I wondered, "Who sponsored this and who contributed to the sponsor's election?" The sponsor was Senator Margarita Prentice (D) 11th District, and here are some of her financial supporters -
WA INDIAN GAMING ASSN OLYMPIA WA NISQUALLY INDIAN TRIBE OLYMPIA WA MUCKLESHOOT INDIAN TRIBE AUBURN WA CHIPS CASINO LLC BREMERTON WA CONF TRIBES OF COLVILLE RESERVATION NESPELEM WA GOLDIE'S SHORELINE CASINO SHORELINE WA
That's interesting, though not surprising, information. Greed is an ugly thing. If the leeches running the Indian casinos could see past the nose they're picking, they would they see that online poker is a GREAT thing for them. It HELPS their business. (If you think Indians are actually handling the business affairs of most of those casinos, you're daffy.)
But they're too stupid to see that and flush money down a government rat hole to people that seek to tax and thus control.
Many Indian tribes are very wealthy now as a result of casinos. More power to them. I just wonder if (mostly) white asshats, mostly from the government, are ever going to stop selfishly exploiting and molesting them.
Two hundred years and nothing's changed but the technology used.
The part that perplexes me is why any would admit: "I say that as a Beatles fan..."
Those morons sucked then and they always have. They don't even have any taste in women. Fortunately, one's dead and two of the three remaining had the sense to stop pretending they could play instruments.
I'm waiting for Paul's retirement or death. It's not looking like he has the brains to do the former before the latter.
The world was a better place before those idiots came along and it will be a better place once they're gone.
Depends totally on your definition of "normal". It's completely natural and happens in many many species.
Depends on your definition of "natural" and "many, many" and also assumes that humans are just animals. I prefer to believe, based on much evidence, that that is an incredibly stupid idea.
There's no shortage of children on Earth -- the only shortage is of loving parents willing to care for them and raise them.
There's no real shortage there, either. It's artificial and created by busy bodies that need government to help everyone conform to their idea of what the world should be.
I should have warned you that I'm an anarcho-capitalist libertarian that can argue every single problem in the world was either caused by government or made much worse by it.
So you're trying to say that a same-sex couple can not "raise children in a healthy environment"?
I am sorry, but that's just bigotry.
Yet true.
Call it whatever helps you sleep at night, but homosexuality is not normal and most definitely does not make for a healthy child-rearing environment anymore than two crack heads could.
It's a disease and an aberration. (The word disease used there with an eyeroll and in the same sense that alcoholism is a disease.)
I'm tolerant towards people. I know many fine people that are homosexual. I love them. But they have a problem.
I'm not at all tolerant to this "mainstreaming" of homosexuality that is going on. When you ask me to agree that it's "OK" or accept it as "normal," I draw the line. It's not normal and it's not OK.
When same-sex "couples" figure out how to make children, I'll leave them and their misfit children alone. Until then, you need to understand that there is a God and He is both smarter than you and loves you anyway.
And while I'm ranting... what about concerts? I went to an Aerosmith concert a few years ago, and the sound was so loud it was distorting in my ear. I mean... LOUD. Shouldn't we be suing them too? Especially since we can't turn down the volume in that situation.
Oh wait... personal responsibility. Almost forgot it existed.
I can give another example. I'm a NASCAR fan and I've spent my share of time in the infield at Texas Motor Speedway during races. The way the track is designed, with rather steep banking, you can walk to either end of the infield and literally watch the cars as they pass a few feet in front of you but also over your head. You're looking up and seeing mostly the roof of the car. They do about 170-180 mph through the section between turns 1 and 2 or turns 3 and 4. After a restart, they come through there in a tight pack. Forty-three cars, all running an 800 horsepower V8 with a straight pipe and nothing whatsoever to muffle the sound.
When you get them all running together like that and you're standing less than 100 feet from them, the sound is beyond deafening. I've been to some really loud concerts, but I've never experienced loud like that. I'm no physicist, so I can't explain it, but I've done it a few times without hearing protection and it's so loud that it seems to blur your vision. It's almost like you have to struggle to see through the sound waves. The ground shakes and it's a little difficult to breathe. I've never done it for more than one pass at a time. Still, every time I've done it, my ears ring (severely, to the point of near deaf) for at least 15-20 minutes after.
So now I come to my "Ask Slashdot" question: Should I sue NASCAR, Texas Motor Speedway, the individual drivers or all of the above? There was a nary a warning sign to be seen, even at the ticket office where I bought my infield passes.
