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April 2, 2014

Child of our time

Filed under: Wimminz — Tags: , — wimminz @ 12:12 pm

It’s one of those everlasting quandaries, you know damn well what the average income is around here, you know damn well what the average cost of various things from cars and houses to a night out is around here, and you can’t reconcile the two.

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/House-prices-South-West-rise-2016/story-16450981-detail/story.html

but if you look at the work going…

http://jobs.thisisdevon.co.uk/cgi-bin/advsearch?search_emp_mkt_cd=LO&job_title_keywords=driver+ttttt&job_title_match=%22ANY%22

There is quite frankly no fucking way people doing those jobs can afford the lifestyle you see around you…. enter the credit lifestyle, suddenly everything becomes clear, the 500 quid a month to the mortgage, with your house as an ATM, the 300 quid a month to the BMW finance company, etc etc etc.

Unless you’re 25 or under, or a single divorced older man, sure, they may well be in debt, student loans and 4k on the credit card, but the whole credit lifestyle is a step removed from what is attainable, because guess what, the whole credit lifestyle is based on “home ownership”, and the young have zero chance.

This is actually a problem for the credit industry, because frankly speaking 95% of it is based upon “home ownership” as the keystone, take that away and the whole thing collapses, but the reality is the credit industry is like a record shop that only sells Max Bygraves and Frank Sinatra records, the demographic is ageing and dying, and there are no new customers.

If there are 100 houses in my street, and 50 of them are owned by landlords letting them out, then sure, the HOUSING market is doing fine, but the “home ownership” market isn’t, and this is an important differential to notice, because the tenant cannot use that house as an ATM, and then go and get a BMW at 300 quid a month.

You just cut “the economy” by 50%.

The “divide” is in many ways as arbitrary as being catholic in a protestant town or black in a while town, you are excluded because of something you have no control over, but in this case it is primarily your age.

I know someone not 3 miles away who got married in their early 20’s, bought a house on a mortgage for 7,950 pounds, which was quite doable when you were a mechanic at the then Devon General Bus Company, they are still together and now about retired and in the same house, the house next door just sold for 265,000, in effect they have had access to a “free” quarter of a million pounds, using the house as an ATM, but the music has stopped, nobody not already on the bandwagon can afford to join the dance now, and so next door has been bought by a landlord, who is going to split it into two flats and let them out…

There will not be a new BMW and a new Merc on *that* driveway any more.

If you are under 25, it isn’t even a case of waiting until you are 35, the ship in question, the “home ownership” credit economy, has sailed, and it is sailing away faster than you can swim after it.

There is therefore a lifestyle gulf, or chasm, between one generation and the next, with here and there a few trying to bridge the gap with the bank of mom and dad using their home as an ATM to fund the deposit on junior’s home, but junior isn’t joining the same club with the house as an ATM for the next 30 years, junior is just buying steerage on the last ship to leave the dock.

It’s a Ponzi scheme, pure and simple, and in common with all Ponzi schemes, those who are “investing” in it are full of bigging themselves up while it works, and full of shock and anger and vitriol and innocence when it blows up in their faces, meanwhile everyone who was excluded from it screams schadenfreud…. and bigs themselves up for not participating in a party they were never invited to anyway.

Madoff and his attitude to the future is not an exception, he is how the entire credit based economy is, they are all Madoff’s

Hence all the current panic, and desperate measures the guvvmint is introducing to try and keep the ball rolling, but, it doesn’t work, it CANNOT work, because by definition it cannot work, that is what a bubble or a Ponzi scheme is at heart, the very antithesis of anything sustainable.

We do effectively have a two tier society, those who live on credit, and those who do not, and the “standard of living” of those who do not falls *dramatically* short of those who do.

Comparisons are always flawed, but if you look at me and my brother you see me, who had a trade, and who worked hard, periodically, with lots of period interspersed where I just laid back, I was irresponsible and so on and so forth, whereas he kept his nose to the corporate grindstone, he didn’t learn a trade, he learned “management”, in essence, he worked within the Ponzi scheme, most of his working output contributed to it.

Today I am debt free sat in a dive of a flat that is quite warm and comfortable, haven’t got dressed yet even though it is a working day and I am being paid (fuck all…lol) as my diary is empty.

Today he has a small manor house cum farm, he is still working, he has to, and I dread to think what levels of debt he still operates under, but certainly many hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Yes, one was responsible and respectable and put his nose to the corporate grindstone and did the whole get married and buy a house shit, and one was a tosser who picked up a trade or two along the way and enjoyed life.

But I don’t think those are REASONS for the difference in current lifestyle, I think they are just symptoms, I think the reasons are quite simply that he was a loyal member of the ponzi debt/credit club from the day he started work, and the biggest loan or debt of any kind that I ever signed was two or three thousand to buy a fucking motorsickle….

His LIFESTYLE and “standard of living” is much higher than mine, but his security is little if any different, he isn’t working now because he wants to, he simply has no choice, he tried to retire several years ago…

Now that in effect it is too late, it’s all downhill from here bro, he is starting to regret all the time spent working at the corporate coalface, and all the time not spent with family.

But, he and I are the lucky ones, we had the choice, in his case he took it and enjoyed all the benefits, in my case I rejected it and enjoyed all the benefits, if you’re under 25, that ship already sailed.

You must look at us both with envy, and disgust, and contempt.

You are a child of our time, I am not, I, and all the assholes like my brother who worked within the Ponzi scheme, are from a different era.

You’re *right* to envy us, I wouldn’t fucking swap with you.

It’s like a month in Siam in 1952 with a thousand US Dollars in your pocket, it ain’t 1952 any more, it ain’t much money any more, it ain’t Siam any more, and it ain’t all that being the white man any more, the sell by date has passed.

I fucked that bitch when she was sweet and 16, tore that hymen up with my cock and I was the first cock in her cunt and in her ass, and pounded that shit, but those days are gone, now she is in her 30’s and a lying skank ho and anything that was worth having is a distant memory.

4 more days until the end of the tax year here in the UK, and the mortgage laws get even tougher, still not a fraction of what they were when I and that bus mechanic started out, but tough enough even the bank of mom and dad can’t help you.

Now we are in a place where it is literally a valuable/viable strategy to owe money to the guvvmint for things like Council Tax, provided you play it right so you are never their top priority, because there already isn’t enough Court time or Council revenue officer time to chase anything except the easiest to target 75%… the most egregious cases, not the ones who say I am terribly sorry and terribly grateful for all you do, but I do not have the money to pay this bill in full, but I am able to pay 25% of it, and CRUCIALLY, you do pay that 25%… at least they are getting SOMETHING from you.

Crucially for those who drank the cool aid, as a friend of mine discovered to his cost the last time there was a crunch, the mortgage and loan lenders first chase those who CAN pay in full, even if it means wiping the poor bastards out completely.

The guy who bought the house for 10,000 in 1982 who still lives there and now owes 80k and it has a market value of 200 gets foreclosed, the guy who bought the one next door for 10k in ’82 and now owes 180k gets left at the back of the queue, for now….

This is important, because it sets an absolute limit on how much longer this game of musical chairs can keep going, this is the real demographics timebomb.

The kids growing up today will be so used to being refused any and all kinds of credit at every turn, that by the time someone decides that they are worth lending money to, they will no longer be interested in a life of indentured servitude, maybe you’ll talk them into to borrowing the equivalent of two or three thou for a used motorsickle… and that won’t keep this kind of economy going…

March 31, 2014

Laptop lifesavers….

