It's weird that you bash companies and ignore the government's role in creating a confusing tax code in the first place. Governments, as some kind of universal law, fuck things up for their citizens.
It's a cynical attempt to try to do something to try to stop the spiraling poll numbers for him and the Democrats. Yet we're still leaving troops there--commitment is "changing," not ending--and the war in Afghanistan is bloodier than ever (worse than it was under Bush) so it's not really going to do anything. It's also an attempt to distract people from the ethics trials of two Democrats in the House.
Some pundits are predicting the biggest GOP majority since 1946. We'll see. All I know is, this Democrat supermajority fucking sucks, obsessing over socialized healthcare for a year instead of jobs. And now, our buddies in the UK are decentralizing their healthcare because the quality of their socialized healthcare sucks. Obama's whole first year was a pointless waste.
It's like the last two years have been an example of how idealistic liberalism fails in practice. Obama flies around the world apologizing to everyone for our existence to match the image of the enlightened intellectual, yet people in the rest of the world continue to hate us and are openly making nukes. Spends money on stimulus packages that do little except increase the debt, furthering our financial troubles. Constantly goes back on promises made during his campaign. And on and on.
Most people, when times are tough, tighten their belts and lower their expenses to save money until things get better. Why Obama chose to expand government and increase spending in a recession is disappointing but not surprising.
Uh, nobody disputes that Microsoft gave them $150 million. Saying that $150 million helped Apple with their financial problems doesn't contradict anything I said.
You're absolutely wrong that the $150 million was to help Apple out--it was due to a settlement. Microsoft could not have sat back and not paid a dime. Video For Windows infringed on Quicktime patents, and Apple was suing for $1.255 billion and would have won, dealing Microsoft a serious blow. If they hadn't bowed to Apple's demands, they would have been in serious trouble. So, they were forced to pay $150 million in non-voting stock and continue development of Office for Mac.
You trash wiki articles, yet you linked a Wikipedia article in your other post. You're really bad at this.
Is the New York Times a good enough source for you? Here's another news source detailing Microsoft's theft of Apple code. Here's info on the Microsoft company that stole Quicktime code, leading to the settlement where Microsoft was forced to buy non-voting stocks and continue development of Office for Mac.
Your entire premise has been decimated, so you've been forced to to cite Wikipedia links on citations (contradicting your own criticisms of wikis) to try to distract the argument. It won't work. You got caught putting your foot in your mouth and talking about something you hadn't researched, and now you're mad that I called you out on it.
You're not informed enough to be arguing with me about this. Next.
I don't care if you think it's a strange comment. Tablets are an appliance device, streamlined for simple computing.
If you're a business user, you may be interested to know that 50% of Fortune 100 companies are already using the iPad. So really, nobody knows what it is you're complaining about except that you want a stylus, which is an obsolete input device that nobody wants.
Yes, you think Steve Jobs can hear you. Apple-haters like you obsessively reference him by name as if it strengthens your point.
What the hell? Nothing in your post refuted what I posted. You're a terrible troll.
You claimed that there was no stolen Quicktime code leading to the settlement, yet the very block of text you quote mentions the "Quicktime piracy" lawsuit! Might want to read what you're pasting next time.
Absolutely nobody questions that it was help for Apple to have Microsoft buy non-voting stocks, but you claimed they were directly responsible for things like the iPhone, which is retarded. What saved Apple was the iMac and, three years later, the iPod..
Your argument was destroyed, and you were properly downvoted for it. Next.
You ended up supporting the premise of his point by acting as the kind of liberal guy he was mocking. Instead of responding with facts, you used emotional by somehow relating his criticism of the environmentalist movement to that of anti-semitism. There's zero logical leap for that comparison--you're just replacing words and acting as if that's a rebuttal.
You also claim "conservatives can drive whatever they want," which wasn't said. The point is that rich liberals drive these cars, so that was the subject of the post. Conservatives weren't even mentioned. You took it as a personal attack on your ideology, so to respond, you had to bring up conservatives for some reason and draw a bunch of conclusions out of thin air about what you thought was implied by the post.
In fact, you're the one making implication that only conservatives could agree with the post, turning it into a battle of us versus them. You're encouraging the very dichotomy you claim to live away from.
