Wednesday, November 25, 2015

AT&T services sucks

sitting at home and there is no service on my AT&T phone that I pay $250 a month for (5 lines)... the worst part is there is no way to contact AT&T online after a certain hour so service is out, i have no phone in case i need to be reached in an emergency (or if i need to call out in an emergency) and the $250 a month i pay to AT&T for phone service is ridiculous... the service is never great at home and i've been considering switching to another carrier (after almost 20 years with AT&T) because the service is deteriorating and this is the worst, not having service and not being able to reach AT&T on the web to report a service outage or find out if they even know there is a service outage in my area... that is the worst service a company can provide, no service and no alternative way to report no service... that is why i will not bundle all services with any carrier or company... so i can connect to the web through the mediocre brighthouse service, but AT&T web page services are shut down overnight so they just don't care about customers or cusotmer service...

bad timing, AT&T... i will be shopping around for other carries now...

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

blind vista

windows vista is locking up again... task manager is locking up after i closed the browsers that were locking up and closed a mess of svchost files... one of those refused to allow me access to close it or get properties on it or anything else and it locked up task manager when i tried... i can still type into the notepad and save it, but the computer just popped up with a "failure security options" dialoge box when i tried to get task manager to open again... now the task manager window is just a black hole in the middle of the screen blocking out the desktop behind it and it is not responding so i am forcing it closed... after closing, bow it will not open again and a security box issue keeps popping up when i try to open it... so i will have to reboot windows vista to use the computer... thanks again microsoft, for not letting me use my computer...

so i return and all is well and i decide it is finally time to back up stuff on an external drive and i decide to use kaspersky back up which is part of the security software and it seems to have four preset backup modes for documents, photos, videos, and music and all four are not selctable at the same time so it is a four step four click operation and it seems to be taking forever to transfer the files so i will try drag and drop next time and see if it any faster... computers require more time than they should to maintain them...

of course kaspersky decided it was time to update as i am backing up the drive so there are backup errors and slowing to a crawl... you'd think they would write the code so that the right hand knew what the left hand was doing, but not kaspersky... it may be rated one of the best protection programs, but it's really not very smart...

elapsed time 38 minutes 38 seconds and 18% is backed up... i wonder if it continues if the computer goes into sleep mode as it does when i walk away or does kaspersky expect me to keep using the computer for a few hours while the backup continues... the more i use the computer, the more errors i suspect because it can't very well backup files i have open... not impressed...

elapsed time 1 hour 3 minutes and 27% backed up... about 25 GB have been backed up... very slowly... i wonder if this is going to be a disk drive image for restore purposes only and not easily accessible files... kaspersky doesn't say much...

i went to sleep... it finished, more than 100BG used (for less than 50 GB of files), but i don't see files so i will drag and drop for easier access anyway...

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

power trippers

had a cop with a major inferiority complex stop me today... he was barely as tall as my car and had an obvious chip on his shoulder... after asking for my license registration and insurance from my back window, the guy would not come to the window... he stood at my back door and had his hand on his gun the whole time speaking with all sorts of attitude... i turned to look at him so i could hear him and he unbuckled his gun and yelled face forward... i explained i can't hear him because i have diminished hearing in my left ear and he said "are you not cooperating?"... i sat back and remained silent... all this was in the middle lane of a three lane road and since he was standing next to my car, he was blocking the left lane too at morning rush hour... dozens of cars were backed up and i finally said officer please call for another officer because i feel unsafe and i will call 911 if you continue to stand in a threatening stance... he snatched my paperwork out of my hand, dropping it on the ground and as if i had done something threatening, he drew his gun and almost fell down as he bent to pick up my license... i pushed dial on my steering wheel and said 911 and he ran back to his car... i almost reported "officer down" but did not want to spend the day in the middle of a stupid investigation as i was on my way to work...

when he came back he still wouldn't come to the window and said i didn't stop at a stop sign until i was in the intersection... he lied because i stopped before the stop sign, before he could see me because he was hiding behind a building were he could not see the stop sign... and even though he stated himself that i stopped, he wrote me a ticket for "running a stop sign"... not enough, he wrote me another ticket for "not displaying my registration" because i could not find my paper registration yet the license plate displayed my registration sticker which is more than enough for any cop who was not looking to provoke a confrontation... he handed me the two tickets without the usual explanation and i asked for his badge number... he walked away and almost hit my car as he sped away into traffic and dozens of cars behind him started hinking and several almost hit each other trying to get going faster than anybody else... when i pay the tickets i will be including a letter to the court detailing the interaction, the threatening posture, the unsafe traffic situation, the contradictory reasons for giving two tickets, and filing a formal complaint against the cop... i doubt anything will come of it, but it'll satisfy my sense of justice and maybe his supervisor will keep the guy from killing someone one day...

some people simply should not be cops...

