Apple's 100+ gigabuck pile
"We are in very, very active discussions on it..."
C'mom, Tim, give us a hint. E.g:
"We are discussing reducing to a mere 50% the allocation to our legal department's research & development labs."
One of the duties of a modern CEO is to offer as little detail as possible during investors' meetings, and Apple's headman Tim Cook has proved himself a Jedi master of snooze-inducing vapidity. Speaking at Apple's annual investors meeting on Wednesday at the company's Cupertino headquarters, Cook piled bromide upon cliché upon …
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Totally off-topic, but the Prozac/suicide link appears to be real.
Some years ago, my GP explained it as bringing people out of a "no point doing anything at all" stage of depression into a "I could do something" stage being able to turn "life is unremittingly awful but there's nothing to be done" into "life is unremittingly awful, maybe I could kill myself to escape" - instead of the intended "it can get better".
So watch your friends and family. Depression is common and ****ing awful, and the worst part is that a sufferer will often push their friends and family away just when they need them the most. I did. Be there for them, despite that - they need you, they just don't think they are worthy of your attention.
Yep I always assumed that because antidepressants have a long lead time of nearly a month before they affect mood (blood brain barrier is truly a barrier) the side effect of many of them of increasing energy right away is what contributes to the suicide. The depressed person suddenly has energy but the same bad thoughts.
It is a common issue with SSRIs that they cause suicidal ideations. Not good when they start happening before the intended effect of the medication (2-4 weeks, or longer), and you have this nice big bottle of pills sat there. Paroxetine (Paxil) and fluoxetine (Prozac) have the same effect in this regard, as do citalopram and sertraline, at least in my experience.
"....spiced up that word-for-word repetition with a sly reference to Sideshow Bob"
I agree with the Bob reference. Cook should have been wapped by multiple rakes at random times throughout the presentation, this would have at least attracted attention from the washroom shortage question.
Being right-pondian, reading the word Bathroom always makes me wonder, just for a moment, why anyone would want to take a bath in a retail store - even one so exalted as an Apple store. Perhaps cleanliness is next to Jobs-liness.
Even the word Washroom conjures up an image of a hospital sluice, rather than a place to go for a piss.
Why can't you just say toilet, or if you want to be coy about it, lavatory?
Weird, it had never occurred to be that Bathroom wasn't a British word!
You learn something new everyday! And also, to everyone complaining about Apple stories on ElReg, this goes to prove they do have a use. Not only has this furthered by understanding of my own language, but also earlier contain a very useful discussion about depression and public message on caring for those so afflicted.
For the same reason Brits use "W.C." a lot: it's what it's called. Brit's have a stupidly arrogant habit of pretending their particular name for something is somehow correct, while American's are largely oblivious to the fact that there may be different names other than the ones they use.
But the fact is that the floorplan of the store in question should have a space labelled "bathroom" and it doesn't. The fact that you think that "bathroom" means "room with bath" is all exciting and stuff, but I rather strongly suspect that you have thrown things that aren't waste paper into a waste paper basket, and you only rarely put dust in a dustbin.