Hey, great! That is if monetizing your site is the priority. I'd think it was getting the leading edge tech-goodness in front of us nerds (which seemed to be the message in your earlier post). I'd focus on the delivery a bit more, HTML5 and the rest of the feasible suggestions, until you've gotten things nailed down properly.

You know, once you've had a chance to get things working correctly, perhaps adding some revenue stream or other would be fine. Until then, however, poking us in the eye with an ad is probably a bit of a reach for an initial roll-out.

As I recall, the four boxes were:

• - Soap
• - Ballot
• - Jury
• - Ammo

No, the problem is that money is how voting gets done these days. Those that have more money get more voting power.

Rather than allowing voices to actually be heard, bank accounts now speak loudest. Until that is changed, democracy in the United States is dead. People advocating funds for lobbyists to stand in opposition to this (and any other proposed laws) are just as guilty as companies funding Congressmen/women.

There isn't any way to "fix" this problem. This has gone far beyond the point of no return, a serious and significant reset must happen before anything can be accomplished. I am in fear for our future and I can see no way to avoid it.

We as United States citizens now blithely accept violations that in the past have destroyed political careers, started the revolution and the civil war in our country. Remember the 4 boxes? How many are left that haven't been completely compromised?

Republican? Try Political response. Republican, Democrat, it doesn't matter and hasn't mattered a damn for years now.
 
While I agree with a large part of your statement, don't put this on any one particular group - aside from rhetoric, there is no fundamental difference between the two parties.
 
Obama is a moderate Republican and Romney is a moderate Republican - regardless of with which parties they affiliate themselves.

I read about this sort of thing before only it wasn't testing hyper velocity it was the JRV Nagoya, which is testing top-secret weapons and stealth systems that use the latest developments in quantum physics.

I hope the timeline doesn't shift today, I've just gotten the last hold-outs in my family to install Linux! -- Wait, could this be the shift in the timeline? Why else would non-technical consumers migrate willingly to Linux Mint? Uh-oh!

In truth, there are civilian applications that can use the knowledge gleaned from these sorts of tests. While the weapon is potentially a significant balance shift, I don't think that this is remotely ready to deploy. In many cases, this sort of thing never makes it into the field. Yet the science is neutral, once discovered, it can be used for non-military applications as well.

Within the last 5 hours there have been 7 quakes of 3.0 or greater. I lived in that general region for several years and never saw or heard of any activity (not that I was glued to the USGS or anything).

Of course the largest earthquake recorded was on April 4th, 1952 around El Reno, Oklahoma. However, if you discount the last 24 hours, there doesn't seem to have been much recent activity of note in that region of the state (some of the source material is quite dated). Here is more information on the region.

Please allow me to expand upon this a little bit:

As early as the mid-1800's the trusts and tycoons had been trying, without success, for decades to have the SCOTUS declare corporations people. In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U.S. 394 (1886), the Supreme Court recognized corporations as persons for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment.

In 2003, the SCOTUS declared corporate funding cannot be limited under the First Amendment, in 2010 SCOTUS declared money to be speech and removed all limits to corporate spending on lobbying.

The corporate person-hood aspect of the campaign finance debate turns on Buckley v. Valeo (1976) and Citizens United (2010): Buckley ruled that political spending is protected by the First Amendment right to free speech, while Citizens United ruled that corporate political spending is protected, holding that corporations have a First Amendment right to free speech.

Result: corporations, government licensed creatures, now have become the government, by using their wealth to "unfairly influence elections." This lead to the first stirrings of unrest in the civil populous, most notably the 'Occupy Wall Street' demonstrations, citing no faith in their elected officials because of the undue power wielded by corporations and special interest groups to influence law makers.

Now, protected by the very institutions that had been in place to protect people, citizens of the United States are denied at least two of the traditional corner stones of a democracy. Those foundations stones being the Ballot and Jury box.

Timeline: -Tillman Act of 1907, banned corporate political contributions to national campaigns. -Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, landmark campaign financing legislation. -Buckley v. Valeo (1976) upheld limits on campaign contributions, but held that spending money to influence elections is protected speech as in the first amendment. -First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (1978) upheld the rights of corporations to spend money in non-candidate elections (i.e. ballot initiatives and referendums). -Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce (1990) upheld the right of the state of Michigan to prohibit corporations from using money from their corporate treasuries to support or oppose candidates in elections, noting that "[c]orporate wealth can unfairly influence elections." -Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (McCain–Feingold), banned corporate funding of issue advocacy ads that mentioned candidates close to an election. -McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003), substantially upheld McCain–Feingold. -Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. (2007) weakened McCain–Feingold, but upheld core of McConnell. -Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) the Supreme Court of the United States held that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited under the First Amendment, overruling Austin (1990) and partly overruling McConnell (2003).

So long as by cheap you mean poor quality. Because if that is what you mean, then china sounds to have met your expectation.

Personally, I'll take decent quality and plentiful.

I once had very similar feelings about this issue.

Nothing bad will happen, until it does. When the information is used and a horrible thing occurs, you'll kick yourself for not protecting your loved ones. It has happened to me and it will happen to many others.

In my own experience, it wasn't "Big Brother" - it was a tech-savvy business partner and I spent half a year in jail, accused of a "capital" crime I didn't commit - then 4 years and ten's of thousands of dollars fighting for my freedom in courts. My "friend" got me out of the business, which is still a large and profitable company today.

Hey, walking around with on all fours with no pants and your ass in the air seems to be the cool thing these days. So, have fun. Just don't cry when you get raped.

Me, I'll try to keep my pants (mostly) on.

God Damn! You are a total hater dude, did he piss in your Cheerios or something? This is the second hate filled post you've made that doesn't mean anything.
I don't own any apple products, but I sort of like Woz and appreciate his antics and his philanthropic gestures. Let the cat have some frackin' fun without shitting all over him.