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Actually, in 2012, that was what they were telling people.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ka...

`Speaking of the founding fathers, I ask him what he thinks they would have thought of Reddit.

“A bastion of free speech on the World Wide Web? I bet they would like it,” he replies. It’s the digital form of political pamplets.`

Leaders always get too much credit when things go well and too much blame when they go badly.

For 10% of what Henrique De Castro got you can blame me for the rise of communism, the fall of communism, or anything you choose in between. Heck, I'll even throw in an apology.

But.. But.. Larry has to buy his Hawaiian island.. He needs money bad.

Correct. The concern I have is who will buy them out when they collapse and what the buyer does with the patent portfolio. IBM is shaky and getting worse by the day. Here is one analysis of their problems:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/st...

I'm trying to think of what games people play competitively on consoles, and none come to mind. Keyboard and mouse flat out destroys controllers when it comes to competitive play.

That's OK, because 2015 (or perhaps 2016) is the year of the keyboard and mouse on consoles. (Sony is also licensing a kb/mouse peripheral, AFAIK this is a licensing first. Yes, I know that there were mice for prior platforms; I have them for SNES, PS, and DC. (That's all of them, right?)

> First, we aren't feeling the impact of climate change. For all the fear mongering, the oceans haven't risen,

They have. http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/f...

> the weather is fine,

It's not. http://www.forbes.com/sites/je...

> and life has been carrying on.

'Struggling' would be a better word: http://news.stanford.edu/news/...

And we are just seeing the beginning of these problems. The predictions of the IPCC are actually quite conservative. The reality is likely to be much worse. This isn't fear-mongering; I'm not talking about fire and brimstone and mass anarchy. Humans can adapt. But we will have to deal with mass migrations, destruction of large areas of crop land, and a potentially very harmful loss of biodiversity. These are facts which we can state with certainty; the only uncertainty is just how deep the wound will eventually go before we actually do something about it.

Yes...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/pe...

I know there are still a small percentage of people out there that still click on every email link they get, but I would hope that phishing is a dying art and not much would ever come of this. I know that most of the people I supported would not be this amazingly stupid, nor would many in the entire company.

If you work in an IT capacity, I suggest you rethink architecting your security profile based on trusting users not to click on links sending them to websites hosting malicious exploit code.

You might have the smartest CS graduates working in your organization. Each one of them has a computer-inexperienced relative whose had their email compromised in one way or another. From those compromised email accounts, messages are sent to your coworkers that can contain solicitations to view content hosted on a remote website. The possibility of your teammates following those links is especially high. Once the exploit code has hit the desktop OS, it's inside your network. If you have vulnerable routers, the attackers can use the beachhead of the first compromised desktop machine to change the DNS settings on the network router. Now, every single user in the organization is vulnerable to being redirected from "www.google.com" to "www.exploitsite.com" while they still only see the friendly google search page in their browsers when they try to do a search.

Don't trust the end users. They're the weakest member of your corporate security.

Yes, it's worth a citation.

No, it's not. The claim is bullshit because it computes meaningless numbers for a meaningless group of people. And even taken at face value, it doesn't tell you anything about who is responsible for keeping wages down (as I was saying, it's mainly government policy, plus some competition from abroad).

Yeah, I looked it up:

Again, you point to data about average actual direct corporate taxes paid. I told you why those numbers are irrelevant. What matters is the effective marginal rate, and that is the combination of maximum marginal corporate taxes plus maximum marginal capital gains taxes.

Here is a Politifact analysis of the US corporate tax rate that doesn't even take into account the capital gains tax:

http://www.politifact.com/pund...

We have some of the highest corporate tax rates before and after deductions.

The loopholes in the US tax code should be eliminated. But, politically, many of the people complaining about low average corporate taxes are the same people who put in those loopholes. That is, the combination of low average corporate tax with high marginal corporate tax is even worse than a uniformly high corporate tax.

Our capital gains taxes are also extremely high:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ro...

You need to add capital gains and corporate taxes if you want to know how much the US government actually gets from every dollar earned by a corporation:

http://taxfoundation.org/artic...

Furthermore, corporate taxation doesn't come from some mysterious pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it comes from all shareholders, and a large part of those are direct or indirect retirement investments. The higher you make corporate taxes, the less people money people will have to retire on.

The US needs to sharply lower corporate taxation and capital gains taxes, otherwise both corporations and investors will increasingly go overseas, a process that obviously has already started.

The papers and news reports you point to are bogus; they compute effective corporate tax rates on worldwide earnings, which isn't relevant to anything.

