A faster way to balance the budget and promote small government would be to prune back social security and national healthcare (including Medicare and Medicaid). Throw in a reduction in defense spending and you could easily redirect 30% of the budget toward paying off our debt.

Political suicide, true, but probably the right long term solution. We're screwed, as far as I can tell.

The only product listed that I have any experience with is the hockey puck mouse, and I'm glad I didn't own it.

Apparently, Apple realized their mistakes and moved on.

Simple. It's been more than two years

I'm not sick of it and am, in fact, still happy with it save for the fact that it's taken enough wear and tear to be replaceable. My previous phones did not make it to the two year mark without driving me up a wall.

Make sense? I thought so.

I actually look at it like I do many product cycles: the first version has problems, the second has fewer. If you look at the issues listed on Wikipedia between the 3G and 3GS, two were dealt with between revisions.

I imagine the 4S also has fewer problems than the 4, on top of improvements overall.

I joined the iPhone cult during the 3GS cycle, so upgrading to a 4S seems reasonable to me. I'm not looking for the shiniest or the newest or best. I'm looking for a phone that I won't be sick of in 2 years time.

Truly, you offer a compelling reason for converting away from Apple.

Thank you. I shall go turn in my mighty Apple device, and acquire a baked potato.

Gratuitous PA link:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/12/17/

There are actually apps that demonstrate this, too. I sadly cannot recall any of their names, but fortunately there are privacy options affecting friends' applications at http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=platform&tab=other
Found via: Settings | Privacy Settings | Application Settings | Settings.

Please.

For an Apple fanboy to submit this, they would have to care about it. To them, all that exists is the iPhone, and they do not deign to recognize any other handset.

To them, there can be no iPhone killer.

It's ironic that they're using YouTube, a Google service, to perpetrate this masterpiece on civilization.

It really does instigate a wash of emotions, and it amazes me that anyone can discern individual feelings out of watching it. To quote the awesomest six year old I know, it was "awkweird".

oblig xkcd: http://xkcd.com/378/

At least it's _not blinking_.

That's fine. Eventually, all the people who believe it will "go to heaven", and you'll be left with a sane population. Albeit slightly smaller.

Oh, wait, that would kill two birds with one stone.

If they don't appreciate the importance of their physical life enough to live until the end of it, then who is going to force them to appreciate it?

Hopefully, they'll figure it out before they cook themselves. Or someone will find a way to help them. A choice, however misguided, is still a choice.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/sciencemath/6e90/?cpg=ab

I don't think anyone here should ever feel lost. If not before, then definitely not now.

Sounds like people have acclimated to Microsoft retail releases being more like public betas.

If Google made non-business users pay for Apps, would people be more tolerant of "beta testing"?