Here's the text of the note I sent to the nimrods at Phoenix:
To whomever it may concern at Phoenix:
I would just like you to know that I personally will ensure that not one dollar of our multi-million-dollar hardware budget (for which I make acquisition recommendations) pays for a machine with a Phoenix BIOS if your ebetween debacle sees the light of day.
When I buy a PC, I do not grant rights to you to resell the facilities of that machine to advertisers. I fervently hope that when this fiasco turns into a backlash against your company from the corporate sector, the pea-brained marketing sludge that came up with this brain-turd will be LARTed into a lump-free paste.
The stupids are out-breeding us, pure and simple. Those of us with marketable skills are out in the workplace using them, putting off having kids until much later and having fewer of them as a result.
In any case, the American public by and large is the biggest herd of sheep you'll find. The vast majority of the products in the American marketplace are geared to the lowest common denominator. Look at the runaway success of stores like Wal-Mart, where you get zero customer service, shoddy merchandise, tacky merchandise, and the employees get into knife fights with their box-cutters! (this actually happened here in good ole' Baltimore, MD) This is a populace that is just begging for a big group of babysitters (read: government) to come in, put up baby gates so they can't hurt themselves, move all of the dangerous things out of their reach, and wipe their ass when they shit themselves.
More than ever, the sentiment expressed by Franklin is clearly appropriate: "Those who sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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Here's the text of the note I sent to the nimrods at Phoenix:
To whomever it may concern at Phoenix:
I would just like you to know that I personally will ensure that not one dollar of our multi-million-dollar hardware budget (for which I make acquisition recommendations) pays for a machine with a Phoenix BIOS if your ebetween debacle sees the light of day.
When I buy a PC, I do not grant rights to you to resell the facilities of that machine to advertisers. I fervently hope that when this fiasco turns into a backlash against your company from the corporate sector, the pea-brained marketing sludge that came up with this brain-turd will be LARTed into a lump-free paste.
The stupids are out-breeding us, pure and simple. Those of us with marketable skills are out in the workplace using them, putting off having kids until much later and having fewer of them as a result.
In any case, the American public by and large is the biggest herd of sheep you'll find. The vast majority of the products in the American marketplace are geared to the lowest common denominator. Look at the runaway success of stores like Wal-Mart, where you get zero customer service, shoddy merchandise, tacky merchandise, and the employees get into knife fights with their box-cutters! (this actually happened here in good ole' Baltimore, MD) This is a populace that is just begging for a big group of babysitters (read: government) to come in, put up baby gates so they can't hurt themselves, move all of the dangerous things out of their reach, and wipe their ass when they shit themselves.
More than ever, the sentiment expressed by Franklin is clearly appropriate: "Those who sacrifice liberty for safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."