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Confusing Worthless Passbook

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Apple has stepped in it quite badly when it comes to their Passbook app. It comes down to which metaphor they’d like to use and please, stick to whichever it is. I write specifically after updating my Starbucks app on my iPhone and the app asked if I wanted to add a card to my Passbook. So far my understanding of Passbook was that there was a stump-app which led you to the App Store to “buy” apps for different companies, so Target, Walgreens, that sort of thing and that those “Apps” were to be eventually organized in a Passbook folder.

So I start the Starbucks app, and it prompts me to add a Passbook card, so I figure there will be another app icon called “Starbucks” that I can put in the folder with all the other unused “Passbook” apps that I don’t use. And there is nothing. Huh. So I looked at the app for a while and couldn’t find where it put my Passbook “App” icon. I figured it must have been broken. That the download was buggy or broken. I completely ignored the Passbook app itself, because it was just a stump, why the hell would I use it again? It led to the App Store and that was how you entered the App Store if you wanted to waste time screwing around with Passbook bullshit. So I tapped on the app expecting to see the lame text and the link to the App Store, and there was my Starbucks Passbook card. As an added bit of huh, the link to the App Store is gone. So, okay. No more Passbook apps then for me, which I guess is fine.

It’s this really loopy “It’s an app” versus “it’s a card” metaphor that I’m griping at. It could have been more elegant, as for usefulness, eh. I don’t think of my phone when it comes to buying things. Phones don’t do that sort of thing, except now they do.

When it comes to Starbucks, we have a host of other problems that are going to pop up. I can’t use my Starbucks card at Barnes & Noble because it’s not a true Starbucks store, it’s B&N’s Cafe that serves Starbucks products. How many people will try to use their Starbucks card or this Passbook app? They’ll get irritated and be disinclined to use Passbook again. I know that feeling because I tried to use my Starbucks app at a Starbucks shop in McCormick Place in Chicago and was told they only accept cash or credit cards. That was the last time I used my Starbucks app except for just this morning to engage with this whole Passbook bullshit. So, even if you walk into a store that sells Starbucks, is a Starbucks, they may or may not use what you have. So having your phone out and ready to go and make things speedy utterly fails and you walk away without what you wanted, angry at the embarrassment. Then what are you supposed to do about some of those Starbucks that have drive-thru service? Do you honestly think people will hand their iPhones to a clerk for scanning? How stupid do you have to be to hand your expensive iPhone to anyone else? What if a compromising text pops up while they are scanning your iPhone? What then? I know why Apple would like Passbook to be useful and I’m all for new ways of addressing old problems, but there has to be a better way to do it. I suppose this really would only work well if you walked up to a Starbucks store, and there was some icon stating that the Passbook card would be accepted for purchases on the premises, then maybe then. But at that point how irritated would you be that you had to go hunting and searching for it? Then would you really even be interested in buying anything or just skipping it altogether?

So, the worthless Target and Walgreens apps, the weird App/Card thing with Starbucks, and how you can’t even be sure that any of it would work leads me to think that this is all just so much DOA technology. You aren’t going to use it because it’s too much bother. I can’t wait until some airline thinks they can stuff a boarding pass into this thing. Do you seriously think that a thieving TSA drone will give you back your iPhone? They’ll hand you back your Photo ID and pocket your phone. But that touches on the criminals that work for the TSA, but it’s still a REALLY BAD IDEA. Perhaps there will be something eventually that makes Passbook worth anyones time and trouble. I wouldn’t hold your breath.

Terrorists Win?

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Americans are wimps. Incredible pussies. Roll over and cry uncle! What if the terrorists actually won? What if they were playing a long game, even if they were dismantled or even killed – they were successful in some key areas:

  • Two unpaid wars that eventually ended up on the books – pushing our debt to unbearable levels.
  • Unbounded spending, including the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration. Both of these were a gross expansion of government power in our lives and it was a Republican that brought that to life! Is the sky orange, all of a sudden?

But these, bad enough, were pushed even into further obnoxiousness by George W. Bush’s “Bush Era Tax Cuts”. What epic level of bullshit is that? Start two bogus meaningless wars, engage in profligate spending, and then cut taxes!?!

America let fear win. America let the terrorists win. We let the fear-mongering Republicans take power and look where they took us. They took us right to the brink of economic collapse and they have devoted themselves to defeat the President. Why do they vote against the best interests of the American people?

It is racism. They do not like it that the most important person in our country is black. I know two very heavy-duty dyed-in-the-wool conservatives and when I hear them talk, their horrible awful talk, what’s the core pillar of everything they hang their hats on? That President Obama is an uppity … well, yeah… they use that word. It’s repugnant. It’s awful. It makes my skin crawl that in the 21st Century that two old men – who consume social program entitlements by the way – have the sheer fucking audacity to complain about socialized government programs but to claim that the … in the White House is a filthy muslim marxist.

What horrible human beings. I will not directly identify them because I am ASHAMED OF THEM. So, they are black sheeped for a good reason. And this points back to conservatives. They are just a symptom of a dying country. We’ve allowed fear to blow out our ability to think clearly. I don’t need enhanced security at airports, I don’t need to waste money on bullshit bogus wars against ill-defined enemies without any exit strategy. We should have never screwed around in Iraq and for the love of everything that is worthwhile, WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN. It isn’t going to work! Leave these places. Leave them to India and China to figure out. There is no more money for us to screw around doing this bullshit any longer!

So when people yark about how it’s not about racism. It fucking is about racism. Shut the fuck up and go sit in the god damned corner you piece of shit. If we had a way of publicly shaming these people I would vote for them to be first in line. Holding our future hostage for their intransigent petulant whinging, it’s a crime! And then to have the fucking audacity to ask “Well, are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Yes I am. Fuck you. Fuck you and your fucking Republican ways. What did you do for us? You RUINED OUR WORLD AND NEARLY DESTROYED US. So, Republicans. SIT IN THE CORNER WITH THAT DUNCE HAT ON AND REMAIN SILENT.

But then we get back to the beginning. If the Republicans want forgiveness for their sins it is easy to do. Find enough of your SuperPAC’s and put together $16 trillion dollars and write a check to the US Federal Government and you can walk away free and clear. You can walk away tall. But most importantly above everything else, YOU CAN WALK AWAY.

Every Sperm Is Sacred

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So I was wandering Facebook, as I do, and I found a great image – but I can’t really link to where I found it because Facebook is a PITA. So, here’s the image:

And then of course on Facebook I left some comments, as only I could:

  • Technically life begins at spermatogenesis. If body temperature kills sperm, and men who wear clothing usually keep their body temperature high in the region where these cells are being grown, then any man who is currently wearing pants is a mass murderer?