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Seriously, can anyone even for a second claim that those
without an iPhone have as much opportunity as those
with?
Even for a second?
You want evidence? Can't find a parking spot as
efficiently.
Or a date. Or a restaurant. Well, maybe you can find
the
road a bit better with a
different phone. But short of
that,
you are screwed.
And now they have 137B in cash?!?! While the rest of us
are struggling? Wtf with that?
I would say, at a minimum, the government should
guarantee everyone an iPhone, until the fuckers start
building it here, or perhaps just take that money, which
would let us postpone the debt ceiling for like 6 to nine
months with a special iTax. Cause we're a freaking
team,
and not just a bunch of "i"s.
How do you like them apples?
Apple's cash
http://venturebeat....eaches-137-billion/
[theircompetitor, Jan 24 2013]
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An individual mandate for iPhones? Do I have to pay for it myself? Will there be mobile rates subsidy, and means-testing to see if I qualify? If I don't buy one will I be charged a tax penalty? |
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One of the goals of these companies is to make us dependent of their gadgets. I can live happy without a smartphone, even though I have one. For example, I can do a long car trip without a GPS, but never without a good map.
Anyway, if your idea grows, I'll vote for Android. |
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When can I have my soapbox back, [tc]? |
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[marked-for-deletion] rant |
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^^ What [hippo] said. No idea. |
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[21 Quest], you bring up an intriguing point, how
does one pluralise an acronym whose noun makes up
the first letter? Certainly not POS's, which to me
reads "Piece Of Shit's". My inclination is to go with
PsOS. That read better? |
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this idea has absolutely nothing to do with a
specific phone or company, [21quest], other than
as a nod to their phenomenal success, which
apparently is only possible because of Medicare
and Social Security (someone tell that to Carnegie
and Vanderbilt), and the opportunistic "I" in the
name. There is no "i" in Google just doesn't work. |
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I guess I'd assumed more people also check the
category, and more people would say wait a
second tc, why is this post unlike every other.
Maybe I needed an Onion link or something :) I
promise this would be the first and last idea from
me titled "there is no I in..." |
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[bigsleep] is getting into the spirit. 1.7M per
every Apple employee. Becoming almost natural
to say why do they need all that money. Scary.
How long before our (truly our, collective)
appetite finds that unacceptable. |
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Rant, to be sure. Oh well, there's always hope
that change fails. |
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So, a company produces a device that lots of
people want, and thereby makes a huge amount
of money. This is wrong because? |
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As for the question of where it's built - this is a
small part of a much bigger picture. There is an
inevitable, glacial levelling of the world economy
which means that work is done wherever it's
cheapest. The current "economic crisis" is no
such thing - it's just another click of the ratchet
on the way downhill, and it's only going to get
worse. Western economies will get poorer; other
economies will get richer, albeit slower than the
western economies get poorer. |
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Seriously, if someone in Malaysia can assemble
iPhones for a quarter of the price of assembling
in the US, where do you expect them to be
assembled? |
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// Tech products are a huge waste of human energy // I really agree. |
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// This is wrong because? // because it's never enough ? |
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More ranting about politics. Zzzz... |
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sorry, the intend was surely not to bore you Ray.
Not sure how to react anymore, the feeling of
existential threat is probably just a midlife crisis, I
know. |
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piluso, hope you don't ever need a pace maker. |
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I'm going to start labeling the Republican party as the
Paranoia Party. |
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I guess we should all go back to the time when
people lived to about age 40. |
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// hope you don't ever need a pace maker //
Me too ! Please take my annotations in this context of "I" products, that generation after generation (every year) seems to never fill the increasing needs of millions.
And yes, I should read the category first. |
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ban all technological products. Issue everyone with a leaf, a stick and a stone. |
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And a hat. A nice hat with a wide brim and a pointy
top. You can do a lot with a hat like that. |
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Sure you can. Line it with tinfoil, for instance. |
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//how does one pluralise an acronym whose noun
makes up the first letter?// |
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I can say that I've generally seen Attorneys General
written as AGs. I think it's generally acceptable to
put the s on the end of the acronym, and let the
expander put it where it should be. |
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In the case of p.o.s., the plural would be pp.o.s. |
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