Filed under: Wimminz — Tags: , , , — wimminz @ 12:04 pm

In my night job I get asked a lot about downgrading new laptops to Windows 7.

I have just done my last one, not worth it anymore.

Thankfully, because I am smart, which just means I have been burned in the past, and learned my lessons, as soon as I get a new machine the very first thing I do is pull the hard disk and take a full image using Macrium Reflect.

If you do not do this, stop, do not pass go, do not go any further, do not do anything else.

I can’t stress that bit above in red enough.

The reason I can’t stress it enough is we have gone back to the bad old days of the winmodem, and there is an actual reason that Lenovo Thinkpad T series laptops start and £650, and Toshiba Satellite C50’s of the same size start at £325.

The reason is the components used in the Toshiba are UTTER shit, every possible corner is cut, and the fucking things are deployed with a bare bones (not even full spec) UEFI BIOS, not a proper one, and hidden partitions containing the Win8 install.

Make no mistake, pull the hard disk, wipe it and all partitions, reinstall it in the laptop, pop in a genuine MS Windows 8 install DVD, and you will have a brick that refuses to even see the fucking hard disk.

No, it’s not because the HD has Primary / Dynamic / GPT setup, you can create the fucking partitions manually ready for the install and it still won’t work.

That’s cos the Satellite comes with a disk with 5 partitions, 4 of them hidden from the user..

  • 1 gig NTFS system drive, hidden
  • 100 MB no name FAT32 LBA, hidden
  • 128 MB <no name> NTFS, hidden
  • 450 gig NTFS main partition visible to the user
  • 10 gig NTFS recovery volume, hidden

Yes, the bitch is looking, via UEFI, at those two small hidden partitions, one FAT32 LBA and one NTFS, to even SEE the fucking hard disk.

Even OpenSUSE 13.1 won’t install to one of these bastards.

So at this point, unless you have that Macrium drive image, you are TOTALLY fucked, because the only install media is in that hidden recovery partition, there is no recovery DVD, even if there was, it’s the same as a Win 8 DVD, it won’t fucking work if those two small hidden partitions are missing or damaged.

The Toshiba website doesn’t provide you with any repair or recovery methods or downloads either….not *merely* a case of them being lazy, there is literally no way, they would have to provide a disk image and tell you to pull the disk, put it in a docking station, and blow the image to it, which is how they build the fucking things.

Now, while we are on the fucking subject…

Starting this little cunt for the first time, it sets up windows for the first start, choose your region etc, this is FROM THE FACTORY, and it takes a fucking HOUR PLUS to actually get the cunt to boot to the desktop.

Once it has gotten to the desktop, expect at least another 30 minutes of waiting, while you think it is frozen, for it to finishing the first run setup.

Then it starts in all it’s glory, and the first thing you do is right click on the desktop to sort out the display resolution and settings, because they are fucking awful, and then you realise the settings are right, it is just the cheapest and nastiest LCD screen you ever saw.

And on, and on, and on….

So lets see what our £350 buys us

Part Code PSCG6E-05J002EN
Review Date 10 Oct 2013
Rating ***** stars out of 5
Processor Intel Core i3-3120M
Processor clock speed 2.5GHz
Memory 4.00GB
Memory slots 2
Memory slots free 1
Maximum memory 16GB
Size 32x380x240mm
Weight 2.3kg
Sound Realtek HD Audio
Pointing device touchpad

Display

Viewable size 15.6 in
Native resolution 1,366×768
Graphics Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000
Graphics/video ports HDMI, VGA
Graphics Memory 256MB

Storage

Total storage capacity 1,024GB
Optical drive type DVD+/-RW +/-DL

Ports and Expansion

USB ports 3
Bluetooth yes
Wired network ports 1x 10/100
Wireless networking support 802.11n
PC Card slots none
Supported memory cards SDXC, MMC
Other ports 1x USB3, headphone, microphone

Miscellaneous

Carrying case No
Operating system Windows 8
Operating system restore option restore partition
Software included none
Optional extras none

And lets compare it to the bottom of the range T series stinkpad at £650

Card reader
Card reader integrated

Card reader
Compatible memory cards MMC,SD,SDHC,SDXC
Certificates
Energy Star certified

EPEAT compliance Gold
RoHS compliance
Wi-Fi CERTIFIED
Colour
Colour of product

Black
Data transmission
Bluetooth

Display
Display diagonal

15.6 in
Display Resolution
LED backlight
Touch sensitive screen
Energy management
AC adapter frequency

50/60
AC adapter input voltage 100 – 240
Battery life (max) 12.8 hour(s)
Battery Technology Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion)
Number of battery cells 9
Expansion slots
CardBus PCMCIA slot type

ExpressCard slot
SmartCard slot
Graphics
Discrete graphics adapter model

On-board graphics adapter model Intel HD Graphics 4000
Hard drive
Hard drive capacity

500 GB
Total Storage Capacity 500 GB
Keyboard
Keyboard Layout

Numeric keypad
Pointing device ThinkPad UltraNav
Windows keys
Memory
Compatible memory cards

MMC,SD,SDHC,SDXC
Internal memory 4 GB
Internal memory type DDR3-SDRAM
Maximum internal memory 8 GB
Memory Clock Speed 1600 MHz
Memory slots 2x SO-DIMM
Networking
Bluetooth

Cabling technology 10/100/1000Base-T(X)
Networking standards IEEE 802.11g,IEEE 802.11n,IEEE 802.3,IEEE 802.3ab,IEEE 802.3u
Operating system/software
Operating system architecture

Operating system provided Windows 8 Pro (64-Bit)
Optical Drive
LightScribe

Optical drive type DVD Re-Writer
Other features
Cable lock slot

Cabling technology 10/100/1000Base-T(X)
CardBus PCMCIA slot type
DVI port
ExpressCard slot
Hard drive capacity 500 GB
Memory Clock Speed 1600 MHz
Memory slots 2x SO-DIMM
Optical drive type DVD Re-Writer
Pointing device ThinkPad UltraNav
Processor family Core i3
USB 3.0 ports quantity 2
VGA (D-Sub) ports quantity 1
Warranty 1 year warranty
Windows keys
Packaging content
AC adapter included

Manual
Quick Start Guide
Phone Features
Form Factor

Clamshell
Audio
Audio system

Dolby Advanced v2
Built-in microphone
Number of built-in speakers 2
Battery
Battery life (max)

12.8 hour(s)
Battery Technology Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion)
Number of battery cells 9
Ports & interfaces
CardBus PCMCIA slot type

DC-in jack
docking connector
DVI port
ExpressCard slot
Microphone in
Mini DisplayPort quantity 1
S/PDIF out port
SmartCard slot
USB 2.0 ports quantity 2
USB 3.0 ports quantity 2
VGA (D-Sub) ports quantity 1
Processor
L3 Cache

3 MB
Motherboard chipset Intel QM77 Express
Processor Clock Speed 2.4 GHz
Processor family Core i3
Processor Model i3-3110M
Security
Cable lock slot

Fingerprint reader
SmartCard slot
Storage
Card reader integrated

Card reader
Compatible memory cards MMC,SD,SDHC,SDXC
Hard drive capacity 500 GB
Number of hard drives installed 1
Total Storage Capacity 500 GB
Technical details
Cable lock slot

Cabling technology 10/100/1000Base-T(X)
Colour of product Black
Energy Star certified
Form Factor Clamshell
Intel Anti-Theft Technology
Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
Intel My WiFi Technology
Intel visual technologies Intel Clear Video HD,Intel Insider,Intel InTru 3D,Intel Quick Sync Video
Numeric keypad
Optical drive type DVD Re-Writer
Pointing device ThinkPad UltraNav
Warranty 1 year warranty
Weight & dimensions
Depth

245.1 mm
Height (front) 31.8 mm
Height (rear) 35.6 mm
Weight 2770 g
Width 372.8 mm

March 29, 2014

You young punks…

Filed under: Wimminz — Tags: — wimminz @ 9:03 pm

…lol… y’all don’t know shit.