I have 3 Macs: A 6400 from 1997, a 6500 from 1998 (both 603ev CPUs) and a G4 Yikes from 1999/2000.
I'm no EE by any stretch of the imagination and don't know what most of the stuff on a motherboard is when I'm looking at it. But all three of my Macs have Intel branded chips on the boards.
I really can't see anyone organizing Linux folks on anything other than a technical level.
I can't even see that. Look at all the distros and all the window managers.
Too diverse, too independent, too spread out across the globe, too focused on technical issues, too apolitical probably.
Exactly. See above. Not that I'm complaining. Diversity in an open marketplace is a good thing. In my barely informed opinion, that's been one of the strengths driving the growth of Linux.
... you can expect to see your insurance rates go up and probably not just in Texas.
The bill has at least two paragraphs (I'm not going back to re-read and count) that detail the mandatory requirements on all insurance companies to comply. The requirements on them are to develop databases and methods for law enforcement to have constant access to those databases. I doubt there are many, if any, insurance companies that operate only in Texas. The expense for all of these insurance companies to comply will increase your insurance premiums, too.
Then we have this laughable gem (copied from the bill itself): Sec. 601.506. CERTAIN FEES AND CHARGES PROHIBITED. An insurance company or designated agent subject to the motor vehicle liability insurance compliance program may not assess or collect from the policyholder of a motor vehicle liability insurance policy subject to this section a charge or fee because the company or agent is required to comply with any part of the program.
Uh-huh. They specifically prohibit the insurance companies from charging you a fee for this "service" because government thieves always hide like cowards if they can. (Apparently, these weasels have learned from the mistakes of the FCC. When they impose ridiculous mandatory expenses on telephone and cable companies, those companies itemize it on your bill as a federal fee so you know who to blame.)
Can they prevent the insurance companies from building this expense into their normal insurance rates?
Absolutely not. It's another unfunded mandate from government. Those usually come from the federal government to the states. This one is from a state government to for-profit businesses.
Businesses do not pay taxes and they don't pay bills. They have expenses and those expenses are always reflected in the price of the product.
It wouldn't surprise me to find that the insurance companies lobbied for this, though. It costs them nothing and drives up the "compliance rate" of people forced at gunpoint to buy their product.
If you can't get what you want by persuasion, just remember boys and girls, that the government has permission to use guns to accomplish what you want.
When I bought my first G4 in early 2000, it came with a Firewire cable in the box. I had nothing to connect it to until I got a DV camcorder over 2 years later.
When did Apple stop including the cable with new Macs and how many whiny people are there out there that won't pay $19 (or less - buy it at Best Buy) for a cable to save the money on this iPod price cut?
Get over it, cheapskates. Some people are never satisfied.
Oh man.. there's got to be some sick f*ck out there who: Wishes they were a murderer. Wishes they had a gun. Wishes they had a printer so they could print your post out. Wishes they could afford to take a trip to wherever you're at right now.
Sounds like you know that mind well. To you and your hypothetical sick fuck, I say, bring it.
Just be sure to pack a lunch. It won't be as easy as you think since I don't live in the gaming world you've used create your idea of reality.
I don't give a rats ass what America does, as long as they don't drag my country into their business
We couldn't possibly. Canada is far too pacifist to ever go to war.
You should be thankful that we're the ones to your south and we take care of the bad guys so you don't have to.
Would you rather share a border with Iraq or the U.S.?...just about everyone showing the press briefings of Colon Powell having a blown up image on a stand, pointing at what looks like a rectangle, saying its a truck with a chemical warfare lab inside.
A chemical warfare lab in a truck.
Guess what, Sparky. We KNOW, yes KNOW, that Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and the capacity to produce more. Have you heard anything about the satellite images showing trucks crossing the Syrian border just before our troops invaded?
Or would you rather just ignore that because it doesn't fit into your CNN world view?
1. Since the whole of Europe (emphasis on "the whole" -- I know there were exceptions) was too cowardly to enforce the very UN resolutions for which they had voted, The U.S. did it "alone" (as the media likes to pretend).
I'm a libertarian, but I thank God every day that there's a Texan in the White House. I often disagree with him, but he's got enough courage to make up for the lack of it in his European counterparts. As a result, Saddam Hussein is sitting in prison as opposed to building chemical and biological weapons or overseeing rape rooms.
