Ægrus Somnium

has anyone else read the books or seen the movies on this trilogy? the trilogy being called the Millennium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest), now I personally haven’t read the books and have went straight to the film adaptation due to being in a long book series currently and a long line following, before I get on with the purpose of this rant I did find this interesting about the author and his books,

“Larsson, who died of a heart attack just before the trilogy was published, was disgusted by sexual violence, having witnessed the gang rape of a young girl when he was 15. According to a friend of his, the author never forgave himself for failing to help the girl, whose name was Lisbeth — just like the young heroine of the trilogy, who is also a rape survivor.”¹

ok, back on topic, the movie adaptation of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” came out in 2009 with a swedish audio track and american subtitles, but if your not getting it from a rental company and actually spent the few bucks you can have the english audio dub track as well, it seem’s for some people this just isn’t good enough and we need to shit on that here in america, because guess what, a new version is being made in america slated for a december release, really? why, it’s already out and 2 years is way to short a time for a fucking remake, WTF! if your fucking illiterate and won’t buy the movie and will only redbox, or netflix instant a gimped copy, you won’t fucking understand it anyways, and I’m sure this new version is going to fuck up everything anyways, I saw more sex in the trailer then I saw in the original movie, stupid shit

so as many many many people (would you say a plethora) of people found out yesterday, my page was suspended, I’ve been running essentially the same site with a name change now and then for about 9 years or more with a few people viewing it, no big deal. yesterday I struck gold, one of my posts hit front page of digg and reddit and it wasn’t specifically catered to do such and what did my host do when I started getting lots of views, suspended my account, so my page is now back to being hosted by the lovely lunarpages whom I have never once had a problem with, and I offer a big FUCK YOU to iPage, lets go over iPage’s hosting and the incident that occurred yesterday shall we?

so my site got hits and they suspended the account for 4 fucking hours, 4!!!, causing any chance of those front page hits to benefit me in any way, several calls and many wasted cell minutes I got my “support ticket” bumped to the highest of priorities, that was within the first 20 mins of downtime, apparently high priority doesn’t mean shit to them, I was frustrated, pissed and tired so I took a nap figuring it would be up when I got up, nope, now 4 hours in I called and talked to a supervisor, or as the hip cool customer service rep referred to him a “suit”, after explaining how thoroughly they fucked me and how I needed access to my files for a hosting transfer he had my site up with one button press, wow, convenient, now lets look at some detailed stuff, here’s the issue that caused it all, yes I took screenshots of the support tickets, I would have snagged the emails as well, but they never sent one, well they did send one which pissed me off but I’ll mention that last:

oh, I see, my scripts are causing a heavy load, oh wait, I see some images in there, lets see, “justiceforkelsey.jpg” let me check that one out quick, 8,239 bytes, yeah that could make sense, that’s a pretty hefty image, oooo, my sig image, that’s gotta be a biggie “hsig.png”, 6,380 bytes yup, another huge one, I gotta start shrinking my image files, what else “wpfooter-trans.png” weighing in at, 3,127 bytes, and the rest is my layout, I suppose iPage’s is best suited for ancient tables, even though they offer wordpress right in the control panel hmmmmm….

ok, so I must have somehow gone over my unlimited bandwidth allowance, and this is what caused me to snag these shots, the supervisor said he wasn’t sure why they shot me down from looking at my bandwidth usage, again, screenshots:

well, definitely not using up my unlimited space or bandwidth, wait, why is there even a meter if it’s unlimited? oh well, lets click the details button

monthly limit on unlimited? WTF? well at least at my current rate I won’t exceed it so, again, why was I shut down? just for having heavy traffic one day?

ok, let’s look at what their hosting plan offer’s to see why I went with them, and remember I needed a host in one night and was low on bank which is why I chose them, should have known better, so here goes:

see, that doesn’t look so bad, free free free, unlimited, all green energy, lets click that view full features button shall we

whats with the question marks and the links for unlimited? well, my main concern is transfer and bandwidth so I’ll click that:

“Transfer refers to the amount of data you can transfer to and from your server. In the web hosting industry, the word "bandwidth" is also used to describe transfer. "Transfer," short for "data transfer," is measured anytime a file is uploaded/downloaded to/from your account.

