The Rant Thread!!

[midwinter]

OK folks. One rant per post. Nothing political (that goes in PO). I'll begin:

"PENULTIMATE" DOES NOT MEAN "REALLY, REALLY ULTIMATE"!!! GAH!!! IT MEANS "NEXT TO LAST"!!!!

See?

Rant away.

[BRussell]

I bought a Penultimate by Bic. I've only bought one more pen since.

My rant: Begs the question.

Doesn't mean "raises the question" or "makes you think of the question." It means circular reasoning, it means your proof just begged or restated the conclusion.

[addabox]

"Bias" is not a freaking adjective or verb! It is a noun!

When you say "That is really bias of you", an angel's head assplodes!

[tonton]

"Here, here!"

It's "Hear! Hear!" you morans, as in "Hear what he has to say! Hear!"

[addabox]

Dear Television,

Please stop putting every larger, noisier and more frenetic promos for your other shows on top of the shows you are showing now.

And do you have someone whose actual job is to figure out where the emotional payoff point is in any given show, so that you can be sure, at that point, to have little people run out across the bottom of the screen and do jumping jacks and blow shit up and making hooting noises, just as the shattering truth is revealed?

You are stupid, stupid, venal, asshatted, stupid motherfuckers, and you surely deserve to have your empires reduced to smoldering ruins.

Regards,

Addabox

[addabox]

Dear Apple Insider Discussion Board,

Please allow me to edit my above post, changing "every" to "every", and stop telling me that my message is too short and must be at least 5 characters long.

MY MESSAGE IS MUCH MORE THAN 5 CHARACTERS, YOU BASTARD!!!

What, does my edit have to be at least 5 characters?

And don't think I've forgotten about how you ruptured the space/time continuum and let people reply to posts before they had been made!

[rufusswan]

All of you stupid stupid insipidly stupid talking/bobble head talk show/latenight show people who have been talking about about vacuous people (generally good-looking young tarts) who do nothing worthwhile, contribute nothing worthwhile [barring muff shots for young teens], ya da ya da,

Yet you talk about them on your shows, and now to add insult to injury, you now talk about how worthless these people are, and have finally started saying that you serve no purpose in talking about them, yet you continue to do it.

For fucking Gods sake you are now talking about not talking about people who do not deserve to be talked about, or even mentioned in sane company.

Will you now start talking about not talking about not talking about these people. Can you see the damned DOUBLE NEGATIVE in the sentences you speak??? Or will you now start talking about NOT talking about NOT talking about NOT talking about talking about these god-damned people.

Will you fucking PLEASE start a segment on your tv show thats says WE WILL NOT TALK ABOUT VACUOUS BITCHES! and let it go with that??????????????????????

Since my brain did not explode I must feel better.

Paz

[Marvin]

"Here, here!"

It's "Hear! Hear!" you morans, as in "Hear what he has to say! Hear!"

:lol: It's morons, you moran. I mean moron.

What bugs me is when people leave stuff behind that is totally unwelcome. When I go for some butter or margarine, I don't want to have some of what the last person ate too. When I go for a shower, I don't want someone else's pubic hair floating across my body. When I go to the toilet, I don't want someone's leftover business to greet me.

All of you stupid stupid insipidly stupid talking/bobble head talk show/latenight show people who have been talking about about vacuous people (generally good-looking young tarts) who do nothing worthwhile, contribute nothing worthwhile [barring muff shots for young teens]...

Yeah that one's pretty high on my list too.

[southside grabowski]

Such trivial things rile the left.

[SDW2001]

Dear Traffic Planners:

Why do I have to hit every FUCKING light on a road for twelve miles? Can you not plan this better? AHHHHHHH! Do you plan at all, motherfuckers?

And why....WHY...do people go 1/2 speed or less when it rains...on LOCAL roads!

Irregardless is not technically a word!

Respond to e-mails within 24 hours, assholes!

[hardeeharhar]

Dear idiotic undergrad passengers in fast moving cars,

I am a cyclist. I know you are passing me, you don't need to yell to make your presence known. You certainly don't need to do it every time you pass me after I have overtaken the vehicle in which you are stationed. Yes, I realize that gas driven automobiles are faster than bikes, and I understand you want to celebrate the fact that your lazy ass cannot be bothered attempting even a small iota of self-propelled motion, but there are those of us who realize that within city limits, our cycling carries us faster-farther than your fossil-fuel driven steel cage. You don't hear me yelling at you every time I pass you on the approach to lights, now do you. Common courtesy demands that you extend the same respect.

In addition, when your bitches get out of said automobile, do tell them not to stand in the way of my bicycle, as you wouldn't let them stand in the way of a moving car...

[addabox]

Dear Traffic Planners:

Why do I have to hit every FUCKING light on a road for twelve miles? Can you not plan this better? AHHHHHHH! Do you plan at all, motherfuckers?



Hell, yeah. I always imagine how much extra gas it's taking for everybody to stop, accelerate, go 100 feet, stop, accelerate, over and over again. I think the traffic planners must think it's funny.

WILL YOU THINK IT'S FUNNY WHEN I COME FOR YOU, NAMELESS BUREAUCRATIC FUCKTARDS?????!!!

