On Windows XP

Microsoft should just rename Windows XP as Windows 9 | Crooks and Liars:

So what is it about Windows XP that causes such fervour, more akin to that for British boy bands or TV shows about dragons and chemistry teachers? And is this devotion deserved? 

The simple reason boils down to the old adage, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Windows XP still gives many firms all the functionality they need to run their businesses effectively. The OS might not feature a user interface filled with pictures and charms, offer touch-screen functionality or mimic a smartphone or tablet, but most IT managers and CFOs favour return on investment, user-friendliness and ease of management over capabilities for employees to use their work machines to edit videos of their latest family holidays or update Facebook via touchscreens.

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On Snow

Do not like.

On healthcare.gov

You know, it occurs to me that if certain States hadn't been such assholes (if we can give States human characteristics) and implemented their own exchanges then healthcare.gov wouldn't have been anything other than a site that had  information and a bunch of links to the state exchanges.

The more States that declined to do their own thing, the more complex healthcare.gov became.

Imagine that, GOP controlled States making life more complicated and difficult for an initiative by a Democratic President and then whining when it is complicated and difficult.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

On Christianity

It is not a harmless shared delusion. That is to say that it is not harmless. There are Christians that are harmless but the religion itself, if taken as directed, is every bit as harmful to the body politic as cigarettes are to an individual.

This is unfortunate because there is much to like about Christianity but unless you are very similar to cafeteria Catholics(and at that point how do you straightfacedly  consider yourself Christian) then there is at least as much to be appalled at.

Everything you Need To know about stop and frisk in one sentence

New Stop-and-Frisk Report: A Paltry 3% Are Convicted Out of 2.4 Million Stops | Alternet: " 

 New York’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy, hailed by the city’s mayor and police chief as crucial in fighting crime, could boast only a 3% conviction rate between 2009 and 2012, according to a report by the state attorney general released on Thursday."

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it gets better ...

Schneiderman's study found that 0.3% of the 2.4m stops led to jail sentences of more than 30 days, and 0.1% led to convictions for violent crime.

But hey, we all FEEL better knowing the police are doing SOMETHING.

We have indeed become the security theater country.

On Unpaid Internships

They are the modern equivalent of slavery and should be illegal. The only difference being that you voluntarily are selling yourself into internship and so it is not the poorest and most downtrodden that end up there but the upper half of the socioeconomic spectrum.

Tell me that isn't very strange

On The consulting business

Oftentimes it seems to me that I get hired to tell clients what they already know to be true.