Don’t look at me, I’m not the one that said it, this guy did. Funny how the Kinect could have been owned by Apple though.
Yet the initial meetings hadn’t gone so well. Obsessed with secrecy, Apple had already asked Beracha to sign a stack of crippling legal agreements and NDAs. He shook his head. Why didn’t he want to do a deal with Apple? No need. The technology was hot. He could sell it to anyone. “Apple is a pain in the ass,” he said, smiling.
A Canadian couple who won $11.2million on the lottery have given it all away to friends, charities and hospitals. Allen and Violet Large, both in their 70s, said their good fortune earlier this year had been a ‘big headache’ and they had decided against going on a spending spree. ‘What you’ve never had, you never miss,’ Violet, 78, told the Toronto Star. She and Allen, 75, eventually decided it was better to give than receive and were totally at ease with handing over the money.
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Today’s counterfeiters have it easy. Back in the day you had to be crafty and make, design them yourself. Now-a-days punk kids just print them off.
“There really is no craftsmanship or workmanship in this anymore,” Special Agent Scott Vogel, a 20-year veteran, told the Detroit Free Press. “If you’re able to put a piece of paper in a copy machine and push a button, that’s pretty much all it takes.”
