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Wow, that is unprecedented, unless you count the Kno:

http://www.slashgear.com/kno-dual-screen-tablet-hands-on-07124780/

Or the Acer Iconia 6120:
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/29/6367167-acers-dual-screen-tablet-behaves-like-a-laptop

Or the Toshiba tablet concept:
http://techtickerblog.com/2006/03/17/dual-screen-tablet-from-toshiba/

Or the MSI dual screen tablet:
http://blog.laptopmag.com/msis-dual-screen-tablet-video-hands-on-much-more-than-an-ereader

Or the Toshiba Libretto
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2010/08/16/toshiba-libretto-dual-screen-tablet-hitting-the-u-s/

Or the Asus Dual Screen concept:
http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/asus-dual-screen-laptop-features-a-touchscreen-keyboard/

If you talk with police much you find out that "the other kind" are responding to a knock on the door with shots fired through it. There may also be various things in the house that can be quantified as high explosives used in the production of meth amphetamine drugs.

True, if they had reasonable evidence that drugs or weapons were involved, I expect them to be highly armed and bust doors down, and use some flashbangs.

However, they had child porn and an IP address. If that is enough to think that they're about to deal with someone that shoots their way out the front door, where does it stop? Will the police bust my door down to discuss parking tickets? If not, why not?

Look at it another way: The host of this TV show stands with no gun and no visible body armor when confronting people actively attempting to have sex with minors . I don't know about you, but I find these people to be one step higher on the level of danger from the person downloading child porn.

If some TV host can do it, I expect a police office can do it, too.

The end result is that every interaction with the police is assumed to be potentially deadly.

Do you realize how much is wrong with that sentence?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21836088/ns/technology_and_science-space Just because some of the issues can't be solved by a smaller step, doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile.

I think this simulation is a bit more realistic (apart from the gravity aspect): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41192648/ns/technology_and_science-space/

Probably better, assuming your neighbor still numbers among the living.

Saddam did actually have a nuclear program, though.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334/ns/world_news-mideast/n_africa/

There's an article from MSNBC. It pretty much says anything that needs to be said. He had nuclear ambitions, and absent intervention (read: bombs.) from more sane nations, would have eventually had himself a nice atomic bomb.
It's honestly not that hard to build one, you know. To build a GOOD one? That.. now that is tricky.. but to just make a bomb that will go kaboom with nuclear force, hell, that's easier than refining the uranium!

As for his other WMDs, he did have them. We know how much he had at one time, and we know how much he dropped on the Kurds, and we know how much he surrendered, and the latter two did not add up to the initial amount. Now, yes, by the time we invaded it was pretty much safe to say that the lost amount had just gone bad, had fallen apart, were no longer viable.. but as I said, Saddam wanted people to suspect he still had them. His game was bravado. He was counting on the fact that we, and the rest of the civilized world, were loathe to invade and depose him over something that we knew he had but also knew he no longer had -- regardless of how much he acted as if he still had viable stock, he did not believe anyone would invade without hard proof. And, of course, there would never be hard proof. He bet wrong, because we elected a reckless cowboy president. And whatever else you can say about Gee-dub, Iraq is a better place now than it was under Saddam, as is the entire Middle East. There's a lot else you can say about Gee-dub, but his actions however misguided DID make at least PART of the world a better place. That might be a bitter pill to swallow but that's life.

I think you're thinking about "hold your wee for a wii". The result of the contest was one death and a mass sacking.

Actually, when you dig into it, the problem isn't stable governments or the lack of machinery. The major problem is lack of food storage technology, making seed crops the only thing that can be stored for more than a few weeks.

Food storage (of grain) pre-dates farming. But where is is dry enough to store large quantities of grain without some technology and knowledge, its too dry to grow such quantities. If you don't have river bottoms near much dryer areas (such as in the middle east) you need grain elevators to keep dry crops.

You need refrigeration for many crops, and pest control for all crops.

Once you teach several successive generations that going to the market to buy something wrapped in cellophane is the way food is obtained, the ability to preserve bulk harvests for months or years is quickly lost in the population.

If harvests could be reliably preserved, you would be able to feed the same population with half the acreage. Increasing production is the sloppy way to solve this problem and actually breeds more pests than people. This has been recognized in poorer countries in Africa for some time now.

Why would older languages have more phonemes and not less?

I think that the increase in variations of a source relates to Darwinian evolution. For instance, corn is from the Americas and moved to Europe after Columbus. And if you look at the varieties of corn in the USA there are a certain number. But if you look at South America, there are many more types of corn. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080627163156.htm

The greater amount of variation indicates the origin.

