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title: "My Partner… Fuck You. That’s Not Your Partner."
date: 2014-11-16 12:00:00 -0700
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Partner? Don't say <em>partner</em>, just tell me what the hell you're talking about.
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<em>Parter</em> is a terrible word that seems to be used more and more as time goes on. It is especially terrible when it is referencing a girlfriend/boyfriend/significant other.
It is confusing and terrible that <em>partner</em> can relate to a sex life. Back when Glen Greenwald released the NSA documents, there was a lot of talk about his <em>partner</em>.
This was confusing considering that this was the journalist who released insanely sensitive information. When someone hears about his partner they would expect it to be a business partner. This, however, was not true. For whatever reason the media decided they need to talk about his homosexual lover, which for the most part, had nothing to do what so ever with the story at hand.
We need to go back to the days of keeping private life private. I miss the old <em>don't ask don't tell</em> mantra of the army. Not because it was a backhanded way of letting homosexuals into the Army, but because I don't want to know about your homo/hetro/bisexual life.
Now if someone says, <em> My partner and I made an extra $100 working overtime today </em> There is no way to tell what the hell is going on. Is that your skydiving partner where you give lessons? Is it your business partner? Is it your fellow dancers at the strip club? Is it your lover? A combination of these?
The emphasis on saying <em>partner</em> to cover up homo/bisexual status is silly. It is not much of an issue in this country, prejudice be damned, but we still don't need to hear about it.
Another increasingly annoying use of the word is for when two people are together (hetro or homo), they don't want to say girl/boyfriend, and they are not married. Seriously, we can just saying friend, or someone's name. We don't need to know the intimacy level, we just need to know what is being referenced.
Unfortunately, other methods people tend to be using are almost equally annoying, but for different reasons. <em> Oh my dw is at work right now. </em> or <em>My dh is a lumberjack.</em>. Lumberjacks are pretty fucking spiffy, but holy shit, who the hell says dear husband/wife? Type like you speak, and don't speak like an idiot.
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I do believe I've rambled on enough about this. The <em>partner</em> thing has me really annoyed. When I heard Glenn Greenwald's partner was intercepted at an airport, I thought it was a business partner related to the NSA documents. Couldn't they just have used a better word for that situation? Anyway, comment below and teach me how to write.

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title: "On The Internet Becomming A Utility"
date: 2014-11-23 12:00:00 -0700
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Why regulate the Internet? Especially as a utility. It is doubtful many people even knows what this means.
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It is entirely possible that the Internet will be fully regulated by the government. Oh, hi ma Bell, ready to come back?
Government sponsored monopoly isn't the only option on the table.
People have hinted at only reclassifying certain parts of the Internet as utility, which may be the best way to do it.
Way back in the days of dial-up we had phone lines all over the country. Anyone who wanted to could get into the ISP market by simply setting up some servers and connecting out via the old phone network. There were dozens of ISPs to choose from in any town.
What happened? Why has cable suddenly dominated the area? More importantly, why are only a few select companies using these lines?
Perhaps that's what we need to regulate; we could transfer all private cable/fiber/etc lines in the ground to the public. The taxpayer would, over several years, buy the lines at a fair market value from private companies who currently have infrastructure in the ground.
The taxpayer would also take over some of the maintenance costs. Any company wanting to use the lines to become an ISP would be free to do so, however like other utilities, these companies will be charged a fee, or a percentage of their profits, for access which will be used to fund infrastructure growth and maintenance.
Net neutrality, as it is, is not the problem. The problem is all the local monopolies that certain companies hold. What makes it worse is that they are sponsored by the local governments.
What we really need to do is stop these monopolies and foster some honest to goodness competition.
According to <a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/googles-fiber-effect-fuel-for-a-broadband-explosion/">this</a> article by Marguerite Reardon on cnet, in Austin "Google Fiber ... was announced in April 2013." Soon after this, a local resident who complained of "spotty performance of the 20Mbps connection available through his AT&amp;T U-Verse" was suddenly offered 300Mbps service. All because competition appeared.
Regulation almost always cripples innovation (See: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System#Nationwide_Monopoly">Ma Bell</a>), and bureaucracy is always slow. There are also concerns that the government will have an easier time recording all Internet traffic once they have their grubby paws on the infrastructure.
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What do you think? Should we just take over the lines so we can foster better competition? Should we regulate it till it dies of starvation? Will Internet regulation happen and become another failure such as the Affordable Health Care Act? Comment below.

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date: 2014-11-09 12:00:00 -0700
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Why do people apologize so often? Apologies should be reserved only for things that weren't intended, but even then... Why the hell would you say "sorry" for an accident?
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When would someone apologize for something? There are two situations that people tend to feel the need to say <em>I'm sorry</em>:
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<li>When something is done intentionally that also happens to make someone else feel bad.</li>
<li>When something is done unintentionally that makes someone feel bad.</li>
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In either case, it is said so people can feel better about themselves and attempt to absolve themselves from guilt.
<em>I'm sorry, but you're an asshole.</em>
No, you are the asshole. If you want to attack someone, why take it back?
<em>Oh, shit, sorry. I didn't mean to kick you in the face</em>.
Assuming the person speaking is honest, why would (s)he say "sorry"? No harm was intended, intent is king, so what is there to say sorry for? Doing some unintentional thing? Someone getting hit in the [em]crossfire[/em]?
This is really the only time an apology can actually mean anything, and it is still someone pointless considering the intent was not to hurt. It would be much better to simply inform the other person that it was unintended.
Back to the question of when people decide they need to apologize. A lot of times people like to voice their opinion and try to take it back before anyone can complain by saying <em>sorry</em>.
Like the first situation above, this asshole actually apologizes before voicing his shitty opinion. Many people will say something along the lines of "I'm sorry, but [insert bullshit opinion here.]"
No, you are not sorry asshole. If you feel you should be sorry about something before you say it, you wouldn't fucking say it.
An honest apology would be a regret. Something you wish to take back. Regretting is a silly thing to even consider. What is the old saying? Never regret because at some point you wanted to do it? This leads straight into another problem.
<em>I don't regret telling you that you suck at guitar. I'm sorry, but it's true.</em>
Holy shit, that is the biggest bullshit of them all that people might say. Let's rip this apart:
<em>I don't regret telling you...</em> Well no shit, you're giving me your opinion.
<em>I'm sorry, but it's true</em>. What? Didn't you just tell me you didn't regret voicing your opinion? But still you apologize? So you regret saying the thing? But you already said you don't?
Oh I get it, you are just trying to feel good about yourself giving <em> non-constructive</em> criticism of someone else's ability and get away with it. You're just being an asshole, yet still look like the good guy.
Apologies can never be sincere. Either something happened that was an accident (which isn't the apologizer's fault), or it was intentional, in which case the person apologizing is just a dick.
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Perhaps there is a bit of a theme here. I'm not a fan of many words that are <em>polite</em>. People either use them to get away with shit, or simply because they were taught that they are supposed to say these things, in which case it is useless extra words. The only polite words I'm ok with involve gratitude. Even then it is simply a ploy to get someone to think better of you. Tell me how I'm wrong below!