I hate Windows 7 & 8. They are the most convoluted operating systems that I've ever worked with. I have never seen such a shitty system that can't even connect to a printer through a wireless network connection, even after it was successfully configured earlier in the same day. What makes the network any different than it was during an earlier computing session when all the ips have remained "static?"
Not only that, but Microsoft has found it important enough to make their new operating system look like Windows Phone.. . . aaaaaah. . .and thus, for XP and Vista users, it makes the transition directly into Windows 8 a major learning curve.
I don't like how programs open in the new Windows 8 and act like individual desktops, or when you launch a program's function and the window opens in another "desktop" area, and unless us you alt/tab to find it, you might be sitting there waiting for the window to appear for an eternity. . .
HP printers that work on a wireless network, cannot connect with Windows 8 and stay connected, or be configured by USB cable, or be manually configured from the printer itself without there being some dramatic explosion of emotions from the operator! And shame on HP, for making a proprietory printer software suite for Windows 8 that won't communicate with it!
Windows 8 is the most convoluted, difficult, contankerous, bullshit, buggy, glitchy, P.O.S. operating system I have ever encountered in my life. Millenium was better configured. . . . .
Today, I had more issues getting the downstairs printer to work with the Windows 8 computers than I've ever encountered before. However, when I got on this computer, programmed with Linux Debian 7, I used the CUPS administrator and was able to connect the printer, an HP Officejet AIO, and printed the documents I needed. later in the day, when the Windows 8 computer failed to do it, I was able to print from my laptop again, wirelessly. Samba worked transparently.
If I buy a new laptop this year, I'm wiping the drive of Windows 8 and installing Linux Debian 7.
Microsoft still sucks. Congratulations for wasting countless manhours all around the globe as I am sure that I am not the only person that has ever experienced this issue. Microsoft has, again, prematurely launched software that has so many issues and design flaws, that I wonder who the hell designs things over there in Redmond, WA. They need to pull their heads out of their asses and get with the program an create software that we can actually depend on and use without having to hack our own computers just to find basic functions.
Linux rules. . . . simplicity in Gnome 3 and choices to tailor the operating system with less learning curve for the computer savvy. Do a Google search on any issues in linux, there will be 50 answers with ways to handle the problems in tutorials and step-by-step instructions on forums.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Pontification
On Wednesday, I was accused of being a Pontiff. I was told that I was "pontificating" about my book through my own ideas. (An obvious and pernicious statement when you think about it, actually). "More pernicious still has been the acceptance of the author's controversial ideas by the general public."
The Pontiff is the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Pontificate is the term of office of the pope or a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Pontification is a speech made by the Pope.
WARNING: The following paragraph may make your brain hurt. Read at your own risk. The author assumes no liability for tumors, aggravation, anxiety, mental defect, loss of consciousness, or other mental or physical health related issues caused the reader.
As I get older and more learn-ed about the world through various literal sources and experience, my intuitive brain makes subconscious links to information through cross-references that my cognitive brain may not understand right away. And as I continue to grow in experience, those autonomic links of information become more and more literal understandings of my cognitive recollection of information that I have not personally accessed in a deliberate attempt or by even an educated guess. In short, does this define "epiphany?" Hmmmmmm. . . get it? I shall continue this pontification.
To pontificate is not a verb, according to Miriam-Webster. I even tried to find it as a verb on wikipedia.org. Both of these sources are governed by American language authors or language authorities. English in America vs. English in Great Britain varies in mild differences of pronunciation or definitions of words. But when you look at British definitions, pontificate is a verb as well. It's not recognized as a verb in American dictionaries. But more and more Americans are adopting this definition in an effort to sound more intelligent. Somehow, we Americans seem to think that if we sound like we are British we are smarter.
Ironically, the Spanish word for "pontificate" is a noun as it is in American English and it is "el pontificado." So would the preterate form if trans-mutated into a "verbo" be "pontificar?" or would they use "pontificir or pontificer?" I hope it's an ar verb--they are easier to conjugate.
In the British definition of the word, it means to speak or write and give your opinion about something as if you knew everything about it and as if only your opinion was correct.
