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According to Reuters, Apple surpassed Android in marketshare by the end of 2011, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. 150 Android smartphones couldn't beat the iPhone 4S. With 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market. Apple’s profits ($13 billion) exceeded Google’s entire revenue ($10.6 billion).

Who cares? Well, in January 2011, Slashdot triumphantly reported that Android surpassed iOS in marketshare. All year, Android fans cited Android's marketshare as proof that it was taking over the smartphone industry, that the lack of centralized control was superior to the "walled garden", and that Android was "winning".

So what happened when the opposite occurred and Apple reversed Android's marketshare lead by the end of the year? Despite multiple submissions from several users, and news coverage ranging from Arstechnica to CNN, Slashdot refused to publish the story. All the sudden, it wasn't considered newsworthy despite the publication of the other story a year earlier.

This is a Linux advocacy site whose initial userbase was driven by hatred of Windows marketshare. Marketshare is still highly fetishized around here. Anything negative about the marketshare of Linux, or platforms based on Linux, gets killed. Slashdot is intentionally not providing you full tech news coverage because it caters to a specific demographic of emotionally-invested users who are more likely to generate repeat page views.

Aerospace has much better QA procedures than heart surgeons. Many surgeons don't even use basic checklists despite being proven successful at reducing errors, because they are the well-paid masters and don't what any peon correcting them.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/14/us-surgical-checklists-idUSTRE70D33920110114

When the malpractice insurers start enforcing this with detective-techniques and legal subpoenas it will change.

Apple sold 37 million iPhones last quarter passing up Samsung. But... Samsung (one of many Android smartphone makers) sold close to an estimated 36.5 million phones last quarter as well.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/27/us-samsung-idUSTRE80P1KY20120127

I like how you selectively pick "IOS" devices. You are moving the goal posts and interchanging IOS, iPhone, iPad, and "smartphones" selectively and non consistently to cherry pick specific statistics that conforms to your rant. Your claim of iPhones are selling more than Android "smartphones" is 100% FALSE. More Android Smartphones were sold all of last year and every quarter then iPhones. Android does not have any thing close to IOS sales in the tablet field. SO yes.. IOS devices outsell Android devices but that has no relevance to your rant of IOS smartphones compared to the Android smartphones.

According to Reuters, Apple surpassed Android in marketshare by the end of 2011, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. 150 Android smartphones couldn't beat the iPhone 4S. With 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market. Apple’s profits ($13 billion) exceeded Google’s entire revenue ($10.6 billion).

Who cares? Well, in January 2011, Slashdot triumphantly reported that Android surpassed iOS in marketshare. All year, Android fans cited Android's marketshare as proof that it was taking over the smartphone industry, that the lack of centralized control was superior to the "walled garden", and that Android was "winning".

So what happened when the opposite occurred and Apple reversed Android's marketshare lead by the end of the year? Despite multiple submissions from several users, and news coverage ranging from Arstechnica to CNN, Slashdot refused to publish the story. All the sudden, it wasn't considered newsworthy despite the publication of the other story a year earlier.

This is a Linux advocacy site whose initial userbase was driven by hatred of Windows marketshare. Marketshare is still highly fetishized around here. Anything negative about the marketshare of Linux, or platforms based on Linux, gets killed. Slashdot is intentionally not providing you full tech news coverage because it caters to a specific demographic of emotionally-invested users who are more likely to generate repeat page views.

Slashdot refuses to report a story.

According to Reuters, Apple surpassed Android in marketshare by the end of 2011, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. 150 Android smartphones couldn't beat the iPhone 4S. With 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market. Apple’s profits ($13 billion) exceeded Google’s entire revenue ($10.6 billion).

Who cares? Well, in January 2011, Slashdot triumphantly reported that Android surpassed iOS in marketshare. All year, Android fans cited Android's marketshare as proof that it was taking over the smartphone industry, that the lack of centralized control was superior to the "walled garden", and that Android was "winning".