Saturday, October 31, 2015

brighthouse endless sucking

every now and then i just need to vent so if you've read one of the dozen or so similar vents beforee this, this will be even more abstract and possibly meaningless so look back for more detailed meaningless complaints if you like... simply, more and more often recently the brighthouse connection sucks... complete breakdowns happen between 1 and 2am a lot when there should be the least traffic, so whatever brighthouse is doing really sucks... could it be overheating?... could it be a hack or some malware?... kaspersky and spybot say no... brighthouse sucks, that's the bottom line... and what that leads to is running scans with kaspersy which slows down the computer so i am forced (oh, the agony) to sit here tying into a notepad fro endless hours while the kaspersky does it's thing scanning through the millions of files on this laptop... but a new one and re-image this one with windows 10?... then i'd complain about windows 10... but it is one good idea... buying a mac might be too but i refuse to believe macs are so much better simply because life does not work that way and apple has long since been revealed as not what it was made out to be... at least microsoft didn't pretend to be so much better and loftier and morrally superior to the bumbling, fumbling demon microsoft (or so most, including apple, portray it to be)...

and of course, windows updates... is it a sign of terrible work that updates are needed a couple of times a week or is it a sign of a failed culture that has so many cyber criminals that a security update is needed for windows defender and kaspersky and spybot daily?... rhetorica, obviously, it's both...

but brighthouse still sucks most...

narf :}

Saturday, October 10, 2015

terrible service

today's complaint is about ATT free webmail which is operated by Yahoo Mail for ATT and they obviously do not get along well which is typical of the years i've spent with ATT because ATT does not communicate well within the different services within it's own company and never has... i don't recall ever logging into the website without jumping through hoops unless i do it within a few days or so of logging in... the site does not remember my user name or phone number when i try to log in... yes, my phone company website does not recognize my phone number, pathetic service, aye?... and then there is email that i've had with ATT for more than 15 years and it is so challenging to access i seldom check it which means i abandoned many sites and services where i signed up with ATT emails... Yahoo Groups, for instance... once i managed dozens or more... but between SPAM from Yahoo and lack of access due to Yahoo and ATT miscommunications throughout the years, those groups are abandoned... I don't communicate via email for my Yahoo fantasy teams and have reduced those to one which is an annual invite from a friend... over the years i'd had hundred of yahoo sports fantasy teams in a variety of sports...

the hoops ATT and Yahoo make me jump through to do anything on either site just leaves me wanting another service... it's almost as stupid as blogger, which is owned by google, not working with chrome, google's browser...

Sunday, September 6, 2015

royce vs disney

the story of david and goliath is just one example of the supposedly helpless underdog battling the overwhelmingly powerful bully and i have a friend who fits the little guy in a legal battle against a huge corporation... royce and disney is my own up-close-and-personal david and goliath story and so far, goliath has been winning... the typical tactics, change of venue, delays approved by judges who are either corrupt or convinced by legalese that they should not hear the case but rather pass it on to other courts in other states... royce has been through the court system in florida, new york, and california, a few years in each state, and in each instance there was apparently no actual hearing of evidence, just motions to stay and delays and change of venue motions... and then there are the lawyers... apparently several have fought the case for royce only to mysteriously stop taking royce's phone calls after countersuits by disney were threatened or filed...

some years ago, royce signed a paper under durress that supposedly absolved disney of wrong doing but royce found evidence of fraud that allowed him to file against the signing of the paper and reopen the case... more years, more changes of venues, and finally a judge known to be very corporate friendly somehow closed the case... i am not sure if it was dismissed, but four days later disney filed a countersuit that the same judge accepted and the past few weeks disney has been threatening to take royce's home and everything he owns if he does not sign a document they refuse to present to royce's current lawyer unless royce pays legal fees... logic asks how can someone agree or not agree to sign something they cannot see... sounds fishy, but then, the years of legal spinning royce has endured seems fishier still... and suddenly, his lawyer is scaring the crap out of him insisting he pay and sign or risk losing everything...

my poor friend is frantic to the poinr of sounding irrationally upset and angry and helpless which is probably exactly what disney wants because such franticness in court would destroy any credibility royce might have... i advised him to get another attorney and he said no one will take his case... i advised him to go to legal aid because, as a defendant, he has the right to an attorney... i also advised him to focus on his right to be silent because ranting will not help him in court or anywhere... i listened to him for almost two hours... i don't know if i help him calm enough, i can only hope...

disney corp is known for stealing ideas and squashing those who might suggest they didn't, all big corporations do it... it is just sad to be friends with one of the little guys...

sigh...

