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From: Chris Ridd on 28 May 2010 11:40 On 2010-05-28 16:06:46 +0100, Fred Bambrough said: > In message <867jevFd4gU1(a)mid.individual.net> > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > >> Slightly OT, but our neighbour with an upright Dyson never noticed that >> the whole upright nozzle s... > > Err. Your definition of OT is, again? :-) Well, it was slightly tangential. -- Chris
From: David Kennedy on 28 May 2010 16:28 Jim wrote: > On 2010-05-28, SteveH<italiancar(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> Hmm, but on something that is already 'expensive' would that really be >>>> an issue? >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>> I'd have ordered an iPad at �399. >>> >>> At �429 it has broken a 'barrier' and I've stalled over purchasing. >>> >>> Kind of hoping they'll turn up on the refurb store in the not too >>> distant future. >> >> Gah! >> >> I couldn't resist, could I. >> >> Bought a 32GB iPad from Purple World on my way home today. > > PURPLE WORLD HAVE THEM?! > They were slated on breakfast tv this am. I suppose that guarantees their success now... -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com
From: jim on 28 May 2010 16:43 David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: >> PURPLE WORLD HAVE THEM?! >> > > They were slated on breakfast tv this am. I suppose that guarantees > their success now... It's too late for me -I have one now. Run, man! Save yourself! Jim -- this is my sig? really?
From: Leave me alone on 28 May 2010 18:42 In article <14rmy72cuuz49$.18e4kaac2jcy8.dlg(a)40tude.net>, Rowland McDrivel <Rowland_liar(a)physics.invalid> wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:37:42 +0100, Jim bleated: > > > On 2010-05-27, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >> On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:12:15 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> > >>>> Hmm, but on something that is already 'expensive' would that really be > >>>> an issue? > >>> > >>>No, especially as they could absorb some of that (their profit margins tend > >>>towards 30%). Additionally they could play the 'locally made' card for all > >>>they're worth, which would be great advertising for them. > >>> > >>>The fact that they don't tells me that it would cost a lot more than �25 > >>> > >> Maybe I'm just more more cynical then. ;-) > > > > Quite possibly. The benefits of Apple manfacturing locally (per country) > > would vastly outweigh the trivial price increase, if it were truly trivial. > > > > The fact that they don't suggests to me that it wouldn't be a trivial price > > increase. > > > > Plus, as has been pointed out, 10 or 12 suicides per year in a workforce of > > almost half a million may well have nothing at all to do with the company, > > but instead just be the usual numbers you'd see in any group of 500,000 > > people in China. Or the West for that matter. > > > > No you silly ponce, people in the workforce aren't just like any average > group of 500,000 people. They are mentally and physically superior and > sound enough to earn a living. A truly average group of 500,000 people > includes physically and mentally ill people, who are at much greater risk > of suicide. You are talking to Rowland about a concept that escapes him, ...work. He has distant memories of work and even has some recent experience of his wife going out to work, but Rowland would not know how to go about it.
From: Pd on 29 May 2010 08:54
zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > A mate's just going to his second interview with Dyson as I type. One of > 300 applicants for the job. I've been applying for a few jobs recently - for a database support tech, there were over 200 applicants. It appears that there are a shedload of reasonably skilled techish people out there scrabbling for a limited supply of jobs. I don't think the swingeing cuts the LibCons have planned are going to do much to alleviate that. -- Pd |