While I understand your point, in the US at least ERISA laws do protect pensions to a reasonable extent. If you have one already, you generally get to keep it, although it might get frozen. But if you don't have a defined benefit plan, you're not going to get one.

That's as full of bullshit as "if you like your insurance, you can keep it." OP was specifically referring to the major employee-screwing that is converting defined-benefit pensions into a "cash balance" (aka 401k equivalent). Led by IBM http://www.forbes.com/2003/04/16/cz_jn_0416beltway.html, as of 2003 24% of S&P500 firms had stolen pension plans from employees who had already earned one.

First, forget about pensions; 401k plans are much better and have replaced them for most workers.

Fewer than 15% of everyone with a 401k plan will have enough to retire by the time they turn 70.

The 401k plan will go down as one of the greatest scams, and one of the greatest schemes to redistribute money upward, in the history of human economics.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ed...

You know how the Chinese government is forcing people to buy and hold stocks in order to try to shore up their crashing stock market? Well that's exactly what the entire 401k statute was for. Conservatives like to say that Social Security and worker pensions were a "Ponzi scheme". Well, 401k is a Ponzi scheme on steroids.

Unions in Germany (I've personally witnessed) and Japan (good friends who have personally witnessed and I've talked at length) work FAR differently than in the USA.

For example, Chrysler employees drinking on the job would NOT have been protected by IG Metall, but were ultimately reinstated because of their Union. Ever wonder why Chryslers suck so much?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/fr...

At present, the TCO is about the same because the lower maintenance and fuel costs are offset by the increased up-front cost. And that is with the government tax credits included. A search for electric car TCO gives dozens of articles that seem to corroborate this.

In the long-term, I believe the TCO of electric cars will probably become lower. I'm betting that electric cars will last longer, the maintenance curve will not increase as the engine ages, and that green electricity sources will widen the gap between gasoline and electricity costs. But at some point we will lose the tax credits.

Just so no one thinks I'm cherry picking my search results: Here are the first 6 Google hits (other than PDFs) and they all agree:
http://www.plugincars.com/tota...
http://www.pluginamerica.org/d...
http://tdworld.com/site-files/...
http://www.greentechmedia.com/...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/to...

Most of the results are tepid, arguing things like "hey, electric cars are NOT actually more expensive" or "well, it's about the same long term." but are hesitant to declare a clear winner.

I'm not driving an EV during a snow storm at night..... The draw from the headlights, defroster and wipers and the batteries being weakened by the cold? EVs are fine for warmer climates, but nor the cold.

I guess the Norwegians didn't get the memo.

If, for whatever reasons, an employer wants to know, what sort of a person you are with your friends — and they all will, once the positions they are considering you for reach a certain height, they'll find out. With private investigators, if need be.

And that makes it OK?

What you present to the employer being separate from your personal life is actually a really important part of how we function as a society.

Is it? How so? Can you cite any studies showing usefulness of such separation? Or how this separation changed over the years — for the betterment of society, or otherwise?

Well clearly I'm not going to have such studies to hand, not sure how you would study such a thing, but this one touches on similar subjects showing how there is inbuilt racism / nationalism in CV selection. That sort of problem is only going to get worse with the more information available.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ru...

Switching to unrefusable automatic updates in the face of unavoidable (but forgivable, it's generally acknowledged that no one is immune to at least some of those) system-breaking bugs is pretty awful. As it stands with just a little research you can restore to before the last batch and selectively apply the good ones; unless I'm misreading something there will now be no way you can restore usability at all. It's just a matter of time before some driver incompatibility makes anything beyond safe mode unbootable.

Maybe GP's got a history of overreacting, but being forced to suffer the inevitable system-breaking bug -- taking the downtime from hours to days or for anything that falls through the fissure to finger-pointing hell, weeks -- just because you don't want to pay an extra $80 for the privilege of a system you don't have to let them break -- is pretty clearly unethical. And this from a company that has recently stooped to pushing adware. This deal Microsoft's pushing is laced with shit, no matter how good (and I'm betting they're very good) the good parts are.

Severe problems like the ones I was thinking of above? No, to be fair to Microsoft, they have usually fixed those within a day or two.

Ok good so deferring the updates to not install immediately should alleviate a lot of the concern there.

Once again, the problem isn't just this specific issue, it's the uncontrolled risk associated with allowing anyone to force software changes on a PC you rely on.

So your proposed solution is what? I'm trying to work out what you're driving at here, is it that you're looking for a solution to a problem or you're just upset?