Saturday, September 5, 2015

the 40 million dollar man

yes, talking about the nfl commissioner who disregards the law and runs the nfl like it was the wwe... the drama he creates is sad... the inconsistency in his punishments is ridiculous and probably criminal... a young black franchise quarterback nobody seems to respect gets his jaw broken by a sucker punch off the field and there is not a word of caution, no less punishment from the nfl commissioner... it took public pressure for punishment to come down for beating up on women... but a questionable association with alleged underinflated balls instantly becomes a million dollar fine and suspension and more - until it drags out in court and a judge throws out the punishment leaving the 40 million dollar commissioner the laughing stock of the world... and the arrogant above-the-law commissioner is not satisfied with the judge and nine months of very bad press for the game... he says he is going to appeal the ruling so the case can hang over the league and distract from the game all season... he is bad for the game, bad for sports, and bad for business...

then again, reality tv and forced drama sells so maybe it's good for business... for me, i lost interest in the nba and now, i don't like listening to football... but if i was earning 40 million dollars a year and had a meglomaniacal ego, i probably wouldn't care what anybody thinks either...

nfl sucks...

Friday, September 4, 2015

two hours of kaspersky interference

for the past two hours i have not been able to use my computer because kaspersky has been updating and doing a root scan... it should not take two hours and it should not prevent me from browsing the web... once again, i vote kaspersky sucks... i don't want to shut down the computer until kaspersky is done because kaspersky will just start the process over... is there a security suite that does not interfere with the use of the computer by the owner of the computer that also has high security ratings?... feel free to enlighten me... please...

time time time, it's not mine.

Saturday, August 29, 2015

k f-n c

as hard as they try to clean up his act (going as far as replacing him), the new kfc colonel sanders still creeps me out... i keep hearing that perverse cackling laugh from the earlier commercials every time i hear his voice or see his face... then i notice that the portions they show on tv are distortingly larger than the portions you actually get when you buy food at kfc... i haven't gone there in months and am turned off by that creepy laugh every time i see one... apparently, i am not the only one... and even more sick, the company loves the hate... turned me off completely from buying food from that company...

Friday, July 31, 2015

apartment reviews

It has risen high enough above that black water box that the cover floated away

Yeah, i have complaints about the apartment community in which i currently live... the rent is at the low end of market rate and the kitchen is the biggest in town and the layout is split and the location is convenient... that is why we stay... the rest of this entry is from the latest updated review on an apartment review website... just for the record and all...

UPDATE: 8/30/15: I wish I could say things have gotten better here. Yes, we stayed for another year even though they raised the rent more than $100. Promises of substantial improvements have not been kept. The 6-12 inches of flooding that blocks the front door and creates a lake to the next door neighbor's front door remains during any moderate to heavy rain. The gutters that create a shower that blocks the path out of the apartment and are one of the primary causes of the flooding have not been repaired. The flooding gets bad enough to dislodge the bricks that fall over into the sand where a lawn should be. I've uploaded photos. The cracked concrete was partially repaired, but there is still a trip hazard just three feet from the front door and a mold/algea filled dip that fills with a few inches of water on the only way to the parking lot. The promised landscaping has not happened. Misty no longer responds to my emails.

All in all the broken promises are very disappointing. We will look around during the next six months for alternative communities. At this point I will not recommend this place.

