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Posted on: Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Heye shalom!
Today was interesting and amusing as days go. First, I discovered a very funny blog. One of the last entries was about religion so that tickled my interest. It's not as serious as my pearls of wisdom but it makes up for it with humor. Following is an excerpt that cracked me up. Find the entire blog here.
"Things I have to steer clear of when talking to my mother: religion, politics, health care, actually basically anything all. All I am allowed to say to her is "Yes, Mom I agree with you." ERG! Okay so like I was watching this thing on ABC about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and De Vinci. Okay the reporter on that was like biased, geez. Aight, so I think there's a possibility that Jesus was married, and my mom freaked out. She said I have to pray because like demons are in my mind. WTF? Okay so what if Jesus was married, would that now make his teachings invalid? What some holy man can't get laid? I don't see the big deal about some people thinking he's married or had a relationship with a woman. My mom said she knows Jesus wasn't married because he talked to her uhhhhh... what are you smoking? I told her it was a lie and it was satan talking to her. haha. You can't believe all the stuff a church or the church tells ya. Like didn't they say the world was flat and everything revolved around it?"
Bitchin'!
OK, and then I saw a rather conspicuous advert for a shareware program on a site. Unfortunately, I didn't save the site's URL but I managed to track it down today. Get this:
"Media Detective is a software tool for helping you remove pornographic media from your PC. Media Detective scans media files on the computer, such as pictures and movies, to check whether they contain adult content. This is accomplished by opening and inspecting the files for skin tone present. The files are then rated according to their potential for obscenity and are displayed."
Jesus H. Christ!! What is THAT all about??! Are those guys for real!?! What is it with the humankind (well, the "western" part of it anyway) and nudity/pornography? I see the centuries of religious infestation of the European mind and the current rampage of religious zealotry in the US still play a huge role. We're supposed to be a progressive society and there's outcry at the sight of a naked boob. For crying out loud! Yes, there'll be the usual screams of "But think about the children!!" That's pathetic: hiding behind the welfare of children to propagate one's own bigotry and dogma... When did seeing a naked woman or man harm anyone, old OR young? And yes, even if it's scenes of sex, so what? What POSSIBLE basis is there to claim seeing pictures of such acts is undesirable for children?! It's prudishness and obsession which make people write such programs that are inauspicious to the development of a society.
(And yes, I know it's not just some in the "west" who have such attitudes but eg. Muslims as well. I just like to think that while the Islamic society is at the stage Europe was at a few centuries ago, the "western" world has moved on from such mishegoss.)
And finally, I received my new router yesterday and went about installing it today. It's a nice, wireless number, very well designed and obviously of good quality. I configured it very easily even though I'd by mistake purchased the German version. It will support three computers when I fully implement it (today was just the testing stage). In short, it worked perfectly and it was a cinch getting it to. The biggest problem was my inanity which saw me nearly punching thru a fridge door in anger at a problem whose solution was all the time staring me right in the face. But isn't it always like that... {grin}
There's another part to this story, to wit, the whole exercise will have cost me less than € 130/- (I still have to procure a PCI wireless adapter for my desktop). Now, after I had gotten broadband around the middle of June I enlisted a couple of companies to devise a wireless solution for my apartment which would network my two laptops and a desktop. Even though I made this move I had figured out myself beforehand that all that would be required would be a wireless router which would serve as a wireless access point and hence act as a kind of bridge between the modem and the machines. Having done some research I knew getting a wireless router would not set me back more than € 100/-. Can you then imagine my reaction when one of the companies gave me a quote for, get this: € 1,120/- (one-thousand-one-hundred-and-twenty euros)! (The other one took too long to get back to me so I told them to save it.) € 1,120/-!! I still can't get over it. Immediately I began schwitzing like a pig reckoning: had I missed something, were my dreams far costlier than I had even thought to imagine? It soon became apparent I hadn't and they weren't. These schnooks presumed to charge me for PCMCIA cards which were very happily already ensconced in the notebooks I had or was about to get--that's € 200/- right there! Then there was the router but also a separate wireless access point! € 350/-. Installation of all that shit: € 200/- (ten minutes' work at most). Then sales tax and some other crap. I thought they were kidding but they were deadly serious. I told them to shove it and did it all myself for a tenth of their proposed cost. I always had that nagging doubt at the back of mind: AM I missing something here? But now I know I wasn't and am even more pissed off with them for having tried to pull a fast one like that. Thank goodness I'm at least well versed in computer technology so I knew better and didn't fall for it. But imagine how many people get taken in like that...
So the moral of this story is: remember there are assholes out there who will stop at nothing to rip you off anyway they can.
B'shalom...
