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Comment Re:A natural reaction to Faux News i think (Score 1) 181

It's not an accident that the average Fox News fan is less informed than people that don't watch any news at all, it is on purpose.

According to that linked "study", Fox News viewers are stupid because "91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs" and "72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit" and so forth. Such a high percentage of Fox News viewers believe in these obvious falsehood is a proof that Fox News makes you stupid! or so that article claims.

91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs.
Study: stimulus created 450,000 government sector jobs and destroyed 1,000,000 private sector jobs.

72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit.
GAO report: In rosy scenario, where everything goes perfect, it could decrease deficit by $13.25 trillion!!! or it could increase the deficit by $6.2 trillion.

Apparently not buying into White House's propaganda and disagreeing with liberal's worldview make Fox News viewers stupid. At least they weren't accused of being racist.

Comment Invisible D's (Score 1) 601

As far as I can tell, only thing Apple did was to change the guideline to disallow "Apps which contain DUI checkpoints that are not published by law enforcement agencies" but no actual app has been banned. Considering all checkpoints has to be published publicly, this seem more like a rebuke of senators idiotic demand. So why are slashdot crowds directing their anger toward Apple and not to those stupid senators?

U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), and Tom Udall (D-N.M.) are named as senders in the letter

Oh, of course.

Comment Re:Apple has won (Score 1) 224

Actual sales numbers are rather more useful than customers' desires as a way of measuring market share.

Huh? Whether Apple is the "most wanted brand" of smartphones or not is the point of contention here. Sales numbers being useful for measuring of market share is neither here nor there.

Comment Re:Apple has won (Score 1) 224

Given the data, it doesn't appear that Apple is even close to the "most wanted" brand of smartphone, let alone phones in general.

Apples status = Told.

Instead of inferring customer's desire from current market share numbers, wouldn't it be more accurate to survey them directly about which smartphone they would want to buy? And somebody helpfully did:

Apple Inc.'s iPhone is the most desired device among users shopping for smartphones, beating the BlackBerry and Google Inc.'s Android as consumers prepare for the holiday season, according to Nielsen Co.

In a survey of U.S. shoppers looking for a smartphone, 30 percent said they wanted to buy an iPhone, according to a Nielsen survey from August through October. Phones running Google's Android software placed second with 28 percent.

Apples status = Real.

Comment Re:USA #1 (Score 1) 513

Do Americans know that no one else in the world does this? Not in Europe, not in Asia. They sell you the service and you use it how you want.

I'm surprised sophisticated cosmopolitan such as yourself are not aware of Japan not even allowing tethering on iPhone (or iPad) and throttling uplink at 64kbps while promoting 1.4Mbps uplink.

Comment Re:That's stupid (Score 1) 356

Even then, "Windows" is more of a creative name than "Window System." If they had called it "Window System" and tried to trademark that, they'd have a smaller chance of getting it.

Even then, "App Store" is more of a creative name than "Application Store." If they had called it "Application Store" and tried to trademark that, they'd have a smaller chance of getting it.

Comment The study is frighteningly nerdy. (Score 1) 199

While seeing word like 'fujoshi' in government study was kind of funny, I had to stop reading it after the author introduced something he calls 'voice actor/actress points variable". It's supposedly calculated from number of threads dedicated to voice actor/actress at 2chan. Seriously, he got to be joking.

Comment Re:Shooter leftist anarchist, so now who's to blam (Score 1) 2166

Um, I was countering DMiax and other liberals' "OMG! Palin caused the shooting!!" hysteria. 'Inciting the mobs' and 'applaud violence' were the terms used by DMiax and I used in mine to mock him. I was pointing out the hypocrisy in freaking out about politicians using a war terminology when it is a common practice on both sides. Since DMiax mistakenly believed only Republicans use such language, I helpfully pointed out example of Democrats using the same language in a hope to subdue his moral outrage.

And, finally, how many are dead now due to violence from the left?

Hopefully Giffords and others wounded will all make a successful recovery and it won't grow anymore than six.

Comment Re:Shooter leftist anarchist, so now who's to blam (Score 1) 2166

Yes, hot-heads are everywhere, this is why the leaders should be very careful with words and discourage this instincts. Instead it seems that Palin caters to the worst impulses and gives these guys the idea that she would applaud violence. I do not find a similar behavior in the democratic party, do you?

I am questioning the leaders' behavior. Inciting the mobs is not ethical. Maybe they are careful with rhetorics and could claim that they never said "she/he should be dead" directly, but this is the message they pass to the followers.

Yeah their presidential candidate applauds violence by saying thing like "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun". Their House candidate incite the mobs by running a campaign ad with his opponent in a crosshair. And most horrifyingly, they make US maps marked with "targets" for their followers to shoot up.

I would have to concede that it would be difficult for me to find Democrats doing similar stuff... oh wait.

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