Gilead Sciences makes the *channers look like Mother Teresa in comparison.
Actually, they look about the same. Mother Teresa was a fanatic fundamentalist and a con artist with a sadist streak. The people in her homes for the dying endured cancer-type pain with analgesics no stronger than paracetamol. When they cried out, she would say, "you are suffering as Christ on the cross." All of the money donated to her organization went straight into the Vatican bank, not to build a teaching hospital as she promised. She also accepted a seven figure donation of stolen money from Charles Keating, the disgraced S&L swindler, and refused to give it back.
The only problem is that iPhones are only sold at two places: Apple stores and AT&T stores.
Correct.
Apple can't stuff their own channel because that wouldn't count as a sale.
Unless the Apple Store is a separate corporate entity, which I'm pretty sure it is. Then that would count as a sale.
And do you think AT&T is stupid enough to take inventory of 700,000 phones at once? That would be bat-shit insane.
Then again, given the iPhone's perceived demand (spell that "hype"), Apple is in a position to pretty much tell AT&T how many iPhones they're going to take and when. Apple, therefore, can stuff the channel with unsold iPhones eight ways to Sunday.
How about Bill Gates and Microsoft start paying their fair share of taxes and stop taking corporate welfare? It's a well-known fact, for example, that Microsoft launders all of those copies of Windows through a Nevada shell corporation to avoid paying Washington state taxes. How many teachers could the state pay with the extra tax money, huh Mr Gates?
The religious maniacs will still believe their long discredited, two millennia old superstitious mythological crap. Worse, they want Joe Taxpayer to subsidize them as they teach this crap to children. Isn't it ironic the amount of evil deeds that are done in the name of the Prince of Peace?
Seriously, this is ridiculous. No Ethernet port, no optical drive, no modem, no nothing? At this price point? It's absurd! But hey, it's thiiiiin and kyooooot, so the idiot yuppie iPhone buyers will lap it up.
Verizon 900 minutes + unlimited data = $105ish after taxes. I know, I had a Moto Q just before the iPhone price drop, when I bought mine. AT&T iPhone 900 minutes + unlimited data + rollover minutes = $85ish after taxes.
Okay, you're paying a little less with AT&T, but GSM/EDGE data sucks. By contrast, with Verizon or Sprint CDMA data, you can get near-broadband speeds. The iPhone is a data intensive device. Hmm . . . think . . . think . . . which would be better?
Here again, you're paying nearly what you would pay for the legitimate data service and getting the shitty one. So you're really paying more and getting less. I know, I know, it's an iPhone, it's sexy, it's cool, Steve Jobs masturbated with it (when he wasn't backdating his stock options).
If you're determined to pay too much for a calling plan and an overpriced phone, this is what's going to happen. Sure, it looks cool, but it's locked down enough to make Microsoft blush. I mean, come on.
Mod me to hell, I don't care, I have karma to burn.
Even though it is well-known that they give good reviews to advertisers and vice versa? Micro$oft is one of PC Rag's biggest advert buyers. Gee, I wonder what they're going to do to one of Micro$oft's main competitors . . .
I wonder if these geeks still think unions are "outmoded" and "unnecessary." In other words, the real world is slight at variance with your Ayn Rand masturbation fantasies in your parents' basements, right?
Science starts with a question and works towards developing an answer without regard to what that answer might be.
ID and other pseudosciences starts with an answer and works backward to prove it is correct. In other words, they don't admit of the idea that ID, dowsing, spoon-bending, ESP, chiropractic or other bullshit du jour might just be wrong-o.
Why people feel the compelling need to make carbon copies of themselves to fill up our already poisoned planet is a mystery to me. Besides, kids make you old, stupid, trapped and broke. Childfree is the way to go.
Anyone who can't document the software they bought and paid for has no business in business. The BSA is nothing, anyone stymied by this most elementary of accounting tasks is eventually going to get a red hot poker up the ass from someone with real power, like the IRS.
I get really sick of business owners bellyaching about how terrible the business climate is. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. If you can't keep the box and receipt for your copy of Office, you might as well queue up for a job at Wal-Mart because that's where we're all going to be working eventually anyway.
Simple: Eventually M$ is going to force you to run it. The corporate lapdog U.S. DOJ won't do anything to stop them either, just like they folded a winning hand against them last time.
Yeah, your word, America, is indeed worthless, in many ways, in many areas, in many places.
Yeah, and how about the "settlement" of the softwood lumber dispute? "Yeah, we're America, so we'll give you back a percent of the interest we earned on the money we stole."
Too true. The Stupid Party has a way of picking loser Presidential candidates (Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton but for a major fluke), thus giving the Evil Party free reign. Even when the Stupid Party manages to get power, it still cowers in the face of the Evil Party and allows most of the Evil Party's agenda to be passed.
This time around, the Stupid Party has, in its infinite non-wisdom, chosen Hillary, a candidate with exactly zero chance of winning. The right wing will mobilize everything it has against her, and the left will withhold their support because she voted for the war. The only way she has a chance is if the Xtian right makes good on its threat to run a third party candidate.
is glad to see that the wonderful and elegant OS X is being subsidized by idiot yuppie tools who need to drop hundreds of dollars on each year's must-have new toy.
Personally, since you couldn't pay me enough to activate service with Cingular/AT&T, I'll stick to my BlackBerry, thank you very much.
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Gilead Sciences makes the *channers look like Mother Teresa in comparison.
