Posts by Tom Semmens
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It might also be worth noting that George Soros is neither Jewish nor a banker.
In which case Mr. Wishart would note the long association of Greeks with duplicitous agendas!
“Timeo Danaos et dona ferentis”
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Ok not Auschwitz. Maybe more like an animal Aramoana then.
Ah... Wrong again. Would you like to you use your call now?
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I hear it lacks a USB port. Sweet Jesus and mother Mary, no USB port? Still, wireless allows big brother to keep a weather eye on your DRM.
Most people who buy one won't get a freebie in the mail and so will buy the 16GB model. The biggest drive is 64GB. WTF??? Sixty-fucking-four gigabytes? Is this a joke? Does Apple take consumers for fools? I can buy a terabyte external drive at Dick Smith for a few hundred bucks and Job's wants me to fork out a grand for 64GB's?
You can't multi task? What century are we in again?
It isn't an e-reader. It doesn't use any sort of e-ink. It'll be like reading on a scaled up iPod. Specsavers will be rubbing their hands with glee.
Taking that lovely, unprotected, 20cm × 15cm screen on holiday? Good luck with that, you are braver than I am.
Apple may yet prove you can fool enough people enough of the time to turn a buck. But I doubt it.
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Even non-white students used them.
I am so happy for you. And them. You've like, totally made a difference. To non-white people.
Anyway, I think the key to Apple's success lies in their blurb on apple.com...
"iPad. Our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price."
See it? iPADS ARE MAGIC!
Personally, if I was Steve Jobs and I could control magic then I wouldn't sprinkle elven dust on an iPhone and call the result a technology triumph, but then again I don't tuck my skivvy into my jeans either.
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Mac's are just UNIX for idiots.
And Apple just makes stuff white people like. -
If you want to watch this movie, illegally download it. That'll teach them.
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If it's one thing NZ is not short of it's beaches.
Tried getting to one in your lunch hour from your CBD job in the 09?
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My suggestion: a museum of the future.
Here is an idea: How about no buildings at all at the Tank Farm site (beyond a DOC sanctioned icecream stand)?
Why not build a lovely golden sand artifical beach backed by landscaped gardens, a bandstand for the Sallies to regale the weekend crowds with brass band goodness, perhaps a duck pond for kiddies to feed the ducks and with a dinky quay for old men to show their grandchildren how to sail a model yacht, a little artifical amphitheatre for free small scale theatre (you know, summer Shakespeare and the like) and music and maybe even a free tram line to link it all to the Fanshawe/Lower Queen street?
A helluva of a lot more people would sit on a sandy beach in summer and eat their lunch during their lunch hour, or have a picnic there under a (real) Nikau on the weekend, or jog around it on a bleak winters day, than visit an "iconic building."
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Actually having had breakfast there the other day i will admit that this does detract from the overall look.
I sat down opposite it for a while and tried to think of ways to make that place look a bit less hideous. The trouble is, the name Timothy McVeigh kept popping into my head.