ALSO, ahem, also: if you are already halfway past the side street you wanted to turn left on, while in the far right lane of a multi-lane road, when you figure out that that's where you want to go, YOU MUST GIVE IT UP AND GO AROUND THE BLOCK AND TRY AGAIN, YOU STUPID DICKWEEDS.

You may not simply make an abrupt ninety degree turn, blocking several lanes, and start making your way across traffic like you are fording a fucking stream, so that I may come upon you holy fucking shit perpendicular to me in the midst of traffic in the middle of damn road, stopped, like the unbelievable asshat that you are.

[ajay]

Dear AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile.. etc etc
stop giving out your trashy mobile phone handsets tied to your plans... give us a choice of better models.
NO, not everyone likes the stupid flip-phones and slider phones... give us some decent 'candy-bar' handsets.
NO, not everyone likes an antenna sticking out of the phone... that design is obsolete in many other parts of the globe... give us a decent model with internal antenna.
Windows mobile sucks... give some decent Linux smartphones... bribe/sue Apple into breaking the 2 year exclusive with AT&T for the iPhone.
...
Nokia... where the f*** are you? how come no one in the US knows about your handests & how user-friendly they (well, most of them) are?
Samsung, LG... you have better models in Asian & European markets.. why the f*** don;t you get them here in the US?
Kyocera... you suck... stop making s**t & labeling them as handsets.
Palm, you were big... got it?... note the emphasis on "WERE"... past tense... shed some weight... you can do better
Motorola... weren't you guys the first in mobile handsets? what the f*** happened? it's not all about how it looks... your UI sucks! improve!!!
...
Blackberry... well, nothing much against you guys... just make sure you don't lose touch with reality...
...
Apple/iPhone... perhaps not all hope is lost yet... kick ass while you can... before wisdom dawns upon the others... for now, you're untouchable, baby!!
...
just my 2c after being in the US for 3 months & seeing what pathetic s**t is sold here as mobile phones...

[tonton]

:lol: It's morons, you moran. I mean moron.

http://homepage.mac.com/bentonton/prowarprot.jpg

;)

[tonton]

Dear people of the USA,

Start phasing in the metric system. Because your adherence to the imperial system is a source of ridicule around the world. Either you're too stubborn to make the change, or your too incompetent to develop a plan to do so. Either way you look like idiots.

[JimDreamworx]

Myself really can't stand it when people use "myself" instead of "me" or "I" because having twice as many syllables makes you sound more edumacated.

And stop using "absolutely" when all you mean to say, with one-fourth the syllables, is "yes."

[spindler]

Penultimate doesn't mean next to last. It means third to last, or next to next to last.

One thing I hate is when you type up an entire message but it gets lost. Like in an IM client when you send to someone but they aren't online and it just says "Sorry their not online", but you don't have what you typed. The same thing happens on AI sometimes when it doesn't think you are logged in but you are.

[addabox]

Penultimate doesn't mean next to last. It means third to last, or next to next to last.

One thing I hate is when you type up an entire message but it gets lost. Like in an IM client when you send to someone but they aren't online and it just says "Sorry their not online", but you don't have what you typed. The same thing happens on AI sometimes when it doesn't think you are logged in but you are.

Merriam-Webster:


Main Entry:
pen·ul·ti·mate
Pronunciation:
\pi-ˈnəl-tə-mət\
Function:
adjective
Date:
1677
1 : next to the last <the penultimate chapter of a book>

[midwinter]

GAH I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE THINK "PENULTIMATE" MEANS NEXT TO NEXT TO LAST!! GAH!!! EVERYONE KNOWS THE WORD FOR THAT IS "ANTEPENULTIMATE (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/antepenultimate)"!!!

:mad:

[midwinter]

Myself really can't stand it when people use "myself" instead of "me" or "I" because having twice as many syllables makes you sound more edumacated.

And stop using "absolutely" when all you mean to say, with one-fourth the syllables, is "yes."

Absolutely! ;)

AND DEAR PEOPLE OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD: "WHOM" IS NOT A WORD THAT YOU USE JUST BECAUSE IT SEEMS MORE FORMAL THAN "WHO." THERE IS A FRIGGIN' RULE, PEOPLE! LEARN IT!

[Fellowship]

I hate it when my Mexican neighbors to the south can drive up in my neck of the woods in their FREAKING cool late model (if not brand new) French Peugeot automobile while driving in the US yet Americans are not allowed to import them let alone own or operate one as they would be blocked at the port of entry. Something like "Automobiles Peugeot does not manufacture vehicles that conform to current United States regulations. For this reason it is unfortunately impossible for anyone to import a Peugeot model into the USA . Should anybody attempt to do so, the vehicle will be blocked at the port of arrival and will not be allowed to be operated in the USA and Canada ."

http://www.peugeot.com/regions/en/amerique.htm# then click USA to see the wonderful details..... :mad:

So much for free trade and free markets....

The US can allow Mini Cooper cars on the roads and smart cars but nothing French...

IT JUST REALLY GETS UNDER MY SKIN...

http://www.peugeot.co.uk/ppp/cgi-bin/ppkfcwebuk/ppplp1101_02.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0584689764.11899 99180@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccladdllhijhlecefecfgmdfgodfko.0&_strLCDV=1pt7a5&_strModeHTML=1
Once you click the link just above this line navigate as follows to see a cool video.

