Cheating Friends

Over the years there has been a general lowering of standards in ethical behavior. Many people today see nothing wrong, still less sinful, in what formerly was regarded as cheating, even as stealing. If grown-ups tend to be dishonest and steal and cheat, it is most probably because they learned to cheat and to be dishonest as youngsters, as children. Cheating was and is a regular accepted activity in many high schools and colleges nowadays. Cheating in school can, and usually does, lead to cheating in other situations, including friendship, dating, jobs, and sports.

When friendship is concerned, one might have heard the quote “A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.” True friends are hard to find nowadays and even harder to keep. With increase in the amount of corruption and disloyalty, it is hard to find the right person to trust and accept as a friend. With so many people believing in gossip and cheap plots, betrayal of friendship has become very common now. People are so self-absorbed these days that they do not tend to see whether the friends they have are trustworthy individuals or not. Worse are those people who betray true friends because of materialistic pleasures. Coping up with friends cheating is quite hard, more so if you have no fault of yours. But, life goes on and you make new friends. You push away your hurtful past and learn a valuable lesson from it.

When friends let you down and are not there for you when you need them the most, it is known as cheating or betrayal. But first of all, who would expect their friends to cheat on them? Not many as I would suspect, especially when this situation catches a lot of people off guard mainly because this has never happened to them before. Sometimes the reason why friends cheat on you is just not known. When you are at the receiving end, you feel hurt, confused, and angry. You demand answers as to why have you been betrayed for absolutely no fault of yours. The talks end abruptly, phone calls are not returned, mails, chat messages, or even SMSes remain unanswered and there is no contact whatsoever. Hate it as much as you want, you will have to come to terms with reality and accept that things were not meant to be. We are dealing with a situation that involves innocent friends getting cheated on by their friend of however many years that comes out and say’s our whole friendship was a lie.

Though it may seem like the end of the world, there are ways to cope up with it. If the friendship has been ended by you, then there has to be reason concrete enough to justify the action you have taken. There is no point in dragging along a friendship when you know you are not comfortable with it. However, on the other hand, if you have been at the receiving end and feel that you have been cheated or betrayed by your friend for no fault of yours, it can be very hurtful. Do not be embarrassed to cry and scream. You have been hurt and you have the right to vent out your frustration. Believe me, you will feel a lot better after you have cried your heart out. Seek out other friends, siblings, or your parents and talk to them, tell them you have been hurt and ask them for solace. Sometimes you will be surprised to see that help was just around the corner. All that you needed to do was ask.

One thing that should be remembered is that these betrayals are experiences that teach you valuable lessons in life. Do not be afraid to seek help and talk about it to others. Such betrayals should not stop you from trusting people and making new friends, but it does, it does leave a question about your ability in trusting people and making new friends, I mean, doesn’t it?

Solar Powered Blue Car Hitting the Streets in 2010

A new fully-electric vehicle with solar panels will be hitting the streets of Europe by the year 2010. Italian car designer Pininfarina and French battery manufacturer Bolloré have officially announced that the five door Blue Car hatchback is said to be now ready for production.



Previously unveiled at last year's Geneva Show, the Blue Car is a fully-electric vehicle that comes equipped with solar panels on the rooftop. The vehicle is 3.65 meters long, 1.6 meters high, and 1.72 meters wide, and features a 50kW electric motor that provides an acceleration of 0-60 mph in around 6 seconds and a top speed of 80 mph.

The solar panels on the vehicle’s roof provides some power to the vehicle’s systems. It comes with regenerative brakes and a Lithium Metal Polymer batteries, and has a range of 155 miles per charge. According to the manufacturer, all the materials in the construction have been sourced to be as environmentally friendly as possible. The Blue Car will be available in 2010, with full scale production of 60,000 units in the years to come.

via here.

Man Hits Back Of Truck At 120mph, Gets Stuck & Dragged (NSFW)

This crash was at 169 near Admiral exit on April 17th 2007in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

How would you like to be a truck driver, who walks around back and see THIS hanging from the ass end of your truck?

They said that the dude hit the back end of the truck at about 120+ mph.

These are the pictures from a motorcycle accident that happened on April 17th 2007 on Highway 169 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. The guy was going over 120+ mph at around 2 am when he hit the back of this Yellow truck. The truck was going at normal speed and the driver did not know what had happened. He was dragged approximately a mile before the truck stopped. Highway 169 is known for late night speed driving and trick driving of motorcycles. This guy's friend was killed 1 week after this while again going on his motorcycle at 120+ mph on Highway 169. Please be aware of what you're doing at all times..... and watch your speed.














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Origins: The fatal accident depicted above took place on U.S. 169 near Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the early morning hours of 17 April 2007. The motorcyclist, 26-year-old Brandon Lee White of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, was traveling at an estimated 120+ mph when his motorcycle struck the back of a tractor-trailer rig.

According to the newspaper Tulsa World:

Police said the truck driver reported hearing a bump and then seeing debris from the motorcycle going past him. When he managed to pull over, he saw that a man was embedded in the back of his trailer.

White was dead at the scene.

Brandon's family said that they hoped his unfortunate death at least would help to bring attention to the issue of motorcycle safety:

"If I can save one mother, one father from going through what I've gone through, then it's worthwhile," said Broken Arrow resident Dennis White, Brandon White's father. "I can't be mad, but I know I have to do something. I've got to make a positive out of this."

