Why Apple Fucked Up with Aliases
Aliases used to be this thing in the Mac OS, prior to Mac OS X, that allowed applications to remember where a file was located. More importantly, if you moved that file, the application could still find it. They worked across network volumes, too, automatically mounting a volume if necessary.
With Mac OS X, Apple recommends that an application store URLs to reference files. The problem with URLs is that they are just fancy pathnames to files, so if you move or rename a file, they break. To be fair, I’ve seen documentation that suggests CFURLRefs should be used only for transient storage of a file reference, but this gets abused across the board.
Safari’s downloads window, for example, is guilty of this. Try donwloading something, moving it, and then finding it via the download window. You can’t. And Apple puts the blame on the user by popping up a message saying, “Safari can’t show the file ‘foo.pdf’ in the Finder because it moved since you downloaded it.”
Fuck you, Apple. So what if it moved? You can find it, almost always. You had tried and true, superior technology, and when you shitcanned or otherwise drove out all the true Macintosh engineers, replacing them with NeXT Unix weenies, you got rid of that good technology. Everyone knows engineers brought up on Unix are lazy, and don’t give a rat’s ass about the user. Well, that attitude shows through in Mac OS X.
Stupid Puritannical Bullshit
That’s the subject line my friend gave the email he sent me containing this link:
I can’t even begin to describe the outrage I’m feeling at the parents and the jury, but mostly at the prosecutor. Sure, the babysitter experienced a lapse in judgment, not because she put the boy at any risk (she didn’t), but because of the fucked-up society we live in, where children and sexuality are like matter and antimatter.
“She did a bad thing, but our biggest concern is that she doesn’t do it again,” the mother said, noting that Slicker is now a registered sex offender.
Why are prosecutors so enamored with alleged sex offenses? What drives them to prosecute these cases with such zeal, more so than drug offenses or even, say, murder cases?
The babysitter was a caretaker and a teacher, not a sex offender. The sex offenders are the parents, the judge and the jury. She was caught sitting naked on the couch, watching a Bond flick with the boy. No one has said she engaged in any kind of sexual act, she simply answered a question.
Their son, the couple said, has had counseling and is doing fine.
Like so many cases of this nature, the boy is worse off because of his parents’ reaction. He didn’t need counseling. He needed explaining. Thanks to the so-called counseling, he’s probably going to reveal a “repressed memory” about a sexual act that never happened (no doubt implanted by the “counselors” during their incessant questioning).
I sympathize with the babysitter, and I have nothing but contempt for the prosecutor, jury and parents. They epitomize one of the most serious illnesses in our society today.