HIGH SPEED VERSION =>Watch or skip the intro => DISCOVER => Design => click the top thumbnailed video ("quality video") => watch the video...

Fellows

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Dear Mastercard,

Please change your goddamn ad campaign.

If I have to see one more "Priceless" commerical I think I'm going to have to shoot myself. It's been 10 fucking years now.

Time to let go...

[Splinemodel]

Dear AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile.. etc etc
NO, not everyone likes the stupid flip-phones and slider phones... give us some decent 'candy-bar' handsets.

Samsung, LG... you have better models in Asian & European markets.. why the f*** don;t you get them here in the US?


I was in Korea a few weeks ago. My Sprint/Samsung UpStage was something of a head-turner there, since they don't seem to have it (like our market, it's mostly flip phones and sliders. . . grrr). It also happens to be a candy bar phone. You might want to check it out.


Assorted other replies:

I would agree with the comment on the metric system. grass roots. Enjoying the 15 degree night-time weather here. Strangely, I think, officially the US is a metric country, it's just that there's not the tie-in from official policy to commercial application. Anyway, grass roots.

Peugeots are nice, but what I really want is an Alfa. I know that import used to be banned due to part ownership by Mr. Qadafi, but he has sold his shares since then, and every year they say they're going to re-enter the US market, but alas, no luck. I'm not sure what the issue is, if it's tariffs or marketing data. The Alfas look so good that I don't even mind the fact that they (like the good-looking french cars, too) aren't so reliable.

[trumptman]

Dear Telvision,

Can someone, somewhere somehow, please play some actual music, be it a variety show, a local dance show, some cheap drunk wannabe star host talking between some music videos... SOMETHING PLEASE!

Nick

[SDW2001]

Dear Telvision,

Can someone, somewhere somehow, please play some actual music, be it a variety show, a local dance show, some cheap drunk wannabe star host talking between some music videos... SOMETHING PLEASE!

Nick

And Comcast:
Give me back my NFL network and stop raising my bill 30 cents PER MONTH. I also want more than 3 HD channels for $140 a month.

[SDW2001]

Dear AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile.. etc etc
stop giving out your trashy mobile phone handsets tied to your plans... give us a choice of better models.
NO, not everyone likes the stupid flip-phones and slider phones... give us some decent 'candy-bar' handsets.
NO, not everyone likes an antenna sticking out of the phone... that design is obsolete in many other parts of the globe... give us a decent model with internal antenna.
Windows mobile sucks... give some decent Linux smartphones... bribe/sue Apple into breaking the 2 year exclusive with AT&T for the iPhone.
...
Nokia... where the f*** are you? how come no one in the US knows about your handests & how user-friendly they (well, most of them) are?
Samsung, LG... you have better models in Asian & European markets.. why the f*** don;t you get them here in the US?
Kyocera... you suck... stop making s**t & labeling them as handsets.
Palm, you were big... got it?... note the emphasis on "WERE"... past tense... shed some weight... you can do better
Motorola... weren't you guys the first in mobile handsets? what the f*** happened? it's not all about how it looks... your UI sucks! improve!!!
...
Blackberry... well, nothing much against you guys... just make sure you don't lose touch with reality...
...
Apple/iPhone... perhaps not all hope is lost yet... kick ass while you can... before wisdom dawns upon the others... for now, you're untouchable, baby!!
...
just my 2c after being in the US for 3 months & seeing what pathetic s**t is sold here as mobile phones...

Next up: When people say "Just my 2 cents" in a rant thread. We're not being polite here, champ.

[ajay]

....We're not being polite here, champ.

if you don't like what i'm sayin.... you can go f*** yourself!

(is that better now? :lol:)

[Flounder]

Dear NFL/Chevrolet/John Mellencamp,

I am well aware that this is our country. I think, perhaps, it finally dawned on me the thousandth time I saw that commercial in week 2 of the last nfl season.

Everyone knows. Please make it stop.

[Flounder]

Dear U.S. citizens,

The word "like" does not need to be interjected into, between, and around every phrase or sentence that comes out of your mouth.

[@_@ Artman]

http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/law/09/17/oj.simpson/art.ojmug.jpg

Die already. Just die. Die in a fire. Get hit by a bus, train or white Bronco SUV. Get shanked by your prison cell-mate. Just go away so this retarded media and it's sheeple can move on to something else stupid to occupy their insatiable hunger for all things mundane. :mad:

[Flounder]

I hate the 'word' sheeple. (but I still love you Artman :))

[midwinter]

Why can't I just pick the damned channels I want to pay for?!?!

[trumptman]

Dear Radio,

Can we get the number of minutes of ads down to say... 55 minutes per hour. You've totally lost me as a listener when you decided to up it to 57 minutes of ads per hour.

Nick

[durin oakenskin]

I don't want to have construction crews all over the place :mad: During the night they are working at the railway tracks directly opposite to my bedroom, they are making holes in the street everywhere, and they are building and rebuilding everything around my working place.

Can't they work fast, quietly and with at least a minimum quality? :mad:

[JimDreamworx]

Dear Left Lane Hogs,

The left lane is intended for passing. Getting on to a highway does not mean immediately pulling over to the left lane because you are afraid of driving on the highway and maybe having your driving experience ruined because others are getting on the highway if you occupy lanes further to the right.

