If the Tea Party keeps up its influence, established Republican candidates will have to change, be more fiscally conservative, in order to stand a chance against a Tea Party backed candidate in a primary.
Rather than being its own successful party, which in this country is pretty much impossible the way elections are run, it is having more success as an influence on an existing party.
I think it's hilarious that you believe that we've been bankrupted by Democrats.
Much of it can be traced back to FDR. That's when the big spending really got in gear.
Who exploded the deficit in the 1980s in an attempt to out-spend the Soviet Union?
And we won because of it. We had been spending lavishly over the prior few decades maintaining the Cold War, and it needed to end. Afterwards, Bush Sr. started closing down unneeded Cold War bases, expensive Cold War programs were canceled.
Who inherited government surpluses at the turn of the century and then instead of paying down the debt, passed trillions of dollars in unpaid-for tax cuts?
First, there's no way I'm going to defend RINO (Republican In Name Only) Bush. That's why I said Republicans haven't been doing much better.
But there never was a Clinton surplus. It was entirely illusory, with accounting tricks. The national deficit never even dropped to zero during one of his budgets, the national debt never decreased. The government covered its deficit by borrowing from Social Security income, which was pretty fat at the time due to the dot com bubble.
Who led us into a controversial and optional multi-trillion dollar war in Iraq? (Some might ask the same thing about Afghanistan.)
There's Bush again. Although Afghanistan might not have even been necessary had Clinton been doing his job. He was having too much fun lobbing the occasional Tomahawk at Saddam for no real reason, and bombing Chinese embassies in the Balkans, to accept Bin Laden on a platter from the Sudanese.
Who passed and signed Medicare Part D (the prescription drug program) without even attempting to pay for it?
And Bush yet again. We can go down a big list of his failures where there might as well have been a Democrat in office. Illegal immigration? Check. Further centralizing control of our schools at the federal level? Check. Check, check, check...
That's why we have to make sure we don't get another Bush. Cain looked good, but now that he's the frontrunner suddenly he's getting the Clarence Thomas treatment.
The things that you are told on talk / shortwave radio, in church, on Fox News, etc. are not always true.
Guess what, what the various Soros-funded machines tell you is usually not true, neither is what the DNC or the current administration tells you.
They had established Republicans running scared, even cost them some primaries.
Of course for having the fortitude to run against the establishment, they are labelled with various derogatory terms by the press, even getting away with mentioning explicit sex acts on the air in the process.
That's how this pollution happens. They rake in all of the profit, but the expenses in environmental safety are left for everyone to pay.
Simple capitalism: They can keep the profit it they also assume the expenses. Regulation is required only so far as to make sure they assume their rightful expenses, to keep things capitalist.
Because voting for Democrats will result in a bankrupt, authoritarian nanny state. If you want your kid to have a chance at a future, don't vote Democrat.
Not that Republicans are doing much better, they are just the lesser of two evils.
Apple has been winning in the marketplace with the iPad since its introduction. All of the biggest names have had serious problems competing in the marketplace, including the abortion of HP's effort and Blackberry pulling back for a re-do.
There is no indication that Apple intends to stop working to keep up the wins in the marketplace.
Just not necessarily a good one. Some are there in order to stop upstart companies from being able to compete with the established ones, because they have a harder time fronting the cost for compliance. Other regulations are simply the result of scaremongering or nanny state, and some just don't make sense and even cause perverse incentives (such as the 3-S with endangered species).
Now as far as dumping mercury and lead into the public waterways, and other such things, I'm all with you on the need to regulate that according to the science.
I've also seen many cannabis users ruining the lives of themselves and their families. But the cannabis wasn't the reason for the ruin. Using cannabis was just another symptom of the root cause.
In fact, the illegality of cannabis was the most damaging thing about it, increasing the cost of living, requiring association with shady types to get it, and causing run-ins with the law.
Scott Forstall was the guy who convinced Jobs to let his engineers walk around with iPhone prototypes, and he just got a million-share carrot to stay with Apple until 2016.
Apple pays up front for an expansion or upgrading of a company's manufacturing capabilities, to be paid off by low prices and/or exclusivity. Most suppliers have a huge risk in ramping up for more capacity or new technologies to handle a company's needs, but they don't have this risk with Apple. That's quite the incentive.
Last year Apple committed $4 billion to this and prepaying for volume for two years.
I don't know about the iTunes factor. A while back, iTunes was just a way to sell more iPods, and even operated at a loss.
They try not to implement something they know is going to screw things up, like battery-sucking free-for-all multitasking in a smartphone. They wait until they have a workable solution. Same for copy/paste. That's not to say Apple can't occasionally accidently do something that screws things up, like this.