This is also true for genetics. There is the greatest variation of genes in Africa, and fewer, say, in subset migrations, e.g. Greenland. ["Africans have world's greatest genetic variation "] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30502963/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Weren't there arrests at several of Bush's (Jr) speeches?

Let's see how my google fu is today.

There's this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4672676.stm
which is a little bit different, as it's at the State of the Union, not a public speech. Just remember, our best and brightest men and women are over there fighting for your freedoms. So don't dishonor them by actually exercising any of those freedoms.

And it's not just in the US of A:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16752321/
Hey Fosters, what's Australian for brown shirts?

Ah...here we go:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20310306/

And this:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RU8eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VccEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2056,2962921

Remember, the Republicans want to protect your freedoms! That's why they want to take them away and hide them in an undisclosed location.

Weren't there arrests at several of Bush's (Jr) speeches?

Let's see how my google fu is today.

There's this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4672676.stm
which is a little bit different, as it's at the State of the Union, not a public speech. Just remember, our best and brightest men and women are over there fighting for your freedoms. So don't dishonor them by actually exercising any of those freedoms.

And it's not just in the US of A:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16752321/
Hey Fosters, what's Australian for brown shirts?

Ah...here we go:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20310306/

And this:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RU8eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VccEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2056,2962921

Remember, the Republicans want to protect your freedoms! That's why they want to take them away and hide them in an undisclosed location.

They are building a glass enclosure for the shuttle where the Concord now sits. It will be inside and climate controlled. You can see concept art at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42555086/ns/technology_and_science-space/

What I learned of the court system in Italy while watching a murder trial last year made me hope I never have to stand trial for a crime there.

LOL. I was just thinking of Italy because I just watched a Dateline NBC episode from last week that demonstrated how crappy their courts were. It was about a mother who was declared an unfit mother twice (both in the US and Italy), had kidnapped her child twice (in both the US and Italy...kidnapped him right out of the Italian courthouse), yet the Italian courts choose to leave this child with the mother. They eventually put him in an orphanage, but then let the mother (who they said is unfit) take him out of the orphanage daily, while the father gets 1 hour visitation per month. They rule that the father should get custody, but yet years later still refuse to grant him that custody. There's really too many things wrong with the story to list out, so check out the episode on their website:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032600/vp/42414682#42414682

Faith offers a lot of useless and harmful theories too and no easy way to differentiate between them and the useful ones.

Eg. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15616009/ns/us_news-life/

And the so called useful ones seem to be pretty obvious anyway(more like words from the wise) and don't require faith to 'believe' in.

You can get ESPN and MSNBC online. Do you not know what google is? Do you know how to search? A search for "watch MSNBC online" and "watch ESPN online" showed up in the first and/or first few results.

Granted, this probably won't run on linux due to codecs, but it will run otherwise.

Working overtime can kill you.

And what are these "doctor-supervised slimming regimens?" Gastric bypasses, which can kill you?

Obesity does have strong correlations to health problem

It would seem that there are other correlations for obesity as well - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42256829/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition. Perhaps the governor ought to get the religious to look after their own, or at least penalise those who overindulge in religion.

Yup. The Pope, for example.

You mean the one that had his chief astronomer discuss the positive potential for alien life not too long ago?

The sad part it what will really stop nuclear power dead is if this forces the PM to resign due to public pressure. The potential disruption of the political power structure are what the politicians are really going to be worried about.

You are way off the mark. If the earthquake hadn't happened, it's likely that he would have resigned already. Here's a relevant link. Basically, his approval rating's gone up after the earthquake, from 24% (2011-03-03) to 35.6% (2011-03-17). 24% is slightly lower than the approval rating at which it's believed that a cabinet is on the way out.

BTW, Japanese cabinets come and go. As you can see here, very few Prime Ministers stay in office for four years or longer.

Do not ignore those who are killed by no fault of their own. How many are killed in accidents caused by someone else?

Unfortunately, this is precisely the point. People are illogical. 600k die every year to heart disease and no one flinches, but it a one-time, ~3000 death event caused a massive response. 24k deaths each year can be attributed to coal power plants, but clearly it's nuclear power that's the major threat. After all, you never know when your local nuclear reactor might be hit by a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.