In the interest of looking for a solution

Irate owners of NVidia graphics cards have taken to support forums to complain that automatically-installed drivers installed have broken their computers.

That would be 17 posters on the NVIDA GeForce drivers forum. Windows 10 Display Driver Feedback Thread

Interestingly the problem has also been experienced by Forbes contributor Paul Monckton who has done some digging and explained to me that the fault lies in a conflict between Windows Update and Nvidia's own driver and software management tool the 'Nvidia GeForce Experience'.

Many PC components and peripherals come with bundled software that automatically manages driver updates already. PC makers also often bolt on driver update management software onto their PCs (Lenovo is a notable example) which then has the potential to conflict with driver updates delivered by Windows Update.

''It looks like driver version 353.54 [the latest at time of writing] is available only via Window Update,'' Monckton told me. ''The problem is the Nvidia GeForce Experience then tried to downgrade that to the previous version while claiming the previous version was actually newer.''

The problem is compounded by the fact that Windows Update doesn't actually reveal driver version numbers prior to install or warn the user in advance so pinpointing something that has suddenly caused problems can be hard to identify.

Given Windows 10 updates cannot be stopped the most obvious solution is to uninstall third party driver management and hand it all over to Windows Update to avoid clashes. This potentially simplifies matters by providing an all-in-one update service, but it does mean taking away control from specialist companies over their own products.

Windows 10 Automatic Updates Start Causing Problems

is not lack of regulation but the fact that 99.9% of the owners of these things have no clue
Not only that, but the companies whom heads “don’t think it’s a big deal,” and providing no real solution to the evident growing problem, yet turn out software and hardware bugs... (every vendor is guilty). The game and the players are basically moving too fast, all because of those investor dollars. It's a technology that even the professional still doesn't understand yet.

a) it is hard to do with a fast moving fixed wing plane,
Considering some autopilots can run on fixed wing nowadays--being hard is not so hard anymore, especially with FPV.

b) traditional model helis are tricky to fly and very expensive, few people would risk their toy like this after they have finally mastered it,
Again, some autopilots can let you flip a switch and they will hold on a dime to keep you out of trouble.

c) few RC models were computerized to the degree that they essentially "fly themselves", including GPS waypoints and what not. RC flying was always about the flying skills, not taking videos for Youtube.
Heck R/C cars can do waypoints now...

Just wait folks, the world is getting started with mobile robots (which R/C is becoming) that can be autonomous from a path control standpoint.

As an automotive engineer, I'm frightened by the rapid response to this issue. This isn't Facebook. When an auto manufacturer "moves fast and breaks things" people get hurt. Every change should go through months of validation before being released to the customer.

I realize this exploit is a concern. However, is Chrysler sure they haven't introduced a bug with far worse consequences by implementing this change?

As much as people want to believe, in the age of unattended Windows updates and package managers, that updating is painless and causes no problems, there are many famous examples of times people installed updates that proceeded to destroy or seriously disrupt operation of production environments.

HODAD- "Hands of Death And Destruction" - A Hopkins doctor wrote a book about the subject.

From the article:

"At a medical conference Dr. Marty Makary saw one of his Harvard professors who “looked out at a room of 2,000 doctors and asked ‘How many of you know of another doctor who should not be practicing because he is too dangerous?’ Every hand went up.” Yet few report bad doctors and those that do often get fired.

Hospital staff knows they are practicing bad medicine and mostly do nothing. In Makary’s provocative book, Unaccountable, he describes one Ivy League-trained doctor who’s popular with patients yet dubbed Hodad, by his colleagues, for his continuing string of patient deaths. Hodad is their dark humored acronym for “hands of death and destruction.”

Doctors are kind of like cops. They both do a life and death, high stress job, and are under assault from all corners (for different reasons). So they protect their own. But to improve illness survivability, and in the interest of trying to get more information to patients, there has to be some way to get information about doctors to patients.

On the other hand, any metric will be gamed. So - if doctors aren't willing to police themselves... what choice is there but trying to get metrics on them? We're not talking about a good and a bad choice, we're talking about a bad and worse choice - which one is less bad?

And if you think the teachers union is badass - the AMA is made up of doctors, who are smart and relentless and wealthy. They're a big lobby in DC (although smaller than I thought prior to looking them up. In recent election cycles, with Obamacare, I recall seeing them near the top of the list).

