Apple has never been a big proponent of free or open standards; they have been using propriety standards for Macs, iPods, and iPhones since their creations.
Because 802.11/IDE/SATA/USB/MP3/Bluetooth/HTML/BSD/MP4/AAC/Intel/Displayport/Lightpeak/DDR/PCI are sooooooooooo proprietary.
Windows vista was a near complete rewrite of the OS to bring windows into the 21st century.
That was supposed to be Longhorn, which was supposed to have real improvements over it's predecessors. Vista, however, was just a gob of shite until a number of bug fixes and a service pack made it usable. If reverting to the prior version means an upgrade in both performance and usability, you've done something wrong. Windows 8 is a usability fail but at least it's fast.
Which is still against the law. The H1-B program requires that you can't find a suitable domestic candidate at market rate, and requires that H1-B workers be paid that market rate. Advertising a $80K position at $40K doesn't get the employer out of that requirement.
Which is the entire purpose of the H1-B visa program: increase the size of the labor pool, which inherently decreases wages so your $80K position now "pays" $40k.
And that's with gigantic sized air quotes around "pays". Because your HR department posts an advertized salary of $40k per year, but demands a doctorate, 10 years experience in a language that's been out for 7, and of course expects you to work 60 hours a week plus holidays. Presto! No Americans can be "found" to take this position, and an H1-B is hired to do the job.
it wasnt a new tactic, the democrats love to bitch about the filibuster, but the facts are they have used it just as much over the years.
Not even close. Not even on the same planet. Remember when Republicans threatened the Nuclear Option when Democrats were maybe kinda sorta thinking about filibustering Alito? That kind of filibuster is everyday procedure for Republicans, even on far less important positions and when the nominee herself is completely uncontroversial.
Not that the Democrats aren't full of crap - see Snowden - but the Republicans are using the filibuster to render parts of the government impotent because they refuse to confirm appointments across the board.
Given that California has the highest taxes in the nation, you'll have to look elsewhere for problems with "cutting taxes".
Given Prop 13 and the fact that giant corps like Disney pay pennies on prime real estate like Disneyland, you'll have to peddle your Randian dismay on being called out to someone a little more naive. And why are you yelling squirrel, I mean California, when the subject is Detroit?
Your "I blame evil rich people and won't face the problem" attitude isn't helping.
Your "I'll run interference for right wing class warfare crap" isn't flying. Try your storyline in some alternate universe where neoliberals and Birchers haven't been robbing workers and the public sector blind over the last 30 years. And the right wing is still obsessed with attacking pensions so they can maintain or expand tax cuts and subsidies for monied interests.
Meanwhile, back here on Earth, wingers from both parties are obsessed with gutting Social Security and passing more free trade deals of the sort that drove Detroit into the gutter in the first place.
Honestly, I'd be a big fan of banning pensions entirely, at least in the form they're in now.
Why. Rather than screwing workers out of the best retirement available, how about mandate governments to fund them adequately, and companies award pensioners first before any other creditor, and before any bonuses or raises are awarded to executives. Problem solved.
There have been countless messes over the past few decades when companies fail to meet pension obligations, usually as the result of bankruptcy.
Usually because incompetent greedy executives have taken huge salaries while driving the company into the ground, or because greedy executives are looking to dump their obligations so they can sell the stock at a profit. See: Kodak, where pensions were discharged in bankruptcy and investors made off like bandits. Or: Hostess, where Twinkies cost just as much now as before they discharged obligations to workers in bankruptcy court.
Oh, I'd also prohibit any kind of compensation system in which years of service is given any consideration at all, unless it is for the odd anniversary gift of token value.
This means you're cool if your company highers some kid fresh out of high school and pays him just as much as you, even if you've had 15 years experience?
Aside from this obvious partisan bullshit you just spewed, your argument is essentially "the USPS is the only entity required to actually act in a responsible manner with regard to pensions - thats unfair to the USPS!"
Do you use a cannon or a howitzer for your projection? What part of 'the USPS is the only entity with the 75 year requirement in existence' is your partisan hack mind having a hard time comprehending? How many business could survive when slapped with $50 billion+ in liabilities that don't apply to any of their competitors in the same industry? Pull your head out of your own partisan buuuuuuullshit.
Public sector unions never should have been able to negotiate pension deals that werent based on the immediate funding of them.