Monday, June 15, 2015

windows updates

once again microsoft is taking my computer away from me as windows has been updating for more than an hour now on the second reboot as some items wouldn't install on the first reboot and of course i had to shut down everything i was doing (twice now) to complete the updates so the creative flow is broken... i wonder if mac users have to suffer this... the malicious software removal tool has been installing for at least ten minutes and i wonder if it is once again not finding friendly ground with kaspersky and spybot and window's own defender... all this protection is like a midieval suit of armor, might protect from the big stuff, but prevents you from actually doing much of anything and does it protect from the real threats, the bugs, viruses, germs?... the suit of armor sure doesn't... it does make it quite impossible to move around freely, comfortable, or functionally even... maybe the wmsrtx64 (windows malicious software removal tool x64) is hanging because it is sure taking a long time to install... at least it is letting type this meaningless complaint into a notepad...

and will i have to shut down and reboot yet again after the wmsrtx64 finally installs? (if it installs?)... the process has the computer hotter than it's ever been even with the external fan blowing on it so who knows... the hard drive is spinning like mad... no wonder, kaspersky decided this would be a good time to do a scan... idiocy... so i shut down the root scan (which is not scheduled to run at start up or anytime except twice a week at 2am) and sure enough, windows updates snapped to 'successfully installed' and now wants to restart the computer yet again... fuckers...

so that was an ordeal... two hours gone along with the wonder and excitement and good mood... and we're not done yet... now it's time to run the scans to reassure me that windows update didn't screw anything up (again)... first, kaspersky quick scan... then, spybot system scan... that's where we are now, an estimate 59 minutes left...

finally done... for what it's worth... three hours gone... definitely an inefficient process...

Saturday, May 9, 2015

nba follies

ok, so i turn on a few minutes of the nba playoffs now and then (switching over to most anything else, girl's softball is much more fun to watch because it's not scripted... and i find the refs continue cheating for lebron james as the announcer point out two fouls he should have been called for in the last minute of game three against the Bulls and then they do call the foul on the Bulls in the last minute giving lebron free throws... the cheating is too obvious to make the product enjoyable, even when justice prevails and the bulls win a game in spite of the refs cheating... without the refs, the bulls would have won that game easily... meanwhile, the players are looking more and more ragged... is it the hip hop gangsta thug culture they are part of or just trying to emulate?... is the crack-head look in?... too many players are criminal on the court... it's bad enough they look like they don't enjoy their jobs, playing a game, but the bullying aggression that the refs let the stars get away with is not only against the rules, it makes a mockery of the refs and the game...

after san antonio got knocked off, i realized i am not rooting for anyone, i am rooting against players who just get away with too much rule breaking... now the houston-clippers game and harden gets a foul called when he hit chris paul with his left arm and the announcers point that out and mention that there was more contact on blake griffth on the previous two plays and there was no foul called on houston... the bias is ridiculous turning the games and outcomes into a farce... nba refs are the worst thing ever to happen to the game of basketball...

i just have to turn it off after a few minutes...

Sunday, May 3, 2015

another kaspersky saga

so i took some time to update my kaspersky information because renewal is coming up and as much of a pain as kaspersky can be sometimes, it is still the least troublesome of the kighest rated security software out there so i will most likely renew... except that now the safe money feature in kaspersky is blocking a website i want to get to and so i am on the phone waiting for tech support to tell me if i need to turn off safe money because it isn't actually working as it was meant to work or whether there is something i need to tell to the website i want to get to or whether there is some tweaking i need to do in the kaspersky or browser settings... kaspersky is also blocking a debugging software which i think is windows debugging software which is updated almost every time windows does an automatic update so that is another questions for kaspersky tech support if they ever come on the line... a land line or a charging cord is needed for kaspersky assistance, as is the case with so many companies these days...

so the kaspersky support person tells me that the latest version of the security software has known issues and one is safe money doesn't work so she advised me to uninstall and download the previous version and sent me a link to the previous version so i downloaded the previous version and i am currently waiting for the new version to uninstall and kaspersky blocked windoes uninstall a few times so i hope that doesn't mean i am stuck between cuz kaspersky blocked it's uninstall after it was partially uninstalled cuz i see the uninstall seems to be taking a long time and that would be a leaving the computer with no protection so this should be a lot shorter from a consumer's perspective... and it is preventing me from doing things because it's slowed the CPU to a crawl... and then, i need to call kaspersky tech support back again because the uninstall did not complete and when i went to restart the computer and restart the uninstall the broaser said it was still downloding a file and i saw the kaspersky file was labelled as malware...

so the second (actually third, but that's another story... updating my payment information didn't show up on their site so i had to call to update my information manually... sigh) kaspersky support person assured me the file was not malware and advised me to re-uninstalled, so i did... now at this for three hours, the uninstall says it worked and i rebooted the computer again and then clicked on the installation file with the tech support person reassuring me it was not malware and it was good he stayed on the phone because the installation file was about to install the same version i i just uninstalled and he walked me through the way to get the file to install the version they were advising me to install... the guy told me he will send me a utility that will gather information from the computer if the safe money feature still doesn't work and i should disable the feature if it doesn't work and send them the information with a screenshot of the error message and they will escalate the support ticket to level two support... and now it is opening a browser window... apparently they want me to try a free trial of the product i just installed... yeah, makes no sense...