I was over at my mothers’ place today, she is in her 90’s, a few years ago I got and installed for her a freesat system and a flat screen telly, so today I flick through the HD channels on freesat and bang the thing on RT, Russki computerivsputnikteevee, fucking breath of fresh air, took me straight back to Gulf War 1 and my mate with the 4 metre tracking dish, you’d watch CNN for a bit, then switch to Fox and think they were talking about a completely different war, then switch to the Beeb and think they were talking about a completely different war, then switch to RTE and think they were talking about a completely different war.

Course, RT has a very different take on israel / palestine / syria / turkey / crimea etc etc than all the western channels, in much the same way that the many pirate DJ’s at Radio Caroline had a different take on contemporary music and radio than the Beeb etc.fab21nov70.jpg.opt400x549o0,0s400x549

Oh to be a youth listening to the great 208 on long wave at night, I remember it well, but all those pioneers, and myself, and myself watching Gulf War 1, and myself watching RT today on my mum’s Freesat HD system all had one thing in common.

It is a seemingly trivial thing, but it is a hugely, hugely, hugely important thing.

It is flatly impossible to remotely detect if you are watching or listening to it.

Over the internet, it is so trivial that it is routine to track what every single household does, if I set up “Radio Free Airstrip 1” and stream it over the web, 100% of all listeners can be identified within 60 seconds.

Multicast != Broadcast.

I see lots of people talking, shades of won’t get fooled again, because now you know, what with teh intertubez and all, we are all so informed, and bloggers like me have a voice that is equal to Reuters…. yeah… right…

Bitchez, you are not fucking free when the state can routinely track what sites y’all been visiting, which they can do, quite independently of any cookies or websites or server settings or anything else….

It only struck me today, talking to one of my young nephews in his twenties, that he didn’t even know what the fuck I was on about, having never even lived in a world in which his every move, communication, social interaction and financial transaction was open to the State.

I tried to explain, you could listen to 208, or Lord Haw Haw, or Liberation radio, and unless you were being physically watched or overheard from a few feet away, nobody would know, and if you heard someone coming, spin the dial, all the evidence just vanished…

It’s a common theme…

Filed under: Wimminz — Tags: — wimminz @ 10:38 am

…in post apocalyptic books, such as DMJ’s As I Walk These Broken Roads, that there is some character who basically traverses a route, a hooks up with the same other people, maybe once or twice a year, maybe once over three or four years.

Alternatively this person may be a postman, or a trader, or a caravanner.

I have news for you, this is the life I lead now, in the pre-apocalyptic world.

I bump into people I haven’t seen for a long time, there is no song and dance or hail fellow well met, just hey bro, maybe we’ll talk, maybe we’ll trade, maybe we’ll exchange some shit or undertake something, and then the ways part again, and who knows when, or even if, I will ever see that person again.

Doesn’t mean these relationships are shallow or meaningless, they can actually be very profound, very real, very deep, just none of that shit needs saying.

I can have conversations with them that I would not dare have with anyone else, let’s take an example, one I had very recently.

Sometimes I will deliberately take a difficult position, just to question and analyse, OK, we all know that X is so, but why is it so, why is it self evident, where is the evidence?

So I was discussing a skank I was with for a bit last year, and the subject came up about kids, yeah, she is raising mini skanks, and the blues brothers sketch intrudes, how much for the wimminz, your little girls, I want to buy them.

So the boot was on the other foot, and I had to answer the question, why is a sexual relationship with a child inevitably and always going to damage that child.

I’ll tell you now, in debating terms, I did a lousy job, “Because it just is” doesn’t cut the mustard, and frankly I only have myself to blame, because we had been discussing the Christopher Nuttall books, the space marines of the 27th century, sic, and of course the space marines are all semper fi and kick ass, and of course lots of the space marines are wimminz, and of course the space marines are all anti rape and totally anti child rape, but killing and burning and destroying anything that moves, hooyah.

I was commenting on the uncanny valley of lack of credibility between the whole picture painted of these space marines by the author, it just didn’t hold water, my mate said ok, what would they be like, and I said they aren’t gonna give a fuck about rape or child rape, and they aren’t gonna have wimminz in the ranks, not and survive against the alien hordes and all the rest of the shit.

So he says why should they, you tell me what is wrong with these things.

And of course he is right, it is all ideal world stuff, I’d really rather none of that stuff happened to me, or my kids, or those I care about, but bad stuff happens to people all the fucking time… and I’m cast back in time to the time someone asked me the theoretical question, would you rather your 6 year old child got raped once, or contracted terminal childhood leukaemia, you must choose one option.

Of course it all rolls back to the myth that rape is a fate worse than death, and da wimminz would rather die than be raped, but, having seen atrocities go down in various places around the planet, I have never actually seen any evidence of that, first, second or third hand…. in fact the only times I have heard any evidence to the contrary it wasn’t, cases where women were raped and mutilated and killed, and they knew up front that that was what was going to happen to them, *they* called upon all the gods and fates to rescue them, but it was the inevitable mutilation and death that they were trying to avoid.

So back to the present and the present subject, and I am left with the uncomfortable situation that fucking children is wrong because even discussing it makes you a social pariah, and doing it makes you sick sensation of the week in the MSM, and no, because of all these factors, I cannot actually give you any evidence that it is per se always damaging to kids, especially given that for most of English history it was quite legal and normal to take a wife as long as she was 12 years old, which most certainly qualifies as a child today.

It’s in the nature of these “ships in the night” encounters to sometimes go into strange and dangerous territories, so I don’t really question how the subject arose.

Then he hits me with it, and I had completely forgotten, the day I visited would have been the 13th birthday of his daughter, if she has ever lived, if she had ever been born, if she had not been late term aborted by his psycho ex, who, I learned for the first time, apparently said to him in spittle and hate, that aborting the kid was at least going to prevent him or any other man from ever putting their cocks in her or raping her.

He still loved his daughter, his child, even though she had never been born, he wouldn’t have loved her any less if she was alive and 13 and had had sex, or been raped, or abused in any other way.

It hit me, had this strange feeling, I really have no idea why on the one hand having sex with children is such a boogeyman, but on the other hand, one parent, the mother, unilaterally deciding to kill a child, refusing the child the opportunity to live, refusing the other parent the opportunity to raise that child (even if the mother wasn’t interested) is not merely morally acceptable, but an inalienable legal right… a legal right which everyone else must pay for, and defend, and uphold.

That is a question I cannot answer.

 

March 28, 2014

Shooting the shit.

Filed under: Wimminz — wimminz @ 12:07 pm

One of the benefits of having travelled a lot is you get exposed to a lot, a virtue that is compounded if you keep your eyes and ears open, use the brain you were born with, and live for enough years.

