“In a bid to be more environmentally conscious”, Telus Mobility is going to start charging $2 for paper billing starting Sept 21st, 2010.
There is a logical fallacy here.
If Telus Mobility really wanted to be more environmentally conscious wouldn’t they give everyone a $2 discount to switch to paperless billing? Darren Entwistle just found a new way to increase revenue! Most businesses need to have paper records of all their expenses so they will have to make sure they get the email and then print it themselves, and this doesn’t save much in the way of trees except maybe an envelope.
There is a serious misconception out there, mostly driven by Steve Jobs’ misleading ads, that Apple is a good company, with your interests at heart when in fact it is driven by profit and Steve Jobs’ ego-maniacal need to out-do Bill Gates.
Bill Gates, along with his good friend Warren Buffett are both known to be extremely generous and philanthropic individuals, giving a lot of their time and money to charity and to the benefit of improving humanity as a whole.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett take that charity to the next level with The Giving Pledge, which urges Billionaire families and individuals to donate the majority of their wealth to Philanthropy.
The list includes 40 families and individuals, and also includes fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Now, do you see Steve Jobs on that list? I don’t think so. Apple doesn’t do that stuff, is apparently the response. There are very little recorded charitable gifts, if any, on record by Steve Jobs and his wife – in fact, the only ones recorded are political donations to the Democrats.
Let’s face it, Steve Jobs, ergo Apple, doesn’t give a shit about humanity. In the end, Steve Jobs will be just some guy that created a gadget that will get lost in the folds of time, but Bill Gates’ foundation (along with Warren Buffett, who announced he will give 99% of his fortune to Philanthropy) will have helped millions if not billions of people ultimately, and help change the world in a positive way forever.
Vera Kobalia, Georgia’s Minister of Economy, graduated from King George High School and attended BCIT here in Vancouver before being appointed to the Georgian Government in July 2010.
Now, photos of her posing on a stripping stage with other strippers has surfaced from her facebook account! That’s kinda hot. We need ministers like that.
Well, I’ve been an avid Graphic Novel reader for years, but haven’t really taken the time to write any reviews of books I’ve read. This is mostly due to the fact that it takes time to write a review, and I don’t have a lot of it. However, I was suddenly motivated to write something up, and Locke & Key is such a great series that I felt I should recommend it. The series is written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez.
The first book, Welcome to Lovecraft, introduces you to the main characters of the book which mostly includes the Locke family. The story revolves mostly around Kinsey, Tyler and Bode Locke, the kids in the story. Something terrible happens to them, tearing their family apart and forces them to move to their Father’s home town of Lovecraft: This is where the mystery begins.
The series is very character-driven, and is primarily written like a mystery, always raising more questions. The graphics and themes are very mature – this is not your typical kids comic book.
This book had me totally hooked, and I bought the second book, “Head Games”, right afterwards. Give this novel a chance, you won’t regret it.
