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Twitter is Over Capacity - Why "Free" Sucks

Yeah, I know it happens now and then but it's a brilliant example of the idiocy behind "free" services: there are guaranteed to be problems, even complete outages, and when they happen all the whiny little bitches raised in an era of entitlement crawl out the woodwork to piss and moan that they can't access said free service.

We all know who you are and we all think you suck. Just like "free" sucks

Here's a novel idea: We should all be required to pay for Twitter! Think about, if people actually had to pay to use Twitter servers probably wouldn't go over capacity but more importantly, the entire Twitter experience would be infinitely better.

That little Justin Beiber shit-head would never be a trending topic because his adolescent piss-ant "fans" couldn't (or wouldn't - remember, they're entitled) pay to use Twitter. Furthermore, most of the other stupid fucking trending topics perpetuated by ghetto-trash and white-trash losers would all but disappear.

Gone too would be all the asinine "eating a bowl of cereal", "just saw [insert name of ridiculously over-hyped shitty movie]" and totally useless "good morning" and "goodnight' tweets that interfere with the deep, meaningful, and quite necessary intellectual musings from people with something important to say about things that really matter ...like which of you #stupifuckers and your #stupidfucking tweets annoy the living shit out of them.

Free sucks. Free is inconsistent and fleeting. Subscriptions and automated debits are forever!

Yeah Twitter, take my money; everybody else does.

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Urban Dictionary Editors = Friggin' iDiot iSheep Douche-bags

Clearly I stuck a nerve with a handful of douche-bag Apple juice-drinking iSheep Urban Dictionary "editors". It only took 18 minutes for a very well written definition (with etymology) to get rejected.

"Thanks for your definition of iScrimination!

Editors reviewed your entry and have decided to not publish it."

They left out "because we're a bunch of douche-bags". What's the matter? Can't handle the truth? How can they edit submissions with their heads so far up Steve Jobs' ass? Do all those ACC files give them superhuman douche-bag breathing powers?

But there's a lesson to be learned: don't mess with iSheep. I guess. Friggin' iDiots

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iScrimination Submitted to Urban Dictionary

Growing increasingly disturbed by what I strongly believe should be an illegal distribution practice, I coined a new word and submitted it to the Urban Dictionary on this day of thanks-giving. I'm thankful for free speech even though there's apparently no room for freedom or individual choices when it comes to honestly acquiring newly released music without drinking the Apple juice.

 

So, for free-thinkers everywhere, I give you...

 

iScrimination:

A willful act of elitist discrimination against free-thinking individuals that do not own iPods or buy digital music from the iTunes store that is perpetrated when artists and record labels offer exclusive distribution rights to Apple and its subsidiaries prior to releasing the same content through all other non-Apple distributors.

 

Digital payola.

 

Etymology:
Since this practice is indeed a form of consumer discrimination, the word is derived from the intransitive verb  "discriminate", meaning to treat one person or group worse than others because of prejudice or preference. By eliminating the "D", Apple's ubiquitous lower-case "i" became the first letter unequivocally linking the word to the government endorsed Apple monopoly.

 

Example:
I could buy new "Glee" tracks the day after the episode is broadcast if it weren't for Columbia Records' iScrimination.

 

by Scottitude on Nov 26, 2009

tags:iscriminate, iscriminated, iscriminating, ipod, itunes

More to come...

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Government Spends $6.3 Million To Learn What Any Idiot WIth Half a Brain Already Knows

Gee. Go figure: sending text messages while driving is dangerous. Our idiocratic government spent $6.3 million on a "study" to figure this out?

 Texting Raises Crash Risk 23 Times, Study Finds - Series - NYTimes.com.

I read crap like this and I'm ashamed to live in America. Hell, screw that; I'm ashamed to be considered a human.

I swear I'm not one of you.

Friggin' idiots.

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Crybaby Geeks Piss and Moan; Sitemeter Rolls Back

All over the Net, crybaby bloggers and geeks are whining like little bitches about Sitemeter's scheduled upgrade that clearly didn't go as planned. You'd think it was the end of the world, for Gord's sake!

Yeah, I use Sitemeter but it affected me worse than the crybabies; at least they could log-in and see something, I couldn't get anything more than a DNS error. Did I cry? Did I whine? Hell no, I opened a support ticket and checked my email a few times.

