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15 years ago @ 9 to 5 Mac | Apple Int... - iPads now shipping wit... · 0 replies · -1 points

Or it could be that Apple has tapped out demand for this peculiar device that stands between netbooks and cellphones, with a worse typing experience than many cellphones, and all the disadvantages of a netbook?

Could it be that Apple has sold about as many of these as the market will bear, perhaps for years, as competitors are gathering?

15 years ago @ Technologizer - iPadversaries! 32 Tabl... · 2 replies · +1 points

iPad is 'ahead'? From a marketing point of view, OK. But it's remarkable how retrograde a product the iPad is. Simple (rather awful) LCD panel technology, so low resolution that even the Kindle ... the *KINDLE* ... beats it in pixels. Single-tasker, akin to early Windows 1.0. Simple iPod touch operating system, upsized. Rushed to market. Plus, when Apple comes out with it's 2.0 product to compete with the wave of better engineered and designed products coming, it will alienate badly all its early adopters. This will be much bloodier than the price cut on the first Apple iPhone. Interesting days ahead. I can't wait to see what HP does with WebOS. It would be hilarious if HP uses its well establish and eminently enforceable trademark to call it the iPaq. I can just see the ads, rotating the d, upgrade to iPaq!

15 years ago @ KeithHennessey.com - Comparing Obama econom... · 1 reply · +1 points

Clinton didn't want a surplus. The Republicans forced it upon him by cutting spending.

(Much more of the shift from deficit to surplus was spending cuts rather than tax increases).

And now you're comparing Obama aspirations against Clinton era performance.

And no mention at all of the Clinton Crash of 2000, which remains the worst stock market crash since 1929. In light of the stock market of the past two years, that's an incredible 'achievement'.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Sherrod Plans to Sue B... · 0 replies · 0 points

May I ask a question please?

"What did Breitbart know, and when did he know it?"

By that I mean, has he acknowledged that he had the full video, and released only the unedited excerpt, or did he receive it already reduced down from his source?

Or has Breitbart opted not to discuss this subject at all?

Sorry, I just haven't seen that addressed in what I've read to date. If I had the answer to this question, I feel I could better explain what happened to those on their high horse charging 'racism'.

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - Reward: $100,000 for F... · 1 reply · 0 points

Make sure you clarify that the full headers of emailings to the list are included. You want as much personally identifying information as the members of the list had.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Avatar' and Boycotts:... · 1 reply · +3 points

Not to defend Cameron, who I agree went way too far (and in completely the wrong direction). But I think the plot idea was that the United States Marines had been deemed for sale to private corporations, in this case "MNU" (multinational something or other) and had effectively become mercenaries, kind of a reverse Blackwater phenomenon. Probably as the result of decades of big government policies driving the U.S. ever further toward bankruptcy and corruption. Democrats aren't advocates of nature, they are all about control, and this is their future.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Avatar' and Boycotts:... · 0 replies · +2 points

Free speech means that private corporations are free to order their employees to desist from saying "Merry Christmas". Particularly as you insist you consider the 1st Amendment "absolute", this should be the sacrosanct right of these businesses and hotels.

However, it is equally your right to speak loudly the words "boycott", vocally and in written communication and media, in some cases to picket and speak directly to their customers.

Organizing a powerful free speech offensive of this kind is the best way to convince corporations to serve the broadest possible customer base, and in a free society should prevail.

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