So what happened when the opposite occurred and Apple reversed Android's marketshare lead by the end of the year? Despite multiple submissions from several users, and news coverage ranging from Arstechnica to CNN, Slashdot refused to publish the story. All the sudden, it wasn't considered newsworthy despite the publication of the other story a year earlier.

This is a Linux advocacy site whose initial userbase was driven by hatred of Windows marketshare. Marketshare is still highly fetishized around here. Anything negative about the marketshare of Linux, or platforms based on Linux, gets killed. Slashdot is intentionally not providing you full tech news coverage because it caters to a specific demographic of emotionally-invested users who are more likely to generate repeat page views.

Original story here, comment is the one dated 2011-09-01 at 14:55:

I also hate to break the news to you, the network won’t become better with the merger, it will get a lot worse before it could ever get better. That is because you are going to try and add spectrum to the issue when the reality is that this about backhaul, engineering philosophy, optimization techniques and know how. If ATT cannot make what they have work, getting another overlaying network will only complicate things, let alone the mix of billing, back end and multiple vendors.

Slashdot refuses to report a story.

According to Reuters, Apple surpassed Android in marketshare by the end of 2011, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. 150 Android smartphones couldn't beat the iPhone 4S. With 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market. Apple’s profits ($13 billion) exceeded Google’s entire revenue ($10.6 billion).

Who cares? Well, in January 2011, Slashdot triumphantly reported that Android surpassed iOS in marketshare. All year, Android fans cited Android's marketshare as proof that it was taking over the smartphone industry, that the lack of centralized control was superior to the "walled garden", and that Android was "winning".

So what happened when the opposite occurred and Apple reversed Android's marketshare lead by the end of the year? Despite multiple submissions from several users, and news coverage ranging from Arstechnica to CNN, Slashdot refused to publish the story. All the sudden, it wasn't considered newsworthy despite the publication of the other story a year earlier.

This is a Linux advocacy site whose initial userbase was driven by hatred of Windows marketshare. Marketshare is still highly fetishized around here. Anything negative about the marketshare of Linux, or platforms based on Linux, gets killed. Slashdot is intentionally not providing you full tech news coverage because it caters to a specific demographic of emotionally-invested users who are more likely to generate repeat page views.

Moderators, this is off-topic. Slashdot refuses to report a story.

According to Reuters, Apple surpassed Android in marketshare by the end of 2011, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. 150 Android smartphones couldn't beat the iPhone 4S. With 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

Who cares? Well, in January 2011, Slashdot triumphantly reported that Android surpassed iOS in marketshare. All year, Android fans cited Android's marketshare as proof that it was taking over the smartphone industry, that the lack of centralized control was superior to the "walled garden", and that Android was "winning".

So what happened when the opposite occurred and Apple reversed Android's marketshare lead by the end of the year? Despite multiple submissions from several users, and news coverage ranging from Arstechnica to CNN, Slashdot refused to publish the story. All the sudden, it wasn't considered newsworthy despite the publication of the other story a year earlier.

This is a Linux advocacy site whose initial userbase was driven by hatred of Windows marketshare. Marketshare is still highly fetishized around here. Anything negative about the marketshare of Linux or platforms based on Linux, gets killed. Slashdot is intentionally not providing you full tech news coverage because it caters to a specific demographic of emotionally-invested users who are more likely to generate repeat page views.

Slashdot refuses to report a story.

According to Reuters, Apple surpassed Android in marketshare by the end of 2011, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. 150 Android smartphones couldn't beat the iPhone 4S, and with 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

Who cares? Well, when 2011 started, Slashdot triumphantly reported that Android surpassed iOS in marketshare. In fact, Android fans on Slashdot constantly cited Android's marketshare as proof that it was taking over the industry, that openness was superior to the "walled garden", and that Android was "winning". Marketshare is still fetishized around here and considered a sign of victory.

So, what happens when the opposite happens and Apple erases Android's marketshare lead by the end of the year? Despite multiple submissions from several users, and news coverage ranging from Arstechnica to CNN, Slashdot refuses to publish the story.