2. See France, Germany, UN, Oil for food scandal.
3. Our morals are certainly not from a European source. You may have heard that we fought a war that we won in 1776. It was over morals. "We" had them and fought to keep them.
I'm almost done with this here because it's clearly off-topic. However, the links you provided prove my point, not yours.
Nicole Dufresne would probably still be alive if she had been armed and knew how to defend herself. The story you linked is completely devoid of details, so I can't say that with certainty. What I did get from the story was that gun laws clearly don't work. It was "illegal" for her under-age assassin to have a gun.
Guns are used more often in this country to prevent death than to cause it.
Good intentions != good results. You can double the equation when you interject feckless government.
In addition, you linked to a page that shows that the U.S. is 24th on the list of countries, by murder rate. What the page doesn't show, and you can't address, is what guns have to do with that.
Don't sweat it. If I happen upon you being mugged at gun point on the street, you can rest assured that I'll be armed and take the violent bastard down to save your silly ass.
I'm not going to respond to most of this flamebait. However...
America is the world's only super-power? Really? Have you checked?
Yup. I checked. America is the only remaining super-power.
I seem to recall this super-power is being given the run-around by a load of Iraqi insurgents.
Being given the run-around? Listen, I'm sorry that those on the left in America and all of Europe are too cowardly to deal with war anymore, but less than 1500 casualties in the amount of time we've been there is hardly "being given the run-around." It's overwhelming success. There were more than that lost on each side many single days in World War II. What's going on in Iraq is barely a war. It's an American smackdown. Shock and awe.
If you do a lot of extrapolation...
You are clearly good at that. It takes a lot of extrapolation, or oversimplification to the point of distortion, to make the claim that the morals of the Bible "come from the middle east."
In Europe I think you'll find we have equal if not more morals than in the states.
Europe is utterly and completely irrelevant in the world today precisely because you have no morals anymore.
The UN is the bastion of that example. The EU isn't as bad yet because it's playing catch up.
Your thousands of years of Western civilisation are mostly European in origin, remember that.
Our morals do not come from that source and Europe has left them far behind. Europe is in decline and America is the world's only super-power. I know that's why you're so hostile and touchy about it, but perhaps you should ask yourself why it is.
... how about banning the sale of guns to idiots/psychopaths/anyone? I'm sure there's a more tangible correlation between guns + murder than computer games and murder.
Dammit, I have mod points, but I can't let this slide..
How much of an increase in violent crime do you need to see in the UK or Australia before it dawns on you that:
A) Banning guns is a very, very bad idea
and
B) It's impossible
And you don't want to ban guns. You want to hire people with guns to do it for you.
Thanks for the link. That site is good for a laugh.
Here's another amusing bit from the top right of the main page: "Choose your music. Choose your device. Know it's going to work. When your device and music service are compatible with each other, all you have to do is choose the music that's compatible with you. Look for the PlaysForSure logo..."
All I have to do is choose the right device and the right music service, huh? And I do that by looking for the logo?
Apple has also had significant trouble with Jobs at the helm. It's hard to say whether they've been better off with, or without the man. Let's not forget that he was responsible for bringing Markkula and Sculley on board. That worked out real well, didn't it (rhetorical question.)
Not this time around. They just posted their most successful quarterly numbers in history and have around $6 billion in cash reserves. They were on the verge of bankruptcy when he came back less than 7 years ago.
Perhaps he was a naive kid, from a business perspective, back in the old days. He made a whole lot of business mistakes at NeXT, too.
Looks to me like he's learned from his mistakes and now his unique genius is paired with business acumen and perhaps a better understanding of his own strengths and weaknesses.
The only major mistake he's made, that I can think of, as CEO v2.0 is the Cube.
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Now, people don't go around keeping spreadsheets of how many beers their buddies owe them ...
You've clearly not met all of my friends yet. The next time you're in the neighborhood, stop by for a beer and I'll introduce you.
I wondered, "Who sponsored this and who contributed to the sponsor's election?" The sponsor was Senator Margarita Prentice (D) 11th District, and here are some of her financial supporters -
WA INDIAN GAMING ASSN OLYMPIA WA
NISQUALLY INDIAN TRIBE OLYMPIA WA
MUCKLESHOOT INDIAN TRIBE AUBURN WA
CHIPS CASINO LLC BREMERTON WA
CONF TRIBES OF COLVILLE RESERVATION NESPELEM WA
GOLDIE'S SHORELINE CASINO SHORELINE WA
That's interesting, though not surprising, information. Greed is an ugly thing. If the leeches running the Indian casinos could see past the nose they're picking, they would they see that online poker is a GREAT thing for them. It HELPS their business. (If you think Indians are actually handling the business affairs of most of those casinos, you're daffy.)
