Many of you probably have heard about the latest () out there who copy pasted the and printed them on shirts and started selling them to the public in an exhibition and how proud he was of taking something off the internet and saying that “he’s the one who owns it because it’s on the internet” well I’m here to tell you that this my friends is another reason why Plagiarism needs to be educated in this country of ours.
My previous post [Stolen Words lead to Stolen Ideas] unfortunately was seen in a real life event recently. Remember when I told you “plagiarism” is the act of copy pasting someone else’s work and taking credit for it? Well this lame ass loser (yes I called you a loser, I’m not scared of you dumbass!) when confronted that these designs belong to the designer Fatima Al Othman () said that he didn’t know that and he found them online just printed and went to a guy to print them on shirts. And now that he knows they belong to someone else he will keep printing more of them and will sell them at half the price just to destroy the original artist.
Unfortunately no one here understands Copyright laws but thankfully is a copyrighted trademark which means the second you duplicate that piece of work without the artist’s consent you can be guaranteed a law suit. And to that I say dearest Fatima bury the mofo! Bury him in the deepest pits of hell because that’s what he deserves.
When our dearest blogging friend confronted him on Twitter he admitted that he got them off the net and that he will just print more and sell them without a care in the world.!
People, just because a picture, an article, or anything is available online does not give you the right to just copy paste it and say “Ohhhh I just came up with this theory!” it’s like you going online to Wikipedia copy pasting Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and saying “Oh look at me, I’m the shiznat! I discovered this shiat and Einstein is worthless!” a real person is taking another person’s idea and furthering it, bettering it, giving it a personal spin. Same thing goes to you bloggers (yes you idiots who go on celebrity blogs steal the photos without linking, steal articles without linking even if you paraphrased the shit (oh wait you don’t understand what that word means, paraphrasing means copy pasting but adding one or two word of your own, sometimes you just add an “OMG” or “Moo Seeej!” yes I know you do that!) You still have to reference the first place you found it. The internet is free but it is not meant for you to steal from!
Grow up stupid dumbos! Yes you are a dumbo if you copy paste shit and say it’s yours! We’ve all made that mistake I used to use Google Images in my posts without referencing them but I’ve learned that too was an issue. So I’m fixing my errorful ways! Fix yours!
Stop stealing dumbos and start innovating!
So when I get angry at plagiarists don’t blame me even if I go nuclear, whether it is my work or someone elses’ it hurts and I will go all Hulk-like on you! For more information you can check out Fatima Al Othman’s Twitter [] to get the latest update on this situation.
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Okay I would like to take this chance and warn each and every reader of this blog or those who stumbled here by complete accident; this post will be majorly ranty and will probably contain curse words but I will try and limit those.
So, I’m an old school blogger, I belong to the school that believes in sending out messages with each post and showing our thoughts and interests in a creative yet non invading way.
I am extremely upset with the new school of bloggers that we see nowadays because well to tell you the truth “that ain’t bloggin’ honey!” Seriously it’s not!
Not only but other Telecom companies have been hiring incompetent employees all over. You see the common problem we have here is that they tell you something when in reality it’s not true. It is not my job to double check whether an account I had with a certain company was canceled or not. If I asked you to cancel it, and I left the premises with all the signed documents then I believe it is canceled. I do not want to be surprised when I am leaving the country on a vacation with a “Travel ban” placed because I did not settle my bills. It is not my problem, it is yours! FIX IT!
This is not the first time I heard this story but it is the first time that I’ve seen someone get a “Travel Ban” placed on them due to a contract that he supposedly ended the first time. The story is as follows: My dad’s colleague purchased a Internet contract back in 2008 and he used it all the way until 2009 when he was about to renew the contract he visited the offices of and was informed that they have a new promotion which was the 21 MBps Connection and which they mentioned required little to upgrade. The staff informed him that all he needed to do was cancel the existing Internet connection which was made in 2008 and pay a new subscription to get a brand new line with the 21 Mbps connection. It is being used and is working fine, the twist however is that when my dad’s colleague was about to leave the country for vacation he was shocked to find out that there was a “Travel Ban” placed on him to pay a full year subscription of the “supposedly canceled account”.
