I'm peeved. Today, I opened my home page at Yahoo, and there I find they totally destroyed my set-up -- bragged that now I would be happier with their new ways, and to stay tuned for about half of those changes-not-quite-operative-yet, and that meanwhile, they'd leave large areas of my page blank until they got around to it, donchaknow.
So now, the greedy bastards have taken up about a third of my page for an ad space I didn't have to ignore before. The colors have all changed, and I have to think hard just to get to the place on the page where once I used to automatically glance at for the temperature, whatever. Now they have different fonts etc. WHAT THE FUCKING HELL? Man, I've got a six-month old camera I still don't know how to work, but these fuckers force me to study their god damned new display rules -- force me take an hour out of my life to set my page up "just so" and no one can complain to Yahoo in any way, shape or form that matters. The corporate abuse of their customers is their sin, and I'd like someone at Yahoo to be tossed into a Fargo Wood Chipper like Steve Buscemi. This is just more shit, different day. Last year, for instance, they figured out that no one could do diddley to them if they (all television producers -- ALL OF THEM) decided that right in the middle of any entertainment, they can do "special effects" with sounds and graphics like July 4th Fireworks to DEMAND YOUR ATTENTION on the bottom third of my screen to advertise products and upcoming shows. Right in the middle of whatever drama, comedy riff, kiss, whatever. Who the fuck at the FTC allows this to continue? A few years before that they figured out that they can have a transparent logo always on the lower corner of the screen. How much longer before the whole damned screen is covered with semi-transparent logos, ads, etc.? And then, there's all the product placements in the actual productions. Check out CNN for it's "news" about the most mundane products that they bend over backwards to present as "news worthy of your attention." Google and Yahoo are trying to charge a penny per email. Fucking scam artists. What kind of minds are there out there that do these things? Probably the same people who allow credit card companies to tempt poor folks into a $59/year fee for a card that charges 29% APR and heightens the "actual interest" paid by the person with late fees, cash advance fees, overdraft fees, etc. Talk about abuse of the poor! And don't get me started on the "cash on your signature" joints on every other street corner now that rapes the poor for huge interest rates for a three day loan until payday. Then there's the junk bonds, and now the housing bond crisis thingy. And when I apply for social security, the cookie jar might be empty. Nothing like a blast of Kali Yuga in the morning. Smells like victory to me -- victory for cold-hearted, vicious, evil marauders of our culture. Geeze, we could remove all the very smart people from the planet and we'd all be better off, cuz they sure are using their smarts to harm anything that gets in their way. Tax on the internet? Bomb Iran? Have a rock star threaten to shoot Barack Obama? All this and a cup of coffee too. My morning overfloweths! Edg
