PleasureKevin posted:

harper is determined to repeat all the key neo-conservative mistakes the U.S. has made over the past decades, as quickly as possible.

build more prisons, then fill them using mandatory minimum sentences for drugs.

climate denial.

xenophobia and bullying immigrants.

saying the country is a christian nation under the queen of england lmfao.

now going to war in iraq.

he neurotically mimics and strokes old power structures at any opportunity. he's a power-hungry contrarian. you can't have a conscience to know factually the USA policies have been apocalyptic and try repeat them anyway for pathocratic reasons.

he literally takes every play out of the GOP handbook. maybe i'm naive but i've never seen anything like him in canada, not in politics or my social life. he's the one-man NRA, israel-lobby, bill kristol, etc of canada.

this event is so predictable, and so is his response, and whatever PATRIOT act he'll introduce. even if it looks bad on him right now because he started this with ISIL, it still sickens me to know he wanted this and loves it.

RIP soldier guy, we failed you

Cold on a Cob posted:

i used to vote for the liberals but lol @ justin trudeau and lol @ how corrupt and lazy they are now

infernal machines posted:

lol, now?

did you miss all of the 90s?

ahmeni posted:

But none of this changes one fact: The Passport is big. Super big. So big that I could show it to my kids’ friends and convince most of them that it is some sort of Cro-Magnon relic from the 1990s. My iPhone often ended up in a shirt pocket. But that feels awkward with the Passport. In fact, there are a few shirts I own that actually do not permit this without busting the pocket stitching. When I asked my wife to try it with some of her blouses, she couldn’t get the Passport to fit in any of them. Even in my pants, the Passport was an awkward fit. It really only makes sense in a jacket, briefcase or purse. So to state the obvious: This business-oriented phone is hardly the ideal phone for, say, the beach or hiking trail.

This may explain the intensely gendered response I got to my Passport when I was seen using it in public places like Starbucks, McDonalds, Taco Del Mar or office-building elevators. Over the last month, numerous strangers have approached me to ask about the device. They are always men. The women I’ve shown the Passport to — including female colleagues, my wife and her friends — seem vaguely horrified by the thing. Even with two hands, the Passport feels like something that fell off the bottom of an old fridge. I assure them that they’d get used to it in a few days, if they give it a chance. But the starkly boxy aesthetics scare them off.

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Because of its radically different form, the Blackberry Passport alters the very idea of a Smartphone in a manner that must be termed existential. With my iPhone, I’d gotten used to lazily holding it in my right hand, casually swiping through tweets and emails with my thumb as I drank coffee with my left. The Passport, on the other hand, demands the commitment of two hands, because (in my case, at least) the right thumb can’t get past the T button. That sounds like a drawback, and it certainly feels like one when, say, you’re using an umbrella or trying to keep a door open for someone in an office building lobby. But it also made me less tempted to use the Passport at times when a person really, really shouldn’t be using a Smartphone — such as when you’re stuck in traffic.

Pinterest Mom posted:

further laffs from that review:


"impractically huge... but that's a feature!!"

Cold on a Cob posted:

stop posting reviews of my dillz pls

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Over the last month, numerous strangers have approached me to ask about my dillz. They are always men. The women I’ve shown my dillz to — including female colleagues, my wife and her friends — seem vaguely horrified by the thing. Even with two hands, my dillz feels like something that fell off the bottom of an old fridge. I assure them that they’d get used to it in a few days, if they give it a chance. But the starkly boxy aesthetics scare them off.

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Pinterest Mom posted:

current headline is Why I ditched my iPhone for Blackberry’s massive new Passport, the url has it as why-im-hooked-on-the-clunky-new-blackberry-passport-the-worlds-first-male-gendered-smartphone

prefect posted:

it needs a big male dong

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Bananalogue posted:

passport to stockholm

Bananalogue posted:

passport to stockholm

Bananalogue posted:

passport to stockholm

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BlackBerry is driven by an urgent, obsessive focus on what matters: you. When we lose sight of what you want and you need, we lose you.

