iPad: Another dumb idea by a bunch of tekkies who don't know crap about what real people want or need

Computer technicians are the real war criminals in this world. They are real robber barons. But most of all, they are the Kings with no clothing. And its the public that acts like drugged up lemmings. Every time some stupid Geek throws out another stupid do nothing technology "advancement," the public goes Lazy Ga Ga and jumps with joy to unload another chunk of massive change to purchase the equipment.

Why?

Why are we as Americans so stupid and wasteful? Why do we allow the computer geeks to run our lives so they can line their pockets with billions?

Sure the Apple iPad sounds like a great idea. But so does the iPhone and so did the laptop and so did the PC and so did the lightbulb that Thomas Edison invented.

But the drive to create new technologies is missing a lot: Human compassion. Human need. Human respect. Morality. Principle.

Over the last quarter century, I have been on the cutting edge of spending on high tech crap. I would buy a computer and literally within months it would be outdated. I'd have to buy another. It's been like that since I purchased my first computer, the Coleco Adam and then the IBM PC Junior, and then the IBM XT and on and on until today's sequence of modernday rip-offs has been invented.

None of these brilliant technologies are created with the needs of humanity in mind. It's all about the billions that robber baron thieves like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates who came up with their criminal enterprises in their stupid garages like Geek Gang members.

They are making billions for a reason. They produce worthless junk that only lives up to 30 percent of the promised services. Part of the reason is that they produce new junk so fast because they know how stupid people are. They know the secret of Western civilization is that we like to spend money. Spend money on what? Who cares? Just spend the money. It's not about who has the best car or the best home any more in today's race for the elusive American Dream that is more dream than reality. It is about who can spend more money faster. And the place to spend is on worthless, shortlived computer junk. Junk that not only fails to deliver a full load but also fails to last.

Computers are behind the new industry promise to consumers: We make and sell this junk and you buy it at your own risk. We no longer warranty our work because we know it is worthless. So we will sell you a warranty for $250 in order to insure that the high priced crap you just bought from us will work.

The iPad is the icon of idiocy. Here is a mobile Laptop that doesn't open with a touch screen TV. Can you use it to make a phone call, no, but they are telling you it will be better than the iPhone they sold you last year to watch TV on a tiny screen -- maybe they have a deal with the eye industry which last year jacked up their prices of glasses and contact lenses because so many people are going blind from looking at these tiny screens to watch worthless crap on YouTube that would look better on a big screen TV if the worthless crap had any social redeeming value. But very little on YouTube has any social redeeming value. Except that it helps to ruin your eyesight and drive up the eye doctor industry.

The iPad is supposed to help you read a book. Why? I like the way we read books now. Instead of improving the publishing industry we've turned to smoke, mirrors and magician tricks to convince the brain dead public consumer that it's better to spend $1,000 on an iPad rather than $35 to buy a book. You can download the book. Who cares?

Has anyone not noticed how unreliable the Internet has become these days.

I am waiting for a computer genius -- an oxymoron -- to invent a computer that someone buys that can be upgraded to the latest standards and technology for a few pennies, rather than throwing it out and having to buy a new computer every year. Literally every year folks if you haven't noticed in your blindness caused by the new advertising PR spin doctors who are riding on the hips of the computer geeks out there like Gates and Jobs.

I'm waiting for the computer genius who builds a computer that REALLY WORKS and that can be expanded at little cost to keep up with the new gadgets.

But that would mean a computer genius who has set aside the fast buck industry to provide a real service to humanity. A Gandhi for Geeks, maybe. Someone willing to fight for the rights of us poor schmucks who have been convinced by hi-tech television graphics to believe in something that is just a fantasy to make money for someone else.

Will some one please hit the Control-Alt-Delete buttons on this system? It's a Twilight Zone of nightmarish computer failures, internet disconnects and busy signals without the signal any more.

-- Ray Hanania
www.RadioChicagoland.com

The real software piracy is by the software manufacturers and retailers

ANyone who uses computers on a regular basis -- all of us -- knows this sad pathetic fact: computer programmers and software developers are Geeks who do not know anything about being a normal human being. They are locked in a black box of self-awareness with no real experience in the real world. So, they program software based not on what real human beings need, but rather based on what they think we would need. And, of course, they wouldn't know because software programmers are not human at all.

That goes for the people who build Dell Computers -- the worst investment you can make in buying a computer, and those who run the few software stores left that that you can physically enter.

Some software retailers absolutely know nothing about computers. I mean absolutely nothing. The problem is they are only a few retail stores left in the world where you can speak to a human being -- okay a computer programmer is a sub-human, but still a sub-human at least allows you to focus your rage when you purchase software that doesn't work and then you can't return it because, well, the software industry is deivwn by so much greed they assume that you, the consumer will be a thieving crook like them. They assume that any return is a theft.

The computer industry lacks ethics, too. They sell garbage and then force you to purchase service packs, updates and warranties. They dodn't even warranty the products they make, which on its face shows you that they know the crap they sell doesn't workm otherwise they would stand by their product. They don't stand y their produts because the PC people use MACs and the MAC people use PC's, mainly so they can steal from each other. The software industry is a den of thieves. Theft is the hallmark of their culture.

Again despite my better judgement, I went to one, CompUSA, in Orland Park and purchased what I thought was a copy of Office Basic with Word, Outlook and Excel. It was only $186. Only! They said it was a "license"and that all I had to do, they insisted over my better judgment, was to go to the Office web site and download the software and then enter the license. No, that's not the case, of course. But I didn't learn that until AFTER I purchased the software -- which means no return. No exchange. No support. No accepting blame. The software license only works for software that is pre-installed on new computers, not downloads. Fortunately, they have a very smart -- and consumer compassionate manager -- who did allow me to pay another $216 to purchase the actual software, which they did have. (Imagine Word and Outlook costs over $400 to purchase from rip-off Microsoft. Pathetic.)

I went to Amazon.com to purchase what I finally learned was a full working copy of Office 2007 for $316, cheaper than the $399 that Microsoft sells it for online. They will send me the software the old fashioned way, on a CD Disk mailed.

That's the other problem with the industry today. They are cheap bastards. They don't give you CD's any more under the phony claim that you don't need it. you DO need it on a CD because we all know laptops are unreliable. They crash and you lose your software and you have to reinstall it and they play by the 20 percent rule to underwrite their greed. That rule is simple. If you fuck with people enough, 20 percent of them will just give up and their misfortune is the software industry's profits.

That's how Bill Gates is really the anti-Christ. His billions didn't come from hard work. It came from a system that he set up that is filled with loopholes to allow his company to shove it up your ass. All day and everyday that you are stuck with their inefficient software. He thrives on that 20 percent of profit that is literally tilen from the public. The public buys software and for most, it doesn't work right. Then, 20 percent just give up and go someother route, never recovering their money because the new system is based on the no return policy. That 20 percent is the profit that makes them billionaires.

Oh, and this all explains this new phenomena, you know, the one where the computer manufacturers are telling us they have cut down the cost of laptops. Well, they haven't cut down the cost of laptops. Instead, what they have done is eliminate the software that was bundled with the computers. That software costs a fortune, of course. So they eliminate the software and now you have to buy it when you buy their worthless laptop computers.

They only way we are going to change this is to take matters into our own hands. We need to fight back and make them pay for their theiving ways.

-- Ray Hanania
http://www.radiochicagoland.com/