But they're too stupid to see that and flush money down a government rat hole to people that seek to tax and thus control.
Many Indian tribes are very wealthy now as a result of casinos. More power to them. I just wonder if (mostly) white asshats, mostly from the government, are ever going to stop selfishly exploiting and molesting them.
Two hundred years and nothing's changed but the technology used.
The part that perplexes me is why any would admit: "I say that as a Beatles fan..."
Those morons sucked then and they always have. They don't even have any taste in women. Fortunately, one's dead and two of the three remaining had the sense to stop pretending they could play instruments.
I'm waiting for Paul's retirement or death. It's not looking like he has the brains to do the former before the latter.
The world was a better place before those idiots came along and it will be a better place once they're gone.
Depends totally on your definition of "normal". It's completely natural and happens in many many species.
Depends on your definition of "natural" and "many, many" and also assumes that humans are just animals. I prefer to believe, based on much evidence, that that is an incredibly stupid idea.
There's no shortage of children on Earth -- the only shortage is of loving parents willing to care for them and raise them.
There's no real shortage there, either. It's artificial and created by busy bodies that need government to help everyone conform to their idea of what the world should be.
I should have warned you that I'm an anarcho-capitalist libertarian that can argue every single problem in the world was either caused by government or made much worse by it.
I never single someone out for "the way they were born."
And no one was ever born "transgendered."
So you're trying to say that a same-sex couple can not "raise children in a healthy environment"?
I am sorry, but that's just bigotry.
Yet true.
Call it whatever helps you sleep at night, but homosexuality is not normal and most definitely does not make for a healthy child-rearing environment anymore than two crack heads could.
It's a disease and an aberration. (The word disease used there with an eyeroll and in the same sense that alcoholism is a disease.)
I'm tolerant towards people. I know many fine people that are homosexual. I love them. But they have a problem.
I'm not at all tolerant to this "mainstreaming" of homosexuality that is going on. When you ask me to agree that it's "OK" or accept it as "normal," I draw the line. It's not normal and it's not OK.
When same-sex "couples" figure out how to make children, I'll leave them and their misfit children alone. Until then, you need to understand that there is a God and He is both smarter than you and loves you anyway.
And while I'm ranting... what about concerts? I went to an Aerosmith concert a few years ago, and the sound was so loud it was distorting in my ear. I mean... LOUD. Shouldn't we be suing them too? Especially since we can't turn down the volume in that situation.
Oh wait... personal responsibility. Almost forgot it existed.
I can give another example. I'm a NASCAR fan and I've spent my share of time in the infield at Texas Motor Speedway during races. The way the track is designed, with rather steep banking, you can walk to either end of the infield and literally watch the cars as they pass a few feet in front of you but also over your head. You're looking up and seeing mostly the roof of the car. They do about 170-180 mph through the section between turns 1 and 2 or turns 3 and 4. After a restart, they come through there in a tight pack. Forty-three cars, all running an 800 horsepower V8 with a straight pipe and nothing whatsoever to muffle the sound.
When you get them all running together like that and you're standing less than 100 feet from them, the sound is beyond deafening. I've been to some really loud concerts, but I've never experienced loud like that. I'm no physicist, so I can't explain it, but I've done it a few times without hearing protection and it's so loud that it seems to blur your vision. It's almost like you have to struggle to see through the sound waves. The ground shakes and it's a little difficult to breathe. I've never done it for more than one pass at a time. Still, every time I've done it, my ears ring (severely, to the point of near deaf) for at least 15-20 minutes after.
So now I come to my "Ask Slashdot" question: Should I sue NASCAR, Texas Motor Speedway, the individual drivers or all of the above? There was a nary a warning sign to be seen, even at the ticket office where I bought my infield passes.
Good point.
I have 3 Macs: A 6400 from 1997, a 6500 from 1998 (both 603ev CPUs) and a G4 Yikes from 1999/2000.
I'm no EE by any stretch of the imagination and don't know what most of the stuff on a motherboard is when I'm looking at it. But all three of my Macs have Intel branded chips on the boards.
I really can't see anyone organizing Linux folks on anything other than a technical level.
