Things That Annoy You

[Eddie Coyle]

 
          Finding out good news*, and having to keep it under wraps, possibly for months. I want to share this news but it's limited to me and a handful of others.

           * The good news for me, is actually bad news for quite a few others...hence having to keep it quiet.

[Sardondi]

Google is making sure that its own product - Glass - is nowhere near their own shareholder meeting: http://news.yahoo.com/google-bans-glass-own-shareholder-meeting-193542140.html?.tsrc=warhol There's something wrong with that. Google unleashes the fresh hell of "Glass" on the world, which almost completely destroys the concept of privacy, but then demands it not be permitted to disrupt the privacy and secrecy of their meetings. Because, that's, you know, "different".

Well TFB, compadre - let Glass rule in Googleland, I say. "Don't be evil" they unctuously claim is their motto. Yeah, right - "...except on Mondays, Thursdays and when there's money involved". Smarmy assholes.

Which reminds me of this nasty bit of smug which oozed in December 2009 from one of the noise-making orifices of Google's dickbreath in charge, Eric Schmidt: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/07/google-ceo-on-privacy-if_n_383105.html

Oh, really? That has to be the single most arrogant and contemptuous statement ever made by a major corporation's CEO. Well, I have to conclude that Google is capable of world-class counter-surveillance and personal security. Because Schmidt's arrogant statement was as good as daring the world's hackers to come after him, and nothing happened to him. I would have bet money that within a month of having uttered that filth, the net would have been wall-to-wall with pics of Schmidt at Mistress Domina's house, nude, on his hands and knees, dog-collared and ball-gagged while serving as a bidet. You know - pics of him engaging in his favorite relaxing activity. And nothing happened.* That's scary - because it makes him untouchable. And as we've been reminded with Emperor Neo, power tends to corrupt, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely. There's a man who needs to be introduced to the ancient Greek concept of hubris and Nemesis.


* And no, it's not because he "doesn't do that stuff". Of course he does: 1) he's a billionaire CEO; 2) of Google; 3) who is an immense dickhead - it's simply not possible he doesn't do that kind of stuff: he was tailor made for it. 

[PB the Deplorable]

...  Because, that's, you know, "different"...

Well, it is different.  They and others like them are the 'creatives', doncha know.

[Sardondi]

Well, it is different.  They and others like them are the 'creatives', doncha know.

And they always see themselves being "the deciders" for you and me in whatever new governo-centric plan from hell they propose. Because they're not just different; they're better.

[PB the Deplorable]

And they always see themselves being "the deciders" for you and me in whatever new governo-centric plan from hell they propose. Because they're not just different; they're better.

It's funny,  a lot of the cool hip 'creatives' live here in San Francisco but work down in Silicon Valley.  Instead of public transportation, they have their own private 'Google Busses' to ferry them there and back every day.  Fair enough, except these private busses park in the areas reserved for the regular muni buses, or sit idling on streets tossing out noxious fumes all morning in various neighborhoods.

These people - mostly young and maybe not all that mature or socially adept, are seen as rude, tactless, superior, having been bestowed with more wealth than maybe they've truly earned - living in SF for the good stuff like restaurants and culture, but detached and above everything and everyone else.   

I don't actually live in the city, so I don't really know, but it's interesting watching this small sideshow play out.  I think a couple of the real issues are envy and the perception that these people don't support more taxes for public transportation or traditional SF causes like the 'homeless'.

[Eddie Coyle]

          Television "news" reporting on

            (a) Michael Jackson
            (b) Michael Jackson's children
            (c) the hilarious charade that these children are Michael Jackson's offspring in any way 
                 shape or form.

[Sardondi]

...(c) the hilarious charade that these children are Michael Jackson's offspring in any way shape or form.

No, it's true. It's really possible: with an experienced surgical team, fertility veterinarians can use optic fiber instruments to capture and transfer sperm from a bull to a prize dairy cow. It was probably a little more difficult with Michael due to the microscopic organs, but for a couple of million bucks it was probably a piece of cake for a team to get enough material to ensure the start of an in vitro pregnancy. Later on they transferred the embryo to the most appropriate brood cow, er, nurse, uh, "girlfriend".

[Sardondi]

That I've taken my daily stroll through the internet and have seen no, 0, none, zero, zilch references to the fact that today is anything else than June 6th. Just plain old June 6th. Yawn.

Now, given that Google, which memorializes every meaningless, worthless bit of anti-establishment, anti-traditionalist, socially "forward" event it can come up with, would happily devise a cute logo for the date Karl Marx had three well-formed bowel movements in a 24-hour period, it annoys the hell out of me that no one, NO ONE either at Google or anywhere on the net I routinely visit, thinks it worth a pixil to note today's date.....

