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Camping Out for the iPhone 4: The Line Starts Here

Tres said:
Look mate, the thing that makes me angry is that people like yourself are bringing up terms like "hate speech" when all that other posters are doing is questioning why he can sit around on a street corner but apparently can't work?

Political correctness? Or just being scared to confront something you've had no experience with in a non-emotional way?
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Done feeding the trolls. Nighty night everyone, it's been fun. Carry on, Justin!
 
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Tres said:
mefore said:
Why are you on holiday and not at work?????? I hope you have a valid reason and that you will be able to defend yourself when all of macrumors questions your motivation.

Sooo much anger 🙂. Lighten. up. I'm sure your "girlfriend" would appreciate some attention.
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Look mate, the thing that makes me angry is that people like yourself are bringing up terms like "hate speech" when all that other posters are doing is questioning why he can sit around on a street corner but apparently can't work?

Political correctness? Or just being scared to confront something you've had no experience with in a non-emotional way?
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Exactly. I think the question I asked was a far cry from "hate speech.". Thanks for applying logic.
 
David Ormesher said:
for this guy's sake, i hope he doesn't go into some kind of debilitating seizure on thursday, right before opening time, because, as crazy as everyone thinks he is, it would suck
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I think that would be funny as sheit! He has a seizure and the line just steps over him to get the i-4!

As far as the guy being "disabled" come on! I am a nurse and see many "disabled" people doing work every day. I'm with lots of others here.... If the guy can sit out on a corner in Texas in June and wait for a phone, he should be able to get a job.
Oh well, tax dollars have to go somewhere. May as well go to a "disabled" guy that can sit in the sun for a week to drop a couple hundred $$ to get a phone and not to another war or company hand out.
 
bowler357 said:
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Exactly. I think the question I asked was a far cry from "hate speech.". Thanks for applying logic.
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Well said! The majority of the public is getting sick and tired that descriptions of irresponsible social behavior condemned as "hate speech." It is unconstitutional and just hides the transgressor.

Show me anyone that throws the phrase "hate speech" around a lot and I'd love to throw a private investigator at them to see what dirt could be dug up on them. One recent case like that around here got a student expelled who was labeling a lot of people as "hater." Sad thing is he still thinks of himself as a victim instead of talking responsibility for his actions.
 
Unemployed, but can afford an iPhone and is on "vacation..." I'm thinking his options are:

1) camp out for a week or
2) stay in parents' basement

Given those options, I'd probably camp out for a week, too. Just not in front of the local Apple store!
 
army91c said:
I think that would be funny as sheit! He has a seizure and the line just steps over him to get the i-4!

As far as the guy being "disabled" come on! I am a nurse and see many "disabled" people doing work every day. I'm with lots of others here.... If the guy can sit out on a corner in Texas in June and wait for a phone, he should be able to get a job.
Oh well, tax dollars have to go somewhere. May as well go to a "disabled" guy that can sit in the sun for a week to drop a couple hundred $$ to get a phone and not to another war or company hand out.
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You are a nurse and you think it would be "funny as sheit" for someone to have a seizure and then have people step over him? Wow. 🙄
 
Piggie said:
Is that even legal?

In the UK I'd imagine the police would make you leave.
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I was wondering that myself. A day or two, maybe. But an entire week?

Also, I'm sure using that "portable toilet" out back would be considered public indecency, unless he actually rented a Port-o-Potty for a week, in which case I think he's getting paid too much in disability benefits.
 
Can't beleieve this is still going. Who gives a crap what some dude does. I don't care if he has no job / no legs / one eye / aids / 64 iPhones / an Apple tattoo / camps out for 5 weeks / is an illegal immigrant.

I know that I'll have the same phone as him though 😉
 
Tres said:
Oh look, it's the political correctness crowd.

Think logically about this for a second, how the hell can someone be so disabled that they physically can't work, yet they can manage to camp outside for a week in a city, in the heat, with the danger of all sorts of potentially dangerous people walking around outside at night?

I have a physical disability, I drag my ass around on crutches and yeah it's hard, but I don't use it as an excuse. In his case I can't think that it's anything but one.
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No, it's called logic. Did you read my post? You're like a parody of it. You don't know his situation (seizures doesn't sound good), but you're certain he should be out working. Knowing something for certain about someone you have never met and don't know anything about is called bigotry. Look it up.
 
Wait he does have a job...

"I have been the first costumer for this store since 2008..."

Some sort of franchise renting clothes out in the Apple store I assume? 😕
 
It seems to be a fact now that camping for any Apple "i" product makes you just as famous as the product being released itself.

Is it REALLY that important to be the FIRST to have a mobile phone?! That is in MASS production; seriously?!

Now if Apple release a seriously high end spec MacBook/iMac/XServe in limited quantities ~ like the TAM ~ imagine what that lineup camping would be like?!?!! A mini-civil war, first with correcting statements/sentences, then with intelligent insults (not the usual slang phrases filled with F-bombs) then off to the smacking slaps & punches.

This camping business saddens me for being an Apple fan.
 
tobian said:
a week of camping in front of the Apple store.. what a great vacation ..after ten years.. lol 🙄 sorry
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In Dallas, in June, no less...

"Kobe Bryant, you and the LA Lakers are NBA champions. What are you going to do now?"

"I'm going to camp out on a sidewalk in a hot, muggy city, and wait to be first in line for a phone I have reserved, anyway. Woo-hoo!"

It's just kind of funny. And sad. I have nothing against the guy. Do have some concerns about the whole "I'm disabled and don't work.", and how it reconciles with:

-- Camping out for a week in the heat.

-- Being a student (Why can you do the "job" of being a student, but not do a paying job?)

-- Afford an expensive smart phone and expensive cell service. Yes, people, cell and data service, and smartphones are still luxury items.

That's not hate speech, or being judgmental. It's just looking at the facts that are there, and logically assuming there is probable cause to ask more questions/investigate further, as long as the government is reaching into my pocket to pay for people who "are too disabled to work."

But giving him the benefit of the doubt that I'm not subsidizing him, I'll just walk by him (virtually) and shake my head while smirking. Takes all kinds to make up the world. The guy's a doob. His business. Just as long as he's not a doob in my living room.

It would make me weep for the future if I didn't know in my heart that for every one of him there are a hundred young people who do have lives, and aren't about 3/4 of a bubble off level.
 
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