The problem is you're viewing those nuclear accidents out of context. Consider how many people die from the normal operation of coal-fired power plants. 24,000 lives a year shortened, 22,000 of those preventable. Looking at your list, the last time there was an incident that qualified as an "accident" on the scale was in 1999, at Tokaimura (Level 4). Two people died. In the time between that and the next "accident" (i.e. Fukushima), pollution due to coal has caused 288,000 premature deaths, just in the United States.

The real number is probably more, since this was before Bush's changes to environmental law. The report in question estimated 4,000 more deaths per year if the law went forward. Another way of looking at it is in deaths per terawatt-hour. By that metric, Nuclear is 0.04, Coal is 128, and Oil is 36.

The simple fact is coal kills more people than nuclear. Even if there are nuclear "accidents" (on the INES) every decade or so, there will still be a net decrease in loss of life if those nuclear plants replaced coal plants. Nuclear is not a perfect option, but it's our best alternative to coal for the kind of large scale power generation our system currently needs.

While it doesn't change the point of your post, I believe you have the reason they are protesting the funerals wrong. And I also believe it goes against your point considering they have signs that read "God Hates You" which kind of makes me think they do hate. Of course we could be talking about different "crazy Baptist groups" after all; who knows how many of them are out there.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9102443/ns/us_news-life/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Supreme_Court/supreme-court-westboro-protests-military-funerals/story?id=13037219

Now I hate that I have even given them attention in this discussion...

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2006/05/fightclub, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13037439/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/, http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-05-29-fight-club_x.htm.

Why would they shut them down? Ask Ralph De La Vega over at AT&T:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42195939/ns/business-us_business/

According to Ralph De La Vega, head of consumer and wireless services, the plan is in fact for t-mobile customers to 'upgrade' :
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42195939/ns/business-us_business/

Wouldn't the same thing apply to these other services? I think we should use the official data as a metric given that we're not sure whether we can trust one service above the others.

Also, I've read interviews from employees at Facebook that say they try to cull duplicate accounts from the statistics they release. Plus, over half of Americans now use Facebook, so I don't think that 600 million is a bad estimate when one considers their international audience.

Yet another poster that didn't bother to do an iota of research beyond the article. They use oscillating fields which separate the flame from the fuel and used no more than 40 kV (that's makes for a rather small current at 600 W): http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/28/6362578-fight-fire-with-a-magic-wand

You're wrong, as they only used 40 kV for a 50 cm flame, and the mode of operation is the reverse of what you suggested, that is, it removes the flame from the fuel (not to mention that they use time-varying electric fields which is different from what you're talking about): http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/28/6362578-fight-fire-with-a-magic-wand

Pro tip: next time do some research before posting.

I suggest you read this then.

Health problems linked to aging coal-fired power plants shorten nearly 24,000 lives a year, including 2,800 from lung cancer

Yeah, coal is clearly better than nuclear! 1 case caused of a few thousand deaths is clearly worse than 2800 cases of lung cancer a year! Great logical argument there, bro!

Can we just round up all the anti-nuke nuts and just shot them into the Sun, please? The funny thing is that in many cases THEY are the cause for why these plants are unsafe because they can't be upgraded due to all sorts of red tape that these idiots impose.

I can't say who may have previously worked for the Democrat Party, but MSNBC did a story on political contributions from journalists to political parties/campaigns. Summary was that of the total 143 journalists:

125 (87.4%) gave to Democrats,
16 (11.2%) gave to Republicans and
2 ((1.4%) gave to both parties.

Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113455/ns/politics/

That's a ratio of 8 to 1 voting with hard earned cash in the Democrat's favor.

This article lends credence to the idea. Don't have a ready citation for the idea that drunk driving is something government needs, though.

If you're too lazy to click, Dallas, TX decided that the cameras at red lights were doing too good a job of reducing infractions and were cutting into their funding, so they got rid of them. The cops would have you believe that the purpose of the cameras was to increase safety, but their behavior clearly shows that the primary motive was cash.

It could be argued that this is the result of "running government like a business".

The lesson: If everyone stopped breaking the law, cops might have to do an honest day's work. :D

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Police say a man tried to open an account before robbing a central Pennsylvania bank, but only after he'd already handed over two forms of identification.

Harrisburg police say 35-year-old Daniel Rahynes walked into a bank on Sunday and told tellers he was interested in opening an account. After he gave bank employees his information, he declared that he was actually there to rob the bank.

full article

I have the right to remain silent, how are they going to identify me by my voice?

Probably around the same time you inform them that you intend to exercise that right:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37448356/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

It totally sucks. My bill will go up about 30% and the Nexus S I bought JUST LAST WEEK will apparently be useless:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42195939/ns/business-us_business/

Not only that, I can't switch to any other provider with my phone because nobody else in the US is GSM.