Quite often, if not usually, the “data” you pick up is “useless” from many perspectives, let me give you an example.

If you are a driver, you will know all about periodic and cyclic traffic changes, you can have a given road from point a to point b that takes 50 minutes to drive Monday to Friday in the morning or in the later afternoon, 30 minutes during the day, and 15 minutes at 2 am.

Then you can have days where it is 10 am but the journey takes 15 minutes, the roads are all inexplicably empty.

While the morning and evening rush hour traffic is useful data, because it is predictable, the quite 10 am journey is useless data, because you can’t predict it or do anything with it.

I have this year (2014) done journeys of 100 miles or more on main roads in my region, and felt like it was 1970 again, there was fuck all traffic on the roads, but in every other way it was a perfectly normal working weekday, with no explanation whatsoever for the lull.

So this observed data is real, but “useless”, and yet, there are things to be learned from it, perhaps the biggest thing you can learn is that for no apparent reason that you can discern, you can go out one day and discover that there is only 20% of the traffic on the road that you would expect, which tells you that rather than having a central, known to all, reason for the other 80% to be absent (eg it’s -10 and a blizzard out) the reasons are collective and subconscious, (eg it’s not sunny enough to buy an ice cream)

When you become open to this, you will start to notice more subtle trends that come out of nowhere one day and are gone the next, one day the roads are empty, one day everyone is driving like a cunt and not paying attention, one day everyone is driving frustrated and impatient and nobody will let anyone else in from a side road, one day everyone is parked badly.

Again, this is “useless” data in that you can’t centrally model it or predict it or take advantage of it, but it is nonetheless real, every single one of you reading this who has been driving ten years or more, in any country on the planet, knows exactly what I am talking about.

This is however, essentially closely related to the phenomenon that you can look at your watch and note that it is 11:32 am, and the 8,000 peaceful protesters in the street are slowly walking by holding their placards and singing, and you can look at your watch and note that it is now 11:41 am, and it is a fucking riot, and nobody is quite sure why…

Oh yes AfOR, you have talked about this shit before, crap changes real quick, well, yes, I have, but just because I am talking about it again doesn’t mean I am repeating myself, yeah it’s all birds, but last time I was talking about sparrows, this time I am talking about chickens… it’s all fowl… but the devil is in the detail, as always.

Now, like everyone else, I can see correlations, increased fuel costs, lowered real wages, less money for fuel, less journeys taken, migration to monthly salaries paid into the bank and not weekly in cash, OK, maybe the roads are dead because it is the 3rd week in the month and everyone is broke.

It’s now Friday, I got zero work in my diary so far, I had one small job on Monday, and one small job on Tuesday, and it’s not just me, I look at some of the other guys diaries, same story, it’s not nationwide though, just our region, the south west.

It’s another one of those “inexplicable” quiet spells.

The dating / fucking scene, it’s basically vanished, the people are there, but I personally am getting fuck all action, and judging by what others are saying, I’m not alone.

It’s all inexplicable, it’s all useless, it’s all vague and unpredictable, but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t mean anything or have any significance.

I can remember being in Spain, which was using the Peseta then, when Gulf War 1 kicked off, the closest involvement we had was the 6th fleet stopping by for drinks and some shore leave on their way to that end of the Med, 2,000 miles away, nevertheless, all kinds of businesses and day to day working and projects and plans and even routine maintenance for all sorts of things that were in no way related to the war or the yanks or the iraqis or anything else, fucking died overnight….

Officially of course the exchange rate between the US Dollar and the Spanish Peseta collapsed, to this day, given the geography and everything else, god alone knows why, but it did, so you can see why people who thought in greenbacks put every Spanish project on the books on hold, suddenly everything got 50% more expensive, in dollar terms, but none of that explains all the people earning and spending and thinking in Pesetas also going quiet.

So we have a situation where we are not a million miles away from some old fart noticing the birds flying south and thinking it may be time to chop firewood, and the birds flying south early, so chopping more, it’s not that the birds, or the other drivers on the road, or the other people on fucking sites, or the other engineers at my company, or anything else, are privy to some secret that I am not aware of, or got some news before me, or anything else. Correlation != Causation

The important lesson is that LACK of a causative link does not mean that there is little or no importance or value or benefit to be attached to observation.

It is wrong to note sudden and unexpected periods of inactivity in any field, and to try to forge a causative link out of observation or correlation.

It is equally wrong to extend that logic and say that since there is no observable causative link, just the odd bit of correlation, that the two things are therefore completely unconnected.

The *connection* between brush fires and birds migrating is summer, there are very few brush fires up on the moors when the birds have all flown south for the winter…. even if the agency that started the fire in question was a shard or broken bottle or a discarded cigarette.

A E Van Vogt wrote about this, there was a spaceship full of scientists, and they were all specialists in their respective fields, they know 100% of their own field, and 0% of everyone else’s, and there was one guy who was a generalist, he knew 2% of every field, and he prevailed because real life was not a speciality situation, all nuclear physics, or all surface chemistry, or all germ biology, and so on.

By definition then, we are dealing with a subject that by its very nature defies simple analysis, or simple explanations, or simple modelling.

It’s like a modern supermarket where *everything* is tracked, even to the point where they know your teenage daughter is pregnant before you do, but the one thing they CANNOT track is the most important information of all, how many people did NOT walk into that shop, and what were their reasons for doing so?

BP, Tesco, PC World, and a whole host of others, do not know why I will never set foot in their stores or buy any of their products as long as I live, while they are ascendant, they don’t care, when they start to care, it will be far too late.

It was with deep joy that I watched Comet, to give but one example, go to the wall, fuckedcompany dot com, go bust and shut up shop. (can’t wait for the rest of the group to follow)

It is really any surprise that I can feel EXACTLY the same way, for EXACTLY the same reasons, about a person, or a state, or an institution?

You treated me like a cunt, there is no upper limit to the pain or suffering or agony of grief that you can now endure, before I even twitch the end of the little finger, you are already, to quote one chick I used to bang, “fucking dead to me”, and I am not the only one, far, far, far from it.

Turnabout is fair play.

I fear that much of the MRM is populated by men who are trying to understand, trying to comprehend, trying to make a difference, let’s take DMJ for example, I don’t know the guy from adam in the flesh, but he absolutely reeks of an intelligent man trying to understand and make sense of shit.

Fui quod es, eris quod sum

I fear it, not because it makes me afraid, but because of the waste…  I fear that one day I will see my son, and have a literal lifetime of experience and wisdom and tips and tricks to impart, and I will just look at him in silence, mutter “meh”, and turn and walk away, because ultimately he has to learn his own lessons, there are no shortcuts.

In that sense I fear, I fear the loss, I fear the waste, I fear that he will become more like me.

There are many things in a man’s life that he is a fool to ever put into words, no matter the passage of time or distance or anything else, something things, there is just no possible upside to saying, save for some vain and juvenile hope that the words themselves will impress for a short time.

Particularly now in the digital age where all forms of communication are monitored and recorded, it is spectacularly stupid to say many things in a man’s life, doubly so if they are not even true in the first place.

When I was a boy, in the analogue age, it was perfectly possible to say “I’m going to fucking kill Terry”, because Terry had done something, crashed your car, stolen your girl, whatever, it was possible because it was transient, if you wanted to make your world last longer you could go out and pay a stonemason to carve them into a lump of granite.

