Comment Re:For fuck's sake people... (Score 1) 681
Maybe it has something to do with thing like this:
The Cult of Neil deGrasse Tyson
Oh please... your poor attempt at mocking Republicans because of sterotypes driven mostly by the liberal media is pathetic. Democrats have their own large mass of uneducated or anti-science people so what is your point? Does it really impact your life if someone wants to view life through the lens of their Christian faith? Why should you insult or mock someone just because you don't agree with them?
It's actually been proven by studies that among all the political orientations, conservative republicans are the most scientifically literate groups.
Knowing that Astrology is not scientific:
Democrat 49%
Independent 53%
Conservative Republican 70%
Knowing that Earth takes a year to revolve around the Sun:
Democrat 49%
Independent 55%
Conservative Republican 67%
So the US has committed acts of war against Germany by tapping their head of state's phone, etc. Or is it only an act of war when it's against US interests?
That story was a hoax.
No proof so far that NSA bugged Merkel's phone: prosecutor
Germany's top public prosecutor said an investigation into suspected tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone by U.S. spies had so far failed to find any concrete evidence.
On Wednesday he said however, "the document presented in public as proof of an actual tapping of the mobile phone is not an authentic surveillance order by the NSA. It does not come from the NSA database.
"There is no proof at the moment which could lead to charges that Chancellor Merkel's phone connection data was collected or her calls tapped."
Unfortunately, that's not true. Global warming denial is common in many places of the world, especially in the formerly communist countries, middle eastern countries, south asian countries, and anglo countries. The USA has similar levels of global warming denial as Russia, India, the UK, Australia, the Czech Republic, and many other places.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Interestingly Japan had the second highest percentage of believers in that study from 2007, but now they have the highest number of skeptics (PDF). I wonder what happened. After that media quickly found out anti-nuclear scaremongering was more effective clickbait than anti-carbon scaremongering.
Android phones far outsell iPhones in Japan. See these charts as just one example http://kakaku.com/keitai/smart...
kakaku.com is a price comparison site and its popularity ranking is based on page views and not sales. It is a testimony to iPhone's popularity in Japan that a product without a need for price comparison still rank that high on price comparison site's list. As for sales number, let's go to the people who actually studies and publish those kind of number:
In Japan, consumers' desire for all things Apple continued into the final quarter of 2013, with iOS taking 68.7% share of smartphone sales.
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.
Derbyshire has been fired from his position at the conservative National Review magazine (the offending article appeared in a different publication called Taki's Magazine).
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.
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.
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.
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.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
