Rants

Man am I glad I’m a server owner.

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I’ve been pondering for awhile over some recent reading material in various places. Such as this and the comments that followed, this video and thread, and this link in the 2nd page of the thread.

Man I’m happy that I own my own servers. If I ever have an asshole come in to cause any form of grief I can not only get rid of them in an instant, but have some quality fun at their expense. I want people to have fun in games, and if you come into my house and start shitting all over the place then I have every right to summon as many supertanks as I want. What’s that? If I mute someone it will solve everything? I just so happen to have that option at the server side!

I’m glad Microsoft is finally cracking down on these assholes. If I had to deal with that drivel on a daily basis I’d probably throw the console out the window. I guess it really does pay to be a PC nerd. That and servers are fun to tinker with. 😛

“The Pheed” Another stupid ass piece of shit networking service.

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So if you haven’t heard there is a new twitter thingamabob called The Pheed. See? It’s spelled with a Ph! That instantly makes it 1337 and $h!t. Because we just can’t get enough of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr Google plus or whatever the phuck else there is. Oh, and MySpace because surprisingly there are at least 5 people still using that.

But what sets this service apart from others? You can either use it for free or pay a monthly fee, or on a pay-per-view basis priced between $1.99 to $34.99. Pheed takes half of the revenue to cover bandwidth and storage.

What amazes me is that you can already do this with regular blogging. You can get a blogspot or a wordpress for free, or find a webhost like I’m using and host it by yourself for cheap, and the best part is that you can essentially do whatever the hell you want. Unlike these places where limitations are presented.

Phucking Sheeple. I guess I can add this to the ever expanding list of social networks I’ll never be joining.

“Hey you lookin fresh! Hit me up on facebook!”

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That was the epic pickup line of the evening. This highschooler looking dude said that. I think he was a highschooler anyway. I think I have more hair on my body than he does…

If you have to use facebook to impress people you seriously have issues…

Proven. I am suspicious.

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Those who read my blog know that I’m not a big fan of social media (facebook, twitter etc). I’ve always said that I have a blog and that’s good enough for me, but apparently not for everyone else…

Yes, if you don’t have a facebook you are instantly suspicious. I mean, for all you know I could be a mass murderer infant rapist who steals marshmallows and hand grenades. All because I don’t have a facebook.

“You can’t get away from it. It’s everything. It’s everywhere,” she told the Washington Post. “The moment we’re in now is about trying to deal with all this technology rather than rejecting it, because obviously we can’t reject it entirely.”

Well, you can, but it might lead to your being rejected down the line too.

I’m sorry. How is not being a part of facebook rejecting technology? All facebook is for people is a networked blog with groups and games. So if you leave facebook or don’t participate at all that is not abandoning technology. That’s abandoning facebook. Facebook is not technology. It RUNS or can be ACCESSED on technology… Anyone who suggests otherwise is a fucking moron.

I have a blog, I have a webforum, I have multiple websites, I have a Youtube, Steam and I even have an XFire! I also have that thing called email. Which one of my relatives doesn’t care for because unlike the awesomeness that is facebook, you don’t see a picture next to a name… I sincerely doubt I need a facebook…

Don’t even begin to tell me that I’m running from technology. I think I’m further into it than most facebook users.

To these people the words love, care, and empathy have no place in a dictionary (not that they would bother reading one).

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So I’m sure quite a few of you heard about the shooting in Colorado. One of the things that happened during the shootings was brave men giving their lives to save their wives or girlfriends. As tragic as it is, it was also very noble, honorable and heroic of them, and they will be remembered for it. This asshole of the century on the other hand has a different perspective.

So… These men lost their lives and these women lost the men they loved, and James Taranto is hoping they’re worthy of anything? What the hell is wrong with these people? I’ll bet this chicken shit would run out of the theater screaming like a little bitch.

I hope that one of these days that these women hopefully visit him to show him how “worthy” they are. Jesus Christ, of all the people that deserve to be drug out into the street and beaten with a salty glass covered club… People like him have no love or care in their heart.

Not sure if advertising or being an asshat.

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Had a busy day of work. Nothing terrible until the end. There has been this old guy that’s been coming in, I’ve only talked to him a few times. Ever since he asked me what I would be doing for my summer vacation (which would be working) he seems to enjoy boasting about how he’s glad he doesn’t have to work unless he wants to. Then he tells me it was all because he didn’t party and worked for the military (not sure why he threw in the partying part). So far he’s had this conversation with me about two or three times. The result is me usually listening to him about how awesome his retirement life is and about how he has more money than he could ever want.

This is all fine and good don’t get me wrong. But why does he have to tell me over and over again (even in the same conversation) that he’s well off? Is he trying to impress me? Seriously, it was almost time for me to leave tonight, and he kept spouting the same lines over and over again for about ten minutes. How he’s thankful that he has a great life and doesn’t have to worry about anything, he can work only if he wants to, then kept wondering why people don’t join and serve their country and thought maybe it was either people being afraid or just not wanting to be patriotic… The way he was wording himself made it seem like he was trying to get some kind of reaction. But I do well keeping a poker face, after all I’m well known for saying anything with a straight face.