This is a Linux advocacy site whose early userbase was driven by hatred of Windows marketshare. Anything negative about the marketshare of Linux or platforms based on Linux, gets killed. Slashdot is intentionally not providing you full tech news coverage because it wants to cater to a specific demographic of emotionally-invested users who are more likely to generate repeat page views.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S. With 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, Apple is the largest smartphone marker, and their profits exceed Google’s entire revenue, $13 billion to $10.6 billion. Finally, with 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

Remember that Slashdot triumphantly posted in January 2011 about Android surpassing iOS in marketshare. A year later when the opposite happens? Not a peep...talk about bias.

It's official--iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S. With 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, Apple is the largest smartphone marker, and their profits exceed Google’s entire revenue, $13 billion to $10.6 billion. Finally, with 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

Remember that Slashdot triumphantly posted in January 2011 about Android surpassing iOS in marketshare. A year later when the opposite happens? Not a peep. Talk about bias.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S. With 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, Apple is the largest smartphone marker, and their profits exceed Google’s entire revenue, $13 billion to $10.6 billion. Finally, with 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

Remember that Slashdot triumphantly posted in January 2011 about Android surpassing iOS in marketshare. A year later when the opposite happens? Not a peep. Talk about bias.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S. With 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, Apple is the largest smartphone marker, and their profits exceed Google’s entire revenue, $13 billion to $10.6 billion. Finally, with 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

Remember that Slashdot triumphantly posted in January 2011 about Android surpassing iOS in marketshare. A year later when the opposite happens? Not a peep. Talk about bias.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S. With 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, Apple is the largest smartphone marker, and their profits exceed Google’s entire revenue, $13 billion to $10.6 billion. Finally, with 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

Remember that Slashdot triumphantly posted in January 2011 about Android surpassing iOS in marketshare. A year later when the opposite happens? Not a peep. Talk about bias.

No, the court decision may have been 9-0, but there was a division in the court. The conservative portion (5 justices) said that attaching something to the vehicle involved trespassing on private property.

They left the door wide open as to whether they can track you in other ways. Like your phone location records that currently the government does not need warrants to get. Or automated cameras with license plate reading technology. Or automated toll plazas on the highway.

Total information awareness, Carnivore, what ever your want to call it. The government is tracking many, many US citizens with zero judicial over site, for extended periods of time, if not indefinitely. Various agencies in the US government are tracking as many people as their technical and financial capabilities allow, with zero judicial over site.

From a Reuters article here

Alito said in recent years many new devices have emerged that track a person's movements, including video surveillance in some cities, automatic toll collection systems on roads, devices on cars that disclose their location, cell phones and other wireless devices.

"The availability and use of these and other new devices will continue to shape the average person's expectations about the privacy of his or her daily movements," he wrote.

What he is implicitly saying there is that the US citizen needs to get comfortable with the fact that the US government is going to track everyone. They just can't be totally blatant about it.

There are plenty more people in post-Gaddafi "liberated" Libya who would fancy this guy dead.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S. With 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, Apple is the largest smartphone marker, and their profits exceed Google’s entire revenue, $13 billion to $10.6 billion. Finally, with 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

Remember that Slashdot triumphantly posted in January 2011 about Android surpassing iOS in marketshare. A year later when the opposite happens? Not a peep. Talk about bias.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S. With 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, Apple is the largest smartphone marker, and their profits exceed Google’s entire revenue, $13 billion to $10.6 billion. Finally, with 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

Remember that Slashdot triumphantly posted in January 2011 about Android surpassing iOS in marketshare. A year later when the opposite happens? Not a peep. Talk about bias.

The clock is ticking, Fandroids.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S. With 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, Apple is the largest smartphone marker, and their profits exceed Google’s entire revenue, $13 billion to $10.6 billion. Finally, with 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

The clock is ticking, Fandroids.