Except the tax breaks aren't for families; married couples without children are eligible for them too.

Actually, the deliberate tax break is for having children. More dependents -> less tax.

The tax break you're talking about is entirely unintentional. It comes from two people combining their incomes to file jointly. It used to be that if one partner made a lot and the other little (as was typical in most marriages back in the 1960s when this was first addressed), filing jointly would offer a tax benefit. Someone who used to be in a high tax bracket could get married and file as if he were two people in lower tax brackets.

As a result, Congress tweaked the tax rates for filing jointly to try to equalize this. That worked fine for a while, until more and more women started working. With a greater number of two-income families, filing jointly then resulted in a tax penalty for most couples. So Congress tweaked it again to try try to equalize it. As of 2009, about 51% of joint filters got a tax break averaging $1300, while 42% paid a tax penalty averaging $1380. So we're not exactly talking about huge amounts here.

That makes it an issue of fairness, not greed.

It has nothing to do with fairness or greed. All it is is a mathematical artifact of trying to manually best fit a curve with one degree of freedom to a curve with two degrees of freedom which is changing over time. It can't be fit perfectly, so the best you can do is make sure the averages match. If Congress is doing its job and manually tweaking it right, there is on average no benefit nor penalty.

During all of this, I've noticed the slashdot community seems to lean in favor of nuclear power. Not individuals, but the community as a whole - based on the comments that get highest moderation. This is in spite of the fact that the situation there is a total unmitigated disaster. One person held it up as a case in FAVOR of nuclear power, basically saying - look, even with the natural disasters they only released a little radioactive steam. That's just plain ignorant. The building have exploded, 3 reactors are thought have had partial meltdowns (one of them breached), the simple cooling ponds are in trouble (if they were full of water, someone could just walk in there and confirm it - the fact nobody has says the radiation levels are too high to go in because something is wrong), radiation is more than 10 times background 30km away. And regardless of weather you buy all those facts, it is requiring a HUGE effort of man power to prevent it getting worse and there is no solid plan. I did read they're importing 150 tons of boron to dump on it - because well, you need to do that when there is a little steam leak I suppose...

2,000 people will die this year because of malfunctioning nuclear power plants in Japan. We clearly need to replace them with something else.

Oh wait, I mispoke. It's not 2,000, but over 20,000. And it's not malfunctioning plants, but plants operating as designed. And not in Japan, but in the US. And not nuclear power plants, but coal power plants.

Yes, that's right, this year, nearly 24,000 people will die in the US alone because of perfectly normal coal power plants[*]. That's roughly 15 people per coal power plant, per year, or about 60 people killed by coal power in the US per day.

Perhaps that's why we're not so willing to dismiss nuclear power just because some plant hit by an earthquake and tsunami has suffered a partial meltdown and killed (so far) what appears to be two people (officially, they are missing, but we'll assume dead). While in the US, over 500 people have died since the earthquake due to coal power.

MSN does. It will send emoticons embedded into messages.

We knew all about this last year. It was on the front page of every paper and the lead story on the TV news. Unless the emails in question were written after October 2010, is there anything new?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39575033/ns/business-real_estate/

I think you would call the actual CONTENT being available now, "new".

And your link had exactly ZERO to do with the release of these docs. Good Job.

-AI

What did I say about race? I talked about US vs. Japanese culture.

Consider:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9231926/ns/nightly_news-nbc_news_investigates/
"Some 200 New Orleans school buses sit underwater in a parking lot, unused. That's enough to have evacuated at least 13,000 people. Why werenâ(TM)t those buses sent street by street to pick up people before the storm? ... One huge bottleneck in the evacuation â" the New Orleans airport. Officials say flights were delayed while screeners and air marshals were flown in to comply with post-9/11 security requirements, and then further delayed because screening machines werenâ(TM)t working. ..."

The AC post can be seen as another example of US cultural problems. Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign for making a speech that ironically included mentioning how racism was being created by elite-pushed policies in the USA for centuries to cause poor blacks and poor whites to be at each other's throats to keep them all divided and powerless:
    http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0722/Shirley-Sherrod-debacle-why-Obama-stumbles-on-race
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9NcCa_KjXk

See also:
    http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncomrev24.html
"How skillful to tax the middle class to pay for the relief of the poor, building resentment on top of humiliation! How adroit to bus poor black youngsters into poor white neighborhoods, in a violent exchange of impoverished schools, while the schools of the rich remain untouched and the wealth of the nation, doled out carefully where children need free milk, is drained for billion-dollar aircraft carriers. How ingenious to meet the demands of blacks and women for equality by giving them small special benefits, and setting them in competition with everyone else for jobs made scarce by an irrational, wasteful system. How wise to turn the fear and anger of the majority toward a class of criminals bred-by economic inequity-faster than they can be put away, deflecting attention from the huge thefts of national resources carried out within the law by men in executive offices."

