I can't see how people don't understand how Trayvon's character may be pertinent.

Zimmerman's story is that he was following a suspected burglar. He called 911, and continued following the suspect despite the dispatcher telling him "you don't need to do that". The suspect noticed he was being followed, and confronted Zimmerman.

Investigating Trayvon's personality traits answers the following questions:
1. Is it possible or plausible that Trayvon was the burglar robbing homes in the area? If so, 'racial profiling' goes out the window. Maybe there are more possibilities for why Zimmerman was following Trayvon than 'racial profiling' and 'good detective work', but the jury will be presented with those two, as they are the opposing claims.
2. Was Trayvon Martin an agressive, confrontational person? If so, Zimmerman's claim that Martin struck first is more believable... and that story needs help. True or not, its a little hard to believe a 17 year old punched an adult with a gun.

The problem with apple products is they just work.... until one day when they just don't.

And, when it stops working, you either have a VERY expensive repair to deal with, or a very frustrating time trying to google for helpful info.

Really? With RIM letting repressive governments (but not ours of course) get access to SMS and email? Blackberry would be my LAST option.

If desktop sales are dead, its not because people don't want desktops anymore. Its because they already have one, and don't need a new one. Same with laptops.

The "Core" core was what put intel back in the lead... and they didn't even develop it themselves. They purchased an Israeli company that was making a new CPU based on the old P-III coppermine core.

Intel was, up until that point, still fighting the MegaHurtz war. This is in spite of the fact that the war had already ended a few years back when the AthlonXP line was easily beating higher clocked P4s. Intel's only answer was MOAR MHZ!!!1, spreading FUD about the performance ratings assigned to the AMD chips, and silly branding schemes that made me smack my head every time someone insisted they wanted a Centrino processor.

I really resent Intel for "cheating" their way back into first place.

There have been dozzens of these as far back as I can remember. The problem, was, is, and will continue to be, the batteries.

They fight forest fires with fire, dumbshit. Burned grass doesn't burn.

My only problem with google transit is the use of abbreviations for bus and train routes, with no further information available. For example, if you're from Philly, you might already know that MFL is the Market-Frankford Line, or that BSS is Broad Street Subway (or might not, since those aren't abbreviations SEPTA uses anywhere)... But good luck to any tourists standing on that corner, looking in vain for a MFL or BSS sign.

Many unwords in your post. Remember-- oldthinkers unbellyfeel INGSOC.

Empirical evidence presented by well-known rent-a-journalist websites does not trump personal experience.

There are only 3 AV products I recommend (and i do this for a living), and NIS isn't one of them. Neither is Macafee.:

1. Microsoft security essentials
pros: free, does what it does with VERY little interaction, VERY low resource footprint
cons: average(read: SHITTY) protection.

2. Comodo Internet Security
pros: free version available, most comprehensive system protection I know of (I install this when I'm having paranoid days and I need to find those NSA keyloggers I "KNOW" are there somewhere...)
cons: HIGH resource footprint (makes my home computer run slow, which is a fucking feat... about the same as NIS and Macafee), and VERY user-unfriendly.

3. TrendMicro
pros: slightly above average protection, moderate resource footprint, few false alarms, no popups or dialouge boxes unless something is actually wrong
cons: all around average. not really a con... doesn't excel at anything, but doesn't suck at anything either.

FYI TrendMicro goes on all of my company's client's computers.

I've heard Kaspersky is very good.. but I've also heard Kaspersky has dealings with black hats in the russian mafia. So fuck 'em.

14?! holy fuck, im still using 3.5.11

Woosh.

Anybody that stays on XP after April 8, 2014 is crazy... XP end of lifes on that date which means no more security fixes..

OH NOES! SECURITY HOELS!!!1

Seriously, what are the dangers? I can't remember the last time I saw a computer that wasn't behind an NAT gateway. If you use a modern, up to date browser, and let flash and java update themselves whenever they want, what is the real danger?

Computers don't get infected because they're running old OS software. They get infected because someone was trying to slap the monkey to win a free Xbox.

My IQ is 142, and I have no fucking clue what he's saying.

And FYI, I was on my high school's chess team.

You're one of those PROTESTANTS who call themselves christian, and don't like it when any other of the christian faiths claim that title.

Well, here's a little something to ruin your day-- that cross you wear around your neck, that symbol in the upper left of the christian flag, that little decorative doo-hickey on top of your church.... they violate the 2nd commandment. So, have fun in hell, heathen.

The 2nd commandment is no religious iconography. Period. Why did God want no symbols? Maybe for the same reason he commanded that sacrificial altars be made without hewn (cut) stones or mortar. Maybe you should read that bible you carry around for others to see.

Another fun fact to ruin your day: Protestant leaders, especially baptist leaders, resist moving away from the King James Version for the same reason the Catholic church until recently resisted the idea of having Mass in any language other than latin. Have fun figuring that out.