Edit: You know what? Fuck all your afternoons. Heres the theme song to get stuck in your heads like I do.
If you think you've fucked over my afternoon by introducing Rockapella into it, you are sorely mistaken.
Yeah! I mean when Will Wheaton dropped out of Starfleet he lost all credibility to preach educational advancement. I guess just having some time traveling weirdo proclaim you are a prodigy so you can go off and fight for some displaced indians or some shit gives you the right to bitch about everything. Guhhlll. The megaladon isn't the first time Discovery has used faux documentaries to entertain. I'm not really for that brand of storytelling in an informative sense there is enough interesting shit on any given subject to make something substantive and interesting. The faux docs do neither.
So, what's this I just heard about some psycho running down scores of people on the Venice Beach Boardwalk? The fucking guy's lawyer is rasping into the TV cameras it was all an accident, despite overwheling eye-witness accounts that he was directly aiming and swerving into people. Puh-lease.
When you buy a new phone don't believe the "one year warranty" bullshit, my Galaxy S3 wouldn't charge on any charger and the response of the "repair facility"? It has a damaged charging port which is not covered, it was my fault "damaging it" by trying to you know, charge it. Fuck you AT&T. Titties NSFW NSFW
That sucks. I feel like that is one of the most common malfunctions on the iPhone, and people are in the Apple store everyday getting them swapped out for that reason. Either the port is broken, or really dusty and it gets cleaned out. Either way, that's shitty. I dropped my phone about a month and a half ago, while in a nice case. The screen went all haywire, I was able to plug it in and back it up by basically entering my PIN blind. Took it into the Apple store, phone had no visual damage, no cracked screen, nada. They swapped it out in 10 min and I was on my way. I hate going there cause its filled with mouth breathing techno-fanboys and the smug Apple Genius staff, but its pretty damn efficient when you're still under warranty. But god help you if you're not.
I love how Apple employees go apeshit of you tell them you're getting your phone fixed black market-style. What? You guys are rip-off artists. I like the phone, but you're thieves and you don't deserve my cash, especially when somebody else does the same job for one third the price. The one employee said to me "We'll, technically you're not permitted to get your phone fixed that way." My response to that was easy. "Why? I'll get arrested and thrown in Apple Jail?" "Not permitted." Goofy little bastards.
Speaking of Apple, question: Do any of you know somebody that owns an iPhone, iPad and iPod? Because I can think of at least half a dozen. Do people just plain hate money nowadays?
Yeah they wanted 150 to fix it, I took it down the street and I'll have it back tomorrow for 65, the port is only 7 fucking dollars on Amazon but I can't solder for shit so paying someone who does it all day 65 isn't that bad.
That was virtually the same thing I got. But Canada, so $179 in the store (said they had to send it away, and I would have to pay extra just so they could LOOK AT IT) or drive a couple miles and pay $60 with no tax in some shadowy store next to a sex toys shop. Gee, let me weigh my options in on that. Yeah, fuck you and your $130 billion you pigs.
Thats more about their genius (aka obscenely profitable) relationship with app development than it is about hardware sales. They literally take a sizeable cut just for allowing them to sell through Apple store. Its brilliant.
Then, there's the OTHER marketing genius: how many Apple manufacturing plants are there in North America again?
The things that aren't covered under normal 1 year parts warranty makes me want to scream. El husband got a tablet right before he went on the MEU several years back and the screen broke inside a month with regular use (if you google this particular tablet, it seems to be a design flaw since others have experienced similar breaks). It is a spiderweb crack and you can't use the device anymore. Tough shit for him! And repairing it would cost about as much as buying another tablet.
I'm playing the grocery game. Dude behind me is buying a jumbo jar of nutella, a role of tape and razor blades. I'm thinking he is building a trap for children.
I have an iPad, iPhone and MacBook. Nothing to do with hating money, just like how they work. And what's the point of me working if I'm not going to spend my money on cool stuff that I enjoy. Hoarding it in my bank account doesn't do much for me.
I brought my iPod classic to get the screen fixed because I squashed it one day. They wanted $189 to fix the thing. I found the part on Amazon for $35. I also found a youtube video on how changing it takes 6 minutes. Apparently the Apple store thinks they are ASE mechanics and can justify charging $150 an hour in labor to fix electronics.
I've always seen iPads as really big iPhones without the "phone" part. Does anybody here remember the Newton? I can't blame you. EDIT: it just turned 20 years old. The Mac (which i never liked) turns 30 in January. Huh.