Amused by an Internet personality's love life, arrogance, and view of life in black and white

Some people are amusing to read in the Internet.

One of my favorites or least favorites is this guy, aka Rei or mymemory. His life and evolution ... are very readable in Macrumors.

He has posted all the details about his love life, and how he was moving from Venezuela to Miami, USA, how the other Venezuelans could get a visa in US as well, dreaming of German women and his old prom date, what he thinks about sex, and now how he is getting married. Quite entertaining to browse all those other old threads, including when he was moving to Germany, dating an underaged girl, trying to tell how Latins NEVER sleep with other people when they are married, anatomy of the German love story...

Nothing beats this thread through - German culture - the lack of love. So based on this childish macho love fantasies and how some Steffi did not make him feel like he was the greatest lover on universe, his text in that thread has such pearls as "German people are arrogant and very selfish. They are very nice outside of Germany but once they come back they think they are the best. " (As if he has never read what he writes himself? So he is obviously lovely and the opposite of arrogant and selfish BOTH in USA and Venezuela) "And for those of you who are German your coments are not valid, I mean, your vision about relationship still in black and white." (as he is always so mature thinking, and sees life in technicolor, and so on).

So much has evolved. Now he makes his decision to get married in an instant messenger, tells "I met her a month ago exactly this 16th, 3 days after my father died (the 13th, a month ago).", as this must be a long enough time to know someone very well. Or, actually "No, he is write, adding all the days we have been actually together they barely add a week. The problems are our parents, actually her mother. My mother told me once to get married and then tell her, probably because my sister married twice and spent all the familly fortune on that and now she is getting back with her first husband andy way" ... so a week is enough to know the other. At least this Ileana looks a lot happier than Steffi did. Then "The big dilema is her visa, she can not optain a tourist visa but there is a finace visa and I am going to ask about t tomorrow. The issue was that now that things are getting tighter we need to be very careful with what we say to our parets because the situation is very demanding. She is in Venezuela nad I am here and i have to bring her here. If I marry her just liek that it doesn't work either because she is not going to get a social security number and won't eb able to work legaly, so we are looking for an O-1 visa like mine but for her because she is an actress too. " (the lawer is also an actress?) "One of the easy things is that I know her culture very well and I know whe her mind is going and comming from just because my point of views about life are actually bigger after being here in the US, so I can explain and tell things about herself better. That make her feel very safe with me" (Dating a German and trying to make his life in US have made his "points of view bigger"), "she has a fetish with being an schoo, girl. She actually look like a 19 year old and she see me like her "tutor"", "So... in a way, as we are very creative people we can manage to actually have ourselves all the time so far and do not feel disconnected. I have been there when you are emailing some one or talking on the phone and you feel they are different people. I do manage to be the same person in every media and it has to be constant." So that means he is as mature in the real life as he appears online.

Best of luck for him anyway. Even if this love story would not have the happy ending as he's dreaming of, I really doubt we'd see a thread titled "Venezuelan culture - the lack of love". I have some sort of difficulties imagining this guy actually living with somebody rather than living in a virtual life, but time will show. It will be interesting to see if he actually will change. Or if he will actually be more of what he describes himself in his resume; "Profile: Creative, proactive problem solver, team player, detail oriented, intuitive, dedicated and accurate..."

Internet visitor count whoring at Slashdot about the video iPods aka how to kill your life and future

Internet visitor count whoring can be nasty when it's done at all costs. A nice example of this can be seen here.

"Steve Jobs has spoken with Disney President and soon-to-be CEO Bob Iger about ways to license various Disney content for a video iPod, according to an internal Disney email I have obtained."

Maybe think twice before stating something like that in the Internet, and even bothering to post a link to your blog in the same /. visitorcount whoring rumor. Or maybe this guy (or this?) will post again in a few days, telling how by some strange coincidence a friend of his at Disney's has been fired, and how he has lost all his fortune for some other company's lawers, whatever. If he gets himself /.ed for that time as well, he'll just prostitute himself for more visitors. Maybe that's after all what some people are looking for with their sites and blogs, even if it destroys their future and real life.

If Microsoft made airplanes...

Microsoft making cars sounds like a funny perspective.

But imagine all the technical calls they would get...

"Park your car, and reboot it. See if that works."
"Your car's operating system is over 3 years old.. we don't support that old cars."
"It could be that your antivirus is affecting your engine, and causes your car to stop every time you reach 113 mph..."
"You are calling from a road that is not supported by your car. The road I-194 is supported by Macs and Windows 2014, and your Windows 2008 is not in the list of the drivers..."

Even better if they did planes.

"Microsoft Airlines technical support... You have free 120 days phone support after you buy your plane. May I have your aircraft's serial number please..."
"You are at the Airport? Airport Express, or an airport? Ah fine, just had to ask as we don't support Apple's products..."
"We don't support emergency landings. You should contact your airport for emergency landing instructions."
"You are out of the phone support... you could go and use Microsoft's web self service for free, and order that engine from there.. "
"No, burnt engines, exploded parts of the plane, wrong alerts and such are not covered, we consider those as abuse."
"Hm you said the plane is crashing? Restart it to see if that helps..."