Funny that you mention the f word, after the expected RETURN of Apples marketshare lead has been comented as a "complete erase". Note: Apples marketshare accoring to the quoted market researchers is 44.9 versus googles 44.8. Wow. Beaten into the ground eh? And then.. 10.6 isnt Googles entire revenue. It s their profit. http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html With all that said. Even if Apple had a marketshare of 70 or 80 percent or more on smartphones (NOT:all mobile phones): thats totally not a reason to buy their product. It would be a reason to worry bout market domination though. But besides that, for many people there are other more valid reason to decide for another phone.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S. With 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, Apple is the largest smartphone marker, and their profits exceed Google’s entire revenue, $13 billion to $10.6 billion. Finally, with 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

The clock is ticking, Fandroids.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S. With 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, Apple is the largest smartphone marker, and their profits exceed Google’s entire revenue, $13 billion to $10.6 billion. Finally, with 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

The clock is ticking, Fandroids.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S. With 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, Apple is the largest smartphone marker, and their profits exceed Google’s entire revenue, $13 billion to $10.6 billion. Finally, with 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

The clock is ticking, Fandroids.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S. With 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, Apple is the largest smartphone marker, and their profits exceed Google’s entire revenue, $13 billion to $10.6 billion. With 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

The clock is ticking, Fandroids.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S. With 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, Apple is the largest smartphone marker, and their profits exceed Google’s entire revenue, $13 billion to $10.6 billion. With 15 million iPads sold last quarter, the tablet market is now larger than the entire desktop PC market.

The clock is ticking, Fandroids.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S.

The clock is ticking, Fandroids.

In what world does a platform need to control dominant (or complete) market share to be a success? Oh, that's right, in the pathetic little walled garden world of the iphone dweeb. Clearly, if the iPlatform sells more devices that makes it the "winner" of life and all of the "losers" can pack it up, right? I will take my fragmented, constantly charging iphone knock off with pleasure if it means I can avoid thinking like you, EVEN IF the last software update ever made for it is '2.7.3'.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple completely erased Android's marketshare lead, confirming earlier reports by both Nielsen and NPD. Over 150 Android smartphones couldn't outcompete the iPhone 4S.

The clock is ticking, Fandroids.

It's official: iOS now has more marketshare than Android. Reuters reports that Apple now has more marketshare than Android, confirming earlier reports by both Neilsen and NPD.

The clock is ticking, Fandroids.

Samsung Q4 smartphone sales: 35 million (forecast)
Apple Q4 iphone sales: 37 million (actual)

The iPhone is outselling all models of Samsung's smartphones combined.

Only Apple as far as I know has started moving any production (the A5 chip) back into the U.S.

No, that would be Samsung that's doing that. And I don't know if you've noticed, but Apple and Samsung haven't been getting along that well recently. (Something about Apple thinking they own the rights to rounded corners in electronics or something.) It's unclear whether or not the A5 will continue to be manufactured by Samsung at all, let alone in Texas.

As part of a crackdown on tax evasion, cash transactions of more than 1,000 euros will be banned...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/04/italy-idUSL5E7N40CB20111204

Scary stuff going on in europe.

According the TSA, Paul was not detained at the checkpoint by the TSA, but was not allowed to proceed into the secure area because he refused the pat-down required by TSA procedure, and was escorted out of the checkpoint by police. He subsequently rebooked on a different flight and was rescreened without incident. This seems to be covered in most of the news stories on the incident (
CNN, MSNBC, Reuters.)

"Low vitamin D linked to heart disease, death"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/26/us-vitamind-heartdisease-idUSTRE7AO1UM20111126
""We expected to see that there was a relationship between heart disease and vitamin D deficiency; we were surprised at how strong it was," Dr. James L. Vacek, a professor of cardiology at the University of Kansas Hospital and Medical Center, told Reuters Health. "It was so much more profound than we expected." ... After taking into account the patients' medical history, medications and other factors, the cardiologists found that people with deficient levels of vitamin D were more than twice as likely to have diabetes, 40 percent more likely to have high blood pressure and about 30 percent more likely to suffer from cardiomyopathy -- a diseased heart muscle -- as people without D deficiency."

