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Wired: iPad owners are "Selfish Elites"

We're getting trolled for pagehits. Wired didn't even have to say it, they just quoted MyType, who conducted the study.

If you printed a magazine with this people would be unlikely to read it, but since you can read people insulting you for free online, you can just troll people into visiting your page, viewing ads, and adding to the bank account.

And MyType did it because the study would be ignored if they just said "iPad owners were wealthier and older on average...", instead, the study now has a ton of attention.
 
**** Wired and those less fortunate than me.



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It a sign of the times , we are on our way to socialism. The communist college system has indoctrinated generation after generation with the idea that everyone has to be the same and we can't have winners because then there would be losers. It's this kind of thinking that has killed off Silicon Valley.

I want an app for my iPad that shows me where the homeless people are so I can avoid them:) There should be another app that shows all those that feel guilty for working hard and achieving success the locations were you can give away all your stuff.
 
I find it ironic that WIRED, a magazine whose reader demographic consists of self-centered, self-absorbed, twenty-somethings that think that they are the first generation to be relevant would run the story. ;)
 
barkomatic said:
"They are six times more likely to be “wealthy, well-educated, power-hungry, over-achieving, sophisticated, unkind and non-altruistic 30-50 year olds,”

Ouch! I'm an iPad owner and that hurts--a little. Oh well, I'll just step on some homeless people while playing with my iPad. That always makes me feel better.

What about you? Are you unkind, un-altruistic and selfish you nasty iPad owners?

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/07/ipad-owner-are-selfish-elites-critics-are-independent-geeks-says-study/
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I will so let the homeless guy use my iPad to satisfy the socialist on Wired!
 
cmvsm said:
My iPad dock screen shows a juicy Thanksgiving turkey with all of the trimmings. I flash it out the car window whenever I see one of the street people on the median with the 'I'm Hungry' sign.

Then as they watch me drive away, the 'Elitist on Board' sign is waving back and forth in the back window of my vehicle.
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Heck I do one better. I actually wave a juicy turkey in front of starving homeless people while laughing maniacally.
 
Should I also add that I step on homeless people while using my ipad to buy diamonds that I use as golf balls?

Yea, I'm that guy.
 
Yes, because my 26 year old ass is making tons of money in the army, especially after I was pulled out of college to go to Iraq in 2007 and I'm just about to go again just to be able to save up money to start a family with my girlfriend because we want to get out of California due to the extreme high cost of living and low wages. Not too mention that I still haven't gotten back into college because I had to find a full time job after Iraq to be able to live in California with my girlfriend (moved from Oklahoma) and won't be getting back in until 2012 after my next Afghanistan deployment.

I'd say that sums up my elitist attitude pretty good.

Oh, and I sold my laptop to buy the iPad because I didn't have the extra cash at the time (One of those users who don't need the power of the laptop since I still have a mac mini.)
 
Wealthy? Not me
Well educated? Ha! University of Phoenix hardly counts as well educated
Power hungry? Nah, just regular hungry. Where’s the pancakes?
Over achieving? Guilty
Sophisticated? Me? I’m the poster child for Whiskey Tango
Unkind? Only to animals and small children
Non altruistic? I went to University of Phoenix, I don’t even know what this means
30 – 50? Last time I checked, yes.
 
mkruck said:
Power hungry? Nah, just regular hungry. Where’s the pancakes?

Non altruistic? I went to University of Phoenix, I don’t even know what this means
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+1 on both accounts! :D
I did 3 1/2 years at Oklahoma State University and a semester each at Academy of Art and Devry. I still have never used/seen that word in a sentence/essay/paper/exam/ever.
 
Really... iPad owns are selfish elites? BTW, I'm not altruistic at all. I care about people and love to help in whatever way I can. So here's how I'm helping everyone who read that article. Wired is crap. Don't read it.
 
The audience that gives guys like this a forum to speak are 'selfish elites.' He just wants attention.
 
None of that offended me except for the 30-50 year old part. 22 year olds can be all of the above also. :D
 
Wealthy?!!!!!

Blah!

I'm a 20yrd old low income child from a Latino Ghetto community who is trying to prosper in college and hope to one day own a BMW;)

And I was 19 when I bought it!!!
 
how about those of us who want ipads but haven't yet bought them because we're waiting for rev. B? What are our demographics?
:D
 
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