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Here are a few things to note:
I'M NOT A FREAKING FBI AGENT, OR A WOMAN! My name is Scott, and I was scully years before Gillian Anderwhatever blew someone at FOX. I strongly advise you to NEVER, EVER send me any e-mail or anything else of the sort referring to the X-Files.
I can be a total asshole, but for the most part I'm ok, and laugh at most things and most people, so if you don't like me, or if this depresses you, seek therapy or something.
If you don't have your monitor set to a resolution of at least 800X600, you should. Anything good and worth viewing on the w3 is designed these days to be displayed at this resolution, so you shouldn't be copping out on the work these people have done by keeping with the old "I'm just a stupid end-user" resolution. If you don't know how to change your resolution, you might try this amazing thing called reading your user's manual, or your help files. It's really not that hard. If you still have a 14" monitor, or have vision disabilities, you might be forgiven, but you really ought to invest in a larger monitor. If your resolution is not set to 800X600, NEVER complain about the poor display quality or design of the sites you visit. Especially not to me.
On a related note, Vincent Flanders is a total asshole, and he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. Vincent Flanders is the Mary Kay of web design.
Speaking of phone companies, it seems that their pockets are not deep enough for their satisfaction. Were you aware that they (all of them) are petitioning the FCC to institute per minute charges for the use of phone lines for data transmissions? These charges are to be assessed even if the data call is local. If it is long distance, the charges are additional to your LD charge. Here's the more detailed explaination I got:
A very important matter is currently under review by the FCC. Local telephone companies have filed a proposal with the FCC to impose per minute charges for your internet service. They contend that your usage has or will hinder the operation of the telephone network. It is their belief that internet usage will
diminish if users were required to pay additional per minute charges. The FCC has created an e-mail box for your comments, responses must be received by February 13, 1997. Send your comments to: isp@fcc.gov and tell them what you think. Every phone company is in on this one, and they are trying to sneak it in just under the wire for litigation. Let everyone you know hear this one. Get the e-mail address to everyone you can think of. Please forward this e-mail to all your friends on the internet.
(Yes, I am aware that this email is out of date, but I am preserving it for posterity)
The w3 has sucked nearly all of the interactivity out of the Internet. Add to that the advertising field day Big Brother corporations are having, and it's become a giant online mall. I wonder how many users these days even know the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web. I also wonder how many users these days know what the word telnet means, or how to do it. WebTV should be destroyed. How ridiculous to sit on your fucking couch and click at the w3 while eating popcorn. IRC is a joke, too. It reminds me of a white, sterile room with a bunch of people standing in it holding up big cards with their pathetically misspelled comments on them. Go MOO, MUD, or MUSH if you want to get down and dirty on the Internet. On second thought, don't. Fortunately, the brand of stupid, vacuous idiots who can't even spell "through" properly haven't discovered MOO, MUD, or MUSH. Wanna see some real vacuity? Click here to see a prime example of the blantant manipulation of a group of stupid fools who IRC probably while masturbating. (Note: PACO is NOT me. PACO is, in fact, Sage.)
Why is it that people can't spell worth a shit on the Internet? Do they think that no one notices? Do they think that people will not think that they are stupid just because it's the Internet? Christ, as if the rest of the world didn't already think that America was full of stupid and uneducated people, now we're advertising it all over the planet.
Political Correctness is CENSORSHIP! Yes, that's right. It is censorship because it forces us to communicate in a censored manner, speaking, writing, creating that which we normally would not, yet are forced to in order to follow a predefined code. PC people refuse to believe that something someone says may be utterly innocent. Instead, all such things are offensive to these people. To say "chic" in reference to a woman is a simple colloquialism, but we are now forced to censor ourselves from saying it because of Political Correctness, and the perceived offence of the word. Teachers fear to teach novelists such as Hemingway because they are far from PC. This is censorship. TV shows are forced to comply to network standards of language usage and situational awareness which might be perceived as non-PC. This is censorship. In essence, we are no longer allowed to express our opinions fully, nor are we allowed to explore the darker sides of life because of the censorship of Politcal Correctness. This is censorship. While PC may not be governmentally imposed legislation, you are a fool to think that the professional/business/education/social world is not ruled by PC guidelines. Just remember that if you're stupid I'm gonna tell you so, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, creed, orientation, yadda yadda, cause all that matters to me is that you're stupid and I won't like you.
Oh, that last sentence reminds me: irregardless is NOT a word, so stop using it!
Speaking of censorship, how about this oprobrious bill passed by the great state of Maryland? House Bill 778 makes it illegal to send anonymous or repeated e-mail messages which are annoying or discomforting. What the hell is a discomforting email? (I wanna lick your pixels?) Looks like the Telecommunications Decency Act has new life through strange bedfellows. Maryland is one of over a dozen states which already have, or are attempting to pass, similar e-mail regulatory laws.