http://www.livestrong.com/article/440011-can-low-potassium-cause-an-irregular-heartbeat/
"A potassium deficiency, or hypokalemia, is an electrolyte imbalance that may cause heart arrhythmias. ... Reviewing your dietary intake may reveal a potassium deficiency. Foods that contain high concentrations of potassium include all meats, fruits, vegetables, legumes and dairy products. High-sodium foods that lower potassium stores include processed, prepackaged foods such as soups, prepared pizza, Mexican food, frozen meals, sodas, potato chips and restaurant meals. ..."

http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/NHC/irregular_heartbeat/cellular_solutions.htm
"Conventional medicine has invented its own diagnostic term to cover the fact that it does not know the origin of most arrhythmias. âoeParoxysmal arrhythmiaâ means nothing other than âoecauses unknown.â As a direct consequence, the therapeutic options of conventional medicine are confined to treating the symptoms of irregular heartbeat. Beta-blockers, calcium antagonists and other anti-arrhythmic drugs are given to patients in the hope that they will decrease the incidence of irregular heartbeat.
However, the most frequent known side effect of these drugs is an increased risk for new arrhythmias! Slow forms of arrhythmias with long pauses between heartbeats are dealt with by implanting a pacemaker. In other cases, heart muscle tissue that creates or conducts uncoordinated electrical impulses is cauterized (burned) and eliminated as a focus of the electrical disturbance in the heart muscle. Without an understanding of the primary cause of irregular heartbeat, the therapeutic approaches by conventional medicine are not specific and frequently fail.
Modern Cellular Medicine now provides the breakthrough in our understanding of the causes, prevention and adjunct treatnent of irregular heartbeat. The most frequent cause of irregular heartbeat is a chronic deficiency of vitamins and other essential nutrients in millions of âoeelectricalâ heart muscle cells that generate and conduct the electrical impulse responsible for a normal heartbeat. Long-term deficiencies of essential nutrients in these cells cause or aggravate disturbances in the creation or conduction of the electrical impulses and trigger arrhythmias. The primary method for preventing and correcting irregular heartbeat is an optimum supply of specific vitamins and other cellular nutrients.
Scientific research and clinical studies have already documented the value of magnesium, carnitine, coenzyme Q-10 and other important components of my Cellular Health recommendations in helping to normalize different forms of irregular heartbeat and improve the quality of life for patients.
A Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Study Confirms Vitamins and

Your argument, and the argument the article makes, held more weight before we found out the A5 was being manufactured in Texas...

They'll still end up bankrupt if they can't do any better than this.

Don't worry, they're doing okay.

IPCC had *a lot* of criticism because in one of their reports (not the summary report but the WG II report) they erroneously reported that most of the Netherlands would be under water.
It's more accurate to say that only a quarter of the Netherlands would be under water, and half at risk of flooding whenever there's bad weather (that's often). The rich, densely populated western half.
Report: http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/02/13/us-climate-seas-idUSTRE61C1V420100213
Primary source about their own mistake: http://www.pbl.nl/en/news/pressreleases/2010/20100705-Key-findings-of-IPCC-on-regional-climate-change-impacts-overall-considered-well-founded

And this is somehow different now than say, in the 60's or 70's or 80's why?

What is occurring today is part of the same trend that started back then. When I mentioned consumers rewarding/punishing those early adopters of off-shoring I was referring to the above time frame, not something more contemporary.

Consumers have always, and will always, want the highest quality good at the lowest price.

Correction, "cost" not "price". The problem is that consumers do not consider the true cost, a classic example of tragedy of the commons. This can change. As demonstrated by the increased awareness of external costs related to the environment. Consumers have show a preference for green products and suppliers have moved to meet this preference. Similarly consumers could show a preference for domestic production.

