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Um, no... the ACA created an environment which the insurance companies and doctors responded to... ditto goes for UPS dropping spouses from coverage due to the ACA: http://www.businessinsider.com/ups-dropping-spouses-health-coverage-2013-8 (to name just one of many such outcomes).

Sure, by yelling 'Fire!' in a crowded theater you are not directly killing people... but the obvious results of such an action are still on you, don't blame herd mentality (in the case of fire) or rational thought (in response to the ACA) for unfortunate but entirely predictable outcomes.

Which is the same reason we are seeing rather expensive plans on the exchanges (and elsewhere)... assuming you can sign up and browse.

Social Mobility In The United States Is A Total Myth.
http://www.businessinsider.com/social-mobility-is-a-myth-in-the-us-2013-3

Hey man, he's a Star Trek fan. He's got better taste than that.

I keep hearing about how they'll but the door in. Doesn't anyone make decent doors anymore?

yes

Google: http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/europe/concern-about-irish-tax-reflects-disquiet-about-google-1.1559370
M$: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-microsoft-avoids-taxes-loopholes-irs-2013-1

I would expect these agencies to produce "evidence" that denigrates his position, and I would not at first glance accept it.

Do you take Snowden at his word? Snowden to newspaper: I took contractor job to gather evidence

That means he took the job under false pretenses, he both lied to get the job, and continued lying while he was working. He certainly wouldn't have gotten the job if he had told them he wanted it to steal secrets, would he? Nor would he have been granted the access he was given if he had told them he wanted to steal secrets.

And who was speaking for Snowden in Russia?

Russian attorney Anatoly Kucherena — who also happens to be the head of public council for the Federal Security Service (FSB)* — has announced that Edward Snowden may leave the Moscow airport on Wednesday. -- ...Russian Intelligence Speaks For Edward Snowden

Snowden had his birthday party at the Russian embassy in Hong Kong and made arrangements with them for his trip to Russia. This connection was lied about at multiple levels, and multiple times. Why?

I'm sure he'll enjoy his new homeland.

So, I think the answer to your question (What is really going on? ) is pretty clear, but not one you or most people here will accept.

*Federal Security Service (FSB) took the place of the old KGB - Committee for State Security, the Soviet secret police that was responsible for keeping the Soviet Communist Party in power.

Historically movies have been put out to "sell war" and FUD about alleged enemies of the US.

In tinfoil-hat land maybe, in the real world... not so much.

You are going to try and deny reality that is proven over your belief? Really? It is no secret that Hollywood worked for the MIC during WW II, The Korean War, and Vietnam War. This fact is most definitely not a conspiracy, it is reality. This is a reality you may not wish to hear or see, but the reality does exist.

If you knew of a book that showed how advertising uses subliminal messaging would you change your mind and consider that it could also happen in movies, or hide from that reality too? Here, Here, Here, and Here for starters. Those are just the tip of the iceberg mind you, and found in a 5 second Google search.

Denying reality to maintain a delusion is fine because we all do this. When you post in a public forum you are trying to persuade others to live in your delusion, and that is not fine.

For posterity, we all have delusions. It's how we make sense of the world and rationalize what we don't understand. Please don't take that comment as labeling you or insulting you, as that was not the intent.

Not quite. Android has 52% of the smartphone market and Apple has 40%. Hardly 3:1. Samsung has 25% of the smartphone market, so about half of the Android marketshare. http://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-android-market-share-2013-2

According to sources familiar with the company's operations, as many as 80,000 employees, and possibly more, were working from home in part because the company didn't have desks for them all within its own buildings."

Apparently they already found a partial solution to that problem last month.

I think it was more of a reference to things like This, this, this, this, and this.

largest deficits in history are currently held by....Obama

Yes, but what you leave out is that he got an economy in freefall, because of a financial crisis so bad that his opponent (McCain) had to suspend his Presidential campaign to head back to Washington to vote on a bailout for the financial system (he even wanted to skip out on the debates). His predecessor had turned the Clinton surpluses into deficits with tax cuts and two wars. So, he started with huge deficits and an economy shedding about 200,000 jobs a month and had a choice between austerity and stimulus. He chose stimulus and now we have anemic job growth and deficits that are headed back down. I've been to Greece recently and am grateful that he didn't choose austerity. Now, faced with a weak economy the GOP is shutting down the Government because they can't repeal the Affordable Care Act and they'll shave a couple tenths of a percent off GDP growth, making deficit reduction that much harder.

