The road less travelled

And so it begins

Spanish town to introduce gendered traffic signs

Although unimportant at first sight, this is misandry. There’s a lot going on beneath the surface:

“You see this stick figure as being explicitly male, exuding its maleness. Majority is power and men cannot be trusted with power, so this is a threat to women. The only solution is equality. Feminists define equality. Now be a good boy and comply.”

This is all done so people are desensitized with respect to nonsensical solutions to nonexistent problems. You can never have enough snake oil to combat the mindrays of those evil space patriarchs.

A bonus thrown in for free is that people are taught that male and female are the only two relevant classes, and that there is a malevolent schism between them.

Wait, there’s even more to be learnt: sexism (sin) is everywhere, and feminism (religion) is the answer. Repent, sinner!

Don’t you just love your thinking being controlled like that?

December 5th, 2006 | feminism | no comments

Windows is not finished yet

I sometimes hear that with the release of Windows Vista, Windows is more or less a finished product.

That would be so nice.

However, if this should be the case, Microsoft would lose a steady source of revenue. I would expect a company so focussed on profit as Microsoft to see this as something of a problem. I would expect them to find a solution, probably in the form of software rental instead of the current perpetual license model. Although Microsoft is clearly moving in that direction, it is not there yet.

Conclusion: Windows is not finished. In a few years time we’ll start to hear about the next version, that solves all the problems of that shoddy, obsolete, unsafe version of Windows called Vista. Now that will be the final version. Really.

Business as usual.

December 5th, 2006 | computers | no comments