Now I am a man in the digital age where *everything* is monitored and recorded, what I can tell you is that 99% of that stuff is never going to be talked about by me, because *everything* is monitored and recorded, which means that 99% of analogue real life has been lost to the modern generation.

If we look at actual facts, the abduction and serious sexual abuse of small children has remained pretty much constant in the UK since the end of the last war and the beginning of record keeping, the number is around 40 or 50 children a year.

The digital age hasn’t changed that number.

The digital age just meant that old ladies doing the flowers for the church now need to pass a load of checks, because that same church also has a kids playgroup, and some of those old ladies, like me, did shit they didn’t oughta have done, back in the analogue age, so now they fail security checks in the digital age.

I have a prison record, clearly this reflects the stuff I was caught, tried and convicted for, and in my nature, if I did it I admitted my guilt in plea right after confirming my name and date of birth and so on to the court.

More motoring offences than you can shake a stick at, some drink driving, one drugs, one theft (insurance job…) of a vehicle. All this was in the UK, never had any troubles with the law abroad, and 99% of this was between the ages of 18 and 22, and I am now in my fifties.

Now I can tell you I’d be a fucking fool to admit anything else now, and that’s the truth, and it is also pretty obvious that I am likely like most everyone else, I did a lot of stuff I got away with, but it is also the truth to state that you really, really, really cannot put me in that class of people who spent their lives being a mobster, but only ever got convicted of motoring shit and not paying taxes.

I can tell you, hand on heart, that at no time did I ever go “outside” the circle, for example burglary, mugging, theft, supplying drugs, arson, are all crimes that go outside and involve third parties, the only way you could get involved with me was if you chose, of your own free will, to adopt the lifestyle and join us.

Like the Tescos bit above, the present security and screening services that basically 99% of modern workers in the UK have to take part in, are singularly inept at it, in exactly the same way that Tesco cannot tell who does not walk into the store, and why.

The screening processes cannot actually track those that are a risk, to your data, or your security, or your children, mainly because they can only work with those who are IN the system, and even then, it has to trust data entered in the analogue age, so it generates lots of false positives, lots of false negatives, and has no idea at all about those it is not tracking, or things it is not tracking for.

Again, like the suddenly empty or busy roads, I see flurries of these security clearance things, in my own day job there have literally been so many, by so many different agencies, that I actually have no idea what my current status is, nor do I care, a feeling shared by many.

Again, like all of the above, I don’t know that there is any useful data you can pull out of this, it’s “useless”, from a management and control perspective, but nevertheless it exists, and has its own complete ecology.

The monitoring or screening or assessment or whatever process doesn’t actually have even the remotest link to the actual risk that I present to your company, to your property, to your image, to your deadline, to your data, to your children.

But when the birds fly north for the summer, you do get far more brush fires up in the moors….

I am a reasonably intelligent and observant and honest and forthright and practical and so on and so forth bloke, and I know I can’t work out all this shit, I can see signs and patterns and trends, I can make guesses, I can even have a history of making fairly accurate guesses, doesn’t mean I know shit, understand shit, or have a handle on shit.

This is why I KNOW FOR A FUCKING FACT all these cunts and leaders and policy makers and behind the scenes head honchos are flying as fucking blind as me, they really have no more idea, probably less of an idea, than me.

I know because I have come to observe and deduce that there is no missing link, no higgs boson, no quantum theory, no rosetta stone, which will suddenly bring reason and understanding and order to things.

If there is no missing crucial quanta of data, then cleanly these other fuckers are lying or delusional when they make the claim that they do know what they fuck they are doing, because they do have access to seekrit data that I do not.

They may well have access to seekrit data that I do not, but it is really just more of the same sort of data that I already have, it is not the missing crucial quanta of data that are a pre=requisite to understand and unlock and make meaning of all the rest.

This is the biggest confidence trick of all time, not that Merkel is a better statecunt than I could ever be, for that is clearly now not true, but the deeper lie that simply BEING Chancellor of Germany somehow gives her access not just to more data than me, or just better data than me, but access to the missing crucial quanta of data, without which, more data is nothing of value whatsoever.

March 27, 2014

A millimetre at a time

Filed under: Wimminz — Tags: — wimminz @ 8:32 pm

That is how we approach the cusp, the tipping point, the edge…

It’s how we work, it is what it is to be human, it is indeed the basis of many children’s games, to move just one millimetre from where you are, it’s such a tiny distance, nothing really can be changed by it.

But millimetres add up.

If you declare that according to the law in the UK you will not have sex with anyone under 16 years of age when you yourself are twenty, then the next day declare that you will have sex with a girl just one day younger than the girl you had sex with yesterday, in just 1,500 days you will be having sex with a pre-pubescent girl.

Of course it goes the other way too, limits can be raised and things can be made retroactive, in current political history the age at which you are eligible for a state pension is remaining in effect a fixed distance into the future, as with each couple of years passing the age limit gets raised a couple of years.

This is why we still have taxes, one off temporary things that were declared to be funding the current war, and they just kept getting extended.

The same things happened with copyright, Mickey Mouse and the Beatles will never pass into the public domain.

What we are seeing now, and what I was able to predict quite easily, in the sociopolitical movings and shakings in the near east, is a classic example of this, one millimetre at a time.

Nobody thinks the frog is either going to jump out of the water, or die, after all, it is just one more degree of temperature in the water.

It’s just one more pair of shoes the wife buys, it’s just one more day some asshole takes your designated parking space, it’s just one more inch the fast bastard in the next seat encroaches into your fucking seat that you paid for.

My parents generation were the ones left behind or ordered to stay behind when Singapore fell, they worked on the Burma railways, the ran the winter convoys to Murmansk, they stayed at home and saw entire cities burn, and if they were from any other European nation the story would have been broadly similar.

Too late, they remembered the stories *their* parents told *them*, and it was always the same, and never the story told in the history books.

Oh yes, the bloody Germans did not send an answer to a letter by 11 am the next day, so we will declare fucking war, a second at a time, a minute at a time, and hour at a time, a millimetre at a time, because god knows being late in responding is a much more serious matter than starting a world war….

…. because all of the events and politics and bullshit from 1918 to 1939 have no meaning whatsoever, it is THIS millimetre, THIS second, THIS exchange rate, THIS sale, that tips the balance, oh no, it is most certainly NOT the case that we all together only got to this point by dancing together for the past 20 years, pushing each other another millimetre at a time.

Oh no.

So I send a message to a skank I know, but rarely converse with, what’s the point, she is a fucking airhead, and a liar, and a wimminz, so I guess the previous verbs are superfluous, asking her is she is looking forwards to world war three, having just read this..

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-27/russia-create-own-national-payment-system-bid-reduce-dependence-west

guess what her response is, well, she doesn’t know shit, but apparently her fucking grandad has been saying this exact same stuff…. go figure.

Now it transpired Erdogan in Turkey was thinking about a USS Liberty style operation in Syria, hence the sudden block on jewtube and twatter (sic), he was trying to stop the leak.

Seems the global surveillance and monitoring stuff is a two edged sword, whodathunkit…but being hoist by your own petard is rapidly turning into an international sport this past year or so, and of course all the politico’s are all quite happy if someone with no face and no name in a far away land decides to go and get hisself killed,  hooyah..

Cos everyone is so wrapped up in their own millimetre, their own square yard of mc-mansion on interest only liar loan, they never really think about the other guy, and his millimetre, and that guy over there, and his millimetre, and that other guy over there, and his millimetre.