And they prove my point. Nothing of any significance to the world happened on June 6, but today, oh, that's another matter: Google commemorates Maurice Sendak's birthday. Just some more of that self-hating, anti-Western attitude. Damn their souls.

[Eddie Coyle]

And they prove my point. Nothing of any significance to the world happened on June 6, but today, oh, that's another matter: Google commemorates Maurice Sendak's birthday. Just some more of that self-hating, anti-Western attitude. Damn their souls.

         I thought of your post when I used Google early this morning

        The people at Google have far more in common with Sendak in every imaginable way, than the GI's involved in Operation Overlord. The Google gang are more likely belong to the Mattachine Society than the VFW.

[coaster]

The family that recently moved upstairs from me annoy the hell out of me. The husband plays these video games that are connected through a subwoofer, and whenever he plays, it sounds like my house is falling down. I can feel the bass through my walls. Its really irritating. I don't see the point in loud video games, loud stereos or being loud in general. Am I just out of touch? Hes a year younger than me, (I'm turning 32) but the last time I played a video game was when I was a child, and that was on an old nintendo. I don't know the first thing about video games. Why the hell are they so damn loud? why are people so damn loud?  I understand older people far more than I do younger people. Sometimes I envy the deaf.

[ItsOver]

I sympathize.  Nothing like inconsiderate folks in adjacent dwellings.  I always seem to end up with an insomniac in a place above me who enjoys pacing the floor at 3:00 am.  Glad I'm in a secluded place now.  I can understand why Art likes the high desert. 

[Eddie Coyle]

            People who quote HL Mencken free of context or understanding.

[onan]

            People who quote HL Mencken free of context or understanding.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepare to see them misunderstood.

[Eddie Coyle]

        Well done. I bequeath my Mencken Chrestomathy to you upon my demise.

[HorrorRetro]

Family court systems annoy me.  Okay, they mostly infuriate me.  My niece is getting screwed in every conceivable way.  I keep saying to myself it's unbelievable what's happening, but then I remember my husband's experience with family court when he was trying to see his daughter.  What happened there was the crap shitty Lifetime movies are made about.

It drives me crazy when people say family courts do what's in the best interests of the child. I find that's rarely the case.   

[Sardondi]

People who quote HL Mencken free of context or understanding.

When that happens, normally I'm tempted to spit on my hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

[Eddie Coyle]

When that happens, normally I'm tempted to spit on my hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

I wouldn't waste time with the spit or flag. Mencken revealing himself a ditherer.

[b_dubb]

It's funny,  a lot of the cool hip 'creatives' live here in San Francisco but work down in Silicon Valley.  Instead of public transportation, they have their own private 'Google Busses' to ferry them there and back every day.  Fair enough, except these private busses park in the areas reserved for the regular muni buses, or sit idling on streets tossing out noxious fumes all morning in various neighborhoods.

These people - mostly young and maybe not all that mature or socially adept, are seen as rude, tactless, superior, having been bestowed with more wealth than maybe they've truly earned - living in SF for the good stuff like restaurants and culture, but detached and above everything and everyone else.   

I don't actually live in the city, so I don't really know, but it's interesting watching this small sideshow play out.  I think a couple of the real issues are envy and the perception that these people don't support more taxes for public transportation or traditional SF causes like the 'homeless'.

I work with these types of assholes. Computer science types are the biggest assholes. They think they're going to save the world with their glowing rectangles. They never consider a possible future where tech is rendered useless because of war or natural disaster. They've never been turned down for a job or had to scramble to cover their bills.

[SR-71]

The thing that annoys me, to be more exact pisses me off, is having two co-workers who are assholes. Sometimes i just want to quit my job but I dont have other job lined up yet.

[Sardondi]

Could American jurisprudence appear more broken: the judge in Michael Jackson wrongful death suit allows testimony as to what someone says they were told by "Michael Jackson's ghost" (who btw said he accidentally killed himself). http://www.nme.com/news/michael-jackson/70821

I'm sorry to say this is not a joke. It's significant that A was testifying to what B told him, and it was B's statement that included the ghost stuff, not A's direct testimony. There may have been a limiting instruction by the judge that the jury could only accept the testimony for a limited purpose, such as to show what the witness did in response, etc., not that MJ's ghost spoke. And of course I have seen no news report which speaks to that crucial information: all the stories make it look like the judge let someone testify as "Michael Jackson's ghost", which is not what happened, although it might be a very fine distinction. In 30 years I never knew of a reporter anywhere, including the NYT, who knew his/her ass from a hole in the ground when it came to trials and law.

But I have to wonder why this testimony was allowed. If nothing else it makes the judge sound like  a loon, rightly or wrongly.