More important than the botched upgrade is that they notified customers via email well in advance of the scheduled migration and published a detailed rundown of what we needed to know about the process. More important still is Sitemeter's reaction to the SNAFU: taking ownership of the problem, admitting they may have jumped the gun, and implementing a rollback to the original platform.

Responsibilty and customer focus are sorely lacking in the world today (both real and virtual) and I applaud Sitemeter for demonstrating both.

Eventually things will be back to normal; I'll be able to pinpoint the pervs Googling Shawn Johnson's ass and all the arrogant self-important blowhards more concerned with monetizing their boilerplate bullshit blogs filled with useless I-know-more-than-you noise can count their friggin' click-throughs.

In the meantime, take some erudite and sagacious advice from my good buddy Penn Jillette:

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Scottitude.Net: A Word About Scripts & Cookies

Like many blogs, Scottitude.Net | Every Irrelevance incorporates a few benign scripts to provide multimedia content and to monitor basic traffic flow. None of these scripts contain malevolent code or serve any purpose beyond enhancing your viewing experience and enabling me to continue to publish content that you the readers, are looking for. Personally, I abhor covert scripting and redirects so much that I've continued to keep the site 100% ad-free since day one. I'm not aware of any other site that can honestly make the same claim and I'm extremely proud to provide a Web destination unlike any other.

To avoid any confusion or appearance to the contrary, I wanted to inform you that in order to provide more accurate traffic reporting SiteMeter, my primary tracking source is overhauling their service on September 13th & 14th and the upgrade will incorporate the use of cookies. These cookies will ensure a more accurate tracking of unique visitors. SiteMeter officially announces the upgrade and explains the entire process and reasoning behind it in this blog post.

If you use SiteMeter on your own blog or Web site you've been notified by email but I would like to assure my readers (and oglers) that Scottitude.Net has always been and will continue to be completely free of covert scripting and cookies. And ads!

Thank you for your continued interest in my off-the-wall perspective and the Internet's largest depository of reality TV screencaps.

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EFx2 Blogs

By now, you may or may not know that EFx2.com the home of EFx2 Blogs is currently off-line as a result of a series of phishing attacks. Keith, EFx2's developer, is committed to bringing EFx2 Blogs back to life but it may take some time. After all, like the rest of us, Keith has to work to pay the bills and EFx2 has been a private labor of love and never a business or revenue generator.

Many of us have come to enjoy the strong sense of community Keith helped us build and look forward to the day when we can return home but in the meantime, people need a source for information and a place to express themselves.

I set up the EFx2 Info blog some time ago to keep people informed when there were hiccups and it's still available for Keith to post any updates or relevant information regarding the rebuilding process. I'll do my best to share whatever details I can get and will gladly invite any interested members of the EFx2 community to participate by offering "guest author" status to whomever asks. You may recall a similar program for "addicts" of a former blogging community and this would work the same way.

If, like me, you find Google's Blogger site to be a vapid mass of noisy nothingness lacking any sense of community and would like an effective alternative I encourage all of you to check out Vox, a free community (and privacy) oriented blog site owned by Six Apart. Whether you actually sign up and blog there or not, you can join the public EFx2 Bloggers Group to share your thoughts, let everyone know where you're blogging and keep in touch.

Regardless of where or how, I sincerely hope to keep in touch with everyone.

Blog on.

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Big Brother 8 Update Widget

Cast your vote for America's Player, find out more about the Big Brother House and house-guests and lots more. Or get your own BB8 widget.

EDIT:
Big Brother 8 has long since come and gone so the widget originally posted below is dead and the script yields a rather confusing error message so it's been removed.

Howard Stern vs. The Superficial Friends

Heavy.com's The Superficial Friends are funny enough but throw in an hysterical parody of The Howard Stern Show, complete with the Whack-Pack. and you have cartoon gold! The animators at Camp Chaos are clearly Stern fans; they captured all the subtleties and "inside" jokes that you're likely to hear on any given day.

Check it out...

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The Reality and Truth About MySpace

MySpace Jumps the Shark

I have always loathed MySpace and the pathetically clueless socially inept "community" members who use it to visually assault my (and your) eyes with their ridiculously unbearable "designs".

MySpace is nothing more than a digital popularity contest (think hotornot.com on steroids) and "hangout" for the current generation of neglected children and the pedophiles who love them.

Sure, a few worthwhile bands frequently update their pages and that is worth something, I guess, but beyond a handful of artists that really matter and a smaller number of artists that want to, MySpace is perfect example of everything an engaging personal Website should not be.