Drivel. Pensions are part of compensation, and now good little brownshirts like yourself want to let companies and governments renig on those obligations. As if your own salary and benefits aren't entirely dependent on incoming revenues.
The public sector workers of Detroit, in concert with the local officials, were trying to steal from future (often too young to vote, or not even born yet) tax payers when they negotiated their packages 20+ years ago.
It's the tax cuts for the rich, stupid. You're attempting the same misdirection when the oligarchs start whining about "class warfare" when anyone points out their war on the working class.
You are claiming that Detroit is a conservative city? Really?
You're claiming that the Democrats aren't a conservative party? Really? And you're claiming that the people of Detroit single-handedly passed NAFTA, the 2006 Bankruptcy Bill, repealed Glass-Steagall and got the state government to block hundreds of millions in funds owed to the city? Do you keep your head up there for the warmth, or what?
And it's Detroit that is about to start slashing pensions because they didn't bother to pay for them up front...
The only entity that's required to pay up front is the USPS. You want to talk about Detroit, lets talk about how conservatives have underfunded their pension obligations for decades so they could pass tax cuts for the rich. And how conservative trade laws destroyed Detroits economy in the first place.
Nice try at turning this into a partisan issue, though.
You can always tell when a partisan winger is on the losing side of an argument: they start complaining about partisanship. Republicans did create this requirement in the first place, and repealing it would require passing a bill through the House, which is controlled by....Republicans.
Democrats could have changed this between 2009 and 2010, but that doesn't change the above two facts.
If you haven't noticed, everyone everywhere has a similar budget crisis with fixed-benefit retirement plans.
No one has a similar budget crisis because no one but the USPS is forced to fully fund health care and retirements 75 years in advance. No public entity. No private entity.
To pretend otherwise is misleading at best.
Funding was based on 90s-boom-era assumptions about stock market performance that spent the last 13 years not happening, and pension plans in general are in serious trouble
Err, no. What's really happened: state and local governments have constantly underfunded pension funds or "deferred" payments so they could cut taxes, primarily for the wealthy.
Leaving that fact out is as much journalistic malpractice as talking about the "woes" of the USPS while leaving out the 75 year requirement which only applies to the USPS.
And why people go see plays that have been out for hundreds of years (Shakespeare) or a new production of an old musical that they've already seen (Phantom of the Opera, Le Miz).
Craftsmanship can be more important that original works.
Like I said the first time: could we get some winger trolls that are a little less ignorant? Bush should be in the Hague for war crimes, with Obama in the docket right next to him. That's after he's impeached, of course, for violating both the Constitution and the War Powers Act for starting a war with Libya without Congressional authorization.
See, that's what's nice about not being a partisan hack. You can call bullshit on the birther crap and Obama's spying on Fox/AP reporters at the same time. Go on, give it a try, even if it puts that winger merit badge at risk.
Yet Curtis Morrison admitted bugging the McConnell office.
Curtis admitted to eavesdropping. You didn't bother to read the source link in the article you tried to cite, did you? And which republican is responsible for O'Keefe's actual attempt to actually place an actual bug in a senators office, not just eavesdrop by an office door?
He's exactly as responsible as Nixon was for G. Gordon Libby's actions.
Nice dodge. When did Obama cover up Morrison's actions and fire the prosecutors investigating them?
That's pretty disingenuous to delay
Dude. Both liberal and conservatives were scrutinized under a Bush appointee. Deal with it.
But we were talking about using agencies for targeting political enemies, not providing favors. Stuff like this.
Stuff like more winger bullshit? How is denying FOIA requests - which he's doing wholesale on the military-industrial-surveillance-war crimes complex - "punishing" "enemies", exactly? Obama loves right wing big agri/petrol business as much as his predecessor.
You'll have to explain that, or admit you're wrong. The United States officially ended its military involvement in Vietnam on March 29, 1973, and Nixon didn't resign until August 9, 1974.
Pretty please...don't you have a less ignorant Ayn reading brother in law you could call in here, or something? Offensives against North Vietnam were what was ended in 1973. The war itself and the occupation of South Vietnam weren't ended until 1975:
In December 1974, months after Ford took office, North Vietnamese forces invaded the province of Phuoc Long. General Trán VÄfn Trà sought to gauge any South Vietnamese or American response to the invasion, as well as to solve logistical issues before proceeding with the invasion.[111]
As North Vietnamese forces advanced, Ford requested aid for South Vietnam in a $522 million aid package. The funds had been promised by the Nixon administration, but Congress voted against the proposal by a wide margin.[99] Senator Jacob Javits offered "...large sums for evacuation, but not one nickel for military aid".[99] President Thieu resigned on April 21, 1975, publicly blaming the lack of support from the United States for the fall of his country.[112] Two days later, on April 23, Ford gave a speech at Tulane University. In that speech, he announced that the Vietnam War was over "...as far as America is concerned".[110] The announcement was met with thunderous applause.[110]
Nixon was still promising support for South Vietnam before he left office. Whoopsie doopsie.
