I submit to you that no one would die who otherwise would not have eventually.

Totally off topic, but has anyone here ever had a friend that they really enjoyed hanging out with, but they have a bad habit of interrupting everyone all the time no matter what and talk and talk and talk and never let anyone else finish their thoughts before butting in?

What did you do? I've tried slapping him on the nose with a newspaper and it just makes him mad.

Great, so self-destructive codependent behavior is a hard-coded facet of our physical universe. Now I can tell my therapist to fuck off, content in the knowledge that This Is How It's Supposed To Be. /joke

No, Apple missed that boat, they KNOW they missed that boat, they don't want to GET on that boat, and it's because they're killing the PC and replacing it with the iPad (which businesses are eating up).

As soon as iOS5 removes the need for a PC, expect the iPad to accelerate it's genocide of the "normal" computer we're all used to.

Look, I title my WiFi networks weird things all the time, just because I know strangers will see it and be confused. Some are great wordplay, some are simply bizarre non-sequitors, some of them are downright disgusting, and some are deliberately misleading.

My hunch is that this network is NOT that of an actual FBI surveillance van, but the product of a fun-loving person setting up their router.

That said, it would be pretty simple to use wifi sniffing tools to pinpoint the source of the signal and actually, you know, VERIFY this absurd claim.

I mean, the feds are stupid, but I don't think they're THAT stupid.

> it adds up to be about an extra 10-15 inches

But, sadly, not where it counts.

*ducks*

Tried it. Headphone port was too small, and I couldn't squish it flat enough to fit in the dock connector.

Yeah, after I looked at it on my iPhone I realized my mobile Slashdot experience had all but been destroyed. Thank you Google Mobilize service ...

I've got boxes of old G3 and G4 chips, plus a bunch of 68K Macs that are stuffed in a closet that I pull out once a decade. Are we supposed to include those?

love it.

seriously.

i love it.

What world are you living in? It's not because the masses have more collective monetary power (they don't), it's economics of scale. You can only sell so many $500,000 cars, and there's very little chance of repeat business in any short time frame.

It's about selling in volume. That's what made Wal-Mart.

In 2004, the top 5% of the economic bracket controlled over 58% of the wealth. That was a long time ago, now the figure is skewed even more in favor of the rich.

Sorry, but you're wrong.

>>corporations don't have the power to suck money from my wallet against my will,

Compulsory tax on blank media, passed by the gov't at the behest of corporations

>>throw me in jail for years,

RIAA/MPAA exploiting the laws they paid politicians to write to fine/jail people "guilty" of downloading copyrighted material.

>>send out goons to give me a Rodney King-style beating,

Foreclosure procedures often include using police to do the dirty work of corrupt banking establishments.

>>or execute me on the electric chair

Not yet, but they can certainly have you "silenced" or "suicided" as it were.

So, while the force is directly applied by government entities, if the government is just another branch of the corporations (it's a shared resource they like to use/abuse), then the corporations are the ones actually exercising that force, even if there's a badge or a robe that indicates government affiliation.

"I'm an overly literal nitpicking asshole"

FTFY

Or, to use rap as an example, 50 Cent has about as much relation to militant black activism as Norman Rockwell. Chuck D still puts out albums, but is he getting airtime?

We're talking about the current state of music, not some glorified past.