Unruly Behavior

Ok, here is a story where the Police Cheif, as well as several officers explain, why the Houston Police Department, CHOOSES NOT TO ENFORCE SOME LAWS. They say that it makes interacting with citizens easier if they do not question their "immigration status".

A little quote from the story:
"HPD Captain Bruce Williams explained, 'If the citizen can come to us and know that we're going to take the information that they give us without looking into their status as an immigrant, then they're more free to come to us and talk about crime issues.'"

Ok, here is the real problem with this: If they are Illegal Immigrants, they are not citizens, they are residents, and ones that are breaking the law.

As a taxpayer, legally here, it is your job as a police officer to, "Protect and Serve" me, it says so on your police cars. I'm not being served by letting people openly break the law.

Please do not refer to "illegal residents" as citizens. They are not. Citizens have the right to vote, pay taxes, and ultimately for the services provided by the government. If we fail to kick folks out who are not legally supposed to be here, it is sending the wrong message.

HPD chief says officers won't change policy on immigration

Ok, I'm not sure how this hapened, but I'm getting mailings from both the Republican National Party and Friends of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Both with little surveys, both soliciting money.

WTF? How can I get stuff from both political parties like this? I think my mom might have signed me up for the Republican thing, but just won't admit her deed.

It is too funny. I don't like either party, and I am really a Libritarian at heart. So I just stuff everything they send me in their post paid envelopes and mail it right back.

Hey!

Unruly Behavior is 2 years old today!

Two years of stupid people, coma, baby, and god knows what other shit I have covered here.

This stuff is fun as usual.

More oddness to come!

-The Dren

Wow, it will take SBC 8 days to repair broken phone circuits. That alone says more than I can about the resiliancy of their network. Now, top that off if they get $30.00 per 3000 customers that are currently without service. That's $90,000.00 What a great deal for SBC. Kings of the Stealing Bastards Companies.

Repair on sewer line leaves thousands without phone service

Microsoft's next version of Windows has a name. Formerly know as Longhorn, it will now be known as "Vista".

I thought to my self, that's so fucking gay.

Then I said something to my co worker as he came this morning, "Hey, Dude, Microsoft has chosen a name for Longhorn." "Oh, cool, what is it?" he replied. "Vista." I said. "That's so fucking gay!" He retorted.

Longhorn Gets a Name: Windows Vista

Wow, if Volvo gets their wish, I might have to move there to get a job. They want their cars test driven by drunk folks. I can't think of any job for which I'm more qualified. I love to get drunk. I love to drive. Great combo!

(By the way, no, I'm not an Alcoholic, Alcoholics go to meetings.)

Volvo Asks Gov't if It Could Drive Drunk

Evidently I haven't suffered enough in this life. Now I've been given a HP Pavillion ZT3000 notebook that is running the Spanish version of Windows XP. Everything is the same, but oddly different. So I'm learning Spanish, one shitty application at a time. It took me 20 minutes to figure out how to get to the Command Prompt, two tries to get Microsoft Backup to run, and I'm still not certain that I burned a Backup DVD of they guy's e-mail properly. To top it all off, the guy, who is really nice, and from Spain, barely speaks any English. So I could be doing evertying the opposite of what he wants for all I really know. I would know Spanish, but when I was in sixth grade and in Spanish class, the girl behind me had hit puberty, and so had I, and I spent most of my time figuring out ways to look at her breasts, or up her dress. Now I don't speak a word of Spanish, but I have retained my breast watching and dress looking up skills. So I guess it wasn't a total waste.

Update:

Look at all the cool things I can type on this keyboard:

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Another Update (7-22-05):

Got called back down to the customer site. His PC has stopped working again. He is using the eDonky Peer-to-Peer software. Looks like I'll be removing spyware and fixing his computer again today after lunch. Some people never learn a thing.

Search HP US - Search results for 'hp pavilion zt3007la notebook pc zt3000'

Coke. Like the ad says, it's the real thing.

Diet Coke. It's what I can have as I am diabetic.

Caffeine Free Diet Coke. It's what I got when I pushed the Diet Coke buttone here at the client site today. Water, carbonation, aftificial sweetener and brown food coloring. What is the point if it won't even keep me awake?

The world, even the Coke machines are against me.