[Juan]

It's like when Judge Judy asks someone why he or she did something.  The party answers because "he told me ..." and Judge Judy cuts the party off with "You can't tell me that.  It's hearsay."  Explanation of conduct is clearly an exception to the hearsay rule, and the old bitch doesn't seem to remember that from law school.  Plus, she asked the question.

California has weird rules of evidence.  Maybe they have an exception to the hearsay rule that allows ghost testimony twice removed.

[Sardondi]

...California has weird rules of evidence.  Maybe they have an exception to the hearsay rule that allows ghost testimony twice removed.

They sure as hell have the flakiest judges. I say but a name: "Lance Ito" - the reason O.J. Simpson avoided conviction for a double murder that everyone in America but 12 retards knew he committed. 

[bmcintyre]

George Noory annoys me.  Wasn't it about 6 years ago that he said he was apolitical?  He wouldn't even vote. Now, C2C is a late night political show.  And, he is so dumb!!!  Remember Martin Luther Kings Day when he discussed one of MLKs speech metaphors as if it was true--"a time when everyone could sit down together...." and Noory stated it was about riding a bus!!!  He must write his own copy because it absolutely makes no sense.  Oh, and how about giving money to everyone from the sales of his books...

We were faithful to Art Bell.  He was smart and called BS on stuff Noory just allows to happen.  I like the crazy stuff.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
              I pretty much only venture outside with the hope that I'll witness some jerkoff on a rice-burner get get crushed by a tractor trailer.

             Still waiting. 

[analog kid]

90 degrees, 120% humidity here, at midnight.

You can get no exposure to sunlight, yet still feel sunburned.

Nothing can prepare you for Louisiana summers.

[Eddie Coyle]

 
               That my 2009 prediction of Don Imus expiring on camera during Fox Business simulcast has remained unfulfilled.
          Much like my Phil Rizzuto "will die broadcasting a game on WPIX" prediction of 1989. The Scooter lasted until 2007.

[West of the Rockies]

They sure as hell have the flakiest judges. I say but a name: "Lance Ito" - the reason O.J. Simpson avoided conviction for a double murder that everyone in America but 12 retards knew he committed.

Oh, but Sardondi, as a former prosecutor, you must know the saying:  "To convict a suspect, you must convince 12 jurors beyond a reasonable doubt that the person is guilty.  To exonerate a suspect, you must simply confuse one juror."

[Sardondi]

Oh, but Sardondi, as a former prosecutor, you must know the saying:  "To convict a suspect, you must convince 12 jurors beyond a reasonable doubt that the person is guilty.  To exonerate a suspect, you must simply confuse one juror."

Actually that result would be a mistrial because of a "hung jury", which leaves the option for retrial since there is no decision. But sometimes a mistrial is as good as an acquittal because the state doesn't try the defendant again. Lot of variables to the decision. To acquit, the 12 jurors must agree on a "not guilty" verdict. Or as with the O/J. jury which acquitted that murderer, you must have 12 stupid jurors and/or a judge who lets them be stupefied by permitting defense counsel to run the courtroom and the trial as they wish.

[Eddie Coyle]

Actually that result would be a mistrial because of a "hung jury", which leaves the option for retrial since there is no decision. But sometimes a mistrial is as good as an acquittal because the state doesn't try the defendant again. Lot of variables to the decision. To acquit, the 12 jurors must agree on a "not guilty" verdict. Or as with the O/J. jury which acquitted that murderer, you must have 12 stupid jurors and/or a judge who lets them be stupefied by permitting defense counsel to run the courtroom and the trial as they wish.

Jury nullification ,my brotha. You clearly don't read the Ujamaa Press or the Final Call. It's one of the tenets of mau mau-ing American Style.

[Sardondi]

          Jury nullification ,my brotha. You clearly don't read the Ujamaa Press or the Final Call. It's one of the tenets of mau mau-ing American Style.

You know, I used to be dead set against jury nullification, seeing it, as it technically is, as a violation of each juror's oath to abide by the law as instructed by the judge in reaching a decision based on the evidence. But that was premised on an understanding that prosecutors ruled themselves. That was vital because prosecutors have more discretion than anyone else in the criminal justice system. And prosecutors pretty much used to understand that and most were cautious of how they used that discretion, at least in the federal system.

But, like virtually everything else in America, we've mocked and derided the idea of public and private virtue for more than two generations now, and, Surprise!, today it's hard to find anyone in public office guided by virtue rather than a shot at the Main Chance. We certainly can't find virtue in the wretchedly, unprecedentedly corrupt Obama Administration. For the first time in American history, the Department of Justice is broken - from the top down. Sure there are outposts of morality and ethics. But when the top man is an unindicted co-conspirator and a serial perjurer it sorta lets the pressure off the troops.

Anyway, nullification is now looking like one of the very last defenses that the people have against a government grown despotic. The problem is, once that box is opened...