What the hell are you talking about? Apple-haters have almost completely taken over the comments section to any Apple article. What a lame attempt at karma-whoring on your part.
Because you're not quoting the actual legal case where Apple and Microsoft reached a settlement deal after Quicktime source code was found in Video For Windows. "The news" isn't always accurate. You're the Troll because you know this.
In August 1997, Apple and Microsoft announced a settlement deal. Apple would drop all current lawsuits, including all lingering issues from the Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. lawsuit and the "QuickTime source code" lawsuit, and agree to make Internet Explorer the default browser on the Macintosh unless the user explicitly chose the bundled Netscape browser. In return, Microsoft agreed to continue developing Office, Internet Explorer, and various developer tools and software for the Mac for the next five years, and purchase $150 million of non-voting Apple stock.
The companies also agreed to mutual collaboration on Java technologies, and to cross-license all existing patents, and patents obtained during the five-year deal, with one another.
"In August 1997, Apple and Microsoft announced a settlement deal. Apple would drop all current lawsuits, including all lingering issues from the Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. lawsuit and the "QuickTime source code" lawsuit, and agree to make Internet Explorer the default browser on the Macintosh unless the user explicitly chose the bundled Netscape browser. In return, Microsoft agreed to continue developing Office, Internet Explorer, and various developer tools and software for the Mac for the next five years, and purchase $150 million of non-voting Apple stock.
The companies also agreed to mutual collaboration on Java technologies, and to cross-license all existing patents, and patents obtained during the five-year deal, with one another. "
It's getting really annoying seeing Google/Android fanbois falling over themselves to claim this is a non-issue, a non-story, etc. If the iPhone had a story about a rootkit, there would be 500+ comments, with half of them addressing Steve Jobs by name since Apple-haters think he can hear them.
Every time someone claims there is no attack vector, a hacker somewhere is always drooling over the idea of proving them wrong.
In August 1997, Apple and Microsoft announced a settlement deal. Apple would drop all current lawsuits, including all lingering issues from the Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. lawsuit and the "QuickTime source code" lawsuit, and agree to make Internet Explorer the default browser on the Macintosh unless the user explicitly chose the bundled Netscape browser. In return, Microsoft agreed to continue developing Office, Internet Explorer, and various developer tools and software for the Mac for the next five years, and purchase $150 million of non-voting Apple stock.
The companies also agreed to mutual collaboration on Java technologies, and to cross-license all existing patents, and patents obtained during the five-year deal, with one another.
You're flat-out wrong. Whoever modded you up is equally idiotic.
I'm saying you don't represent the mainstream at all, and so tablets aren't for you in the first place. You call the rest of my post "gibberish" because you have no counterargument to it.
I know what you mean. I've been told that because Republicans are always cigar-smoking racists who hate minorities and only care about money, I should support government healthcare.
The media would never allow the Tea Party to gain a significant share of power. There have even been plants at Tea Party rallies who act racist in front of cameras, and that footage is used in television ads, yet when you watch the unedited footage, you see Tea Party members yelling at and expelling the plant. There's some twisted shit going on in the left in response to the Tea Party movement, and the exploitation of race is just one of the ways they're coping with the threat of the upcoming elections.
Personally, I don't get what the big deal is. People are surprised that there's an anti-tax, anti-government movement when there's a very liberal Democrat supermajority in power? Of course there was going to be a public movement in response. There always is, just like there was under Bush.
I love when people leave out the September 11th attacks, as if the economic impact of that disaster and the and subsequent military response against the Taliban didn't have any impact on the deficit whatsoever.
People's voices are amplified because we're in a recession, and Obama's stimulus packages haven't worked to address the high unemployment rate or low consumer confidence. Inexplicably, Obama seems to believe he can spend his way through to the other side. His expansion of government powers is something a lot of people disagree with.
I really don't understand why certain supporters, whenever they encounter any criticism, obsessively bring up Bush just as you did, as if it somehow refutes their point about the flaws in Obama's economic policies. Bush hasn't been president for two years now. You're falling to the very tribalism described in this article, attacking people for being part of "the other side" instead of critically addressing their points.