It’s tempting in a rapidly changing, rapidly growing mobile market to change for the sake of change – to mimic what’s trendy and match the industry-standard, kitchen-sink approach of trying to be all things to all people.

But there’s also something to be said for the classic adage, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

BlackBerry Classic reflects that. It is classic BlackBerry – complete with a top row of navigation keys and a trackpad. It’s the device that has always felt right in your hands and always felt right in your busy day.

Of course, we’ve made quite a few enhancements around the edges and on the inside. The screen is bigger and sharper. Our application catalogue is growing. The BlackBerry 10 operating system incorporates all the best productivity and collaboration features on any mobile device, including the BlackBerry Hub and our all-new BlackBerry Blend.

Sure, we’ve got new BlackBerry devices that break the mold, including the BlackBerry Passport. But we also recognize that a lot of you continue to hang on to your Bold devices because they get the job done, day in and day out – just like you.

We get it, and we’ve got you covered.

Innovation is a word that gets used too often and carelessly. Innovation is not about blowing up what works to make something new – it’s about taking what works and making it better. In that sense, BlackBerry Classic represents the kind of innovation BlackBerry – and you – strive toward every day.

You don’t reinvent yourself every day; you take what you learned yesterday and sharpen it today. You drive change – often on your terms, but sometimes not. That you keep going regardless is what distinguishes you as a grown-up. You’re in it for the long haul.

So is BlackBerry. The things you remember about BlackBerry that made you better are better than ever with BlackBerry Classic. BlackBerry Classic is for you, as is everything we do every day.

We are committed to earning your business – or earning it back, if that’s the case. In the weeks ahead, BlackBerry will be sharing more details about Classic that we think you’ll like. In the meantime, we encourage you to visit BlackBerry.com/Classic to see for yourself why BlackBerry Classic is aptly named.

Bonzo posted:

http://blogs.blackberry.com/2014/10/classic-john-chen/


Just talked to some buddies I have that still work there. This is just the Q10 hardware (which is 2 years old) with a trackpad. I bet you anything they try to sell this for $600.

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The smartphone you trust, with the power you couldn’t imagine.

It takes more than fast thumbs and a stone cold focus to stay on top of your inbox and the day’s priorities. BlackBerry® Classic is the ultimate communications tool.

One place for all your messages

Navigation buttons that do more than ‘go home’

A physical keyboard that has no rival

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A physical keyboard that has no rival

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A physical keyboard that has no rival

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

the literal truth

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

I thought they got sued and stopped selling them

Nintendo Kid posted:

isn't there a keyboard addon for iphones that's a literal blackberry clone

the economist posted:

Back to its roots: BlackBerry’s comeback
Remember BlackBerry? It ruled the infant smartphone market; now it accounts for less than 1% of global sales. But BlackBerry is not dead yet. Under John Chen, chief executive for the past year, it is concentrating on its old strengths: business users and security. Today in San Francisco the Canadian company is holding an event for corporate customers; it may show off a new version of its secure communications server, as well as video-conferencing via BBM, its instant-message system. Mr Chen can boast one tech turnaround already, of Sybase, a database-software company. On his watch BlackBerry’s share price has roughly doubled (though it had collapsed before that). It jumped on Monday when Mr Chen said he had talked to Chinese smartphone-makers about possible partnerships, and again yesterday, ahead of today’s event. Losses are at least narrowing. But investors—to whom the firm is also talking today—will want to know when those will turn to profits.

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Sham bam bamina! posted:

your mastery of bbcode is... formidable

Bonzo posted:

Also they got really bad reviews

infernal machines posted:

the one and only infrastructure DC?

A Pinball Wizard posted:

are you loving serious

infernal machines posted:

basically yes.

officially they have multiple DCs for different regions. in practice, from what we saw during the week long outages a while back that affected multiple continents, and from scuttlebutt around waterloo, no they have one DC that's routing traffic for BB worldwide.

if it goes through blackberry enterprise server, it goes through a DC somewhere in or near waterloo

infernal machines posted:

the one and only infrastructure DC?