Despite the hurt, the family members said they hope something good — a review of motorcycle safety laws — comes out of the recent death.

Helmet requirement laws, harsher penalties for speeding on a motorcycle, and community-based services to decrease drunken driving are among measures about which the family hopes the two young men's deaths spark a discussion.

Taking away a rider's motorcycle and motorcycle license for going a certain amount over the speed limit would be one way to curb speeding on bikes, said the elder White, who has ridden motorcycles for several years.

"That's the only thing that would make me think — that I'm going to lose it (his motorcycle)," he said. "I'm not a lawmaker, but I'm a biker, and that's the only thing that would work."

White said clubs that don't serve alcohol would go a long way toward helping reduce drunken-driving deaths for youths by providing them a hangout without the temptation of drinking and driving.

"We've got to do something to save these kids," he said. "We've got to do something to support them.

A few inaccuracies have crept into the text accompanying forwarded versions of these pictures. A 2008 variant carried the closing legend "He lived. Wear your helmet!", but unfortunately Brandon Lee did not survive the accident despite his wearing a helmet. Also, the friend of Brandon's who "was killed one week after this on his motorcycle going 120+ mph on Highway 169" referenced in the second example above was 21-year-old Devin Seigal, who was killed in a similar motorcycle accident five days after Brandon's death (and had, in fact, attended Brandon's funeral).

Unocycle - a one-wheeled motorcycle concept

Unocycle or simply Uno is designed on a one-wheeled motorcycle concept that probably looks like a motorcycle that has been in a nasty accident, but the teenage (18-year-old) inventor of this electric bike, Ben J. Poss Gulak from Canada, believes that this is the answer to urban traffic chaos and pollution. Although it resembles a unicycle, the Uno has two wheels side by side and uses gyroscopic technology to stay upright. The rider leans forward to accelerate to speeds of 15-20mph, and backwards to slow down. The inventor states that he was inspired to make the bike after visiting China a few years ago and seeing all the smog there. They all drive little bikes that are really polluting and he wanted to make something to combat that and the final product of his several years of research is Uno. The Uno weighs around 120 pounds and is light enough to be taken indoors to be charged up and run for around 2.5 hours.  Still in development, the Uno's top speed is said to be around 15-20 mph, but the inventor, Ben Gulak, suspects it could be made to go as high as 40 mph. That's no Harley, but it's still faster for a unicyle, and remember this is a battery-powered machine that you never need to fill up.

 I have always thought the unicycle was dangerous, but this going twice or maybe thrice the speed is bound to have some very cool injury stories I guess!!! 

Here are some pictures for you all to have a look at this futuristic motorcycle, sorry Unocycle.

 

Sony Ericsson W902

Sony Ericsson has Unveiled their new candy bar walkman phone Sony Ericsoon W902 which offers just about any and every feature that you think you might want to have in a Sony Ericsson walkman phone.

Since the Sony Ericsson W902 falls under the Walkman line and not the Cybershot range, one might certainly expect this to be an audio-centric handset, pumping out tunes with verve. The phone comes with a Memory Stick Micro Card slot that allows you to carry up to 8GB of music on a single card, which roughly equates to around 8,000 eAAC+ encoded songs or so on an average. Music playback isn’t the only function that Sony Ericsson W902 is good at as it is more than capable of doing video just as fine as well with its 5-Megapixel camera and scratch-resistant 2.2” QVGA screen and lens made with mineral glass and Digital Zoom of up to 16x, making Sony Ericsson W902 an all-around performer handset that could prove to be a handy and versatile instrument only secondary to a portable media player (the iPod being the primary device, of course;)). The phone has BestPic™ feature installed which enables you to take nine pictures in one second and you can pick the best among it.
The phone also comes with Auto Rotate feature through which one can switch from vertical to horizontal mode by just rotating the phone. Whatever you are viewing will rotate to suit.
According to Ben Padley, Head of the Music Category at Sony Ericsson, “The Sony Ericsson W902 is one of our most high-performing mobile phones yet and perfect for those who want it all.”
Some of the features available on the Sony Ericsson W902 are as given below.

Sony Ericsson W902 specifications:

• Walkman Player
• 5 megapixel camera with Auto Focus
• Clear Stereo
• Clear Bass
• Java
• Shake control
• FM Radio
• Access NetFront Web browser
• Geo tagging of photos (cell-id)
• Polyphonic ringtones
• Bluetooth
• Dedicated music keys
• USB mass storage
• USB support
• Weight: 99.8 grams
• Size: 110 x 49 x 11.7 mm
• Display Screen: 262,144 colour TFT
• Resolution: 240×320 pixels
• Size: 2.2 inches
• Phone memory: Up to 25MB
• Memory Stick Micro (M2) support
• Talk time GSM: Up to 9 hrs
• Standby time GSM: Up to 380 hrs
• Talk time UMTS: Up to 4 hrs
• Standby time UMTS: Up to 360 hrs
• Video call time: Up to 2.5 hrs
• Music listening time: Up to 25 hrs
• Networks: UMTS/HSDPA 2100 GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

You will be able to pick one up in Volcanic Black, Wine Red, and Earth Green this Q4 for a yet undisclosed price.

Link: Sony Ericsson w902 and All Techno Blog