Scary Police Officers
The scariest thing about the whole "Gates" fiasco has been the reaction of the many law enforcement officers around the country.
Then there's this guy who is a police officer (apparently, we can all see by reading his email, with about a second-grade education) who emails a major newspaper raving about things:
Here's the story from CNN: the story.
Here's his actual letter (pretty disturbing.. not so much in content as in form and what it reveals of this officers personality) : here.
The police officer in question shouldn't be fired for racism, he should be fired because he's so stupid: claiming some newspaper reporter had 4th grade grammar just because he disagreed with what that reporter said, all the while showing to (now) the whole world that he has only 2nd or 3rd grade grammer himself. Yes, if you want to know, just ax him.
What an idiot. How are any of us in this country supposed to feel safe with idiots like this police officer walking around wearing a uniform and carrying a gun!
~ Basil
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The Microsoft-Yahoo Deal: Everyone Looses!
Microsoft and Yahoo made an announcement late last night.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/microsoft-and-yahoo-sign-search-deal-take-google-139?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2009-07-29
I actually caught wind of the story last night and skimmed over it, but I was too depressed to actually read it. Most of you probably heard about it today.
This really sucks big time!
Why?
It takes away from us all (everyone in the world!) alternatives.
I've tried bing a few times, and it pretty much always sucks. I can never find the site I'm looking for with Bing. Now, I admit, I wasn't really looking for something at the time, I was looking for something I knew was there and seeing if I could find it on bing as easily as I can on google. I couldn't.
I've tried it several times: no salami!
On the very, very rare occasions that I can't find what I'm looking for on google, yahoo has ALWAYS pulled though for me! A case in point. My friends all know I serve as a volunteer on the board of directors for For The Children Of The World. What happens when you search for that? "For The Children Of The World" is a common phrase and admittedly not a good choice for an organization name if you want it to pop up top on search engines. But, if you think about it more. Who is going to search for that exact phrase if they aren't looking for our organization????
On google, it generally doesn't pop up at all or it is about 10 to 20 pages into the search results. On Bing it is even worse.
But with yahoo, it pops right up as somewhere between the first and fifth result every time. Now, give me a break google and microsoft!!!! Are you guys really THAT stupid. Our web address is forthechildrenoftheworld.org for crying out loud, how hard it that to find!
This deal really sucks because it is going to make trying to find what we are ACTUALLY looking for all the harder now. What is worse, it takes something AWAY from the people of the world without giving them anything back in return.
I predict this is the end of the company yahoo, if they really go through with it and rip out their old search solution and replace it with bing! Oh, please, please, please give us at least two options: Yahoo Bing, and Yahoo Classic!!!!!!
~ Basil
Microsoft and Yahoo made an announcement late last night.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/microsoft-and-yahoo-sign-search-deal-take-google-139?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_2009-07-29
I actually caught wind of the story last night and skimmed over it, but I was too depressed to actually read it. Most of you probably heard about it today.
This really sucks big time!
Why?
It takes away from us all (everyone in the world!) alternatives.
I've tried bing a few times, and it pretty much always sucks. I can never find the site I'm looking for with Bing. Now, I admit, I wasn't really looking for something at the time, I was looking for something I knew was there and seeing if I could find it on bing as easily as I can on google. I couldn't.
I've tried it several times: no salami!
On the very, very rare occasions that I can't find what I'm looking for on google, yahoo has ALWAYS pulled though for me! A case in point. My friends all know I serve as a volunteer on the board of directors for For The Children Of The World. What happens when you search for that? "For The Children Of The World" is a common phrase and admittedly not a good choice for an organization name if you want it to pop up top on search engines. But, if you think about it more. Who is going to search for that exact phrase if they aren't looking for our organization????
On google, it generally doesn't pop up at all or it is about 10 to 20 pages into the search results. On Bing it is even worse.
But with yahoo, it pops right up as somewhere between the first and fifth result every time. Now, give me a break google and microsoft!!!! Are you guys really THAT stupid. Our web address is forthechildrenoftheworld.org for crying out loud, how hard it that to find!
This deal really sucks because it is going to make trying to find what we are ACTUALLY looking for all the harder now. What is worse, it takes something AWAY from the people of the world without giving them anything back in return.
I predict this is the end of the company yahoo, if they really go through with it and rip out their old search solution and replace it with bing! Oh, please, please, please give us at least two options: Yahoo Bing, and Yahoo Classic!!!!!!
~ Basil
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