And then one day someone does something they think is perfectly reasonable and trivial, and tells someone else, either you do this, or do not do that, trivial thing, by this time, or it’ll have to be war old son….. knowing that there is no way the other guy will actually *not* comply, not over one tiny millimetre, it’s just not worth it.

And these people, and their advisers, and backers, and colleagues, are apparently the last ones to get the memo, and then they act all sad and sorrowful and surprised and shocked, and announce what everyone with half a functioning brain has been expecting for weeks, if not months, if not longer, that now we the blue team are at a state of war with the red team.

 

March 26, 2014

So I go into the local bikes and bits shop.

Filed under: Wimminz — Tags: — wimminz @ 1:27 pm

I’ll be the first to admit, haven’t been in there in quite some time, but still…

I’m after a carb rebuild kit, he asks me what bike, I tell him, never heard of it, he says, what year he says, I tell him, 1980, before I was born he says, can’t you search by the carb, Hitachi HSC40’s, no he says, and so it goes on.

I start to wander around the shop, tired and neglected looking old Triumph twin, 5 thousand 7 hundred fucking pounds, what the fuck.00282_please_complain_here

Listen to him telling some cunt on the phone about roller chains, yeah, we got 520, the DID’s I can do you for 40 quid but they are crap, got some other at 160 quid and they last forever (really, a fucking roller chain that lasts forever….)

I walk out in fucking disgust, never to go there again.

Wander down to the place just down the road from my pad, at least he has heard of 1980 Yams, and he is pretty honest, he tells me to forget it mate, nobody carries anything any more, get myself on to the internet, it’s what everyone else does.

Three pages of google results all shit, then I find these guys.

http://www.nrp-carbs.co.uk/

Send em an email, hey bro, can you sort me out, 20 minutes later, reply, yeah, no problem, comprehensive rebuild kit for those carbs is 19 quid each, includes everything except the diaphragm, and we do those too BTW, and BTW, front and rear carbs require a different kit because of the different jetting.

Fucker not only knows his product and replies pronto, he even knows (or checks, which is the same thing) that front and rear cylinders are jetted different.

While I am at it, a shout out for these guys too

http://www.ignitech.cz/en/

Fucking rock….

I am (yet again) going to quote Carl Sagan

We’ve arranged a soci­ety based on sci­ence and tech­no­logy, in which nobody under­stands any­thing about sci­ence and tech­no­logy.


And this com­bust­ible mix­ture of ignor­ance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.


I mean, who is run­ning the sci­ence and tech­no­logy in a demo­cracy if the people don’t know any­thing about it?

Fuckin’ A

That is one of the most profound things you will ever read, I shit you not.

You got to remember, I did not mug some random asshole in the street and quiz them on their knowledge of 34 year old Japanese bikes, I went to a fucking specialist motorcycle spare parts dealer who has been trading since at least 1990 to my own personal fucking knowledge, and the cunts have PC’s in front of them with up to the minute access to all the suppliers they could possibly want, and data, and microfiche files, and everything else you can shake a fucking stick at.

We are *****SO***** fucked.

 

March 23, 2014

whores charge too much

Filed under: Wimminz — wimminz @ 1:52 pm

If the national minimum wage is £6.31, and you get get asked to do pretty much any job for that, from dirty manual labour to skilled labour to 12 hours on your feet charging around an amazon warehouse, tell me why fucking is worth more?

I’m being utterly serious here.

Lots / most of the MRA sites whine about the feminazis don’t like whores because whores offer an alternate supply of access to cunt.

Sure they do, but it is way, way, way fucking overpriced, so it’s not really access is it.

No whore is worth more than £6.31 an hour, which is, by government standards, a basic living wage.

You cannot POSSIBLY be assigning a greater value to it than that, and not be a blue pill cunt worshipping simp, because after all, it is just sex, and not exclusive sex / monogamy / relationshit / marriage / mother-of-my-children sex, but JUST sex.

In fact if I am going to book you for longer than an hour or two, eg overnight,  then you’d better be spending the rest of the fucking time cooking, cleaning and scratching my balls, because otherwise I can just hire a maid to do that shit and hit on her for free.

You see, lacking the ability to OWN a wimminz, like a chattel, a slave, personal property, every postulated longer term relationshit / benefit / extra is just dust in the wind, there is no way, literally not a single fucking way, that I can enforce it.

In fact hiring you as a whore, either on an hourly basis or on a regular weekly / monthly contract, gives me so many MORE benefits that every other method on offer, if I house isn’t cleaned adequately, you’re fired, if my food is not on the table, you’re fired, if my balls haven’t been drained, you’re fired, it’s basically the same deal I get offered by my employer, do these things or get fired, want the job?

If you are my employee and you produce a new idea thanks to the environment I provide and input I provide, I own that idea, you do not.

If you are my wife and you produce a child thanks to the environment I provide and input I provide, you own that child, I do not.

It is sheer fucking insanity.

I’m in my fifties, jelly and comics and playing cowboys and indians no longer has any appeal to me, it’s not that I have forgotten these things, or can’t get them or do them, they just don’t have any appeal any longer.

Same with wimminz, I just lose fucking interest in 99.9% of them within 5 seconds of the cunts opening their mouths and saying something.

It’s a game I have played so fucking often I have seen and heard every possible permutation so often, so very fucking often, that it is about as interesting as watching a coin toss, really, you expect me to still keep avidly and frantically watching every single one, on the off chance that one of these days one of them is going to do something different, develop antigravity at the top of the arc, then develop inertialess drive and zap off at 100,000 Km/sec before returning and turning into a bacon sandwich and a pint of brown ale?

Property, it’s the same shit really, if it *can* be taken from you, then you don’t own it, and I’m damned if I can think of anything that *can’t* be taken from you, at a whim, at the stroke of a pen, and that includes life and liberty and your own flesh and blood. Property is indeed an illusion.

Trawl social media and there is an endless supply of wimminz who think the earth is bigger than the sun, creationism has a place in schools, jealously is healthy and not forgetting that old standby that art is *much* more important than science…. all typed out over the fucking internet…

I have to tell you, against such a backdrop of arrogant and profound stupidity, I find myself coming over all “Meh”, no matter what the supposed atrocity, 5 year old girls forced to endure full penetrative sex, meh, wimminz and children left homeless and without heat or food, meh, people imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, meh, entire countries and economies raped and pillaged, meh, Putin annexing the Sudetenland H^H^H^H^ Crimea, meh, I don’t give a fuck.

In the last 24 hours I have seen;

  1. A wimminz bundle a child into a front wheel drive car with a flat nearside rear tyre, something that causes sudden rapid and uncontrollable loss of control at speed.
  2. A wimminz and child with a flat battery outside my front door, me with workshop full of tools, battery charger, jump leads you name it.
  3. 2 wimminz with their lives coming apart at the seams due to their own actions.
  4. A relative who has had two of her family diagnosed with terminal cancer in the past six months, to add on to the kid who is a fucking professional victim
  5. A truck prop shaft lying in the middle of the fast lane on a dual carriageway.

My reaction to all of these was to note them, go “Meh”, and carry on as if nothing ever happened, because being brutally honest it didn’t. If it doesn’t involve me, it doesn’t count.

There are no fucking innocents any more, if it happens to you, it’s your fault.

Plenty of shit is going to happen to all of us, it’s how you react that counts.