Certifications are ALWAYS for technologies in their mature late stages. PCs are in their mature late stages now. This was obvious the moment certifications became a thing. Recent headlines prove it event more: Forbes: The Death of the PC Has Not Been Exaggerated. Additional the fact that what has hastened the end is mobile means the PC is today where minicomputers were in 1984. Basically the PC has become just another form of industrial equipment like any good electrician knows. Electricians have to be certified and license also - but this only because things have slowed enough that technology changes only at a pace that EVEN government can keep up with, hence one should expect in the not too distant future, state and federal governments getting into this game.

Why the hell did it not catch on like FB?

Well, other than the idiotic "invite only" policy?

Well... it launched feature incomplete as compared to Facebook. Pages for example wouldn't be available for months after launch. Also, it took weeks to properly display Flickr links (in 2011, when Flickr still ruled the photosharing roost this was unnaceptable)... And when they did get it right, it was only kinda right. The thumbnails were very obviously downsampled and downsized - all the better to very visibly not compete with Google's Picasa service*.

The there was the stupid 'real names' mess just as G+ was starting to gain the smallest amount of traction.

Then there was emphasis on security and privacy over connection and sharing. (The latter being the whole point of a social network in the first place.)

Then there was whole tedious need to organize your Circles, G+ didn't work all that well (let alone as Google intended) 'out of the box'.

Etc... etc... Google kept shooting itself in the foot and giving people reasons not to switch or not to stay switched - and they did, in droves.

The basic problem is that Google is made up of geeks, not ordinary people - and they don't really grasp that their primary audience is ordinary people, not geeks.

This article is worth a read in that context, particularly points 3 and 4.

* Which a lame and half baked attempt to compete with Flickr.

GE had a long history of "managed earnings", where quarterly earnings would magically beat the targets by a few percent. They were finally busted by the SEC in 2009, but the practice is known to have gone on much earlier, when Jack Welch was running the company.

Yes older cars are easier to maintain but the newer ones are outlasting them. Current average is almost 11 years before scrapping compared to under 7 in 1930. Sure you could fix the old cars up but with all that sheet metal rust was a major concern. I know old guys complain about the new plastic boxes on the roads these days but you hardly ever see rusted cars anymore. Besides in 10-15 years when you go to scrap your ford you can upgrade to a self driving car. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ji...

the heilum bottle would have shot to the top of the tank at high speed

That sounds a lot different than "a hose may have been pinched" Has anyone been able to find audio of the actual conversation?

How much are companies willing to pay to get into that hot, hot linux desktop gaming market?

I say this joking as a Linux user who realizes the Linux market isn't exactly setting wallstreet's pants on fire.

Linux is actually setting wallstreet's pants on fire:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/qu...

Theres not much Microsoft in there.

use a nanocard and it'll convert your bitcoin holdings to a mastercard credit at the point of sale. Then you can shop anywhere BTC is directly taken and any place that takes a mastercard.

A Cashless society is a Surveillance society - Absolutely.
This is why several governments actually put restrictions on cash purchases:
      http://www.forbes.com/sites/jo...
1000 Euros ceiling already exist in France and Italy for cash transactions. Bank withdrawals totaling over 10'000 Euros per year also get reported !

Cash payments, like bank secrecy, is what allows lambda citizens to keep a bit of privacy. When payments become traceable (1'000 € limit today), and important withdrawals are reported to authorities (10'000 € yearly limit), it is not drug dealers but the middle class that is targeted. The 1% richest and the powerful are still able to use other tricks to launder their money.

Well they do break the OS. And I got tired after posting of the most visible instances.

http://blogs-images.forbes.com... Traditional corn on the left, Selective breeding leads to the middle and Right types of corn... Corn was NEVER the way it is now, therefore ALL corn is GMO...

It's almost like free speech is more of a social justice value than a meathead one.

*snort*

http://thoughtcatalog.com/andr... :

God help us if we have to rely on conservatives to defend free speech.