There are other factors at play besides consumer desire that have encouraged the erosion of certain US manufacturing jobs. One factor is that China is now a much more attractive place to set up a factory than it was 30 years ago. Another factor are all the 'free trade' agreements that happened in the 90's. Prior to the 90's we had tariffs in place to help protect American jobs from overseas low wages. Now we have no tariffs. And then there are policies that led to actually giving various tax breaks for overseas profits, despite being headquartered in the US. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/21/us-usa-tax-wyden-idUSTRE78K1YB20110921

All that is largely irrelevant. Consumer preferences and buying decisions trump all that. As I said before, the decision by the consumer to purchase the lowest priced good regardless of all other considerations is primary. Everything you mention is secondary.

2) Huge amounts of resources spent (about half of all healthcare spending) on dragging out the process of dying for people who are, one way or another, going to die soon anyway. Most of them are geriatric patients with incurable progressive conditions: metastatic cancer, congestive heart disease, Alzheimer's, etc.

Better lifestyle practices will give us longer, healthier, and for many of us happier lives. They won't make us invulnerable nor immortal. They won't keep our families from bankrupting themseves trying to add one more week of misery in ICU when our time comes.

Precisely. The biggest reason we spend twice as much as other countries on healthcare, yet find ourselves in the company of some third-world countries in outcomes, is that we blow horrible amounts of cash on unnecessary (read CYA for lawsuits) tests and ignorant "futile care" that tortures the dying in order to extend their lives a few months. More here: http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/read/nexus/

Old news is even denied by Samsung.

Israel has a very developed a very advanced cyberwarfare infrastructure, capable of both defensive and offensive attacks. And it's widely believed that they're the ones behind Stuxnet and other attempts at sabotaging Iran's nuclear program.

And that's just what they do in cyberspace. You get a LOT worse treatment from them if you happen to be an Iranian nuclear scientist.

Rest assured that Israel dishes it out at least as well as they get it. They're hardly innocent babes in the woods.

Bain shuns spotlight as Romney takes the heat

Look what I just found on pastebin, not much innovation there, just a bog standard Windows network, no wonder that company is in the toilet.

Google 'bain.and.company site:pastebin.com`

The linked article allows the interpretation that the subsidy is "scheduled to end" simply because Congress didn't get around to renewing it yet. But the Sentate voted 73-27 to eliminate the subsidy early last year. The Senate can't make laws unilaterally, but that's a pretty clear sign of significant active opposition to the subsidy. Now that the subsidy would have to be actively extended, reversing a 73-27 vote through lobbying seems like a very high hurdle.

That's a nice story except it's not true. If that were the case then how do you explain the fact that crime is still dropping despite cutting back on stiff sentences and releasing criminals for budgetary reasons?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/01/07/us-usa-crime-idUSTRE60613K20100107

I've said it here before and I've noticed it too... Iran seems to be in the news a lot. It appears to be a thinly disguised rationale for an invasion. Keep in mind in the last year or so we've had "Iranian" agents attempt to assassinate someone on American soil and the continual talk of Iran's "nuclear buildup". I'm sure we'll see more and more stories in the coming months to build up the hatred and fear of Iran to appropriate enough levels to justify an invasion.

9/11 conspiracy theorists aside, replace "WMDs" with "nuclear weapons and assassins" and you have something that's practically the exact same template for the justification for the Iraq War. I expect that we'll be in Iran oh, say, just a couple months after Obama is re-elected.

Dropbox has figured out an elegant solution to a vexing problem. With the explosion of smartphones and tablets, people have more devices and more apps than ever before. How can they get access to the latest version of all their stuff — photos, music, videos, documents, spreadsheets — no matter what device they are using and no matter where they are?

Apple addressed this with the free iCloud, Google of course has its own cloud storage services, and even Microsoft has the free SkyDrive, so I'm confused as to why the article considers this a vexing problem waiting to be solved when it was pretty much the theme of 2011 for all the major platform vendors. Lots of venture capital doesn't mean something is going to take off--the lesson last year was the Color app, which got $41 million of first-round funding in March only to immediately flop on release months later.

I see how you get that. You misunderstood the numbers or what I'm saying...

While paying a tax rate of 18% for the wealthiest americans
http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2011/07/25/the-400-richest-americans-pay-an-18-tax-rate/

and a tax rate of 24% for the top 1% of americans
http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/2011/10/25/beyond-the-1-percent/

The share of federal taxes they pay is 36%.