And if you see someone in the left lane bearing down on you, PULL OVER TO THE RIGHT, so that car can pass.
Occupying the left lane just because you are doing the speed limit is not the point!

[@_@ Artman]

http://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif

[Fellowship]

I hate the Tylenol television ad. Nobody in the ad can speak correctly.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=17324451

"I love makin Tylenol"

"I put love in ta dis produck"

"all the love we puttin in air,, mmm it's good"

and speaking of drug ads be they for RX or OTC drugs

ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!

Fellows

[trumptman]

Dear Television Programmers,

I'm proposing a reality television show whereby I get to hunt down and kill anyone previously associated with a reality television show either in front or behind the camera. The show will end after I kill my camera operator, leave the camera on the tripod and then off myself so no vestiage of reality programming or people making it are left. It sucks to die, but it would be for the good of the planet if reality television were just gone.

Nick

[addabox]

Dear Television Programmers,

I'm proposing a reality television show whereby I get to hunt down and kill anyone previously associated with a reality television show either in front or behind the camera. The show will end after I kill my camera operator, leave the camera on the tripod and then off myself so no vestiage of reality programming or people making it are left. It sucks to die, but it would be for the good of the planet if reality television were just gone.

Nick

If you've never seen it, you should check out "Series Seven: The Contenders". (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251031/)

It's done entirely "in show" as a fictional reality series wherein citizens are selected by lottery to participate, the game being to survive and be the last player alive. If you try to flee, you end up on a "Cops" type show where you are depicted as a craven criminal that left the authorities no choice but to gun you down.

Dead-on recreation of the reality show vibe (and it was made before the genre really took off), complete with manipulative editing and music to create "heroes" and "villains" (not to mention a sinister hijacking of "reality" towards the end).

Mostly focuses on the plucky pregnant lady that has survived the previous six rounds and stands to win the ultimate prize: being allowed to leave the show.

[@_@ Artman]

How big a lunatic do you have to be to watch two giant airliners packed with jet fuel slam into buildings on live TV, igniting a massive inferno that burned for two hours, and then think 'Well, if you believe that was the cause...! (http://infowars.com/articles/sept11/maher_911_truthers_need_professional_help_not_publ icity.htm) - Bill Maher :smokey:

[bobmarksdale]

http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=78069

[bobmarksdale]

They're, there, and their.:mad::mad: (your and you're as well)

Learn the freaking language people.

Their on vacation right now. NNNNOOOOO!!! Stop being a moron.
There dog is named Fido.:mad:

Just because it sounds the same doesn't mean it is spelled the same. So if you speak it and there is no noticeable difference, don't assume that it doesn't matter when writing.

[ThinkingDifferent]

And Comcast:
Give me back my NFL network and stop raising my bill 30 cents PER MONTH. I also want more than 3 HD channels for $140 a month.

Get off your ass and go outside. Stop wasting your life watching TV.

[midwinter]

hey High School Girls Crossing The Street When The Do Not Cross Sign Is On And Cars Are Trying To Turn Into The Lane You Are Standing Stock-still In, Texting On Your Cell Phone!! Yeah. You. Get The Fuck Out Of The Intersection.

[midwinter]

And Fucking Appleinsider Forum Software! Stop Changing My All Caps To Caps Of Every Friggin' Word. It's Annoying.

Don't Make Me Start Posting Images Of My Posts!!!

[Guybrush Threepwood]

You won't do it...

[midwinter]

http://images.littlemeanfish.com/fucker.png

[ajay]

why the f**k is this rant thread becoming so popular?? :mad:

[midwinter]

Hey Apple!

Enough with the goddamned iTunes updates already! What is this, an update every other DAY now??

[maimezvous]

I'm sick and tired of waiting for my Touch to arrive. I feel like I've been waiting for a week! I ordered it yesterday it should be in my hand by now! :grumble:

[midwinter]

I'm sick and tired of waiting for my Touch to arrive. I feel like I've been waiting for a week! I ordered it yesterday it should be in my hand by now! :grumble:

Oooh! Don't get me started on that! I WANT MY FUCKING TELEPORTER! When I order something from Amazon, IT SHOULD APPEAR ON MY FRIGGIN' DESK AS SOON AS PAYMENT GOES THROUGH.

[maimezvous]

Oooh! Don't get me started on that! I WANT MY FUCKING TELEPORTER! When I order something from Amazon, IT SHOULD APPEAR ON MY FRIGGIN' DESK AS SOON AS PAYMENT GOES THROUGH.

I'm totally expecting that feature in the next .Mac update. I KNOW Apple is holding out on us. Why do they have to be so mean?

[Fellowship]

And Comcast:
Give me back my NFL network and stop raising my bill 30 cents PER MONTH. I also want more than 3 HD channels for $140 a month.

In another thread I catch a dumpster load of crap over buying a nice Le Creuset cast iron French oven which will last decades. But when people spend in the area of $140 per month on television Not even a word......

What the.....

BTW SDW2001 I could care less what you spend on TV as it is not any of my business. Heck you may not even spend $140 a month on it and are just making commentary on what they charge for only 3 HD channels.. Either way I just want it to be clear I am not going to pass judgement over what you do with your money.

