viking-invented computers, leaving the entire Europe in stupidity Dark Age). Now that I'm back, I'm starting all over again. I know, it is a pain in the ass neck and annoying to me (and you as well), but life should go on and I'll continue disturbing you again and over again.

I wrote a book during my hiatus that was supposed to be published in 2005 but something happened back then (I'm not going to tell you what had exactly happened) thus the book was never published until today.

*This 'About' page is a stub. You can help expanding it by leaving everything up to me because there's really nothing you can do about it.

5th week as GForum moderator

Halfey's Internet Guide Towards GForum Micronation. I have opened that thread as part of my campaign for explaining to GForum registrants about my intention for a change, but as expected, even without the actual effort to make a change, some people there already offended me, as if I have committed an unforgivable crime. Those offensive acts may be expected, but some (or should I say most) of them come from the person I least expected. I have yet to reply in that thread as it is quite interesting to read one by one those message posted after my last one. Deevon's confession helped explaining some of the mysteries. Since he already did that, I think there is no reason for me to hide much. I'll reveal things little by little while keeping some other things as secret because some questions are best left unanswered. How is democracy going to benefit GForum registrants specifically, or the forum itself generally? Well, I see there is no privacy for people's choice there. If they are unhappy with any decisions, they have to openly express it but not so many people there have the guts to do so. In democracy, everybody's voice are respected and their choice are guaranteed confidential, without have to face the wrath from those who disagree, like what I am facing right now.

Whether people will choose to be with me, let the time decide that. I just don't give a damn about people keep bugging me to make a poll. Say, if nobody support me, it does not mean the failure of democracy, but it is the failure of people to understand the benefit of it.

Hmm. GForum's registrants are mostly kids and they made the majority there? Even in Malaysia, majority are kids, but when it comes to political matters, they don't counts. And I wonder how come people don't realize politics do exists in GForum. Like I said in my earlier posts, it does, as long as there are people in power, there are people who control things, and there are people being governed. In other words, if there are leaders with followers, regardless any scale it is, then politics do exists.

Human is a copy of God?

God does not create human to look like Him. It is human who depicts God to look like themselves.

A month as GForum moderator

First, I want everybody to understand that I have no intention to do the so-called coup d'etat. To be honest, there is no need to. What I want is a reformation of the way we manage the forum and its registrants. I want to put a stop on the act of toying around with this forum as if it is belong to certain individual/party.

Second, I want to tell everybody here that revolution=/=threat as claimed by certain somebody. It is stupid to simply equalize revolution with threat because why do you have to feel threaten just because somebody want a change? Doesn't that sounds like some people want to secure certain position for themselves only? Why i want a change then, you may ask? Because I want to see the way this forum being controlled is determined by a wider registrants base rather than a group of people only.

Third, I want people to stop thinking that the absence of proof is the proof of absence. Remember, politic is a science, where proof need to be found rather than just passively expecting for proof to come to you. The absence of proof doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, because proof may be hidden or buried or wiped out. In our situation, just because there is no people objecting a decision, it doesn't mean that nobody does. This is not about being paranoid, this is about being careful with every single words you spoke, every single decisions you made, to make them worthy & to ensure everybody, regardless they are majority or minority, alone or in group, are treated equally.

Fourth, I hope everybody understand the failure of democracy is not the failure o the system itself, but it is the failure of the way people running it, or the failure of the people who ran it themselves. That means, whenever you see a failure in a democratic system, you should not blame the system, but blame the people who ran it the wrong way. Why we need a real political system here? Because there are people who control & being controlled, and there are people with different power here.

Western Empires vs Chinese Empire (Part 2) : Ancient Inventions

Kite, paper & gunpowder are ancient Chinese inventions, but they are just artistic inventions, unlike the Roman arch which is scientific. What I mean by being scientific is being practical and technical, and requires technician or engineer to have one rather than resorting to an alchemist or shaman or master craftsmen.

