Look at Ipod. When they firstbrought it out people said it was lame and it had less space than current competing mp3 players.

NO WAY! Someone really said that? In public?!? ^_-

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Many signature dishes come out at the perfect temperature

No they don't. Get over yourselves.

Goods on the black market are either illegally obtained (stolen), illegally distributed, or just plain illegal.

Since iPads have Wifi and (often) 3G transmitters in them, sale and use is subject to a particular country's version of the FCC. The term "black market" would seem to apply here. Apple has to as least appear to be controlling the destination of the units they sale in order to stay out of trouble with the governing bodies of countries they would like to sell these items in eventually.

Who Will Control the Cost of the NYT On Digital Readers?

The consumer will. The consumer ultimately determines the value of any item sold.

Still smarting over Air America.. huh? :)

Nope. They never had a chance anyway, as their audience doesn't need to be told what to think.

Sounds like your just angry and pick out Fox because Fox News is the undisputed leader in news today

Thank you for so eloquently proving my point.

Judging from the audience for the highly personalized "news" network named Fox News, I'd say yes. Fox News tells a specific group of people exactly what they want to hear, not what needs to be known. It surprises me that they are still allowed to use the word "News" in their name.

This is attention-mongering and marketing.

That's art.

It doesn't matter, and nothing we think on this subject matters anyway.

This critic is the type of person who has destroyed entertainment in general. Sports have become nearly unwatchable with the announcers straining to fill every millisecond with the sound of their voices. Movies are becoming overloaded with audio cues and monologues. Even the news has become a cacophony of zings and bleeps and sweeping noises.

In music, the rests are as important as the notes. This is true elsewhere as well. I hope the people at NASA understand this and keep things the way they are.

Yeah, how /do/ people pronounce this decade?

The naughties.

No matter how much AT&T sucks, Verizon will always lead the competition in that category.

ASCAP is not the "music industry." ASCAP (and BMI, et al) are directly connected to the content creators themselves. You know, the people who actually deserve to be paid for their creativity.

Stolen from Wikipedia:

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a not-for-profit performance rights organization that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating them accordingly.

Your anti-RIAA rants don't apply here.