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Coughing up vitriole
Feb. 11th, 2012 09:59 pmWe're not keeping Amazon Prime. The shipping was nice, but costs too much. The free video streaming has such a bad UI that it's unusable. And the Kindle Lending Library is a joke in terms of content availability.
I read an e-book with typos and it costs $4. What exactly did I pay for? There's no paper, I can't re-sell it, I can't give it away, they didn't do professional diligence enough to even check the spelling. The plot was unsubstantiated and only the villain had any personality. I'm thinking that the people who think e-books aren't ready for primetime are right because apparently no one even tries. I like the actual medium, but I don't like the abuse of the medium and the abuse of customers. If you're selling a product for actual money, then I have expectations of minimal quality.
I'm sick again. I'm so sick that I've watched 9 episodes of Glee already. I'd resisted because it seemed puerile and pre-chewed. I stand by that opinion and they never seem to pick anything decent song-wise. Plus I heard the Glee producers didn't pay a dime in IP compensation to the major studios who own the rights to the songs... So I guess me watching a music video on YouTube is "terrorism" (and really, the DMCA says music piracy is terrorism and the PATRIOTII says anyone can be renditioned (even American citizens) for terrorist activities) but the Glee producers ripping everyone off is "art". That hardly seems fair. Glee makes enough money that they should pay their "fair share" and if they don't think they should have to pay through the nose and out the ass from the same money-grabbing hand of the RIAA then they should use their collective might to renegotiate on behalf of everyone.
I have something percolating in my brain, and I'm not sure I have my whole essay drafted even mentally. But basically what I want to write is Family Social Fallacies. The parallel to Geek Social Fallacies which was written so geeky people would understand that the world doesn't actually work like they think it should... that most people are actually kind of monstrous and hateful and just pretend to be your friend because of something they need, so certainly by the time you get several links in a chain away, those people have no intention of even bothering to look like they care.
For a while I didn't believe in the Geek Social Fallacies, but LJ and DW disabused me of that. I look at my Network page in horror most times. There is usually something blatantly offensive disguised as progressiveness. If the Network page showed who connected you to the posts you're seeing, I think there are people I honestly like who I'd drop. It's too much work to find out when I have to open everyone's profile and glean for name match. Sometimes it works, I have a friend on DW who I totally need to invent a teleporter for just so we can have breakfast together.
But I don't care about people's grandparents or cousin's new babies or nephew's dyslexia or aunt's broken ankle. I understand it when people don't want to hear about my friends here because no one else knows them. Some of the stories about the coffee woman are funny or sad or annoying, but I didn't talk about why I went to the store for her last week because you don't care unless the story is entertaining. She's a friend of mine, but not a friend of yours. Friend of a friend is not necessarily my friend. But why do people assume that doesn't apply when it's about their family? Someone introverted should write the bitchy diatribic manifesto explaining why no one gives a fuck about anyone else's family.
I read an e-book with typos and it costs $4. What exactly did I pay for? There's no paper, I can't re-sell it, I can't give it away, they didn't do professional diligence enough to even check the spelling. The plot was unsubstantiated and only the villain had any personality. I'm thinking that the people who think e-books aren't ready for primetime are right because apparently no one even tries. I like the actual medium, but I don't like the abuse of the medium and the abuse of customers. If you're selling a product for actual money, then I have expectations of minimal quality.
I'm sick again. I'm so sick that I've watched 9 episodes of Glee already. I'd resisted because it seemed puerile and pre-chewed. I stand by that opinion and they never seem to pick anything decent song-wise. Plus I heard the Glee producers didn't pay a dime in IP compensation to the major studios who own the rights to the songs... So I guess me watching a music video on YouTube is "terrorism" (and really, the DMCA says music piracy is terrorism and the PATRIOTII says anyone can be renditioned (even American citizens) for terrorist activities) but the Glee producers ripping everyone off is "art". That hardly seems fair. Glee makes enough money that they should pay their "fair share" and if they don't think they should have to pay through the nose and out the ass from the same money-grabbing hand of the RIAA then they should use their collective might to renegotiate on behalf of everyone.
I have something percolating in my brain, and I'm not sure I have my whole essay drafted even mentally. But basically what I want to write is Family Social Fallacies. The parallel to Geek Social Fallacies which was written so geeky people would understand that the world doesn't actually work like they think it should... that most people are actually kind of monstrous and hateful and just pretend to be your friend because of something they need, so certainly by the time you get several links in a chain away, those people have no intention of even bothering to look like they care.
For a while I didn't believe in the Geek Social Fallacies, but LJ and DW disabused me of that. I look at my Network page in horror most times. There is usually something blatantly offensive disguised as progressiveness. If the Network page showed who connected you to the posts you're seeing, I think there are people I honestly like who I'd drop. It's too much work to find out when I have to open everyone's profile and glean for name match. Sometimes it works, I have a friend on DW who I totally need to invent a teleporter for just so we can have breakfast together.
But I don't care about people's grandparents or cousin's new babies or nephew's dyslexia or aunt's broken ankle. I understand it when people don't want to hear about my friends here because no one else knows them. Some of the stories about the coffee woman are funny or sad or annoying, but I didn't talk about why I went to the store for her last week because you don't care unless the story is entertaining. She's a friend of mine, but not a friend of yours. Friend of a friend is not necessarily my friend. But why do people assume that doesn't apply when it's about their family? Someone introverted should write the bitchy diatribic manifesto explaining why no one gives a fuck about anyone else's family.
