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JUST DEFIANCE Outlaw Junction Technology – The Dark Hi-Tech Boot Of
Zion – Edition
This
little piece became something kind of poetic, once my annoyance
eased, at my Samsung smartphone, but 14 months old, just 2 months out
of warranty, stopped taking a voltage recharge from the 240V adapter,
with the USB lead having failed before the 12 months warranty ended.
Yes,
a cheaper version, a GT-S5660V "Gio", at $149.00
Australian.
But
there is clearly a lack of quality designed into the failed
components - typical of todays' all-entrancing "micro-technology".
Micro
technology has lots of benefits, one being less resources are used.
But
the biggest FAIL is that the products, for being so small, cannot
possibly be as durable!
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Also,
at the same time, we all know micro-technology has been taken up by
manufacturers in-the-main because they use less materials in making
stuff, which means they cost less to produce.
As
usual, like all who look into the eyes of an advertising and
marketing consultant, this is turned into a trend, a fashion, a
“must-have!”
That
the “must-have” also
must-not-have any
quality, durability, functionality is totally outside of the
potential for the marketeers, is totally beside the point of making a
killing of a profit over satisfying the customers!
This
– cheaper to produce factor - should translate into much less
pricey products.
But
over-pricing is the norm in the free market where large manufacturers
have blackmail control over governments intervening and regulating
markets pricing.
Then
of course, there are the evil "middle-men" who buy
wholesale, in bulk, at the lowest wholesale prices, then mark-up the
products by often several hundred percent.
Quality
doesn't matter to them! They just want enough to afford their next
sea-cruise! And a Porsche! And a line of coke on their corner office
desktop after hours with a hot secretary ready to...., bring them a
cup of tea!
But...?
what can we expect from the churchie boyzzz???
Not
so long ago, but years before almost all today's retail shop
assistants were born, "retail mark-ups" were fair,
in that they were priced so-as to cover all the retailers outgoings -
rent of premises, utilities, advertising, freight, wages, warranty
come-backs, etc etc., and of course, a considerate profit margin.
But,
and not unrelated to my MAIN MISSION – these were the days before
land prices, thus shop premises rental prices, took offff with
NASA mission control to the moon and beyond.
So
then..., before then..., yer av'rage retailer could run an honest
business, as often be honest with their customers about how much of a
mark-up they were applying to each product, and their overheads were
far more natural, and did not have to be exaggerated and lied-about
just to stay in business.
A
retail business was NOT, all about whatever they could get out
of the customer!
Then,
perhaps a naive time in crapitalism, but there was a rule which
respectable retailers held to.
Not
merely for any honorable customs, but for simple sound economics and
even just "maths", and that was that "the
customer is always right!"
In
fact, way back, perhaps even in the prehistoric 19th
century, the English went so far as to make laws to that effect!
Now,
granted, today everyone is basically desperate, ready for an
argument, with a smile or without, or is ready to lie their mouth off
to get the advantage over those they regard as "the
enemy".
And,
beyond the shop assistant's view, most people regard the shops, the
businesses and the assistants as... the
enemy.
So,
it's dangerous to carry on a business today with that quaint old
notion that the customer is always right.
Let's
face it - IT'S
WAR OUT THERE!
Ask
any copper?
However,
while so often, and in such an environment, who can blame them,
so often shop assistants show only superficial regard for their
customers, unless the shopper comes back and back and back, AND
buys heaps, and strikes up some rapport, and too often it shows
that they're only nice to us so-as to secure the sale, too often,
once a product fails, and 1, costs the shopper to return it, and an
annoyed buyer comes back with a grizzle, this can turn hostile, with
every statement as to what failed countered to imply it was the
customer's fault, et cetera.
Trying
to get across the plain and simple FACT, that the product, and the
whole product range, is, really,
in terms of what manufacturers are very well capable of making at
affordable prices,
crap,
only has the retailer, or their churchie-schooled
assistant,
super-quick jump on their high horse, resorting to being "offended",
and
thereafter refusing
to serve the “rude fellow” – yeah! Like they never
swear! And
demand that the person leaves the shop, or they'll call security!
