Entitlement Mentality Shaming Gone Wrong

So a video called Entitlement Mentality Gone Wild is a thing. It strings together snippets of news stories in an attempt to illustrate that... at risk vulnerable people act silly, I guess? But it begs the question of whether "entitlement mentality" is even a thing. Do these people have a sense of entitlement or are they just trying to get by the best they can figure out? But my attention was drawn to a clip where an Angel Adams says "Somebody needs to pay for all my children, and my... and all our suffering, for all our... somebody needs to be held accountable and they need to pay.


The video twists what she says. She feels mistreated by the system and believes someone needs to pay for what they did to her. That analysis is bolstered by the story at this link. she was trying to go it alone, but the state wouldn't let her.
Here's another clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3anuIAgJmys

Slashdot has become much harder to use

I wanted to write a Slashdot journal entry on how I discovered that information I thought had been at
http://slashdot.org/~hackwrench/ once upon a time had been moved to https://slashdot.org/users.pl so I go to my journal page and can find nothing to click to start a new journal entry.
http://slashdot.org/~hackwrench/journal appears to be the same page as http://slashdot.org/users2.pl?dp=journal

I did a search for write journal slashdot but couldn't find anything useful.

Also the login button and new user button take some getting used to.


https://slashdot.org/users.pl contains the info on how many replies my messages have gotten, This is among the most useful information that Slashdot can provide, despite the statement on the page that suggests I wouldn't be interested in the page.

Funny things to say in connection with The Stanley Parable

Okay, I've pressed the key to question nothing, but nothing isn't being very forthcoming with answers. What buttons do I press to waterboard and choke nothing. Also, nothing seems to be on a hunger strike. How do I force feed nothing?

Some funny things to say about Portal 1

I really want to be revived with peptic salve and adrenaline.  What button(s) do I press to become light-headed from thirst and pass out?
I died in the furnace just like GLaDOS wanted, so why aren't the end credits running?
Okay, GLaDOS is telling me to get into the party submission position. What buttons do I press to do that?
I'm being told to go back, but I don't see where I can place portals to do that.

So I read this article on how bad the mobile web is, and thought "Its bad for people who like to read web pages with large text." I mean seriously, a lot of websites do something that makes their text reflow improperly so that it doesn't stay within the width of the window, Cracked.com also disables the scrollbar at the bottom of the window to make things even tougher.


Then there are the websites that right off the bat you get told isn't responding.

Went back to the eye doctor and she adjusted my frames. I told her that maybe a near vision test might uncover a ADD value other than the one she prescribed. She said that there's nothing magical about it and ADD values get adjusted based on years old. That sounds like more magical thinking than what I proposed.

Just how resource intensive is it to give everyone a near vision test. Years ago, the glasses I had then just bought wasn't working right so the doctor gave me a near vision test and made new lenses that were bifocal. Just recently I had to switch eye doctors, and the doctor said that I shouldn't need bifocals yet, This eye doctor didn't give me my prescription, a violation of FTC regulations. I don't know if my glasses are single focus or progressive.


Actually, the new glasses were causing me trouble when I first got them, I went back, had my vision tested again, still no close vision test and then they check if the lenses were made correctly and it turns out the left lens wasn't made according to the doctor's prescription.


Just now, I found out what the red green test is for and I had tried to look up information about the eye exam.

Free will, punishment and the right of society to defend itself.

People have suggested that if people lack free will, then they don't deserve to be punished. They seem to ignore that the people doing the punishment lack free will as well. I feel they also ask the wrong question, which is, do people deserve to be punished. A better question would be does society have the right to defend itself, and in what form should that defense take?

Outlook.com has so much blank space that could be used to show the subject

Microsoft doesn't have a feature to send feedback, so I figured I'd blog about it here. The folders panel has a lot of space that goes unused. My folder names aren't that long. Then there's an obnoxious amount of space between the Sender and the subject. I use CTRL "+" to make the text easier to see, and the subject line only gets a few characters before it is truncated. Then there's still more space between where the Subject is truncated to and categories. Then even more space between the categories and the time stamp. There's not much of the subject line that's visible.

Entitlement

Older people have been saying that the young people today seem entitled, but what if they are seeing people who know what they want and how to get it and don't appreciate it when older people insist they are entitled to tell the young people that no, you have to run a stupid maze to prove that you should have what you want..

Herman Cain's Hard Work and Luck

On http://www.hermancain.com/successful-people-are-not-lott Herman Cain makes statements that seem to indicate that he thinks liberals believe that only luck is involved in being successful and furthermore no luck is involved in success. I guess he doesn't believe he is lucky to not be saddled with a handicap. He is completely vague on what his dad did after he left his farm, and must not think he is lucky to be the son of such a dad. For that matter he is completely vague about his own efforts.

Corporate scams

I currently use MetroPCS on a 3G phone. I have tried to view their Terms of Service page in the past, but it had been blank. Recently, I've been getting texts that I have used up the 4G data for the month. How can you use any 4G data on a 3G phone? You may be getting charged 4G speeds without getting it, but how would you know?