Ok, I just finished cramming for a test at Noon today. I've taken it and failed once, and today is the retake. If all goes well I'll be a Windows 2003 MCSA by the end of the day. If not, I'm out another $125 and four hours for the test. What a great plan!

Preparation Guide for Exam 70-292

Well, that's an hour of my life I will never get back.

I've given up on Blogger support ever getting around to fixing the bug in the layout I was using for my Blog, so I've changed the layout, edited the CSS sheets, and got things back to some sembalance of normal. At lease I found something productive to occupy my time while on hold with SBC.

Last month, my phone service stopped working. So I called SBC (formely Southwestern Bell, purchaser of Pacific Bell) to get someone out to repair the line to my house.

They billed me $30 on my bill that arrived today for having someone come into my house. I wasn't even here at the house. They are trying to steal from me, the bunch of greedy bastards.

Now I'm stuck on Customer Service Hold from hell.

I checked last week, my DSL contract expires in October. I'm going to fire SBC then and get my cable modem back from the Worst ISP. Then I'm going to switch my phone service to Vonage, which a few friends of mine have done quite successfully recently.

I've just gotten the Customer Service rep on the line, and he sure got defensive when I said I didn't like it when people try to steal from me. However, I can't think of anything else to call it when a tech reports that they came into my hosue to perform work when nobody where here. It is attempted theft. Cheating, lying, stealing bastards at SBC.

Now they are telling me that since they came out and their service started working, it must be a problem with my line, and that they are going to bill me $30 for me having defective equipment in my house. Assholes. Now I'm going to make them give me my $30 back, as well as credit for my internet not being available for two days, and my phone service not working.

SBC Communications Inc.

Hmmm..... This dumb ass is complaining that he got fired from the TSA. He worked there by day, and by night worked as a rapper known as the "Arabic Assassin", singing songs about blowing up buildings with airplanes.

Says he kept his job and music separate.

So I guess he is just that dumb to think he can sing about it being good to crash airplanes, and be in charge of letting people on the airplanes.

It guess it would be a little like me writing computer viruses at night. How stupid.

ABC13.com: Airport screener at Bush fired for his career outside of work

This looks pretty damn cool.

Optimus keyboard

Riding the Top Thrill Dragster was the hilight of last summer for me. Now I can find out how this thing ticks.

This net screams

Don't know why, but blogger is messed up today, have contacted tech support.

Update - A response from Blogger Support! (6/27/2005) Error originally posted 6/25/2005:

Hi there,

Thanks for bringing this formatting issue to our attention. We've found
that this is a bug. Our development team is currently aware of this bug
and is working on a fix. We apologize for any inconveniences it may have
caused. Please check Blogger Status for any updates.

Thanks for your patience while we work to resolve this issue.

Sincerely,
Blogger Support

Ok, this is the second time I have encountered this problem in recent weeks. Once the customer did it, once I did it to myself.

For those of you working with HP (and other brands I'm sure) All-In-One devices, is it not a really cool design that the USB and Phone jacks are the same size, and that the USB connector will slide securely into the Phone jack? Hmm... Wonder why the PC doesn't see this piece of crap. Checked the connections that are nearly impossible to see, they are tight and secure. Let's drag this POS out and fix things. Oh! There is the problem.

Stupid design.

Made a rare trip to the movies tonight with my lovely wife. We have a new Cinemark near our house. Went to see High School dropout, Tom Cruise, in War Of The Worlds. The movie was great, and I made some new friends.

Just before the previews started a group sat next to me, a teenage couple, boy and girl, in that order, to my immediate left. Started talking nonon-stop. Talked through the previews, then talked over the opening monologue of the movie. I noticed that my lovely wife was clearly as agitated as I was, so I leaned over and spoke with them myself. "If you guys want to have a conversation, you need to go sit someplace else. I paid $9.00 to get in here, an I want to hear the movie, not you." I hadn't gotten any kind of a look at them up to this point, and I think I must have surprised the shit out of them, because they shut up for a good five minutes. While I was talking to them, I realized that they were young kids, and it looked like Mom was sitting on the other side of the girl. After the five minutes of silence, Mom and the Boy switched spots. Still, got mostly silence throughout the movie.

Moral of the story? Don't be afraid to tell the assholes to shut up. Maybe you will get lucky like I did and they will.

War of the Worlds