(Sounds
like someone's personal experience?!)
- WHAAH?!$%^? Because the customer is primarily, and with a clear mind, themselves quite rightfully offended for the shite quality of the only choice of product they can find without paying through the nose for stuff from 20,000 miles away, with as little after-sales back-up as all manufacturers can get away with?
Perhaps
because high-technology electronic products are essentially of the
new age, so retailers find it better for youthful shoppers to have
youthful assistants helping them, I put it that product factors such
as quality, durability, like, not just for 2 or 3 years, but for 5,
6, 8, 10 years, just isn't in their purview. Certainly they cannot
possibly have themselves owned sophisticated hi-tech products for
more than a few years, since being youths, so cannot really be
familiar with the concept of long-lasting equipment.
That
isn't their fault at all. But, no doubt, they see it as me being
rude?
Because
retail technology assistants are not long experienced in life's up
and downs, they have no knowledge of those old traits in products
that were made to last – 40 years, for Buddha's sake!
Also,
and fair enough, the market and manufacturing is so huge now, so far
out of their control, and no matter how much nor how many of them
tried to make something, in the form of PROTEST, against the shit
quality of the junk they sell, and that they too, were concerned that
it's all shit, actually designed to last as short a period as
the makers can get away with, there's a clear resignation across the
retail industry amongst shop assistants, that there's nothing anyone
can do.
Sad,
so sad, but true!
I
guess?
For
some time I've thought about a retailer, who specializes in product
made to last.
We,
being on the bottom of Asia, get all their shit!
Hohoho!
To
pine and opine, I recall a ratchet screwdriver I still have, that
still works a treat, I assert because it was made in the USA, that I
found on a household nature-strip rubbish dump, when I was 8 or 10
years old!!!!!
50
fucking years ago!!!!
Having
found it on a council day throw out of old stuff, outside a house I
could point you to (on Google maps) as Andy McLean and I walked home
from Mont Albert State School, means the screw-driver was then, in –
ummm..., 1963 or '65, about 10 to 20 years old!!!
As
well...., it has a beautiful round WOODEN handle, in pretty-much top
condition, certainly showing no sign of falling off!!!
Since one of the major IMF-type
political parties killed Australian, British and US manufacturing so
that China could be brought into the 20th century, it
began in about the 1960s, but was accelerated here from the late
1970s or so, product has gone pretty much down the gurgler in terms
of durability and quality.
I think? I must say that uptil
those decades, I meself wuz much younger, and admit to not fully
appreciating some aspects of product. Perhaps mainly, what I didn't
have a handle on, was price for quality.
Like, I don't remember anyway, if,
say, one had to spend a lot lot more for something that would
last, forever, like the Sher-Skil electric drill Dad
bought me ummm – 20 years ago, which is an exact replica, by the
same company, of one Dad had in the garage, again, when I was a 10
year old.
Quality! But how the price ranges
compared to the wide price range today, is hard to say.
However, I'd wager that in my $149
smartphone, the same connection and leads are sold with their $500,
and perhaps even $700 or $800 phones? And, how are we to know,
near enough the same circuit boards, and other internal components
are used, in all models.
Getting the FACTS on this type of
discrepancy and therefore this type of RIP-OFF, from yer
av'rage shop assistant, is unlikely, 1, because they are told it's “A
BAD” for sales to be that honest, and also, most of them
wouldn't know.
For all my antipathy with everyone
I transact with, I know they can't be held responsible for the shit
quality prods they have to work-to-live sell?
However, when just one of them
acquiesces from facing this worldwide issue, everyone suffers. Or
something?
And it does not excuse any of them
from lying about prods, exaggerating about them, nor tell the
customer the failings. Methinks?
It's just a crime that people have
so few options but to work for callous profiteers in franchises of
bulk-buying retail stores which go out of their way to not sell
affordable, durable products.
Once again, it does in fact come
down to how much the real estate industry thieves from the
retailer, thus from the employee shop assistant, and from the
customers, in the criminally-inflated prices of the land on which the
stores are located.
