I was talking to my mom about some news I saw, and had some trouble pronouncing the soft Finnish K correctly, and this popped up when she tried to find a male voice for me to hear. They got it hilariously horribly wrong in almost every way.
Ugh, I really am bored as shit at my job. So fucking tired of this.
After they got someone to fill my Maryland sites I have been getting bored too, but instead of being bored, I ran around finding work to do, so now I am busy again ^_^
My sister mentioned the UN's debate on drones. Her earnest stance is, "Obviously we shouldn't. Haven't you seen all those movies about robots that kill humans?"
My stance has since changed to, "Ban all time machines for excessive indecent exposure."
Mike Cernovich found me and slammed me publicly on twitter. I'm surprised, but didn't get as much lash-back as thought. I shouldn't be that surprised that he found me and made a stink out of it out of his busy schedule, but buh.
Only thing odd about the comments I got against me or agreeing with his points, is people who said "CHARGE YOUR PHONE!" What's that about?
Maybe they can follow it up with the horrors of an actual brain surgery, open heart surgery, compound fracture repair, or any number of other graphic and visually stomach-turning procedures we do in the best interest of the patient...
Maybe they can follow it up with the horrors of an actual brain surgery, open heart surgery, compound fracture repair, or any number of other graphic and visually stomach-turning procedures we do in the best interest of the patient...
I mean, yeah, I know they've always been sorta full of shit, but now I'm very unhappy.
Late December (very late) I bought two brand new 27" iMacs. These were our family's 6th and 7th Mac desktops. We've never had any problems with Macs, they just work.
So yesterday, about 4 months into glorious 27" iMac ownership, my display fries. Blue vertical pixel-wide lines and yellow horizontal ones all over. Cold solder joint broke, or chip overheated and melted, or the panel's dead, who knows?
I bought AppleCare even though I usually don't, because these were expensive machines. The dead one on my desk cost $2170 with warranty.
So last I remember, with Apple Care you get "instant exchange". That is, your hardware dies, you bring it in, you walk out with new stuff that works. Swap the drive maybe if possible, right? In fact if you look up Apple's warranty disclosures online, the URL they link you to from everywhere still contains the words "instant exchange"... even though it's no longer in the contract.
So I make an appointment at our local Apple retail store and I wait a little bit at the "Genius Bar" and a reasonably professional friendly dude helps me get it out of the box and up on the bench and plugs it in and goes "Yep, there's not even any point in running any diagnostics, either your panel is fried or your board is fried" (absolutely everything, I gather, is integrated.)
So I say "Great, let's swap the drive out into a new box, I've got a ton of shit to do tonight online."
"Well, sorry, we actually will just replace the panel and maybe the board if it needs it, and neither is in stock, so it'll be at least two days to get the part..."
"Are you kidding? You don't replace this with new hardware? A $2K computer I've owned for like 4 months?"
"Nope we do component repair, here's your ticket." (ticket says they'll call me in 3-5 days.
So, I pay a premium price for a premium product, and forgive the First World Problem here and all, but come the fuck on. After having what is obviously a factory defect for 4 months I'm without a computer for almost a week most likely and what I'll get back will essentially be a refurb that I've paid far too much for.
I scheduled a call with Apple support later this morning but I'm not holding my breath. I want a brand new fucking machine, not my factory defect which has been pried open, futzed with, and then spackled back together.
Malcolm ate something he shouldn't have on Monday, threwards up several times when we weren't home, and as a result injured his back and is now on create rest. He can barely move his back end, isn't pooping and is reluctant being touched.
So, I pay a premium price for a premium product, and forgive the First World Problem here and all, but come the fuck on.
You pay a premium price for what you have been told is a premium product but is usually bottom of the barrel cheap as shit components so that the makers have greater margins. Why did you expect a new machine? It's a PC which blocks you from accessing the components that would otherwise be replaced with new components if found dead in the first 2 - 10 years because that component was bought. The Apple care system is a way for you to donate money to the company.
OS X is rock solid under the hood beneath the layers of shit they keep piling on the interface, and under the hood is what I care about.
Apple also gets to swing their big financial balls around and cherry pick the world's IPS panels, etc, so you can scarcely beat their displays.
This makes their products pretty compelling even if you're not a faithful cult member.
But ultimately yeah, they charge a 400% markup for rounded corners and a customer friendly image, and ought to remember that. Sadly there is a steady supply of popped collar, pastel wearing faithful who don't care if the service is total shit. Every company in the world follows that curve, though. Get big, fuck the customers.