Posted on: Tuesday, August 10, 2004
ב''ה
Heye shalom!
Today was interesting and amusing as days go. First, I discovered a very funny blog. One of the last entries was about religion so that tickled my interest. It's not as serious as my pearls of wisdom but it makes up for it with humor. Following is an excerpt that cracked me up. Find the entire blog here.
"Things I have to steer clear of when talking to my mother: religion, politics, health care, actually basically anything all. All I am allowed to say to her is "Yes, Mom I agree with you." ERG! Okay so like I was watching this thing on ABC about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and De Vinci. Okay the reporter on that was like biased, geez. Aight, so I think there's a possibility that Jesus was married, and my mom freaked out. She said I have to pray because like demons are in my mind. WTF? Okay so what if Jesus was married, would that now make his teachings invalid? What some holy man can't get laid? I don't see the big deal about some people thinking he's married or had a relationship with a woman. My mom said she knows Jesus wasn't married because he talked to her uhhhhh... what are you smoking? I told her it was a lie and it was satan talking to her. haha. You can't believe all the stuff a church or the church tells ya. Like didn't they say the world was flat and everything revolved around it?"
Bitchin'!
OK, and then I saw a rather conspicuous advert for a shareware program on a site. Unfortunately, I didn't save the site's URL but I managed to track it down today. Get this:
"Media Detective is a software tool for helping you remove pornographic media from your PC. Media Detective scans media files on the computer, such as pictures and movies, to check whether they contain adult content. This is accomplished by opening and inspecting the files for skin tone present. The files are then rated according to their potential for obscenity and are displayed."
Jesus H. Christ!! What is THAT all about??! Are those guys for real!?! What is it with the humankind (well, the "western" part of it anyway) and nudity/pornography? I see the centuries of religious infestation of the European mind and the current rampage of religious zealotry in the US still play a huge role. We're supposed to be a progressive society and there's outcry at the sight of a naked boob. For crying out loud! Yes, there'll be the usual screams of "But think about the children!!" That's pathetic: hiding behind the welfare of children to propagate one's own bigotry and dogma... When did seeing a naked woman or man harm anyone, old OR young? And yes, even if it's scenes of sex, so what? What POSSIBLE basis is there to claim seeing pictures of such acts is undesirable for children?! It's prudishness and obsession which make people write such programs that are inauspicious to the development of a society.
(And yes, I know it's not just some in the "west" who have such attitudes but eg. Muslims as well. I just like to think that while the Islamic society is at the stage Europe was at a few centuries ago, the "western" world has moved on from such mishegoss.)
And finally, I received my new router yesterday and went about installing it today. It's a nice, wireless number, very well designed and obviously of good quality. I configured it very easily even though I'd by mistake purchased the German version. It will support three computers when I fully implement it (today was just the testing stage). In short, it worked perfectly and it was a cinch getting it to. The biggest problem was my inanity which saw me nearly punching thru a fridge door in anger at a problem whose solution was all the time staring me right in the face. But isn't it always like that... {grin}
There's another part to this story, to wit, the whole exercise will have cost me less than € 130/- (I still have to procure a PCI wireless adapter for my desktop). Now, after I had gotten broadband around the middle of June I enlisted a couple of companies to devise a wireless solution for my apartment which would network my two laptops and a desktop. Even though I made this move I had figured out myself beforehand that all that would be required would be a wireless router which would serve as a wireless access point and hence act as a kind of bridge between the modem and the machines. Having done some research I knew getting a wireless router would not set me back more than € 100/-. Can you then imagine my reaction when one of the companies gave me a quote for, get this: € 1,120/- (one-thousand-one-hundred-and-twenty euros)! (The other one took too long to get back to me so I told them to save it.) € 1,120/-!! I still can't get over it. Immediately I began schwitzing like a pig reckoning: had I missed something, were my dreams far costlier than I had even thought to imagine? It soon became apparent I hadn't and they weren't. These schnooks presumed to charge me for PCMCIA cards which were very happily already ensconced in the notebooks I had or was about to get--that's € 200/- right there! Then there was the router but also a separate wireless access point! € 350/-. Installation of all that shit: € 200/- (ten minutes' work at most). Then sales tax and some other crap. I thought they were kidding but they were deadly serious. I told them to shove it and did it all myself for a tenth of their proposed cost. I always had that nagging doubt at the back of mind: AM I missing something here? But now I know I wasn't and am even more pissed off with them for having tried to pull a fast one like that. Thank goodness I'm at least well versed in computer technology so I knew better and didn't fall for it. But imagine how many people get taken in like that...
So the moral of this story is: remember there are assholes out there who will stop at nothing to rip you off anyway they can.
B'shalom...
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