Why the f does everything have to suck so much.

I *hate* companies.

I want to destroy something.

F AT&T. F Apple.

I just heard my voice (filtered through the telephone and streaming radio), and I sound really weird.

Every time I finally find an app that functions as a radio alarm clock, Apple destroys it by requiring that it cannot work if the screen is turned off.

Apparently Apple hates radio. I wish I could think of something sufficiently karmic to happen to the person who has determined that radio alarm clocks shouldn't be allowed to work, but I can't, so I'll just have to wish for them to be publicly humiliated and repeatedly have their hands broken with hammers.

Edit: now that I'm no longer livid with rage, I take back the hammers. Humiliation is still required.

Apropos of nothing, my solution to small businesses that don't want to cater to gay weddings.

Let them not cater. Do you really want the photographer of your wedding to be performing under duress?

Instead, make the law something along these lines:

any owner-operator business smaller than a certain criteria (like, less than 10 employees, only one branch, something like that) where the owner-operator (not an employee, but the actual small business owner) has a religious objection to gay marriage may choose to not provide services to a gay wedding, provided the following are true: at the initial meeting, or first contact, or whatever, the business owner states *up-front* that they prefer not to be involved with gay weddings; and that upon request they must provide a list of, say, the three closest equivalent businesses which do work with gay couples. These businesses *must* be of the same caliber as the small business which is declining to help with the gay wedding, and *must* be not too far away, either in distance or cost. If, for some reason, the business owner feels that such other purveyors of service do not exist, they must apply for an exemption from this requirement, listing all of the local businesses in their sector and why they are not sufficient.

In this day and age, why are we still prohibited from even carrying our electronic devices with us to a court house? Require it to be off and kept off on pain of a fee or something, but not even able to carry it with me!?

Yes, this joke is in terribly bad taste. Yes, I'm probably un-American since I find it funny. But still...

And Mohammed Atta, the leader of the World Trade Center attack team, had a degree in architecture. I've seen this factoid used to explain that the attack wasn't actually an act of terrorism; it was an act of artistic criticism. Atta was destroying what he and many others considered the ugliest blot on the New York City skyline.

That's by jc42 from this SlashDot thread, and it is a heck of a lot funnier in context.

From Tom Stoppard's play, "India Ink":

Dilip: You have to understand that begging is a profession. Like dentistry. Like shining shoes. It's a service. Every so often, you need to get a tooth filled, or your shoes shined, or to give alms. So when a beggar presents himself to you, you have to ask yourself — do I need a beggar today? If you do, give him alms. If you don't, don't.

This morning, while waking up, I tried to connect to some of my Samba servers, and started panicking when I was getting no response.

Waking up further, I realized that of course, since I wasn't inside the firewall, I wouldn't be able to connect.

Of course, waking up even more, I realized that no matter whether I was inside the firewall or not, I have never been able to connect to a Samba server without a computer, and that I could interrupt the process without possibly locking me up entirely because I'm massively more parallel, and don't suffer from the same kind of issues with filesystem confusion.

And then I finally woke up and realized that my brain doesn't have a filesystem.

I really want to like Never Mind the Buzzcocks, but really, since Mark Lamarr left, it has gone way downhill.