I mean, yeah, I know they've always been sorta full of shit, but now I'm very unhappy.
Late December (very late) I bought two brand new 27" iMacs. These were our family's 6th and 7th Mac desktops. We've never had any problems with Macs, they just work.
So yesterday, about 4 months into glorious 27" iMac ownership, my display fries. Blue vertical pixel-wide lines and yellow horizontal ones all over. Cold solder joint broke, or chip overheated and melted, or the panel's dead, who knows?
I bought AppleCare even though I usually don't, because these were expensive machines. The dead one on my desk cost $2170 with warranty.
So last I remember, with Apple Care you get "instant exchange". That is, your hardware dies, you bring it in, you walk out with new stuff that works. Swap the drive maybe if possible, right? In fact if you look up Apple's warranty disclosures online, the URL they link you to from everywhere still contains the words "instant exchange"... even though it's no longer in the contract.
So I make an appointment at our local Apple retail store and I wait a little bit at the "Genius Bar" and a reasonably professional friendly dude helps me get it out of the box and up on the bench and plugs it in and goes "Yep, there's not even any point in running any diagnostics, either your panel is fried or your board is fried" (absolutely everything, I gather, is integrated.)
So I say "Great, let's swap the drive out into a new box, I've got a ton of shit to do tonight online."
"Well, sorry, we actually will just replace the panel and maybe the board if it needs it, and neither is in stock, so it'll be at least two days to get the part..."
"Are you kidding? You don't replace this with new hardware? A $2K computer I've owned for like 4 months?"
"Nope we do component repair, here's your ticket." (ticket says they'll call me in 3-5 days.
So, I pay a premium price for a premium product, and forgive the First World Problem here and all, but come the fuck on. After having what is obviously a factory defect for 4 months I'm without a computer for almost a week most likely and what I'll get back will essentially be a refurb that I've paid far too much for.
I scheduled a call with Apple support later this morning but I'm not holding my breath. I want a brand new fucking machine, not my factory defect which has been pried open, futzed with, and then spackled back together.
I've concluded most companies follow similar patterns as physical and emotional abusers, but they've got the benefit of you agreeing to their shit with the contract or EULA, which they don't go to great lengths to make sure you understand and can change on a whim without any notification.
I got an escalation person who is going to call the retail store to 'see what they can do', with the heavy implication that somehow the retail store is an independent entity from Apple Inc that has to be negotiated with.
As I went through 3 CS reps, I was increasingly asked to clarify/repeat that I was asking for a new replacement, with mild incredulity.
So, you might have heard by now, Walmart is closing a bunch of stores for supposed plumbing issues. Odd, probably not entirely true, but whatever. That's not the fail part.
What is the hilarious fail part is that all the doomsday preppers, conspiracy theorists, and other assorted right-wing crazies have taken this as ABSOLUTE proof that Obama is doing it to stop you prepping, and as part of something called Operation Jade Helm(which is a real multi-branch special forces training exercise), where everyone will be herded into FEMA death camps(conveniently located at the closed walmart stores because reasons), and the US will become a totalitarian regime with no guns, so that Obama can have a third term. Or something, it's hard to follow the exact details because these people are absolutely bugfuck.
I never got the actual reasoning for the supposed FEMA death camps. I mean I get that they theoretically could do something like that because of the whole japanese internment camp thing, but that was a specific group of people. Don't they need the middle and lower class to keep working slave wages to make them money? And walmart, really? If there really was a new Hitler or something I would think they would have a better plan than that. Execute all the prisoners and put us in there, or deport any and all illegal immigrants in the detention centers and use those.
I think the best bit is that they think it's some effort to stop their doomsday prepping nonsense. If a lack of a local Walmart stops you, then I have bad news about your survival chances.
I mean I guess there is a tiny bit of truth in targeting preppers in that iirc the 2012 NDAA says that you could be detained as a terrorist or at least have an eye kept on you if you have more than a weeks worth of food, like guns, or have been critical of the government but really that just fits more into the NSA shit.
And yeah, aren't preppers supposed to be self reliant? Its shitty to lose your Walmart but they can still buy stuff on amazon. I don't get the hardcore preppers anyway. We should all probably be more prepared than we are for an emergency, but if you're spending your whole life preparing for a hypothetical "shit hits the fan" scenario then you're wasting the time when its good, whether or not anything happens. Sure, have some extra food, water and other supplies but don't go live in a cabin in the woods with no power just in case there is no power in the future.