The Stupidity of Reality TV Singing Show

Reality TV singing show, regardless what nation hosts it, whether it is US or Malaysia or any other countries, is one of the stupidest thing ever created for TV program,and one of the stupidest thing I've ever seen on TV. The participants are not going anywhere except being popular for a very shot period of time. Even if they managed to achieve some higher level in their career, they are not going too far. They are stars only during the competition but then failed to become legends. Not to really blame the participants though since it is the show itself, which is held annually, that distracts audience from the fame to the next fresher participants. That kind of nature makes people to eventually forget the previous fame and then only focus on the current competition. In other words, the show itself 'kills' the previous winner. Therefore, I can say the previous fame's greatest rival is none other but the newer contestants. That is why I call such show as stupid. Perhaps it is better if the show is to be organized once every 4 years, like the Olympic Games? I mean, to give enough time for the current fame to build solid foundation for their career in order to become a legend in entertainment field.

The Universe (Part 3) : The End of The Universe

Most modern ideas of the end of the world (Apocalypse/Armageddon) only explains the end of humanity (because of human factor/fatal diseases/natural disasters) and/or the destruction of Earth (because of cosmic catastrophe) but failed to explain the end of the entire universe itself. So far, the most scientifically sounding theory of the end of the universe is "The Big Rip", which is the opposite to the theory of the moment of creation a.k.a. "The Big Bang". According to the theory, at certain extent of the expansion of the universe, there will be a point where gravity no longer be able to hold stuff where even atom will be ripped apart and vanished. Sounds logic right? Anyway, it is much better than those like another World War, biological weapon of mass destruction, super volcano or killer asteroid.

The Will To Perfection (Part 22) : The Creation of Facts

All facts are evolved from mere ideas and opinions, after given enough arguments and debates. Without arguments and debates, ideas and opinions are nothing and will not evolve into facts. That is why arguments and debates are crucial wherever or whenever there are ideas and opinions.

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What's the point of having women to do men's works if it does not give much difference? I mean, isn't it better for them to keep just doing womens works if what they did is the same thing but not better than men?

Library & Internet

Libraries & the internet: The graveyard of informations & knowledge.

The Definition of Modern Day Christianity?

What's the point of claiming that you are a Christian if you only believe parts of it but disapproving some other parts?

American Anime? (are crap imitations?)

Americans tried to imitate anime but too bad they always failed since their imitated version of anime are just simply too striking in color (as if they want to attract only kids) and ofttimes the characters failed to blend well into the background. Besides, their available genre is very limited. The only non-kiddie genre they have so far, as far as I know is, teenage theme.

The Ottoman Empire

Although I am a Muslim myself, I won't recognize the Ottoman sultans as Roman Emperor because they don't speak Latin. Latin is compulsory if any nation wanted to be acknowledged as the successor of the Roman Empire.

Western Empires vs Chinese Empire

The difference between western empires and the Chinese Empire is, western empires are of conquered states, while the Chinese Empire is of unified states.

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There can only be two outcomes in problem assessment, either positive or negative. Neutral should not be considered as an outcome since neutral means there as no problem at all to be assessed from the beginning. However, just because the assessment lead to neutral outcome, it doesn't mean the problem is invalid. Even if one sees something as a problem, that is more than enough to prove that problem exists.

Internet Power, Internet Politics

Internet can be as powerful as books in the past centuries. That's why we can't deny its ability to spread influences. Therefore, it's just normal to see people want to look powerful in the internet.

The Universe (Part 2)

Space does not statically or dynamically related to time. Einstein think it is because he thought space expands with time. The truth is, even if space stops expanding, the time will always keeps running. Thus, I can say the Special/General Theory of Relativity is false.

