Alright kiddies - this one’s set out to be a rant from the moment the spark flew from my already flaming and enraged head…
Technology is great for the most part. Everyone loves new stuff… and when technology makes things easier or simpler that’s a huge plus. But the bottom line is the God Damn shit has to work! It seems lately we’re on this path of better, cheaper, faster, need it yesterday and all it does is fuck everything up.
We are on a collision course to total revolution. Shit has to change… there must be a shift on the horizon or our country is going to be totally fucked.
What the fuck?! Is there no acount-a-fuckin-bility out there anymore?
Windows Vista - sucks. It’s not as fast most of the time, and stuff isn’t where I’m used to it being.
Office 2007 - sucks. Plainly because I can’t find anything without losing all kinds of time searching the tool bars. Other than that, I guess it’s not so bad.
Cell phones constantly fuck up, don’t get good service. I haven’t had issues lately, but I know people who have…
Software Maintenance Agreements… $4k a year - what a god damn rip off! What did we pay you $15 grand for in the first place? Shouldn’t the shit just work? But it never does. Then you call tech support and half the people working at these places don’t know as much as you do about their software! What?!!!!
New Dell PC…. Got one for work for this big deal upgrade I’m working on. The IT guy calls me in to show me this goofy ass EULA window that you can’t close. So he gets Dell on the phone and the dude walks him through getting rid of it for good, and then tells him, “oh yeah, I handle about 60 of these things a day. They just won’t fix it.”
Brand New cordless phones for my house… work fine, if you don’t mind the incredible high pitch whine coming from the ear piece the whole time it’s on!
Digital Cable… what a piece of shit this thing is. It’s always been. It’s sucked so long that I’m just used to it. Oh, well… no on-demand channels today. I don’t feel like getting up and resetting the box - again!
Ryobi gas trimmer. Broke the first day I used it. Took it in for repairs and it was in the shop for almost 3 months. When I got it back, they sent me to a room where I shit you not, there was at least 30 of these things hanging up to be fixed. I went home, I put a tiller attachment on it and that broke within 5 minutes. So I took it back and started dropping F-bombs in the middle of the store till they gave me a full refund.
JVC color TV - 5 years old. It still works, but the picture is very dark and I can’t make it better. I just inherited a brand new TV, so I’m able to chuck this one now, but keep in mind I’ve got a 1978 Zenith color TV in my vintage gaming room. It was my parents. My dad bought it so he could watch the incredible hulk turn green. That heavy wood clad bastard still turns on and works just fine!
They don’t make ‘em like they used to - that’s for sure. There’s always been exceptions to the rule, but back in the old days people made things with pride. They designed and built things for heavy duty use. The manufacturing base was strong, technology was booming and amazing strides were constantly being made.
But most importantly the shit worked! Look at how completely amazing the space program was. All the shit they pulled off in the 1960’s. Look how far things have come. In reality, even though we have more useless bull-shit, like I-phones and robot cats, it feels like we’re going backwards.
People are fucking retarded from the top down. It’s hard to expect pride and intelligence out of your workforce when the people in charge are totally lost half the time as well. But it doesn’t stop there - the workforce goes home and raises even more retarded and socially challenged children.
Oh and one more thing that’s broken and doesn’t work… Something that even in this rant I can’t muster the energy to tackle right now:
Our entire fucking political process.
