a while ago

how? simple. its much easier to get things done for your country when it is the size of our smaller states

Its also easier to get things done when you tax your people as high as you do in the EU vs the lower taxes in the US. add in things like different priorities, and corruption. and it starts to make sense. Doesnt make it right or good, but it makes sense

why does everyone always talk about the koch brothers when the facts are the dems get just as much money from their rich friends and their rich friends PACs?? Hell this past year, liberal PACs brought in even more money than the conservative PACs! http://sunlightfoundation.com/...

also note, neither kochs make the top 10 donor list

i have no idea anything about this. however just because staliln said it, does not mean she didnt quote him. I didnt hear her say it, im also not looking for it in anyway.

On the flip side of the evil 2 headed coin there was that republican who gave a speech 10 years ago that some guy claimed he spoke at a white power rally. Turns out that wasnt quite true either. Yet people are still out there trying to ruin that mans rep with nasty slander

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/jan/06/what-we-know-about-steve-scalise-attending-white-p/

im sure firemen and scuba divers might be able to help with that....

im guessing you are talking about local news in texas (which makes sense if its not in the dems pockets) as I dont even know what you are talking about as a new yorker

so the oil companies are the ones claiming the sky is falling and we hit peak oil? I thought that was the tree huggers

why dont you consider it fair? the pricepoint is similar, the form is similar. both touch screens, both sans keyboard. im not sure why you cant compare the 2

no, its more because they are pussies by themselves (like gang members) and dont have the balls to do it anymore. im pretty sure murder was illegal 100 years ago....

that would be awesome if true. however when the iphone 6 came out, there was a phone by moto, samsung, and LG that all had the iphone spanked when it comes to specs.

So in practice, if you bought an iphone 6 at launch, you will still be using it in 4 years as you say. in that time you already bought a phone not as good as others already on the market, which are getting upgraded versions over the next few months. which one might buy, use for 2 years.

at this point you are still on a 2 year old iphone 6, which we already established was not the best phone on the market the day of launch, while I am trading in my note 5 to the new shiney, and you are using your iphone 6 for another 2 years.

yes, i went though more phones than you, but i didnt really pay any more to do so.

i would argue otherwise between rare earth medals and cheap labor, id say they are just as evil as big oil (and by that i mean not evil at all for making things people want/need)

no i was talking about the kickbacks to the campaigns, not the profit number.

It is well known that tech is buddy buddy with the democrats. as are the majority of the media. As such, you dont see many news articles complaining about the "obscene profits" made in the tech industry.

on the other hand, you hear all the time about the obscene profits of the oil industry, eventhough they are making pennies on the dollar and make money on volume, and apple on the other hand (and tech in general) have much higher margins than big oil. double digit differences.

so if the big oil is "bad" for bringing in 5% margins, shouldnt big tech be shamed for bringing in 30+% margins???

ok. so im wondering then. if drawing a photo is worthy of murder. what is the correct response to the "artists" who use christian holy imagry and makes them in, oh i dont know, piss crap and menstrual blood? I mean it must be valid to drop a nuke on the town of the artist who did that right?

there is a huge difference IMO between going out of your way to offend a group of people, and not doing unoffensive things, because crazy people are offended by it.

they have. you dont see lynchings daily any longer.

they can no longer grab everything on everyone and actually have to go back to doing REAL police work. its so hard I tell ya, whatever did cops do about crime before smartphones???

the ipad is in no way the best tablet you can buy. Ill take a surface pro 3 over an ipad anyday. give me ports, give me a full OS, I dont need a 10 inch phone that doesnt make calls.