He is probably chicano, mexican-american. They are even worst than the WASP in the Tea Party against foreigners and immigrants. I suppose they have the same mental insecurity that makes bullies bullies.

This is an awfully bad summary. There is no need to try to be snarky from the beginning. Also, what Bloomberg's press secretary said is so stupid that is fitting for the Innocent's day, the spanish and latin american version of April's fools that was yesterday.

Of course thieves and muggers will try to steal expensive gadgets. People don't wear expensive jewelry like in past years because it is out of fashion and, unlike jewelry, gadgets can perform an useful function so they are a more common and convenient target than wallets full of credit cards and no cash, jewelry or expensive watches.

Instead of saying stupid stuff to the press the mayor should blame the thieves themselves, the growing income gap that makes easier to rationalize crime for people that don't have anything to lose, or the bad economy for the increase in crime instead of Apple o any other consumer electronics company.

I think this is a neat hack in the best sense of "hack", since they already had the bricks and the quadcopter parts. Plus, since it was designed by the kids, I will cut them some slack. Still, I would like to see the next, stronger, lighter and not glued version using Lego Technic beams. There is too much room for improvement :).

I would guess that she was thinking that going together to the gun range was some kind of "quality time" and a small workout for his slim son. I used to play paintball with my geeky friends and aside all the fun, we ended really tired after 3 hours of battle, and the friends that played regularly despite eating mostly junk food crap they had a reasonably good physical condition.

Indeed. I just hope that this doesn't become another witch hunt of geeks like the one after Columbine. I mean, Starcraft, FFS? How can it be more violent that the Bible?

There is a petition at the White House that if i were an american citizen I would sign to declare WBS a hate group:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/legally-recognize-westboro-baptist-church-hate-group/DYf3pH2d

This should be slashdoted.

Maybe not legal, but a moral and ethical constraint certainly they have. There is a reason why big, new and prosperous companies like Google can exist and are created in western countries and not in Sahara Africa, because a knowledge economy can only be created in a educated, stable, lawful and relatively prosperous society.

The alternative to a strong, well funded state is like you pointed out, Somalia, or, if they want a closer example, Mexico. The town in central Mexico were my grandmother lives is in such level of lawlessness that since 3 years ago I can't visit her without a significant risk for my life. Some people in USA really don't have a clue of how nice they have their life there. Why they think that people want to live and work in USA so badly to die trying? The strong institutions of the USA are the source of their prosperity, not the unlimited self interest.

I would mod you up to 11. The drawback, aside the initial cytokine storm is the complete loss of B-cells. I suppose that they could store unaltered T-cells and return the unaltered T-cells after they confirmed cancer remission, in a tick-tock strategy to let the patient recover their healthy B-cells. HIV is only a vehicle, in the same vein a pill is a vehicle for medicine, nothing else.

Yea, is not like the dead were iraqis in their own country killed by soldiers of a foreign invading army.

Oh, wait...

Indeed. At least dogs can count, the drivers in my city can't count up to 1.

But he needs to be more moderate in his expressions. The bad choice by Ubuntu developers was to put this feature by default. They could have put a splash screen that asked users to enable it if they liked an that would be the end of it, but calling Ubuntu spyware is insane.

As an example of successful transition among products, we can point out to the iPod Mini that was replaced by the iPod Nano even when it was the best selling product from Apple, and then the iPod line replaced by the iPhone. I like the old Polaroid camera, it was really fun to use when going out with my friends, but for 100% casual shoots the digital cameras win.

Aside from that, Apple don't owe its existence to cozy relations with a murderous dictatorship like most, if not all korean mega-conglomerates. After all, South Korea became a more or less democratic country until 1987 even if they kept being ruled by a member of the party of their last dictator,Chun Doo-hwan . Still, I must admire of them that at least their dictators and oligarchs weren't as stupid that the latinoamerican dictators/oligarchs. If our oligarchs were 20% as smart than the south korean ones, the USA wouldn't have an illegal immigration problem.

Apple holds over 33% of the japanese market, probably more with iPhone 5 launch. The average japanese or american still have a several magnitudes apart the purchasing power of the average chinese. Still, is good because Google forces Apple to innovate, and the nature of Android that makes easy to fork means that Google itself is forced to not choose favorites among the OEMs. Personally, after being a happy Nokia customer for more than a decade I feel bad for them. They are the ones are being hurt the most.