Fellows

[@_@ Artman]

Oooh! Don't get me started on that! I WANT MY FUCKING TELEPORTER! When I order something from Amazon, IT SHOULD APPEAR ON MY FRIGGIN' DESK AS SOON AS PAYMENT GOES THROUGH.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n9/n49730.jpg

Read a motherfuckin' book (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky)! :smokey:

[addabox]

Oooh! Don't get me started on that! I WANT MY FUCKING TELEPORTER! When I order something from Amazon, IT SHOULD APPEAR ON MY FRIGGIN' DESK AS SOON AS PAYMENT GOES THROUGH.

You're saying you ordered a teleporter and you want it to teleport itself to you?

You academics and your postmodern conundrums.

Wait, sorry, GODDAMN ACADEMICS AND THEIR GODDAMN POSTMODERN CONUNDRUMS!

[Aries 1B]

Steve Jobs:

Was a stylus and HWR too much to ask for in the iPhone? Yes, Mr. Jobs, we were born with fingers. And, yes, we all [most of us] type with our fingers....

And, Mr. Jobs, for thousands of years previous (and subsequent) to the invention of the keyboard we have been WRITING WITH STYLI, PENCILS, QUILLS, BALLPOINT PENS, FLAIR PENS, BIC PENS, CRAYOLAS, BURNT STICKS, PIECES OF CHALK, PIECES OF CHARCOAL, AND WE'VE EVEN USED OUR FINGER TIPS TO WRITE IN MUD, SAND, CLAY, DUST, AND FOG COVERED WINDOWS!

A stylus. Just a stylus....:\

V/R,
Aries 1B

[Fellowship]

What is the deal with websites which never let you go back a page simply. It is like they are a mouse trap and they keep you at their URL and refuse to let you go back to where you were prior to landing in their trap of a website.

Example I came across while reading links of Google News.

http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/09/jackson_backpedals_on_obama_je.html

Jerks.. It should not require multiple clicks of the back button to try to escape the grips of any website.

Fellows

[maimezvous]

What is the deal with websites which never let you go back a page simply. It is like they are a mouse trap and they keep you at their URL and refuse to let you go back to where you were prior to landing in their trap of a website.

Example I came across while reading links of Google News.

http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/09/jackson_backpedals_on_obama_je.html

Jerks.. It should not require multiple clicks of the back button to try to escape the grips of any website.

Fellows

Or what about sites that display a product but don't let you buy it? That bothers me slightly.

[KingOfSomewhereHot]

They're, their, there.
You're, your.
It's, its.

I know they've already been "ranted", but it really deserves "sticky" status at the top of the thread. :)

[midwinter]

"Paris" is a goddamned BOY'S NAME.

[SDW2001]

Dear Radio,

Can we get the number of minutes of ads down to say... 55 minutes per hour. You've totally lost me as a listener when you decided to up it to 57 minutes of ads per hour.

Nick

DING!

Dear Left Lane Hogs,

The left lane is intended for passing. Getting on to a highway does not mean immediately pulling over to the left lane because you are afraid of driving on the highway and maybe having your driving experience ruined because others are getting on the highway if you occupy lanes further to the right.

And if you see someone in the left lane bearing down on you, PULL OVER TO THE RIGHT, so that car can pass.
Occupying the left lane just because you are doing the speed limit is not the point!

Double DING!

[SDW2001]

Get off your ass and go outside. Stop wasting your life watching TV.

Hey Apple!

Enough with the goddamned iTunes updates already! What is this, an update every other DAY now??

HAHA. Thought of that myself. Leave me alone, iTunes.

In another thread I catch a dumpster load of crap over buying a nice Le Creuset cast iron French oven which will last decades. But when people spend in the area of $140 per month on television Not even a word......

What the.....

BTW SDW2001 I could care less what you spend on TV as it is not any of my business. Heck you may not even spend $140 a month on it and are just making commentary on what they charge for only 3 HD channels.. Either way I just want it to be clear I am not going to pass judgement over what you do with your money.

Fellows

It's $138 for all three services. Oh, and I hate when people say "I won't pass judgment over....." and actually do so implicitly. ;)

What is the deal with websites which never let you go back a page simply. It is like they are a mouse trap and they keep you at their URL and refuse to let you go back to where you were prior to landing in their trap of a website.

Example I came across while reading links of Google News.

http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/09/jackson_backpedals_on_obama_je.html

Jerks.. It should not require multiple clicks of the back button to try to escape the grips of any website.

Fellows

Reuters can suck my schlong for that reason alone.

Or what about sites that display a product but don't let you buy it? That bothers me slightly.

That is quite annoying too. But I can do better....here is the "website" for a music vendor my district uses. This is their real "website." I'm not kidding.

http://www.beamsmusic.com/

Personally I think there should be a federal law that you cannot have a website with no links or clickable items, or even a mailto for Chist's sake. :mad:

[addabox]

Oooh, as long as we're on teh interwebs:

Why, when I do a Google search on a fairly specific (usually tech) subject, and I get a hit that, in the little hit page synopsis, seems to be exactly what I'm looking for, why, then
does the freaking link take me to an unthreaded list of 1000 topics on some godforsaken discussion board?

[SDW2001]

Oooh, as long as we're on teh interwebs:

Why, when I do a Google search on a fairly specific (usually tech) subject, and I get a hit that, in the little hit page synopsis, seems to be exactly what I'm looking for, why, then
does the freaking link take me to an unthreaded list of 1000 topics on some godforsaken discussion board?

