What percentage of your guns has Obama taken away yet? 10%, 30%, or is it coming up on 100? And there were all those Snowden docs talking about the DHS's double-secret-plus plans to disarm law abiiiiden muricans.
/endsarcasm
The Deep State doesn't give a flying fuck about ammosexuals and how many guns they have. Because 99% of them might talk a good game about fearing an unaccountable police state, only to turn on a dime and excuse cops for murdering citizens and cheering the bombing of the latest Muslim country that's never attacked us. And they couldn't be bothered to get out of bed when Obama signed domestic military detention without trial into law, anymore than the Obamabots did. Even Superman would be amazed at how fast they can strip off their "Don't Tread on Me" tshirts and begin goosestepping.
Which was a feature, not a bug. If Occupy had focused on specific issues and gotten into electoral politics like all the Very Serious and Important People said it should do, it would have gradually been co-opted and been nothing more than a tool for the DNC, just like the AFL-CIO. It's what happened to the teabaggers, only for the other side of the aisle.
I hate it when people say the iPhone costs $200. I obviously does not. It costs between $650 and $1,050 depending on model. The phone company will let you put $200 down if you agree to finance the rest through them for 2 yrs.
Distinction without a difference, as you'll be paying the same rates to AT&T or Verizon whether you have a brand new subsidized phone, a flip phone that you paid off before the Gulf War, or paid retail and then set it up for the carrier. So, from the consumer's point of view, it is a $200 phone.
How many Android phones that were sold during thst time period are still officially supported?
Or how non user-replacable batteries are only a problem when Apple does it. I'm also waiting for these people to gripe about the "walled gardens" on their Wii's, XBox's or Playstations. I'm sure it'll happen any minute now. Any minute now......
Not when it's obvious that you've rigged up a beer bong and filled it with Hatorade. You don't see people turning into a frothing hulk of impotent rage if someone credits Samsung with showing there's a market for large-screen phones. But any praise of Apple brings out the Hatebois.
Apple Fanboys are like the Loch Ness Monster: often talked about, but never actually seen.
You're confusing inevitable industry evolution for copying Apple.
You're ignoring the fact that everything is obvious, once someone else has done it. And yeah, sometimes that applies to Apple as well, like when Samsung demonstrated there was a large market for large screen phones.
His ego was so inflated, he thought everyone should use the same product that best fit his needs.
Blah blah blah hatorade blah blah blah. Jobs was also on record for hating flash - but when the technology matured it replaced microdrives for iPod storage, was then put in all iPhones and iPads, and even some Mac laptops. All before he died.
This is one fact that a simple google search would have shown.
Simply weak sauce. Just to pick one, the 20th Anniversary Mac was never intended to be a mass market product, but a limited release for those with the interest (and couch money) to buy one. To pick another, the Newton was a profitable spinoff until Jobs axed the product line. But not before it birthed PDA's, which birthed smartphones.
Allowing unlimited password attempts on the cloud service was an inexcusable oversight on Apple's part. Most of the rest of your list, though, is stale wankery.
Yes, you are. You have to open Launchpad from the dock or press a hotkey, it's not an interface that's shoved down your throat every time you try to do anything on your computer. Remove it from the Dock and reassign a hot key, and you'll never see Launchpad - good luck doing the same with Metro.
And Microsoft isn't nearly as stupid or slow or doomed as your average Slashdotter would like them to be.
Sure they are. Microsoft was at the right place at the right time with their Windows/Office bundle, and have been coasting on that monopoly ever since. Sure, they have a well funded research park with lots of Ph.d's working there, but the only notable, mass market product it's turned out is the Kinect. Sure, Dynamics still brings in some change, but that was bought from another software comapny.
Apple doesn't have a habit of dumping entire product categories, like Microsoft did with Plays4Sure and then RT. Even their "flops" like the Cube at least broke even, and Apple hasn't taken losses in the billions to try and enter a new market (XBox).
It's entirely possible that some executive could come in and give Microsoft's entire corporate culture a much needed enema, the way Jobs turned things around when he went back to Apple in the late 90's. But that hasn't happened yet.
I got your point just fine. You don't want the "wrong" sort of people to vote, which is inherently elitist. As Jenny McCarthy hasn't had to shop at a Wal-Mart for 20 years, that leaves the victims of elitism as the targets for your elitism.
The poor and uneducated wont be allowed to vote, which will help to ensure that they remain poor and uneducated, and thus unable to vote. It's a vicious cycle, which takes time to perfect.
So you use gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail, or corporate mail ? You don't think the providers don't or can't parse that ? It's not your mail it's theirs after all.
Yes, we all know Google data mines Gmail for marketing purposes.
Can backbone providers like CenturyLink read that email? No.
Can your local ISP read that email? No.
Can your neighbor, if he uses the same ISP? No.
Even if you are using unencrypted wifi? Still no.
Not. A. Party. Line.
Oh I don't know, maybe the people selling you your net access ?
Clown shoes: still on. Of course your ISP (what Verizon and AT&T are when using a smartphone for net access) can see what sites you are going to. Are you amazed that Amazon has your home address after you've had something shipped to it?