After all..., it's all
“LOCATION-LOCATION-LOCATION!!!”
Ain't it Ruddie? Joycie?
Turnbullie? (NO? Tha's not right!) MISTA Ken Henry!
THAT
– once more, comes down to Simple and Pure Physics.
Economic
Science!
And.
The Pure, uncorrupted Laws of the Universe.
By
try discussing them
with shop assistants, shop owners, who should be PROTESTING
TOGETHER EVERYWHERE THEY RETAIL,
or yer local land-tramp real estate agent?
HA!
But they'se a bit of an aside,
aye?
So...,
having a loud mind, I take the time, inspired by my annoyance at the
miniscule quality designed into these capturing but lower quality
“toys” to most of their consumers - useful and
seriously effective instruments to others – to voice what has
to be a widespread discontent with multinational product makers
making stuff that might be the latest in their ability to produce
teeny-weeny stuff for 3 year old Korean fingers to play with, but
that last the shortest time they can possibly get away with.
There
is no legitimate reason why a bloke can't buy locally, in this case a
smartphone, that will not break if he looks at it angry, will not
have leads and wires and stuff that cannot possibly last more than 2
years at the most, of use!
For
retailers and makers to claim that a “military-grade”
piece of technology has to cost twice the price of a “civilian”
cheap yet still far over-priced piece of shit, which does little or
no more practical electronic or connectivity-type stuff, and as often
has the same componentry, out of the same factory in the same fucking
product-dumping China, really is inexcusable, and, in fact, deserves,
if-not demands, the inquiring shopper to trash the store, with
mates!
AND
IF I HAD ANY MATES – I WOULD!
But
HEY! That's CRAPitalism fer yer!!!
Nevertheless...,
here's what I wrote this mournin', between bunk, breaky and a flit on
me bike.....
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
The
Dark
Hi-Tech
Boot of Zion
Back
when, back when Man was Man, back when Woman was Woman, Child Child,
the world Pristine, uncorrupted, Harmonious, Wise Ways were not
followed, but lived, ruler inside all beings.
Knowledge
of how to be in Harmony with the Universe, was in us. Was us.
In
the other creatures of Earth, no less.
All,
knew Law.
So
much a part of our Being that the True Fella and their Nations,
needed no scripture to remind them of where they used to be.
All
necessary Laws were easy to learn, taught by the Wise ones, in a time
when adults were adults, not overgrown juveniles with scattered
thinking processes.
So
from the Elders to the Babes, satiation was part of the very Being.
So
none were raised with dysfunctional beliefs and errant reactive
momenta fraying their thoughts, desires, perceptions.
A
time when there was no “mental illness”. Because Honest
Law was inherent in Beast and in Man.
Secrecy
was alive and well, but only for warring situations as, on occasion,
an argument between Nations arose, as oft' for Traditional reasons,
to keep all the Nations' genes properly shared, avoiding inbred
mutations.
Or,
for expanding populations, after times of plenty, needs for more
territory.
Between
Nations, Rules were forever known as Proper, Vital to Respect, in all
things, in relating, in eating, gathering foods and other materials,
in sharing the lands, and in the need for defined territories.
When
war became necessary, rules still held sway, and were abided by, by
all sides.
A
new weapon invented, was shared across the land, and, if it was seen,
by the Wise, the Adults, to have bad effects for the laws, all agreed
it should not be produced.
If
a tool for better procurement of the necessities was invented, it too
was shared, traded, and it's manufacture taught.
Rules
said the Land was the Mother, and nothing, no invention should be bad
for it.
So
Harmony was retained all over.
Happiness
and the Crucial Balance was so Natural as to rarely need words to
express.
Back
then, back before the lost tribes found arrogance, to think they
could wander free over the world, Silence WAS Golden.
Not
just “out there”, in a landscape, not in resting beside a
lake or in a meadow.
Silence
was Golden in the mind.
And,
was the Mind's Natural Condition.
The
True Mind.
-=-=-=oOo=-=-=-
Eons
passed.
Populations
expanded.
Government?
Became “an issue”.
Many
heads meant less to go around.
Divisions
increased.