Fighting international terrorism for the past millennium

Terrorism, international terrorism, terrorist attack, terrorist alert, extreme Islam, security, fighting terrorism... Strong words, used to control the people, to make them accept whatever they want to be accepted, to not question or they will suddenly be stamped as the voices of Bin Laden, thus terrorists...

I like to keep things in perspective. If you don't know the history of the humanity for at least the past 2-3 thousand years, you are more or less living from hand to mouth.
So let's go back a few hundred years.

I chose the picture above for liking it. I wouldn't for sure wear that shirt when I'll fly, but I like it for giving a bit more perspective. Go back in the time to 1492. What did the good Europeans do? Stayed in the Americas less than 90 days, did not work...? And after all, they of course did nothing that could be described with the word terror or terrorism. What if the Native Americans would have been able to fight back the way US now is doing that? Go home, you white, religious freakos, and stay in Europe. Don't come to kill us, torture us, make us slaves, die for White diseases, lose our religion, deprive us from our land, cattle and women...

Go back to the same year or century, and follow again these white good guys. If around the parts of the world where you have Israel now there has been fighting and killing for the past few millennia, who knows which was worse, the Europeans doing what their pope and Catholic church asked them to do (steal and deprive them from the treasures and money, I mean to spread the Christian religion) or the people living there? Who after all invented all the fairytales in the original fairytale book about being special, selected people, stories that were later adopted by Christianity and Islam (same God, so why all the hassle?). I think I see these 'selected people' more innocent, simply as they lived there, whereas the Europeans were there for greed (religion, whatever).

Or go back another few centuries... Mediterranean Europe around 900 CE (Common Era). That wasn't far as Christian as most non-Mediterraneans think. It was the Arabic time in the Mediterraneo. Culturally far from barbaric, in arts and architecture and kitchen something amazing, creative ... the Churches were converted when the regions became governed by the Arabs to mosquees, only to be be re-converted back to churches a few hundred years later. How did these transfers from one power, governor, religion and so on happen, peacefully and with no fight? By suddenly the governing Arabs warning the people about the terrorists, starting a war against terrorism - Christianity? The religions and the people were cohabiting in the same cities, so the Jews lived their own way, the Muslims lived their own way, and the various Christians lived their own way. This before the Catholic church split to the reformed versions, before Luther and who ever invented that Jews actually had it wrong and so on. Until then the White people had all its crusades to convert the barbars, locals, to the Christianity (and take care of their treaswure on the same time), and they continued to crusade, to discover new continents (of which the non-White people had been unaware for thousands of years totally unaware - all they needed were the White Europeans to come and tell them that they did exist, and that they were inferior than them).

Once the reforms of the Church had started, they continued to occur on faster pace. Some of them probably went a bit wrong, a bit extreme, to the point of the religious freaks feeling oppressed in Europe. For being weird. So a few centuries after they went on their own crusades, looking for their promised land, to live in peace and sometimes converting the locals too. As Mormons and Amish and [insert a lot of small weird religious groups here] went to the Americas, they were for sure not the most scaring people around, and probably were for peace too. As they felt oppressed and not too welcome to stay in Europe, they didn't have any intent to stay in the continent less than 90 days, and to be just a turist, not working there either. Add groups of several, at least dozens of religious minorities, just an overdose of White people stealing, depriving, religiously converting...

Homeland Security lost its fight against the international terrorism pretty far. Yes there are a few million of Natives left, but compare it to pre-Columbus era, thus before 1492. Millions of people have innocently been killed for the name of God, religion, economical profit, greed. Religions were lost, as these White terrorists brang their own. Histories were rewritten, at least for all the continent, for its millions of Natives and all the tribes.

Just what if the Natives would have had the way to protect themselves? To send the Europeans back to Europe withing their 90 days, to have them transport the Africans back to Africa...

I am nowhere saying that killing is fine in this text. In fact, I don't think killing is acceptable ever.
I don't just think the media or the political powers have been very fair in regards of 9/11. What happened 11 September 2001 in New York or 7 July in London did lead to (a few) thousands (and tens) of innocent people die, but it has as well lead millions of people being terrorized daily, by the fear of the 'terrorist alerts' (just tell me when do you really think the terrorist alert color would go to green?) in the news, by people being terrorized mentally constantly. Terrorists this, terrorists that...

It has not been very nice time for those who are non-Christians, and who are not of White but Mid- or Far Eastern origin. Well, Jesus probably didn't physically look like a French lady, at least I would think it's not very likely he was blond and with the traditional features as he has when presented in the European traditional religious arts and presentations. Genetically, being from those parts of the World, he probably was far closer looking like Osama Bin Laden than a French lady.

People are not terrorists only because and if they happen to be of non-Christian religion. People are not automatically non-terrorists only because they are Christians. In the name of religious tolerance I feel the development has been backwords - as if it was now unacceptable to be a Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, any non-Christian... including the Native religions.

Microsoft did it again

Microsoft does it again. Their new spyware removal program is, like many of the products Microsoft markets, running on a Powerbook G4. So on the first page you can see now this picture:



I would not personally want to have Microsoft's spyware removal programs running on my Mac.