so now i am turning kaspersky on (lucky i checked or i'd still not have virus protection) as it doesn't turn itself on... and the databses are from september 2014, so i am updating the databses... next i will try to get back to the web page and work i was trying to do three hours ago... of course that is after kaspersky updates... it is still trying... 30% now... it's not my internet connection because i just updated everything in spybot in less than 30 seconds while kaspersky moved from 25 to 30%... so it is the kaspersky updates servers that are extremely slow... so sad that the highest rated security product has so many flaws, is so cumbersome it bogs down the computer, and is so slow... maybe it works better with windows seven or eight... but maybe it's just lumpy programming and slow servers at their end... we are at 38% and going on four hours now...

so twenty minutes later kaspersky is at 80%... ridiculously slow servers, kaspersky... i did a speed test and my download speed is 38.63 Mbps... 39.23... and 39.57 in three tests... kaspersky's download server is still crawling twenty minutes later trying to download the database update file... they must be on dial-up... ridiculous... and now it is at 100% but doesn't say it is done and a root scan has started on it's own... i suppose i will have to figure out how to schedule the scans like i had them before but it isn't the same as it was and couldn't find a scheduling component so i set them all to manual and still a root scan started on it's own... so i will use the utility and send kaspersky all sorts of information about my computer and ask them to improve their scheduling component once again and still consider not renewing my license... i have 33 days to decide... any educated suggestions about alternatives are very welcome...

and the avz antivirus tools system scan continues... the DOS box continues to record information... and now it apparently wants me to save it, though it doesn't say so... it just opens a save window... so i sent the file with my requests and i am moving on to use my computer as I intended to almost five hours ago, though the inspiration and whatever might have been written tonight was erased by Kaspersky... I think it's time for another computer so I can actually do what i want to do while the other computer is down due to faulty software or whatever...

these early days of computers as really annoying...

the nba needs better writers

you know what time of year it is, the nba playoffs time... and the fourth quarter of the san antonio clippers game seven has been interesting... i watch less and less basketball every year and i dvred the fourth quarter of the san antonio clippers series... my eyes see that way too many times the ball goes near blake griffin, san intonio is called for a foul but leanord or duncan can be hit or even knocked to the floor and no foul is called... hopefully the bias will not continue, but it did just let the clippers come back to tie after being down by five... perhaps the script says the clippers need to move on this year...

as usual, a cloudly ending... chris paul falls down after missing a shot with 13 seconds and they call a foul on tim duncan... the annoucers say there was no foul... i didn't see a foul... chris webber gave a look right on national tv that says it all... at least they did call the foul at the other end (that the announcers did not question) so duncan shoots two foul shots ties it up again... and the clippers get the ball back with 8.8 seconds left... why is ginnobli still out there?... chris paul does make a great shot to take another two pint lead with 1 second left... gotta give him credit, he is hurting... but it should be a two point san antonio lead... and then, as san antonio starts it's play, an errant buzzer sounds... so the la clippers buzzer worker cheated and the nba let him or her get away with it... and the buzzer sounds and lets the clippers see the last play the spurs were going to run after the time out so the clippers could know what to do to defend it and that's ok?...

the WWE and the NBA are one and the same, scripted drama sports, not actual sports... the problem with the nba is they have terrible writers because they do not seem to prepare in advance and leave it for home team clock workers or referees to make decisions that influence game outcomes... that level of obvious bias is not fun to watch, and yet, i try to watch anyway because i keep hoping the uninted states stands for freedom, justice, fairness, you know, ethics... seems the greed and control freaks won't let that happen anymore...

show me where it does if you disagree...

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

screw you brighthouse

once again my computer wants to update and my virus software wants to update and sure enough, brighthouse decided i can't use the service i pay way too much for... so the computer will not sleep because it keeps trying to connect to the internet to update itself and so it distracted me enough to stay awake and complain about the crappy way too over-priced service brighthouse provides it i was not paying more than $1,800.00 a year to connect to the internet and have tv on in the background i might tolerate it... any of you young enough to remember when tv was free because advertisers paid for it?... now we pay the advertisers to sell us their product... it's like paying taxes on your taxes... but then, that's the american way, greed wins, people lose (except the few greediests who will do anything to take as much as they can cuz that's how you get ahead in this world)... thanks for fucking up the computer for another night, brighthouse... you abuse the word friend, brighthouse...

if only there was an equivolent alternative...