30 years ago, hell 20 years ago, fuckit, maybe even 10 years ago, I’d have been first responder to all of these, not for praise, not for thanks, not for remuneration, not for karma, just because it was obviously something that needed doing, and I was there, and I could do it.

IN GOD WE TRUST, EVERYONE ELSE PAYS CASH.

It’s a bitch, what’s in it for me, and payment better be up front.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

My dad was fond of grinning and saying “Adolf was right”, it used to upset people but because he grinned he got away with it, just a non-funny joke in bad taste eh, yeah well, he’s been dead 25 years now, and I no longer think he was joking…. so we were talking over a coffee, Huwaei, the company that had every western guvvmint up in arms about because of the security implications of using their routers and switches and shit in our networks, turn out not only have the NSA hacked us, the NSA hacked them years ago… so Huwaei stole IP from Cisco and made a cheaper and better clone, which made them evil, even though Cisco are the ones who handed over the keys to the system to the NSA, because being chinks they can’t be trusted, get hacked by the NSA, so now everything is trebly untrustworthy, and I say “Adolf was right” and get looks like I have said something wrong.

Meh

 

 

March 22, 2014

Broken things.

Filed under: Wimminz — Tags: , — wimminz @ 11:39 am

Take a look at the new HP Procurve switches, or more specifically, the OS….

Out of the box set up is about 6 things you have to select by console, then you get a http gui that actually works, not a “it’s all there somewhere if you know the nomenclature” sort of web based gui you get with Draytek, but with visual representations and iconography and mouse click and drag select for a whole bunch of ports etc.

Of course you should disable the web gui from the console once done, but as a management tool it rocks.

Petersen in the states did a book years ago for HD, what fits what, can you put shovel barrels on a pan bottom end? and a knuck head on that? and so on? The Petersen book would tell you…… bit like the arcane knowledge that the old Bedford 6 cylinder petrol pistons would fit a BSA 440 single, with a minor mod in the lathe.

In my day job not a day goes by when I do not see questions such as will an 1921 ABC work in place of an 1921 BCD, and will IOS 124.22.t5 work in place of IOS 124.24.t3?

Of course the answers are that a lot of the times these things do work OK, provided you never unexpectedly hit an edge condition, where suddenly and unexpectedly it all just stops working….. yesterday’s two jobs were a bit like that, 29xx series Cisco with various ehwic cards, including a xdsl one for the adsl line, on which hangs 12 desks, all with a desktop PC running Citrix cloud, and a VOIP phone… the wonder in many ways is that it works at all….. the fix was as arcane and mystical, replace the apparently not faulty ehwic, rj11 cable and microfilter, oh, which just happens to mean powering down and restarting the system…. yippee, it works.

The Engineer in me weeps like a tortured soul, no smoking gun was found, so no fault can be declared to have been found and no fix declared to have been implemented, but with parts and all that’s 500 quid that cost someone…

The Engineer in me sees that Citrix / XenApp works when the client machines are running an office app, and that office app is word or excel or outlook, not powerpoint, and no other massive data streams like big powerpoints or streaming video in a browser, hello youtube, iplayer, or most fucking commercial websites now with flash video, just the basic three office productivity apps and NOTHING ELSE, you want about 256k per desktop, which is 5x what Citrix say is the minimum, even though Citrix refuse to answer this question with anything except “it depends”.

So 4 per meg, so you go to a adsl site and it’s getting 12 meg… DOWN, the a in adsl stands for async, so it’s getting 1.2 meg UP, so no more than 5 desktops running the basic 3 office productivity apps, or it gets sluggish…. and into this they have 12 desktops AND 12 VOIP phones.

Of course everyone lied to make all those sales, so saying “Guys, you need a 10 meg up/down line, either EFM or fibre” makes all those earlier sales lies obvious lies…. so whereas the xdsl connection is 30 quid a month for “12 meg”, a “10 meg” EFM circuit will start at 350 a month, plus install fees etc etc etc.

For a 12 desk office this is a pound a desk a day, which should be a no-brainer when it comes to productivity, but all the bean-counters see is 12 x 350 = another £4,200 a year blown out the window.

The cost of the office, light and heat, the desktops, the voip phones, the cisco kit itself, the managed switch, the vpn, blow all this away, somewhere in there is 12 x bags of meat on salary.

Fact is, NASA ****RAN**** the fucking Mars rover over a 56k connection with *staggering* latency, so really, 12/1.5 meg xdsl *is* enough to run a small 12 desk office, even one routinely dealing in high quality photos such as an estate agent / realtor.

1.5 mbit/sec = 5 gigabytes in an 8 hour day, it really is enough.

Provided you don’t play with broken things.

There is good anarchy and bad anarchy, what I see every single day of my working life is bad anarchy, there is no discipline, no order, no consistency, no integrity, no pride in workmanship, so instead of saying 12/1.5 is actually plenty good enough for a 12 desk office, provided we do shit right, so lets do shit right and make doing shit right a core part of the employment contract, what I do see is a bunch of separatist isolated groups all looking to their own ends and not quite in open hostilities with each other, but he who gets the most bucks wins.

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In a previous life as a Marine Engineer I used to work for millionaires and billionaires, fixing their yachts, a conversation I had time and time and time again was regarding the full time engineers on said yachts, if they could do their fucking job, I would not have had one, so I did not complain.

That shit is OK when it is some rich asshole’s private floating palace, that shit is not OK when it is every commercial ship on the sea, plane in the sky, or train on the tracks, or truck on the roads.

Name me one of any of the above, shipping company, airline, railroad or trucking company, that does all their own maintenance and repairs… go on… just name me one…

USED to be so, ain’t any more.

And now it has come to the telco’s and providers and everyone else in the digital age, enter yours truly, representing a different high street comms brand every day, depending on job and location.

This is BAD anarchy.

You’ve all heard of BT, British Telecom, well lets say I work for ACME corp.

Let’s say WalMart get into business as an ISP, effectively reselling a BT product, business connectivity.

So we have the end user, Wibble Enterprises, buying / renting “a thing”, that thing being internet connectivity etc, but that thing itself being comprised of a consortium of different folks, BT, WalMart, Cisco, Citrix, etc etc

Nobody in that consortium can fix the shit they supply, they can’t do it in house, they outsources and externalised all that shit getting lean and mean, they go to AMCE corp, who deploy me.

Last week I heard a guy, in his 50’s, ex BT, ex Kingston, ex Compaq, and he alone could do every single job from running the new cable from the street cabinet into the premises right up to configuring the switch and router and imaging the pc’s and everything else, and he was talking about “the good old days”… those good old days being when he could earn 2.5k in a single months.

Really, 30k a year is the fucking good old days for a guy as multiskilled as that? who could actually walk the walk?

ACME corp of course don’t value him, or me, as much of anything, minimum wage slaves who should be grateful for a fucking job.

So you tell me, when this shit breaks, which it will, because nobody gives a fuck about a rental car, and I mean breaks properly, not the ongoing attrition of anarchy that we have now, who is going to fix it?

Seriously.

ACME can’t, it’s not their property, all they have is a head office somewhere, and they don’t do shit unless they are paid anyway, and that anarchy too, the guys at the bottom away from that head office get fuck all, the guys in head office get spectacular salaries.