They are doing fine: http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5016f5926bb3f74e3c000002-618-/chart-of-the-day-microsofts-revenue-by-segment-july-2012.jpg

Apple trademarked the name "iWatch" and patented a bunch of stuff pertaining to a wrist-wearable computer:

http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-iwatch-patent-diagrams-2013-7?op=1

I wonder what Snowden has to say about this? Since The Moscow Times says that Spying Is a Sovereign Right, and a key spokesman for Snowden in Russia is the head of public council for the Federal Security Service (FSB), I would guess not much. Just as well: NSA Is No Match for the FSB

Holy how, your trying to claim that Apple has a "level of integrity" and want them to "remain honest" in selling the iPhone? Are you on crack, willfully ignorant, a simple idiotic fanboy, or a paid shill?

http://betanews.com/2008/11/26/apple-claiming-iphone-3g-is-really-fast-deemed-false-by-uk-regulators/

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-iphone-3g,news-2422.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-iphone-4-retina-display-claims-are-false-marketing-2010-6

http://forum.sdx-developers.com/index.php?topic=19901.0;wap

http://gawker.com/5042380/misleading-iphone-ad-banned-in-the-uk

Yeah, Jobs didn't tell people HOW to do stuff he just told them things like the results are crap or it has too many visible screws, it's the wrong colour, needs more rounded corners, it's not insanely great. Or it's finally insanely great.

To back me up: http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-engineers-are-being-micromanaged-by-corporate-2012-5

He's like a food critic who usually knows what he wants and has high standards for many areas. Doesn't tell those in the kitchen how to cook, but sure tells them when it's not good enough. You can do it whatever way you want but come tasting time you better produce something good enough for him.

Jobs was not a micromanager and the writer is clueless.

In other news, a Danish TV station I was watching yesterday had one of those round table discussions where everybody was scratching their heads over this strange situation.

Well, if you want really strange, Belgium ran just fine for more than a year without a government:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_Belgian_government_formation
http://www.businessinsider.com/belgium-government-elio-di-rupo-2011-12?op=1

http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5016f5926bb3f74e3c000002-618-/chart-of-the-day-microsofts-revenue-by-segment-july-2012.jpg

sigh... Maryland isnt even in this top-10 of most liberal.

Maryland is a Democrat state, for sure, and its the State with the largest number of directly-employed (rather than sub-contracted) federal workers. They are Democrats, but they are not exactly drinking their own cool-aid. Notice that most federal workers fought for and managed to get themselves exempted from PelosiCare.

PelosiCare is not "liberal" -- its big-assed favor for the big-assed insurance companies that now have guaranteed mandated-by-law customers.

If you are a photographer, you cannot be forced or coerced to take photographs of somebody's wedding. That is your choice (the same would not be true, if you were a doctor, though). Purchasing health insurance is also a personal decision and who you decide to purchase it from does not violate anybody else's rights.

OTOH, if you are a photographer, and other people disagree with your decision on which weddings you chose to photograph or not, they are free to choose other photographers and there isn't anything you can do about that, either, as it is their right to do so.

Ahh, if only that were true:

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-mexico-court-ruling-on-gay-weddings-2013-8

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A commercial photography business owned by opponents of same-sex marriage violated New Mexico's anti-discrimination law by refusing to take pictures of a gay couple's commitment ceremony, the state's highest court ruled Thursday....Justice Richard Bosson wrote that the business owners "have to channel their conduct, not their beliefs, so as to leave space for other Americans who believe something different."

Wouldn't it be nice if the west had the entire moral high ground on this?

What high ground does it have?

Oh, right, Iran invaded the Talysh Khanate region in 1826, so it's an imminent threat to the region. Also, there were those poorly-translated speeches in Israeli tabloids from a weak President who is out of office.

Ah, but Iran doesn't participate in the world central banking system, so better get in there and take it over before they do get nukes (the multinational banks can't get their client states to invade counties with nukes), for the sake of the petrodollar. One must ask, "Cui bono?"

At least the CIA overthrew Iran's democratically elected government, to ensure a half century of stability in that country, so we've got that as a base to start from.

>> Besides the 9M people mentioned above?