So, Pontiff-the Pope-is the know-it-all of the Christian faith, and seeing how he is the foremost authority on all that is God and Jesus, is--by his opinion and that of his followers--the greatest authority and next to Godliness through his pontificate and his pontifications. So, when someone says that a person is pontificating, they are saying that person is a bullshitter! So the Pope is the leading bullshitter of the Christian world?
So, why was I accused of pontificating? I don't take it as an insult, because I am the end-all and be-all of the book I am writing! I was describing the bold new re-write and reconstruction of my novel at writer's group. I wanted to express how I was going to change the course of the book through a rewrite of the main character's personality. I also included a quick read of my blog entry on my theory of life-critical mass. Using my ideas about critical mass being the very nature of the universe, and how it has influenced the evolution of man, would be best described as life is a series of critical mass scenarios, followed by the consequences or the after-calm. As it is often said, after the storm settles and the dust clears, one must pick up the pieces of the aftermath.
Now, I realize that there was not real insult meant by the comment and the individual was just meaning it in jest, and if you have read my blog entries preceding this one, you can tell that I am rather long-winded. It may take a while to get to the point. But isn't that the true skill of a writer. Do we writers all "pontificate" (in the British sense of the word) when we do what we do? Perhaps this blog entry is a "pontification" and if so, where do I go to get my papal garb? I always wanted a funny hat like the Pope's. Would make for great nun jokes. . .
So when people read Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek," is he the "pontiff of the United Federation of Planets?" YES! HE IS! And now that he is dead, he can be considered to be the "GOD" of said federation! And that all future writers basing their ideas in HIS micro-verse would be "pontiffs" and be considered "Trekkie Gospels according to Rick Burman or J.J. Abrams." He did create it from his imagination. So that would make me a "god" as well! Or any writer that creates a world or universe on paper or in an electronic literary medium! A micro-verse. And since I consider George Lucas to be a bit on the evil (dark) side of SciFi due to his savvy business dealings creating a false prequal to the original trilogy, then he would be the "DEVIL." Interesting. So I could say, "Gene Roddenberry is to GOD as George Lucas is to Satan." Or, depending on who you talk to, that could be reversed. Of course everyone has an opinion. So we could go like this: "Gene Roddenberry is to Book of Mormon as George Lucas is to Koran." Again, that could be reversed to, but I consider both books mentioned in the previous sentence to be neither of my personal beliefs, so no insult or political correctness was intended.
So, if we all wanted to be technical and use British vernacular to describe what we are doing as writers, we would all be Pontif's of our own micro-verses. And our pontifications would be eternal as we pontificate through our "scriptures."
I won't apologize if I bored you with my "sermon-assertion" at writer's group. **snicker**
Here ends the lesson.
The Pontiff is the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. Pontificate is the term of office of the pope or a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Pontification is a speech made by the Pope.
WARNING: The following paragraph may make your brain hurt. Read at your own risk. The author assumes no liability for tumors, aggravation, anxiety, mental defect, loss of consciousness, or other mental or physical health related issues caused the reader.
As I get older and more learn-ed about the world through various literal sources and experience, my intuitive brain makes subconscious links to information through cross-references that my cognitive brain may not understand right away. And as I continue to grow in experience, those autonomic links of information become more and more literal understandings of my cognitive recollection of information that I have not personally accessed in a deliberate attempt or by even an educated guess. In short, does this define "epiphany?" Hmmmmmm. . . get it? I shall continue this pontification.
To pontificate is not a verb, according to Miriam-Webster. I even tried to find it as a verb on wikipedia.org. Both of these sources are governed by American language authors or language authorities. English in America vs. English in Great Britain varies in mild differences of pronunciation or definitions of words. But when you look at British definitions, pontificate is a verb as well. It's not recognized as a verb in American dictionaries. But more and more Americans are adopting this definition in an effort to sound more intelligent. Somehow, we Americans seem to think that if we sound like we are British we are smarter.
Ironically, the Spanish word for "pontificate" is a noun as it is in American English and it is "el pontificado." So would the preterate form if trans-mutated into a "verbo" be "pontificar?" or would they use "pontificir or pontificer?" I hope it's an ar verb--they are easier to conjugate.
