They're counting on the intelligence of the American people. Whoops! As Mencken quipped, no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. So T-Mobile is paddling upstream, spitting into the wind, and kicking against the goads.

Has a deal to display one of the early Wright flyers. The deal stipulates that the Smithsonian MUST present the Wright brothers as the first. Period.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Whitehead

"When the Flyer was finally brought back and presented to the Smithsonian in 1948, the museum and the executors of the Wright estate signed an agreement (popularly called a "contract") in which the Smithsonian promised not to say that any airplane before the Wrights' was capable of manned, powered, controlled flight.[37][note 5] This agreement was not made public."

Most big companies see it in their best interest to use the government to crush their competitors, all while the government gives them a free hand.

is "Follow the money." Many things become clearer then, without even a white paper.

Yes, in the run-up to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, the Atlanta Committe for the Olympic Games (ACOG) attacked a Greek restaurant called "The Olympic" which had been there forever, forcing a name change.

Putin is a man who rejects Western liberalism and its evil works. Russia is still trying to recover from communism, another ruinous Western invention.

I guess we all just assumed that the hammer-throwing chick represented Apple.

...we could make Internet users smarter.

Or in the words of Sollozzo in The Godfather, trying to get Corleone to help him out with access to "all those judges and politicians you keep in your pockets like so many nickels and dimes."

A perfect complement to the hipster all-black uniform, Herr gruppenfuehrer!

Or an overmatched defense lawyer in a patent lawsuit.

You mean, all that stuff from surveillance cameras, etc? Yeah, we're gonna need LOTS of processing power for the Total Surveillance State!

A company when it is small and struggling loves the free market, and wants freedom and competition. When a company becomes successful and large it wants to use the state to crush the competition, because at that point it hates freedom and competition.

I find it amazing that people will pay money to receive ads.

Cable TV used to be ad-free.

We all do.