So I take it you're in favor of whatever it is you do for a living being fully controlled by the federal government, including what income you're allowed to have?

It's all well and good to say that those people over there have to render the services which are a product of years of education and experience, as well as tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. But what about you? What such effort are you going to donate to the collective?

At some point you have to realize that you're just robbing your neighbors by using the federal government as a weapon. After all, tax comes under penalty of "financial oblivion at best, and death at worst".

It's clear you don't understand how the UI works.

I own a Zune HD, which works from the same concept. Allow me to explain it to you.

The idea is similar to how a desktop works stretched across multiple monitors.
Yes, the background spans them all. However, any individual application only uses 1 monitor's worth of space.
You go side-to-side to access another slice of screen, which is easily done by tapping your finger once on that side of the screen, where you see the next "monitor's worth" as a mini-screen off to that side, dimmer, and "off in the distance".
So it is simultaneously 3-dimensional and multi-monitor, as though the monitors were arranged on a rotating platform.

It actually works very well. I like it.
I can see how you can come away thinking that it's just part of a big screen, based on the released desktop mock-ups. But you're missing the point completely, and need to sit down with the hardware and try it out.

You see, the basic formula is this:

risk = reward

If you don't want any risks in life, you can have the cozy job at the big corporation, where no one expects you to be anything better than mediocre. You can have subsidized health insurance, a steady income, and a sniff of a bonus from time to time. If you lose your job, the government will give you money for several months while you find something else.

However, if you want to put yourself out there and use the capital between your ears, yeah, there's a lot of risk. Your ability to afford anything - including the absolute basics - depends on your ability to market yourself and then do what you say you can do. You have to handle finances, research options and hustle. If your business fails, the government isn't going to come and bail you out - you're neither small nor large enough to give a damn about.
But you can do way, way better for yourself.

Some people thrive on this challenge.
And some others just want someone to handle it all for them.

Time was, the USA was where people around the world went when they wanted to handle the risk and get the reward.
Nowadays, though, the USA is full of people who feel entitled to everything the world has to offer, just because they were born here.

Stripping back the address to "www." instead of "blog." renders....

fabulis will be launching in just a few weeks. Sign-up now for an invite to the beta.

And so I have to ask....is CmdrTaco, or a friend, an investor? Because this is obviously a ploy for attention to a brand new web business.

I mean, what's more current than dissing banks? And Citi's a zombie, so definitely a target....this is an obvious media ploy.

Obviously you've never had 2-4 flat tires at 100mph.

From realpolice.net:
In this 9 year period (1994-2002), the data showed that there were 2654 fatal crashes involving 3965 vehicles of which there were 3146 fatalities. Of these, 1088 were to people not in the fleeing vehicle.

If frying someone's car results in a better outcome than the above, I'm all for it.

Sounds like a great replacement for caltrops.

Sometimes things do have to be said.

So let me ask you this:
If subsidies are a tool of the wealthy to oppress the poor, then why does Costa Rica force its people to buy only domestic beans?

Beans produced in Costa Rica cost more than 50% more than beans produced in Nicaragua. Considering that beans are a key staple of the Costa Rican people, who benefits?

Why must you harm both your own people and Nicaragua in this way?

This is not the only stupid, protective trade manipulation Costa Rica has. Yet they feel free to complain to the WTO (which they did join) about others - Costa Rica has 4 active complaints on file. Only 1 is against the US, and that is for textiles.

Now to the thing which must be said:
The problem with you South American-types is that your dictators treat you like mushrooms - feed you shit and keep you in the dark. And not only this, but you get all puffed-up and proud about the shit and the darkness, like it's somehow noble to be screwed over by some potbellied, squinty-eyed dictator who cloaks the crap he feeds you in bold, revolutionary speeches.

The best thing you can do is stop worrying about what the US is going to do and fix your own country. With 2 ongoing wars and a child in the White House, you could probably blow up half the US Navy and nothing would happen. So don't worry about us and fix your own shit.

Being mummified on live TV isn't all that different from what kids are doing with Facebook these days, anyway.

If this was Microsoft trolling a Apple release, we'd call it FUD and wonder if the tablet would be made of folding chairs, and if you would throw it to reboot.

Can we wait with more speculative crap "stories" until there's more substance to this tablet rumor than there is to Duke Nukem Forever?

Since the USA does not grant titles or patents of nobility, the appropriate award would be the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This can be, and sometimes is, granted to non-citizens, such as Tony Blair, Pope John Paul II, and Mother Theresa. (I don't know any examples of foreign entertainment-types offhand, but it is applicable)

Amazing how fast a train can run when you use the blood of your critics to lube the rails.

You just don't understand what google is doing.
I quote: "Google does not deliver the package of ads with gratuitous attractive content supplied by traditional media."

Google's content is, "an answer to your question".

It's not movies.
It's not music.
It's not political commentary.

It's an answer to the question, where do I find ___.

The essential problem, the reason for revolt, is that on google, THE ADVERTISING CONFLICTS WITH THE CONTENT.
Maybe you want to buy a honda. But here's this nissan ad, and you click on it. See how this could get someone upset?

Another example: I want my users to type in my domain and drill down to pages. This gets me maybe 3 or 4 pageviews.
Coming in straight from google gets me one pageview.
See how this could get someone upset?

My sister is a public school teacher, and once you count the value of the extra vacation, fully-employer-paid health insurance, compensated continuing education, we make the same money.

Add to that the fact that she gets a legislatively-guaranteed raise every year that exceeds inflation and has union protections including tenure, and the deal isn't bad at all.