Yo pontifico
Tu pontificas
Usted pontifica
Ellos pantifican
Nosotros pantificamos
Vosotros pantificaís
In the British definition of the word, it means to speak or write and give your opinion about something as if you knew everything about it and as if only your opinion was correct.
So, Pontiff-the Pope-is the know-it-all of the Christian faith, and seeing how he is the foremost authority on all that is God and Jesus, is--by his opinion and that of his followers--the greatest authority and next to Godliness through his pontificate and his pontifications. So, when someone says that a person is pontificating, they are saying that person is a bullshitter! So the Pope is the leading bullshitter of the Christian world?
So, why was I accused of pontificating? I don't take it as an insult, because I am the end-all and be-all of the book I am writing! I was describing the bold new re-write and reconstruction of my novel at writer's group. I wanted to express how I was going to change the course of the book through a rewrite of the main character's personality. I also included a quick read of my blog entry on my theory of life-critical mass. Using my ideas about critical mass being the very nature of the universe, and how it has influenced the evolution of man, would be best described as life is a series of critical mass scenarios, followed by the consequences or the after-calm. As it is often said, after the storm settles and the dust clears, one must pick up the pieces of the aftermath.
Now, I realize that there was not real insult meant by the comment and the individual was just meaning it in jest, and if you have read my blog entries preceding this one, you can tell that I am rather long-winded. It may take a while to get to the point. But isn't that the true skill of a writer. Do we writers all "pontificate" (in the British sense of the word) when we do what we do? Perhaps this blog entry is a "pontification" and if so, where do I go to get my papal garb? I always wanted a funny hat like the Pope's. Would make for great nun jokes. . .
So when people read Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek," is he the "pontiff of the United Federation of Planets?" YES! HE IS! And now that he is dead, he can be considered to be the "GOD" of said federation! And that all future writers basing their ideas in HIS micro-verse would be "pontiffs" and be considered "Trekkie Gospels according to Rick Burman or J.J. Abrams." He did create it from his imagination. So that would make me a "god" as well! Or any writer that creates a world or universe on paper or in an electronic literary medium! A micro-verse. And since I consider George Lucas to be a bit on the evil (dark) side of SciFi due to his savvy business dealings creating a false prequal to the original trilogy, then he would be the "DEVIL." Interesting. So I could say, "Gene Roddenberry is to GOD as George Lucas is to Satan." Or, depending on who you talk to, that could be reversed. Of course everyone has an opinion. So we could go like this: "Gene Roddenberry is to Book of Mormon as George Lucas is to Koran." Again, that could be reversed to, but I consider both books mentioned in the previous sentence to be neither of my personal beliefs, so no insult or political correctness was intended.
So, if we all wanted to be technical and use British vernacular to describe what we are doing as writers, we would all be Pontif's of our own micro-verses. And our pontifications would be eternal as we pontificate through our "scriptures."
I won't apologize if I bored you with my "sermon-assertion" at writer's group. **snicker**
Here ends the lesson.
Complacency, comment I made on Facebook
This was in response to a comment my mother made on her facebook, citing comments made by Bill Cosby on the state of social acceptability and education in our country.
"Just like when I hear people in America using British vernacular because they think they are educated by doing so. It's so phony. Or when a French Horn student in a PRIVATE UNIVERSITY ON SCHOLARSHIP has a double horn and don't know what the thumb trigger is for, or what note a C major scale starts with. Or the strung out black woman peeing in the corner by the front door of AM/PM down the street from PLU--late at night. I cringe at the very existence of complacency. And we live in the--once--most powerful and wealthy nation on the planet. But, unfortunately, this is the new world we live in. Hurray for literacy! I just hope that there will be enough people that know how to read or do math without the aid of a machine in ten years. If not, then I think we are a dying breed Mom! Bill Cosby is a personal hero. He calls it like it is. You should hear what he has to say about Obama. And Cosby is a very balanced debater. He doesn't just see the negative in everything, and he does offer up solutions. Unfortunately, those solutions are things that require time, energy equaling to work--something that laziness in people prevents. The older I get, the less tolerant I am of ignorance, rudeness, and complacency. If someone want's to bitch about the government, education, or social systems of our country, they should be able to read a ballot and write in their choices for elected office. And while they do it, show proof of VALID CITIZENSHIP. Loveyamuchly! Thank you for kicking me in the ass as a kid all those years for academics, and for instilling a love of literature through a passion for books--and not just the fun fantasy stuff but hard information. Information, knowledge are power--therefore--literacy is the strongest ammunition. Without literacy, how could a person read and understand the 2nd Amendment?"