Now, it's not like there aren't 501 real Obama scandals to be outraged about without having to resort to this stupid Glenn Beck crap. How about that Trans-Pacific partnership, which will overrule by treaty state and federal laws protecting American workers and consumers. How about giving the military the authority to step in an "emergency" domestic situation to "restore order". How about his repeated attempts to cut Social Security as a part of a debt deal when SS has nothing to do with the debt?
Really? All it would have taken was a little research. He was in tech. He should have *known* the ridiculous shit they throw at "hacker-types". I know I do.
Really, that's just more authoritarian apologia. Swartz no doubt also knew that prosecutors love to go after child molesters, but he would have gotten less time for fucking a 14 year old girl (or boy) in the ass than what the DOJ was threatening him with for trespassing.
He committed breaking and entering, and he access a computer he DID NOT have authorization to do so.
Which merits at worst a few weeks in jail. A lotta dumbfuckers, then and now, pretend that objecting to 35+ years in jail meant Swartz should have suffered no consequences. No, it means that if the choice is walking or spending half in life in jail for trespassing, the guy should walk.
Anyone who thinks otherwise, I ask why they haven't immigrated to Saudi Arabia yet so they can watch people be executed for adultery or hands cut off for shoplifting.
Only if Carter would have made every effort to maintain Too Big To Fail, prosecuted fewer bankers than Reagan/Bush did for the far smaller S&L crisis, and decided the way to restore prosperity to the middle class was to cut their Social Security benefits.
Could we get some winger trolls that are a little less willfully ignorant please?
How is the Watergate break-in worse than bugging the campaign office of Mitch McConnell?
1. Someone walking by and recording a conversation with a handheld device isn't "bugging", it's "eavesdropping". No device left in the room? Then it's not bugged.
2. Obama is responsible for the actions of every democrat in the country now? In that case, which republican is responsible for James O'Keefe's actual attempt to bug a senator's office?
How is creating an "enemies list" worse than targeting your enemies through the IRS, the EPA
You do know that democratic groups were not just given equal scrutiny by the IRS, but that the only group to be denied tax-exempt status was a democratic group? And this all happened under a Bush appointee to the IRS?
As for the EPA, you mean the agency where the Obama Administration had to be taken to court to actual enforce EPA regulations rather than giving industry a free pass? That EPA?
He ENDED the Vietnam war
You mean Ford ended the war.
He didn't target children with drones, either.
Finally you get to something that isn't from 'bagger la la land. It's not like Obama hasn't pulled enough real right-wing power grabs without having to make up stupid bullshit about the IRS or the EPA. It's like you guys will lose your winger merit badges if your attacks aren't 90% bullshit.
The Clinton issue was a failure by Arafat to pull the trigger and sign the deal for various reasons.
The "various reasons" being the constant moving of goalposts by the Israelis, who also wanted complete control over water rights. And that's even after the Palestinians agreed to let Israel keep large parts of land outside the Green Line, which Israel has no right to.
Israel doesn't want peace. It wants land and control, and peace gets in the way of that.
He averted an econopocalypse for the people who caused it
FTFY. Real unemployment has hovered around 14% for as long as he's been in office. Millions of people have lost their jobs and their homes, frequently due to bank fraud, since he became president.
Meanwhile, the scumbag bankster fucks that caused the mess in the first place have been rewarded with bailouts, allowing them to purchase those millions of homes for rock-bottom prices and rent them out to the people that used to own them.
FDIC didn't come into play.
It did at the banks that were allowed to fail. You know, the regional or small banks that couldn't afford to buy off a Senator or two.
He ramped down our military action in Iraq and Afghanistan.
DaFuck? Obama tripled forces in Afghanistan and wanted to extend the occupation of Iraq. When the Iraqis refused to continue granting Americans immunity from war crimes, Obama was forced to follow Bush's timeline for troop reductions in Iraq.
