Under a Gibbous Moon

Who the fuck needs a warrant or probable cause or any of that. Evidently a judge has decided that the outside surface of your car is public property. I never understand people that comment on stories about violating constitutional rights. Apparently if you aren’t doing anything that you feel is wrong, then you shouldn’t need the Constitution. I want to quote Ben Franklin here, but I think we all know which quote I’m going for.

Governments never take a dramatic action to remove freedom. They always will one step people into total tyranny.

When I was out and about this weekend I saw all this kids driving around in their pimped out cars. They driving recklessly on the roads and hanging around in parking lots talking like they actually knew about cars.

Just a hint for you fellers, when you are in high school and you’re driving around a $20,000+ car with $10,000+ worth of modifications to it, we all know that your mommies and your daddies bought them for you.

Do you know what that means? That no matter how cool it looks and no matter how fast it goes, it will never be cool.

It is my personal opinion that everyone, at some point in their life, should work a low paying job, preferably in the service industry.

During the summer in college I spent time working at a grocery store and I’ve also managed at a convenience store. There’s nothing wrong with either of these jobs. The pay is not the best but it’s honest work. Many people frequently refer to this type of employment as “shit jobs”. I believe that this is a very true statement, not because of the work but because of the way that people treat you.

More than at any other type of job that I have had, I have found that people will be rude and condescending towards you for no particular reason. Apparently, they are good enough to shop there but you aren’t good enough to work there.

These are products and services that people wish to have but, oddly enough, providing them apparently makes you a worthless person.

So remember, if you aren’t a decent enough person to be kind to people who are just doing their jobs, stay home, cook your own food and make your own stuff.

Holy hell!

No, seriously, this has gone to far, setting up for Christmas over five and a half months early. We are rapidly moving to the point where we’ll be seeing Christmas decorations all year round. Is this the world that we want our children to grow up in? A world where the Jingle Bell Rock is as inescapable as death and taxes?

I say no!

Now I do read Boing Boing, they have some interesting stuff from time to time. One thing, though, that I dislike is that the site’s founder, Cory Doctorow, seems to be batshit insane. He regularly makes position statements and then backs them up with evidence that either makes no sense or contradicts him.

Case in point. Apparently some lady stops to lecture kids on the benefit of selling their product instead of giving it away. Is she a douchebag if this actually happened, sure, they’re kids. Then Doctorow goes off on some weird tangent about companies taking stuff and then selling it. As evidence he says:

Sounds about right — companies take over our public aquifers and sell us the water they pump out of them; telcos get our rights of way for their infrastructure, then insist that they be able to tier their pricing without regard to the public interest.

A little bizarre. Most companies have to pay leases to the government to tap those aquifers. Even if they don’t, he’s free to drill his own well and even give it away if he wants, see how much money it’ll cost him to drill the hole, lay the pipes, pump the water and then maintain the whole damn system.

Then he complains about the phone company laying wires on his property. Once again, apparently this infrastructure is magically free in his world and apparently he’s hoping the phone fairy will come along and connect his calls.

It’s called TINSTAAFL (There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch), Cory. I learned it in high school econ.