"Just like when I hear people in America using British vernacular because they think they are educated by doing so. It's so phony. Or when a French Horn student in a PRIVATE UNIVERSITY ON SCHOLARSHIP has a double horn and don't know what the thumb trigger is for, or what note a C major scale starts with. Or the strung out black woman peeing in the corner by the front door of AM/PM down the street from PLU--late at night. I cringe at the very existence of complacency. And we live in the--once--most powerful and wealthy nation on the planet. But, unfortunately, this is the new world we live in. Hurray for literacy! I just hope that there will be enough people that know how to read or do math without the aid of a machine in ten years. If not, then I think we are a dying breed Mom! Bill Cosby is a personal hero. He calls it like it is. You should hear what he has to say about Obama. And Cosby is a very balanced debater. He doesn't just see the negative in everything, and he does offer up solutions. Unfortunately, those solutions are things that require time, energy equaling to work--something that laziness in people prevents. The older I get, the less tolerant I am of ignorance, rudeness, and complacency. If someone want's to bitch about the government, education, or social systems of our country, they should be able to read a ballot and write in their choices for elected office. And while they do it, show proof of VALID CITIZENSHIP. Loveyamuchly! Thank you for kicking me in the ass as a kid all those years for academics, and for instilling a love of literature through a passion for books--and not just the fun fantasy stuff but hard information. Information, knowledge are power--therefore--literacy is the strongest ammunition. Without literacy, how could a person read and understand the 2nd Amendment?"
Friday, July 5, 2013
Government corruptions affects what you eat and feed to your children.
I'm not sure if I entirely believe in "secret agendas" of ASPCA and other organizations that run animal shelters. I've been seeing a lot of posts by animal breeders here on Facebook that claim that if the ASPCA had its way, they would make it so that humans couldn't own animals. I think that is a pretty wild accusation that isn't based in reality. I do believe, however, that there are legislators that would like to change how rabbits are bred, and that if the rules were changed or made into laws, that it would fundamentally destroy ARBA in Washington State. How this would happed is by tampering with breeder's purse strings--how else. It's like anything else that Washington State taxes so they can add more money for earmarking and misappropriate as they always do. What Olympia legislators want to do is to change how rabbits are viewed by society and the government at large. They want to classify rabbits as "pets" and not be used for agricultural purposes, such as human consumption. The United States is the only country in the world that does not recognize rabbit as a form of meat production.
I've read articles about how chefs from abroad have come to the US looking for sources of rabbit to use in their menu. There is a growing desire in American society for rabbit to be included in the menus of fine dining establishments but there are no suppliers producing large enough quantities.
There are benefits all across the board for using rabbits as livestock. They virtually cost less money to raise than chickens or water foul and have a meat that is very similar. They are also the most lean meat that you can consume. They are easy to process and they reproduce with such regularity that their numbers can be produced more radically than chickens or other livestock. They can be processed much more quickly from birth than chickens. Rabbits are not just great pets for the family, but a food source that anyone can raise for virtually nothing out of pocket because rabbits eat very little, can eat hay or grass, produce larger litters of kits, and their pelts can be used for a variety of industries.
In times of economic struggle--which seems to be never-ending in our lives and there is no hope of a speedy recovery--small farmers find themselves unable to sell their produce or meats because of entities like the FDA. It all has to do with the value of the once mighty US Dollar and the taxes that our state and federal government want to generate by lying to you about the "evil" of whole milk verses pasteurized milk from a cow that has been genetically modified through the hybrid grain it's being fed while she's tied in a pen where she cannot move and spend most of her life in on a corporate farm. The same farms that are paid to overproduce or under-produce while the local farms are struggling to pay their mortgages and are forced into selling out to the larger corporations. This kind of behavior is being done to manipulate world markets through commodities.
Our country has been about wasteful spending of our money and our future generations' money (those that haven't been born to even earn it yet) and continues to spend money that doesn't even exist in reality. Politicians would have you believe that their jobs are so important by justifying them through the pork barrel spending that they have "sworn to stop doing."
