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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

I get that all the time. Assume too much, and you will get told where to go. I don't care what everybody else wants. I know what I want and it hasn't been designed or invented yet.
 
zuben el genub said:
I get that all the time. Assume too much, and you will get told where to go. I don't care what everybody else wants. I know what I want and it hasn't been designed or invented yet.
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As far as things go with things that haven't been designed or invented yet, look to Big Data. According to sociologists, data corporations are adopting a hive mentality, believing that if their employees all work toward one common goal, good things will happen. So much for id and ego, and other things that make individuals visionaries. Data outfits like Akamai have changed the rules at Facebook, where people are fleeing left and right - yep, it's MySpace all over again. I've closed my accounts at Google for the same reason, since the privacy policies changed. My email account is encrypted now. My Facebook page is now a promo page for my music, where I don't have to 'friend' anyone; all people have to do is click 'Like'. Everyone should be worried about some things that haven't been designed or invented yet; when it comes to Big Data, they make NSA surveillance (in the United States) look pretty tame for 'average Joes & Janes'. Unless one decides to visit Al Qaeda websites ("Jeez, Agent, I was only doing a book report!")... enough written. That really grinds my gears. No offense to zuben el genub in this post. (zuben be groovin') :)

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I doubt that. I want total control of my stuff, and that's exactly what big data doesn't want. FB will never add an "eff off" button. You can't sell me stuff I'm not interested in.

I worked in marketing and the boss and buyers flat out said that if most were like me, nothing would be sold. It has to have over a 75% benefit for me to be even interested.

Kids studying Civics years ago got visited for getting copies of the "Daily Worker" so what's new?
 
zuben el genub said:
I doubt that. I want total control of my stuff, and that's exactly what big data doesn't want. FB will never add an "eff off" button. You can't sell me stuff I'm not interested in.

I worked in marketing and the boss and buyers flat out said that if most were like me, nothing would be sold. It has to have over a 75% benefit for me to be even interested.

Kids studying Civics years ago got visited for getting copies of the "Daily Worker" so what's new?
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We can agree to disagree. I've been around computers since the Apple II. Times have changed. When a CERN scientist developed the World Wide Web (1988-89), no one foresaw the digital zoo that would be created. I've got Ghostery, and many other extensions to stop 3rd-party data collection in my laptop running Win 8. What really grinds my gears? When corporations can have the same rights as individuals, and people are at the corporate controls doing things that are driven by greed. It's a really sad time to be alive, because for every person that performs unsavory corporate practices and gets caught, there are thousands that don't get caught - and they continue. I guess I feel the way that I do due to growing up between the 1960s and 70s, and inside my chest - there lies a heart that is decidedly Bohemian. Good comments though, zuben :) And, no - Facebook is too politically-correct to have an F.O. radio button.



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Even if they collect it, I still won't buy it. Bug me and you are listed as a spammer and auto-deleted. I don't use VM, it's disabled, and with the phone giving you the number, I can check before I answer. There are places that record spam numbers. I'm the account holder so I get the crap. If you can't get to me, force me to open snail mail, answer the phone or even watch an ad, it avails you naught.

If you, as a neighbor, cannot barge into my house and tell me how to clean, raise kids, or whatever, then if corporations are "people" they don't have the right, either, as far as I'm concerned. Since people have started minding everyone else's business, they see no problem. That outlook is what I find worrying. I learned to say "none of your business" in elementary school. School would complain to parents, parents just said if I didn't want to tell, even trying to beat it out of me wouldn't work. If I think it's gossip, I don't repeat or tell. None of my business.

We had Apple IIe in the design lab. I cross platformed using W98SE. I can use most of Adobe's programs, and having started with PS3, can still do a lot of manual editing.
I can take and sarcastically parody any printed ad and use it as a screen saver on my devices. This is also why I don't give a darn about the OS on any device except for what apps can I get, and what services can I get rid of? The apps are more important. If Palm reissued the Treo, I'd buy it. I just don't want to carry 2 devices and a load of books on a hike.
 
