Book Of Norm

Do you like being endlessly frustrated when technology refuses to work? Do you like logging in and logging out repeatedly just to get basic phone service? Do you enjoy low quality support and frustrating procedures? Freedompop is for you! As some background - I used to have Sprint, so tried to activate my old Motorola Photon 4G on the network. It "worked" but then would never connect... ok... So when the Samsung Galaxy S2 came up for Freedompop on Woot.com - I bought one. $90 for a second phone with a "free" network? I'll try it out. I also figured that because I was buying the phone from them, setup should be a breeze. I was so wrong. Even though the phone came directly from them, and is branded Freedompop - it can't connect to the internet over their network. It can make phone calls etc, but to actually get through to you know, data, you have to reset your connection.. oh.. 10-20 times. Pathetic. Turns out this is a pretty common issue. Because...

http://tpt.to/a4xcmsx Not quite Swiss levels (which are based on your assets), but the fact that this comes from a speed camera... ridiculous.

Read this: http://tpt.to/a4xbJ1b The picture is worth 1,000 words. Long story, Japan wants to get back into the business of killing, or "research," Antarctic whales. Fucking stupid. With China on its doorstep and Japan searching for defense agreements with the US and Australia especially, what an idiotic time to take a stand on a barbaric and internationally reviled practice. Bad science, bad politics.

Court to decide if Indian guru is dead or meditating http://cir.ca/s/jF6