So the point of this post is to redirect those who would point the finger in the wrong direction. Animal shelters are not the evil ne'erdowells here. It's your home-grown politicians who see your money in your wallet that you earned as their money to bath in and play around with. Funny thing is that the money in your wallet and in their coffers is worth ZERO. There isn't enough gold in the whole of Planet Earth to back it and the only thing that is are empty political promises that reek deception.
Our country is using our own people against one another to further its existence through corruption. Everyone should buy their produce, milk, meat, and eggs from local farms. Buy meat rabbits and eat food that is far more healthier than that you would by from your local corporate grocer. Why should we continue to support corruption in government by continuing to play into their trap. Keep your dollars and cents in your local businesses and farms. And when the time comes, don't vote rabbits to be "pets" but rather tell politicians that they are livestock. Keeping them as livestock prevents them from being animals that are found in shelters like cats and dogs. Rabbits can be pets for those who chose to keep them as pets. Let the rest of us use them for their intended purpose in nature.
In con-conclusion, if there is a way for people like you are me to make a living that is healthy, benefits ourselves and others, and cuts out big corporate farms that provide political campaign monies through lobbyists, you can guarantee that there will be laws set to prevent it or punish us through money or prison time.
I've read articles about how chefs from abroad have come to the US looking for sources of rabbit to use in their menu. There is a growing desire in American society for rabbit to be included in the menus of fine dining establishments but there are no suppliers producing large enough quantities.
There are benefits all across the board for using rabbits as livestock. They virtually cost less money to raise than chickens or water foul and have a meat that is very similar. They are also the most lean meat that you can consume. They are easy to process and they reproduce with such regularity that their numbers can be produced more radically than chickens or other livestock. They can be processed much more quickly from birth than chickens. Rabbits are not just great pets for the family, but a food source that anyone can raise for virtually nothing out of pocket because rabbits eat very little, can eat hay or grass, produce larger litters of kits, and their pelts can be used for a variety of industries.
In times of economic struggle--which seems to be never-ending in our lives and there is no hope of a speedy recovery--small farmers find themselves unable to sell their produce or meats because of entities like the FDA. It all has to do with the value of the once mighty US Dollar and the taxes that our state and federal government want to generate by lying to you about the "evil" of whole milk verses pasteurized milk from a cow that has been genetically modified through the hybrid grain it's being fed while she's tied in a pen where she cannot move and spend most of her life in on a corporate farm. The same farms that are paid to overproduce or under-produce while the local farms are struggling to pay their mortgages and are forced into selling out to the larger corporations. This kind of behavior is being done to manipulate world markets through commodities.
Our country has been about wasteful spending of our money and our future generations' money (those that haven't been born to even earn it yet) and continues to spend money that doesn't even exist in reality. Politicians would have you believe that their jobs are so important by justifying them through the pork barrel spending that they have "sworn to stop doing."
So the point of this post is to redirect those who would point the finger in the wrong direction. Animal shelters are not the evil ne'erdowells here. It's your home-grown politicians who see your money in your wallet that you earned as their money to bath in and play around with. Funny thing is that the money in your wallet and in their coffers is worth ZERO. There isn't enough gold in the whole of Planet Earth to back it and the only thing that is are empty political promises that reek deception.
Our country is using our own people against one another to further its existence through corruption. Everyone should buy their produce, milk, meat, and eggs from local farms. Buy meat rabbits and eat food that is far more healthier than that you would by from your local corporate grocer. Why should we continue to support corruption in government by continuing to play into their trap. Keep your dollars and cents in your local businesses and farms. And when the time comes, don't vote rabbits to be "pets" but rather tell politicians that they are livestock. Keeping them as livestock prevents them from being animals that are found in shelters like cats and dogs. Rabbits can be pets for those who chose to keep them as pets. Let the rest of us use them for their intended purpose in nature.
In con-conclusion, if there is a way for people like you are me to make a living that is healthy, benefits ourselves and others, and cuts out big corporate farms that provide political campaign monies through lobbyists, you can guarantee that there will be laws set to prevent it or punish us through money or prison time.
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