Hope and change my friends. Hope and change.

Until we dump the two party monopoly in America, the current direction will not waver regardless of which presidential candidate gets elected.

Even if they did cross breed peas and fireflies, who cares? Genes are genes. All "nature" has been doing is genetic engineering. Nature doesn't "intend" for anything so human meddling—which appears to be our genetic predisposition—is perfectly "natural."

My only issue with genetically engineered food is the patent bullshit that goes with it.

Wait a minute? Are you saying that the situation is more complex and reasonable than the sensationalist headline implies?

No. Not here. You sir must be mistaken.

(Thanks for your reasonable input.)

I'm sorry but how exactly is an iMac (a machine that in general is running UNIX) for people who are challenged? And iChat? So if I use that as a Jabber client now I'm some kind of moron?

This isn't even exciting anyway:

This just in! New hardware faster than existing hardware! Read all about it!

Then you weren't paying attention. Just as my cynicism was starting to fall to all the rhetoric of hope... he made the FISA and my cynicism returned to say, "Told ya so."

Personally, I LIKED all the UI changes in Lion right away with the exception of shrinking the "stoplight" buttons and the fact that the pill button that removes the toolbar has been removed and replaced with the full screen mode button.

But you are right, some annoyances are just annoying because they're different. I'm generally kind of excited by new stuff so long as it isn't a major hinderance (and it usually isn't).

He has no reason. Anyone who has read the Ars Technica overview of the OS or isn't just trying to be a hipster knows that. I can see some people not liking the interface changes but he's a snob that thinks that because the OS has inherited some visual features from iOS that it feels like a toy. Making the decision after "two minutes" is a joke.

Although I will say, in my experience, Snow Leopard was the most stable version of OS X I have ever used and I installed it the day it came out. It was rock solid out of the gate and on top of that Mail was FINALLY stable. Lion? Not so much on either count. Although, being used to some of the changes I wouldn't go back.

Thunderbolt and SuperSpeed USB aren't even competing for the same market and don't have the same purpose. You will probably never have Thunderbolt mouse, keyboard, headset, printer, etc. There's no reason to use such expensive cabling and ridiculous bandwidth for devices like that.

Docking stations, breakout boxes, external PCIe cards, displays and high speed RAID arrays are what Thunderbolt is for. A box with say... 4 ethernet adapters is good for Thunderbolt. Your webcam though? Uhhhhh, no.

I'd dress in drag. I'd plan a road trip of riotous living. Haha.

Problem is, it'll just end up giving them more attention and feed into their "persecution proves us right" mentality. I have an insane aunt like this and it's completely irrational to deal with.

The fucking tragedy. Steve Jobs dies at 56 and Phelps is 82 and fuckers like that live for-fucking-ever.

And I suspect they're going to be unpleasantly surprised when they meet him. If there is a god worth worshipping out there, he's gotta find these tools really annoying. (I just wish he'd find them annoying to drop a bus on or something.)

I just want to know why it's cool to call "white" people "white" by it's not okay for someone to be "black." You have to use the term "African-American" over and over—a term that is particularly confusing if someone is of Jamaican or Haitian descent.

Where oh where are my mod points when I need them. (Mrs.)

I had to reread your post with John Cleese's voice in my head. Hahaha.

" I'm not copying the building, I'm taking a picture of my experiences."

Hmmm... maybe you should sue the owners of the building for taking part in your experiences!