Today will be a bit of a ramble as theres no real direction going on in my brain pan:
1) Winnipeg. -35 with the wind chill right now. And theres damn little wind. Tonight will be -45 with the wind chill. So wheres the palm trees growing at Portage and Main dammit. I want my palm trees. We have enough snow to give an eskimo wet dreams.
2) Parliament is back in session. While its no secret that my political bent is to the right or as Tina puts it "just to the right of fascist" I am hoping that they can actually sit down and get some shit done. I hope for a Conservative majority one day but dont think its the right time for an election yet. We are still fragile from the global recession and we need some direction to go in. Right turn Clyde.
3) The gun control nuts are at it again. They dont seem to get it. CRIMINALS dont register their guns, only law abiding gun owners do. The gun laws in this country border on the draconian and any time theres some nut decides to cap a few people they all start screaming for more control. So one quick question for the gun control nuts. How to you propose more controls to those who follow no controls to begin with? I would love to hear the answer. More gun controls right now is like seeing a bunch of people driving 90 km/h through a 50 km/h zone and you think the best solution is to drop the speed limit to 30 km/h.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Saturday, January 29, 2011
When will It stop.....Or how stupid do you really feel
Well today the new computer that we bought last October shit the bed. It had some sort of warning that the hard drive was not working correctly and that it needed to be checked for "consistency" whatever the hell that is. Every time we booted the computer this warning would come up and say the following:
Checking file system on C:
Type of file is NTFS
Volume label is S3A8371D004
One of you disks need to be checked for consistency.
Maybe one of Tinas Computer Geek friends has an idea what this means.....
Then it said that you can cancel the disk check by pressing any key, and I dont even have an any key...Nyuk, Nyuk.
I presseed the space bar and the computer went into a normal boot....
OK so thats the end of it right. Nope. WE decide that its something that needs the help of the Toshiba rep at the end of the 1-800 number. So I call their number and I get the call center conveniently located in Mumbai and I speak to Someone about my problem. Now, I have a problem with most things computer but to add the Indian accent to the mix makes for interesting times.
According to Rajesh I needed to take my computer back to when it was first born and rehatch things from scratch. This involves some sort of smoke and mirrors black magic shit that includes losing all of what we have downloaded since we got the damn machine.
So here I am now after many hours of this thing rebooting itself just to get it back to the point I was at 4 Months ago.
My point? Whatever happened to having "stuff" that we could fix ourselves. There was a time that just about anything in the world could be repaired with pliers and a roll of duct tape. Now everyones a "technician", you cant get anything fixed right away and you cant repair anything more intricate than a floor mat.
Maybe technology isnt so great afterall.......
On the upside, I cleaned out the trap under the sink and it works great. Theres a limit to my expert mechanical knowledge. Computers need not apply......
Checking file system on C:
Type of file is NTFS
Volume label is S3A8371D004
One of you disks need to be checked for consistency.
Maybe one of Tinas Computer Geek friends has an idea what this means.....
Then it said that you can cancel the disk check by pressing any key, and I dont even have an any key...Nyuk, Nyuk.
I presseed the space bar and the computer went into a normal boot....
OK so thats the end of it right. Nope. WE decide that its something that needs the help of the Toshiba rep at the end of the 1-800 number. So I call their number and I get the call center conveniently located in Mumbai and I speak to Someone about my problem. Now, I have a problem with most things computer but to add the Indian accent to the mix makes for interesting times.
According to Rajesh I needed to take my computer back to when it was first born and rehatch things from scratch. This involves some sort of smoke and mirrors black magic shit that includes losing all of what we have downloaded since we got the damn machine.
So here I am now after many hours of this thing rebooting itself just to get it back to the point I was at 4 Months ago.
My point? Whatever happened to having "stuff" that we could fix ourselves. There was a time that just about anything in the world could be repaired with pliers and a roll of duct tape. Now everyones a "technician", you cant get anything fixed right away and you cant repair anything more intricate than a floor mat.
Maybe technology isnt so great afterall.......
On the upside, I cleaned out the trap under the sink and it works great. Theres a limit to my expert mechanical knowledge. Computers need not apply......
Friday, January 28, 2011
Charter of Rights and Freedoms????
So I just read a news story by Lorne Gunter in the National Post. Lorne, who is fast becoming my mostest favourite journalist because he pulls no punches and calls an idiot an idiot if required. He is also about the polar opposite to all the left wing, liberal hugging, CBC dripping socialist loving pieces of shit who call themselves journalists in this country. Especially those who work for the "national broadcaster", but I digress.
Lorne did a great articel on the loss of freedoms and rights in this country that the Charter is supposed to have embedded. Seems Trudeau had a plan. Take the RESPONSIBILITY for rights away from you and give it to the government who would look after things for you.
He gives the example of Marise Myrand. Ms Myrand is 400 lbs with a bad ticker and lungs and needs many meds and an electric wheelie thing to get around.
