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Jane Collective
It is getting to the point where this sort of thing [1] will need to be reactivated. Along those lines, the broad circulation of this article [2] might prove beneficial.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Collective
[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/the-rise-of-the-diy-abortion-in-texas/373240/
Core conflict
This is the underlying theme from which the rest of my life derives. Currently faster internet is winning.
Resolve
I refuse to play your silly reindeer games, Starbucks. It’s small, medium, and large. Your faux Italian bullshit doesn’t fly with me.
Finally
Ding dong the witch is dead. The wicked witch is dead!
Windows Aero’s Shake “feature” [1] has to be the single most annoying GUI behavior I’ve ever run across. In fact it took more than a year to figure out why, sometimes, my desktop would immediately minimize every window except for one. Eventually I got fed up enough to employ DuckDuckGo [2] to find an explanation.
Turns out my usage habits have run headlong into Microsoft’s everything is a mobile app strategy. While on a phone a shake might be a useful gesture, it sucks for people like my when ported to the desktop. I have a habit of grabbing the chrome of the window I’m actively reading from. I also like to highlight text as I read it. All of this distracted clicking and dragging behavior while intently reading something gets interpreted by Aero as a desire to minimize every other freaking window on my desktop.
And for someone who has a great many windows open and positionally sorted, this goes beyond a rude interruption.
So I spent a few minutes after that looking for a way to disable this behavior via personal settings or the control panel or any other number of ways in which Microsoft scatters configuration across the operating system. All to no avail.
Today I did a bit more DuckDuckGoing [3] and discovered a registry entry that stops this insanity [4]. On the one hand–hooray! On the other, why is it that difficult to turn off a terribly unwelcome and intrusive behavior?
So endeth today’s sermon as to why Microsoft sucketh…in my humble opinion.
For what it’s worth, Apple isn’t any great shakes in this arena either.
[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/shake
[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=why+does+every+window+except+the+active+one+minimize
[3] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how%20to%20disable%20windows%20aero%20shake
[4] http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/disable-aero-shake-in-windows-7/
Smoking up the man
I don’t listen to a lot of commercial broadcast radio so maybe this has been a thing for a long time. But, still, this is new to me. Apparently a certain segment of the vaping/e-cigarette crowd is anti-government. I heard a commercial about every seven minutes today suggesting that vaping is, amongst other awesome things, a tax dodge.
Stick it to the man and his obscene taxes on tobacco–vape instead of smoke!
And Tea Partyists believe they are a political group instead of a marketing demographic.
Interpretation
Overheard in cubeland: $NATIONALITY have forty-five legal holidays a year. That’s almost one a week.
The point this person was trying to make: $NATIONALITY are soft
The point I took away from that statement: Jealousy
Roosting at home
All those years I advocated for doing XML namespaces by the book. We’re going to want to do stuff with namespaces in the future. All those years no one else thought there was no way we’d ever want to do that and that namespaces introduce unnecessary complexity. All those years of being outvoted.
Today, bitches. Today is what I was trying to prevent. And who is going to clean this up?
Sometimes being right sucks.
Dancing in the streets
The song is much better this way
Separated at birth