By the way, you'd better get used to hearing these viewpoints because, based on the polls, it's going to be a bloodbath for Democrats in November. Part of living in a democracy is tolerating the existence of opposing opinions, and right now, the public has turned on Obama.
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It's weird that you bash companies and ignore the government's role in creating a confusing tax code in the first place. Governments, as some kind of universal law, fuck things up for their citizens.
It's a cynical attempt to try to do something to try to stop the spiraling poll numbers for him and the Democrats. Yet we're still leaving troops there--commitment is "changing," not ending--and the war in Afghanistan is bloodier than ever (worse than it was under Bush) so it's not really going to do anything. It's also an attempt to distract people from the ethics trials of two Democrats in the House.
Some pundits are predicting the biggest GOP majority since 1946. We'll see. All I know is, this Democrat supermajority fucking sucks, obsessing over socialized healthcare for a year instead of jobs. And now, our buddies in the UK are decentralizing their healthcare because the quality of their socialized healthcare sucks. Obama's whole first year was a pointless waste.
It's like the last two years have been an example of how idealistic liberalism fails in practice. Obama flies around the world apologizing to everyone for our existence to match the image of the enlightened intellectual, yet people in the rest of the world continue to hate us and are openly making nukes. Spends money on stimulus packages that do little except increase the debt, furthering our financial troubles. Constantly goes back on promises made during his campaign. And on and on.
Most people, when times are tough, tighten their belts and lower their expenses to save money until things get better. Why Obama chose to expand government and increase spending in a recession is disappointing but not surprising.
The iMacs use mobile graphics cards and have a giant heat vent near the top of the backside.
Uh, nobody disputes that Microsoft gave them $150 million. Saying that $150 million helped Apple with their financial problems doesn't contradict anything I said.
You're absolutely wrong that the $150 million was to help Apple out--it was due to a settlement. Microsoft could not have sat back and not paid a dime. Video For Windows infringed on Quicktime patents, and Apple was suing for $1.255 billion and would have won, dealing Microsoft a serious blow. If they hadn't bowed to Apple's demands, they would have been in serious trouble. So, they were forced to pay $150 million in non-voting stock and continue development of Office for Mac.
Your argument is completely blown away. Next.
You trash wiki articles, yet you linked a Wikipedia article in your other post. You're really bad at this.
Is the New York Times a good enough source for you? Here's another news source detailing Microsoft's theft of Apple code. Here's info on the Microsoft company that stole Quicktime code, leading to the settlement where Microsoft was forced to buy non-voting stocks and continue development of Office for Mac.
Your entire premise has been decimated, so you've been forced to to cite Wikipedia links on citations (contradicting your own criticisms of wikis) to try to distract the argument. It won't work. You got caught putting your foot in your mouth and talking about something you hadn't researched, and now you're mad that I called you out on it.
You're not informed enough to be arguing with me about this. Next.
I don't care if you think it's a strange comment. Tablets are an appliance device, streamlined for simple computing.
If you're a business user, you may be interested to know that 50% of Fortune 100 companies are already using the iPad. So really, nobody knows what it is you're complaining about except that you want a stylus, which is an obsolete input device that nobody wants.
Yes, you think Steve Jobs can hear you. Apple-haters like you obsessively reference him by name as if it strengthens your point.
Next.
What the hell? Nothing in your post refuted what I posted. You're a terrible troll.
You claimed that there was no stolen Quicktime code leading to the settlement, yet the very block of text you quote mentions the "Quicktime piracy" lawsuit! Might want to read what you're pasting next time.
Absolutely nobody questions that it was help for Apple to have Microsoft buy non-voting stocks, but you claimed they were directly responsible for things like the iPhone, which is retarded. What saved Apple was the iMac and, three years later, the iPod..
Your argument was destroyed, and you were properly downvoted for it. Next.
Perhaps you should respond to the article instead of attacking the messenger if you disagree with its point.
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You ended up supporting the premise of his point by acting as the kind of liberal guy he was mocking. Instead of responding with facts, you used emotional by somehow relating his criticism of the environmentalist movement to that of anti-semitism. There's zero logical leap for that comparison--you're just replacing words and acting as if that's a rebuttal.
