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Despicable. That's really the only polite word I have for both Apple's actions What word do you have for things that are actually despicable? Like actually hu
by CountSessine 14y ago
Despicable. That's really the only polite word I have for both Apple's actions
What word do you have for things that are actually despicable?
Like actually hurting or killing people?
Or doing things that don't just involve selling telephones?
- Tichy 14y agoIt's hurting people if millions go to waste. People lose jobs, worry about money, can't pay medical bills and so on.
- CountSessine 14y agoIt's hurting people if millions go to waste. People lose jobs, worry about money, can't pay medical bills and so on. You're totally right. Despicable. Just like Stalin. We can only hope that we discover Apple's diabolical plan, and the location of the plutonium, before it's too late. Give me a break.
- Gigablah 14y agoStop arguing on HN and go help those starving children in Africa.
- CountSessine 14y agoStop arguing on HN and go help those starving children in Africa Oh gee, I sure would - but how will I find Africa now that I can't buy a Galaxy Nexus with it's enhanced turn-by-turn navigation and barometric elevation sensor?
- Gigablah 14y agoOh yeah, I forgot. Man, that's despicable.
- SCdF 14y agoYes. Ironically it's even less "firstworldproblems" than you might otherwise think, because a lot of the jobs lost etc go to people who are very much not first world.
- CountSessine 14y agoWow. What is wrong with everyone here? Let's look at what despicable means. (from Dictionary.com) Despicable : deserving to be despised Hooker Chemical poured tons of hazardous waste into the ground - waste that they knew would cause health problems - and then sold the site to the City of Niagara Falls to be developed into subdivisions. That's pretty despicable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Canal In China, in 2008, a factory making baby formula sold thinned-out product to make a quick buck. It's estimated that about 54000 children under the age of 3 became sick from drinking the formula. That's really quite despicable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal Does anyone here really despise Apple? More than Google? Or Samsung? Or any other faceless, unaccountable corporation? Really? Because there's going to be a 1 or 2 week period during this trial where you might not be able to buy some shiny new telephone? What the fuck is wrong with you?
- ElliotH 14y agoPeople downvote you, including myself, because you're disrupting a thread by discussing the semantics of the word 'despised' in an impolite manner than brings nothing to the story. Being right or wrong has little bearing on what is a rude and unnecessary derail.
- CountSessine 14y agoCome again? What could be more self-indulgent and irrelevant than posting to the root of a thread announcing your opinion that a company that makes shiny gadgets is "despicable"? And you're down-voting me for pointing that out? What?
- prodigal_erik 14y agoBuilding tools is what makes us human. If I believed in sacraments, that would be one. And we're seeing the early stages of a proxy war, crippled appliance culture against toolmakers, which could push civilization off course. It's hard to see atrocities confined to 0.001% of our species in the same light.