You too can be a GENIUS!!!

I think I should make big bucks generating ideas for those moronic click-bait web sites (usually with the word "genius" in their headline) about "things that people do not know." For example, do you know this:

On most DVDs, there is bullshit at the beginning like stern FBI warnings, company logos, and, worst of all, COMMERCIALS for other DVDs from the same company.

There is a simple way to bypass all this crap, by hitting the "next" button on your remote, usually used to go to the "next" chapter. Sometimes this does not work, because the companies want you to read the FBI warnings, etc.

If this method does not work, then try hitting the TOP MENU and/or POP UP MENU or their equivalents on your remote control.

There, now  you are a GENIUS!!

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Actually, I am wary of sites which give you a message like the following when you have finished your task with a "good score":

"YOU'RE A GENIUS! You have a passion for perfection, you like to challenge yourself, and you appreciate diversity. You are committed to personal aesthetics, excel in finding problems and solutions, and have a driving force to create. You have boundless imagination and an open mind. In simple words: You Are Simply A Genius!"

I'm waiting for a quiz which gives a response like "You got ONE out of TEN right, therefore you are a moron."

iDNS: Domain slammers

If you have a domain registered, be aware there is a company called iDNS that is sending out domain name "expiration notices," the purpose of which is to get you to move your domain's registration to them.

Their prices are totally outrageous; one year renewal costs $40, as opposed to what it might be with your own provider, typically in the range of $10-$15.

What happens when many people receive these "expiration notices" is to just pay them, especially if payments are usually handled by someone in the front office.

iDNS's WWW site address is idns.ae (United Arab Emirates) which forwards to idns.to (Tonga).

The notices are very explicit that you do NOT have to move your domain to their service, so if you do this mistakenly, they will turn around and say words to the effect that "you were too stupid to read the conditions."

Trying to get a domain move undone under these circumstances can be a VERY big hassle.

In my opinion, these people are Class A dirtbags.

The address for their Canadian operation is

2900 Warden Avenue
Box #92090
Toronto [actually Scarborough], Ontario M1W 3Y8

According to the reverse lookup at Canada Post, this is an "RPO," or "Retail Post Office" box.

The B.S. from Gregor and Vision Vancouver Just Can't Stop!

http://globalnews.ca/news/1626699/vancouver-proclaims-non-gmo-awareness-week/

[Old news...]

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has made sure everyone is aware that he is against genetically-modified foods by declaring "Non-GMO Awareness Week." What will he be against next? Child soldiers, female circumcision, land mines ... and who knows what other hot-button issues that he has little if no control over, just like his current "hot-button issues," like the subway to UBC, pipelines, tankers in the harbor, etc.

I had a good laugh, the tweet in this article is from Nature's Path Foods. You may recall the boss of this company was in deep poo-poo for cutting down trees on his property (see http://www.vancourier.com/news/nature-s-path-owner-agrees-to-fine-for-cutting-trees-1.384201), something in common with his healthy eating pal Gregor, who allegedly voted with his Vision pals to clear-cut hundreds of trees on the East Fraserlands (http://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/east-fraserlands-udp-june18/).

Fishiness at Whole Foods

I was walking past Whole Foods on 4th Avenue the other day and noticed that they were selling farmed fish ... but it was "responsibly" farmed fish. What will they be selling next? "Responsibly" genetically modified foods?

Election signs

What I find laughable is that where there is a sign for some election candidate with a Chinese name on someone's lawn in Vancouver, you can bet your bottom dollar that the people who live in this house are Chinese. And if there is some "South Asian" candidate's sign on a lawn, the people living in the house are "South Asian." On the other hand, if the people have a sign of Gregor Robertson on their lawn, they are just idiots.

Only a month till the Vancouver civic election...

Vancouver NPA mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe is white bread to Gregor Robertson's multigrain bread. He is bland and boring, bending over backwards to be Mr. Nice Guy because of the nasty stuff the NPA did regarding Gregor's split from his wife.

I think it is a waste of time voting for either him or Meena Wong, though many will as a protest against Gregor. They are likely going to split the vote and Gregor will get in as mayor no matter how much people hate him and his ideas.

The only hope is to elect some new people other than the usual Vision majority to city council. For example, newcomer (at least to council) Nikki Sharma should not be elected. Remember when she was the boss of the parks board and there was a meeting about the community centres which went until the early morning and then the parks board turned around voted the way they wanted anyway?

COPE's Tim Louis should definitely be on council because he likes to make trouble and he will be a bug up Gregor's ass. And more Green people should be there too.

Meena has some good ideas, though she is tainted with the "Commie COPE" stigma (remember what happened to the NDP's Gabriel Yiu versus Suzanne Anton in Vancouver South during the provincial election?). I think Meena should have run for council rather than mayor. She would have been elected in a landslide.

London Drugs should get a prize for being funny...