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Did Apple Sabotage the ROKR?
JPigford writes "The Apple Blog makes claim that Apple sabotaged the success of the ROKR so as to sway public opinion of MP3 cell phones in general...ultimately to drive more sales to the iPod. By mandating a 100 song limit on the ROKR and having the product flop, Apple was able to put a bad taste in the mouths of consumers so that not only do they drive more iPod sales, but they keep competitors from fighting back with their own MP3 phones."
I'm a dumbass. "they're" should be "their."
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You're being overly critical of your...oh, never mind.
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Al slipped on a ceramic tile floor in hurricane force winds outside of his hotel room (with a guy holding onto his leg as a sight gag and also harming his balance).
I don't think Apple had any reason or anything to do with it at all.
Man, would you PC-lovers stop with the hate already?
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19 people acting alone should not be able to hijack airplanes and fly them anywhere without immediately having those planes shot down, let alone being able to fly them into the headquarters of the most well-funded military in the world.
The only way 9/11 was able to happen was the combination of planning/funding by more than those 19 hijackers, and gross negligence by various parties in the government.
dude, cingular reps lie all the time. I went to change my plan with them and they insisted that I had to throw my treo600 and 2 samsung phones, all of which are GSM and unlocked, in the trash and replace them all to get a new plan. After talking to the guy for 1 hour about there was no way in hell they were going to replace my treo with a POS freebie phone he finally gave me a monthly price and the minutes total. it was a worse deal than me staying on the old contract and going to month to month with them.
If a rep tells you your phone will be shut off soon, they are lying, espically if it's a GSM phone with a sim card.
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So.. you're saying, there must be some kind of intelligent design because the plot is too complicated to have occured on its own?
Not at all. I'm saying that under normal circumstances 9/11 should have been impossible, both from an organizational standpoint, and from an execution standpoint. The fact that the terrorists succeeded points out that things were not normal, that the system broke down on multiple levels. The 9/11 commission has pointed out to us how it broke down in halting the plan while it was being hatched, but there has yet to be someone to point out how it broke down on the day itself.
I mean seriously, if you were in charge of pentagon security, would it have been possible to fly an airplane into it? I'm absolutely certain that had I been in charge that plane would have been shot down long before it got anywhere near the pentagon. The fact that the plane hit points to gross negligence on the part of whoever was responsible for protecting the pentagon.
Still, I find it a leap to go from there to concluding a conspiracy. Conspiracies are awfully hard to keep secret. As a great man once said: why attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence?
Do you honestly believe the airspace around the pentagon is not tracked? If so, how do you consider it reasonable that it is not tracked? Isn't it a sign of incompetence that this is not the case? How can it be that the pentagon does not have 24/7 surface-to-air defenses? It's all to dubious. Somebody screwed up big-time, there is no other explanation.
Besides, it is not THAT difficult a matter to automatically track transponders and their location and overlay those with prearranged flight plans. If a transponder goes down, make a human operator check it. If a plane diverts course, make a human operator check it. Sure, it's not a walk in the park, but it's not rocket science either.
Besides, it has been thoroughly pointed out that the information about hijacked planes was available in the system early enough that something could have been done about it. That nobody even managed to respond until it was all over points to more incompetence for me.