Monday, April 13, 2015

pro sports

typical of why i do not like nba pro basketketball these days... player scores 54 points and is announted as great, but his team loses... same player gets a technical foul which would mean an automatic suspension for one game which would mean he doesn't play the final game of the season which his team needs to win if they wish to make the playoffs and the news media is talking about the league rescinding the technical foul because they already did that for this same player once before this year... when is smells like cheating and manipulation is is cheating and manipulation and while most of the time there is only some obviously biased calls in games at critical moments, this would be a blatant league decision to overrule a referee in order to help one team make the playoffs... bullshit is not sports, it is theatre, scripted like wrestling... so many things are wrong with the nba, the spoiled multi-millionaire thugs so many players either are or portray themselves as and the culture calls them heros, but the scripting may be the worst of it all... i wonder if all the gamblers get inside trading information...

much cooler to see a 21 year old kid set all kinds of records at the masters or any other sport where critical calls by refs and artibtrary decisions off the court by league officials do not determine outcomes... in a team sport, an individual success means nothing if the team loses except to bring solace to the individual... yet in a team sport where sharing the ball is essential to winning, a player who scores a lot does not help his team win, in fact, he hurts his team and he only helps his ego grow... enter san antonio if you do not understand... the talented players come and go, the great teams endure... this rant was brought to you by the national basketball association... rebroadcast in your own words...

narf :)

Saturday, March 21, 2015

goodbye google

after finally having enough of google chrome, i switched over to opera... chrome just does not work with blogger (and sometimes not with youtube either) which is odd, since google owns all of those products and companies... apparently google has gotten too big for it's own good and their left hand is not working with their right hand or other parts and they lost a once loyal user... maybe i'll try google products again down the road, but for now, google doesn't work for me...

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

brighthouse does it again

the on-going saga of horrible brighthouse service continues and continues and continues... i am sitting here watching a movie and suddenly a screen comes on telling me that my set box is downloading new software and twenty minutes later the box is still rebooting and i have no signal and the movie i was watching, who gives a fuck, right friend?... i can see a saturday night live or radio program sketch of a drunk guy calling brighthouse during one of these episodes of blatant disrespect for a customer demanding to know what happened at the end of the movie, but showing up at the brighthouse offices with a shit bomb is more to my liking at the moment as i wasted time again trusting brighthouse to provide the service i pay $130+ a month for... so i wrote them this billing issue complaint:

I was watching a movie and you decided to pull the plug by downloading software in the middle of the movie. I want credit for today deducted from my bill. I pay about $4 a day. Friends do not turn off friends TVs in the middle of a movie.

and it gets worse, as usual... the cable box is now in an error loop and has been for a couple of hours... so i called to set up a service call and it's been an hour with three cut-offs and my friends at brighthouse are still too busy to help provide the service they cut off with their failed attempt to upgrade in the middle of my movie... so once again i am working for brighthouse fixing their crap equipment and crap service because they interrupted their service... after two hours i hung up the phone as they apparently screwed up so many customers tonight they have no 24 hours support reps available... brighthouse has to be one of the most poorly run companies anywhere...

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

sick of tv sports

the most honest professional sport may be wrestling because it doesn't pretend to have any ethics, integrity, sportsmanship, rules, or fairness... the so-called major sports, multi-billion dollars corporations, are ridiculous examples of a corrupt culture pandering to the lowest common denominator of sleaze... and anyone with any sense in this world laughs at the few moments of self-important talking heads yelling their nonsense as they change the channel or turn the tv off... this culture has become a pathetic parody of a meaningful life where villains are created in order to bring some illusion of unity to a populus torn between apathy and selfishness... we create fifty million dollar athletes just to tear them down for losing control when we pay them to live above the rules... the average human being cheats whenever possible for an advantage over other humans, it's survival of the fittest, get over it... unless you'd really rather make a fool of yourself playing a self-righteous asshole complaining about the very thing you pay people a fortune to do... not your team?... cheaters, of course... your team?... it's called a double standard, which is cheating yourself out of truth, justice, and a meaningful life away from the soap-opera tv wants you to buy...

get the folk from the big bang theory on the case, they'll figure it out...

and probably be more real doing it...

narf! lol :)