Apple had a pretty slow last quarter due to everyone waiting to buy the newer model iPhone.
I'd say there is only one real reason to care about marketshare now. You're worried about the future of the platform and the support of developers. Both Apple and Samsung are pretty solid in the phone industry, so neither of them is going away. Neither Apple nor Android are going to die any time soon and both platforms have a critical mass of developers, so it's a non-issue for the forseeable future regardless of who has the higher marketshare.
Even as an investor I wouldn't care about marketshare. Apple was raking in the majority of smartphone profits while Nokia and RIM were the undisputed kings of marketshare.
Funny, I remember Jobs saying he'd be happy if his new phone caught 1% of the smartphone market, and people like Ballmer and Dvorak who said it would be a failure. Now look where we are.
The Siri guys have been working on this stuff as a dedicated project since at least 2003. And it leverages Dragon speech recognition technology, which has been in the works since the 80s.
Unless that ability is declared or the user commands it. Standard UNIX permissions let the app do anything the user could do. This allows it to do even less.
Imagine the usual program hijacked by a buffer overflow, it executes code to delete a user's files. This would not allow that to happen unless the original developer explicitly allowed non user-initiated write access to all files. Or it hijacks a program to spread a trojan, but the program doesn't have the rights to create a network connection.
It can be changed on the fly, say a generous allowance to load various libraries and other files, write some files, make some connections, then clamp down before allowing input from untrusted Internet sources.
HP will also have a problem competing because Apple buys massive supplies and factory capacity well in advance in order to secure the lowest prices and exclusives on the latest tech.
HP used to have the talent and vision to create a vertically integrated product like the iPad. These were the guys behind the PA-RISC and HP-UX, plus the hardware talent to make everything from a fetal monitor to a mainframe. And now they can't pull off a decent tablet?
I generally find that Apple gets crucified over the smallest issue because a headline with "Apple" in it will get read.
This is why you had some Android phones literally falling apart being reported on a couple tech sites, but rare iPhone screen cracking was worthy of the Washington Post.
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If the Tea Party keeps up its influence, established Republican candidates will have to change, be more fiscally conservative, in order to stand a chance against a Tea Party backed candidate in a primary.
Rather than being its own successful party, which in this country is pretty much impossible the way elections are run, it is having more success as an influence on an existing party.
He could actually understand our questions.
Too bad the smear machine has already gone into gear against him and he'll be toppled from his front runner status.
Much of it can be traced back to FDR. That's when the big spending really got in gear.
And we won because of it. We had been spending lavishly over the prior few decades maintaining the Cold War, and it needed to end. Afterwards, Bush Sr. started closing down unneeded Cold War bases, expensive Cold War programs were canceled.
First, there's no way I'm going to defend RINO (Republican In Name Only) Bush. That's why I said Republicans haven't been doing much better.
But there never was a Clinton surplus. It was entirely illusory, with accounting tricks. The national deficit never even dropped to zero during one of his budgets, the national debt never decreased. The government covered its deficit by borrowing from Social Security income, which was pretty fat at the time due to the dot com bubble.
There's Bush again. Although Afghanistan might not have even been necessary had Clinton been doing his job. He was having too much fun lobbing the occasional Tomahawk at Saddam for no real reason, and bombing Chinese embassies in the Balkans, to accept Bin Laden on a platter from the Sudanese.
And Bush yet again. We can go down a big list of his failures where there might as well have been a Democrat in office. Illegal immigration? Check. Further centralizing control of our schools at the federal level? Check. Check, check, check...
That's why we have to make sure we don't get another Bush. Cain looked good, but now that he's the frontrunner suddenly he's getting the Clarence Thomas treatment.
Guess what, what the various Soros-funded machines tell you is usually not true, neither is what the DNC or the current administration tells you.
They had established Republicans running scared, even cost them some primaries.
Of course for having the fortitude to run against the establishment, they are labelled with various derogatory terms by the press, even getting away with mentioning explicit sex acts on the air in the process.
That's how this pollution happens. They rake in all of the profit, but the expenses in environmental safety are left for everyone to pay.
Simple capitalism: They can keep the profit it they also assume the expenses. Regulation is required only so far as to make sure they assume their rightful expenses, to keep things capitalist.
Because voting for Democrats will result in a bankrupt, authoritarian nanny state. If you want your kid to have a chance at a future, don't vote Democrat.
Not that Republicans are doing much better, they are just the lesser of two evils.
Apple has been winning in the marketplace with the iPad since its introduction. All of the biggest names have had serious problems competing in the marketplace, including the abortion of HP's effort and Blackberry pulling back for a re-do.
