Something I noticed is that on Windows 10, the Metro “calc” app is slow to start.

The damn calculator app. Starts up slowly. Even on an SSD.

How can you make a calculator app slow to start? I used a calculator app on a MacIntosh in 1986 on hardware that was literally 1/10,000 as fast as what we have now — and it opened in less than a second.

But some wit over here said it best about what the calculator app is actually doing. Comment reproduced in full:

That’s because rather than loading calc.exe when you type calc it actually doing far more:
1) Adding “calc” to your database of invisibly tracked user information
2) sending that updated database to Microsoft
3) waiting for Bing to generate some useless internet search results for “calc”
4) looking through all its indexes for every file on your PC for the word “calc”
5) searching the Windows Store for premium matches it can sell you for “calc”
6) thrashing the storage subsystem whilst you wait for calculator to appear in the start menu because it hasn’t been rebooted in weeks, only hibernated and superfetch-readyboosted in a false attempt to speed up your boot times.
Eventually, it decides that it can’t monetise your four letters and begrudgingly shows you the shortcut that Windows Vista and 7 displayed so fast that you’d have needed a high-framerate camera to have spotted any delay.

The more I use Windows 10, the more I hate it. Letting the morons win in computing has produced nothing but harm.

This is what happens when you invite a bunch of young North African/Muslim men into your country.

Some 60 criminal complaints, including one allegation of rape, have been brought to the Cologne police department after women said they were molested by a crowd of men who had gathered in the city’s famous square between its central train station and towering Gothic cathedral. Authorities expect more victims to come forward in the next few days.

City police chief Wolfgang Albers said the crowd was composed of up to 1,000 heavily intoxicated men who gave the appearance of being “Arab or North African” in background.

Don’t make the mistake of screaming and blubbering about “racism” incoherently. This is a cultural difference, not one “caused” by race. However, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that when you invite a bunch of people (especially men) into your country who do not share your culture and actually despise and want to harm women, this will happen.

It is inevitable.

That the conservatives say it is for true for ulterior motives doesn’t make it untrue. If you reason like that, you are just as stupid as they are.

I know it is anathema to liberals to criticize other people’s culture and that often puts them on the side of evil (though not as often as conservatives) but sometimes reality must be dealt with on its own terms — or it will deal with you.

I remember when malls were the social hangout, your physically-instantiated social networking technology.

No more.

I’ve noticed many malls now ban people under 18 during most business hours.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Old fuckers, if you can’t handle a few kids standing around and shooting the breeze, go the fuck home. And stay there. And die already.

But it was our mistake in allowing corporations to control our social spaces — both in the physical world and on the internet. There is no blame to be cast but in our direction. The rebuke belongs solely to us.

Though I believe that mall owners believe that they’ve “done the analysis” and demonstrated that malls that ban all young people are more profitable, this probably isn’t true. Like most things in life, power and control and fear and prejudices matter more than profit and thus the analysis will be massaged until what a bunch of scared old people wish to believe is found to be “true.”