And it's usually some BB you've never even heard of...filled with ignorant consumer rants like:

1. No one told me my Mac don't [sic] run PS3 GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Apple sucks!

2. My b/f tom seid tat i need a new peecee 'cause mine is tooo old. Whad d u tink?

3. DO NOT BUY A [INSERT PRODUCT NAME] EVER! THEY WILL RIP U OFF!!!!!!!

Review: I just got a [insert product, such a "laptop"] and and unpacked it and set it up fine. The box was a little heavy, but since I got my back fixed next year I didn't mine[sic]....sometimes I put some heat on it and it's better. Anyways, I pressed the power button and it came on!

But then the problems started....I installed [third party device that has nothing to do with the actual product...like, a card reader] and it was awful. The [third party device] wouldn't turn on. The [device] had lots of lights not doing what they were supposed to and I spent THREE HOURS on with tech support with the [laptop manufacturer, of course]. I spent $1500 on this piece of crap computer and now I have something useless. U can't expect people to spend this kid of money and spend all that time on the phone. I missed my son's soccer game from it and now I will have to make it up to him. I was going to buy one of these [original product listed] but now I don't think so. I'll never buy a [original product] again.

Rating 0 out of 5 stars

Pros: None

Cons: Crappy service, poor quality. Do not buy ever!!!$@#%@#^%@#^

[Fellowship]

Oh, and I hate when people say "I won't pass judgment over....." and actually do so implicitly. ;)


HAHAHA :p You were not supposed to notice that!!

Fellows

[midwinter]

All right, you FedEX motherfuckers. The tracking data says "expected delivery 9/22." WHERE'S MY FUCKING MINI, YOU JACKASSES?

[bobmarksdale]

People who type in the largest fonts possible and usually in red and all caps. Apparently that gets your point across better.;)

[trumptman]

I can't believe Midwinter is getting a mini when my G4 tower is sitting there off with the OWC accelerator being sent back due to warranty issues.

You suck Mid, you were supposed to be like me and just make that G4 tower forever. Even if that isn't the purpose of the mini, well then you still suck.

So I've used my evil influences to insure your mini is late... yes late... and delivery will be via the corporations last remaining, hard starting, two stroke 50cc scooter... So there...

Nick

[ronaldo]

I hate it when you are cruising down a rural highway and some sumbitch pulls out in front of you and then goes about a 1/4 mile and turns off.:mad:

[iPoster]

If you've never seen it, you should check out "Series Seven: The Contenders". (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251031/)

It's done entirely "in show" as a fictional reality series wherein citizens are selected by lottery to participate, the game being to survive and be the last player alive. If you try to flee, you end up on a "Cops" type show where you are depicted as a craven criminal that left the authorities no choice but to gun you down.

Can't believe I never heard of that one!

He is in intensive care following a self-inflicted knife wound to the back.

Oh yeah, it's in my Netflix queue... :D

On Topic:

Apple, I'm only a 'casual' gamer, but why oh why do you still ship your least expensive offerings (Mini, MacBook) with the GMA950. I so want to get a newer Apple, and finally ditch my gaming PC, but keep waiting and waiting for one with better graphics performance than the GeForce 4MX in my iMac G4. (it puts up slightly better FPS in UT2K4 than the Mini or MacBook! :wow: ) And those new EA games that 'prove' the Mac isn't dead as a game platform? NONE of them support the GMA950... :rolleyes:

Note: This game does not support the GMA950 integrated graphics card.

[JimDreamworx]

Also, if you're going inordinately faster than the speed limit, don't expect cars to swerve out of the way just for your impatient ass. That said, left-lane drivers, please don't be overprotective of the left-lane. Unless there's a really slow moving car or truck within reasonable distance up ahead, get out of the left lane!

Agreed. Too bad North America will never have highways like the Autobahn.

Too many people feel driving is a right, not a privilege.

[rufusswan]

There's a tv commercial that's been showing lately, and far too often. It looks just like a PSA. It acts like a PSA, and it quacks? like a PSA?

It contains little dialog other than the following, with 4 or 5 people posing for group photo:

Get an AID's test [repeat 10 - 15 times at constant interval]

While those 4 words certainly make sense, I wonder what the hell this "thing" is supposed to "encourage" the typical person to do? How does one respond to this monotonous mantra? What do I say at the next cocktail party? These are important questions.


DO NOT GET AIDS

[midwinter]

There's a tv commercial that's been showing lately, and far too often. It looks just like a PSA. It acts like a PSA, and it quacks? like a PSA?

It contains little dialog other than the following, with 4 or 5 people posing for group photo:

Get an AID's test [repeat 10 - 15 times at constant interval]

While those 4 words certainly make sense, I wonder what the hell this "thing" is supposed to "encourage" the typical person to do? How does one respond to this monotonous mantra? What do I say at the next cocktail party? These are important questions.


DO NOT GET AIDS

Apply Directly To The Forehead!

[tonton]

There's a tv commercial that's been showing lately, and far too often. It looks just like a PSA. It acts like a PSA, and it quacks? like a PSA?

