Posts by Ted Treen
1205 posts • joined Thursday 19th April 2007 12:33 GMT
Jeez...
Mr Sophistry indeed! Have you got a bee in your bonnet or what?
Never mind, you can feel all righteous, cos you are smart enough to slate what's becoming the world's favourite tech company.
I suppose if Apple discovered a cure for cancer, AIDS, Ebola virus and so on, irrigated Africa's deserts and put a stop to religious bigotry you would STILL slate them with spittle-laden invective.
You say "Bear in mind that after the last time they audited there were still numerous suicides and findings of child labour too."
At least they audit - and the companies concerned aren't working exclusively for Apple.
Where's Microsoft's audit?
Where's Dell's?
Where's Acer's?
Where's HP's?
Need I go on? - or are you allergic to factual reality?
Posted in Protection of Freedoms Bill is released
Well,
In the forthcoming census you could claim to be a homosexual hermaphrodite.
That should be sufficient to make their hardwired jobsworth brains explode or meltdown.
Wonderful!
Now all I need is to get by brain reformatted, or its directory rebuilt & I'll be as good as new...
Posted in Ford Focus 2011
Agreed...
...and perhaps we can refer to a licence (noun) rather than a license (verb) - Mickey 1 (above).
Posted in Protection of Freedoms Bill is released
It's a start...
...if it comes to fruition.
The smaller the government, the better.
Posted in Mozilla plans four Firefoxes in 2011
Who's a clever Bard-Steward then?
While we're at it:-
(Henry VI, Part II)
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
Well said, Giles
Yes, I'm a Mac user (even a fanboy) but I bemoan that Microsoft have tended towards the reactive these days.
Whilst I accept that on the whole, Apple march to their own drum, I still feel that a little innovative competition helps to spur them on somewhat.
Innovative competition from a visionary company would encourage them greatly and we would all ultimately benefit, despite the inevitable invective from the naysayers.
Then...
the distance to success would be shorter*
*as the Crow flies
Mine's the one with the face mask in the pocket.
Lenient?
"Viktor Pleshchuk, 29, of St Petersburg, Russia, escaped a more severe punishment after agreeing to ... inform on his erstwhile partners in crime".
So he'll be free for the rest of his life...?
If his partners-in-crime are typical of Russki bad-guys, then I suspect Viktor's estimated longevity needs revising downwards.
Very downwards.
Speaking for myself...
1) I've never committed a murder (been tempted to, a few times)
2) I'm English
3) I'm resident in England
4) "Overlords" is a reference to the reptilian denizens of Westminster, Whitehall, and Town Halls throughout the country!
And you wonder why...
...so many Americans defend their right to bear arms.
The right was originally to give the populace the means to deal with a despotic government.
Perhaps its original purpose is getting closer.
It also explains why the idea armed civilians is such anathema to our benevolent altruistic overlords...
Humph!
"You know you are living in a democracy?"
Can't be a post from the UK...
Hmmm
Bureaucracies are rather like matter: they cannot be destroyed but can only be changed from one form to another.
Well,
maybe not safer, but they have (or should have) analytical experience which suppresses the gung-ho "Kill 'em all - let God sort 'em out" approach.
At least my Snow Leopard, CS5, etc., hasn't tried to bring about my untimely demise...
...yet.
Does that mean...
...that with no Yank pilot, UK forces will be a lot safer?
Grenade is post-modernist irony.
Posted in Scanner snares senior servant
What next, indeed!
"..bank robber unfairly fired for using works van in heist.."
Wouldn't be unfair - heists are inherently illegal.
"Worker unfairly fired for using works van to pop to the newsagents for a lad's mag" would be a closer analogy, and of course the fairness would be questionable - by some, at least.
Mac Mini
Les Mac's? Does that mean smaller ones?
Fewer Mac's That means not so many of 'em.
Posted in US lawmakers eye internet 'kill switch'
History again...
"...the slight matter of curtailling freedom of speech and right to association and rights to form and operate a political party..."
All I can say to that is:-
Senator McCarthy
Students at Kent State University
Just about any non-white person in Alabama from the mid 1800's to at least the present day.
Laws ans Constitutions count for bugger all when it comes to the ruling elite; such niceties only exist to give us a comfortable illusion about mattering a damn to our supreme overlords...
