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    Christmas Rant


    2009 - 12.21

    Christmas. Hanukkah. Kwanzaa.

    What do all of these events have in common?

    There are there to spread love and joy to those close to you. This is an absolutely great concept…

    … only to be ruined by people who want to be politically correct.

    So, listen up. I have a few words for all of you.

    “Happy Holidays” Zealots – Fuck you.

    “Merry Christmas” Zealots – Fuck you too.

    Seriously, everyday during the month of December I have to hear someone bitch, moan, and complain about people saying one phrase over the other.

    Cut the shit. If you really have nothing better to do than try to correct someone for using one phrase over the other, then you need to rethink the priorities in your life because OBVIOUSLY you have too much time on your hands.

    This goes for both sides of the spectrum.

    Happy Holidays – Oh yay. You’re trying to be all ‘merica, land of the free, home of the brave. Place for all equal rights. etc. etc.

    Yeah. I got that. Awesome. Except…

    … no one cares. Read: Land of Equal Rights. As in “No one gives a flying fuck if you wanna be all melting pot. I say what I want.”

    Merry Christmas – Ahh… my Christians. How I love thee.

    Look, it takes less effort to just ignore the aforementioned “melting pot” assholes, than it does to try and counter them.

    I, personally, find it simply amazing that this is the phrase that causes the most shit. Really!?

    “God bless you”, “Lord be with you”, and “I’ll be praying for you” are all phrases that automatically assume one believes in God. And yet… “Merry Christmas” is the one that pisses everyone off.

    If everyone just stuck to their own guns and didn’t give a shit about the religious and political views of others, the world would be a helluva better place.

    [/rant]

    As a side note, I vote we all just start saying Merry Christmahanukwanzaakkah and go on about our lives.

    Christmas Rant

    “Longstanding” vBulletin Customers


    2009 - 11.13

    I was going to put this in my signature, because I want to show the Anti-IB people how irritating it is to see childish and condescending statements all over the fucking place. It got too long, so here’s a nice rant.

    My original signature statement was this: “Do you consider yourself a loyal customer? Oh, you do? Guess what, then? You’re not special. Get over yourself and your need to constantly state that you are better than those who joined yesterday.”

    Anyway, if any of you frequent the vBulletin.com Community, then you will have, undoubtedly, seen a post or two or a million from people who claim they are “long standing” and “loyal” customers. Here’s a nice example from the newest member of my Ignore List, Grover:

    This is indeed an abolute must. We (long standing customers) have been asking and asking and asking for a much better Paid Subscription system for years. (Just do a search in the now closed vBulletin Suggestions and Feedback forum). vBulletin really needs to become much more sophisticated in regards of monetizing our websites.

    Source

    Emphasis mine.

    What the flying fuck does this mean, anyway? You’ve been around since 2001? So?

    What does your join date have shit to do with what should or should not go into this product?

    I mean seriously, every fucking person who posts and says anything along the lines of “I’m a long standing customer” immediately goes on the ignore list.

    If you want input on the company, go buy some IB shares and bring that shit up in Shareholders meetings. That’s why it’s there.

    Sure, you can suggest shit. You can suggest all you want, but do not fucking say/insinuate/claim that long-standing customers should be listened to more than people who have joined yesterday.

    You are not fucking special. If you want something to get into vBulletin, act like a civilized human being, and just suggest it. There’s no need to constantly shout that you’ve been around for one hundred million years, because really, no one cares.

    [/rant]

    Usual caveats apply. My house, my rules. Say something stupid in a comment, it won’t get posted.

    Also, for the record, I highly disagree with the suggestion that quote came from. I don’t need, and I don’t know any forum admins who do need it.

    This is indeed an abolute must. We (long standing customers) have been asking and asking and asking for a much better Paid Subscription system for years. (Just do a search in the now closed vBulletin Suggestions and Feedback forum). vBulletin really needs to become much more sophisticated in regards of monetizing our websites.
    “Longstanding” vBulletin Customers

    Another rant – Bewere, it’s about religion.


    2009 - 03.31

    Let me start off by saying, I’m a very tolerant person of other people’s religious beliefs. If you believe in God, Jesus, Satan, Buddha, Allah, or whatever, then more power to you and I fully support your desicion to do so.

    But, there is -one- group of people I have a problem with, and it’s not even the religion itself, just it’s people.

    If, by now, you’re sitting there thinking “Oh god, this white trash American is going go wave his American flag, talk about how his country is the best in the world, and trash talk all the Muslims and call them all terrorists and whatnot.” then you ned to go take your hippy-self somewhere else, cuz you’re way off.

    In short, no, I’m not going to talk about Muslim. I know a Jordanian man down the street and he’s a pretty cool guy.

    No, this time, I’m going to talk about Jehova’s Witnesses.

    Surely, everyone knows who these people are, they are the fuckers that come bother you on your day off from work while you’re sitting and relaxing at home, and when you be courteous and actually answer the fucking door, they refuse to leave.