BT can’t, they don’t have the skills in house any more…. and of course there are other players that have to be included, you’ll need some Cisco kit, you’ll need some HP kit, some Avaya kit, some RAD kit, some Dell kit, and some copper to join it all up, and the last copper wire factory in the UK shut down years ago, so basically the only thing that doesn’t need importing is yours truly, dumb shit of the month ACME employee.

Which all means shit gets done without committee meetings and project scoping and management and costing exercises and estimates and quotes and job tickets and work orders and invoicing and billing and suppliers and couriers and a whole load of other shit I can’t be bothered to type.

Which is basically the worst possible model you can have to try to remedy catastrophic failure.

And even that, that depends on the catastrophic failure being an isolated event, not just one in a chain of cascade failures, because then they simply cannot even fix one single isolated failure, because other failures have removed their ability to do that.

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Honestly, you have to see the utter helplessness that is a modern office, with cloud compute and VOIP phones, when the internet connection goes down, there is literally NOTHING they can do except drink coffee and chat and update fuckbook on their mobiles.

Then *I* will be dispatched on to site, and even here, in 2014, in the western world, with 4g on my phones right here as I type and a 100 mbit down 10 mbit up home cable connection right here as I type, I will get on site and wait two hours for the courier to bring the new Cisco box, and then I will discover that not only is the IOS on it wrong, none of the 630 IOS bin images I have on my laptop is right either, and there is no data signal for my work mobe on site, so no way to download the 40 meg IOS file or the 50k config file or to allow the 3rd line support guys in Mumbai to team-view in, and that shit happens at least once a month…. and this is when there isn’t a crisis and the mobe network does actually work, so I can get in the car with laptop and mobe and drive a mile or two until I can get a 3g signal and download the IOS and config…. no 9/11 / new orleans here thank you very much.

And right down at the end of that chain of bullshit, you get guys like me and the other fucker whining about the good old days when he could pull in a whole 30k a year, yeah, we could actually fix that shit, but we are unemployed, so it would be trespass, and let’s face it, no fucker would listen to us anyway.

LRFH, just noticed, on the left of this wordpress page, the menu, bottom item “Collapse menu”… yeah, always was a sucker for wordplay.

March 19, 2014

Heh, good fucking luck with that one.

Filed under: Wimminz — Tags: , — wimminz @ 11:37 am

So there I am, 140 lbs wet, speccy twat with geeky glasses, doing IT nerdy stuff, in an environment that, shall we say, has a reputation for violence and menace, yes, the prison system, and of course all the machismo is flowing and it is only a matter of time until references are made along the lines of “I’d rather fight him  (5′ 10″ 275lb tub of ex army lard) than (insert 6″ gorilla), but hey, (giggles and looks at me), I can always pick on him”

I just smiled sweetly, not that I am any kind of ninja imbued with magical super-powers or anything, in a drunken fist fight with a bruiser I’ll get my ass kicked every time, but (since I am a geeky nerd) to give an IT analogy what they thought of as “violence” was a desktop calculator, to me it’s the network and every computing device connected to it.

My problem with their definition of violence is it is frankly stupid to limit myself to their definition, just so I can get my ass kicked, if you outreach me by 6 inches and outweigh me by 100 lbs and fight at least once every week or two, the only real options I have left are to go for your eyes and blind you, and then stomp on your neck and kill you, which has consequences I don’t like, or take a beating, which I don’t like, or be the speccy twat toasting marshmallows, but only one at a time as two are too heavy.

Anyone with the strength of leg to climb the stairs two steps at a time can stomp on your throat hard enough to kill you, first time, every time… sure, that assumed your opponent is already on the ground, but getting your opponent on the ground isn’t a problem if your first move is to blind them permanently, which isn’t a problem if you have one hand free, and if your second move is to end their life…. surviving 5 rounds with Cassius Clay in the ring is epically *hard*, undoably so for 99.9% of us, killing is fucking easy, any human in their teens can do it.

“Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight” had this at the root, it’s been misconstrued now, people think a knife is a weapon to fight with and injure your opponent, whereas a gun is a weapon to fight with and kill your opponent, so everyone has lost the original premise, the guy holding the gun shoots the guy holding the knife when he is still 60 feet away, game over man, it was about the REACH of the various weapons, don’t bring a handgun to a rifle fight says the same thing.

Milquetoast me vs the gorilla is only an unequal fight in the gorilla’s flavour as long as I am content to let him use his advantage, and refrain from using mine, which is the level of violence available as a first resort.

And there are no-re-runs, not really, it’s not yet another world cup where yet another match takes place between blue team and red team, same as last year, and the year before that, and the year before that.

Crew fed weapons were invented because armies the world over knew that with individual weapons only 10% would even fire towards the enemy, as in, in the general direction of.

Of those 10% only another 10%, or 1% of the whole, would actually AIM at the enemy and pull the trigger, of those 10% only another 10%, or 0.1% of the whole, would pull the trigger a second time after seeing their first kill, and of those 10% only another 10%, or 0.001% of the whole, would grin and seek the next fucking target…. and of them them is another 10%….

And outside of active hostilities that 0.0001% better be toasting marshmallows, different scenario, different survival tactic required.

You hang around services guys long enough and get past all the bullshit, and you will eventually meet some guys who have actually met genuine elite special services types, and they will all tell you, they are not 6′ 6″ 300lb of muscle ninjas expert in every weapon and every form of unarmed combat and demolition and espionage ever invented.

Most of them are short, skinny, and feral. Masks off.draft_lens1317384module8432116photo_viggoEP0410_468x320.jpg1203984867

So there I sit, in my speccy twat glasses, toasting marshmallows while we all discuss so called violent men and there is much joshing and preening about who could kick who’s ass, and I am liked because I can take a joke as well as give it, I don’t take offence at anything, because there is after all no imminent danger that the rubber will ever meet the road here, not so much in the Crimea, but then, I’m not in the Crimea.

Just as I hide behind a mask there, I hide behind a mask here, I could tell some great and truthful stories about what we were doing, institutionalised corruption and incompetence and waste and ignorance, and I am sure you would find the stories interesting, but, like lifting my mask there, their just is no upside FOR ME in doing so.

Not as mask so much as in a theatrical type mask, more the poker face mask, I’m not projecting anything false when I sit toasting marshmallows, I’m just not projecting anything much real either, so I just sit there looking at the other masks, in this instance there were 7 others, 6 male and 1 female, wondering, if push came to shove, which order to kill them in, the ones who will obviously attack are one thing, the ones more skilled at their own masks who will stab you in the back, they are the ones not to miss, so it is not just in which order, but what method, so as to jam their mental gears and gain the seconds of advantage.

Of course it’s all bullshit, just more mental masturbation that doesn’t mean a thing when push comes to shove, but the lone female looks at me, because we have spoken and like it or not the mating instincts kick in, it’s 50/50 if she is going to do the “aww that’s unfair/not nice” routine or the “no, that’s not right that he is less of a man

But by luck or judgement or instinct or serendipity or the diving intervention of the spaghetti monster, if you look at us all from above there she is sat, like a sheepdog that has almost but not quite separated one sheep (me) from the herd, and the cosmic puppeteer yanks the strings of the other 6 males, and suddenly it is time to talk about people not physically present.

So I toast my marshmallows, thinking heh, good fucking luck with that one, bitch is fat, face caked with make-up, 10 year old kid at home, and if that all isn’t fucked up enough for y’all, works in the prison industry, may well be 25 years younger than me but even I wouldn’t hit it more than once to dump my cum.

If this is being a psychopath, it’s good to be free.

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