That's the weird thing to me. Within my social circle of a couple of hundred folks, no one is tweeting, facebooking, or otherwise announcing that they've run out and bought the new phone. In fact, I've seen a few folks writing about this being the first upgrade cycle they might sit out, e.g., "hoping the '6' gives us something to look forward to"

I have to wonder if Apple is "channel stuffing" a bit here. For example:
http://gigaom.com/2013/05/09/what-apple-really-means-when-it-says-it-has-sold-a-product/
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-verizon-iphone-2013-7

But its cannibalization if millions of users who would have bought the high tier one if it was the only one one on offer, but now buy the low tier one because its available and good enough.

Case in point: Wendy's introduced the W cheeseburger, priced between the Super Value Menu (now the Right Size Menu) and the more expensive full-sized sandwiches. The intent was that people like me who routinely bought from the Super Value Menu would trade up to the W, but instead, people traded down from the full-sized burgers, and the sandwich ended up reducing Wendy's margins.

Samsung only sells half the Android devices. So what you are saying is that a consortium of non-Samsung mutually opposed companies are colluding to build 400 million devices this year, selling them for perhaps $120 billion, and losing money on every one.

I don't agree with Hairy on a lot. And yes, 2011 I believe Samsung and Apple combined made 101% of the profits in the industry the other players on average lost money. The situation is not pretty. This doesn't include the smaller players like LG but the situation is worse not better as you go down market:
http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/51f97ca0ecad04705b00000d-800-/chart-of-the-day-oem-profits.jpg

Seems the answer is, "probably". http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-is-obscenely-profitable-2011-6

gee, that sounds sort of like the infighting we regularly see between the networks and cable operators.
ex : CBS vs Time Warner and AMC vs Dish TV

http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/5192a95969bedd702200000a-620-/sai-cotd-051413.jpg

http://www.businessinsider.com/map-of-the-day-how-north-korea-could-destroy-seoul-in-two-hours-2010-5?op=1

http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub771.pdf

"The combination of North Korea’s long economic
decline and enhanced U.S. and South Korean military
capabilities has diminished the ability of North
Korea to launch a successful invasion of South Korea.
Nonetheless, the KPA retains the ability to inflict heavy
casualties and collateral damage, largely through
the use of massed long-range artillery. In effect,
Pyongyang’s most credible conventional threat is to
devastate Seoul (and a good portion of South Korea)
rather than to seize and hold it."

NK's army is mostly an aging joke. Big, but obsolete and poorly maintained and supplied. If military action were to begin, the large volume of artillery already aimed at Seoul would kick off in a short-range storm of shells. Given the disrepute given to their condition, many of those pieces will fail, but given the vast number of pieces, it will still amount to a large amount of damage before they can be stopped. Seoul won't be "wiped out", but a lot of civilians will be hurt or killed in that opening hour of conflict. It would be followed by NK being crushed since NK's military is heavily outclassed by both SK and the US presence.

The problem has always been south korean civilians held hostage by those guns. The missiles and nukes aren't a significant threat (right now).

More money to be had maybe?

http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-ios-android-spenders-2013-1

Or maybe the developers know iOS better than they know android and they're trying to keep things simple until they know if the business has a future?

Seth Vidal, creator of “yum” open source software, killed in bike accident: http://www.businessinsider.com/36-year-old-seth-vidal-tragically-killed-2013-7

His last words were: "don't track things. Just ride," Vidal

I'm sorry to have to say that, but that is a very ignorant and claptrap post. Maglev trains by design cannot be derailed. Even the non-superconducting Transrapid by Siemens (Germany) that commutes between Shanghai Airport and Downtown cannot leave his tracks instead of catastrophic failure of the whole track. That's because the tracks are shaped like this c-× so the magnets push the "c"-shaped guides away from the "-"-shaped track in every direction. The worst that can happen is that the "c" hits the track in which case the train simply brakes because of friction. In the case of the L0, consider this picture: http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/51b73df36bb3f78825000002-2238-1678-400-/japan-maglev-train-may-2010.jpg Yes, the track is almost straight. No, there are no sharp curves as in Spain, else it couldn't go that fast. For a more informed article with some tech specs, check here: http://www.dailytech.com/Japanese+Maglev+Train+Begins+Full+Speed+Testing+at+310+mph/article33281.htm Please don't ask questions just for the sake of asking something. A very academic thing to do, but trust me, everybody hates the frustrated postdocs who do this.