If space really expands with time, so where time is 'moving forward', then doesn't that mean if the space is contracted, time will be reversed? In fact, time will always keep running 'forward' even if the space is shrinking. Anyway, if time really is related to space no matter what, I believe it has to be mass, which means, either time or space can exist alone without the presence of mass, but if both time and space have to coexist, mass has to be there to relate them.

Speaking of time, space, mass and existence, then the universe must come into the picture. The universe exists; it is. Time wise, the universe is 13.7 billion years old,. How big it is? Well, it must be trillions, if not billions astronomical units. It should be measurable since all that we need is to determine two most distant point in this physical plane and measure the distance between them (of which is estimated at 156 billion light years across).

Now, what's left is the mass. How do we measure the mass of the universe? By measuring the mass of all existing physical objects in the universe? Do we need to measure them? I would say yes. There is still one puzzle yet to be solved. Did the mass of the universe static or is it dynamically increasing as the universe is expanding, which means new materials are still being created from nothingness even after billions of years since the theoretical Big Bang?

Another question to be answered is, do the universe are cooling and darkening? Mysteriously, the temperature of the universe is uniform everywhere, and bright light of combined primordial super forces used to fill the space from all direction, minutes right after the Big Bang. So, we can say the universe must have been very old to be this dark but oppositely, it must be still too young considering the uniformity of its temperature.

The answer might be lying at the center of the universe, of which we are yet to know the exact position. Our only clue about it is, it exist because we know if the universe is expanding, then there must be the center of the expansion. What's clear is, despite the uniformity of the temperature, gravity is not well distributed throughout the universe. The gravity tends to develop stellar seeds for stars, which then give birth to planets and moons, together forming a gigantic entity called galaxy. What a truly amazing the universe is.

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Women has always marginalized by men? Never. It is just that they seems to be marginalized but in fact, they doesn't. The truth is they seems marginalized not because men is strong, but it is because they are weak. If they doesn't that weak, then why did they appears marginalized all this time? Doesn't this means the proof that men has always been the stronger sex while women is the weaker sex? Women should not claim the same rights as men. Having the same rights with men means they are sharing men's stupidity. Doesn't that mean a humiliation towards women. That's why men seems to restrict women because they want to protect women from masculine stupidity, of which this action always been misunderstood by women as marginalizing them. Just let the men do all the dirty work with their dirty hand & stupidity while women remain in their feminism. Don't intervene their work or things will get worse than it already is.

3rd week as GForum moderator

It has been 3 weeks and I started to see chances that I can be considered to pave the way towards a more democratic GForum. Believe it or not, as an experienced politically-active forummer, I see the moderators line is within a seemingly one ruling party. Many people does not realize this, including most of the newly appointed moderators themselves. One of the sign that such 'party' exist is, there are people defending and backing each other while some other people, like myself clearly voiced out my objections on certain matters. It is not that I am desperate to have people support my ideas, but I believe nobody should be opposed just because they are objecting decisions made by the higher ups. Yes, they allowed anybody who feel uneasy with any decisions made to object but it is pointless if in the end all that they get is insults, bashings, curses without proper consideration. A good thing so far is SPAM rate has decreased steadily thanks to some public warnings by some fellow moderators, not to mention SPAM deletions. Enough about that, I am happy to see how informative the discussion in "Serious Discussion Thread" where people currently talking the possibilities of renewable energy in Malaysia. The most informative topic so far.

The Potential Of Renewable Energy In Malaysia

With the recent establishment of Sarawak Corridor Of Renewable Energy (SCORE), it is a clear move that the government really want to see the improvement in the utilization of renewable energy after our long dependencies on fossil fuel. We still have much fossil fuel deposit, probably will last for another 200 or 300 years, but it also means that the deposit will run out eventually. We might need to wait for another 65 million years for another 'generation' of fossil fuel. That's far beyond our lifetime! Of course we need to look for alternative source of energy right now.

