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Comment Re:Kind of early to predict that (Score 1) 305

They need to break free of their corporate mentality and market this thing to the general public, not just their loyal BB users.

...or they could compete in the tablet space where no one else is: the enterprise. I would love to see someone take the paperless office seriously. Developing an application suite to help people do all the things they do with paper in the office on a tablet. There are some settings where writing an annotating is preferred over typing. If I were BB, I'd go after that user experience in the office. They should be thinking of all the reasons people still need to print stuff or write on paper (and lose it), and come up with an alternate experience on the tablet that is better. Healthcare could be a big opportunity here.

Comment Re:My deficit reduction plan (Score 1) 385

If you ability to reason is so broken to interpret my comment as "government is the only thing keeping people from dying from salmonella poisoning" you're probably not working at all. The point is that we take a lot of things for granted that the government does through regulation to promote transparency in commerce (like letting consumers know that the meat packing plant they buy from has been inspected by the USDA and is safe) - which actually improves free market conditions. Good regulation leads to better capitalism by promoting the conditions for perfect competition (like closing the information gap between buyers and sellers).

Comment Re:I have absolutely no problems with govt shutdow (Score 1) 385

It's time for change and since one man, who promised to bring it, couldn't. It's time for 300+ million of us to.

He did not promise to bring it. He urged us to be a part of it. Our response - elect a bunch of right-wing lunatics that held the rest of our country hostage over their ideals. We have ourselves to blame. This is who we put in office. It's a reflection of ourselves.

Comment Re:Very insightful parent (Score 1) 350

(what? you slept through your high school economics where they explained that deficit spending is the very definition of inflation?)

Might want to revisit the chapters on Money Supply and Money Creation. The financial meltdown and massive loan defaults essentially vaporized money supply (translation: much of the collateral capital on banks' books related to housing prices didn't actually exist).The various economic stimuli unleashed in the last few years were used to offset this reduction in money supply and prevent deflation. Think if the stimulus as making up insane for past inflation in some sectors of the economy.

Comment Re:Flashlight under a rock (Score 1) 209

The sad thing is this was not some big brother conspiracy. This policy was inspired by pure laziness -- a cheap way to do a background check. Instead of doing the work to interview, friends, colleagues, and employers to ensure the applicant has no gang affiliations, they used FB as a pre-screener for applicants.

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