daily shriek

a little late, but i didn’t think you really cared, so whatever.

so we all know that the people opposed to the idea that human activity is to blame for climate change are only opposed to the idea because they don’t want to be inconvenienced by the changes in human behavior that would be necessary to avert calamity should that idea be definitively proven.

as proof of this, simply listen long enough to any person opposed to carbon reduction, and eventually they will say that they don’t want to have quit driving an suv.

well, a case for this can surely be made in that massive upheavals in the fuel supply will unfairly negatively on the poor, who can scarcely afford cars as it is, and will be mostly affected by job losses, etc.

and the fact that the kyoto protocol exempts china who will soon far surpass america as the number one polluter is a fact that should dampen the party quickly

but to deny the mountain of evidence that global warming exists and is most likely caused by human activity is counter-productive.

to wit, if it turns out that global warming is not caused by carbon-based fuels, and we have successfully converted over to other, cleaner sources of energy, then we will have a cleaner earth, darn. alternately, if global warming is indeed caused by the use of carbon-based fuels, and we have done nothing, we will have face the consequences in the full knowledge that we did nothing to prevent it, and that feeling of shame will probably include the guilt for all sort of ills.

so can we please just quit kidding ourselves and start working toward a cleaner safer world, one in which our entire economy is enslaved to the finite supply of underground petroleum?

just a thought.

so apparently best buy geek squad technicians are developing a reputation for swiping porn, music files, etc from off of the customer computers that they are assigned to fix.

As part of the operation to catch a technician stealing files from a customer’s computer, consumer-advocate blogger Ben Popken loaded a PC with porn and screen capture software before taking it along to several Geek Squad stores. He then videoed the entire incident

i don’t know how it could possibly come as any surprise that geeks are going snag your tunes and your pr0n when they have your pc in their hands.

link from el reg

oh my god

i still am feeling the effects of the booze i drank all day saturday, and to top it off, i was LATE for work this morning. oh, and not only was i late, i apparently left a line of code that sends an e-mail when an error occurs, on the one error i was looking for is expected and is okay to ignore — so when a 10,000 line data file was fed through the process with bad data, 20 people got 10,000 e-mails.

yaaaaay! i’ve only been on the job a week and i feel like i’m in the doghouse. grumble, mutter, spurt

some shit-bag posts smarmy crap about appetite suppressant dung pills or whatever as a comment. well fuck it. my open letter to the world today is heart-felt fuck you to blog spammers, i hope you get herpes infections in both eyes after you catch a load from the donkey dong you sucked behind that bar in tijuana while hung over from all the generic canadian drugs you ingest while getting ass fucked by sweaty men with pus dripping of their viagra jacked-up cocks you slimy bitch whores.