To them, when the shit goes down, the government is gone, they can do what they like to whomever they like, those ARE the times when it's good, because they think they'll be kings of the wasteland, and there's nobody saying that they can't do things like arbitrarily shoot people for whatever mad reason they please, like Melanin content for example.
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I was talking to my mom about some news I saw, and had some trouble pronouncing the soft Finnish K correctly, and this popped up when she tried to find a male voice for me to hear. They got it hilariously horribly wrong in almost every way.
They're remodeling the office break room.
The irony is audible.
My stance has since changed to, "Ban all time machines for excessive indecent exposure."
For other, more reasonable nations? Maybe. The US shouldn't be allowed to have them until we grow up.
Only thing odd about the comments I got against me or agreeing with his points, is people who said "CHARGE YOUR PHONE!" What's that about?
Upon research, I have discovered that Mr. Cernovich is a raging douchecanoe.
Nothing to see here.
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2015/04/13/columbus-ohio-graphic-abortion-footage-to-be-shown-at-ohio-state-oval.html
I mean, yeah, I know they've always been sorta full of shit, but now I'm very unhappy.
Late December (very late) I bought two brand new 27" iMacs. These were our family's 6th and 7th Mac desktops. We've never had any problems with Macs, they just work.
So yesterday, about 4 months into glorious 27" iMac ownership, my display fries. Blue vertical pixel-wide lines and yellow horizontal ones all over. Cold solder joint broke, or chip overheated and melted, or the panel's dead, who knows?
I bought AppleCare even though I usually don't, because these were expensive machines. The dead one on my desk cost $2170 with warranty.
So last I remember, with Apple Care you get "instant exchange". That is, your hardware dies, you bring it in, you walk out with new stuff that works. Swap the drive maybe if possible, right? In fact if you look up Apple's warranty disclosures online, the URL they link you to from everywhere still contains the words "instant exchange"... even though it's no longer in the contract.
So I make an appointment at our local Apple retail store and I wait a little bit at the "Genius Bar" and a reasonably professional friendly dude helps me get it out of the box and up on the bench and plugs it in and goes "Yep, there's not even any point in running any diagnostics, either your panel is fried or your board is fried" (absolutely everything, I gather, is integrated.)
So I say "Great, let's swap the drive out into a new box, I've got a ton of shit to do tonight online."
"Well, sorry, we actually will just replace the panel and maybe the board if it needs it, and neither is in stock, so it'll be at least two days to get the part..."
"Are you kidding? You don't replace this with new hardware? A $2K computer I've owned for like 4 months?"
"Nope we do component repair, here's your ticket." (ticket says they'll call me in 3-5 days.
So, I pay a premium price for a premium product, and forgive the First World Problem here and all, but come the fuck on. After having what is obviously a factory defect for 4 months I'm without a computer for almost a week most likely and what I'll get back will essentially be a refurb that I've paid far too much for.
I scheduled a call with Apple support later this morning but I'm not holding my breath. I want a brand new fucking machine, not my factory defect which has been pried open, futzed with, and then spackled back together.
Apple also gets to swing their big financial balls around and cherry pick the world's IPS panels, etc, so you can scarcely beat their displays.
This makes their products pretty compelling even if you're not a faithful cult member.
But ultimately yeah, they charge a 400% markup for rounded corners and a customer friendly image, and ought to remember that. Sadly there is a steady supply of popped collar, pastel wearing faithful who don't care if the service is total shit. Every company in the world follows that curve, though. Get big, fuck the customers.
As I went through 3 CS reps, I was increasingly asked to clarify/repeat that I was asking for a new replacement, with mild incredulity.
Sigh.
What is the hilarious fail part is that all the doomsday preppers, conspiracy theorists, and other assorted right-wing crazies have taken this as ABSOLUTE proof that Obama is doing it to stop you prepping, and as part of something called Operation Jade Helm(which is a real multi-branch special forces training exercise), where everyone will be herded into FEMA death camps(conveniently located at the closed walmart stores because reasons), and the US will become a totalitarian regime with no guns, so that Obama can have a third term. Or something, it's hard to follow the exact details because these people are absolutely bugfuck.
And yeah, aren't preppers supposed to be self reliant? Its shitty to lose your Walmart but they can still buy stuff on amazon. I don't get the hardcore preppers anyway. We should all probably be more prepared than we are for an emergency, but if you're spending your whole life preparing for a hypothetical "shit hits the fan" scenario then you're wasting the time when its good, whether or not anything happens. Sure, have some extra food, water and other supplies but don't go live in a cabin in the woods with no power just in case there is no power in the future.