People run around dropping 500 dollars on bottles of champagne, so I wouldn't get on a high horse about these guys wasting money. When I was living in London, the guys there would drop 100 to 200 quid on a night out at the weekend, just on booze, entry fees to places and food and taxis.
Our whole society is wasteful, the best thing about this video is that it outted a few hypocrits in this thread.
Seriously? You're comparing buying (& presumably drinking) $500 champagne (or even £5000) champagne to smashing a perfectly usable-out-of-the-box computer?
When I buy a $500 champagne, I certainly know exactly why. I can taste the difference between that and a $50 bottle. And when I pay for a night out, I get to enjoy myself for the whole night, right? A few hours at least? Maybe pick someone up at the same time?
A better analogy would be buying that bottle and smashing it on the floor, or pouring it down the drain. I only know 1 person who has wasted alcohol in this way, and the only reason he did it was to spite a business rival. So in the end, it wasn't really wasted at all. It was a $2000 bottle of Chateau Lafite that he said "wasn't to his liking", and told the waiter to pour it down the sink, in front of his business rival who was a Lafite fan. But then again, this guy could well afford to buy the vineyard if he knew how to run it (or if it was for sale)
These kids are just wasteful attention-seekers looking for their 15 minutes of youtube fame. It didn't even last 10 minutes! Wasting their own time, their parent's money, and a perfectly good portable computer that someone else could've put to good use.
Let's see them buy Ferrari's with their own money and smash them up for the fun of it. Yeah, we'd LOVE to see THAT on youtube... Unfortunately, I think these kids will just lose their shirts one fine day on a trip to Vegas (its like a young man's pilgrimage as part of some rite-of-passage ritual, as I understand it), and end up having to work at their local Best Buy for the rest of their miserable lives paying that debt. They'll never get to those Ferrari's on their own merit.
We all know the world isn't fair. There will always be the "haves" and "have nots", but these kids just demonstrated just how much they deserve NOT to be among the "haves".
Their parents probably work their butts off trying to make their lives easier or more comfortable. Unfortunately, all that's done is mollycoddle them into the fascists that you've just observed.
Just my 2 cents' worth. Now the haters can start flaming me.
They didn't read the reviews that said it didn't have flash and boy were they mad........
Mike