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September 17th, 2008

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Round up
There's Hobbits in them thar hills; green ones...

Well, hopefully they won't mind if their solar panels are shaped like bricks, 'cause this 12 year old has them going towards 3-D.

White box a Mac? So, I dunno how green it is, but the word "Peachy!" comes to mind. Of course the real question is, when is the dongle for a laptop, coming out?
I think the other question is, where does something like this lay down, when it comes to virus control? If they machine were to be used, for example, as a (software) router via the Mac, would this protect the machine in fact, from viruses?
As for actually "Greening" their machines, Macintosh clearly charges enough for them to do real quality control at their factories, and then simply build the boxes to be returned to Apple for recycling. They need to beef up their program a bit.

And last but not least: Shrill. Shrill is not a word one wants to bandy about, it is, like B-, one which lowers the conversation to the nastiest bit of business, it's a clear way of bringing up gender, because rarely, if ever, no really, does anyone call a guy "Shrill." It's seriously negative, and the writer at least, while slamming the Republicans and taking Gov. Palin to task, is actually using the word to refer to a spokesperson, not the Govenor.
Shrill? No one would have aimed that one at Hilary, so you know this is a call out to the voter base to recheck their glee and presumptions.
Still, it's a bit of nastiness I just can't get behind, though one has to grit through it because at least the call out, is for honesty.

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From:	exoteric_tide
Date:	September 17th, 2008 10:57 pm (UTC)

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Shrill?!... I have never known that word to have an implied, gender specific connotation. I've heard it used for men just as often, if not more.

I just looked up the definition to see it being used contextually in different sentences, and apparently it does have some de facto inference towards women- news to me!... Maybe it's somewhat of a generational thing.

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