A list of such censorship is basically endless, so I will have to suffice with a not-so-brief list of some of the more egregious examples:

• A student at Purdue was found guilty of "racial harassment" for reading a book called Notre Dame Vs the Klan. (The Klan is the bad guy in the book.)
• A candidate in the European elections was arrested in Britain for quoting a passage from Winston Churchill about Islam.
• Gert Wilders, a politician in the Netherlands, was tried on five counts including "criminally insulting Muslims because of their religion."
• Both Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant were dragged in front of the Canadian Human Rights Commission for being Islamophobic.
• Conservative radio host Michael Savage was banned in Britain.
• The group Women, Action and Media convinced Twitter to allow them help report and censor harassment and hate speech. Twitter subsequently suspended the accounts of the anti-feminist Youtubers Thunderfoot and Mykeru (they were later reinstated). Both of them are liberals, by the way.
• Adam Weinstein at Gawker wants to "Arrest Climate-Change Deniers."
• Brendan Eich was forced to resign as CEO of Mozilla for opposing gay marriage. Another guy was fired because someone eaves dropped on his joke about dongles.
• A group called Color of Change was able to get Patrick Buchanan fired from MSNBC for expressing his incorrect opinions (that have been pretty consistent for the last 50 years) in his book Suicide of a Superpower.
• Allegedly, a man was banned from an Oregon college campus for "resembling a rapist."
• The "Pickup Artist" Julien Blanc was barred from entering the UK for making sexist comments.
• The mayor of Massachusetts banned the word "illegal" when referring to, umm, immigrants who came into the United States without going through the proper, legal channels. The Associated Press did

And here's Alexis Ohanion, in 2012, calling Reddit... yes.... "a bastion of free speech".

I wonder how high they had to stack the bags of money to get this sort of backpedaling?

2012: Speaking of the founding fathers, I ask him what he [Alexis Ohanian] thinks they would have thought of Reddit. "A bastion of free speech on the World Wide Web? I bet they would like it," he replies. It's the digital form of political pamplets."

2015: "Neither Alexis nor I created Reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where open and honest discussion can happen."

I think when he says it is not a "bastion of free speech", what you need to add in your head is: ..not anymore.

2012: Speaking of the founding fathers, I ask him what he [Alexis Ohanian] thinks they would have thought of Reddit. "A bastion of free speech on the World Wide Web? I bet they would like it," he replies. It's the digital form of political pamplets."

2015: "Neither Alexis nor I created Reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where open and honest discussion can happen."

Reddit policy to be updated, CEO says site was not created "to be a bastion of free speech"

After a string of dramatic events like the removal of the Fappening and FatPeopleHate subreddits, the dismissal of Victoria Taylor and the subsequent AMAgeddon culminating in the resignation of the former CEO Ellen Pao, the recently returned Reddit CEO and site founder Steve Huffman announces that a comprehensive Content Policy and the tools to enforce it are currently in development motivated in part by the media and internal repercussion of "the more offensive and obscene content" on their platform.

Mentioning without specifying some communities "whose purpose is reprehensible" and disclaiming that they "don't have any obligation to support them" the CEO announces an AMA (Ask me Anything) next Thursday 1pm where they "as a community need to decide together what our values are".

The CEO states that "Neither Alexis nor I created reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where open and honest discussion can happen.".

In a top comment in the announcement a site user refutes this claim point to a Forbes article from 2012 where Ohanians, answering a question of what the founding fathers would think of Reddit, replies: "A bastion of free speech on the World Wide Web? I bet they would like itâ. Alexis himself, in a Google Plus post from 2012 (archived version), says that he is "really, really proud of these quotes".

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/02/reddit-co-founder-alexis-ohanians-rosy-outlook-on-the-future-of-politics/3/

Speaking of the founding fathers, I ask him what he thinks they would have thought of Reddit.

"A bastion of free speech on the World Wide Web? I bet they would like it," he replies. It's the digital form of political pamplets.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ka...

So that's something like 1% ^ 3, minus some overlap -- what part of US or global society do you have to be to make use of this?

Sheiks and Saudi royalty, Russian oil barrons, Larry Ellison, anyone who owns an apartment in this building or this neighborhood, all of whom would rather not have to breathe the same air as the proles and riff-raff in so-called first class in a plane built for normal people.

Read it and weep (or make-believe you're gonna win the lottery some day).

At least Donald Trump has accomplishments he can point to

please provide a link to all of his political accomplishments

Well, he filed for bankruptcy four times, oh wait, you said "political" accomplishments - never mind.

1. Pay songwriter to compose alternative song
2. Record song
3. Release recording with a Creative Commons license
4. Send postcards to every restaurant in the country, letting them know it's free to perform and encouraging them to sing it
5. ?
6. Profit!

This only works if you're Glee.

I can't believe how many comments like this are floating around.

So you don't think the world wide recession had any role? Maybe do some fact checking before you blame the Greeks for much of the woes. It's pretty much accepted that without the recession, the Greeks wouldn't be in this crisis. Unless you think they are responsible for that too.

Doubt it will have an impact on your thinking, but here's a couple of links for you. http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jo...

