I'm betting that this is actually part of Palin's nefarious plans to win the primary by convincing Democrats to get her on the Republican ticket. I'm not sure what the second half of her evil plans are but I think the big picture looks like this:

1. Get Democrats to assist with primary
2. ???
3. Become President.

Only if that model is exported out of China.

In America we are given our rights and even the right to bare arms although that is slowly being taken away from us.

Pay attention. The right to bear arms is actually slowly being given back to us. The anti-gun laws are slowly collapsing across the country.

I know for sure that I do not need a gun to protect myself over here.

How did you determine this? What's the police response time to your location from the moment you make a call? Here in the US, the response time for a call is 10 minutes as the national average.

Can you stay alive with for 10 minutes or however long it takes for the police to arrive at your location?

Recently here in the US, it took the police 45 minutes to respond to a kidnapping/home invasion where $15k was stolen, the house was burned, and everyone except for the husband was killed.

Are you sure your police force will arrive in time to save you? Willing to bet your life on it?

Did this work for the Soviets in Afghanistan?

No, but it did work for the Mongols in Afghanistan.

Which one is it? "Our" leaders either lied to the American people are incompetent, which ever one it was, they shouldn't be leading the country.

We voted those leaders in. You did vote right?

The fault has always been with the voters.

Were you not paying attention when your Apple sales dude was upselling you AppleCare like he normally does for every piece of Apple hardware that he sells?

Apple Developer Connection accounts are free.

By contrast, Apple gathers your information without asking you to opt in, and does not present you with the option of opting out.

ORLY?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228

This is how America's Special Forces work. The team gets a mission. Everyone comes up with a plan. The team goes over the plan. The good one emerges. The ones not as good fade out. Everyone pokes and prods the good plans until they figure out which one is going to bring about the mission results.

That is the plan the team executes. But at the beginning, everyone on the team has a plan.

If Microsoft decided to sell their own brand of computers, and lock them down so no other OS would run on them, you would be hearing anti-trust arguments across the entire computer industry

It's called an "Xbox".

The iOS devices on the other hand are devices that people have purchased and now ostensibly own.

And the App Store is Apple's. So if you want your apps on the App Store, you're going to play by the store owner's rules.

I've never understood why Apple has such an obsession with Objective C

Allow me to explain.

1. Who owns the language spec? What if there was a modification needed to the language to meet the needs of Apple's hardware that's going to be released to consumers? For example, blocks. How fast could Apple introduce something like that if the language spec was owned by ... for purpose of example, Oracle?

2. Who owns the runtime? See question 1.

Objective-C gives Apple the flexibility to make changes as needed to meet their needs without waiting on some standards body or another corporation to get in the way. Apple will not walk away from Objective-C for these reasons.

most of the big-time apps have no trouble supporting multiple iterations of the platform

So it's a real problem to some big-time apps. This may also limit how many apps become big-time apps.

And yet recording a conversation where all parties involved are not informed that they are being recorded is a crime in some jurisdictions. People keep expecting the law to make sense to them. People continue to be disappointed.