Let's look at some
things regarding Apple compared to other companies. Apples innovation has been
stifled and troubled since the launch of the 4S, but you could even date that
back to the launch of the 4. The differences between the 4 and 4S were minimal
at best. What'd it bring? A somewhat decent leap in hardware? Sure, but that's
to be expected. A new version of iOS? Comes with every iPhone launch. The big
"change" touted between the 4 and the 4S was Siri, which turned out
to be a steaming pile of dog crap that doesn't work as advertised and still
most likely won't even after the highly touted modifications that are coming
with iOS6. Now the iPhone 5 was Apples chance for to do something different and
unique and that (obviously) didn't happen. The phone needed a drastic overhaul
(hardware and software wise) and it didn't get it (shocker (not really) coming
from the so called leaders of innovation).
The phone needs a massive GUI change as well. iOS is so outdated and it's
really showing. The iOS6 GUI changes all suck (except for the music player) and
it's slowed everything down to a snails pace. They can't create software for
shit (look at OSX and iTunes on Windows for further evidence). All of the
features iOS6 added are basically ripped from Android, which they continuously
rip feature sets from other companies, and then turn around and sue other
companies for ripping off their "grand design". What's the 5 really
bringing? A slimmer, longer phone? Ok sure it's light and that’s nice but it's
already been done. What else...a two-tone color approach back panel for a majestic
"design enhancement"? Extreme innovation, considering 99.9% of people
put a crappy looking case on their phone to protect it cause it'll shatter like
glass if it's dropped. Updated map system with turn by turn navigation?
Consensus says it sucks, and it really does. Google Maps any day, plus Android
had turn by turn day 1. LTE!? Should've been in the 4S, but in typical Apple
fashion they run a year behind. Earpods?!? True innovation considering they
still suck and everyone will use their pre-existing headphones that provide
much better mids, highs and lows. What else...they moved the headphone port to
the bottom. Mind...blown...look at that true innovation.
Apple as a company is a giant joke, but it's a popular hipster thing. They crap
on companies that attempt to innovate with the threat of lawsuits just to make
more money. Their PR has been a nightmare (especially with the Olympic
Commercials) and this phone had been entirely leaked prior to its reveal. I can
already guess what the iPhone 5s big feature will be - NTC - which should've
been in this. Apple is a generation behind now and clearly this is already
starting to bite them in the ass. Apple fanboys will always be around and of
course the phone will sell millions, but to say there's not a better phone is proof
that your head is so far up their butt you might want to wipe the brown off
your face. Steve Jobs is probably rolling over in his grave.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Friday, September 14, 2012
US needs to just let them kill each other
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/14/13856452-embassies-stormed-kfc-torched-as-anger-over-anti-islam-film-rages?lite
“About 200
demonstrators gathered Friday outside the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait and hoisted banners.”
Hey, didn’t
we save their ass a while back?
Ungrateful fuckwits!
Let’s do this – let’s just leave. Get out of all of the countries that do not
want us. Pull out our embassies, pull our commerce, our money, our military
troops, everything. Let’s see how long they are content without the US when
they are being invaded by larger, more technologically advanced neighbors. Let’s
see how the world stage sets up when the US is only in places with who we are
actually on good terms. Let’s say to the world, “You don’t like us? Ok, we’re
out of here. Good luck with the next Saddam!”
Fuck
Them
The whole
issue comes from a video made by an “Egypt-born ex-con” (but the video was produced
in California). Even in Egypt, they are protesting the US – BECAUSE OF ONE MAN’S
ACTIONS. Like that thimble-brain speaks for ANYONE aside from himself. The first
freely elected president of Egypt is admonishing the protestors and trying to
quell the violence, but having little effect.
Mob
mentality.
These protests
are aimed at US, British and German embassies and businesses (like KFC in Lebanon
– hello, you asshats, that was actually the income of one of YOUR countrymen!).
Pull the US
out of all of this and let them fight it out among themselves.
Their issues
are not our responsibility.
Ban the Evil Peanutbutter!!!
Ok, I am
torn here. I have seen the severe reactions to peanuts (specifically) by
someone that has a peanut allergy. It was very scary. But there is a line,
right?
Is an
outright ban really the best that can be done? I mean, I know there have been
times that I just didn’t have money for more than a PBnJ, chips a couple
cookies and kool-aid for my son’s lunch.
Aside from that, we are back to pandering to one MINORITY – but in this
case, the result could very well be death. You all know how much I LOVE
pandering. (please note the sarcasm)
Ok, let’s
get to the meat of this.
Ban
completely? No, not a good idea. Even the founder of The Food Allergy &
Anaphylaxis Network, a nut allergy advocacy group, says that the outright ban
is a bad idea and prefers finding the middle ground (from linked article).
How about
this: When the kid is registered, in ALL of that paperwork that has to be
filled out each and every year, list the allergies. Wait, what? They already do
that? Oh, ok…. Then since we have that data, why not have the allergy kids eat
at a separate table – or they have lunch after all of the other kids eat
(thereby reducing the threat of residue). Hmmm. I may be onto something!
