This shows two things:
1) Unwanted mobile phones are stupidly cheap
2) Print media has to do pretty outlandish things to get people to buy them

>> ^ant:

>> ^Drachen_Jager:
>> ^ant:
So, who bought an iPhone 5? Not me (don't even own a mobile phone).

I think we're the only holdouts left. I used to have one, but I never really used it.

You never used it? Um, why did you buy one then?! I don't use phones so I never bought a mobile phone. Internet is a different story.


"Never" as in the figure of speech, not literally never. I had more use for it when I bought it, but since I'm working from home now, I have landline during the days. The rest of the time I prefer being out of touch.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

>> ^ant:
So, who bought an iPhone 5? Not me (don't even own a mobile phone).

I think we're the only holdouts left. I used to have one, but I never really used it.


You never used it? Um, why did you buy one then?! I don't use phones so I never bought a mobile phone. Internet is a different story.

>> ^ant:

So, who bought an iPhone 5? Not me (don't even own a mobile phone).


I think we're the only holdouts left. I used to have one, but I never really used it.

>> ^ant:

So, who bought an iPhone 5? Not me (don't even own a mobile phone).


Dude, come on don't be that guy.

So, who bought an iPhone 5? Not me (don't even own a mobile phone).

I'm tired of this whole "you copied me!" battle going on between them. Everyone copies everyone. Look @ the 2002 pocket pc from HP and tell me the 2007 iphone got nothing from that. Puhleeze.

He has 3 mobile phones? What ... a ... freak!

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Wood fiber has about the same energy density as carbs, so it is essentially cooking a hamburger for your electronics <img class="smiley" src="http://cdn.videosift.com/cdm/emoticon/teeth.gif">

Burning wood isn't exactly "Green" though, so this is a clever marketing angle that is mostly untrue.

Edit, did some googling, and found their electrical output is about 2Watts (not enough to power most light bulbs), and they cost about 130 bucks. Those kind of cost to power ratios are WAAAAAAAAY out of touch of the needs of third world counties, you need kilowatts before you have any real needs met. If you ran this 24/7 for a year, the annual cost of electricity...not including the burning material is 7.42 dollars per KWH. The average cost of electricity in the US is about 10 cents per KWH, marking this as a third world solution is pretty shitty.


Actually, they have a bigger HomeStove as well, and neither it nor the CampStove are really meant to have a primary purpose of generating electricity - the main purpose is to cook things, and the surplus electricity is a nice side effect. According to this page: http://www.biolitestove.com/homestove/homestove-technology/ , the reason this is better than a regular fire or older rocket stove is fewer CO emissions (eco-friendly) and less smoke (health hazard) for cooking the same meals.

In India, there are tons of people with mobile phones, but the power grid is not reliable and there are frequent rolling blackouts. Of course, people could just wait for power to come back to charge their phone, but if you are cooking at the time, why not use the stove?

I think the high price of the CampStove is meant to help lower the price of the HomeStove for these other markets.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

It makes me sick to think about the things we could do to these businesses if people just organized long enough to make themselves heard. We could have all these companies begging for our business and bending over backwards to make us happy. Imagine what a phone company would do if, for one day, all their unhappy customers decided to call in and cancel their service. Just imagine the kind of sheer chaos and paranoia something like that could achieve. Instead, this guy goes to jail, and the only people he affected were the low-paid, street-level employees who probably couldn't to anything to help him anyway. It just makes me sick. What a waste.


Yeah that's what bothers me, it's like in poor neighborhoods they get mad and steal from their neighbors instead of doing something about it. Because they think it's hopeless, that they have no chance. Much bigger systemic issues here but on the Mobile phone side we have to do better to not accept their bullshit, maybe go back to not having cell phones for awhile.

Many mobile phone service providers are generally corrupt and greedy. This came out of Canada this week:

"Canadians have been misled by the carriers into thinking the access fee — typically between $6.95 and $8.95 a month — was a tax by the government or the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, when in fact it was simply extra revenue for cellphone companies.

The suit was filed on behalf of more than 14 million monthly cellphone subscribers, or nearly half the country's population."

This is a $19-billion class-action lawsuit.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/06/28/cellphone-class-action-lawsuit.html

This must be the 4th or 5th video I've seen of this happening. Yet how many infernos have been caused by people using mobile phones in a petrol station? I'm willing to bet zero

>> ^enoch:

im with A_C.
the word "contrived" is a perfect word to use in describing the first movie.
though i would not say i hated the first, i will say it was chock full of ..meh.
the trailers are all you really needed.
they were freaking AWESOME!


I just found it enormously enjoyable action nonsense. And Liam Neeson is so fucking cool he just pulls it all off magnificently.


Things I love about Taken - SPOILERS;



The way his "17 year old" daughter runs to convince us she's 17.
He kills half the Albanian gang presence in Paris.
He gives his daughter a mobile phone without a charger.
Shooting the wife of his ex-colleague - I was just gobsmacked by that.
Neeson's running. He can't actually run so it's just as well people come at him.
Whatsherface as a megastar popstar which seems a slightly cruel bit of casting.
The fact that he NEVER reloads in the film - he just picks up new guns.

And of course that speech on the phone. It doesn't get better than that in my opinion.

It's just a fad, like mobile phones, television, and indoor plumbing.>> ^Payback:

You know, I think all this computer stuff is going to amount to something after all.