Friday, May 18, 2007

Home is boring....

Hey everyone. So I have spent less than a week at home and I am already bored. I have already applied for a bunch of jobs and hope to hear back on at least 1 sometime soon. But mostly I sleep a lot and play a fair amount of wow, playing wow lag free is so nice and now I actually have my raid spot back. You wow ppl will understand that part. Anywayz since the last post was saying nice things about people I care about. This post would be to say negative things about people I don't like. So here are some things that I find annoying or stupid.

People who don't like walmart
You people really need to shut the hell up. So many of you bitch and complain about walmart and really have no idea what you are talking about it. So what are the most common complaints against walmart: walmart forces small business to close, walmart destroys towns, walmart has shady business practices. Walmart does often force mom and pop business to close, do you know why that is? Because Walmart usually offers a better product at lower prices than small businesses do. Since walmart is an extremely large corporation it is able to do this where small businesses can't. I really have no problem with it because that is how economics works. Walmart also pays more and offers better benefits then most local family owned small businesses. Walmart also creates a large number of jobs where small businesses are usually family owned and run. If you have the capital and intelligence you have the opportunity to own and run a business, however no where does it guarantee that you have the right to succeed at your business and unless you can offer a service walmart does not or offer better or cheaper you are probably going to fail. Really this is basically how economics works and if you have a problem with free markets you suck. Second criticism: walmart destroys towns. If you think walmart destroyed your town you are stupid. Walmart brings many jobs and revenue that were not present before and also offers many products that are not otherwise available especially in rural areas. If you are implaying that walmart destroyed your community some how then you had a really weak community before hand that would have been destroyed eventually anywayz. If you feel like walmart has made your community to urban than move to an even more remote area and quit bitching. If you live here in rural minnesota you realize one walmart or super walmart doesn't make things that much more urban and we still live in the middle of nowhere. Third criticism: walmart has shady business practices. Name one major corporation that doesn't. The thing I find most hilarious are people who bitch about how bad and evil Walmart is and then shop there anywayz, if you feel that strongly stand up for your beliefs and find some overpriced small business to buy from. I maintain that any store that sells 3 dollar whole pies can not be evil or bad.

Mac Users
Now I don't mean all mac users. But this is addressed to those of you who avidly defend how great macs are. First of all, macs are not great machines despite what you people say no one who uses a computer for anything that matters uses a mac. Businesses run on real PCs, people who do graphic stuff and web pages use PCs, serious computer gamers and the rest of the world all use pc's. Mac's are used in schools because they offer enormous discounts to high schools and grammars schools, but that is the only reasons they are used there. Yes mac's may be more user friendly for people with like a 2nd grade education but if you have any computer literacy whatsoever a normal PC will do just fine. But Jake people don't make viruses for macs, you are right because no one uses the things. But Jake Macs come in different colors. Wow if you picked a mac because you wanted it to match your room or color scheme you fail. What I especially hate is the stupid commercials mac puts out I mean cmon. I really wanna see a Microsoft commercial with Bill Gates with a big shit eating grin sitting next to a pie chart that shows who makes more money every year and the percentage of ppl who use PCs as opposed to Mac's. Again this is only directed at very vocal mac users. Really Ipods are the only thing you make that people really want so stop pretending like your computers are superior because they are not.

Scientologists
I love that a reporter from the BBC was screaming at one of these idiots on tape. They deserve it. Normally I'm not one to insult someones religion but for these idiots I'll make an exception. Absolutely nothing about your religion makes sense and you can't defend this faith in any way shape or form. I mean if your willing to trust some random idiot with a modified bio meter to tell you whats wrong with your soul , you are not a smart person. You know by saying theses things someone who gets this soul in a trillion years on a different planet is gonna need to undergo so theaten rehabilitation. That's all the time I'm giving you idiots.

Kabblah(Kabblah Centre)
You people are almost as stupid as the previous group. You are trying to be hip mystical Jews.... it doesn't work. You realize that those of you who follow new age Kabblah are following a religion that was made up by a former insurance salesman from New York who changed his name and gave himself the title of Rabbi. Real Kabblah is old school and very weird but at least it incorporates a fair bit of mainstream Jewish traditions. I guess the promise of power, telepathy, and clairvoyance you people promise is appealing. I mean just by looking at the 72 names for god that you have I gain power and my molecular structure is altered. Oh well you can spend time chatting with the Scientology idiots about how aliens raped each other and you.

People who have no sense of humor
If you can't take a joke or wanna take everything seriously you suck. You have to be able to laugh at yourself. I've learned that it's much better to laugh that it is to cry.

Well that was fun. Feel free to throw comments up everyone. I love all of ya. Peace and much love.

-Jake

4 comments:

Jen said...

You know I will always defend my Mac! :)

But seriously, I will continue to say if you used a mac non-stop for a day, maybe two days, you would realize how superior it is to a PC. With the introduction of Vista, some are anticipating others to make a platform switch.

Macs have comparable or better software, and more games are good for both platforms now that Macs use an intel processor.

As for specialties, you will find with any "arts" related field people primarily use Macs. The movie music, and photo editing software is fantastic.

Alright, I'm done...until you bash my mac again. :)

Gunslinger said...

I've used a mac non-stop for one or two days before. There was no amazing differences except a mac had a bunch of other crap on the screen that got in the way. (Like that useless little icon bar thing that hangs out on the screen.)

Pc's are as user friendly as Macs are for anyone who is at all computer-savvy, and if you are willing to put in a little effort a PC allows better access to the internal gubbins when something does go wrong.

PC's can right-click.

Finally, as far as it matters, none of the mac-specific software I've seen is all that special except for being mostly idiot-proof.

That is, until it starts to generate error reports. (No, wait, Mac's don't have those mysterious error-reports... impossible.)

Also, http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=macs_cant

Q.E.D.

Jen said...

I know I probably shouldn't getting into this (sorry Jake, I'm making you hate me), but I'm gonna anyway.

I understand there are plenty of people out there who are never going to switch. I've stopped avidly trying to make people switch. My goal is to merely correct false ideas people seem to have generated about Macs.

Primarily: Macs can also right click. And we've also got way more nifty key strokes to make quick actions.

Oh, and you're absolutely right I won't shut up. How else am I going to keep my trim figure? :p

evan said...

I agree with Jen with respect to Graphics programs: the software that is available to Macs is amazingly superior to most software available to PCs (not counting the nearly custom software that CGI companies use for movies and such).

Sigh @ patrick: Just because Macs come with the retard-o-mouse doesn't mean that's all you can use.

I, however, have grown up using Macs, and only recently started using PCs (last 6 years or so) and MUCH prefer the organizational system. I can never find anything on Macs, it's so counter-intuitive and messy. This has probably changed with the new search function, but there are freeware versions of that for Windows, as well. GG.

KWED BITCH.

Let's see, other points...

Scientology is moronic.

Kabbalah is wierd, and doesn't offer anything that other religions don't offer, but also doesn't really require anything except for arbitrary diet restrictions and the like.

We'll have to agree to disagree about Walmart. In much larger cities it's not a huge problem, but Walmart does have a profound effect on small-town economies, given a few years.

Sorry you're bored =/ I'm saving up money like a bandit, should be back online within a month or two :)