HTC and Best Buy

the phone will no longer connect to the computer and i have not figured out why... other bugginess is happening too like time not synching and delays and poor connection for charging (i've had to replace charging cords way too often so it's also the cords that suck cuz a new cord works fine for a little while) and that might be why it is not connecting to the computer if the connection is flakey and that sucks as i have photos i want to save... hopefully they are on the hd card...

so i just spent an hour deleting text messages and trying to figure out what to do to get the phone to connect... and nothing is working... and that really sucks...

and i repeat the attempt again and just end with frustration... won't be getting an HTC again... so which to choose...

grump...


tic tic tic... updating a while later... it was the cable... the $30 charger i bought from best buy came with a charge-only cable... what a rip-off, best buy... i will complain if i go there again, as if they will care...

so the HTC was not at fault, but the phone is dying and locking up way too much...

whatever...

screw kaspersky again

i turned off kaspersky automatic scans, switched to manual scans, and still full scans run whenever the fuck they want to and if you notice by my language i am ready to cancel and move on to another virus protection... it is ridiculous that they do not build into their program a simple TURN IT THE FUCK OFF WHEN I AM WORKING feature... i refer to turning off scans, not the overall program... it is ridiculous that i must stop when i am doing because kaspersky stops the computer from working and i must deal with an excruciatingly slow computer as i wait for the kaspersky window to reopen and the kaspersky buttons to stop the scan that slows the computer to a crawl (or locks it), a scan i not only did not start, but i told kaspersky in their own settings not to start... serious flaws in the scheduling part of the kaspersky software are gradually overriding the protection that the software provides...

dammit kaspersky, get the message, your program undermines itself by acting like a virus that stops me from using my own computer and you will lose yet another customer if you don't have it fixed by the end of my subscription (or sooner as switching to manual seems to have the opposite effect as i've had to stop the crawl and turn off a full scan three times today since turning off automatic scans...

i shut down the computer and turn it back on and click on windows update because i have that set to manual too and kaspersky won't let windows update run because it starts a scan even though i set it to only scan manually... it's got to go...

get it together kaspersky - or you are gone...

goodbye mda

i grew up watching jerry lewis push himself hour after hour to beg in every way possible for a dollar or few for kids who had muscular dystrophy... it was often humiliating and exploitative and that grated on me a lot, but it got more money each year for a good cause and that was the way to do it back then when institutions were the norm for people different from the norm... he would work tirelessly for free not just for those 24 hours of live television, but for weeks before and after and all year round beating the drum for the people with muscular diseases... he made the muscular dystrophy association what it is, a multi-million dollar business supposedly dedicated to helping people... caring about people was what the mda was known for largely due to the blood, sweat, and tears given by jerry and all those who joined because of jerry...

i admit i drifted away from the show and i definitely saw the flaws in his antiquated narrow-minded perspectives, but that was what his generation taught their children and until the 1960's double standards and misguided prejudices were the norm (many still are)... oddly, many on the internet today belittle his opinions and talents, yet still spent their time posting comments about him... small minds condemning other smalls minds, the way of humanity... and a strange thing this internet world has brought, people who spend time telling other people to disregard someone else as a waste of time (wait, did i just define meaningless complaint?... shhhh, we can't be giving away the secrets and wisdoms and inside jokes, now, can we?... what?... lol lam)...

but back to jerry, or mr. lewis as those who didn't know him and thought him to be an elitist would call him, he gave until it hurt, that was without doubt true goodness and intent... this year i tuned in to see it was nothing like it was before... no telethon... a two hour concert with some disjointed messages in between... and no jerry lewis... i looked it up on the internet (where else, right?) and sadly, with shock and dismay about corporate america yet again, found out why...

the muscular dystrophy association died...

it was always on the backwards side, pandering for pity, exploiting the disabled for money to help them, but that was the method and mindset of the generations that spawned such charities... dignity and equality is only a very recent concept for those who have diseases or physical limitations, which is sad, but nonetheless true... people needed educating, yes, but without the pity approach, a lot less money would have been raised... still, in the ultimate act of self-destruction, it ripped it's own heart out of it's chest... greed and corruption?... just plain stupidity?... what else could explain the dismissal of a jerry lewis, the father, grandfather, and founder of the household name and vast money stream that made mda what is was... the guy who did it (mda president who earned more $400K off Jerry's kids the year he dumped Jerry... Jerry notably did not take money for his time but gave several million out of his pocket over the years) resigned the next year, which was likely no coincidence... and the organization itself is now failing... worst of all, as quoted in Time Magazine, mda officials continue to lie about Jerry Lewis in public statements and exploit him and others on their new show... he did not retire... he was shown the door, rudely, disrespectfully, shamfully... (shamefully too)... Time Magazine quoted the current interim mda president who said it loud and clear:

"a 21.5 hour show does not fit into a 140 character world."

and Time concluded:

"neither, apparently, did Jerry Lewis"

and i'll add neither, obviously, does ethics, loyalty, charity, or respect.

goodbye mda, there are plenty of other ethical and reputable organizations with a whole lot more integrity than yours... charity navigator gives mda one star (out of four) for it's financial health, failing... may you endure and shameful termination of business...

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...