It contains little dialog other than the following, with 4 or 5 people posing for group photo:

Get an AID's test [repeat 10 - 15 times at constant interval]

While those 4 words certainly make sense, I wonder what the hell this "thing" is supposed to "encourage" the typical person to do? How does one respond to this monotonous mantra? What do I say at the next cocktail party? These are important questions.


DO NOT GET AIDS

Um... I don't get this rant. Obviously the ad is targeting the conscience of those who think they might be at risk but who for some reason are hesitant or too lazy to get tested. Are you saying those people don't exist? Are you also an advocate of "abstinence only" education who pretends teens won't have sex if we don't teach them how to do it safely?

And if you're asking how people who aren't at risk should feel about this ad and what you're "encouraged" to do if you don't think you're at risk, then ask yourself how you feel about a tampon ad and what a tampon ad "encourages" you to do if you're a man.

Do NOT repeat Reagan's mistake about AIDS!

And it's AIDS. Not AID's. I'm absolutely positive the ad doesn't say "Get an AID's test".

There. That's my rant.

[rufusswan]

Um... I don't get this rant.....

That's OK, I was trying to be subtle. Zen, satire, and sarcasim can create slippery humor.

"Obviously the ad is targeting the conscience of those who think they might be at risk but who for some reason are hesitant or too lazy to get tested. Are you saying those people don't exist?"

How could one not know that millions around the world have AIDS? And how many more have it and do not know?

"Are you also an advocate of "abstinence only" education who pretends teens won't have sex if we don't teach them how to do it safely?"

Comment need not be applied to above question.

"And if you're asking how people who aren't at risk should feel about this ad and what you're "encouraged" to do if you don't think you're at risk, then ask yourself how you feel about a tampon ad and what a tampon ad "encourages" you to do if you're a man."

Homer Simpson or Hank Hill can respond to this. I will not.

"Do NOT repeat Reagan's mistake about AIDS!"

Let's hope not.

"And it's AIDS. Not AID's. I'm absolutely positive the ad doesn't say "Get an AID's test"."

Kudos, you get an extra cup of saki before bed tonight.

=========

Tonton,

I was just trying to say that if I had money to create an AIDS awareness PSA that was aimed directly at an American audience. I would be inclinded to include, not only GET AN AIDS TEST, but also something like BE SMART, AIDS CAN BE PREVENTED.

It was the monotonous, beating of the jungle drums, and the take-off of the "aroma therapy" headache remedy sold in the US that got me. Hence, midwinter's "Apply directly to the forhead!" reponse had a double-meaning. If you have not seen this ad, then the rant would not have been understood.

Paz

[midwinter]

Dear Students,

I do not know where you got it in your heads that an MLA citation looks like this:

"blah blah blah"(soandso 341).

It should look like this:

"blah blah blah" (soandso 341).

PUT THAT FUCKING SPACE BACK IN THERE.

Thank you.

[iPoster]

MLA? We don't need no stinking MLA!!

;)

[bobmarksdale]

If I wanted to use Helvetica for every single new formatting palate, I would tell you. Since I change my font to Times New Roman for typing, why would you make a freaking list with numbers in Helvetica. And Tables, and Charts as well. If I choose a freaking font, let me use it instead of sticking me with your gay choice.

Also, If I make a list, allow me to freaking edit the format of the list instead of putting the "3. " as an object of which I cannot change without selecting the whole thing.

[midwinter]

WHERE'S MY FUCKING PACKAGE YOU AMAZON SHIPPING MOTHERFUCKERS???

Oh, and while I'm at it:

Dear Apple:

You suck mightily for not designing the Mini to be able to power ADC your own ADC monitors. You also suck mightily for making the goddamned adapter for the mini to power the monitors a) $90 and b) AS BIG AS THE FUCKING MINI!!

[trumptman]

Jesus, just spend $150 and get a new monitor. The tube in the older Apple monitor is probably dimmer already.

I've got a 17 ADC LCD in the closet for the exact same reason.

Send that adapter back.

Nick

[midwinter]

Jesus, just spend $150 and get a new monitor. The tube in the older Apple monitor is probably dimmer already.

I've got a 17 ADC LCD in the closet for the exact same reason.

Send that adapter back.

Nick

It's a 20" apple cinema display. lcd.

[trumptman]

It's a 20" apple cinema display. lcd.

I meant backlight.

Nick

[SpamSandwich]

This thread is gettin' scary... :smokey:

[bobmarksdale]

Ok, to explain a little, I have no problem with people using text/chat speak if I am being texted/chatted too. I don't even mind it all that much if one of my friends uses it in an email, but what I do have a problem with is:
1.) People who use it in actual writing, or in message boards such as this one. I shouldn't have to perform a search to figure out what the 5 letter acronym you're using means. I shouldn't have to know at all. Just write out your freaking words unless it is a private conversation such as a chat.
2.) people who while using text speak, do it poorly. If you're going to take a shortcut to do something, at least do it right. Example: the 'x' can be used to replace a 'cks' or 'ks' or anything that has an ending that sound like that. Fine. Whatever. I have no problem with that. Now, people who use the 'x' to replace something like a 'ck', 'k', or a 'c'. People who say things like 'you sux' or 'you rox' are complete morons who don't know how to conjugate basic second person verbs. 'that sux' is acceptable, but 'you sux' is not. Get it, morons?

