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    "Your Name"  wrote:   
      
   > "Tim Bruening"  wrote in message   
   > news:4BCEA8A0.C7F25E99@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us...   
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   > > Your Name wrote:   
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   > > > "Merrick Baldelli"  wrote in message   
   > > > news:ol2rd5t2jtsa5hgrlkoot0qr2ui6ki1tml@4ax.com...   
   > > > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:14:44 +1300, "Your Name"    
   > > > > wrote:   
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   > > > > >Wait until Apple releases its iPhone-based tablet next year.  :-)   
   > > > >   
   > > > > This has been talked about for the better part of a decade.   
   > > > > I'll believe it when I see it.   
   > > >   
   > > > It has been in development for a while, but with the popularity of the   
   > iPod   
   > > > and especially the iPod Touch / iPhone, the time is right for the   
   > "iBook" /   
   > > > "iTablet". The (rumoured) plan is that it will be to ebooks what the   
   > iPod   
   > > > has been to music and the iPhone to the mobile phone. The "experts" are   
   > all   
   > > > pointing to a release early next year.  :-)   
   > >   
   > > The trees will jump up and down for joy!  No more paper!   
   >   
   > Yeah, right. They've been saying that for decades.   
   >   
   > Even if (extremely unlikely) the iPad and clones meant an end to paper books   
   > / magazines / newspapers, you'll probably find that it causes even more   
   > trees to be chooped down to be burnt to generate electricity or something   
   > ... just like so-called "green" cars are actually no better, maybe even   
   > worse, for the environment than petrol / diesel cars are.   
      
   Penn & Teller did a great BULLSHIT! exposé on the Prius.   
      
   --   
   As Adam West as Bruce Wayne as Batman said in "Smack in the Middle"   
   the second half of the 1966 BATMAN series pilot when Jill St. John   
   as Molly as Robin as Molly fell into the Batmobile's atomic pile:   
   "What a terrible way to go-go"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)