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Newly appointed Chief Kuhnian Disruptive Officer at Joybricks. Former corporate minesweeper. Music lover, painter, aspiring filmmaker some day
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Here’s to the dead, the silent and the crippled geniuses who can’t speak for themselves, for whom Apple has no fucking respect using them as an hypocrite banner, pushing the human race backwards, because we see profit in them.
Now shed a little bourgeois tear by the end of the ad, fade to black…
Hypocritically yours, Apple Inc.
Think different my ass
Apple does indeed suck, just like any big corporation does.
Whilst they do have some good products, many really aren’t. Unconditional love for a corporation really blows my mind.
To cite the most evident case, I maintain that the Mac OS X user interface has been surpassed years ago by other substitutes, to give just an example the Finder really sucks big time, I’m not even getting technical.
However, the notion of ALL using the same system is a dangerous one, because that’s roughly what happened with Microsoft Windows, what started good with Windows 95 ended up very badly. Big corporations just aren’t trustworthy, once they achieve a dominating position, they don’t need to satisfy the customer’s needs anymore… I believe that Apple and Google are no different.
We don’t have to ALL use the same computer system, that would stiffle progress too, in a rather soviet manner.
That’s the reason why we have standards, and major vendors commit to standards, to agree on a level playing field everybody can build upon and differentiate on bleeding edge features, or service, or quality, or something else.
But no, Apple don’t want standards, they still want a little unfair advantage to hold the market back.
Think different my ass.
Originally posted as a comment by vruz on united colours of vruz using Disqus.
If browsers supported those codecs, Web developers could use open-source tools and encoders for those formats to put multimedia on their site for free, potentially striking a blow against vendors such as Adobe, Microsoft, RealNetworks and others that sell multimedia software tools.
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Apple won’t support Ogg Theora in QuickTime, the company’s multimedia player, Hickson wrote. Apple has also expressed concern over patents associated with Ogg Theora. Even though the codec can be used royalty-free, Apple has been concerned that some party could make a claim if it ends up implemented in its products.
Simon Critchley: How to believe: The most important continental philosopher of the last century was also a Nazi. How did he get there? What can we learn from him?
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Captain Beefheart, Abba Zaba
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song before song before song blues
babbette baboon abba zabba zoom
WHAT HARM COULD IT DO IF I TOOK ONE LITTLE SIP?
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Bayer Ag really stands out, there’s few corporate monsters active today that had the honour of participating in so many wonderful events of the last 100 years, from sponsoring Mengele and Auschwitz experiments, to contaminating American rice crops, to killing Peruvian children with milk powder, to financing civil wars in Africa through commerce of illegal chemicals.
Bayer Heroin is really amusing compared to the following 100 years of dedicated evildoing.
Aspirin, anyone ?
![BAYER HEROIN
vruz: if it’s bayer, it’s good for you !
—via mudwerks:Consumerist | Top 10 Ironic Ads From History
Not only did Bayer once own the trademark on Heroin, it promoted it to doctors as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. For a while, doctors took the bait. “It possesses many advantages over morphine,” wrote the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal in 1900. “It’s not hypnotic, and there’s no danger of acquiring a habit.” The American Medical Association approved the use of heroin in 1906, but by then the “junkies” foraging scrap metal to feed their habit were getting hard to avoid. Bayer stopped making heroin in 1913 when prohibition seemed inevitable, and its use without a prescription was banned in the US the following year.
How Aspirin Turned Hero [Sunday Times, September 13, 1998]](http://9.media.tumblr.com/PwCIEKd8Npfe22ik3ef8ZvmLo1_250.jpg)
BAYER HEROIN
vruz: if it’s bayer, it’s good for you !
—via mudwerks:Consumerist | Top 10 Ironic Ads From History
Not only did Bayer once own the trademark on Heroin, it promoted it to doctors as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. For a while, doctors took the bait. “It possesses many advantages over morphine,” wrote the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal in 1900. “It’s not hypnotic, and there’s no danger of acquiring a habit.” The American Medical Association approved the use of heroin in 1906, but by then the “junkies” foraging scrap metal to feed their habit were getting hard to avoid. Bayer stopped making heroin in 1913 when prohibition seemed inevitable, and its use without a prescription was banned in the US the following year.
How Aspirin Turned Hero [Sunday Times, September 13, 1998]
Disorderly genius: How chaos drives the brain
Disorder is essential to the brain’s ability to transmit information and solve problems
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I Know What I’ll Do!… I’ll Dress Up As A Boy…
—via comicallyvintage
vruz: throw in some atomic fears, anti-commie hate and christian guilt, mix and shake… now you know why our elders were so fucked up in their heads.