[bobmarksdale]

Parents who can't/don't control their kid(s). 'Nuff said.

[midwinter]

Dear Alberta,

110 km/h??? WTF?!?! Do you know how slow that feels after 80 mph on I-15 in Montana???

[BRussell]

"Steep learning curve." Yes, a steep hill is hard to climb. But a steep learning curve means that you learn something quickly, not slowly. A flat learning curve means something is hard to learn.

[segovius]

There's a tv commercial that's been showing lately, and far too often. It looks just like a PSA. It acts like a PSA, and it quacks? like a PSA?

It contains little dialog other than the following, with 4 or 5 people posing for group photo:

Get an AID's test [repeat 10 - 15 times at constant interval]

While those 4 words certainly make sense, I wonder what the hell this "thing" is supposed to "encourage" the typical person to do? How does one respond to this monotonous mantra? What do I say at the next cocktail party? These are important questions.


DO NOT GET AIDS

I didn't have a rant....now I do. Thanks for helping me contribute.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN 'AIDS TEST'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is a test for HIV which is the virus which might lead to the syndrome of AIDS which itself is diagnosed symptomatically and not by testing.

[shetline]

"Steep learning curve." Yes, a steep hill is hard to climb. But a steep learning curve means that you learn something quickly, not slowly. A flat learning curve means something is hard to learn.
Just try to imagine that someone put time on the vertical axis, and knowledge gained on the horizontal axis.

And besides, who's to say what direction gravity pulls in an abstract Cartesian coordinate space? :D

[shetline]

Dear Students...PUT THAT FUCKING SPACE BACK IN THERE.
Oh, God. This makes me think of all of the conflicting styles for code formatting used by software engineers.

And while I know that my preferences are pretty much arbitrary, it still really, really bugs me when I see code that's formatted the "wrong" way.

For instance...

if (x == 2)...
while (stillConnected)...
for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)...

Dammit, there's a space between "if", "while", "for" and the following paren!

if(x == 2)

...looks stupid! But there is NO space in a function call like...

y = Math.sin(x);

Can't you see that...

y = Math.sin (x);

...is all wrong? Spacing for control loops and function calls is different! Don't you idiots understand that!? :mad::mad::mad:

(Five minutes later, after regaining consciousness following an apoplectic fit...)

Thank you for listening. Now, don't get me started about where the curly braces go... :D

[Jubelum]

Viagra-popping boomer assholes think that by owning a Harley you are now "cool" or a "bad-ass." You're not bad-ass... you're a trendy, middle-aged, overweight, fad-following prick who often just can't wait to show off your "bad-ass biker attitude." Too bad that your bike is usually trailered behind your Escalade, and people who *really* are bikers- and everyone else- are laughing their asses off at you and your "biker mama" (empty-nester former soccer mom) who have the cutest little matching black leather everything.

I bet that most of you were never cool enough in the 60s and 70s to be included, and you have added this pathetic attempt at "hardass" to your repertoire of laughable midlife crisis-management.

You've watched one too many episodes of American Chopper and think that you can get in one last gasp of acceptance and "cool" before Social Security checks and AARP memberships start rolling in. Let it go, crew... no one is impressed with your $20k bike, accessorized to the hilt, or the pair of obvious saps that are mounted on it.

Getting in a group filled with other stock brokers, orthodontists, lawyers, and doctors and riding around on your trailered bikes does not make you cool. It proves that you are still, after all these years, trying to convince people that you are something that we all know you are not.

These yuppie biker pricks can kiss my ass.

[tonton]

Actually I hate every single wannabe "hardass", whether it's the faux biker, the gun-nut, the war-loving armchair general, the psychotic president, the gang member, the abortion clinic bomber... you name it.

But Jay Leno and his ilk are pretty harmless.

[Jubelum]

Actually I hate every single wannabe "hardass", whether it's the faux biker, the gun-nut, the war-loving armchair general, the psychotic president, the gang member, the abortion clinic bomber... you name it.

But Jay Leno and his ilk are pretty harmless.

Well, I doubt Jay Leno acts like most of the people I am referring to. Alas, I do agree with you on the "wannabe hardass" thing... the world has a deficit of real men, and they've been replaced by millions of faux-bravado, chest thumping weenies that are all bark. And occasionally bite with an armored tank column.

[tonton]

Well, I doubt Jay Leno acts like most of the people I am referring to. Alas, I do agree with you on the "wannabe hardass" thing... the world has a deficit of real men, and they've been replaced by millions of faux-bravado, chest thumping weenies that are all bark. And occasionally bite with an armored tank column.

Well I don't much care for the "real" hardass either. I prefer people who fight with diplomacy and coerce with brains rather than brawn.

[Jubelum]

I prefer people who fight with diplomacy and coerce with brains rather than brawn.

That is always preferable as a first choice.

[tonton]

That is always preferable as a first choice.

Not just the first choice... the second, third, fourth choice, etc.

Violent action should ONLY be the very last choice.

Anyway, I know you agree with me on the action in Iraq up to the decision about what to do next.

Bush did not use diplomacy effectively. He basically said "Saddam you need to submit to the UN completely or I will attack" then attacked full force, without further hesitation, as though he was "itching" to pull that hair-trigger. I'll bet you anything he would have been seriously disappointed had Saddam fully complied.