I got my first hate blogpost (by someone who, in his blogger profile, says “About me: I’m a pig”), AT&T can now get every IP address you visited in 40 lines of code, touching a cop’s badge when he wont give you his badge number will get you permanent nerve damage, whatever you do — don’t play craps and accidentally make an invalid arrest, or you’ll be charged with a 10-year felony!, Who the fuck actually cares about online virtual pedophiles in SecondLife? It’s not real life! University of Delaware implements policy literally saying “ALL white people are racists, and people of color cannot be racists”, Is it Christmas (with RSS feed)? And a nice article by Michael Vail on the TECHNOLOGY WAR. (more…)
October 2007
Monthly Archive
October 31, 2007
LINKS: Technology War/Corporations, Abuses Of Authority, Political Correctness, Virtual Pedophiles, Overly-Harsh-Punishments, and random douchebags
Posted by ClioCJS under Abuse Of Authority, Articles, Corporations, News, Overly-Harsh Punishments, People That Annoy Me, Politics, Technology War[7] Comments
October 31, 2007
JOURNAL: WORK: Vacation time rules can be changed like that? I want my 86.25 hours back!
Posted by ClioCJS under Clint, Companies That Screwed Me Over, Complaints, Journal, People, Work[24] Comments
So, a years or two ago I carried over about 160 hours of vacation time. This was July. All of a sudden, our next paychecks were cut, and I only had 47 hours of vacation time. They decided employees could only carry 80 hours over, and reset mine, retroactively, to 80. Of course, thinking I had 160, I was very liberal with my vacation time, taking far more vacation than usual (I usually take the minimum amount, keeping my balance as high as possible). So I had used up 33 hours by July. 80-33 = 47. So in one day, I went from 127 to 47. That really pissed me off.
Now I am finding out that the 80-hour carry-over wasn’t company policy. They just decided to implement the policy, retroactively, taking away vacation. I don’t even think that should be legal — and it wouldn’t for normal corporations — but this is an under-50-person company. Being under 50 persons complete changes the rules of business, and my company has gone close to 50, but purposely never exceeds 50 people. So anyway, I am displeased by this. Originally I thought they had failed to implement policy, and were simply fixing 6 months of mis-stated balances. But now I see that it was just a plain money grab, to reduce the amount of vacation used/paid-out to people. It reeks of bullshit. I want my 86.25 hours vacation leave back… that’s over 2 weeks of my life that I will never, ever get back. And I will indeed remember this 50 years from now.
October 30, 2007
JOURNAL: COMPUTER: The Birth Of Hades – part 4 – I hate XP and I’m forced to run it!
Posted by ClioCJS under Carolyn, Clint, Companies That Screwed Me Over, Complaints, Computer, Greg Z, Hardware, Journal, Media, Microsoft, Operating Systems, People, Rants, Software, Technology, Video[22] Comments
My new computer is coming along quite nicely, but I still think Windows XP blows compared to Windows 2000. Change is bad when you already have everything you need and just want to continue using the same hardware and software you’ve been using for 10+ years. If I want to do new stuff, I’ll get another computer for that. Leave my main computer alone. Also: Micro-review of Shrek 2. ** WARNING: SUPER-LONG POST **. You might want to ‘star’ this for lunch. Click for the rest–> (more…)
October 30, 2007
LINKS: Best Buy sucks, Microsoft maps don’t (!), Shakira Vs. Danzig, Vinyl Vs. CD, 3rd Grader Vs. Steve Jobs, Comcast Vs. Google — This is starting to sound like an episode of celebrity deathmatch…
Posted by ClioCJS under Articles, Audio, Comedy, Corporations, Internet, Media, Music, Music Video, News, Politicians, Politics, Technology, Video[2] Comments
Also: This Website will tell you who to vote for, with Clint-approved precision (I’ve tested it). Arrange your top 10 issues in 4 areas in the order you care about them, and watch it graph all currently running politicians in relation to you. (more…)
October 30, 2007
SURVEY: Do you have Asperger’s Syndrome?
Posted by ClioCJS under Clint, People, Psychology, Science, Surveys[68] Comments
Read up on Asperger’s Syndrome at WikiPedia, if you don’t already know what it is. I just took a 171-question quiz. Apparently, I am average, although it is pretty clear that in every category (especially “Talent”), I leaned slightly in the Aspie direction. That is, for almost every section, my neurotypical score was lower than my Asperburger score. UPDATE: 20100201: The test now has a version 2, so I took it again. I will place my new results below the old results.
Version 1:
Your Aspie score: 100 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 96 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits
Version 2:
Your Aspie score: 106 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 107 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits.
Do you have Asperburger’s Syndrome? Take the survey HERE and find out.
October 29, 2007
LINKS: Mena Suvari is hot!! Comcast is NOT. (Cancel your Comcast subscription — They are truth-benders!)
Posted by ClioCJS under Abuse Of Authority, Articles, Celebrities, Corporations, Internet, Media, News, People, Pictures, Politics, September 11th, Technology, Technology War, The War On Drugs[2] Comments
George Carlin questions 911; Medical marijuana patient commits suicide; cops put wrong man in jail, then leave him there for 30 days despite not matching the description of the right man; “Don’t Tase Me, Bro!” police report analyzed. (more…)
October 28, 2007
JOURNAL: Unpredictable technology anecdotes.
Posted by ClioCJS under Anecdotes, Carolyn, Clint, Hardware, Journal, People, Technology[2] Comments
1: Evil music-controlling button that SHOULD NOT BE. 2: Evil smoking battery. Read on for some WTF-ness. (more…)