He has pushed his health care plan though a RAGING MAELSTROM of vile hate. And it passed.
He passed Rommeycare with the mandates and excise taxes that he campaigned against. And killed the Public Option, which he campaigned on, in just the sort of back room deal he campaigned against.
He's also taking the slightly more direct approach of killing "terrorist" in the field rather than capturing them.
He doesn't even know who he's killing with 'signature strikes', which also kill 49 civilians for every alleged terrorist. Bombing a wedding creates far more "terrorists" than all the words from bin Laddin ever could.
But all in all he's got shit done.
Oh, he's gotten shit done, alright. Everything that he campaigned against, and little that he campaigned for.
It would be one thing if he hadn't sailed in on the most anti-Republican wave since the Great Depression. Instead, between his inexperienced leadership, and the congressional Democrats not being about to figure out how to pass anything, almost nothing got done.
Actually, Obama has gotten pretty much everything he's ever wanted, just like his predecessor. It's just that the things he wants (assassinations, cuts to Social Security, NDAA, NAFTA on steroids, Romneycare) aren't the things he campaigned on.
What you say there actually makes it sound like it isn't so poor after all. The south acted similarly to those who doubted Obama and petitioned to secede
Secession didn't happen this time around of course, but... that didn't stop Obama from doing all the things he did.
Like taking your guns away and winning a second term despite being born in Kenya? Oh wait, neither of things happened, so what are you going on about?
I think you've got that one covered already, it's called the 4th amendment. Too bad you guys have spent decades deciding that the Constitution is a 'living breathing document' instead of a foundational document which is immutable.
... part that's going to apply the 4th Amendment to cell phone calls and tapping internet communications. You know, stuff Madison et all had no clue was going to be on the horizon in the 18th century. So, you want to try again, since your "immutable" Constitution "only" mentions "persons, papers and effects"?
Yes, we'd all like to see HL3, but you're being rather flippant about the success of Portal 1 and 2, Left4Dead and L4D2, as well as Team Fortress, DOTA2
Not really, since he covered Valve buying out games or game ideas from other people. There's also Counter-Strike.
Hmm. Maybe a group of fans should get together and start making a Half-Life 3, so Valve can buy them out and stop procrastinating on their core franchise.
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Because 802.11/IDE/SATA/USB/MP3/Bluetooth/HTML/BSD/MP4/AAC/Intel/Displayport/Lightpeak/DDR/PCI are sooooooooooo proprietary.
That was supposed to be Longhorn, which was supposed to have real improvements over it's predecessors. Vista, however, was just a gob of shite until a number of bug fixes and a service pack made it usable. If reverting to the prior version means an upgrade in both performance and usability, you've done something wrong. Windows 8 is a usability fail but at least it's fast.
Which is the entire purpose of the H1-B visa program: increase the size of the labor pool, which inherently decreases wages so your $80K position now "pays" $40k.
And that's with gigantic sized air quotes around "pays". Because your HR department posts an advertized salary of $40k per year, but demands a doctorate, 10 years experience in a language that's been out for 7, and of course expects you to work 60 hours a week plus holidays. Presto! No Americans can be "found" to take this position, and an H1-B is hired to do the job.
Not even close. Not even on the same planet. Remember when Republicans threatened the Nuclear Option when Democrats were maybe kinda sorta thinking about filibustering Alito? That kind of filibuster is everyday procedure for Republicans, even on far less important positions and when the nominee herself is completely uncontroversial.
Not that the Democrats aren't full of crap - see Snowden - but the Republicans are using the filibuster to render parts of the government impotent because they refuse to confirm appointments across the board.
"Right minded" people just hate competitive pricing, service, security, and reliability?
Ah, nothing gets you wingers more butthurt than being called out on your bullshit. Have a nice day.
Given Prop 13 and the fact that giant corps like Disney pay pennies on prime real estate like Disneyland, you'll have to peddle your Randian dismay on being called out to someone a little more naive. And why are you yelling squirrel, I mean California, when the subject is Detroit?
Your "I'll run interference for right wing class warfare crap" isn't flying. Try your storyline in some alternate universe where neoliberals and Birchers haven't been robbing workers and the public sector blind over the last 30 years. And the right wing is still obsessed with attacking pensions so they can maintain or expand tax cuts and subsidies for monied interests.
Meanwhile, back here on Earth, wingers from both parties are obsessed with gutting Social Security and passing more free trade deals of the sort that drove Detroit into the gutter in the first place.