I think they
call it “compromise”.
Educate.
Teach what need to be done if a reaction happens. Show the kids BY EXAMPLE that
steps can be made to be rational about issues that are even as extreme as this.
But for fuck’s sake, do not ban this for ALL students because of a few. My ex-wife
is HIGHLY allergic to strawberries, but I love them and so does my son. They are
in the house, she just doesn’t touch them. It’s called teaching the next
generation that they will have to know what to do if they come into contact
with something to which they are allergic instead of instilling in their minds
that they can simply force EVERYONE around them to cater to their needs, because
one day, they will apply the same logic to their “wants”.
This is
where things get sticky. A line has to be drawn. Solutions have to be developed
that will ensure that everyone is safe and happy (as best we can). Banning is
not the answer. Education is. Not just for the ones that do NOT have the
allergies, but also the ones that do, and those that are employed to be
caretakers.
Before you
jump up and down, the school is taking care of my son while he is there. They are
his caretakers while in school. I have to trust that they will keep him safe
while not in my care. That does not mean I intend for them to raise my son. I
will educate him on what to do if he sees an emergency. They can reinforce that
teaching and provide specifics (such as where the nurse’ office is and what needs to be said to ensure that the
nurse responds with the proper equipment, such as an epi-pen.
I just think
that catering, pandering, whatever you want to call it, is not helping teach
ANY of the students how to deal with things in the real world. When they
graduate, they will still have the allergies – we can’t very well ban peanut
butter across the country to protect the
whatever-the-percentage-below-the-majority-line-it-is because when they were
young nobody taught them how to handle the reaction. Teach responsibility! Get
the shit together!!
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
We did it before!
- The German
Vote
-
- Claim: A proposal to make German the official
language of the United States of America was defeated in - Congress by one vote.
-
- Status: False.
-
- Origins: Legend has it that in 1795 a bill to
establish German as the official language of the fledgling
- United States of
America was defeated in Congress by a single vote. There never was such a vote;
- indeed, there wasn't any such bill, either. A proposal before Congress in 1795
merely recommended the
- printing of federal laws in German as well as English,
and no bill was ever actually voted upon.
-
- This most
famous of language legends began when a group of German-Americans from Augusta,
Virginia,
- petitioned Congress, and in response to their petition a House
committee recommended publishing three
- thousand sets of laws in German and
distributing them to the states (with copies of statutes printed in
- English as
well). The House debated this proposal on 13 January 1795 without reaching a
decision, and a
- vote to adjourn and consider the recommendation at a later date
was defeated by one vote, 42 to 41.
- There was no vote on an actual bill, merely
a vote on whether or not to adjourn. Because the motion to
- adjourn did not
pass, the matter was dropped. It was from this roll call on adjournment that
the "German
- missed becoming the official language of the USA by one
vote" legend sprang.
-
- The House
debated translating federal statutes into German again on 16 February 1795, but
the final result
- was the approval of a bill to publish existing and future
federal statutes in English only. This bill was
- approved by the Senate as well
and signed into law by President George Washington a month later. The
- legend
lives on, though, presented a vivid lesson that the foundations of our world
aren't always as solid as
- we think.
Ok, so there
is the precedent. In 1795, our government made a decision to be an English
speaking land. So tell me, readers, why is every-fucking-thing now in multiple languages.
I like being able to speak to the people around me – and knowing that they
understand me. I can even give some leeway for those that come to America from
countries that speak a different language, such as Germany or Poland. But come on!
Press one for English, Press 2 for Spanish. What about the other languages??!!
Time for us
to make a stand. Companies can do whatever the fuck they want to, but Federal
and State and City Government facilities and departments need to get the fuck
out of the “Make-Everybody-Happy-and-Promote-That-Warm-and-Fuzzy-Feeling” business.
It is a waste of time and money.
I am an
equally offensive person, so I will offer the following in multiple languages.
You PC pukes:
Fuck You! -
English
Geh zur
Hölle, verschwinde (abfällig) – German
vas te faire
foutre – French
Andá a
joderte – Spanish
去你妈的, 见鬼去吧, 走开
(脏话) – Chinese
(s)
Monday, May 14, 2012
Sweet heady scent of November Turnovers - but always the empty stomach in December
Elections are
coming up! I’m so excited! I love this time of year!
No, I am NOT
drunk.
We, the
people of this (once) great nation, get to rotate the stale and corrupt
leadership of the country for some new, fresh corruption.
Ok, so I am
a bit jaded.
Here’s the
breakdown:
Upon its creation,
the “Founding Document” of the Constitution of the United States refers to the “service”
of the citizens to the general public. I love that. The government is truly OF,
BY and FOR the PEOPLE. The idea at that time was to have people – learned and
altruistic – represent the areas from which they hailed and the people that
live there. This gives the common man a VOICE in the running of the country.