Yeah, because the *reputation* of the software companies doesn't matter at all. (roll eyes)

Not when you can just buy it with a marketing campaign it doesn't. Or do you think they spend tens of millions because they like hearing the sound of their voice?

What a load of crap. A fat handout? Do you have any clue at all what you're talking about?

Living under a rock and missed the Too big to fail fiasco that landed our economy in the longest recession in US history?

rove it by showing some instances of the government giving money to companies because of claimed losses due to piracy.

Check.

I can't think of any companies that have made a bunch of money by "beating people in their homes until money falls out".

You need to think harder. But snark aside... There was that raid in Guatemala, and this one in George Town, and oh hey look... here's an article in Business Week offering advice because it happens so often CEOs need to be aware of it. But if you don't believe them, ask Kim Dotcom how things are working out for him.

You're seriously in fantasy land with this one. But, hey, whatever fantasy makes you feel good about pirating other people's hard work without paying a dime. You're a real hero. The world owes you everything for free.

I'm no hero. I'm just the girl with all the facts on her side.

Oh, so if a malware infested piece of software is uploaded, Bittorrent will make sure you're downloading the same malware-infested software that someone uploaded? That's reassuring.

As opposed to a malware infested piece of software downloaded from the company's official website? Because if you think that's never happened, Google for 'Sony' and 'root kit'.

Bill Gates prefers you pirate his software over someone elses because it helps block other people out of the market.

The one thing you actually got right. Here's a cookie.

I'm glad I like the Kindle system (and I really do like it, having a lot of Kindle books), what with the government curb-stomping any possible competition for what was already by far the largest e-book publisher at the time of the events the Apple trial was about...

A nice touch Amazon forcing the publishers to cough up dough for daring to try and limit the ability of Amazon to set prices to whatever they like regardless of publisher wishes.

How Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch and Stephen King Worked To Fix Ebook Prices

You know, sometimes even the Koch funded studies turn up something surprising: http://www.businessinsider.com/koch-brothers-funded-study-proves-climate-change-2012-7.

Before directly answering your question I will point out that the allegations of Saudi involvement for Sarin based on the presented "evidence" is nonsense. As to your question....

Yes, pretty much - the Saudis couldn't "do" what Aum Shinrikyo did. They are two different types of events. The attack in Tokyo was a terrorist attack with hand-carried home-brew sarin (made by a group with over $1,000,000,000 in assets) used to attack people in a highly enclosed space (about the best possible environment for the success of their attack) and it only managed to kill 13 people*. That isn't very effective. The attack in Syria killed over 1,400 people in the open, and was delivered by artillery rockets, not by plastic bag. Killing people in those circumstances is much more difficult. The success of the Syrian attack points to much more sarin used in the attack, higher purity in the sarin used, which means much more sophisticated chemical agent processing, deliberate development of chemical agent rocket artillery warheads, and proper planning and weapons handling needed to build a lethal dose of the nerve gas chemical agent on the target under the specific weather conditions. All of those activities would potentially be detectable to intelligence operations, but there don't seem to be any indications of that regarding the Saudis and rebels. A shipment of chemical weapons is almost certainly going to be handled differently than ordinary high explosives, and will probably be detectable by intelligence operations, something which I haven't heard any indication of regarding the Saudis and rebels.

There do seem to be indications of the Assad regime handling such weapons though.

Here Is the Evidence the U.S. Has on a Syrian Chemical-Weapons Attack
Troops led by Assad’s brother likely to blame for chemical weapons, Syrian activists say

Highly effective chemical agent rocket warheads aren't something that are just tossed off the assembly line for plastic water bottles on alternate weeks. They are a highly specialized weapon with many highly specialized components. The Saudis have signed the treated banning them, and I thought it was common wisdom by many on Slashdot that every country on earth followed treaties without cheating except for the US. How could the Saudi's cheat?

* Al Qaida had planned attacks on the New York subway system but called them off because they weren't certain that they would kill enough people to maintain their reputation.

I'd laugh, mocking "backwards" Egyptians for putting a stork in a jail cell, except we in the US executed a baby deer, complete with body bag.

You say the problem is with "students who don't want to be there and disrupt the operation of the classroom." What were you, the biggest nerd in school? Why do you have such a bone to pick with the other "less diligent" students? Sure, they contribute to the problem, but (except in your fantasy land) they are not the problem. The problem is complex and it encompasses many different aspects of the way our school system is structured. For examples of how a "good" public education system is run, we could look to other countries such as Finland, Hong Kong, Japan and the Netherlands.

