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Finally, a rant worthy of this Blog.

Well, MegaTokyo effectively illustrated just how wacked out and ligitious some corporations can get. It appears that some companies just don't like people being their customers. let's go down the list, shall we?

The RIAA, oh, the RIAA. Oh how I loathe thee, Let me count the ways. No, I'd rather not. You don't deserve to know how I loathe thee like you don't derserve my money for your pieces of [radio edit]. With every day, with every teenager sued out of his college savings in order to keep a bloated group of fat cat lawyers and accountants fed, I give in to the urge to find the nearest Music CD and break it in half. But since that wouldn't give the hurt in the pocketbooks I'd like to give, I turn Sith and support the various efforts of action against the Industry, including Peer to Peer. May I suggest that you use WinMX, which is a lot more formidable for Corporations to track as well as any nasty Spyware.

Which goes down to the next topic. Spyware, Adware, [radio edit]ware, what everware; Claria, no matter how much you whine about it, Gator is not worthy of my machine, and it never will. Quit your bitching!

It's just another reason why I don't use any more Micro[radio edit] products than I actually have to. I built my site with Mozilla, and I browse with Mozilla, using MSIE only when I absolutely have to, which is about 1% of the time. I use technology that has been readily available for about a year or two; nothing bleeding edge. While I would accomidate browsers for smaller systems like WebTV and for accessibility issues, but if you're an able bodied user of Win or Mac and my web site looks funny on your browsers, than your browser sucks. Sorry, Netscape 4 users. It's called 'tough love' for a reason. Get up to date.

If it weren't for my Serif products being made for Win, I would have switched to Linux a long time ago. I can't say much about SCO because of this, but since they're trying to go the RIAA route and keep themselves solvent by litigation, well, if they wanted $299 for each copy of Linux then they shouldn't have it offered downloadable for free then, should they? My heart bleeds. Not.

And finally, the RFID tags. Kinda smacks of conspiracy theories doesn't it? FYI, the RFID tag is a white sticker--on somewhat peelable adheasive, stuck on the box of various products to help keep theft down in stores. When I pay for my stuff and I wait for my bus, I peel the tags off, knowing that they've outlived their purpose the moment I paid for them. Go and do thou likewise.

There are a lot of companies out there that have completely disregarded the purpose of the comsumers. Just because they make something doesn't mean that people are compelled to buy it. (There are a lot of music bands--all of them missed by Simon Cowell, go sit on the corner you {radio edit} heh, heh, heh--who are experiencing this.) They have forgotton the power you consumers have, and that your money is more than just your hard-earned wages you're willing to give to someone for their product. It is also a vote of confidence to that person, company, and organization. It's the consumer saying, "I like your product so much, I'm willing to part with my money I gave 4-5 hours of my live for and give it to you for your product." It's this vote of confidence I give to Host Promo and Serif, and I do not give that vote to just anybody.