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Google is an absolute joke.

I got word that my Adsense account has been disabled; effectively bringing my online earnings to zero; and they ended my earnings with no more compassion than a click of a mouse.

Rather than using the usual suspects of other ad servers which feed spyware through their ads, I am just going to shut down my sites and blogs.

The internet has become such a joke, and especially at the hands of Google. The web is littered with sites filled with unoriginal and spammed content just for the keywords, but write your own original content and it is not welcomed as it is not spamming for the sake Google advertisers.

The only thing I earn for my trouble is having to deal with massive spam on my blogs; it’s just pointless.

Rather than continue to waste money on domains and hosting, I’m just going to bring my sites and blogs to an end, and just leave the internet to the shit hole it has become under Google’s monopolizing.

Sitting here, trying to watch TV and not being able to, it makes me wonder further about the depths to which service has sunk.

The TV show is Star Trek: The Next Generation, but I have no idea what it is beyond that as it has been archiving and freezing the entire episode; only having a very few seconds actually watchable of the past 15 minutes.

Back in the day of broadcast television, before rich congressmen took it away from us with their HDTV, they used to have a please stand by standard of notification when they were having technical difficulties in television. Today, well they just don’t seem to give a damn.

You’ve paid for your service, but receiving service is optional. Service goes down, well that’s part of the service.

We buy items in the store which are broken off the shelf. Of course they are going to be broken as rich corporate types are more interested in making a few extra pennies by shipping jobs overseas where products are made to sub-standard levels and shipped here where it can be as good as a coin toss as to whether it works or not; remember, we are not important, just the people who are getting richer.

Now perhaps that is a bit of an overstatement, but many of us don’t feel that differently from that when service goes down, that new product we bought is broken, and nobody responsible just seems to give a damn. We’re expected to accept sub-standard in a Walmart world where sub-standard is all that is available.

Has this sub-standard infused much of the rest of many many services today?

A new fred’s store has opened here locally. In an area where disability has become a standard of living to where this is a first of the month town, they decide to have their grand opening on the last two two days of the month. They proclaim to be a low price leader, when in fact their prices are higher than other stores in the area. In addition, hardly anybody who works there knows where anything is, nor have they even familiarized themselves with their sale flyer.

fred’s is nothing unique as high grocery prices and retail incompetence is standard in this area. This type of standard is pretty much set in stone by a regional monopoly which keeps competition and sets prices where they want to benefit themselves only; that’s called a fiefdom.

The locally run utilities are probably even worse. People have had their power shut off in the dead of winter due to a paperwork error, but have to pay an extortionary reconnect fee, to keep from freezing to death. Other utilities cut off service for someone being a few days late on payment, and they cut off the wrong person’s service instead.

In some areas, incompetence is rife. They have the capabilities, but they are either too greedy or too stupid to use those capabilities. When greed wins out and people are lose their places just so someone can eek out a bit more profit, we all lose.

That has become the standard today, and is a standard which has put this economy where it is. Someone is always greedy, on a local or a national level. Sub-standard is the new standard, and so long as those making a profit from this new standard are living in their country club, white bread world, it will be difficult to change that.

I don’t think it’s a sign of the times, but maybe I’m wrong.

I think throughout history we have always had those who simply live to take advantage of others, regardless of whom they, without one ounce of conscience invested, end up hurting.

I don’t remember who said it, or the exact quote, but there is a line I have read where someone is complaining about today’s youth the problems of them compared to when they were a kid. The interesting thing is that the statement was from a Roman, probably about the second century.

When things are out of sorts and we feel that there is a lack of compassion or respect, or someone’s behavior disgusts us, there seems to be a cliche of today’s kids which follows in kind.

The problem with that is the people who are the movers and shakers, those who make things what they are, are not kids, but adults. Blaming things on kids today is not new, is incorrect, and is simply passing the blame.

Who are these people, or things, who are spammers?

I simply cannot understand someone who has no conscience. Whether spamming forums and blogs, infecting people’s computers with spyware, putting people at risk for profit, or whatever they do, they have no remorse, just a feeling that they alone justify hurting others.

I don’t know whether the internet society has amplified this or not. People without conscience have always existed. I have worked with several in sales, which seems to be a magnet for them, and they are throughout everything we do in various aspects of our lives; though I do believe that they are not a large percentage of us.

The internet has certainly provided a vehicle for this type of coward who slinks about in the dark of night destroying things and stealing from others without being seen; simply because they are too cowardly to face anybody.

They do exist is boardrooms and legislatures, and various other places where their decisions adversely affect multitudes; largely because such people who can make decisions without conscience are necessary in many functions, or else the ball may not get rolling with people who waste time second guessing themselves.

I think though, today, there is an over abundance of these people in our lives. Not just on the internet trying to steal from us and destroy our sites just because it entertains them, but in business and government where they use the catchphrase it’s the economy to justify putting people at risk and sending their jobs away, just so that they can squeeze out another red cent; after all, it’s just about them, not us.