I actually spoke with people who taught in urban public schools in the US. In addition to being a brutal environment that chews up and spits out new teachers, there's a lot of kids who don't want to be there either. And they disrupt classes for those who do.

The US does sometimes run schools like those great European examples and sometimes it doesn't. It is worth noting that the US spends a considerable amount on education and doesn't get education results commensurate with that spending.

I'm simply explaining the social dilemma surrounding public education

It's not a social dilemma for those other countries because those school systems are much better run. It's my belief that some US school systems are so bad, that it would be better to do away with them altogether than keep them in their present state. They're just really awful, dangerous, and expensive baby sitting services.

So when other countries stop having faith in an infinite number of Yankee Dollars (which they will) and stop taking them you'll see the whole thing come crashing down

If someone has something the US wants to buy ( like oil ) then they'll just be bombed till they do. Soon enough the powers that be will realize this ( they already have ) and just take the dollars and accept living like the kings they are *within the system*. If you have power, do you ally with the winning side, or do you attempt to find a coalition of those being shat upon? If you have power, you personally aren't being shat upon, because you rationally sell out. It's those with no power who are being shat upon - the poor. So who exactly is there to oppose power?

Macheavellii would say that it's always better to ally with the weaker side because it increases your leverage and prevents you from becoming someone's bitch, but do you really CARE if you are someone's bitch? I mean who wouldn't rather be a billionaire than a king? You get all the perks without the stress/risk/culpability

And the fact is, most humans are redundant. The world is going through a sea change as big as the one that caused an end to serfdom and brought forth the enlightenment and the rights of man. Instead of people being valuable b/c of megadeath caused by the black plague, and new untapped worlds opening up around the world begging for humans to take advantage the world is filling up. Stuff is more valuable than people. Now that humans are not valuable, they will be treated worse than before. I wouldn't be surprise to see a rolling back of the gains made since the middle ages. Only megadeath would seem to have a chance of making humans more valuable relative to things.

UC Davis' Gregory Clark has some iteresting insights about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvZlXaGEzwg&list=PLmq9H75aU8iNWq2oXfH2y82yH1HzaITpa

Also, technology during the industrial revolution pushed human labor into pursuits that could not be mechanized. With thought itself more and more mechanizable, what is left for humans? http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-articles-about-robots-2012-12 ?

Paris Hilton is very productive. ( in the economic sense where work done with a backhoe is more productive than work done with a hand shovel ) Her labors are mixed with a very high level of capital. And what do those labors consist of? Merely not losing her money. Does she need to be superior in any way to perform her duties? is there any meritocracy going on? Well...

She can and likely does hire a finanacial planner. Brains are a dime a dozen.

She buys $40,000.00 purses. So at first glance it would seem she does a poor job at not losing her money. But she can afford $40,000.00 purses. That doesn't realy represent substantial consumption. Giving away half her money to someone who's never had money would involve *massive* consumption. If she gave me half her wealth, I would probably give half of it away to people I know who would also spread the wealth themselves etc. This would cause *millions* of dollars in consumption. A $40,000.00 purse is nothing.

So it seems Paris Hilton is far better qualified than I to be wealthy.

But isn't it weird that she doesn't have to do anything but not consume?

All she needs to do to not give away her wealth is insulate herself from need and the temptation to give it all away. That is, she need only stay amongst the her own kind and not mingle with the peasants.

Societies that support this tendency win out militarily because those societies with the most capital will be able to field the most fearsome militariy might including robotic military might. There is no reason to suppose that without valuable labor to parlay into means to consume, tha

By using the words "online identity", they can charge him with identity theft, and they'll have more of a chance of getting extradition from Russia.

Given the circumstances under which Snowden entered Russia, how on earth do you think that could possibly work?

Given the connections of Anatoly Kucherena, the Russian who was speaking on his behalf and assisting him, it seems unlikely that the dullest tools in the Russian government are looking out for him.

I propose we build an observatory in North Korea.

The very well written biography of Marissa Mayer that recently appeared in Business Insider was very illuminating about the current ongoings at Yahoo. Marissa appears to be a very data driven person, always looking for "proof" of display/design feature ideas and concepts, even for whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide.
http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-biography-2013-8

Additionally, she had made a last minute change to the color scheme of the recently revamped Yahoo Mail which necessitated significant man hours at the 11th hour to implement and was detrimental to team morale and cohesion that had been painstakingly developed since her arrival.