Claims
increased.
Disquiet
grew.
Law,
forgotten, fell into the background.
Inventions
improved Man's ability to procure evermore foods.
To
build ever larger structures.
Storehouses.
Palaces.
Fortresses.
Laws
and Rules were placed second to survival, of the most warlike.
Customs
became distorted.
Words
became many.
Time
was evermore occupied with thought.
“How
to procure this?”
“How
to procure that?”
Golden
Silence drifted further into the background, further away from the
larger Nations.
Eventually,
only in the most remote Nations, was it still Natural amongst the
People, and amongst the Beasts, and across the territories.
Law,
Lore, Rules of Conduct were still, in the most remote places,
Naturally lived.
So
Natural as to only be spoken of in annual meetings, and in Teaching
the adolescent the Laws of Initiation, into being an Adult.
When,
back when, back in the Dawn, Knowledge was simply there.
When
a Man threw a stick, at once he saw it's dynamics. It's aerodynamics.
Thus
he found a different stick, and whittled it, to fly!
Practice,
and better sticks, more whittling, he made it fly, and return to him!
Happy,
he showed it around. Everyone saw it's potential.
A
great improvement to hunting.
And,
for war.
But,
he knew, eventually, his peoples' adversarial neighbors would find
out about his flying stick, and refine their own.
So
he, being Wise, shared his knowledge.
Everyone
benefited, and unfair advantages, which threatened otherwise to
shatter the Harmony, were avoided.
The
Rules of War were still able to be the same. Once a certain advantage
was gained, everyone simply stopped fighting.
The
defeated humbly offered tokens of Respect and Praise.
The
Victors put forward their demands, and the negotiations took place.
Peacefully, around the circle, with other Nations present.
The
defeated, knew their places, and listened. And paid their dues.
The
Victors also knew their places, and asked no more than was
Respectable, according to the Original Founding Traditions, of Being
True Human Beings.
Therefore
all demands fitted within the Greater Law.
Not
too much, not too little, “Just right, Boss”!
They
all, also knew, that one day the Balance might be the opposite, so
each knew Humility and Success, and so afterwards, looked equally
upon the others.
The
Laws were maintained. The Balance was maintained.
-=-=-=oOo=-=-=-
Meanwhile,
somewhere else, the Balance was lost.
Some
had much. Some, had little.
Pride
bred it's opposite, cowardice, ignorance, and war became the way.
Secrecy
came to the fore of how people functioned, lived, thought and
related.
No
longer True Men and True Women.
The
advantage was everything, with no rules, no top limits, short of
leaving the adversaries with nothing.
No
Respect.
Not
even land.
Balance
was destroyed.
Harmony,
just a word, an hypothetical, dreamed about, but no longer known, no
longer understood.
Respect,
a lie. A deceit. Spoken to hide the secret contempt below the
expressions.
Diplomacy
thrived.
Dysfunction
was the order.
Lies
had to be increased, built upon earlier lies, expanding into mythical
proportions exponentially.
Though,
because of the dysfunction, none could see the dysfunction. None
could identify it, admit to it, rise above it, clean it out.
The
masses of dysfunctional minds effected the exponential growth of
dysfunctional thought and behavior, sending the Spirit of all, deeper
into the crazyminds' mire, into the bottomless labyrinth, further and
further from being known.
Fooled
by their own deceits, pride, arrogance and cowardice, crazymind,
wrongheaded thought ruled.
So
lost, they searched, everywhere but behind the veil, inside their own
minds, for the elixir.
In
vein. And in vein. And in vein.
Centuries
passed. Into millennia. Eons on eons, wandering, and at constant war
to stay in one place, yet all the while, lost, deluded, insane.
But
always proud!
BIGGER
CASTLES! Proud.
BIGGER
PALACES! Proud.
BIGGER
FORTRESSES! Proud.
BIGGER
WEAPONS! Proud.
BIGGER
FEASTS! Proud.
BIGGER
FASHIONS! Proud.
BIGGER
EGOS! Proud.
BIGGER
EMPIRES! Proud.
In
times of plenty, on finding a shangri la, stagnation overcame them.
