Hey blog readers,
Here’s a complaint about the excessive use of technology in the world.

1) Your computer sucks! Microsoft, Apple and a TON of these open
source code monkeys
are needlessly crowding your pc with with CRAP. And they make you pay
for it whether
you realize it or not. Where is the persistant data? Where is the
Common user interface?
Why do the GEEKS out there promote speed over functionality?

2) Cell Phones Suck! I hate it when I get called by someone “on the
road” and the phone clicks off
in an underpass. Or when a lone cell phone rings (in some obnoxious pop
tune or a horrendeous
synthesized classical piece) and you have to guess which button to
push. Where is the voice
interface on these things? And what’s with the cameras? Convergence
devices without a decent
interface (and that means very little button pushing) are DOOMED. Don’t
buy one until
it complies with known standards. Even worse is video phones. Is it me
or do communications
companies have too many marketing idiots promoting dispeptic products.
A phone/palm/camera/MP3
player is absolutely too much stuff to put into a handheld device. They
are complicated, transitional
items which upon purchase are immediately outddated. Beside all the
interface crap you need
to go through to deliver your own info to yourself. WTF?

3) SUV’s Suck. Why are we wasting gas driving SUV’s? Holy mutha load,
If we didn’t depend on FOREIGN OIL
we wouldn’t be wasting Tax Dollars blowing up Iraq. The auto industry
should be ASHAMED at their
gross negligence for the environment, and should be building super
economical transport.
Those waste Billions could have actually rebuilt the public school
infra-structure, provide food for
starving Americans, provide Jobs for the unemployed, Why the US allows
corporate entities to build up a bottom
line while outsourcing to foreign workers on the cheap, enjoying tax
freedoms, and basically trading your
future for their their personal enjoyment.

4) Break Up the HUGE MONOPOLIES. Ok, I thought my phone rates would go
down when the industry got
deregulated. Nope. Hey I thought my cable bill would go down when they
deregulated the cable industry.
Nope. How about air transport, is it any cheaper, is it more secure, is
it efficient? nope.
While I’m on this subject you note that you have FEWER choices in all
these things now than you did 10 years ago.
This is progress?

5) The industry of American Democracy has to change. The USA needs to
adopt a 30 hour work week, a higher minimum wage, longer vacation
allowances, national health insurance, gender free marriage rights, the
right to food (no hungry families),
the right to shelter (no Homeless), the right to mental health
supervision. We have to change our prison system as well-
and develop a US Conservation service -like a peacetime army- to
preserve our land and the intrinsic economic power it holds
to benefit ourselves. Our reliance on cheap trade (again, for the
bottom line) serves only to weaken what should be a self-sufficient
economy.

6) Stop paying politicians. From the President on down, there should be
no such thing as a Career Politician.

-ok enough for today
-O