I'm sure moving forward there will be more challenges like this that Yahoo will face. It will be interesting to assess whether they are due to the vestiges of incompetency at Yahoo as she believes, or due to her failings as a leader, because let's face it, according to the profile, this type of a UI design change would have had her hands all over it and would've needed final sign-off by her.

UI Design changes are by their very inherent nature controversial, people like things the way they're used to them. Marissa's approach was already problematic at Google, it had problems scaling as the company grew in size, but at least there were people there to manage and mitigate her. There's no-one at Yahoo like that. She is a very authoritative leader.

Disclaimer: I don't know her personally nor have I ever met her or met anyone who has met her. My impressions are all based on profiles of her like the one linked above (which I am not affiliated with but simply found interesting)

These are nothing new and have been used before i.e. one of the more famous recent incidents are in syria Spy rocks found in Syria.

For ketchup, they should get John Kerry. Given that MS is jacked up, and Kerry himself is a total jack-up artist, the resulting double negative will certainly have Redmond conquering the market, STAT.
For OS/2 applications.

Which boils down to...they need a product focused person. Someone like Marissa Mayer. A seriously good read no matter how you feel about her turnaround methodology at Yahoo:

http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-biography-2013-8

It's hard to imagine they'll find a single person to undo the last 13 years of stagnation at MSFT but it could happen. I suspect Yahoo will be the turnaround case study in B-school five years from now. Not Microsoft.

I'll be claiming whatever share I'm allowed. It's *MY* money that I was forced to contribute so that it would be there for my retirement....when I retire, I want it back.

I'm 55, and got laid off a month ago. Back when I was a teenager, SS was described to me as an "emergency net" -- one you were never supposed to need to start with; you were supposed to completely take care of yourself and your retirement (imagine that!) and then, only if everything else failed, were you were supposed to tap into that. But that somehow got translated to "I can spend every dime I've got since the government is saving for me."

I think the now-dead politicians from back then would be surprised and shocked to hear that you wanted the money that you gave to SS back. I think they would be surprised, shocked, and horrified at some of the fruits of their labor.

If only we could invent a time-machine to bring those people into the present, or send some people now back into the past. *OR*, if only our sages and soothsayers were actually accurate, à la: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Ok lets try your perspective, dumbass.

>At least 286 people were killed along the path of the storm in seven countries.

>In the United States, Hurricane Sandy affected 24 states, including the entire eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine and west across the Appalachian Mountains to Michigan and Wisconsin, with particularly severe damage in New Jersey and New York. Its storm surge hit New York City on October 29, flooding streets, tunnels and subway lines and cutting power in and around the city.[14][15] Damage in the United States amounted to $65 billion (2013 USD). a total surpassed only by Hurricane Katrina.

https://www.google.com/search?q=breezy+point+sandy&tbm=isch&

http://www.businessinsider.com/battery-park-flooding-2012-10

Cleanup Attempt At Japan's Fukushima Plant Could Release 14,000 Times As Much Radiation As Atomic Bomb. The fukushima is way worse than the Hiroshima bomb on radiation.

Really? By what measure?

By just about any measure you'd care to choose.

He said it's dead in the US and will be dead in the rest of the world 5 years. Not literally dead, obviously, as it's a company and doesn't have any corporeal form. The term means loosely that the company is on a massive, steady decline.

But feel free to ride that dying horse right into the grave, honestly, no sarcasm - you might as well. I'm not even going to argue with you over the merits of the device versus it's competitors because it doesn't matter. The simple fact of the matter is that, in a few years, the marketshare will be too small to support the company. At that point your preference won't matter, because the market won't be large enough to sustain blackberry. They lost $84M in the last quarter, even after massive layoffs. They've certainly got a couple years left, but it's going nowhere but down until then.

49% of Americans over 14 go to McDonalds.

We are talking about a company that feed 1% of the world, every day.
Americans consume 1 billion pounds of beef a year, just from McDonalds.

So, a huge chunk of Americans eat their.

http://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-mcdonalds-blow-your-mind-2011-11?op=1

A bonus funny rap at the end.

"And your opinion that EVERYONE eats at McDonalds all the time is completely baseless. "
where did he say that?