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After years of working on Windows computers I have developed a conspiracy theory that Bill Gates has an entire army of men in black suits (and taped-up glasses) secretly tampering with my computers, changing my system files and deleting important .dll's. With every so-called upgrade to Windows, it just seem to get worse and worse. Add to window's lack of performance the companies horrible bussiness practices and you have a computing platform that I can't stand anymore! So, in June of 2002, after years of constant frustration with Windows based computers I finally dropped the coin and bought an Apple notebook computer. After some research I purchased the iBook 700Mhz G3. I picked it because I've always wanted a laptop, and it looked nice, had nice features, and was relatively cheap for an Apple at $1,800. (This is no longer the case, you can get a Mac for $500 now) Luckily for me, I picked a good time to buy an Apple, because Apple had just come out with their new operating system, OS X. This operating system is a quantum leap over Mac OS 9 or any Windows OS. In just a couple of days I was aquainted with the Mac operating system, and have since become thoroughly impressed with it.
The improvements I got switching to Mac were so great that I even got rid of my three month old PC because I just wasn't using it anymore. The only thing that machine could do better then my Mac was play games, because of it's faster processor speed and upgraded video card. Later I bought a new Mac for my desk at work to replace my PC so now I don't use any Windows computers.
My Macs has lived up to Apple's hype, and they put the fun back in using a computer.
Do you want proof of my Microsoft conspiracy
theory? I can prove it. In October of 2001 and February of 2003,
Microsoft got caught sending non-Internet Explorer browser users faultly
style
sheets when they they visited MSN.com. This would cause browsers other than Internet Explorer
to incorrectly display the web page, or not display it at all. Read the CNET
article and Opera
press release.
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Lets say your on a four lane, divided highway in medium to low traffic. If
your cruise is set at 55, and the person next to you also has his cruise set
to 55, guess what! The two of you have become an effective road block! If you
look behind you and see a line of cars a mile long, either slow down or speed
up, but please, GET OUT OF THE WAY!!! The most important factor in highway driving
is flow. If you become the bottle neck, then you create a tense, high density
pile of cars behind you just waiting to crash. Don't be afraid to have to (God
forbid) reset your cruise!!!
If some 16 year old employee of a McDonalds hands you a cup of coffee, and the lids not on very well, and as a consequence, you get burned. DON'T SUE 'EM! You must be an idiot! That poor sap who's getting paid minimum wage after high school has so much stuff on his/her mind that they could give a crap about your coffee. You should just suck what's left of your coffee, out of you clothes and be happy with that. They could tell him/her a million time, "Check to make sure the tops on good", and the second the boss is gone, he or she probably wont give you a cover at all. It's a defect of being 16 or 17 and working a bottom of the rung job that you don't care about. You can't blame McDonald's. What are they gonna do? I think the only justice would be if all the fast food places quit serving coffee all together. But what do we get? warning labels. Have you read any of the warning labels? I bought screens for my windows and they came with a label that showed a little kid pushing on the screen then falling out. It says something like, "This screen is not intended as a barrier and will not withstand pressure". NO KIDDING! It's held in by four tiny pins. There should be a sign next to everyone's bed that says, "Getting out of bed my be dangerous and could cause harm or death". The other side should say, "Getting in bed may be dangerous and could cause harm or death.
Slick 50. They advertise a warranty that says that if your engine has a failure do to engine wear, they will give you something. I don't remember what it is, but in the details, it says the motor has to fail within the first 50,000 miles. The advertising says something about restoring power to you old, worn out engines. So put these two together and you get a warranty that doesn't coincide with the application of the product. What the hell is that? It's misleading. Pretty smart on their part, I must admit. Does it work? Who knows. There's not a product out there that someone person loves and another hates.
Another example you ask? Here's one. I saw an add for Chevrolet trucks that said that Chevy trucks are the number 1 something or other, but in the tiny print, it adds that the survey they used to determine this standing excludes other GM vehicles. So in reality, the GMC version of the vehicle could really be the number one, but apparently, they don't need the advertising claims as much as Chevy does. Not that it matters if you look past the B. S., but I guess there are so many people who don't, it's worth it.
But this was unacceptable to the people of California. So much so, that they ask the government to step in and help them control the empirical tyrant banks! The government, listening to the constituents, passed a law that made it illegal to charge a fee at the ATM machines. In response to this, the banks said, "Fine, then if your not a customer, you can't use our atm at all!" To this I say "way to go banks". This to me is the perfect example of justice. Do these people think that the ATM's are free to buy, construct, and maintain? That there are roaming ATM maintenance people just volunteering there time to fix these things with free parts from the ATM fairy? The bank customers complained that the banks had their money and they shouldn't be allowed to charge the customers to get their own money back. What the f**k is that? Your not being charged to get your money, you dumb s**t! Your being charged for the convenience of being able to get your money anywhere at any time. If you don't want to pay the fee for the convenience that the ATM's offer, drive to your bank and get your money there for free. You have got to be a complete screaming idiot, if this ATM fee thing bugs you. And I mean that with all my heart.
If the banks lose money, or even break even with the ATM's, you can bet they will disappear. This doesn't mean that it's not possible for the ATM's to be free. There are probably ways to use the fact that the ATM has someone's attention for a little bit of time. We all know that time is money, so how about it. Any ideas out there? Perhaps sell advertising time? Seems to work for this web site! Free to me and the people who read it, all because Angelfire can flash a bit of ad space at you that you probably didn't even read.
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