Posted in US lawmakers eye internet 'kill switch'
Just plain Mister.
"And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave...
...o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave"
And who said Americans don't do irony?
Ha!
In a nutshell,
No, and No.
Posted in Apple iOS app hunger swells
Would never have believed it..
"Survey says: App lovers love apps"
Next you'll be telling me that anteaters love ants.
Posted in Scotland bans smut. What smut? Won't say
@Graham Marsden
Graham old lad, things which appear on the statute books are put there by politicians, who are generally either professional politicos or mediocre ex-lawyers.
It is therefore my expectation that pretty well EVERYTHING that appears on the statute books is extremely stupid; this being ensured by the pedigree of said legislators.
WTF?
"...Apple should be prosecuted for conspiracy..."
Conspiracy to what?
- to award a prize?
Conspiracy with whom?
- their own staff?
Words fail me. Never have I seen a knee jerked so meaninglessly.
Aha!
A downvote. Must have touched a raw nerve there...
Unsurprisingly,
someone (AC 25/1/11 00:09) gets downvoted by the spittle-dribbling "I gotta hate Apple to show I'm too cool" brigade, despite his perfectly rational, non-provocative comment.
Trouble is...
...suing him would probably be done through a solicitor.
Where are you going to find one you can trust to sue one of his ilk?
Yes, I know the majority have no morals and would sell their grannies for a tanner (2.5p to the younger readers), but putting the words "trust" and "solicitor" in the same sentence ain't easy.
Idiots like this
give the legal profession a bad name.
Shame the Law Society didn't issue an "Oi, you, Stoppit!" directive instead of generally acting like a superior load of tw*ts - as is their custom.
Posted in Susan Boyle joins Lads from Lagos
But...
...if they're THAT stupid, how did they get their money in the first place?
@AC 10.20
If that's your Mom's maiden name, then you are Daneel Olivaw.
Sorted!
@John
"corrupt politician" is tautology.
Even if he followed your advice...
...he'd end up in India.
Clearly, he doesn't know Madras from his Elba
What do I have to do
to get some "Physical Treats"?
Why
would she want to call it "Aswell"?
I knew it...
..a downvote. Must be a right-on Sociology Grad or a deadbeat Dad with no interest in his offspring/spawn (delete according to point of view)
You've got smart kids...
...who are lucky 'cos they've got a smart Dad.
If only some of our feral hoodies had Dads with even a fraction of your obvious care & interest, they wouldn't inevitably drift into the underclass.
(Awaits flaming from Sociology graduates)
Dare I say...
Flight of fancy?
@Matt
I really don't think I could have expressed it so clearly, succinctly and accurately.
I take my hat off to you.
You are Steve Ballmer...
...and I claim my prize.
@AC 29/12/10 13:47
"Has he ever really contributed anything other than this and selling BASIC?"
Er..no.
Posted in LG uncloaks six-foot 3D TV
Some I can understand...
but for you to even think of a George Bush sex doll suggests to me that your medication needs increasing...
You gotta hand it to Microsoft..
They REALLY do know how to keep their customers happy...
Obviously
That'll teach them to let "The Tech Guys" advise on their website...
Posted in Apple slapped with iOS privacy lawsuit
Little Snitch?
An iOS version of "Little Snitch" which I have on my desktop Macs? I have no iOS devices, so can't talk from experience, but I keep "Little Snitch" on my Macs because I'm probably paranoid (which doesn't mean I'm not correct).
Posted in Double-clicking patent takes on world
@Emj
Vaguely sensible?
Don't forget that the law is made by lawyers (mostly) with the sole aim of enriching lawyers.
Vaguely sensible? - not a snowball in Hell's chance...
PS
I presume that you mean Patent Lawyers are the "gutter dwelling low life"
It's all relative
The newest Ferrarri uses an internal combustion engine.
A variant of 1890s technology.
The F-18 uses a gas turbine engine.
A variant of 1930s technology.
Your point being?
No it doesn't.
Roy Whiting.
Does that mean anything to you?
Oh yeah?
try sacking an Islamist for extremist views and see how far you'd get...
Harriet Harthingy/The Grauniad/The BBC would have you pilloried faster than Jacqui Smith could pocket a taxpayer's quid...