That's not even remotely close to tapping, storing, and analyzing 100% of your electronic communications, for years if not decades at a time.
Obviously because they would have been bragging about it. The national insecurity state constantly releases top secret info for PR purposes when it would be calling for another 30 year sentence for a whisteblower if he were to publish the same information.
So, yeah, if mass warrantless wiretapping had actually been used to prevent an actual attack, you would have actually heard about it.
All email, social media, banking and consumer purchases take place over SSL connections, and have for a long time. So the "party line" stuff is a non-starter.
So if it wasn't the NSA it would be someone else.
Who. Who else has the budget AND the physical proximity to the bulk of the fiber (which runs through the US) to do a "full take" of what people do online.
Who's the fucking idiot? Bush doubled the debt and dramatically increased the number of signing statements attached to bills, yet Republicans only had a problem with either when Obama came into office.
And the Democrats, who spent most of Bush's presidency hating on the Patriot Act, couldn't be bothered get out of bed when Obama singed domestic military detention without trial into law with the NDAA.
Nevermind all the "smart" people behind great human endeavors like WWI, austerity, or the invasion of Iraq. Nevermind the circular that the poor should surrender their voting rights to elitists, when they are poor because of elitist policies to begin with.
When I go to Wal-Mart and look around, I'm glad so few people vote. I think a case can be made that too many ignorant and/or stupid people vote.
If you're a neofeudalist, sure. Why don't you repeal the 20th Century and go back to only white male property owners having the vote, while you're at it?
And if he'd limited his rant to the eradication of this species, he'd have a great point. Because it's non-native, and there are ~80 other species of mosquito for predators to munch on in the same area.
But that's not what he did. He put on his clown shoes and argued that ecosystems are bullet-resistant, when anyone with a remedial knowledge of history or biology knows is not the case.
And if he had limited his rant to the mosquito species in question, he'd have a great point. Not just because the mosquitoes are non-native, but because there are dozens of other species for frogs/bats/dragon flies to feed on if this one dies out.
But he didn't. He went on as if ecosystems are bullet resistant, when anyone who's ever heard of the term "invasive species" knows that to be false.
why does everyone always talk about the koch brothers
Because they're anti-government fanatics who fund right wing media and climate change denial. Which puts them in a whole nother league than other rich scummy fucks like Bill Gates.
when the facts are the dems get just as much money from their rich friends and their rich friends PACs?
Because the Democrats whore themselves out as much as Republicans do.
How do you propose unions help workers without getting political? Scott Walker, NCLB, ALEC, Wal-Mart, right-to-be-fired laws, privatization, NAFTA...and that's off the top of my head. All political issues.
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What percentage of your guns has Obama taken away yet? 10%, 30%, or is it coming up on 100? And there were all those Snowden docs talking about the DHS's double-secret-plus plans to disarm law abiiiiden muricans.
/endsarcasm
The Deep State doesn't give a flying fuck about ammosexuals and how many guns they have. Because 99% of them might talk a good game about fearing an unaccountable police state, only to turn on a dime and excuse cops for murdering citizens and cheering the bombing of the latest Muslim country that's never attacked us. And they couldn't be bothered to get out of bed when Obama signed domestic military detention without trial into law, anymore than the Obamabots did. Even Superman would be amazed at how fast they can strip off their "Don't Tread on Me" tshirts and begin goosestepping.
What part of "it's not really bendable" did you have a hard time understanding, wanker?
Which was a feature, not a bug. If Occupy had focused on specific issues and gotten into electoral politics like all the Very Serious and Important People said it should do, it would have gradually been co-opted and been nothing more than a tool for the DNC, just like the AFL-CIO. It's what happened to the teabaggers, only for the other side of the aisle.
Distinction without a difference, as you'll be paying the same rates to AT&T or Verizon whether you have a brand new subsidized phone, a flip phone that you paid off before the Gulf War, or paid retail and then set it up for the carrier. So, from the consumer's point of view, it is a $200 phone.
Or how non user-replacable batteries are only a problem when Apple does it. I'm also waiting for these people to gripe about the "walled gardens" on their Wii's, XBox's or Playstations. I'm sure it'll happen any minute now. Any minute now......
Not when it's obvious that you've rigged up a beer bong and filled it with Hatorade. You don't see people turning into a frothing hulk of impotent rage if someone credits Samsung with showing there's a market for large-screen phones. But any praise of Apple brings out the Hatebois.
Apple Fanboys are like the Loch Ness Monster: often talked about, but never actually seen.
You're ignoring the fact that everything is obvious, once someone else has done it. And yeah, sometimes that applies to Apple as well, like when Samsung demonstrated there was a large market for large screen phones.
Blah blah blah hatorade blah blah blah. Jobs was also on record for hating flash - but when the technology matured it replaced microdrives for iPod storage, was then put in all iPhones and iPads, and even some Mac laptops. All before he died.
Making a smartphone that can be used by your grandma = revolutionary.
