Category: Teh St00pid, it Burns

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And Microsoft Inches Further Into Irrelevancy

From MacWorld:

When Microsoft updated Office 2011 for Mac for Mountain Lion late last month, Retina display users quickly noticed that Outlook was the only app to receive updated Retina graphics. One user described the remaining Office apps as "very blurry and tough on the eyes" on the new Retina Macbook Pro. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Microsoft plans a fix anytime soon, as a response from the Office for Mac Team explained Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will continue to run in the same resolution as on non-Retina Macs:

Outlook for Mac 2011 already supports Retina Display and the remaining apps will have the same viewing quality as on any non-Retina device. Unfortunately at this time, we cannot comment on any future updates regarding supporting Retina on Word, Excel or PowerPoint… Hope that helps!

 

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I'm Getting REALLY Tired of the Stupidity

The head of HR sent me an email this morning stating that since I use my car occasionally to travel between our two offices I need to supply them with proof of insurance.

I copied my insurance card and emailed it to her.

She wrote back and said, "That card is expired. Do you have a more recent one?"

I wrote back and told her to look again. (BTW, I've removed all identifying information from this screen shot, but everything was on the one I sent her.)

I WORK WITH FUCKING IDIOTS!

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Perkins: Google Trying to "Destroy" Values with Gay Rights Initiative, Should Expect "Blow Back"

Ugh. Will it never stop?

So… the usual suspects are at it again, threatening a boycott of a gay-friendly company. I mean seriously…how do these people look themselves in the mirror each morning with so much hate festering in their shriveled little hearts?  And um…how exactly does a boycott of Google (a free service) work? Are they going to refuse to look stuff up on the Internet? Are they going to delete their free GMail accounts?

Not that the Bible-humping…er…thumping crowd was ever terribly bright to begin with, but seriously, they're going to boycott an Internet search engine?  What's next, a boycott of gifs? jpegs?

I'm actually kind of surprised Miss Perkins even knows the definition of blow back; at least not in any usage other than, "If I blow you, will you blow back?"

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Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Whoopsie!

From Joe.My.God.:

GOP legislators in Louisiana have realized to their horror that their bill to provide vouchers for private religious schools can actually be used by Muslims.

Rep. Valarie Hodges, a Republican who represents East Baton Rouge and Livingston, now says she wishes she hadn't voted for the Jindal voucher bill. "I actually support funding for teaching the fundamentals of America's Founding Fathers' religion, which is Christianity, in public schools or private schools," Hodges told the Livingston Parish News. "I liked the idea of giving parents the option of sending their children to a public school or a Christian school," Hodges added. The newspaper reported that she "mistakenly assumed that 'religious' meant 'Christian.'" "Unfortunately it will not be limited to the Founders' religion," Hodges told the News. "We need to insure that it does not open the door to fund radical Islam schools. There are a thousand Muslim schools that have sprung up recently. I do not support using public funds for teaching Islam anywhere here in Louisiana."

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State writes:

Some legislators aren't comfortable funding Muslim schools. What's to be done? How about not establishing these programs in the first place? Let Muslims fund Muslim schools. Let Catholics fund Catholics ones. Let fundamentalist Protestants pay for the conservative Christian academies and so on.

The law has already gone into effect and provides for no state oversight regarding curriculums or educational standards.

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Forget Fright-Wing Politics

If you want to fall down a rabbit hole and see extreme paranoia and unchecked mental illness on display, go to YouTube and simply search for "NASA coverup" or "UFO" anything and you will see it in all it's pathetic, wretched glory. Especially in the links to other videos.

This country has a serious mental health problem on its hands.

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I Wonder…

…if what I feel when I see this is anything like what the Romans felt as they watched their civilization collapse.

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Another Lesson in Fucked Logic

Why is it that all the elevators at my office are set to "rest" on the uppermost floor first thing in the morning (when people are arriving at work) and then "rest" on the lobby level in the afternoon (when people are leaving)?

If it's to encourage stair use, it ain't working.