You also claim "conservatives can drive whatever they want," which wasn't said. The point is that rich liberals drive these cars, so that was the subject of the post. Conservatives weren't even mentioned. You took it as a personal attack on your ideology, so to respond, you had to bring up conservatives for some reason and draw a bunch of conclusions out of thin air about what you thought was implied by the post.
In fact, you're the one making implication that only conservatives could agree with the post, turning it into a battle of us versus them. You're encouraging the very dichotomy you claim to live away from.
Oh, man. You have an excellent point, so prepare to get mod-bombed.
What the hell are you talking about? Apple-haters have almost completely taken over the comments section to any Apple article. What a lame attempt at karma-whoring on your part.
Because you're not quoting the actual legal case where Apple and Microsoft reached a settlement deal after Quicktime source code was found in Video For Windows. "The news" isn't always accurate. You're the Troll because you know this.
You're a troll for intentionally lying about easily verifiable facts. A really bad troll, too. Try harder next time.
Hey, troll who uses random bold formatting for attention:
Apple v. San Francisco Canyon
You are a troll because you're intentionally ignoring facts:
Apple v. San Francisco Canyon
"In August 1997, Apple and Microsoft announced a settlement deal. Apple would drop all current lawsuits, including all lingering issues from the Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. lawsuit and the "QuickTime source code" lawsuit, and agree to make Internet Explorer the default browser on the Macintosh unless the user explicitly chose the bundled Netscape browser. In return, Microsoft agreed to continue developing Office, Internet Explorer, and various developer tools and software for the Mac for the next five years, and purchase $150 million of non-voting Apple stock.
The companies also agreed to mutual collaboration on Java technologies, and to cross-license all existing patents, and patents obtained during the five-year deal, with one another. "
It's getting really annoying seeing Google/Android fanbois falling over themselves to claim this is a non-issue, a non-story, etc. If the iPhone had a story about a rootkit, there would be 500+ comments, with half of them addressing Steve Jobs by name since Apple-haters think he can hear them.
Every time someone claims there is no attack vector, a hacker somewhere is always drooling over the idea of proving them wrong.
Apple takes things that exist and makes them usable. This is not news.
Apple versus San Francisco Canyon
You're flat-out wrong. Whoever modded you up is equally idiotic.
Next.
I'm saying you don't represent the mainstream at all, and so tablets aren't for you in the first place. You call the rest of my post "gibberish" because you have no counterargument to it.
Combustion engines are a pretty useful technology, last I checked.
Isn't it sad that, in an article about the perils of tribalism, the comments to the article quickly devolved to tribalism?
I know what you mean. I've been told that because Republicans are always cigar-smoking racists who hate minorities and only care about money, I should support government healthcare.
The media would never allow the Tea Party to gain a significant share of power. There have even been plants at Tea Party rallies who act racist in front of cameras, and that footage is used in television ads, yet when you watch the unedited footage, you see Tea Party members yelling at and expelling the plant. There's some twisted shit going on in the left in response to the Tea Party movement, and the exploitation of race is just one of the ways they're coping with the threat of the upcoming elections.
Personally, I don't get what the big deal is. People are surprised that there's an anti-tax, anti-government movement when there's a very liberal Democrat supermajority in power? Of course there was going to be a public movement in response. There always is, just like there was under Bush.
I love when people leave out the September 11th attacks, as if the economic impact of that disaster and the and subsequent military response against the Taliban didn't have any impact on the deficit whatsoever.
People's voices are amplified because we're in a recession, and Obama's stimulus packages haven't worked to address the high unemployment rate or low consumer confidence. Inexplicably, Obama seems to believe he can spend his way through to the other side. His expansion of government powers is something a lot of people disagree with.
I really don't understand why certain supporters, whenever they encounter any criticism, obsessively bring up Bush just as you did, as if it somehow refutes their point about the flaws in Obama's economic policies. Bush hasn't been president for two years now. You're falling to the very tribalism described in this article, attacking people for being part of "the other side" instead of critically addressing their points.
By the way, you'd better get used to hearing these viewpoints because, based on the polls, it's going to be a bloodbath for Democrats in November. Part of living in a democracy is tolerating the existence of opposing opinions, and right now, the public has turned on Obama.