Why. Rather than screwing workers out of the best retirement available, how about mandate governments to fund them adequately, and companies award pensioners first before any other creditor, and before any bonuses or raises are awarded to executives. Problem solved.
Usually because incompetent greedy executives have taken huge salaries while driving the company into the ground, or because greedy executives are looking to dump their obligations so they can sell the stock at a profit. See: Kodak, where pensions were discharged in bankruptcy and investors made off like bandits. Or: Hostess, where Twinkies cost just as much now as before they discharged obligations to workers in bankruptcy court.
This means you're cool if your company highers some kid fresh out of high school and pays him just as much as you, even if you've had 15 years experience?
Do you use a cannon or a howitzer for your projection? What part of 'the USPS is the only entity with the 75 year requirement in existence' is your partisan hack mind having a hard time comprehending? How many business could survive when slapped with $50 billion+ in liabilities that don't apply to any of their competitors in the same industry? Pull your head out of your own partisan buuuuuuullshit .
Drivel. Pensions are part of compensation, and now good little brownshirts like yourself want to let companies and governments renig on those obligations. As if your own salary and benefits aren't entirely dependent on incoming revenues.
It's the tax cuts for the rich, stupid. You're attempting the same misdirection when the oligarchs start whining about "class warfare" when anyone points out their war on the working class.
You're claiming that the Democrats aren't a conservative party? Really? And you're claiming that the people of Detroit single-handedly passed NAFTA, the 2006 Bankruptcy Bill, repealed Glass-Steagall and got the state government to block hundreds of millions in funds owed to the city? Do you keep your head up there for the warmth, or what?
And it's Detroit that is about to start slashing pensions because they didn't bother to pay for them up front...
The only entity that's required to pay up front is the USPS. You want to talk about Detroit, lets talk about how conservatives have underfunded their pension obligations for decades so they could pass tax cuts for the rich. And how conservative trade laws destroyed Detroits economy in the first place.
Prescriptions, time sensitive hard copy, legal documents. The world extends past your nose.
You can always tell when a partisan winger is on the losing side of an argument: they start complaining about partisanship. Republicans did create this requirement in the first place, and repealing it would require passing a bill through the House, which is controlled by....Republicans.
Democrats could have changed this between 2009 and 2010, but that doesn't change the above two facts.
No one has a similar budget crisis because no one but the USPS is forced to fully fund health care and retirements 75 years in advance. No public entity. No private entity.
To pretend otherwise is misleading at best.
Err, no. What's really happened: state and local governments have constantly underfunded pension funds or "deferred" payments so they could cut taxes, primarily for the wealthy.
Leaving that fact out is as much journalistic malpractice as talking about the "woes" of the USPS while leaving out the 75 year requirement which only applies to the USPS.
And why people go see plays that have been out for hundreds of years (Shakespeare) or a new production of an old musical that they've already seen (Phantom of the Opera, Le Miz).
Craftsmanship can be more important that original works.
Like I said the first time: could we get some winger trolls that are a little less ignorant? Bush should be in the Hague for war crimes, with Obama in the docket right next to him. That's after he's impeached, of course, for violating both the Constitution and the War Powers Act for starting a war with Libya without Congressional authorization.
See, that's what's nice about not being a partisan hack. You can call bullshit on the birther crap and Obama's spying on Fox/AP reporters at the same time. Go on, give it a try, even if it puts that winger merit badge at risk.
Curtis admitted to eavesdropping. You didn't bother to read the source link in the article you tried to cite, did you? And which republican is responsible for O'Keefe's actual attempt to actually place an actual bug in a senators office, not just eavesdrop by an office door?
Nice dodge. When did Obama cover up Morrison's actions and fire the prosecutors investigating them?
Dude. Both liberal and conservatives were scrutinized under a Bush appointee. Deal with it.
Stuff like more winger bullshit? How is denying FOIA requests - which he's doing wholesale on the military-industrial-surveillance-war crimes complex - "punishing" "enemies", exactly? Obama loves right wing big agri/petrol business as much as his predecessor.
Pretty please...don't you have a less ignorant Ayn reading brother in law you could call in here, or something? Offensives against North Vietnam were what was ended in 1973. The war itself and the occupation of South Vietnam weren't ended until 1975:
Nixon was still promising support for South Vietnam before he left office. Whoopsie doopsie.
