All they can do is flail, obviously, because they have no presence in this space.

Microsoft's approach to battling the iPad is the same as it was for battling the iPod and the iPhone - show up a day late and a dollar short, with an inferior product, and then attempt to leverage what assets they have in terms of vendor lock-in to pry their way in.

Oh well - some more of those lame "to the cloud" ad buys should help. (not)

I have two different Gmail accounts, one for spam and one for legitimate use.

I get a lot of 'newsletter' type garbage in the spam account, but the amount of actual "h3rb4l v14gr4" type spam is about the same in both. Gmail catches all of that and puts it in spam. I never see it in the inbox area.

It's easy to make these arguments because we know something about Bush and his college career. Since all of Obama's history prior to his volitional rise to prominence has been secreted away somewhere, we can't tell you much about it.

<quote>My kingdom for mod points... and this is exactly what drives me nuts about the left-wing crowd. When Bush detains people indefinitely and launches "targeted drone attacks" (assassination by UAV) and engages in warrantless wiretapping and "National Security Letters" and so on, it's a dangerous, outrageous and evil assault on freedom and the American way of life.
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You can't really blame them. They just swallow what the media feeds them. They don't care about Gitmo or Iraq or wiretaps because the media has altogether ceased reporting on these topics now that their chosen one is in office.

Me too, I can't count the number of times the R's blew up the world. That totally sucked.

I live in the twin cities, and not long ago saw a story on the local news about a theater showing a "world premiere" of a documentary about Walter Mondale's life. I think they need a Nobel prize for medicine, developing the permanent cure for insomnia

Exactly. The time is long past where we can make assumptions that he's different from anyone else in Washington or has anyone's best interest in mind besides himself and his power base.

Not much hope nor change in aligning with the RIAA, Barack O'Quisling

I just hated the sequels because they sucked.

They've already covered this in the Manchurian Candidate (twice)

"only simplistic stories for children would be told using the medium of sequential art"

Yeah, That's exactly how comics have been since the CCA.

Eyeroll

I for one welcome our subject/typo agreement overlords

So you are saying that if I had an unpatched PS3 with no internet connection, I couldn't buy a game off the rack and play it today?

Ah, yes, House:

(misc characters in a room)

(some overwrought or cheesily-wrought tension)

(House makes demeaning and/or dismissive comment)

(Patient suddenly coughs up something)

(Dalekian medical devices go nuts, shooting paper and light and sound)

(everyone panics)

Commercial break!

I think this is deplorable too, but:

Isn't it really just a matter of (very little) time until ebay and many other websites are flooded with the new tool available for purchase?

I mean, I don't think Apple can invent a geometric figure for a screwdriver point that no one else can manufacture.

Unfunny truthy note: It's an indian word meaning "boiling water"