She asked her condo commission where she lives to get her a parking spot closer to the door so she could get herself in and out with less difficulty. The condo commission , rightly I think, said that wasnt their responsibility but she could ask the lady who owned the spot if she wished to change. The lady who owned the spot, Jocelyne Nolet is also infirm, said that she needed the spot as she couldnt carry things that are too heavy. You would think that would be the end of it, Right?
Wrong. Ms. Myrand, not being happy, took the condo commission to the Quebec human rights commission and, with government funded lawyer in tow, got a decision in her favour that forced the condo commission to give Ms. Nolets parking spot to Ms. Myrand.
On top of that the Quebec Human Rights Commission also decreed that the other 35 condo owners shall pay Ms. Myrand $10,000 for being "insufficiently sensitive to her disability". So this is part of Trudeaus legacy of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He came up with human rights commissions who have made it a policy to screw some people in favour of others.
I just have two questions to ask:
1) What about Ms. Nolets Rights? Who's looking out for her........
2) When did Personal responsibility disappear?
Lorne did a great articel on the loss of freedoms and rights in this country that the Charter is supposed to have embedded. Seems Trudeau had a plan. Take the RESPONSIBILITY for rights away from you and give it to the government who would look after things for you.
He gives the example of Marise Myrand. Ms Myrand is 400 lbs with a bad ticker and lungs and needs many meds and an electric wheelie thing to get around.
She asked her condo commission where she lives to get her a parking spot closer to the door so she could get herself in and out with less difficulty. The condo commission , rightly I think, said that wasnt their responsibility but she could ask the lady who owned the spot if she wished to change. The lady who owned the spot, Jocelyne Nolet is also infirm, said that she needed the spot as she couldnt carry things that are too heavy. You would think that would be the end of it, Right?
Wrong. Ms. Myrand, not being happy, took the condo commission to the Quebec human rights commission and, with government funded lawyer in tow, got a decision in her favour that forced the condo commission to give Ms. Nolets parking spot to Ms. Myrand.
On top of that the Quebec Human Rights Commission also decreed that the other 35 condo owners shall pay Ms. Myrand $10,000 for being "insufficiently sensitive to her disability". So this is part of Trudeaus legacy of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He came up with human rights commissions who have made it a policy to screw some people in favour of others.
I just have two questions to ask:
1) What about Ms. Nolets Rights? Who's looking out for her........
2) When did Personal responsibility disappear?
Losing my Virginity
OK so I have been dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. Evidently this is how people get their "word" out these days. I dont have a facebook account so therefore dont know what my kids are doing other than the rare phone call. They say its my fault beacuse I'm not wired....
Maybe it is, but you gotta give us old farts a chance. Maybe I dont want the world to know what I had for breakfast or whether I had a good BM this morning.
Getting sucked up in the vaccuum of the interweb is too much for some of us to handle all at once..... Baby steps.
So this is my baby step. Who woulda imagined me with a Blog? Well pretty much anyone in my family because, like the wife keeps tellling me "You're a crusty old bastard who needs to let everyone know your opinion".
Theres a lot to be said for opinions though. Its been said that they are like arseholes. Everyone has one. Problem is though is that some people think their opinion matters. Not true. Your opinion is just that, Yours. I dont have to agree with it and I probably wont in most cases. Get over it.
So I have opinions on lots of stuff, and I guess, because of this newfangled interweb thingy, I get to tell the world about them. Do I think you'll agree with my opinion. Nope.
Do I care. Not one iota. Its a perk of being old.
I'm gonna try to post something most days. It'll be stuff about the government and the country and taxes and all sorts of ideas that I have as to why this country has turned into a bunch of pussies over the past 50 years. It won't be pretty but I'm using as a form of therapy. A chance to vent my spleen. Read it at your peril.
Maybe it is, but you gotta give us old farts a chance. Maybe I dont want the world to know what I had for breakfast or whether I had a good BM this morning.
Getting sucked up in the vaccuum of the interweb is too much for some of us to handle all at once..... Baby steps.
So this is my baby step. Who woulda imagined me with a Blog? Well pretty much anyone in my family because, like the wife keeps tellling me "You're a crusty old bastard who needs to let everyone know your opinion".
Theres a lot to be said for opinions though. Its been said that they are like arseholes. Everyone has one. Problem is though is that some people think their opinion matters. Not true. Your opinion is just that, Yours. I dont have to agree with it and I probably wont in most cases. Get over it.
So I have opinions on lots of stuff, and I guess, because of this newfangled interweb thingy, I get to tell the world about them. Do I think you'll agree with my opinion. Nope.
Do I care. Not one iota. Its a perk of being old.
I'm gonna try to post something most days. It'll be stuff about the government and the country and taxes and all sorts of ideas that I have as to why this country has turned into a bunch of pussies over the past 50 years. It won't be pretty but I'm using as a form of therapy. A chance to vent my spleen. Read it at your peril.
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