Some people see that bio-diesel is the answer. It's cheap, and you can produce it yourself at home. But with we already face some sort of cooking oil shortage, this is not the ultimate answer. Some other proposed for fuel-cell. Fuel-cell comes in several forms. It could be hydrogen cell or alcohol cell or organic acid cell, where by some chemical process via catalyzer, the fuel-cell produces water and electricity (and carbon dioxide for alcohol cell & organic acid cell). Well, since alcohol cell & organic acid cell produces carbon dioxide, which is the common green house gas, we may consider to drop those 2. Back to hydrogen cell. It sounds promising. We have virtually unlimited source of hydrogen, where most of them present in the form of water. The source may be cheap, but the process to harness hydrogen from the source is otherwise, where we still need electricity to perform electrolysis to separate the hydrogen atom from the water molecule.

Some car manufacturer like Toyota already produced hybrid-powered car, which gain its power from both fossil fuel & battery. This is proven to reduce petrol consumption up to 40%. The car sales has steadily increase since its launch and Toyota's engineer always keep improving the existing model as well as developing a more efficient model for future usage. Other scientists, on the other hand believe that petrol consumption can be reduced more effectively by reducing no other but the vehicle weight. Their proposed solution? Replace the steel car body with much stronger material but much lighter than steel. It is carbon fiber. As all of us know, carbon atom has a tetrahedron structure, which allow it to form a massive molecular structure. This structure gives carbon the hardness as we can see in the hardest material known on Earth, diamond. Carbon fiber is not really a diamond, but the atom molecule in it are arranged in an array where all of the atom are linked together to give it the strength similar to that of diamond. By shaping this fiber into any shape we want, say a car frame, we will get a much lighter car frame you can lift up by a single hand! I've watch a demo where a helmet made from carbon fiber is not breakable even with a strong hit of a sledgehammer. With a lighter body, a car would net less fuel, thus reducing fuel consumption.

Nuclear power is one of the best alternative no matter how taboo it is to many people. It produces waste, of course but it does not openly release them into the air. Everything is done in a controlled & managed environment. The waste is also produced only once in a while so something like "excessive amount of nuclear waste" should be not an issue. Besides, the waste is dumped in the place inaccessible to anyone so chances for anybody to get 'contaminated' by them is virtually zero. Of course most of us argue that accident might happen, but like it or not, accident happen everywhere. Like some nuclear reactor may leak someday, so do the hydroelectric dam would collapse someday. If they are destined to happen of course little we can do to prevent them, but at least we should be allowed to harness their energy while we still can. Where to built the reactor? Of course we won't build them in residential area. There are still much unoccupied land available in Malaysia. I know this very well since I am a Land Office staff. The government can get a strategic site without acquiring any single occupied land. Talking about the destruction to the environment, nuclear reactor cause less damage compared to the traditional hydroelectric, which always requires massive terrain to be transformed into a lake.

Solar power is nothing new. We already used solar panel since the first time satellite was sent to the space by Soviet Union. However, the efficiency is always been a trouble. In outer space, it is not a problem since the panel get direct unfiltered sunlight. On Earth, layers of atmosphere have filtered most of the solar energy. Therefore, moving a single-seat solar car for about 100 miles may require at least 20 square feet of solar panel. That would relatively covers almost every visible space of the care body, except the windows, lamps and underparts. It may sounds funny but conventional car drivers might say, "I can't paint my car with the color I like and I don't know where to put the stickers". However, it doesn't mean we can't harness solar power for home use. Solar panel's cost is of course still to prohibitive to be installed at home, but it doesn't mean we can't harness the energy in a much cheaper way. Malaysia receives constant amount of sunlight throughout the year, so I think we can use solar tower here. Solar tower is a power station with hundreds of big metal mirrors installed on flat surface in circular arrangement, all of them facing towards a tower which contains water or any other kind of fluid that can be used to spin a turbine system. These array of mirrors concentrates the sunlight to the tower, boiling the fluid inside. The steam produced then is used to move the turbine system which is then used to generate electricity.