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| Introduction I started this page a few days ago when I felt extremely frustrated with Yahoo and Associated Content. You can read my swearing about it below. Now I am working on getting "Linked out" from "Linked In". I really hope that Linked In closes, runs out of customers. But that probably won't happen before they sell out to some bigger fish, as Associated Content did, as YouTube did -- Google now forces you to have a Gmail account to have a YouTube account... S. Hein |
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| Associated Content / Yahoo Warning - this contains a LOT of swearing. It is not a good example of using feeling words or being emotionally literate... -- Today I found another reason to hate big companies. I wanted to write an article on Associated Content. So I tried to login to my account. I expected that to be a simple enough task. But then I see something that doesn't look familiar. I see Yahoo all over the screen. I didn't recall Yahoo had anything to do with AC. So I fuck around for a while trying to log into my AC account, using my yahoo email address, which I didn't remember ever having to do. Nothing is working. I can't login to my account. I am getting frustrated. I wanted to write an article, not fuck around just trying to log in. So finally I google associated content and find out that yes, as I started to suspect, yahoo had bought Associated Content. For 100 million dollars. That's right 100 million. Some guy started AC in 2004. In 2010 he sold it to Yahoo for 100 million. Not too bad. Do you think he gives a shit that I, and surely a lot of other people can't even fucking log in now? I have had this same feeling over and over. Big fucking companies controlling what we do. You can't do this, you have to do that. This is required, that is required. All the fucking forms. I am so fucking sick of their bullshit. Which leads me to what I wanted to write about in the first place. I was trying to fill out some fucking form for a bank. As I suspected they REQUIRED that I choose a title. Now what the fuck difference does it make if I am Mr or Ms or whatever the fuck? I think I know. I think it is so they can put Dear Mr so and so on their mail back to you. Or so they can keep statistics on how many male vs female customers they have. I don't fucking know, but the other day we were trying to make a simple, we thought, booking on Hostelworld.com. I skipped the title field. Then we get about 5 screens further down and find out we can't pay for the room because we needed to give them a title. But they didn't bother to tell us that before we left that screen. So we had to go all the way back. Today this stupid fucking form wanted a lot of other bullshit information, like "Best time to call". Well, fuck you. I don't want you fucking calling me. That is why I am using your fucking online form. And that is why I didn't give you a fucking telephone number, but oh, guess fucking what. They wanted a fucking... no, I have to correct that, the didn't WANT they REQUIRED a fucking phone number. They must think people stay in one fucking place all the fucking time and don't ever leave their fucking homes for more than a week at a time. That's about how long the average "vacation" is that corporations give you, or let you take at one time. So most people now, I guess, take their cell phones with them when they go on vacation and sit at the pool at some expensive hotel and read whatever best-selling fiction bullshit novel happens to be popular that month, or that they picked up in the airport bookstore. Which reminds me of the time I actually looked at the top 10 or whatever best selling books on one of those airport racks. Something like 9 of the top 10 were total fucking bullshit fiction books. Suspense thrillers etc. Total total total distractions. And one day I looked around at what people were reading at some fancy, expensive hotel pool. I wasn't staying there but I happened to be there that day. They were reading all that kind of crap. Total waste of time in my humble opinion. Again, just distraction. They could get a hell of a lot more out of reading my site if I do say so myself. So anyhow, what else did the bank require... let me see....Oh they wanted a "valid town or city". But that was the reason I was writing to them. I wanted to give them a new address. I didn't remember which city I had given them before. I had moved around in New Zealand so I might have changed addresses there. I really don't recall. And I don't see any reason why they would need it. The reason I started to use their fucking form is because they wanted to know if I had suggestions about their online banking, so I decided to try it. Being naive and trusting, once again, I trusted that it would be a simple thing to do. I thought well I will just tell them it would be nice if we could change our address from online. But now it has been probably about a half fucking hour and I still haven't sent the form. I wanted to do a print screen and write about it in Associated Content. Well fuck associated content. I probably won't ever write another fucking article for them. Oh and I also found out, evidently that my payment had "expired." Expired, how can a payment expire? Doesn't that really mean that if you are unlucky enough not to do whatever the fuck little things they REQUIRE you to do then they will STEAL your money? That is what it seems like to me. I only had $2.24 waiting to "expire." So fuck them. It isn't worth my fucking