I can't even see that. Look at all the distros and all the window managers.
Too diverse, too independent, too spread out across the globe, too focused on technical issues, too apolitical probably.
Exactly. See above. Not that I'm complaining. Diversity in an open marketplace is a good thing. In my barely informed opinion, that's been one of the strengths driving the growth of Linux.
I don't know... The 80 year old man that lived next to me as a child used to call me "Tiger"... That was 1974.
How old are you and what dimension are you from? As a child, this now 80 year old man lived next to you and that was in 1974?
Oh, wait. I parsed the sentence wrong, didn't I?
Ivan, is that you?
... you can expect to see your insurance rates go up and probably not just in Texas.
The bill has at least two paragraphs (I'm not going back to re-read and count) that detail the mandatory requirements on all insurance companies to comply. The requirements on them are to develop databases and methods for law enforcement to have constant access to those databases. I doubt there are many, if any, insurance companies that operate only in Texas. The expense for all of these insurance companies to comply will increase your insurance premiums, too.
Then we have this laughable gem (copied from the bill itself):
Sec. 601.506. CERTAIN FEES AND CHARGES PROHIBITED. An insurance company or designated agent subject to the motor vehicle liability insurance compliance program may not assess or collect from the policyholder of a motor vehicle liability insurance policy subject to this section a charge or fee because the company or agent is required to comply with any part of the program.
Uh-huh. They specifically prohibit the insurance companies from charging you a fee for this "service" because government thieves always hide like cowards if they can. (Apparently, these weasels have learned from the mistakes of the FCC. When they impose ridiculous mandatory expenses on telephone and cable companies, those companies itemize it on your bill as a federal fee so you know who to blame.)
Can they prevent the insurance companies from building this expense into their normal insurance rates?
Absolutely not. It's another unfunded mandate from government. Those usually come from the federal government to the states. This one is from a state government to for-profit businesses.
Businesses do not pay taxes and they don't pay bills. They have expenses and those expenses are always reflected in the price of the product.
It wouldn't surprise me to find that the insurance companies lobbied for this, though. It costs them nothing and drives up the "compliance rate" of people forced at gunpoint to buy their product.
If you can't get what you want by persuasion, just remember boys and girls, that the government has permission to use guns to accomplish what you want.
When I bought my first G4 in early 2000, it came with a Firewire cable in the box. I had nothing to connect it to until I got a DV camcorder over 2 years later.
When did Apple stop including the cable with new Macs and how many whiny people are there out there that won't pay $19 (or less - buy it at Best Buy) for a cable to save the money on this iPod price cut?
Get over it, cheapskates. Some people are never satisfied.
Pull the other one!
Oh man.. there's got to be some sick f*ck out there who :
Wishes they were a murderer.
Wishes they had a gun.
Wishes they had a printer so they could print your post out.
Wishes they could afford to take a trip to wherever you're at right now.
Sounds like you know that mind well. To you and your hypothetical sick fuck, I say, bring it.
Just be sure to pack a lunch. It won't be as easy as you think since I don't live in the gaming world you've used create your idea of reality.
I don't give a rats ass what America does, as long as they don't drag my country into their business
...just about everyone showing the press briefings of Colon Powell having a blown up image on a stand, pointing at what looks like a rectangle, saying its a truck with a chemical warfare lab inside.
We couldn't possibly. Canada is far too pacifist to ever go to war.
You should be thankful that we're the ones to your south and we take care of the bad guys so you don't have to.
Would you rather share a border with Iraq or the U.S.?
A chemical warfare lab in a truck.
Guess what, Sparky. We KNOW, yes KNOW, that Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and the capacity to produce more. Have you heard anything about the satellite images showing trucks crossing the Syrian border just before our troops invaded?
Or would you rather just ignore that because it doesn't fit into your CNN world view?
Gotcha. Now we're getting somewhere.
1. Since the whole of Europe (emphasis on "the whole" -- I know there were exceptions) was too cowardly to enforce the very UN resolutions for which they had voted, The U.S. did it "alone" (as the media likes to pretend).
I'm a libertarian, but I thank God every day that there's a Texan in the White House. I often disagree with him, but he's got enough courage to make up for the lack of it in his European counterparts. As a result, Saddam Hussein is sitting in prison as opposed to building chemical and biological weapons or overseeing rape rooms.
