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"Tell the chef, the beer is on me."
(via gauntlet)
“ It’s not about whether he’s healthy or not, it’s about perception. Stevie appears to be thin and weak. Therefore Apple’s company and stock must be like it’s CEO. One strong gust of wind and both Steve and Apple will be sent tumbling into the abyss. Steve looks the exact opposite of what a tough get-up-and-go executive supposed to look like. Don’t you see those commercials about hair loss and lack of virility? Steve could be a poster boy for those commercials. Investors like to see a tanned, muscular dude, with a head full of thick hair. Take someone like Lance Armstrong. Lance came back from cancer surgery and became a muscle-rippling superman. Bullets can’t stop him. If Lance Armstrong was Apple’s CEO, the stock would be over $200. What media butthead could point at Lance Armstrong and say the guy was dying. Lance would kick his ass. I have a feeling that it’s all about image. To WS and certain investors, Steve Jobs and Apple stock mirror one another. Both appear frail and ready to collapse. Steve joked about his own demise, but he should have cursed and reviled those evil FUDsters that let his obituary out on the internet. Steve Jobs would have to enter in a marathon and win it, then maybe, just maybe those media guys would shut the heck up and Apple’s stock would be stable as granite. ”— Someone in Google Finance AAPL discussion forum
“ The women getting children ready in tiny shorts and mini-ties on elastic bands were all sex workers. The children with their homework were the children of men who stayed five minutes for a “shot”. The cycle rickshaw men were pimps who’d found extra business when auto rickshaws drove down their income, the gas station men were also pimps, and so were the dhaba men. A 20 per cent or 30 per cent cut. The lorry drivers, the coolies were clients. Others in the street were “brokers”, some 300 of them. Men coming back with groceries were “temporary husbands”. The old lady at her gate was a brothel madam, haggling over the price of girls she was buying from desperately poor parents. Coloured Christmas stars over bungalows revealed a missionary drive to save the fallen. The policemen were slowing down, hoping to catch someone soliciting. They’d let her go again in exchange for free sex. ”—
Sex and the sari (via gauntlet)
I totally believe this. Having lived in India for more than 20 years of my life, I know what it is like. Sex trade is big and is here to stay. Not only the lorry drivers and the coolies, but also men from “good” homes can be seen.
Oh- only one-size-fits-all iPod classic- 120 GB-$249.
How many different versions of iPod can Apple possibly keep, before cannibalization kicks in? And I think it already has…
“ Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands and your plan is to blackmail this person? ”—
Lucius Fox [Morgan Freeman] in ‘The Dark Knight’. (via carocat)
Loved this movie and every single dialogue!
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St Kilda Postcard (via Vermin Inc)
“ Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie. ”— Gloria Steinem (via bellevoitceque) (via gauntlet)
Stairs to the Sea (via Van Harl)
“ But even girls and women who do not meet diagnostic criteria for either an eating disorder or BDD often have varying degrees of body insecurity and negative self image. Mass culture exerts so much pressure on women to look and behave in certain ways that body dissatisfaction becomes ingrained in our very psyches. It’s difficult if impossible to not absorb the relentless message that if only we use this makeup, reshape that body part, buy those clothes or lose weight that we too can achieve that unspoken promise of beauty and acceptance. ”—
Yeah…I know all about this. People like cracking jokes about women who don’t meet their definition of beauty. And people includes both men and women. Sometimes I feel ashamed of myself- for laughing at other women who are fat, too thin, too short, too tall, too…whatever.
(via angad)
Hahahaha..someone teach him IPR- Intellectual Property Rights.
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