Great reader feedback on my lightly-disguised software bleg.

Reader A introduced me to Malwarebytes, which cleaned up my computer a treat in just a few minutes — did a far better job that my lumbering Computer Associates “Security Center.” THANK YOU!

Reader B directed me to Cringely’s comprehensive explanation of why Microsoft products are so wretchedly awful.

Reader C demonstrated, to my complete satisfaction, what an idiot I am. My Google bookmarks are of course right here (so long as I’m logged in to my Google account). But wouldn’t it have been kind of Google to remind me of that in their start-up tutorial for Chrome?

Reader D developed Cringely’s ideas into a complete and rounded metaphysic:

I like Chrome too. I don’t really use bookmarks, but I think for Google to overlook that indicates they’re starting to bloat, like Microsoft did.
I’ve been watching how some of these companies operate, especially the tech ones, and I notice the accumulation of age and authority is a disaster. Reasoning through user-behavior is a young man’s game, but since young people are bottom runged (unless they start their own companies, which an alarming number do …) they can’t get anything sensible done. Petty egos in authority prevent smart action. There’s a reason all the revolutionary tech companies are helmed by 22 year olds, but nobody seems to learn any lessons, and the standard expansion into entrenched corporation goes the same dumb way every time, with the aged being promoted into counterproductivity. I’m blessed with egotism and rarely threatened by other people’s talents, but for the mediocre people, talent and insight are really alarming and threatening. The only thing that’s ever queered this natural human tendency, a little, is capitalism. “Hey! I can use you to make money for me!” But look at how these big corporations are accumulating incompetence at the top now.
I mean, I’ve been staring at Windows for the last ten years when it “doesn’t recognize the file type,” takes me to its windows page, and still doesn’t have any information. Get an intern to g*******d catalogue the few hundreds or thousands of file types, so you can tell me what this one is.
Independently, it requires a mild strain of sociopathy to have a reasonable discussion in business (or science, these days). This kind of disregard for traditional, degenerate human status consciousness is rare. You probably see it most in the Jews, which may part-explain their business acumen, even comedic acumen, since those taboo regions have something to do with comedy. To fight over purely intellectual, or abstract matters is totally alien to the sensibilities of the vast majority of people. There’s all this nonsense about face-saving and status. That’s why the big bureaucracies and government institutions are so nightmarishly horrid: the lack of profit-motive removes the last check on ego jackassery, and intelligent analysis and agency becomes a liability for the people in authority. Competence becomes a threat, so you’d do well to appear as innocuous as possible.

Readers E through K told me to get a mac. Why? Are we expecting rain?