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GEORGE TIERNEY OF GREENVILLE, SC

From Bill in Exile:

Soooooo apparently one Mr. George Tierney of Greenville South Carolina has a sad.

See, George Tierney of Greenville South Carolina decided to go on the Twitter machine and attack Sandra Fluke—calling her a cunt and telling her that she needs to shut her "dick sucker" in a series of tweats directed at Ms. Fluke.

Sandra immediately re-tweated, to her 36,000 followers, Mr. George Tierney of Greenville South Carolina's tweat to her {apparently Mr. George Tierney of Greenville South Carolina was unaware that Twitter is not a private form of communication, but rather a public forum} and the brilliant TBogg picked up on the exchange yesterday, published it on his blog over at FDL and re-tweated it to his followers whereupon the haplessly dim, potty-mouthed misogynist named George Tierney of Greenville South Carolina soon found his name plastered all over Teh Google, at which point Internet hilarity ensued.

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It's the Hypocrisy, Stupid.

Republicans may be evil, but they're most certainly not evil geniuses.

From AMERICAblog:

The Republican National Committee (RNC) used a call center based in the Philippines to hold a media conference attacking President Obama's economic record, the Chicago Sun-Times reported today. The RNC didn't help its image by pointing out that the call was run by Verizon.

CWA Chief of Staff Ron Collins, who began his career in a Maryland-based Verizon call center, summed up RNC's move this way:

"It's hard to imagine anything more hypocritical than the RNC making calls about U.S. unemployment from a Verizon foreign call center."

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Seriously?

Hey Jasem, do this: close your laptop, put everything back in the box, and return it to the store where your purchased it. If you can't figure out how to plug in an Apple laptop, you have no business using any technology whatsoever.

Apple has made this about as easy as possible, short of providing a full-time assistant to plug it in for you.

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Oblivious to the Irony

This douchenozzle is completely oblivious to the irony of what he's spewing. (Emphasis mine.)

"We are commanded to spread the gospel for the salvation of many. I know this hasn't been a big part of Jimmy Carter's life. But it remains the unequivocal, central role of the Christian in the world. We're not supposed to just live and let live—because to do that actually means death for those we don't confront with their sin and the salvation message. [snip] This is why I call Jimmy Carter a truly evil person. He still tries to masquerade as a Christian, though his views are increasingly heretical if not those of an apostate. Jesus says when judgment day comes, there will be some He turns away, even though they claim to have prophesied in His name." ~ Three-time Just For Men Beard & Mustache gold medalist and World Nut Daily founder Joseph Farah, writing about Jimmy Carter's recent endorsement of same-sex marriage.

This is coming from the same type of ignorant, hateful bigots who were claiming that Jimmy Carter was the fucking Antichrist when he won the Presidency back in '76.

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"Christians are a Persecuted Minority in This Country"

Really?

Persecuted?

Minority?!?

I was greeted by this blaring from a radio in a parked SUV when I arrived at work today. I didn't see the owner, but I have a pretty good idea of who it was based on the ratio of bible-verses vs. work related items posted in certain cubes around the office.

Minority?!? Seriously?

I am so tired of this bullshit, and the critically misinformed, low-information voters who lap it up.

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Worst Customer Service EVER

I'm starting to understand why so many people say they hate their cell phone companies.

I've had Verizon service in one form or another for about two years, and except for having to jump through hoops to get my cell modem and iPhone put on a single account when I first got the iPhone, I really haven't had any problem with them.

That is, until this week.

When I lived in Phoenix, I got decent 3G coverage from my cell modem and was happy with it. Since moving to Denver, however, it's been next to useless. Since I'm locked into the contract on the modem for another six months and had to pay for it anyway, I sent it to my dad, hoping could get some use out of it (he was still on dial-up).

We started getting 4G mobile hotspots at work for several of our on-the-go users and I've been very impressed with the lil' buggers. 4G service in Denver is excellent, so I finally broke down and ordered one online from Verizon a week ago to replace the cell modem. The device was free with a new 2-year contract, so it was kind of a no-brainer.

