Stuff I don't like very much

On this page, I rant about stuff that bugs me, annoys me, or just plain pisses me off. The opinions on this page are my own, although it's not hard to find a lot of other people who share them.

Child Molesters

OK, so it's not that hard to hate fucking child molesters. They are absolute, inhuman, fucking scum. Any sick fuck who is so selfish that he or she would rob a child of his or her emotional heath for a few minutes of pleasure doesn't deserve to live.

However, I have a special hatred for them because I was very close to a girl who was molested. I can barely imagine the psychological torture she must have gone through. I am firmly against the death penalty, but I would not shed a tear if her abuser, the fucking asshole formerly known as my step-dad, suffers a slow and horrible death in prison.

The statistics of child abuse are staggering:

Child molesters don't stop. They may seem to respond to treatment, but as soon as they are out of prison, those desires come right back. Statistics show that 60 percent of all offenders arrested have previous convictions. The easiest way to reduce the number of victims is to increase the time offenders spend in prison.

One thing Kansas has done to keep these people off the streets is enacting the "Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators" act (K.S.A. 59-29a01). This act allows civil commitment (after release from prison) of offenders who cannot control their actions. Although prison is still a better place for them (cheaper for taxpayers for one thing), at least while they're in "treatment", they can't molest any kids.


Hendricks

The first predator to be commited under this act was Leroy Hendricks, who molested 10 children, one of whom I know personally. He had five convictions over three decades. Five! That is way too many. I believe that after two convictions, the penalty should be life inprisonment. His fifth conviction was in 1984 for molesting two 13-year-old boys. His sentence? 10 years. If he had been convicted today with the same criminal history, he would have received a minimum of 36 years.

He was recently released from Larned State Hospital to a halfway house in Lawrence, but because of a petition signed by residents, he was not allowed to move in. The state is currently looking for somewhere to dump him.

He once publicly stated that the only way he will stop molesting children is if he is dead. Maybe we can arrange that.

If you live in Wichita and want a judge who's tough on child molesters, vote for Rebecca Pilshaw (bio). She doesn't put up with bullshit, and she has no sympathy at all for these monsters. Read what she had to say to my step-dad.

For more information please visit the following links:

Myspace

The concept isn't so bad. Sign up, meet friends, enjoy.

I could tolerate it if every single page didn't look like it was designed by a colorblind 12-year-old on crack. Here's a tip: You should be able to read text on your web site. Just because an image looks good as your desktop background doesn't mean it will look good as a web page background. Background images should be low-contrast, almost a solid color. Also, fixed backgrounds are very distracting to the eye, not to mention that the browser has to re-render the entire display whenever you scroll. With a normal background, the browser can just shift the rendered image up and render only what has been exposed. Don't even get me started on animated backgrounds!

And for the sake of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, use a spell checker! You're creating a web page, not an SMS message!

Case in point:

Warning: Butt-ugly pages ahead (F = fixed background, A = animated background, U = unreadable text, S = horizontal scrolling, ! = holy fuck, that's ugly)

Note: some of these may have been updated since I wrote this.

All of the following have attempted to use my penguin wallpaper as a background by directly linking to it:
Microsoft
I hate Microsoft!

In case I haven't been absolutely clear on this point, I hate Microsoft. I hate everything about it. I got goosebumps just going to the Microsoft web site to hunt down a windows logo. Enemy territory! I couldn't find a decent logo on their site, so I eventually got one from The GUI Gallery.

Whenever I think of Microsoft, I think of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. Think about it. Their products are complete shit, but they are still used everywhere. That stupid paperclip reminds me of Eddie the Shipboard Computer: it's annoying as hell and never helpful. Windows is like the Nutrimatic machine: it claims to offer a wide selection, but always gives you the same old shit. And, if you try to make it do anything else, it locks up the entire system. MSIE? The Heart of Gold. It will take you where (presumably) you want to go, but it fucks up the universe as it travels.

What "MS" really stands for:
Some anti-Microsoft links:

Here are some Microsoft products that really piss me off:

Windows
[ Screw Windows ! ]

I hate Windows with an absolute passion. The image you see above is currently hanging on my wall, and I'm going to get it made into a t-shirt.

Don't even get me started on Vista. Vista is Microsoft's attempt to control what you do with your computer. Wanna play that video? Better have a license. And an approved video card. And an approved monitor. Wanna write a video player that plays protected video? Gotta have it approved by Big Brother Microsoft.

Suppose you buy a Vista upgrade for your computer. You see how slow it runs, so you buy a new processor and video card. Vista will complain that your hardware is different and that you are a no-good dirty low-down scum-sucking criminal trying to scam poor little Microsoft. You then have to call Microsoft and beg them to reactivate Vista. If they are the least bit suspicious, they will refuse and force you to buy another copy. This kind of activation scheme doesn't stop pirates. They just hack their way around the protection. The only people the protection hurts is legitimate users.

Things I hate about Windows:
Alternate names for Windows:
Windows XP:
Internet Explorer

Fuck Internet Explorer! Fuck it, Fuck it, FUCK IT! Internet explorer is a complete piece of shit!

Things I hate about MSIE:
Alternate names for MSIE:
Office
It looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like me to 1) bollocks it up for you or 2) just fuck off and leave you alone?

Office sucks. It's big, bloated, and its document formats are secret. Office draws it's own menus and buttons rather than relying on standard APIs, which adds to the bloat. Microsoft Word is known to have facilitated the transfer of many worms due to its macro "feature".

But by far, the worst feature of Office has to be that stupid paperclip. That thing is so annoying! It never has anything helpful to say. Office 2000 won't even shut down until that thing has finished playing its goodbye animation. The one good thing about clippy: it can be turned off.

AOL

Fortunately, I do not have any personal experience with AOL. However, you do not have to get fucked up the ass by a donkey to know that it hurts like hell.

AOL is a piece of shit. Their software is bloated, buggy, and generally redundant. AOL users are typically known as being ignorant morons.

What I don't understand are the people who have AOL High-speed. AOL is not a broadband provider. They are paying AOL 20 dollars a month on top of what their real ISP charges them. Why? (I know why, they're morons.)