They reason they pay a lower rate but a higher share of taxes is that they take much more than their share of the countries income.

The top 1% has 40% of the nation's wealth and takes home 24% of the entire countries income. They took just 9% in the 1970's.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/03/334156/top-five-wealthiest-one-percent/?mobile=nc

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Let me put it this way.. if these trends continue, by 2040 they will have 75% of the nations income. At that point- since they took most of the income, they would pay even more of the income tax even if their income tax rate fell even further.

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And let me put it another way....
If you take home a FOURTH of the nation's income, and everyone doesn't really pay taxes on the first 6k of their income, then you will pay a THIRD of the total taxes.

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Had an error in my post above. The gas tax on the poor is 1.6%, not 5%. And it's still .000185% on the top 1%.

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And FYI, the top 1% is really just a cover for the top .5%. The bottom half of the top 1% are basically poor compared to the top .5%.

$380k per year income. (bottom of the top .5%)
Millions to Multi millions per year in income (top of the top .5%)
http://www.lcurve.org/

the only product Apple arguably could have been accused of having a monopoly on was portable music players, where there were plenty of competitors in the market.

Of course - with Apple there is no monopoly at 70%+ of a market, but if Google gets 65% of a market, then it has a monopoly!

Google search U.S. market share: 65.6% Nov 2011 [bloomberg.com]
Google search global market share: 69.7% q2 2010
iPad U.S. tablet market share: 82% May 2011
iTunes U.S. digital music market share: 66.2% q3 2010
iPod U.S. mp3 player market share: 76% July 2010

you can't even suggest that Google has a monopoly on web search around here without getting pounded with downmods.

monopoly
The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
The exclusive possession, control, or exercise of something: "men don't have a monopoly on unrequited love".

Google has lower market share in search than many Apple products do in their respective categories (figures latest I can find for each product):

Google search U.S. market share: 65.6% Nov 2011
Google search global market share: 69.7% q2 2010
iPad U.S. tablet market share: 82% May 2011
iTunes U.S. digital music market share: 66.2% q3 2010
iPod U.S. mp3 player market share: 76% July 2010

It seems to me that Google does not have a monopoly in search; it would be a funny monopoly that had 30% to 35% of the market controlled by its competitors. But if you insist that they do, then you should also say that Apple has various monopolies in its respective markets, and should similarly be subject to anti-trust scrutiny.

Reuters coverage: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/08/us-science-hawking-idUSTRE8070HQ20120108

It is an interesting fact that in the U.S the surveillance has been growing slowly since the year 2001. Yet, there have not been any clues or confirmed signs that any terrorist attack might be about to take place. This security increase has no clear purpose. Profiling shows that attacks in the U.S mostly happens from domestic sources rather then foreign.

There have been some arrests (see here, http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/02/us-pakistan-usa-arrest-idUSTRE7815M920110902) but nothing post this news has come out of it.

TSA is an sub-division of the NSA, created in the year 2001. As so many other wrong things in the U.S. (See more here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration)

What NSA has become is an corrupt and damaged institution inside the U.S. Responsible for erosion of rights of the public in the U.S. They have existed since 1952. But there role was increased and expanded following the terrorist attack in the year 2001. That seems to have been an foothold excuse to increase there role behind there original purpose and work. (See the origin of NSA here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency)

In terms of law. It seems that what TSA is based on weak laws and weak foundations. As they are sub-division of NSA, where they clearly do not belong. Unless TSA is conducting illegal espionage on airports.

In Europe there is no such thing as security check at subways train stations (where I have traveled), or on bus stations. Even if there have been terrorist attacks taking place in few countries in Europe (Spain for an example) few years ago. So what is taking place in the U.S is nothing but an security theater (see here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater).

Anonymous for security reasons. Since I might have to travel to the U.S in next few years.

It's seven billion now.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/31/uk-population-baby-india-idUSLNE79U04N20111031