the extreme annoyingness of kasperslky

the extreme annoyingness of kaspersky returns once again as for whatever reason it happens, the critical scan is taking forever to complete and it is shutting down the cpu speed to the point where i shut everything down and it is still taking forever to get from 98% to 99% and then, even longer to get to 100%... i try to ignore it, but then, i did want to use my computer tonight... as the third three year subscription moves along, more and more i am searching for a better security anti-virus software... i heard from kaspersky support that they do not have a feature that will not allow these intrusive scans to start while the computer is in use and it does not run in idle or sleep, so it drives me crazy by waiting until i want to use the computer and then starting all it's scans and updates at once so i can't use the computer and it can freeze so hard that it takes ten minutes to get the module open to stop the damn scans... definitely less a kaspersky fan with each passing year...

a whole country cries

perhaps nothing demonstrates the fact that human beings are children more broadly than the story of a whole country crying over the loss of a game... and lebron thinks he is king and the greatest... while the espn blathers on about the importance of lebron in this egocentric country, the fact that interviews with people on the street in brazil collectively state the whole country gets depressed and people there do not let go of a loss in the world cup is a sad statement of how superficial human priorities are... while sport stars are paid upwards of twenty or more million dollars a year to play a game and hundreds of millions of dollars a year to sell us products we really do not need, many thousands of children die of starvation every day... can you really feel this?... do you remember how you felt on September 11, 2001... 9/11... well, yes, it was tragic, but what do you think of the fact that more people died of starvation that day than died in the towers?... in fact, can you grasp the truth that every single day, five times that number die of starvation... every single day - five times... estimates range from ten to thirty thousand die of starvation every day, and some say even thirty thousand is a conservative estimate... one out of eight people suffer from malnutrition in this supposedly civilized modern world...

so a whole country cries when a game is lost... and espn can't stop talking about lebron... and most people ignore when tens of thousand people starve to death every day...

broken bell

the taco bell taste is uniquely addictive (they probably add sugar to their meat or sauce or cheese or something), but the distribution of food is consistently disappointing as the consistency of product is phenomenally abysmal most likely because they employ teenagers at minimum wage to put together their products... so they tempt the taste buds with inconsistent reinforcement a few times with a loaded product and then skimp drastically on the same product so the flavor sucks and the product is often so disappointing it is discarded or left for others to consume... the only sure consistency at taco bell is that a new product will quickly go from loaded with ingredients to a hollow tortilla shell in a matter of weeks, days even... i wonder if that is their marketing strategy... suck people in and keep them hoping for a good product...

this is why i find myself going without taco bell (or any fast food) for months and even years at a time... it is yet one more sad reflection of american industry more interested in the profit than the product... greed over pride...

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stupid moms

so there are apparently a lot of stupid moms in the world as a sportcenter anchor just mentioned that his mom threw out all of his baseball cards when he went away to college... he could have retired on them, he said... i know that feeling... rookie cards for mickey mantle, willie mays, carl yazstremski, willie stargell, roberto clemente, tom seaver, juan marichal, bob gibson, roger maris, reggie jackson, steve carlton, lou brock, rickey henderson, hank aaron, jim palmer, sandy koufax... this list could go on for a while... for most of those guys and a lot of others i had every card from every year they played, many in duplicate and triplicate... and then there were a few even more valuable cards, like babe ruth, lou gehrig, joe dimaggio, stan musial, jackie robinson, and dozens of others... i had many hundreds of thousand baseball cards... they were $10 for a box of 1000 retail and i would buy at least that much weekly, often wholesale so i'd get even more, for years... yeah, millions of dollars today, at least...

and then there were the comic books... i could have opened my own store as they were under 12 cents and i'd but a hundred a week for years... so many other collectables as well as i was making more than $30 a week as a paperboy from the time i was 11 years old and i was kind spoiled with cash gifts from grandma for years before that...

and there was more, but i spent a lot of years trying to forget the value, in dollars and in emotions, of what was thrown out when i left home to join the army... everything was neatly (hermetically sealed) boxed in the corner of the basement... everything was gone when i got home...

stupid... just stupid...