Author: Portfolioso


Google – A Bunch of Jokers


Got an email from Google yesterday saying that they reached a settlement for being an asshole about privacy with the Google Buzz launch in February. So a bunch of people sued them and now the case has been settled. According to the email:

Google has committed $8.5 million to an independent fund, most of which will support organizations promoting privacy education and policy on the web. We will also do more to educate people about privacy controls specific to Buzz.

Just to be clear, this is not a settlement in which people who use Gmail can file to receive compensation. Everyone in the U.S. who uses Gmail is included in the settlement, unless you personally decide to opt out before December 6, 2010.

So what’s the point of this? Bunch of legal mumbo jumbo. Seriously, if there’s nothing in it for me, I don’t give a shit – give money to whoever you want. Then there’s the option to opt out. Opt out of what? It’s not like I could have gotten anything anyway. “Excuse me Google, I opt out of you being forced to pay $8.5 million to a bunch of privacy organizations” How does that make any sense at all? Fuckin joke.

So Wait… How am I Still Living?


LONDON (Reuters) – Alcohol is a more dangerous drug than both crack and heroin when the combined harms to the user and to others are assessed, British scientists said Monday.

Presenting a new scale of drug harm that rates the damage to users themselves and to wider society, the scientists rated alcohol the most harmful overall and almost three times as harmful as cocaine or tobacco. According to the scale, devised by a group of scientists including Britain’s Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs (ISCD) and an expert adviser to the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), heroin and crack cocaine rank as the second and third most harmful drugs.

Drugs were then scored out of 100, with 100 given to the most harmful drug and zero indicating no harm at all. The scientists found alcohol was most harmful, with a score of 72, followed by heroin with 55 and crack with 54. Among some of the other drugs assessed were crystal meth (33), cocaine (27), tobacco (26), amphetamine or speed (23), cannabis (20), benzodiazepines, such as Valium (15), ketamine (15), methadone (14), mephedrone (13), ecstasy (9), anabolic steroids (9), LSD (7) and magic mushrooms (5).

Welp, good thing I graduated college. How I made it out alive I will never know.

Today, I Voted For…


Fucking nobody.

That’s right. I hate politicians. I hate government. I hate bureaucracy. I hate paying taxes to assholes who get nothing done, add more restrictions on everything by the second and make this country less free. I hate the shitty infrastructure in this backwards ass country – roads and bridges falling apart, yet the tolls are upwards of $6 each way with thousands of people passing every day (fucking MTA).

And if you say that I’m a bad American or I have no right to complain about bad politicians if I didn’t vote at all, fuck off. It’s a free country and I don’t have to vote. Why should I vote? If my choices are between one huge asshole and a lesser asshole, either way we’re fucked, so what does it matter. You get a disaster like George W. Bush fucking shit up for 8 years bombing empty caves like a douchebag and then Obama comes in trying to clean up all that stupidity with more utter stupidity that just costs even more taxpayer dollars.

Political parties are pathetic. They were designed in the 1700s when people were too stupid to know anything and no one had any transportation. Everything is Democrat this and Republican that. To hell with all of that! How about “this person is genuinely smart” vs. “this joker sucks balls?” The problem with politics is the two parties fighting. If you took all of that energy and put it into fixing up stupid shit, things might actually be half decent. And if you’re in some other weirdo party, you’ll get like 7 votes tops.

Next issue. Money. We all know the only person who wins is the richest/ or the one who spends the most campaigning. I don’t care how good you are – if no on heard of you because you don’t have big bucks or corporations paying for your campaign, you lose.

New York is completely fucked. Complete trainwreck up in Albany right now. You have a blind man who does nothing. Then you have a senate that just screams at each other all day. Then you have a crazy assed mafia bro who hates gays running versus some other moron who’s only popular because of his father. I love New York to death, but 98% of it is useless anyway. Like it’s common sense that if you don’t live in Westchester or the city, you live in the fucking boonies (forget Long Island peeps, they’re in their own world). Upstate, it may be nice, but it’s depressed as hell and no one should ever live there except for getaway summer vacation houses in the trees/mountains/lakes whatever.

PS – Thank CHRIST this election is over. I’m sick of people shoving campaign flyers up my ass everywhere I walk -train stations, subway stations, Grand Central, the streets, the parks, lobbies of office buildings. Go AWAY and stop killing trees with that shit.

PPS – This guy makes sense. It’s basic trickle down theory. Hey anyone lowring rent in my books is a good man. Mo money fo me.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4o-TeMHys0


Riots on the streets of… San Francisco


Seriously San Francisco? Your baseball wins the World Series and you peeps go batshit crazy rioting in the streets? I never knew they liked baseball. I thought California was all about movies, weed and gays.

Seriously though I was rooting for SF because it’s a better place than reeneck assed Texas. I mean, what if Texas had won? Would have been shotguns, pickup trucks, cow tipping and murders. Then George W. Bush would have done a few lines with Ron Washington and Josh Hamilton.

One last thing. The Giants made the Rangers look like shit, yet the Rangers beat the crap out of the Yankees. Didn’t the Giants make the playoffs on the last day of the seaaon? They have like thirty no name 40 year olds hitting .200 Oh well – congrats.

PS – do you know how time consuming it was to post this and paste that link from Android? Jeez!

Fuckin Enjoyyyyy


I win. Now on to the gigabit router, 100MBPS was so 2004…