And you could look at all those products put out by someone else and make a similar dismissive sniff that they were just copying the Newton.
Simply weak sauce. Just to pick one, the 20th Anniversary Mac was never intended to be a mass market product, but a limited release for those with the interest (and couch money) to buy one. To pick another, the Newton was a profitable spinoff until Jobs axed the product line. But not before it birthed PDA's, which birthed smartphones.
Microsoft's investment amounted to a 7.5% increase in Apple's liquid assets at the time. It was a settlement of a lawsuit, nothing more, nothing less.
Allowing unlimited password attempts on the cloud service was an inexcusable oversight on Apple's part. Most of the rest of your list, though, is stale wankery.
Yes, you are. You have to open Launchpad from the dock or press a hotkey, it's not an interface that's shoved down your throat every time you try to do anything on your computer. Remove it from the Dock and reassign a hot key, and you'll never see Launchpad - good luck doing the same with Metro.
Sure they are. Microsoft was at the right place at the right time with their Windows/Office bundle, and have been coasting on that monopoly ever since. Sure, they have a well funded research park with lots of Ph.d's working there, but the only notable, mass market product it's turned out is the Kinect. Sure, Dynamics still brings in some change, but that was bought from another software comapny.
Apple doesn't have a habit of dumping entire product categories, like Microsoft did with Plays4Sure and then RT. Even their "flops" like the Cube at least broke even, and Apple hasn't taken losses in the billions to try and enter a new market (XBox).
It's entirely possible that some executive could come in and give Microsoft's entire corporate culture a much needed enema, the way Jobs turned things around when he went back to Apple in the late 90's. But that hasn't happened yet.
I got your point just fine. You don't want the "wrong" sort of people to vote, which is inherently elitist. As Jenny McCarthy hasn't had to shop at a Wal-Mart for 20 years, that leaves the victims of elitism as the targets for your elitism.
The poor and uneducated wont be allowed to vote, which will help to ensure that they remain poor and uneducated, and thus unable to vote. It's a vicious cycle, which takes time to perfect.
...and stop embarrassing yourself.
Yes, we all know Google data mines Gmail for marketing purposes.
Can backbone providers like CenturyLink read that email? No.
Can your local ISP read that email? No.
Can your neighbor, if he uses the same ISP? No.
Even if you are using unencrypted wifi? Still no.
Not. A. Party. Line.
Clown shoes: still on. Of course your ISP (what Verizon and AT&T are when using a smartphone for net access) can see what sites you are going to. Are you amazed that Amazon has your home address after you've had something shipped to it?
That's not even remotely close to tapping, storing, and analyzing 100% of your electronic communications, for years if not decades at a time.
Obviously because they would have been bragging about it. The national insecurity state constantly releases top secret info for PR purposes when it would be calling for another 30 year sentence for a whisteblower if he were to publish the same information.
So, yeah, if mass warrantless wiretapping had actually been used to prevent an actual attack, you would have actually heard about it.
All email, social media, banking and consumer purchases take place over SSL connections, and have for a long time. So the "party line" stuff is a non-starter.
Who. Who else has the budget AND the physical proximity to the bulk of the fiber (which runs through the US) to do a "full take" of what people do online.
Who's the fucking idiot? Bush doubled the debt and dramatically increased the number of signing statements attached to bills, yet Republicans only had a problem with either when Obama came into office.
And the Democrats, who spent most of Bush's presidency hating on the Patriot Act, couldn't be bothered get out of bed when Obama singed domestic military detention without trial into law with the NDAA.
Nevermind all the "smart" people behind great human endeavors like WWI, austerity, or the invasion of Iraq. Nevermind the circular that the poor should surrender their voting rights to elitists, when they are poor because of elitist policies to begin with.
If you're a neofeudalist, sure. Why don't you repeal the 20th Century and go back to only white male property owners having the vote, while you're at it?
And if he'd limited his rant to the eradication of this species, he'd have a great point. Because it's non-native, and there are ~80 other species of mosquito for predators to munch on in the same area.
But that's not what he did. He put on his clown shoes and argued that ecosystems are bullet-resistant, when anyone with a remedial knowledge of history or biology knows is not the case.
Forced if they want to stay on the Euro. Too bad you didn't leave your non-responses at home as well.
And if he had limited his rant to the mosquito species in question, he'd have a great point. Not just because the mosquitoes are non-native, but because there are dozens of other species for frogs/bats/dragon flies to feed on if this one dies out.
But he didn't. He went on as if ecosystems are bullet resistant, when anyone who's ever heard of the term "invasive species" knows that to be false.
There are plenty of parties out there that don't have their heads as far up their asses as Libertarians do.
Because they're anti-government fanatics who fund right wing media and climate change denial. Which puts them in a whole nother league than other rich scummy fucks like Bill Gates.
Because the Democrats whore themselves out as much as Republicans do.
Any more dumb questions?
How do you propose unions help workers without getting political? Scott Walker, NCLB, ALEC, Wal-Mart, right-to-be-fired laws, privatization, NAFTA...and that's off the top of my head. All political issues.