Think on These Things

I don’t like to say it, I don’t even like to think it, because I think Obama is a good candidate, but if he wins the presidency, I give him less than two years before he’s assassinated. Why? Because there are still a great number of racist and ignorant people in this country. Like people who think Barack’s last name is Osama, as one dumb-ass girl told me last night, or people that think he’s muslim.Let me clear things up for the morons: he’s half black (his mother is white), he’s christian, and I don’t even think his middle name is Hussien but his last name definitely isn’t Osama, it’s OBAMA you morons! If you don’t know who to vote for, if you don’t even know all the candidate’s names, please don’t fucking vote - you’re too dumb to risk participation.Anyway back to my point on Obama being assassinated. How am I so sure? Because I work with one such ignorant racist. Unless I have extremely underestimated the American people, if Obama wins the Democratic nomination, John McCain will win the election easily. There are even democrats who will vote for Hilary, but not Obama due to race. Which shows you how dumb these mother-fuckers are in the first place. I’ll use my co-worker as an example. He loathes Bush, hates republicans, he wants Hilary Clinton to win. However he will vote for McCain if Obama wins the democratic nomination. In other words, just because Obama is half-black (way too black for a president, I guess) he would sooner vote for McCain even though he doesn’t agree with anything out of McCain’s mouth, just because McCain is white. How does that make any sense? Why would you vote for someone with completely opposite views, just because their white? Well, it makes a lot of sense to a racist.When it comes down to a national election, I don’t think Obama will win due to racism. Plain and simple. If by some grace he does take the white house, it won’t be long before some whack job snipes him from the back of his Chevy pickup. I think the morons of this land may just barely be willing to give up sexism - but God dammit - racism is as American as apple pie!

One thing I absolutely love about Apple’s OS X is how all the iLife applications seamlessly trade information with one another. Add all your friends to your Address Book and when you want to write an email, you can launch mail, start typing their name and the rest will be auto-filled. I simply find this fantastic. However, it’s always annoyed me how this synchronization of information can’t span multiple computers as well. Well, it can, if you don’t mind paying $100/year for Apple’s .mac service, which is already considered by many to be obsolete. With .mac you can do things like, synchronize mail and contacts and calendars across multiple computers. But why would I pay $100 a year to synchronize such information between my desktop Mac Mini and my PowerBook? It’s a waste of money. Clearly, the .mac service would come in handy if you were synchronizing between home and work computers, but what if your work computer is a notebook which you bring home every day? Also what if your desktop machine were the center of your home office? This is my case. I have a mac mini, which I use for everything while I’m home and a PowerBook that I take with me to school and work. When I add or remove contacts, events, to-do’s, bookmarks, from one computer I’d like to have the changes made on the other. Let’s say I’m out in the school library writing a paper, I get a phone call, some things come up and a few more items are added to me to-do list for the week, I add a couple bookmarks, I write a few e-mail drafts. I add them to iCal/Mail on my PowerBook, and ideally when I come home and set the PowerBook aside to charge, I’d like to synchronize and have all those changes made onto my Mini, where I usually do all my e-mailing and organizing. I’m not going to pay $100 to do this, it seems so obvious, it’s .mac synchronization without the internet. Both of these computers share the same network, why can they not also share such information like contacts, events, and tasks directly? I don’t see any reason why I should pay to synchronize information between computers on the same network. If I knew anything about computer programming, I’d do it myself, but I only have an average grasp over HTML and even that I haven’t used in years. If there are any programmers or Mac aficionados reading this post who know how to accomplish what I seek to achieve, please, please tell me!

Over at the Raw Story, they’ve reported that apparently according to Mike Huckabee Homosexuality is a choice. I found the story on digg, where not surprisingly there were a few morons actually defending Huckabee, concurring with the belief that any behavior is ultimately a choice. This is simply laughable. If you really believe “any type of behavior is a choice,” that means you also think the mentally ill choose to be insane. The behavioral tics symptomatic of tourettes are choices. Huckabee must have had, at one point, homosexual desires which he suppressed because he chose to be straight. It’s the only way to rationalize such a stupid argument. I was born straight, always attracted to women, never had any desire to have sex with men, I did not choose to be like this, it’s just how I am. To say that homosexuality is a choice means everyone has the ability to walk that path including Huckabee and you and I. It means that everyone has homosexual desires, but chooses to ignore them. Therefore anyone who stands behind this argument must have had some experience of suppressing their sexuality. I cannot comprehend the concept of homosexuality as a choice because for myself, heterosexuality was not a choice.Plus, I seriously doubt anyone would choose to be gay given the shit they have to put up with from social conservatives.  

Quick rant about .mac, and a couple things that piss me off about it. Why the fuck should make require you to have a .mac account in order to sync your computers? Sure, I can see how this would be useful if the two computers were far apart and on different networks - like one at home the other at work - but I really don’t see why I shouldn’t be able to sync my Mac Mini and PowerBook address books if they are on the same computer network. Makes no sense, why the hell should I pay $99 a year or however much it costs now, just to sync simple things like address books and bookmarks from safari?