Damn it China. You’re making my life a little more annoying right now with your gmail attacks. Who the fuck cares anymore? When I visited your country for the Beijing Olympics, I knew pretty quickly that there was a great facade showing. Locals even told me how many of the people were told not to leave their homes or were “temporarily” moved elsewhere to attempt to reduce the smog of the city. The Chinese people are bass-akwards from the rest of the civilized world and aren’t ready to completely enter, but you have to start loosening the reigns a bit. Read that as stop hacking accounts for dissent; such methods never work in the long run.
I am getting all kinds of emails asking whether gmail accounts are secure and whether China is after their information. The real issue isn’t about security, it’s about a public relations shit-storm you just made….
Jan 14 2010
China hacking Google
Jan 12 2010
American Airlines: We know why you can’t fly
So I’m fucking pissed at American Airlines. I don’t know what to think of the company other than it should seriously reconsider what it considers as “good business practices” and shove it up its ass. If anyone has had any question about where a beach bum might live, I live on the beach in Florida. It doesn’t snow here, nor does it really drop into the freezing zone more than a week or two, but American Airlines should be castrated over what they are doing here.
I’m going on a family ski trip for a week, and we’re all departing for Dallas en route to Denver at about 7am give or take; the flight’s basically taking off at the crack of dawn. We arrive, go through security, and wait for the plane to start boarding. Nothing of yet seems to be askew, but as we board and taxi from the terminal…