The conundrum of finding a job

How is one to get their first job when employers act like this?
Well I tell you how. You gotta know someone who knows someone who will get you in. Corruption at its finest.

Carbage in, carbage out

Grab a car, grab your tools, ignore all common sense and bang bang till you think it looks cool.

That's how most carbage comes to be. For the owner, it's the greatest thing that ever rolled on a road. For the rest of us, we don't know if we should laugh or cry.

Here are a few examples of cars butchered and murdered by their $&%@# owners.

Well hello there, I heard you like big suspensions...

Problems aren't solved in Facebook

I'm pretty sick and tired of people who try to show political activism or try to be pseudo ecologists by sharing stupid images or infographics in Facebook.
Newsflash, idiots:

ANYONE CAN MAKE ONE OF THESE WITH ABSOLUTELY NO RESEARCH
and you would probably still share it. Without double checking any facts.

In what I can recall, he already posted images suggesting:

• there is a water-powered car (total bullshit) which is being kept secret as a conspiracy by big oil companies, cos obviously that would leave them bankrupt... doesn't matter this car concept violates the laws of physics, it must be hidden somewhere, we need to recover it!!1
• boycott a million number of brands, most of which he probably uses and wears, because they're using harmful processes and/or exploiting children and/or making baby seals cry
• suggested that microwaved water is somehow harmful to plants, showing a bogus "highschool experiment" that has been known to be a damn lie for years.
• everything about modern society is wrong and the native americans knew best, we should all go back to "those good times"... and ignore the fact they died at 40 and were a bunch of bloody fucks who would have no problem sacrificing humans among other things.
• we should leave everything we are doing every day and dedicate ourselves to being in constant protest and riots; when the police comes to put us in our place, make sure to snap a picture and send it to Facebook!
• FIGHT CAPITALISM!!

Blow up Chevies

Thinking of buying a brand new Chevy Cruze? It sounds like a good deal. A well sized car with enough room and a good price tag. Not horrible looking, either.

But wait... there might be a problem. GM is recalling around 475,000 cars because they might have the slight problem of catching on fire and exploding.

"Our engineers have found about 30 fires in total, most of them are related to oil or improper parts"

Internet passwords

I am beginning to get pissed off about the requirements of some websites when you're creating a new account, when it comes to choosing your password. It's getting to a point where all the symbols on the keyboard must to be used, which makes passwords really hard to remember.

This isn't the worst I've seen...

I admit they make them really hard to guess, but whoever uses passwords that are "guessable" deserve to be hacked in the first place.

It's really easy to come up with a password that is only letters and that sticks to your head.

heymanitsmeletmein -> Secure, easy to forget, hard to guess, hard to find by brute force.

Randy22# -> Hard to remember, although secure online, easy to crack by brute force if it's a local file.

What's more, websites advise you to never repeat a password. So if I'm signed up to half a dozen forums, three email services, online banking, two gaming portals and wikipedia, how many upper-lower-case-number-and-symbol passwords can I remember before I forget one and have to go through the process of "recover your password" just to forget that one the next day as well?

Passwords should be whatever you want, and as such, at your own risk if they are too easy to guess. If you use your dog's name as the key to your important stuff, then it's your fault for being stupid when some guy signs in and starts sending spam to all your contacts.

I finish my rant with the classic XKCD strip that wraps it all up perfectly:

Demanding shark is demanding

While reading several news sites today I came across something that caught my eye and promptly forced a loud what the fuck out of me.

Artist depiction

"Colin Morrison, 46, admitted illegally lending money at his home address and other areas of the city between January 2004 and January 2010. "

What really caught the eye was that he was charging them so much that if calculated for a whole year, the interest rate would be

719,000%

Do people have no shame anymore? Will we do anything for a buck and throw away any kind of morality and common sense? 



I've heard about loan sharks and how unpleasant they can be but this guy blew away all my expectations. Until I read further:

"The court heard how Morrison provided several illegal cash loans to Joseph Rankin and his partner Angela Clements - who suffers from the muscle wasting disease Myotonic Dystrophy - over a six-year period." 

Really? Take advantage of poor people with chronic muscle diseases? Is this what those kids who steal younger babies' Popsicles grow up in to? I don't even want to know what happens to people who don't pay, seeing how if you borrow 20 dollars you suddenly owe several million.

 Although the blame of this situation falls mostly on the crook, and that the needs of the aforementioned couple were of a different nature than pure consumerism, I can't help but think this is also a byproduct of the loan and credit society we live in. Everyone everywhere is deep in debt, taking bank loans to buy a car, a house, holidays, surgery, bananas... Then you borrow more money to pay the interests of the loans, and then you go to your bank and ask for a consolidation loan. That makes your credit more solid, so now you can ask for more loans to buy even more shit you don't need! And bananas. 

  

So, what would happen in a world without loans? What if we could only spend what we earn? 

(Original article - BBC News)