That said, Japanese people can be pretty xenophobic, which is why they are creating a lot of elder care robots instead of importing "guest workers" from other countries like Western Europe or the USA.
  http://www.jref.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-7650.html
  http://www.globalaging.org/elderrights/world/2004/japaninvention.htm

So, soon Japanese-designed household and nursing robots are going to take a lot more low paid jobs in the USA... A Japanese anime about that complex issue:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roujin_Z

We knew all about this last year. It was on the front page of every paper and the lead story on the TV news. Unless the emails in question were written after October 2010, is there anything new?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39575033/ns/business-real_estate/

As I noted earlier, the examples you cite have nothing like the capabilities of the manned part of Apollo. The key factor is simply that they don't return anything from the Moon. I think my original estimate still holds.

As to your claim about sending people to the Moon "safely", A few hundred billion dollars wouldn't buy safety. It's fundamentally unserious. The key factor is frequency of lunar excursions and at that price, you simply can't do it very often.

Further, I disagree that Apollo supports your contention of higher cost. The Apollo program, for example, cost well over $100 billion (perhaps $120-150 billion), but it was very expensive because of the rushed effort. While you claim a safer effort would be several times more expensive, I see no indication that Apollo's acceptance of higher risk saved it any money.

I can't help but notice that there are plans for a manned trip around the Moon which goes for somewhere over, but not a lot over, $100 million in 2004 dollars. It's not landing people on the Moon, but it is worth noting that Apollo spent several billion doing the same thing with Apollo 8.

In my view, something very similar to a manned Apollo ("lunar sortie") mission could be put up with 4 Falcon 9 launches, only one which needs be crewed. Put up a booster stage, lunar landing module, fuel, and crewed module with its own booster. Assemble in LEO. I'll have to do the math to see if it's viable with 100 tons of cargo space on the Falcon 9 or not (I'd probably use kerosene/LOX for propellant on the booster stages which has rather weak ISP and hence, high mass fraction).

No idea how much it'd cost to develop, but launch costs to put that in orbit would probably be under half a billion dollars. That right there is a significant drop in cost over Apollo. And we have partial development toward useful vehicles and infrastructure.

You still here? If you questioned the leadership as much as you question me, would any of us be in the situation we find ourselves?
Photo and data manipulation by experts is far more subtler than my blatant attempts. I showed you this photo rather than this one.
Why is it that day after day, hour by hour, the American people were shown this yet not much of the Pentagram other than this, even though many video tapes were seized. What are people hiding?
People are more interested in two train wrecks like Charlie and LiLo and yet, two other train wrecks like this and this here have greater impact on American policy.
Politicians elected to office by 51% of the vote consider it a mandate, so what does this article say about the pissed off American voter? Politicians in office for more than two terms do not care about their constituents, this is my opinion. Two states and possibly three have decided to go back on their contract agreements. Considering how the American people were left with a bag of worms when Wall Street and the banksters tanked the economy and the politicians used taxpayer money to bail them out so the Wallstreeters and banksters could continue with their obscene bonuses, is it possible that the repercussions in Bell, California could escalate across the country all the way to Washington DC, I wonder?
When the Europeans arrived in North, Central and South America, they first de-stabilized the indigenous people and then decimated them. Just ask any Native American Indian what they think of US government agreements. Now, the American people are being de-stabilized, what next?
It's really been fun debating this with you, but I must move on. So long and thanks for all the fish.

The fail is that a scientist went out and said he is "100% sure life exists on this planet".

Really? Who said the scientists said that?

You should stop reading news from that outlet immediately, because it's bullshit that makes the Weekly World News headlines like "Space Whelk Poised to Consume Earth" and "Woman's Varicose Veins used as Treasure Map" seem like responsible journalism.

Though none of these sources are really heavily scientific, they don't dumb "planet found with Earth-like dimensions that's probably in a temperate zone between the freezing and boiling point of water" to "scientist claims 100% knowledge that life exists on a specific exoplanet". You might want to consider them as at least superior news sources to whatever you are currently using.