I've had to activate enough of the things by now to know it's a very simple matter. That's why I knew I was in trouble when I called the activation number and was immediately transferred to customer support.

Apparently they'd sent out a SIM card with a number that couldn't be activated. The lame excuse I go from the rep was "Since we started selling the iPhone we've had a lot of bad numbers come across." Really. REALLY?

He said he would overnight a new SIM card and made me go through the motions of accepting a new agreement.  That should have been the first red flag.

Yesterday I went online to check my balance and discovered that I now had four lines.  Not only did I have the expected lines for my iPhone and my 3G modem, I had two additional lines, one for the SIM card that couldn't be activated as well as a fourth line for what I assumed was the new SIM that had yet to arrive.  (It turns out the rep lied or was flat out clueless. The card had been sent out two day Fedex, not overnight.)

The new SIM was waiting at home last night when I arrived.  Once again I called the number to activate, and once again was immediately transferred to customer service.

At that point, Ben took the phone from me and acted on my behalf, letting loose on the rep.  It's a good thing he did; I might've had a stroke if I had to deal with the amount of outright stupid on the other end of the line that he did.

Apparently the jerk I'd spoken to two nights earlier didn't know what the fuck he was doing.  What a surprise. In the land of Verizon, the SIM cards are (for whatever reason) tied to the devices they're shipped with and the idiot didn't know or didn't care.  He should've sent out a new hotspot and SIM, not just a SIM.  Idiot. Ben was told that in order to clear this up, and get the extra lines removed from my account everything would have to be mailed back.  Again, the rep didn't have a clue how to handle this other than to read from her script. We were getting nowhere.

At this point, I got on my cell and called the local Verizon store, asking them if they could sort out the mess.  They said it wouldn't be a problem and to bring everything in.

After dinner we drove to the mall and got everything fixed. I left with a activated, working MiFi, and only one additional line on my account (as it was supposed to be from the beginning).

Lessons learned: never ever order anything from Verizon online. GO INTO THE STORE. Secondly, don't ever bother with their phone support. It SUCKS.

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Michelle Bachmann: Still a Stupid Cunt

From Alexandra Petri at the Washington Post:

Jane Schmidt, a student at Waverly High School, in Waverly, Iowa, recently asked Michele Bachmann, "Why can't same-sex couples get married?"

"They can get married," Bachmann responded, "but they abide by the same law as everyone else. They can marry a man if they're a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they're a man."

(In Iowa, same-sex marriage is the law, at least for now, but never mind that.)

She later expanded on this in a response to someone else: "Every American citizen has the right to avail themselves to marriage but they have to follow what the laws are. And the laws are you marry a person of the opposite sex."

Really?

This is the sound of a thousand heads hitting a thousand desks.

I'm glad Bachmann wasn't there for history. "Why can't Rosa Parks sit at the front of the bus?"

"She can sit," Bachmann would say. "She can sit at the back of the bus."

I'm glad she isn't my waiter. "Is there a vegetarian option?"

"The vegetarian option is steak," Bachmann would say, not blinking an eye.

"Is there a way for people in wheel chairs to access the sixth floor?"

"There's a way. They can take the stairs," Bachmann would say, still not blinking.

"There doesn't seem to be an option for Republicans to vote."

"Republicans can vote. They can vote Democrat like everyone else," Bachmann would say, blinking a little in confusion.

"I'd like to find a synagogue."

"There's a synagogue right here," Bachmann would say. "It's a church."

"Do you have apples?"

"Yes, I have oranges."

At first Bachmann's remark seemed like a peculiar thing to say, coming on the heels of her sensible remark that, "I think we have forgotten what true tolerance means. True tolerance means allowing people to express themselves and their beliefs."

But then it made sense.

As Bachmann would say, "We allow you to express different beliefs. You can express different beliefs that agree with us."

I'm glad she's here to keep things straight.

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This…

…is why people like Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry and that cunt from Wasilla think they can be president.  And why the rest of us should be terribly worried that they will.