I cured my other half of this illness by repeatedly asking her to Miele the floor, AEG the chicken, Amstrad tonight's episode of Dr. Who and Colgate her teeth.
Now we vacuum the floor, use sticky tape and glue sticks, and photocopy documents. I feel it's important to not indoctrinate the kids in rampantly consumerist brand awareness, they'll get more than enough of that from peer pressure, if not from adverts on telly and in the school toilets. It's not so bad when folks make money selling adverts that target adults, but when we start out training 1 year olds that "Hoover" is a verb - then something has gone badly wrong. On 28 August 2012 12:50, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps I'm biased by being in a country where a general term for > smartphone is BlackBerry (like Hoover for vacuum cleaner in the UK or duck > tape for heavy duty Sellotape (hah!) in the US) but I think people would > rather return to BlackBerrys than trust Microsoft not to do another Vista. > > Practically it won't happen. There's no gain to the US economy or its > people if iPhone and/or Android devices disappear. Even Microsoft would > likely make less money than they do today. [Deleted section about offended > latte-drinking goatee-bearded MacBook Air users, weasel words detected] > > On Aug 28, 2012 4:28 AM, "Fabrizio Giudici" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:56:26 +0200, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > >> No doubt motivated by this verdict, Google has finally decided to > switch to > >> the offensive and sue Apple > >> directly< > http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/08/21/and-now-google-sues-apple/ > >. > >> > >> What a strange world it would be if in just a few months from now, both > >> iPhones and Samsung devices are banned from the US because of the > lawsuit > >> fallouts, uh? > > > > > > Somebody wrote that the thing could give an advantage to Microsoft, but > I seriously consider this sentence a funny paradox. Anyway that kind of > stall could be the desired outcome that I was talking in my previous email, > the only practical hope for the patenting system to be redesigned. > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