This is absurd and should not be tolerated, I have heard many stories from different friends and family members who find out by accident that the account they “canceled” is not in fact “canceled” but still running. But what is more surprising is the way the branch dealt with the customer (my dad’s colleague) in which they belittled him, kicked him out of the branch, and mistreated him in general. The staff who spoke to him said that “This is not our problem, you go to the courts to settle the fine and to remove the ban.” They also told him that we don’t have any details on our system in regards to that line, so we can’t prove that it was canceled or being in use.
There is a saying that says the “Customer is always right” unfortunately in Kuwait, it is not being practiced. Just because this customer is not of the Kuwaiti nationality it doesn’t give you the right to mistreat him and do such stuff. I am appalled and shocked by this behavior and would love to have someone from the team to contact me to get a solution for this problem because I am telling you this right now, he should not be forced to pay a penny for a service he hasn’t been using at all! And don’t give me the same story which other companies use in which “we can’t prove the line hasn’t been used”. You have a system and you can check that there were no Kilobytes sent or received from that line.
Telecoms, please take these words of wisdom from distraught customers, If the customer hasn’t been paying for over a year, why do you keep charging them? Why don’t you cut the line and stop the billing system? Why don’t you even contact the customer before taking any legal action? Don’t tell me that you are contacting all your customers because I know this is not true. You should improve your services and not torture the customers with your incompetent systems and employees.
[P.S. Documents of the contract are available for anyone from who would love to contact me in regards to this case]
Late last month I was checking my phone bill on and I noticed something really weird and odd! I noticed that I had a charge of 4.400 KD for 88 International Messages that were sent. I sat there shocked trying to recall who the hell did I send these messages out to?
Thanks to awesome new feature in which you get to see a full detailed Call/SMS report I was able to log in and generate a report. I checked and saw that the messages were going to a weird number (004477*********) and I looked through my address book and everywhere to check if I really sent those messages but I found out that I didn’t. I immediately complained on and called to register a complaint however they came back to me and told me that the messages were still in fact sent from your phone.
I swore to everyone I knew that at the times the messages were sent I had my phone in my possession and that I didn’t send any International message but no one would budge. Here I was ready to blow a gasket but after a visit to the Offices and especially with the brilliant Nasser, we were able to get down the it!
It turns out that as an iOS 5 Beta user, your iPhone does some weird things when you are not looking. It sends FaceTime verification SMS-es to an international number and charges you for it! So the problem all along was not the fault of Zain’s but instead of my beautiful, hot, sexy iPhone 4 it put me in that hole and made me get angry at others [and no Mohammed the iPhone does not suck and is not the worst phone out there, the Blackberry is!]
So in the end, with me bringing this problem to their attention they ran that number on their database and found out that more than 3000+ messages were sent out to that number and that it was mainly the fault of our iOS Beta 5 testing, so any of you out there trying out the iOS please check your bill and make sure that you weren’t billed incorrectly.
Sorry for doubting you but thanks a lot for providing me with an explanation and now I can happily pay my bill without worrying!
[Q8Cap] Stop The Internet Limits in Kuwait
So you all know how I have been ranting about the placed on the Internet in Kuwait here and here and my endless rants on twitter! Well a bunch of us bloggers [] have ganged up (not the bad gang type, the good kind I promise) and decided to launch a campaign to try and force the hands of the ISPs to give us back decent internet!
