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I doubt the mainstream market consumers would want to buy a Pixel phone when it only will be supported up to two years after it's initial launch.

Three years. However, I'd like to see you point me to the support commitment made by any other OEM. Any at all. As far as I can tell, Google is the only one that even bothers to tell you what you can expect. Not even Apple makes any commitments, though in practice they do generally give you four or five years, rather than three. But if they were to decide not to, you have no recourse.

I doubt the mainstream market consumers would want to buy a Pixel phone when it only will be supported up to two years after it's initial launch. Google is taking planned obsolescence to a new level! Buy a premium pixel phone on a two year payment plan and as soon as it is paid off it is obsolete and one will need to start looking to purchase a new one with little hope of reselling their current phone for any meaningful value.

Google is a fickled company and all of their services and products have short abrupt lifespans.

Easy for a human, you say?

"Office employees worked naked for a month as social experiment"

http://www.deccanchronicle.com... ;-)

a group went to the town police station on Thursday night to lodge a complaint against a person who posted a picture of a holy place with a picture of a god of another community morphed on it. Sources said that the police delayed in registering a case and failed to mobilise forces quickly.
Sangareddy inspector Chandrasekhar said, “A group came complaining about an FB post. While we were convincing them about registering a case, they started agitating. Around 200 people staged a dharna. While returning from the police station, the group tore off festival banners of the other community. This inflamed members of that community and they started pelting stones.

So the story now becomes
1. Someone(A belonging to community X) posts an image on his FB account. Remember the row over some danish newspaper cartoons.
2. A group of people(Y) protest in front of the police
3. While returning they physically vandalize the religious symbols of totally unrelated people belonging to the X community.
4. This results in people belonging to the X community vandalizing the homes/shops/religious structures in areas dominated by community Y
At the end of each stage in this unfolding drama, random strangers were victimized for not fault of theirs other than their religious outlook in life.

Non of the articles linked above state
1. The name of the politician who posted the picture on his FB Account?
2. What was offensive about the picture.
3. How did the riots start

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/node/109255
http://postnoon.com/2012/03/30/sangareddy-erupts-in-violence/40619

The 2011 deficit was $1.299T. The 2011 military budget was unauditable it was so literally out of control, but nearly $1.3T even using the government's (surely undercounting) numbers. Of course cutting the military isn't the only cut, but if it were cut to $400B that would require raising taxes only $400B to balance the budget.

Just making capital gains for people collecting over $250K income the same rate as regular income would raise over $200B of that. A 0.1% financial transaction tax would raise over $100B more. Ensuring that people earning over $1M paid at least 30% taxes, regardless of deductions and loopholes, gets another $35B a year under the Buffett Rule. The remaining $50B or so can be raised by closing loopholes like the scam of borrowing against shares, never selling them until your heirs do when you die. Making "carried interest" by stock traders taxable as income instead of capital gains is another $18B.

That's not many tax changes. They're all already in Congress, including in Obama's budget sent there today, except the financial transaction tax is only proposed at a piddling 0.03%. You can argue about whether any or all of them are worth doing. But it's perfectly clear that cutting defense and raising taxes can produce enough money to balance the budget, and indeed to pay down the debt until the interest no longer generates its own sizeable deficit demanding more debt.

Is this not the same as suing gun manufacturers for making lethal tools?

The problem is they don't provide proper instructions for wart removal... Brit man shoots off own finger to remove 'painful' wart

They didn't, they used all 3 remaining choppers. http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/world/asia/79-commandos-four-choppers-killed-osama-bin-laden-049

I don't place mafia wars and my facebook isn't hidden from any facebook user. Why? Because aside from my first name, no other info on there is real .. oh, except that I'm single. That should be a given seeing as I'm posting here.

So basically you're just trying to find a date from Facebook? I hope you have as much luck as this guy.

A British man has been tagged "The Sperminator" for getting 12 girls pregnant after wooing them on social networking site Facebook. Five women are now raising his kids, five were talked into abortions and two are expecting. For years, love rat Dominic Baronet secretly preyed on women with his smooth Internet patter.

When the girls started talking, they realised he’d impregnated them both on the same night. "Dominic should be banned from Facebook. He uses it to juggle scores of girls.

"We call him the Sperminator as he just goes around getting girls pregnant and doesn’t ever think about the consequences," she added.