Now, it's not like there aren't 501 real Obama scandals to be outraged about without having to resort to this stupid Glenn Beck crap. How about that Trans-Pacific partnership, which will overrule by treaty state and federal laws protecting American workers and consumers. How about giving the military the authority to step in an "emergency" domestic situation to "restore order". How about his repeated attempts to cut Social Security as a part of a debt deal when SS has nothing to do with the debt?
Really, that's just more authoritarian apologia. Swartz no doubt also knew that prosecutors love to go after child molesters, but he would have gotten less time for fucking a 14 year old girl (or boy) in the ass than what the DOJ was threatening him with for trespassing.
Which merits at worst a few weeks in jail. A lotta dumbfuckers, then and now, pretend that objecting to 35+ years in jail meant Swartz should have suffered no consequences. No, it means that if the choice is walking or spending half in life in jail for trespassing, the guy should walk.
Anyone who thinks otherwise, I ask why they haven't immigrated to Saudi Arabia yet so they can watch people be executed for adultery or hands cut off for shoplifting.
Only if Carter would have made every effort to maintain Too Big To Fail, prosecuted fewer bankers than Reagan/Bush did for the far smaller S&L crisis, and decided the way to restore prosperity to the middle class was to cut their Social Security benefits.
Could we get some winger trolls that are a little less willfully ignorant please?
1. Someone walking by and recording a conversation with a handheld device isn't "bugging", it's "eavesdropping". No device left in the room? Then it's not bugged.
2. Obama is responsible for the actions of every democrat in the country now? In that case, which republican is responsible for James O'Keefe's actual attempt to bug a senator's office?
You do know that democratic groups were not just given equal scrutiny by the IRS, but that the only group to be denied tax-exempt status was a democratic group? And this all happened under a Bush appointee to the IRS?
As for the EPA, you mean the agency where the Obama Administration had to be taken to court to actual enforce EPA regulations rather than giving industry a free pass? That EPA?
You mean Ford ended the war.
Finally you get to something that isn't from 'bagger la la land. It's not like Obama hasn't pulled enough real right-wing power grabs without having to make up stupid bullshit about the IRS or the EPA. It's like you guys will lose your winger merit badges if your attacks aren't 90% bullshit.
The "various reasons" being the constant moving of goalposts by the Israelis, who also wanted complete control over water rights. And that's even after the Palestinians agreed to let Israel keep large parts of land outside the Green Line, which Israel has no right to.
Israel doesn't want peace. It wants land and control, and peace gets in the way of that.
FTFY. Real unemployment has hovered around 14% for as long as he's been in office. Millions of people have lost their jobs and their homes, frequently due to bank fraud, since he became president.
Meanwhile, the scumbag bankster fucks that caused the mess in the first place have been rewarded with bailouts, allowing them to purchase those millions of homes for rock-bottom prices and rent them out to the people that used to own them.
It did at the banks that were allowed to fail. You know, the regional or small banks that couldn't afford to buy off a Senator or two.
DaFuck? Obama tripled forces in Afghanistan and wanted to extend the occupation of Iraq. When the Iraqis refused to continue granting Americans immunity from war crimes, Obama was forced to follow Bush's timeline for troop reductions in Iraq.
He passed Rommeycare with the mandates and excise taxes that he campaigned against. And killed the Public Option, which he campaigned on, in just the sort of back room deal he campaigned against.
He doesn't even know who he's killing with 'signature strikes', which also kill 49 civilians for every alleged terrorist. Bombing a wedding creates far more "terrorists" than all the words from bin Laddin ever could.
Oh, he's gotten shit done, alright. Everything that he campaigned against, and little that he campaigned for.
Actually, Obama has gotten pretty much everything he's ever wanted, just like his predecessor. It's just that the things he wants (assassinations, cuts to Social Security, NDAA, NAFTA on steroids, Romneycare) aren't the things he campaigned on.
Like taking your guns away and winning a second term despite being born in Kenya? Oh wait, neither of things happened, so what are you going on about?
... part that's going to apply the 4th Amendment to cell phone calls and tapping internet communications. You know, stuff Madison et all had no clue was going to be on the horizon in the 18th century. So, you want to try again, since your "immutable" Constitution "only" mentions "persons, papers and effects"?
Not really, since he covered Valve buying out games or game ideas from other people. There's also Counter-Strike.
Hmm. Maybe a group of fans should get together and start making a Half-Life 3, so Valve can buy them out and stop procrastinating on their core franchise.