قررنا انا و الاخوه والأخوات المدونين الكويتيين القيام بحملة ضد الانترنت المحدود , وبما انه زمن الثورات قررنا القيام بثورة انترنتية ضد الانترنت المحدود تحت حجة “الاستخدام العادل ” فنحن المدونين نرفض رفضا تاما القيام بمثل هذه الممارسات اللتي تسلب من المشترك او المستخدم حرية استخدام للانترنت بالشكل المتعارف عليه في كل دول العالم , نحن ندفع في الكويت اسعار خيالية من اجل توفير خدمة انترنت ذات استخدام عادل بكل ماتحمله الكلمة من معنى , فالأستخدام العادل معناه ان يكون الانترنت غير محدود وغيرد مقيد بحجم ما , ولايجب ان افوت الفرصه للحديث عن ارتفاع اسعار الانترنت في دولة الكويت , فالاسعار هنا فعلا خيالية ومبالغ فيها , والمقابل خدمة محدوده جدا وغير عادلة للاسف نحن في زمن الانترنت وفي عام ٢٠١١ لايكاد يوجد شخص في الكويت الا ويستخدم الانترنت , وقد دخل الانترنت في جميع الاشياء سواء الهواتف النقالة والكمبيوترات وحتى الاتصالات اليومية والمراسلات بين الاشخاص , فمن هنا نعلن نحن المدونين الكويتيين عن رفضنا القطعي والتام لما يسمى بالانترنت المحدود
لذلك …
Come on idiots! The Fall season is almost back and if you come between me and my sacred TV Shows I will cut yo throat homie! No seriously I haz anger management issuez ’bout my netz! So please support in this campaign and spread the word!
Don’t forget to join the , , and whenever you are frustrated and want to tweet hash tag it with !
It has officially gone from worse to worst. The ISPs are literally bleeding us dry with their high expensive prices and their newly instilled stupid ugly idiotic pathetic download caps (yes I said all that!) What’s even worse is that even those who download legally are being labelled as abusers and those who download for their own use through torrents (also known as illegal) are labelled as abusers.
What happened recently that was even worse than what was going on? Well KEMS took it upon them to label as an abuser and a person whom they will not renew his connection and ban him from their services. Well guess what mofos, you just kissed your best customer and highest fan good bye! Not only was Marzouq constantly singing their praises, he was constantly recommending them to everyone, his company, friends, family and so much more! Only to find this drastic behavior from them! Seriously what we do behind our own doors with our own ISPs is none of their business, if we are abusive then come talk to us or take legal action against us but don’t abuse the whole country for it. And definitely don’t use it as an excuse to have the download cap instilled! []
I am outraged at that and think that something has to be done! At the moment groups are lining up on Facebook and Twitter Petitions are being signed to prevent this so what I want from everyone who reads this post is to go and sign the petition, join the Facebook group, spread the words and let’s try to stop this insanity!
Damn you ISPs I want decent internet without the need to literally pack up all my things and move to another country! Get your shit together!
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We have officially stepped back in time where man has just invented the wheel out of stone and is learning how to make fire! That is exactly how I feel with this stupid situation that we are experiencing where stupid idiotic ISP companies such as Qualitynet, GulfNet, Kems, Fasttelco, VIVA, and others have embraced the daily download data limits/caps!
Seriously 2GB a day? Seriously do you think that when I take out a subscription for the house that we are in the 90s where there is just 1 computer sitting there and everyone in the family is waiting in line to use that computer? Haven’t you heard of the latest invention called iPhones/iPads/iPod Touches? Haven’t you heard of iTunes? Basically right now to update my apps on my iPhone and iPad I have to wait hours if not days to do that because I share my connection at home with my entire family, we are currently 4 people and each and everyone of us has their own iTunes account with our own apps to update not to mention my little sister watches her YouTube videos and my dad reads his news and downloads his emails! Seriously do you think that 2GB a day is enough!!!!!!!!!!!
I would understand when it comes to Mobile companies such as VIVA/Zain/Wataniya to instill data caps because well they want the internet to be available for everyone on the go but I don’t support it! If you want to place a data cap then it should at least be monthly (it shouldn’t even be there to begin with!)
Piracy isn’t the only thing that eats up the bandwidth, and not everyone is a pirate in this day and age. I for one download all of my Apps officially, music/movies as well from the iTunes store and each and everyone of them is not quite small! Why should I be penalized? Why should I have a download cap! Why should anyone have one?! We are not in the stone ages! We are in the year 2011 for god’s sake!