I have family and friends who are either serving or have already served. I thank them for their sacrifice and strife. They fight so that we can be free. I may not be in any army branch. Does that make me a cowardly lazy ass? Apparently if you’re that guy…

Then I imagined myself telling a homeless person who lost everything how I’m thankful that I have a roof over my head with food… How well would that go over?

Another reason why I’m not a fan of facebook.

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Not that it would affect me in this particular situation.

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Washington Facebook Voter Registration

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Facebook users in Washington state will have something else to brag about to their online friends: that they registered to vote on Facebook.

The secretary of state’s office said Tuesday it will have an application on its Facebook page that allows residents to register to vote and then “like” the application and recommend it to their friends. It’s expected to launch as early as next week.

I read about this and thought it was one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Do any of these morons realize facebook keeps tabs on everything? Oh wait… We’re too fucking lazy to care.

I’m sorry. I’m not the kind of person that likes it when places like facebook or myspace keep tabs on everything that I do. Yes I understand that people use it also to find jobs or keep in touch with family. It’s just stupid that places like facebook use that sort of thing to exploit people into giving them their own personal information so that they may sell it for a profit. If anyone registers to vote via facebook they get whatever they deserve.

I’ll keep my blog and email thank you.

Make babies or get acid thrown in your face

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Apologies for fewer posts again. Between my internet crapping up and my webhost being hard to get to I’ve been having to cope.

But back to blogging! Lets start with this article that showed up in my RSS (Really Stupid Shit) feed today.

Today he found one hell of a winner. He’s one of the many types that believe that women don’t need to be educated, their vaginas give them the honor of staying home and making babies! To not do so means that they are missing out on a wonderful thing, something that only men understand… not women.

[E]ducating women is strongly correlated with reducing their disposition and ability to reproduce themselves. Educating them tends to make them evolutionary dead ends. … 40% of German women with college degrees are childless. Does PZ seriously wish to claim that not reproducing is intrinsically beneficial to women?

I like how they have to pull numbers from another country to make their point, when they’re claiming most of the problem is with American women. So lets go get some numbers from Germany! Are they true though? You normally provide links to facts such as those…

[R]aising girls with the expectation that their purpose in life is to bear children allows them to pursue marriage at the age of their peak fertility, increase the wage rates of their prospective marital partners, and live in stable, low-crime, homogenous societies that are not demographically dying. It also grants them privileged status, as they alone are able to ensure the continued survival of the society and the species alike. Women are not needed in any profession or occupation except that of child-bearer and child-rearer, and even in the case of the latter, they are only superior, they are not absolutely required.

Yes, as soon as they start their period marry them off! Some girls start their periods rather early (even before becoming a teen), just marry them off and make them into mini baby machines. God bless the south.

Also if you read the article you’ll see that it’s perfectly acceptable to harm and maim women who don’t resign themselves to being nothing more than baby making machines.

The comments at the original blog (not at the manboobz blog but at the one he’s quoting from) are hilariously stupid. Although there was a white knight that came in there and made the mistake of providing fact, he was quickly shot down by one of the resident HeMen and the masturbaters of the universe. Which reminds me of an old saying, never argue with an idiot. Here is one of my favorites:

Neither are men. Women proved they could mostly replace us during wars.

I forget that women invented the atom bomb, radar, sonar, jet engines, and rockets…

the vital work that men do is invent things that increase the standard of living for the entire planet…women do not…

Can’t tell if sarcasm or if they’re a total fucking moron. Both?

Quite honestly I think it’s more of a fear that they have.”A girl” could be smarter than them, and that’s just wrong. Like so many other things these people continue to be afraid of. What’s funnier is a study I heard about years back. Women become smarter after giving birth. They’re pretty much fucked either way I guess.

Some choose not to evolve.

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At work today a pregnant woman collapsed in severe pain. We all rushed to help her and even got her a wheelchair. What really pissed me off was that customers saw she was in pain but still had no qualm about stepping around her or over her while she was on the ground. Some of them were even of the opinion that “how dare she be in OUR way”. Well fuck you and the horses you rode in on. She needed medical attention and all you people were worried about were getting your fucking coffee supplies. God forbid someone be on the ground in severe pain RIGHT where you needed to go…

There is way too much of this “me me me” mentality in the US. I think people like that drive me insane the most because they have no empathy whatsoever. Can’t even begin to think what life might be like for someone who is not them. May karma come along and give them a swift kick in the ass.

Lack of maturity in the workplace.

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Tonight I was reminded about the real winners I happen to work with. After helping a Jamaican man this evening one of the guys I work with offhandedly commented to me that “when” he has children he will make it clear to them that if they date anyone of another race he would disown them. This floored me, this really floored me. I asked him why, he just felt it was completely wrong for races to mix with each other. He followed it with “You must think I’m a bad person”. Uhhh, yeah. I’m not thinking it. I KNOW it. Would have been funny if one of my bosses were working tonight. The Mexican one who happens to be married to a white lady.

Then one of the other guys who was also working is a sexist fuck. Talking about his ex girlfriend tonight, was explaining to us all that it was entirely her fault that she got pregnant. I’m not saying he’s entirely at fault either. However it does take two to tango. I know both of them well enough to know they’re equally nucking futz.

I didn’t report them. If they’re not bothering customers with this hate talk then I have no ground to say anything, despite how uncomfortable it is.

And they wonder why I don’t talk more about my personal life…