    But, alas, I didn’t have the pleasure of actual talking to these people, so I could tell them to piss off in front of their face.

    Today, there were two Jehova’s Witnesses prowling around the street, whatever, no big deal to me. If they bug me, I’ll just say “I’m an Atheist, and no, no matter what you’re not going to recruit me. Good day to you.” and shut the door.

    In fact, I didn’t even know they were on the street until I heard the front screen door slam shut, as it usually does when someone opens it.

    So, I’m sitting here, minding my own business when I hear this “BAM!” Of course, I jump up and look outside the window. What do I see? A random black man walking away from my house in a quick pace.

    At this point, I’m pissed, because it appears to be that someone, who I do not know, attempted to come into my house without permission.

    I go to the front door and notice something sticking out of the bottom of it. I pick it up, and it’s fucking Jehova’s Witness propaganda.

    At this point, I’m furious. This man scared me half to death by quietly (I mean quietly, normally you can hear it squeak when it’s opened but it didn’t even do that) opening the screen door and putting his trash in it, then let it slam, thus scaring me into thinking someone was trying to break in. I’m the only one home and everyone else is at school or work, so I know it’s not them else they would have called first.

    Anyway, back to the sketchy black man. As he was walking away (in a very fast pace) he saw me in the window, then he proceeded to make a call on his cell phone and continuously look back at my house.

    Now I’m in a rage. Why does he keep staring at my house while talking on his cell phone and trying to look at me through the window?

    Now I’m just hoping they come back, so I can tell them where they can shove that little paper they gave us.

    Oh, and by the way, if you’re a Jehova’s Witness, do the world a favor and stop shoving your bullshit propaganda and religious views down our throats. It’s called “freedom of religion” asshats, that means “I will pick what fucking religion I want to be in and NO you are not going to change that.”

    Anyway, after reading this over I figure’d I’d mention that IF this man would have just come to my door and knocked, all would be well. But no, he OPENED my fucking door WITHOUT permission then made it look even more skep by walking away while trying to look back and see my in the window.

    Another rant – Bewere, it’s about religion.

    I hate my internet.


    2009 - 02.26

    Time for another rant.

    I have 512k DSL Broadband internet access. A few friends of mine from down the street have the exact same connection speed. The only difference between the two, is that mine came with Wireless Networking capabilities as a part of the package meaning we get a wireless router with modem capabilities and my friends did not, they had to buy their own router and set up the network themselves.

    Now, as mentioned, we have the exact same connection speed, which is 512k DSL Broadband. A few months back, my father started noticing the internet on his laptop slowing down, and I also noticed it on our Playstation 3. Upon asking me why this is I merely said “It’s because the wireless transmission is being diminished while traveling through the 6 or 7 walls it has to, in order to get to your laptop.”

    I said this, because I was using a wired connection and I wasn’t experiencing any type of slowdown. Sure, it wasn’t as fast as my friends connection, but it was pretty decent.

    I was wrong.

    A few days ago, my friends had to replace their hard drive in their computer, and needed everything to be reinstalled. So, I performed the reinstallations and stuff and reset up their wireless network (remember, they have their own router, not one provided by the internet company). While I was reinstalling I had to go and download AVG. When the download started I noticed something… it was downloading at 110kb/s! And again, I just shrugged it off and merely thought it was because their router was only across the room.

    Wrong again.

    Later that night I decided to connect with my PSP while I was sitting on their side porch having a cigarette. And to my amazement, I was still getting at least 100kb/s downloads. Even while the wireless transmission was going through 3 walls plus solid brick and concrete. I was fully able to check Facebook (three times) as well as UC’s full calendar at a constant 90-100kb/s. I started a simple download of a game from the PS Store, and it was again reporting 90 to 100kb/s.

    Move on to today… I tried to download Puppy Linux, a small Linux Distro, to my computer. The ISO download is only 94 Megabytes. The Puppy Linux server is located in Houston, Texas, not too far from where I live (by internet standards anyway). When the download started I was downloading at 14kb/s on a wired connection. But, it gets better, while the download was going, I could not access the Audentio Design website, because of connection problems. This tiny download, going at a mere 14kb/s, was clogging my entire connection.

    Here is a Speed Test I did. Note that this speed test is provided by my ISP.

    speedtest

    Let me just reiterate that speed for you really quick. Seven-fucking-teen Kilobytes Per Second. Does anyone remember the download speeds we got on Dialup? When I ran AOHell I got at least 4.5kb/s on a 56k modem. You mean to tell me… that with a 512k DSL Broadband modem I’m only getting ~3x the speed of dialup? Bullshit.

    Now that I’ve ranted here, time to call the phone company, because they are really screwing us over. This is the third time I’ve had to call them on my fathers behalf because of connection problems.

    PS. Anyone else notice that the “Gay Shit” tag is my second or third most used tag so far? Why is that, I wonder… oh yeah… it’s because (as me and Tim were discussing yesterday) in all companies strive for ease of use, they are making things over complicated without realizing it.

    I hate my internet.