Qualitynet, GulfNet, Kems, Fasttelco, VIVA, Zain, Wataniya, and everyone else who has a download data cap get your shit together because you are pissing off the majority of the users out there! Not everyone is Amish in their usage of the internet and I am not going to go grab an internet connection from every ISP out there just to get a decent connection. Not only are you lying to us, giving us the worst service ever, letting us deal with major downtime/slow speeds/and so much more, you are now taking away the only decent thing we can rely on which is the ability to surf the internet and live like human beings! If I were to depend on the movies available in the Cinemas I would’ve killed myself from the Censorship, if I would’ve had to depend on watching the latest TV Shows from our pathetic channels I would still be watching old episodes of Friends and not know that new series exist (some networks are bringing new shows to us but I don’t have the time of day to sit there waiting for your programming to start, I watch shows on my time and like to be up to date with the ones airing in the US!) and so forth!
As you can see I am fuming mad! Get your shit together and fix this or I don’t know what I’ll do but seriously get it together!
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Sometimes feelings are very hard to describe, you won’t be able to find the words to help you blurt them out. That’s what I feel day in and day out. Many people can easily voice what hurts/bothers/distresses/annoys them but I am not one of those people, I prefer to keep it bottled up inside until I feel like I am about to burst.
Well I am about to burst but that’s a different story. To speak of feelings is to invite others to give you advice, judgement, opinions some of which that you don’t want to hear, all you want is to feel that there is a shoulder out there for you to lean on. Nothing more , nothing less.
2011 we’re almost done with February start getting your act together we need happiness and joy! Chop chop!
It seems that ever since the New Year started I have been bitten by the Writer’s Block bug and I couldn’t shake it off even if I wanted to. It’s not for the lack of items to talk about but it’s mainly the laziness that bug bite has ensued. These past few weeks we’ve witness major life-changing events and I can’t help but feel that the end of the world is coming soon. But here is hoping that all of that is an old wive’s tale and that we have plenty of more years to come! Hell I want more gadget years to live for!
Some updates that have been going on in my life, nothing major except that my love, my true true love iMac 27″ has been sold as it was giving me some trouble and I felt a need to replace it and what better way to do that than with a brand new baby coming to theatres near you! I have also updated my iPod collection to include all of the latest models out there in my possession. One bit of sad gagdet news, my young cousin Toons was playing with my iPad 3G and accidentally dropped it in the garden and dented the bottom frame near the speaker grills it hurts to see that but what can I do :(
I love the month of February because not only is it the month of all lover’s out there but it’s also the National and Liberation month for Kuwait. In my opinion I believe all these decorations should be up year-round as Kuwait looks so much hotter this way. I can’t help but smile at the people who put huge Kuwait flags on their homes and decorate their cars and such it just shows the level of patriotism that we have and we all seem to be “All for one and one for all!” unfortunately that’s not the case for some Arab countries which is the saddest news of 2011 for me, it seems that 2011 wants to screw up with all the countries out there with those liberation (attention-grabbing) events that are being held. Don’t get me wrong I’m all for them having their freedom and all but there are better ways for both sides to handle it without the loss of innocent blood. May God be with everyone in every end of this world.
I need a muse, I need some inspiration I seem to be down in the dumps a bit right now but I think I will bounce back soon! I just drown myself with my endless TV Shows in hopes to lose myself to the outside world. But otherwise I loves you peeps (whoever is still around that reads) I am hoping that this week is a flip around for me and I will be able to write more and more!
2011 stop sucking ass and being 2008 and start being 2006 the year I have loved and will continue to love for the rest of my life!
Dear ,
It’s been a few days now that I’ve been experiencing these errors and it’s pissing me off. I am actually in the middle of a download and you decide to disconnect and give me an error message each time different than the other.
Not only that, but when I try to reconnect you give me a “Redialing error” which brings me back to the days of when we had dialup. I love you for downloading, your speeds are awesome. But please do me a favor and stop disconnecting every 20 minutes! Last night I had only 1 second left of a download and you disconnected then I had to redownload all over again!
Please stop annoying me and work like you used to!
Love,
Jacqui
a 28 year old Kuwaiti Gadget Freak who is obsessively in love with Apple Products so much that she probably has everything made by Apple. Currently she's being a lazy bum and putting off writing and everything else but when she does this is her space where she likes to vent and release everything, so welcome to it.
A blogger for the past 8 years and still loving it.
