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I am not saying the situation is fair. I am just observing what it is.

The civilized world is, to a huge extent, controlled by the wealthy elite. Some info here.

For the most part, that which is in their interest is also in our interest. They want to be safe from foreign threats, want to have effective medicines available to them, want to have new and novel technologies to play with, and want to have a stable economy (in order to support their wealth).

There are times when their interest conflicts with the interest of the larger, but poorer, majority. In these times, they usually succeed in imposing their will upon the world, to their benefit, and to our detriment. It's not fair. But it is a *whole damn lot* better than how it used to be.

Feel free to rant about this. Or to try and change it. Individually you are pretty powerless, though. But if indulgence in a false sense of self importance is what keeps you going to your job every day, they sure won't go out of their way to shut you down.

Though that estimate might be a little high...

"Just before leaving public office in 2001, Gore reported assets of less than $2 million; today, his wealth is estimated at $100 million."

Warning about global warming is a good business to be in it seems...

In 2001, the Koch brothers where worth $ 3.2 billion each. In 2010 $ 17.5 billion. Looks like paying others to deny Global Warming seems to be a better business....

As for Al Gore - he made far from being on the board of Apple than from Global Warming. http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/heres-how-apple-and-the-internet-made-al-gore-rich.html/?a=viewall

Which is why red states mooch more tax money from the federal government (i.e. taxpayer money from other states) than anyone else. All while they vow to destroy the big government pork barrels that they feed from.

One of them offers a browser that only runs on a small handful of desktop and laptops

Oh, and that whole iOS thing.

In Sandvineâ(TM)s 2014 Global Internet Phenomena Report, the group found that people exhibiting cord-cutter behavior -- those people who had a significantly high amount of streaming media consumption -- the average consumption amount was 213GB per month.

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That is our household in a nutshell -- cord cutters. The teens watch zero TV. Same for my spouse. I use TV mainly for sports, and new Top Gear episodes. No ISO downloads, no torrent use at all.

Honestly, I'm a bit surprised by our usage. I'll probably install some program to track it for a while and figure out who and what are the biggest users.

I prefer the article linked to at the bottom of the article you linked:

Analyst: Apple Could Become the Next Microsoft

But, then, we'll all use whatever platforms are out there and affordable, now, won't we?

guess again

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/te...

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/the-irony-of-obamacare-republicans-thought-of-it-first.html/

or not.

That said, some context: Of the 788 amendments filed, 67 came from Democrats and 721 from Republicans. (That disparity drew jeers that Republicans were trying to slow things down. Another explanation may be that they offered so many so they could later claim—as they are now, in fact, claiming—that most of their suggestions went unheeded.) Only 197 amendments were passed in the end—36 from Democrats and 161 from Republicans. And of those 161 GOP amendments, Senate Republicans classify 29 as substantive and 132 as technical.

Then, of course, is the simple thing that republicans seem loathed to say: Obamacare is pretty much a national version of Romneycare, which was taken largely from suggestions form the Heritage Foundation.

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/the-irony-of-obamacare-republicans-thought-of-it-first.html/

It's not that the creation process of the law was flawed, it's that you and your fellow rabid conservatives have been lied to for so long, you actually believe the bullshit you've been fed.

Getting you in and out as quickly as possible is their goal.

Completely wrong. Lingering is the goal. Customers who linger buy more.

The main cost for these retailers isn't the food/coffee they serve it's the time and space you take up as you order it and then have to wait for all the inefficiencies with cash, cards, or checks.

Nope, it's health insurance. After that, it's definitely cost of goods sold. Operating expenses like "cash handling" aren't even a blip.

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/your-computer-may-already-be-hacked.html/?a=viewall

What timeline do you live in? Here in 2013, iOS is getting absolutely crushed by Android.

Ooh. I spy a Google cheerleader, do I get a prize.

Its odd that things have to be termed in such an adversarial manner. That there has to be a winner and a loser.

That said I suggest you look at the numbers a little closer. Its true that there are more Android phones being bought than iOS ones. However this is only the case if you look at ALL Android phones including cheap ones that are shipping with 2.3 on just good enough hardware. That was always going to happen because Apple have chosen not to play in that space.

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/02/20/apples-iphone-5-passes-samsung-galaxy-s3-in-q4-global-sales
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/analyst-samsung-galaxy-s4-sales-vs-apple-iphone-5-sales.html/?a=viewall

iOS is competitive in the market that Apple chooses to engage in. So in that sense iOS isn't being crushed at all.

I'm happy to see the competition between Android and iOS, it should mean that both continue to improve. If one were to truly crush the other then it would be worse for the everyone.

Facebook gets about $3-5 per person, per year. Which really isn't that much. Google makes much, much more per user, but still nothing crazy.

Revenue per user

I have no clue where the profit is gonna come from to back this up, and I don't think anybody else does either. Facebook's IPO is over 100x their last year's income, which is pretty scary.

The worst part of this is how facebook's quality is going to go massively downhill now as they try to monetize it and squeeze more profit from ads, which in turn will drive users away, requiring them to make more and more money per user, which... Yeah. bad.