45 % of Greek pensioners live below the eu poverty line. Your asking about if there is really a humanitarian crisis? Well I would call it a crisis but what type I'll leave for others. I don't see you too worried about all the banks and euro leaders calling it a crisis so I guess you just have have
a problem with applying to word to individuals instead of banks.

So many people just buy the BS rhetoric: "Greece spent too much." It seems like so few bother to study the issues or actually look at multiple examples around the globe. Greece collapsed like others before it: for the benefit of big banks & their profits. I'm not going to bother explaining the whole situation, I doubt many would even bother to read it if I did.

For those few who are curious, here's a decent starting place and this one too.

One of the more positive things that has happened recently is that they got starved for victims so they started attacking their own political camps. They were basically doing purity tests. Once everyone is a liberal how do they justify their existence? well... they then ask "how liberal are you"... and they just start goal posting moving to make sure they have enough people to be outraged with at any given time.

So anyway, they were doing that and eventually they hit a segment of their own political contingent that fought back. And now they're a little baffled because a lot of the wind has gone out of their sails. They're getting attacked from all sides now and they're losing credibility rapidly.

Its funny because they're such dogmatic robots that they don't really understand what happened.

We'll see... they'll either be suppressed to the general good of society or they'll osterize most of their political base which will lead to a structural schism in the faction which will weaken them collectively.

Hit. Nail. Head. I wish I had mod points today. What's happening with liberalism today is a case study in self destruction. All we need to do is sit back and watch it play out.

Like those ideological purity tests...if we started measuring conservatives on the basis of how conservative are you, it would surely mark the beginning of the end. Liberal purity tests have pushed their kind so far to the extreme, they're now attacking themselves. And their tactic of keeping one constituency or another outraged at any given time has totally backfired.

I don't really blame liberals for being baffled. They've spent so much time in an echo chamber, they've lost touch. When reality finally slaps them in the face, it is only natural for them to try to figure out what happened. The question is, do they have the capability to make the necessary changes in order to correct their course?

Somehow I doubt it. Liberals are so

One of the more positive things that has happened recently is that they got starved for victims so they started attacking their own political camps. They were basically doing purity tests. Once everyone is a liberal how do they justify their existence? well... they then ask "how liberal are you"... and they just start goal posting moving to make sure they have enough people to be outraged with at any given time.

So anyway, they were doing that and eventually they hit a segment of their own political contingent that fought back. And now they're a little baffled because a lot of the wind has gone out of their sails. They're getting attacked from all sides now and they're losing credibility rapidly.

Its funny because they're such dogmatic robots that they don't really understand what happened.

We'll see... they'll either be suppressed to the general good of society or they'll osterize most of their political base which will lead to a structural schism in the faction which will weaken them collectively.

Hit. Nail. Head. I wish I had mod points today. What's happening with liberalism today is a case study in self destruction. All we need to do is sit back and watch it play out.

Like those ideological purity tests...if we started measuring conservatives on the basis of how conservative are you, it would surely mark the beginning of the end. Liberal purity tests have pushed their kind so far to the extreme, they're now attacking themselves. And their tactic of keeping one constituency or another outraged at any given time has totally backfired.

I don't really blame liberals for being baffled. They've spent so much time in an echo chamber, they've lost touch. When reality finally slaps them in the face, it is only natural for them to try to figure out what happened. The question is, do they have the capability to make the necessary changes in order to correct their course?

Somehow I doubt it. Liberals are so

A big company in an unaligned industry buys a formerly popular hardware maker, now falling on hard times, and eventually sells or pretty much writes all the assets of the acquisition off. I'm having a strange sense of deja vu... almost like this has happened before several times.

Oh wait, it has happened before with Oracle and Sun. And again with HP and Palm. And again with Google and Motorola.

You would think people would notice a pattern here...

The pattern is its more profitable to claim sketchy tax write offs than pay taxes on massive real profits.

A big company in an unaligned industry buys a formerly popular hardware maker, now falling on hard times, and eventually sells or pretty much writes all the assets of the acquisition off. I'm having a strange sense of deja vu... almost like this has happened before several times.

Oh wait, it has happened before with Oracle and Sun. And again with HP and Palm. And again with Google and Motorola.

You would think people would notice a pattern here...

Your the best kind of correct, "technically correct", but your still wrong.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jo...

Especially when the queen of asset forfeiture is in charge. If I was Snowden, I wouldn't take any deal from this administration, because you can't trust them. No honor among thieves, as the saying goes.