Disquiet
bred anger, bred war, amongst themselves.
Bred
splits, divisions, further disquiet.
More
pride. More ignorance.
And
the search by the elites, all by now deeply insane, went on.
In
food. In drink. In drugs. In fashion. In music. In appearances.
In
vein. In vein. In vein. In vein.
Insane.
Invention
was ran to.
The
secreted advantage was all!
Wisdom
but a myth. Temperance a sin.
False
appearances were all.
Knowledge
of Satiation hypothetical. Utopic. Never attainable!
Secrecy
came to the fore in every association.
Trust,
just another word. False. Abused. Scorned.
Children
were raised on lies.
False
cultures abounded, with each generation, multiplying the dysfunction.
Psychological,
psychic, mutations increased.
And
yet, ever greater, they regarded and propagandized themselves as
being.
Before
long, the false men, and false woemen, secretly frantic and
desperately scared, secretly frantic and desperately insane, already
having resorted to dark force, fell deeper into abuse of it, and over
regenerations, came up with nuclear weapons.
All,
to protect their lies, and their proud sickness of personal wealth
obtained by invention and administration of untrue laws.
Defying
Law, technology had become god.
And,
they saw that giving offerings to their god, funding their god, was
best by selling it to the people, in the guise of pleasure.
More
lies.
O!
The dysfunction!
O!
The demise!
O!
The crass, valueless, cheap rubbish that now passes as “good”!
ALL
PRAISE TECHNOLOGY!!!
CHEAP,
CRAP, CRASS, PLANNED-OBSOLESCENCE TECHNOLOGY!
ALL
PRAISE THE MAKERS OF CHEAP, CRAP, CRASS, PLANNED-OBSOLESCENCE
TECHNOLOGY!
MAY
IT LIVE SHORT LIVES!
MAY
IT FLOOD THE WASTELANDS!
MAY
IT COST US OUR SANITY!
MAY
IT COST US OUR HABITAT!
MAY
IT COST US OUR PLANET!
MAY
IT MAKE THE DEVIL, THE
EGO,
THINK AND FEEL ITSELF RICH-RICH-RICH!
AND
O YAYE! MAY THE MILITARY FORCES DEFEND IT TO HUMANITY'S EXTINCTION!!!
O
yaye? All praise technology?
Idiots!
It's about time Samsung, and their
counterparts, made product designed to last.
Logic must return to retail.
If Samsung and their ilk want to
claim their products as good, then why do they not offer longer
warranties?
Greedy middle-player retailers
marking-up everything to completely unethical pricing, do everything
possible in their field to discredit themselves, their products, the
manufacturers, and insult the customers into being little more than
either stunned zombies, accepting the destiny of crass, collapsing
culture and societies, or into cynical and vengeful criminals,
respecting nothing and no-one.
Parents become despised.
Disrespect,
and worst, secreted
disrespect, becomes
the order, such that those many who have worthy talents as Teachers
are mocked and belittled at every chance.
THERE IS NO GOOD IN THIS!
Honor, Integrity, Dignity,
Intellect, Wisdom, Honesty, Truth, made jokes of, all in the
pejorative.
And most mocked, ignored, avoided,
is Law.
A completely insane world is the
only possible result.
ALAS! Rome! Paris! Tel Aviv!
London! Washington! Sydney! Canberra! Tokyo! Beijing! New Delhi!
Seoul! Singapore! Hollywood!
Et cetera! Et cetera! Et cetera!
So....,
"Tell
me another lie,..., copper!"
You
know, the one about ".....you, just
doing your job",
of working to protect them!?
VOTE
AUSTRALIAN!
VOTE
GREEN,
or, Independents
on
September 14th 2013!
For A Future!
Vote
down cheap, offshore, planned-obsolescence, mass-destruction, major
party politrics!
VOTE
AUSTRALIAN!
VOTE
GREEN,
or, Independents
on
September 14th 2013!
For A Future!
Vote
to give your lives Value!
All
Praise the Immortals!
All
Praise the Warriors who have fallen
Fighting
for a Just World!
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