Actually, they look about the same. Mother Teresa was a fanatic fundamentalist and a con artist with a sadist streak. The people in her homes for the dying endured cancer-type pain with analgesics no stronger than paracetamol. When they cried out, she would say, "you are suffering as Christ on the cross." All of the money donated to her organization went straight into the Vatican bank, not to build a teaching hospital as she promised. She also accepted a seven figure donation of stolen money from Charles Keating, the disgraced S&L swindler, and refused to give it back.
Bitch.
that could otherwise be spent on universal health care goes.
The only problem is that iPhones are only sold at two places: Apple stores and AT&T stores.
Correct.
Apple can't stuff their own channel because that wouldn't count as a sale.
Unless the Apple Store is a separate corporate entity, which I'm pretty sure it is. Then that would count as a sale.
And do you think AT&T is stupid enough to take inventory of 700,000 phones at once? That would be bat-shit insane.
Then again, given the iPhone's perceived demand (spell that "hype"), Apple is in a position to pretty much tell AT&T how many iPhones they're going to take and when. Apple, therefore, can stuff the channel with unsold iPhones eight ways to Sunday.
include "cooking the books" and "accounting fraud."
How about Bill Gates and Microsoft start paying their fair share of taxes and stop taking corporate welfare? It's a well-known fact, for example, that Microsoft launders all of those copies of Windows through a Nevada shell corporation to avoid paying Washington state taxes. How many teachers could the state pay with the extra tax money, huh Mr Gates?
The religious maniacs will still believe their long discredited, two millennia old superstitious mythological crap. Worse, they want Joe Taxpayer to subsidize them as they teach this crap to children. Isn't it ironic the amount of evil deeds that are done in the name of the Prince of Peace?
Wait, it doesn't have a DVD drive. Nevermind.
Seriously, this is ridiculous. No Ethernet port, no optical drive, no modem, no nothing? At this price point? It's absurd! But hey, it's thiiiiin and kyooooot, so the idiot yuppie iPhone buyers will lap it up.
Okay, you're paying a little less with AT&T, but GSM/EDGE data sucks. By contrast, with Verizon or Sprint CDMA data, you can get near-broadband speeds. The iPhone is a data intensive device. Hmm . . . think . . . think . . . which would be better?
Here again, you're paying nearly what you would pay for the legitimate data service and getting the shitty one. So you're really paying more and getting less. I know, I know, it's an iPhone, it's sexy, it's cool, Steve Jobs masturbated with it (when he wasn't backdating his stock options).
If you're determined to pay too much for a calling plan and an overpriced phone, this is what's going to happen. Sure, it looks cool, but it's locked down enough to make Microsoft blush. I mean, come on.
Mod me to hell, I don't care, I have karma to burn.
Even though it is well-known that they give good reviews to advertisers and vice versa? Micro$oft is one of PC Rag's biggest advert buyers. Gee, I wonder what they're going to do to one of Micro$oft's main competitors . . .
I wonder if these geeks still think unions are "outmoded" and "unnecessary." In other words, the real world is slight at variance with your Ayn Rand masturbation fantasies in your parents' basements, right?
or the American version of that one, "adios, motherfucker!"
What's the difference between ID and science?
Science starts with a question and works towards developing an answer without regard to what that answer might be.
ID and other pseudosciences starts with an answer and works backward to prove it is correct. In other words, they don't admit of the idea that ID, dowsing, spoon-bending, ESP, chiropractic or other bullshit du jour might just be wrong-o.
Why people feel the compelling need to make carbon copies of themselves to fill up our already poisoned planet is a mystery to me. Besides, kids make you old, stupid, trapped and broke. Childfree is the way to go.
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Anyone who can't document the software they bought and paid for has no business in business. The BSA is nothing, anyone stymied by this most elementary of accounting tasks is eventually going to get a red hot poker up the ass from someone with real power, like the IRS.
I get really sick of business owners bellyaching about how terrible the business climate is. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. If you can't keep the box and receipt for your copy of Office, you might as well queue up for a job at Wal-Mart because that's where we're all going to be working eventually anyway.
Simple: Eventually M$ is going to force you to run it. The corporate lapdog U.S. DOJ won't do anything to stop them either, just like they folded a winning hand against them last time.
Yeah, and how about the "settlement" of the softwood lumber dispute? "Yeah, we're America, so we'll give you back a percent of the interest we earned on the money we stole."
"My lawyer told me not to say who my new employer was."
Too bad I don't have mod points. Yes, my countrymen are that stupid.
Every time I go into Blockbuster, all I see are a couple hundred copies of the latest straight-to-video abortion. No wonder they're going bankrupt.
Why should they break with tradition?
Too true. The Stupid Party has a way of picking loser Presidential candidates (Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton but for a major fluke), thus giving the Evil Party free reign. Even when the Stupid Party manages to get power, it still cowers in the face of the Evil Party and allows most of the Evil Party's agenda to be passed.
This time around, the Stupid Party has, in its infinite non-wisdom, chosen Hillary, a candidate with exactly zero chance of winning. The right wing will mobilize everything it has against her, and the left will withhold their support because she voted for the war. The only way she has a chance is if the Xtian right makes good on its threat to run a third party candidate.
is glad to see that the wonderful and elegant OS X is being subsidized by idiot yuppie tools who need to drop hundreds of dollars on each year's must-have new toy.
Personally, since you couldn't pay me enough to activate service with Cingular/AT&T, I'll stick to my BlackBerry, thank you very much.
Why worry? Each one of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.
Mother pus bucket!
But yes it's true, this man has no dick.
Up to the task?
No.
Welcome to parenthood.
That's all right, I think I'll pass.