Using vertical integration to engage in anticompetitive practices is illegal, however.

It was, but thank you for the clarification.

Hyperbole: The best thing EVER!

According to Wikipedia, he resigned from Apple's board in August of last year due to avoid a conflict of interest between Apple and Google.

Monopolies are only one facet of antitrust laws. What Apple would be doing here is Vertical Integration. Which is just as illegal as using a monopoly to engage in anticompetitive activities.

Technically, he's the prophet of an Iron Age sky fairy.

Perhaps a more accurate thing to say would be "We need people like that, and a free society that makes it legal." I haven't watched South Park regularly since the mid 2000's, but I do find them entertaining when I do get to see an episode. I don't believe that we NEED South Park, but we need there to be people like Mat and Trey that are willing to satirize anything they see fit, and we need a constitution that backs up the right for them to do it.

I like to arrange them next to each other—only with one slightly higher, so you get a two-level effect with a little path running down the middle.

That's why I "partitioned" that storage medium. On the first partition My wife has installed Volkswagen 2.0, which a lot like Apple products only does about 3 things, but she seems happy. However lately, she keeps making me format and re size the partition map so that she has more room, eventually I may have to use public storage to save things "in the cloud".

And that really is the crux of the matter. Blogs and websites like to claim that they are as legitimate as broadcast and, dare I say it, print journalism. However, there are real journalists who have done jail time for refusing to reveal names of sources to the government. You have to keep names off the record unless you are given consent by the party concerned. This guy was stupid for letting that device out of his hand, even for a second, but this may have unintended consequences for Gizmodo and its affiliates.

As a Californian, I say "hear hear!" The Direct initiative process has been a nightmare. The state is in so much debt because you can get 50.1% of the population to vote for lower taxes AND 50.1% of the population to vote for more public spending. This works out great as long as you don't mind deficit spending yourself into oblivion. To quote Alexander Fraser Tytler:

As much as I hate to say it, we need politicians and bureaucrats going back on their word to the voters in order to remain solvent. You can't give infinite tax breaks and public works/social services. One of them has to go. Of course then you have the conservatives wanting to ax the social, and the liberals wanting to raise taxes, its partisan hackery, sure... but at least it isn't both at the same time.

I agree that the electoral college should be scrapped. However without its equalizing power, the 5 most populous states would have over 1/3 of the voting power in a "popular" vote. The 10 most populous would have over 50% of the voting power. There needs to be some check against the ability of large states to steamroll the votes of the smaller states.

Of course not. The theater chain will have to assess you a "monoscopic vision modification fee" but luckily its only an extra $2 over the price of a 3D ticket.

Max Power, he's the man who's name you'd love to touch!
But you mustn't touch!
His name sounds good in your ear,
but when you say it, you mustn't fear!
'Cause his name can be said by anyone!

My Macbook has motion sensors that can detect movement on 3 axises. The issue is that nobody has written (useful) software or an OS that uses it to preform tasks.

Your other points are correct.