Once the “service” to the country was complete, the representative would then
go back home and resume his (now we can add her) career. They would serve for a stint of 2 years in
some capacity and 4 years in others.
The idea was
to make sure those representing the people in their area never became REMOVED
from those people. That way, they would be able to speak more knowledgably to
the needs of these people. This was a public service, like jury duty.
Time evolved
the roles of public servants. That evolution became the corrosive poison that
spawned the “Career Politician”. The people that we now have to choose from to
represent us – above the local city level – do not even know what it’s like to
work a real job. There should never be a career politician. There should be a
cap on the service any single individual can perform in these roles. They didn’t
need to add that as a part of the Constitution when it was drafted as the idea
of someone fattening up off of the “service” role was never even considered at
that time.
These people
that are elected to be our representatives have no idea what life is like for
the majority of their constituency. Mighty fuck, they don’t even live in the
same area! They have summer homes and apartments in D.C. and maybe a home in
the upscale area of the region they represent. They fly on our dime, they live
on our dime. We have Senators that have been in office for over 20 years! And
when they retire, they get a pension from the government FOR LIFE. Not one that
would be like yours or mine – certainly not the equivalent of Social Security I
will get when (and IF) I get to retire! They will continue to get special
treatment and special consideration until the day they die. Some get security
details allotted to them after they are done “serving”.
Ok… back to
the task at hand.
I want a
change as much as the next person. It will never happen. It won’t happen
because the people that would be hurt by any of these drastic changes are the
same people that would have to vote to pass any legislation to make these
changes. One of them would have to actually stand up and say, “I am sick of
fucking the entire country just so I don’t have to work. And I’m tired of setting
up my retirement at age 35 off of the government loopholes to live a lavish
lifestyle for the next 30 plus years. And I am SICK and TIRED of doing all of
this, loving the government tit, while making the average person in this
country suck the government DICK!”
You want to
know who’s going to volunteer that little gem? NOBODY!
Every term,
more money is flushed in the D.C. Crapper to give the “Career Politician”
another raise or perk or whatever.
But every
couple of years, we – as a nation – hold the reigns for a few months. The power
really can be ours. You and me – we got this. A full-fledged turnover is much
needed. We gripe, we complain, we say we want more from these “servants”.
And like
lambs to the slaughter, we follow the most popular. We get wrapped up in
BULLSHIT and stop paying attention to the things that really matter.
WAKE THE
FUCK UP, America!
Pull Up Your FUCKING Pants, Bitch!
Ok, so how
did THAT become a fashion statement for certain ethnicities that is supposed to
mean “badass”? Really?? What the fuck is up with this mentality?
Ok, I will
just say it: by “ethnicities”, I mean the black community.
I don’t see
many Asians, whites or Hispanics wearing their clothes like this… at least not
those that aren’t immersing themselves in the black lifestyle.
Hold your
accusations of racism for a mother fucking minute, k? I admit that I judge
people on how they look. By saying that, don’t jump up in righteous indignation
and wave the Racist Card. I do it equally for all people. How they wear their
clothes, style their hair, piercings and all! It gives the first impression.
When I was
in high school, I had a Mohawk and would color it damn near weekly. I would
wear clothes that were fashionable for the era. I had the leather, belts and
buckles, I had it all. And I did all of this with the mindset that I was forcing
society to NOT judge a book by its cover. I had intelligence and integrity and
was trying to make people take me for who I was after they get to know me.
You know
what? That was juvenile and stupid.
People will
make a first impression of you LONG before they talk to you and get to know
you. But I WAS juvenile and stupid at
that time. I was supposed to be. I was a JUVENILE. Then I grew up. I started
trying to find work, friends and such. The people I with which wanted to
surround myself would not give me a chance. I just couldn’t figure it out. The
people that I ended up surrounding myself with were good people, but I had to
wade through some really fucked up people to find them.
As I matured,
my personal style began to change a bit and the people with whom I wanted to
hang out started hanging out with me. Wow. Imagine that! Now I dress as I want to – but also keep in
mind that I have a certain responsibility to how I am perceived by how I dress.
While I hope
they will outgrow this fad/phase as they grow up. I applaud the idealism youth
demonstrate by doing as I did… but the image projected is that of a thug. Not a
cool thug, like a gangster in the 20’s and 30’s, but one that would mug you,
steal your car, rape your girlfriend and get a tattoo to commemorate the
occasion. Then I learned the MEANING
behind the fashion statement – what it meant when it was developed.
I ask you:
Are ALL of these juvenile minded adults walking around looking like they feel
so tough aware that they are saying to the world, “I’ll be your bitch and take
it in the ass!”? I guess I’m getting old. I guess I am getting more
conservative as I get older, but I still think that it looks slovenly and makes
me think that the wearer has absolutely NO self-respect or pride in their
appearance.
I would not
trust someone looking like that to pick up my dogshit!
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