time and frustration. But what about the people who had, possibly, hundreds of dollars? These fucking bastards -- notice I am breaking one of the first rules of how to have high EQ or whatever I called it, see my wonderful summary... but I don't really care too much right now. This is how I am expressing my feelings for the time being. How did I feel? Destructive. Like the time I wanted to throw the little glass against the wall in Germany. I came dangerously close to throwing my laptop against the wall about 10 minutes ago. But I calmly decided to come write here instead. In case I didn't say it before, Fuck yahoo. And fuck the old associated content. And hostelworld and the banks and all the fucking programmers who design these fucking pages and sites and forms that require you to waste your fucking time filling out their fucking forms. Btw I am thinking that swearing helps me feel better, which reminds me of Cara's famous four letter word therapy, or my and Cara's. I don't remember who came up with that term... Now the hatred I felt just started to change to love. Because I love how the teens like Cara and CC write. I wish the world were more like them.... But back to my hatred for the forms etc. There is one other thing that frustrates the hell out of me. Which is good because I don't want hell in me... You know all those annoying "captcha" verification things? The ones you can't read and have to keep re-entering over and over? Have you ever noticed that they usually wipe out stuff you already put in? For example, you are changing a password, or you are creating some new account and you just put the password in or the username and password etc. THEN, they ask you for the verification crap. And if you get it wrong, you have to start over and put in the username and password, and sometimes more info, again. Now why the fuck don't they just fucking ask you to verify that you are a human in the first fucking step? Once you get that out of the way, you'd never have to re-enter stuff again would you? Why the fuck don't these high paid programmers and managers think of something simple like that? And as I think I wrote before, the way these companies insulate themselves, you can't scream at them. Nature gave us our ability to scream so we could scream AT the person or animal that was threatening us or that we wanted to scare. But it doesn't really work to scream at your PC. And it doesn't really work to throw it against the wall. I am pretty sure that we are being more and more controlled each day. People who control us don't care about us. I'm convinced of that. If we could all storm in to some office and scream at the programmers and managers and owners, maybe then they would get the message. Maybe then they would listen to us and change their fucked up systems. Sadly, it still wouldn't be because they care about us. It would just be out of fear. I don't know how to fix things. Things are so messed up now. I know that if you are screaming at someone they won't feel much empathy for you. I am the one who wrote, "Feeling empathy and feeling defensive are mutually exclusive." Or maybe it was the other way around. Anyhow, I know these things but I get so fucking frustrated and resentful from all the bullshit which I have experienced over the years. I am convinced that living in the USA was bad for me. I don't think you can be smart and sensitive and live there without it damaging you. Or maybe it is more just me. The fact I was abused in every known way pretty much. But in any case, I feel pretty sure that other people also get frustrated. Like the guy in the famous Dell call This reminds me of the Occupy Wall Street protest... I haven't written about it before, but I will say a couple things now in a new article.... Here is the screen shot from the bank...
S. Hein |
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| YouTube Error, try again.
They didn't tell me *what the error was*!!!!!!!! I feel robbed of my time again. Frustrated. Confused ie why don't they explain the error!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????? It turns out, it seems they don't like me putting in a link. YukFoo to them. I am the friggin owner of the channel/account! |
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| HighBeam Business -- 7 Day Free Trial Trick I wanted to see the full copy of an article.. so I tried their "7 day free trial" -- Then I found out, after about 3 screens of entering information, including my address and phone, (which I was faking anyhow) that they trick you into giving them your credit card number to get their "free trial" Notice how much they want, which they will charge your card for if you forget to cancel in seven days... nearly 50 dollars! And they want nearly 500 for a year's subscription!
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| This wasn't too bad... I wanted to
post a reply in the mozilla firefox support site, but I
had to create an account. I was afraid they would trick
me and waste / rob me of a lot of my time. But the whole
thing took about 4 minutes to create the account, check
my mail, click the confirm link and post the reply. And
NO CAPTCHAs were involved! yay. Here is the note I posted. To see what it was about you can go here. I won't make the link clickable because I am afraid it could become a dead link and I have been spending a lot of time fixing broken links from old sites, old pages. support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/795539
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