I LOVE solicitation phone callers!!!! I have fun messing with them.. If you make it a competition as to who can freak them out the most it's a laugh down riot! Sometimes when we see it's a 800 number calling we all dive for the phone.. Purely for the ships and giggles! :p
 
zuben el genub said:
Even if they collect it, I still won't buy it. Bug me and you are listed as a spammer and auto-deleted. I don't use VM, it's disabled, and with the phone giving you the number, I can check before I answer. There are places that record spam numbers. I'm the account holder so I get the crap. If you can't get to me, force me to open snail mail, answer the phone or even watch an ad, it avails you naught.

If you, as a neighbor, cannot barge into my house and tell me how to clean, raise kids, or whatever, then if corporations are "people" they don't have the right, either, as far as I'm concerned. Since people have started minding everyone else's business, they see no problem. That outlook is what I find worrying. I learned to say "none of your business" in elementary school. School would complain to parents, parents just said if I didn't want to tell, even trying to beat it out of me wouldn't work. If I think it's gossip, I don't repeat or tell. None of my business.

We had Apple IIe in the design lab. I cross platformed using W98SE. I can use most of Adobe's programs, and having started with PS3, can still do a lot of manual editing.
I can take and sarcastically parody any printed ad and use it as a screen saver on my devices. This is also why I don't give a darn about the OS on any device except for what apps can I get, and what services can I get rid of? The apps are more important. If Palm reissued the Treo, I'd buy it. I just don't want to carry 2 devices and a load of books on a hike.
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I understand how you feel. If you're a user of social media, however, without the browser extensions and experience (like you have) that I mentioned, you will scrutinized by 3rd party d's until the cows come home. Big Data gets what they want from them. Have you ever been to any restaurant or coffee shop that provides free wi-fi? A couple of surreptitious looks, and a computer becomes part of an ad-hoc network just long enough to be key-copied, and goodbye identity. All I was saying is that the digital zoo - and, Big Data - can be harmful to regular, center-punch computer users. That really grinds my gears. People like us are more prepared. And, yes - an F.O. apk would be welcome, replete with the middle finger, and a JoeCartoon-style fade-out, Bearsyszf. May zuben - and all of you - have good week.



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jtc303 said:
Its Shaws of all places... May have a talk with the branch manager next time I go
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They just closed the Shaws in one of my areas.:( They had a red placard that said "Cheese Only" on the wall above the slicer.

My guess, lazy employees at the end of their shift had already cleaned the cheese slicer and figured WTF, they won't notice.:rolleyes:
 
Unforgiven said:
They just closed the Shaws in one of my areas.:( They had a red placard that said "Cheese Only" on the wall above the slicer.

My guess, lazy employees at the end of their shift had already cleaned the cheese slicer and figured WTF, they won't notice.:rolleyes:
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Exactly, which, no offense to anyone here, is probably why they're stuck cutting meat at Shaws for a living... Lack of care and attention to detail.
 
I've had the same thing happen in sandwich places, they cut someone elses sandwich in half then make and cut yours and you get whatever the previous person had on yours. usually not too bad except there is one place where they have bottles of vinegar and some kind of oil so you get nasty soggy bread.
I haven't ate there since I walked in one day and the employee came out from behind with the meat they were cutting in in their hands and a lit cigarette in their mouth. The company sent me a couple free sandwich coupons but i never went back.
 
Unforgiven said:
They just closed the Shaws in one of my areas.:( They had a red placard that said "Cheese Only" on the wall above the slicer.

My guess, lazy employees at the end of their shift had already cleaned the cheese slicer and figured WTF, they won't notice.:rolleyes:
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Go to a Kosher deli then. That would be a big no-no.
 
Eugene said:
I've had the same thing happen in sandwich places, they cut someone elses sandwich in half then make and cut yours and you get whatever the previous person had on yours. usually not too bad except there is one place where they have bottles of vinegar and some kind of oil so you get nasty soggy bread.
I haven't ate there since I walked in one day and the employee came out from behind with the meat they were cutting in in their hands and a lit cigarette in their mouth. The company sent me a couple free sandwich coupons but i never went back.
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I remember one sandwich shop where the employees would talk smack about the customers right to their faces. As if the lot of us were deaf and oblivious.

Maybe that doesn't sound very bad, but a well-worded rating card got two jerks fired (the manager was hoping for a good reason to let them go) and netted me three free lunches (one bought by the manager personally, to thank me for my feedback).

When you are trapped in the middle of nowhere with one sandwich shop being the least deadly, then you kinda have to eat there once in a while.
 
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