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/02/practical-and-religious-implic.html

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/19/6087627-planet-probe-spots-hot-prospects

Of course, you're also ignoring the fact that Mt Saint Helens put more CO2 into the atmosphere than all of mankind before that point, so we really aren't making that big of a dent.

CHECK THE FACTS befor posting bullshit. Human activities generate 150 times as much CO2 as volcanos.

And the path that they were taking earlier was going to be super successful right?

Why do you trolls have to phrase it as an either/or situation? Windows Phone 7 is a flop and Nokia hitched their wagon to it. There were other options.

Like HP, Dell, Asus, Acer, Sony ?

Yeah, their Windows lap dogs are doing reasonably well fighting over the scraps.

Umm, if Android was chosen, won't Nokia be fighting for the 'scraps' with Motorola, HTC, Samsung, Sony, etc. as you put it? Be consistent!

Atleast MS was offering them a better deal because it's a nascent platform, Google's wouldn't even care much at this point. And I thought Goldman Sachs analysts were riled on here? Unless it's to suit you I guess. Anyway, Nokia jumping on might make it

And the path that they were taking earlier was going to be super successful right?

Why do you trolls have to phrase it as an either/or situation? Windows Phone 7 is a flop and Nokia hitched their wagon to it. There were other options.

Like HP, Dell, Asus, Acer, Sony ?

Yeah, their Windows lap dogs are doing reasonably well fighting over the scraps.

Every single Democrat and some of the garbage science behind Global Warming.

"Some of" the garbage science -- I suppose this is in contravention to the "good" AGW science that everyone accepts for the purpose of your argument. Nice way of embedding the walk-back into the assertion, there.

Give it a break, the Republicans are the same people that have now re-established styrofoam in the congress cafeteria because that's just how passionate they are about denying that anything is wrong with the environment. Biodegradable containers and utensils were just too hippie-dippie. The article's exactly right, the science is irrelevant, it's become a cultural issue. Libertarians decided that the government taxing your carbon was an encroachment on their freedom, and social conservatives hate how the french fry boxes aren't as stiff as the old ones, therefore pollution doesn't exist. QED.

Every single Democrat and every single fact that they deem offensive(Any race/gender based statistic that doesn't show complete equality or blame white people for the problems).

That's not really a scientific position, it's a social one, even if your characterization were fair. Neither blaming white people nor blaming black people is a testable hypothesis, both embed a belief in certain kinds of social justice.

Almost every single Democrat and any garbage Science which at the moment is popular (eugenics before WW2, vaccines and autism today).

I could probably find a list of Republicans a mile long that drank Thorium water for their health, practiced Fletcherism, and murdered indians. I could probably also generate a long list of Democrats that were neither eugenicist, nor today accept the Jim Carrey line on vaccines. You really can't hold people responsible for things their great-grandparent's generation believed, and even if you examine them at the time, there's very little ideologically that binds people back then -- usually they believed in whatever (1) allowed them to make the most money, and (2) allowed their town to stay the same. Same applies now; the ideology and rationale are just a tool used to produce outcomes (1) and (2), by both sides.

But Republicans more :) .

So, because there's another mp3 player that is cheaper, the iPod is overpriced?

that's faulty logic, we need a car analogy.

Hyundai Accent is $10,000, does that mean the Civic, Camry and Cruze are all overpriced? They're all cars and they all come with 4-cylinder engines, what's the difference, right? Yet the Camry is the best selling car in America despite costing almost double what the Accent does.

So, because there's another mp3 player that is cheaper, the iPod is overpriced?

that's faulty logic, we need a car analogy.

Hyundai Accent is $10,000, does that mean the Civic, Camry and Cruze are all overpriced? They're all cars and they all come with 4-cylinder engines, what's the difference, right? Yet the Camry is the best selling car in America despite costing almost double what the Accent does.

So, because there's another mp3 player that is cheaper, the iPod is overpriced?

that's faulty logic, we need a car analogy.

Hyundai Accent is $10,000, does that mean the Civic, Camry and Cruze are all overpriced? They're all cars and they all come with 4-cylinder engines, what's the difference, right? Yet the Camry is the best selling car in America despite costing almost double what the Accent does.

So, because there's another mp3 player that is cheaper, the iPod is overpriced?

that's faulty logic, we need a car analogy.

Hyundai Accent is $10,000, does that mean the Civic, Camry and Cruze are all overpriced? They're all cars and they all come with 4-cylinder engines, what's the difference, right? Yet the Camry is the best selling car in America despite costing almost double what the Accent does.