2. See France, Germany, UN, Oil for food scandal.
3. Our morals are certainly not from a European source. You may have heard that we fought a war that we won in 1776. It was over morals. "We" had them and fought to keep them.
because the US has proven they can be beaten in Vietnam, and they're not doin so well over in Iraq either it would seem.
Not doin' so well? How so? Do you repeat whatever you hear on CNN or do you have some sort of thought process here?
while Hussein had to be taken from power, the basis of the war was WMD's.. then when they didn't find anything, it was to liberate the people? Right.
Nope. It never was just about WMD's and it never has been, or is now, about liberating the people; that's a nice side effect.
Let me tell you what Bush can't say publicly:
It was about taking out a nasty bastard that had threatened us, had attacked us and would've attacked us again as soon as he had the chance.
Do you have any evidence whatsoever to support your claims?
Sure.
It would be helpful, if you would be more specific about what you're referencing.
But I understand. Name calling is a lot more fun than real debate.
I'm almost done with this here because it's clearly off-topic. However, the links you provided prove my point, not yours.
Nicole Dufresne would probably still be alive if she had been armed and knew how to defend herself. The story you linked is completely devoid of details, so I can't say that with certainty. What I did get from the story was that gun laws clearly don't work. It was "illegal" for her under-age assassin to have a gun.
Guns are used more often in this country to prevent death than to cause it.
Good intentions != good results. You can double the equation when you interject feckless government.
In addition, you linked to a page that shows that the U.S. is 24th on the list of countries, by murder rate. What the page doesn't show, and you can't address, is what guns have to do with that.
Don't sweat it. If I happen upon you being mugged at gun point on the street, you can rest assured that I'll be armed and take the violent bastard down to save your silly ass.
I'm not going to respond to most of this flamebait. However...
America is the world's only super-power? Really? Have you checked?
Yup. I checked. America is the only remaining super-power.
I seem to recall this super-power is being given the run-around by a load of Iraqi insurgents.
Being given the run-around? Listen, I'm sorry that those on the left in America and all of Europe are too cowardly to deal with war anymore, but less than 1500 casualties in the amount of time we've been there is hardly "being given the run-around." It's overwhelming success. There were more than that lost on each side many single days in World War II. What's going on in Iraq is barely a war. It's an American smackdown. Shock and awe.
If you do a lot of extrapolation...
You are clearly good at that. It takes a lot of extrapolation, or oversimplification to the point of distortion, to make the claim that the morals of the Bible "come from the middle east."
In Europe I think you'll find we have equal if not more morals than in the states.
Europe is utterly and completely irrelevant in the world today precisely because you have no morals anymore.
The UN is the bastion of that example. The EU isn't as bad yet because it's playing catch up.
Your thousands of years of Western civilisation are mostly European in origin, remember that.
Our morals do not come from that source and Europe has left them far behind. Europe is in decline and America is the world's only super-power. I know that's why you're so hostile and touchy about it, but perhaps you should ask yourself why it is.
... how about banning the sale of guns to idiots/psychopaths/anyone? I'm sure there's a more tangible correlation between guns + murder than computer games and murder.
Dammit, I have mod points, but I can't let this slide..
How much of an increase in violent crime do you need to see in the UK or Australia before it dawns on you that:
A) Banning guns is a very, very bad idea
and
B) It's impossible
And you don't want to ban guns. You want to hire people with guns to do it for you.
Ironic, no?
Thanks for the link. That site is good for a laugh.
Here's another amusing bit from the top right of the main page:
"Choose your music. Choose your device. Know it's going to work. When your device and music service are compatible with each other, all you have to do is choose the music that's compatible with you. Look for the PlaysForSure logo..."
All I have to do is choose the right device and the right music service, huh? And I do that by looking for the logo?
That's simple enough.
(There is no step 3.)
Apple has also had significant trouble with Jobs at the helm. It's hard to say whether they've been better off with, or without the man. Let's not forget that he was responsible for bringing Markkula and Sculley on board. That worked out real well, didn't it (rhetorical question.)
Not this time around. They just posted their most successful quarterly numbers in history and have around $6 billion in cash reserves. They were on the verge of bankruptcy when he came back less than 7 years ago.
Perhaps he was a naive kid, from a business perspective, back in the old days. He made a whole lot of business mistakes at NeXT, too.
Looks to me like he's learned from his mistakes and now his unique genius is paired with business acumen and perhaps a better understanding of his own strengths and weaknesses.
The only major mistake he's made, that I can think of, as CEO v2.0 is the Cube.