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Michael Dell offers the following words of wisdom on Apple: “We know how the movie ends, it’s just a question of what happens in the middle.
… It’s not to say that Apple’s products aren’t innovative or cool, but the economic factors here are so overwhelming, it’s very hard for them to swim against that tide.”

Let’s see, ‘we all know how the movie ends, it’s just a question of what happens in the middle’. Woah, that’s deep. Coming from an upper class princeling who has never had to worry about anything other than how to get the next million.

Would it ever occur to him that he just described EVERY SINGLE HUMAN LIFE? If he is implying that ‘what happends in the middle’ is a trivial side note of no consequence to the conclusion, why doesn’t he take his own advice and kill himself? After all, it’s the same ending to every single human life, regardless of what happens in the middle, right?

Born into a rich white upper class family, he has no idea how the rest of us live from day to day, without any hope of being a millionaire before 30.
“…the economic factors here are so overwhelming, it’s very hard for them to swim against that tide.” No sh*t, Michael. Has it occurred to you that ‘swimming against the tide’ is what the rest of us do our whole life? What would you know about saving up for a mortgage on a 5 figure salary with three kids?

It’s hiliarious when one of these upper class doughboys thinks he can dish out advice on what other people should do with their careers.

Worth checking out. For George Dubya: The World: a primer. Pretty fucking funny.

Canada
A winter-sports town that is popular with vacationing Americans. Sizeable minority of population speak in unidentified foreign language.

Ha.

What the fuck is this?

Fucking ABCNews. The President’s CAT ran away, and it’s an ‘Exclusive?’ And people wonder why I don’t respect major media outlets.

A two-month investigation by Sm@rt Partner shows the Internet is at risk from unexpected outages caused by everything from seismic disasters to system overloads, terrorism and just plain human error. Security is spotty, standards still don’t exist in many arenas and, because of the distributed ownership of the Internet itself, getting those standards in place is anything but easy.

What was it that I had heard a few years ago? Something along the lines of ‘the internet is growing so fast that it will collapse under its own weight sometime in 1998,’ or something? Whatever. Ain’t gonna happen.

Rumor has it (from FuckedCompany, but I can’t find the story) the Be, inc is well, fucked. Laying off 25% of staff, and closing all European operations. Does anyone know if Jean-Louis Gassé is in France? Does that mean he’s laid off, too? Somehow, I doubt it, although it would probably be best for the platform, no? Maybe then the OS would run on PPC chips newer than 604s made in 1997.

Yesterday was my 21st birthday. Most of you don’t care. But it also coincided with NCAA National Championship and my was school playing. This alone makes for anticipation of a fuckin’ outrageous birthday. However, after we lost things became just insane.

I’m in the crowd in one of the shots, but you can’t make it out. I wasn’t involved with rolling any cars or anything, but I did get some pictures that didn’t turn out so well because of the shitty quality of disposable cameras in the dark.

Just to clarify, I’m not into basketball and I really don’t think that rioting for sporting events is a reasonable thing to do. But it was a crazy birthday. Im afraid that every trip to the bars from now on will be a big let down in terms of excitement.