Every time that file is downloaded/uploaded, the equivalent of the space it takes is subtracted from your remaining transfer. If a file downloaded from your website is 100MB in size, then 100MB of transfer will be deducted from your monthly allowance.”

monthly allowance of unlimited? that sounds a bit fishy, ok, lets check the bandwidth:

“There are no set limits on the disk space or data transfer (bandwidth) that we provide in plans marked "unlimited". We want you to have the resources you need to build a great online presence.

Still, we do need to be sure that we’re providing all of our customers with optimum service. As such, we do require all customers to be fully compliant with our Terms of Service and utilize disk space and bandwidth related to the normal operation of a personal or small business website.

While it is rare, we may need to put constraints on accounts that are adversely affecting other customers or otherwise utilizing or abusing resources beyond what would be expected of a personal or small business website.”

O…K….. so we’re going by your definition of unlimited, see in the world I live in, the really real world unlimited means:

–adjective
1. not limited; unrestricted; unconfined: unlimited trade.
2. boundless; infinite; vast: the unlimited skies.
3. without any qualification or exception; unconditional.

moral of the story, FUCK iPage’s, and be very careful in where you go for hosting, check the wording, I actually did and figured it’s a blog I should have enough bandwidth even if I get bombed since they said they can handle small business sites, seems they can’t, so avoid them and the limited unlimited accounts, enjoy your day

addendum: I apologize, I did forget to mention, the only email I received after my four hour downtime was a coupon for $25 off if I bring a friend of family member over to iPage, but today I just received the reason for my outage which as tech support stated yesterday was supposed to have arrived right when my page when down

ok, so harold camping is at it once again, instead of admitting he was just a crazy old man he changed the date of rapture to the date the world was supposed to end and says that we’re all being judged from the original date (may 21st, 6pm) until then, I love people like him, they make the world fun. now I have an idea to make the world fun for him, well, even more fun since I’m sure in his head it’s a fucking blast, so here’s the plan, he said the error was in his calculations, yet again, so what I think we should do is all go to our local dollar store and buy a cheapo calculator and mail it to him so he gets bombarded with calculators to help him get the proper date once the rapture doesn’t come in october, or maybe he can calculate it properly before the october date and give us a real date, below is a copy of a letter that can be copied and sent with the calculator along with the address to his radio station:

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Dear Mr. Camping,

    I am a devout Christian who says my daily prayers and attends church weekly, I also listen to your broadcast via the web as often as possible, I fear for my immortal soul and those of my friends and family as well. I fear that we may not be prepared on the day of judgment and am doing everything possible to insure my family’s salvation such as living as meagerly as possible. All excess money that comes into our household is donated to our local church branches to help those in need and we do not rely heavily on technology since we believe science to be a sin brought about by the devil to lure us away from the one true lord, amen. On two separate occasions now we have sat together as a family praying waiting for the rapture only to feel we have done something mortally wrong, thank the Lord it wasn’t time for the true rapture. My wife, my now grown children, and myself truly believe in your cause and wish to know of the true judgment day and hope this might help, may the Lord bless you and protect you forever in his holy light.

Blessed in God’s Divine Light,

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Family Stations Inc.
290 Hegenberger Rd.
Oakland, CA 94621
attn. Harold Camping

there, that should be horribly tacky enough, if you want to join the cause to help camping get a correct rapture date and mail off a calculator to the address above, feel free to copy that letter and sign your name or some bogus ass name below the “Blessed in God’s Divine Light,” line, and if you have any friends with enough humor to do so as well send them this page, or email the content or whatever you choose to do, lets see if we can give the poor guy a hand , enjoy

Addendum: there is also now a facebook event for this, join the fun: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=169077369818518

• another fallacy added to the list
• close minded fucks
• bigotry
• emo fags
• sissy pants
• nascar
• human race in general
• war
• poverty
• american gov’t
• gerbils
• religion

I’m just bored I suppose, don’t you love how I put close minded, and bigotry in there and put all the stuff I hate lol, the truth is yeah I do hate and/or dislike many things but I don’t force my opinion down people throats, if your religious and you believe more power to you, I may think your absolutely wrong and say so here but I’m not chasing you down and forcing it upon you, I don’t run out and beat up an emo boy wearing sissy pants(skin tight girl pants), though I must admit, I do laugh at that sight, but those are my opinions and mine alone I suppose, your just wrong and going to hell for not believing them, that’s your choice though and I hate you for not conforming to whatever whim I may have, feel free to comment with things that I left off the list, there are a lot more