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Apple Upgrades Mac mini, Doesn't Tell Anybody
echomancer writes "Think Secret is reporting that Apple has released a slightly updated version of the Mac mini, but has failed to tell anyone. Some Mac minis may now include a 1.5GHz processor, 64MB of VRAM, and an updated 8x superdrive but these new machines are being shipped in boxes reflecting the original specs. 'The motivation behind this is to help clear current inventory without lowering prices. Essentially, customers are promised that the Mac mini they purchase will have specifications at least equal to the label, but that their system may exceed those.'"
I'm an American and my government has been upgrading Freedom without telling the American people for a number of years now. Typically, they perform the Freedom upgrade in the middle of the night, when few legislators can attend and they can quickly make small changes to the Freedom upgrades without a quarrel. I just thought I would point out that Apple isn't the only organization that clearly cares so much about their clients!
The site lifeaftertheoilcrash.org sucks. It isn't about life after the oil crash. It's about trying to convince people that there will be an oil crash. The author or authors obviously have a great deal of emotional investment in it, because any argument in favor of an oil crash or increasing the impact of it is presented, regardless of whether or not the logic of that argument contradicts other things they have already said.
It reminds me of those Y2kers who wouldn't fucking shut up. Having decided that they had proved that on Y2k the electricity would go out for at least a little while, they then had to think of a reason why it would stay off, and invented all this bullshit about social disorders, in the process making up this theory that society was on a hairtrigger about to blow up and only they were smart enough to see it.
I have been reading that we are about to run out of oil since I could read. During that time, there has been one constant: war causes prices to go up, peace causes prices to go down. Other than that, production has shifted around, we have shifted back and forth from more and less efficient cars, recessions have come and gone, all totally mispredicted by the "experts".
KJV, Matt.20
"1": For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
"2": And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
"3": And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
"4": And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
"5": Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
"6": And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
"7": They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
"8": So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
"9": And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
"10": But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
"11": And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
"12": Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.
"13": But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?
"14": Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.
"15": Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
"16": So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen
Really, it applies. Think about it.