Recently I received a phone call from Telecheck saying that I owe them a $20 return check fee from a few months ago when Amazon claimed that I owed them $15 but later admitted they were wrong. There was never any check. When I called them back they claimed to have found another $20 fee to stick me with. Telecheck thinks it can refuse to accept my statement over the phone or the internet and insists that it must have me send it a form in the mail. Well, it's not getting its form or the money it wants to steal from me. Unrelated to the $15 snafu, Amazon wants me to send them a FAX to unblock my payments account.

Typing this on my phone reminded me of the autocomplete/autocorrect problem. Why is it so broken?

Water shortage solution at hand?

According to http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/02/water_vs_energy_analysis/ desalinization plants have come of age and are currently suitable for solving water shortage problems.The article also suggests that politicians could allocate the funds to deploy this solution but just don't want to. Take this information to your representative and senators, pronto.

Valid success? What to look for.

The Republicans assert that the questioning of the success of the bankers is completely unwarranted. Well success comes primarily from innate skill and things that can be taught. Innate skill is hard to gauge, but usually you can see a range of success at a given task such as basketball among those who are not at the peak of innate ability. Such a range has not been observed and the instructional material has not been made available, so to those without an agenda it is obvious that the legitimacy of the success of the bankers is subject to question.

Banned from a forum unfairly?

Recently I received an infraction orht 10 points from city-data.com forums because they mistook me for someone they banned before, which is apparently itself a ban. I attempted to contact them twice at others@city-data.com and once at legal@city-data.com with no response. According to http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120107092100AAiJp7D I'm not alone in being mistreated by them. I recommend you not use them because of this. Does anyone out there have ay other forum websites they think people should avoid because of such mistreatment?

Take Capital Gains to 0? The same logic applied to other taxes.

Herman Cain said that we should take the  capital gains tax to zero because it is a barrier between those with money and those with ideas. Well how about the income tax? It's a barrier between those who want to work and those who want to provide jobs which is an amalgamation of the idea and money people. What about the sales tax? It is a barrier between those who have money to buy a product, the sole reason for a product to exist in the first place, and the people with ideas, and workers. Clearly this is the most heinous of all the taxes, since it taxes the raison d'être of products.

Perhaps the fairest of taxes is the property tax, but that is a barrier to right to property. But perhaps raison d'être trumps rights?

Free Israel from the Tyranny of the Palestinians.

Free Israel from the tyranny of the Palestinians! Explain to me how I have it the wrong way around. It's the Palestinians that always attack the Israelis and Israel only retaliates. Israel also lets the Palestinians in the area know that they are going to retaliate. It's the Palestinians that don't want the Israelis around not the other way around. Israel provides jobs to many Palestinians.

Ahmed Abdelkarim
I'm a Palestinian who lives apart from my country because of the war with Israel. Most of my family suffered killing and torture by claiming the right to live free and honored

Robert Claypool
And who started the war? The Palestinian government. Israel is willing for peace, the Palestinian government has never been. It wants to push Israel into the sea.

Michael Leonardi
Don't worry Coldplay, this Zionist rampage will fizzle out in a week or two, seems like every decent musical group in the world is boycotting the state of Israel nowadays. It is just so unfortunate that so many young Israelis have been brainwashed and indoctrinated into this blind patriotism nationalism and racism. You'd think the world could evolve past national borders, flags and religion -- hopefully it still can...

Robert Claypool
What about the Palestinians that have been brainwashed into blind patriotism, nationalism and racism?

Michael Leonardi
Haven't met any. I've met a lot of freedom fighters though... apartheid really sucks man...

Robert Claypool It is the Palestinians that want apartheid with Israel. Israel wants peace and even offers Palestinians jobs.

Eman Bensreiti
If you want peace stop killing people. Long live Palestine. Long live Gaza.

Robert Claypool
Then why does the Palestinians constantly fire rockets on Israel from the Golan Heights? When Israel held the Golan Heights, they did not fire rockets on the Palestinians.

Mustafa Afghan
Jews, Muslim, Christians always lives peacefully in Palestine before the state of Israel. After the State of Israel nothing is peaceful anymore, in fact the massacre has increased. Truly sad to call them humans. Israel willing for peace? they don't mean peace, they want everything their own way and call it peace.

Robert Claypool
Source? Also, that was when the British were in control. Are you saying that the British should be back in control? Also, that says nothing about whose fault it is. I have heard more that the Palestinians want everything their own way including all Jews dead, than I have heard of Israel wanting everything their own way. Do you have links to any stories?

Mukz Ali
Israel has an army, and they don't know how to use it.

Robert Claypool
What do you mean? Do you mean that if they knew how to use it all the Palestinians would be dead? That doesn't sound right to me.

Homosexuals say that they should be able to marry anyone they want, just like heterosexuals. But heterosexuals can't marry anyone they want. They cannot marry a person of the same sex anymore than homosexuals can. Sexual orientation is merely one factor in deciding who can get married to who.

The MPAA said:
illegal downloads cost the U.S. economy more than $20 billion a year

Yeah sure. Like food pantries and Freecycle cost the economy.

Can't let people get food without paying for it.
Cash for clunkers too, maybe?

Drain on the economy how much again?

The Google search http://www.google.com/search?q=music+piracy+economy
returns results about claims of piracy "robs the United States of $12.5 billion in economic output and more than 71000 jobs annually"

Extending that logic, public libraries, food pantries, and Freecycle must be robbing the United States of a lot of money, er, make that "economic output and jobs" too.