There is no indication that Apple intends to stop working to keep up the wins in the marketplace.
Just not necessarily a good one. Some are there in order to stop upstart companies from being able to compete with the established ones, because they have a harder time fronting the cost for compliance. Other regulations are simply the result of scaremongering or nanny state, and some just don't make sense and even cause perverse incentives (such as the 3-S with endangered species).
Now as far as dumping mercury and lead into the public waterways, and other such things, I'm all with you on the need to regulate that according to the science.
Only with this stuff instead of duct tape.
A few million in lobbying money thrown around over the years has bought a LOT of US government enforcement of their copyrights for them.
They would like to continue this trend, as recently they've found out they don't like the expense and public backlash of enforcing themselves.
I've also seen many cannabis users ruining the lives of themselves and their families. But the cannabis wasn't the reason for the ruin. Using cannabis was just another symptom of the root cause.
In fact, the illegality of cannabis was the most damaging thing about it, increasing the cost of living, requiring association with shady types to get it, and causing run-ins with the law.
With many patents the real invention, where all of the innovation and creativity was invested, is the patent itself.
They are works of art designed to cover everything, including stuff the original inventor never could have thought of.
Scott Forstall was the guy who convinced Jobs to let his engineers walk around with iPhone prototypes, and he just got a million-share carrot to stay with Apple until 2016.
"Where Is Everybody?"
The writers thought a solo person would go crazy in 484 hours, 36 minutes.
Oh yeah, an E70 really looks and works like an iPhone. It's more like a Blackberry, although much cooler.
But then he made a boatload off his confusion.
Apple pays up front for an expansion or upgrading of a company's manufacturing capabilities, to be paid off by low prices and/or exclusivity. Most suppliers have a huge risk in ramping up for more capacity or new technologies to handle a company's needs, but they don't have this risk with Apple. That's quite the incentive.
Last year Apple committed $4 billion to this and prepaying for volume for two years.
I don't know about the iTunes factor. A while back, iTunes was just a way to sell more iPods, and even operated at a loss.
They try not to implement something they know is going to screw things up, like battery-sucking free-for-all multitasking in a smartphone. They wait until they have a workable solution. Same for copy/paste. That's not to say Apple can't occasionally accidently do something that screws things up, like this.
Apple had a pretty slow last quarter due to everyone waiting to buy the newer model iPhone.
I'd say there is only one real reason to care about marketshare now. You're worried about the future of the platform and the support of developers. Both Apple and Samsung are pretty solid in the phone industry, so neither of them is going away.
Neither Apple nor Android are going to die any time soon and both platforms have a critical mass of developers, so it's a non-issue for the forseeable future regardless of who has the higher marketshare.
Even as an investor I wouldn't care about marketshare. Apple was raking in the majority of smartphone profits while Nokia and RIM were the undisputed kings of marketshare.
Funny, I remember Jobs saying he'd be happy if his new phone caught 1% of the smartphone market, and people like Ballmer and Dvorak who said it would be a failure. Now look where we are.
It's, what, maybe two years old?
The Siri guys have been working on this stuff as a dedicated project since at least 2003. And it leverages Dragon speech recognition technology, which has been in the works since the 80s.
Unless that ability is declared or the user commands it. Standard UNIX permissions let the app do anything the user could do. This allows it to do even less.
Imagine the usual program hijacked by a buffer overflow, it executes code to delete a user's files. This would not allow that to happen unless the original developer explicitly allowed non user-initiated write access to all files. Or it hijacks a program to spread a trojan, but the program doesn't have the rights to create a network connection.
It can be changed on the fly, say a generous allowance to load various libraries and other files, write some files, make some connections, then clamp down before allowing input from untrusted Internet sources.
Apple is now trying to get developers to leverage this security feature.
I don't see people complaining that Android Market apps have to declare their accesses up front, but somehow it's wrong with Mac App Store apps.
That was the high-end HTC EVO.
Apple makes major profit on each iPad.
HP will also have a problem competing because Apple buys massive supplies and factory capacity well in advance in order to secure the lowest prices and exclusives on the latest tech.
HP used to have the talent and vision to create a vertically integrated product like the iPad. These were the guys behind the PA-RISC and HP-UX, plus the hardware talent to make everything from a fetal monitor to a mainframe. And now they can't pull off a decent tablet?
I generally find that Apple gets crucified over the smallest issue because a headline with "Apple" in it will get read.
This is why you had some Android phones literally falling apart being reported on a couple tech sites, but rare iPhone screen cracking was worthy of the Washington Post.