TONGUES OUT if you want to LICK Steve Jobs' BACKSIDE We bet there are millions of fanbois who would sacrifice one of their favourite appendages for the chance to lick Steve Jobs' face. Now they have the opportunity to flick their tongues all over the fruity fuhrer following the announcement that he will feature on American postage stamps in 2015. The Washington Post managed to …
"I don't mean to be obtuse but if you really need one I'm pretty sure the IT angle is that most acute folks don't use stamps anymore because of the intarweb tubes."
How do you send a parcel via the tinterweb? What's that? You can't?
Sorry Eddy but you're wrong. Not only because of this fact, but also because you make MASSIVE ASSUMPTIONS which bear nothing resembling the truth.
In fact, the parcel I sent the other day DID require a stamp. Back to the iPhone.
How do you send a parcel via the tinterweb? What's that? You can't?
Go here, select "Ship a Package" -> "Print a Label with Postage". Affix the label, schedule pickup, enjoy frosty beverage.
No, I don't consider a shipping label with a bar code to be a stamp and I'll wager most philatelists would agree.
Wrote :- "Go here [usps link], select "Ship a Package" -> "Print a Label with Postage". Affix the label, schedule pickup"
That's a service in the USA but this is a UK based forum and I am in the UK. I tried the UK equivalent (Parcel Force) and got as far as a screen that insisted I must use Windows or Mac to continue. I didn't.
"Great headline - but licking the queens backside joke is donkeys years old."
There's no point mentioning prior art - if the stamp is to feature Steve Jobs, then by extension of the standard Apple reality distortion field, any joke that has ever applied to other stamps (especially from other nations) simply don't count.
I feel your pain.
I know it means a lot to you and maybe, you never know, it may be your face and you may be getting licked on the backside.
Maybe the question(s) is(are):
why does Mr Gates invoke such grossness
and
why does Mr Jobs invoke such grossness
My own take: I wouldn't mind earning their tax payments never mind their gross incomes.
IT angle: Gates, Jobs, flame, backside licking
See also who are featured on the list. Why you only singled Jobs out for that scatological abuse is curious and tells us more about you than Jobs.
"Dora the Explorer, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Charlton Heston, John Lennon, Wilt Chamberlain, Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Johnny Carson, Elvis Presley"
Was that a reverse "Where's the IT angle?" comment.
Steve jobs - IT personality
All the others - Not IT personalities
Although I hear Rudolph is writing a logisitcal programme that will help Santa plan his route, something which the ever growing world population makes more difficult every year. Not many people know this but at the moment the elves do this manually and what with the added complexity of the task and the need to make more more toys they just can't cope. To avoid a union backed strike or claims for constructive dismal from over stessed elves Santa has asked Rudolph and his team to provide the solution, after all they do nothing much but munch hay for the other 364 days of the year.
You'll appreciate this is a critical application and for the first year the elves will have final say over the route. There will be numerous dry runs and a partial live test in November with real toys the elves have agreed to make in return for them all being promoted to the position of Santa's chief helper. No pay increase but what do you expect they're elves and the title was enough to keep them happy. So if you're child receives some unexpected presents in November there's no point running to the Dailymail about internet grooming or an increase in paedophile activity, it's only Santa testing Rudolph's app.
HTH
I don't think it's sycophantic. Congress is defunding the USPS more and more. No one uses mail much anymore, and they are losing revenue. The gov wants to get rid of them. That means that the minority of Americans who do not get internet service, or only get dial-up, will not have any way to communicate with people. Just another way congress wants to wreak genocide on the poor (after all, they are soooo inconvenient and don't pay much taxes).
So the USPS tries to make money buy selling stamps to collectors. That's why they makes stamps that will sell. It's unfortunate that people in general are sycophantic pop-consumers, but that's who the USPS has to sell to in order to survive and be able to serve their poorer customers.
Sucks, but there it is.
BTW, you can send a letter that will get from NY to Hawaii in a few days for less than half a dollar. Friendly and reliable service (in general). What other country's postal service will do that for you?
I don't work for the USPS, I just appreciate them.
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