I'm not si sure I'm comfortable someone scanning my credit or especially debit Ward with a personal device like an ipad or iPhone. If its possible for a program to be written do do the transaction securely, then its possible for shadyy retailers to have an app on there that looks like the official app but that retains your card data. It easy enough to get your card duplicated with scanning it through consumer devices.

I think this is setting your sights too low. Having a computer "go south" after a year (or even two or three years) isn't acceptable. Never mind the cost of the actual hardware: the cost of losing some or all of your data, and/or the use of your computer at what could be a crucial time, simply isn't worth it. Better to pay a bit more up front and get something sturdy and reliable, and save yourself a lot of stress and heartache.

Shouldn't a computer running MacOS/X count as a *nix machine? It's running a variant of BSD after all...

"They don't have the right to say it in any way they want"

Well yes actually they do. I don't totally disagree that they may not have had the right to "squat" but they were trying very hard to camp in public spaces, and limit traffic disruptions, and I think that is different than intentionally "squatting" on private property.

You might not like it but if you are going to demonstrate and express your displeasure with your government it almost inevitably results in large numbers of people needing to be in the streets or parks near the seats of power which would be New York and Washington. If they have to get "permits" to do that from the very government they are criticizing, then the government just cuts off the permits and the message the government doesn't want anyone to hear disappears. Or you get things like the "free speech zones" of the Bush era, chain link cages that are conveniently placed so no one will see or hear any protestor foolish enough to get shoved in to one.

"the message of OWS was trite. The current US government sucks and banks got a sweet deal they didn't deserve? "

You probably should have listened more instead of being "bored", because the message is quite a bit more sophisticated than that. The message is Wall Street in particular, and also big defense, pharna and fossil fuel companies among others have, for all practical purposes, seized control of the U.S. government, to the detriment of the American people.

They did it by buying Congressmen with chump change in campain contributions, with lobbiest bribes, with big PAC donations for campaign ads and more importantly with revolving doors through which Congressmen, their staffs, generals and bureaucrats get lucrative jobs when they leave public service for favors, and in the other direction where people from Goldman Sachs join government to take over places like the Department of the Treasury and the White House. From there they steer trillions of dollars to bail out their former employers and hand out trillions in gifts to corporate interests off the backs of working Americans who still pay their taxes while most big corporations no longer do thanks to the loopholes they've bought.

You ever wonder why the SEC never prosecutes anyone important on Wall Street, because everyone who works at the SEC wants to work at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley and get a huge pay increase so they will NEVER do anything but slap their future employers on the wrist. The SEC spent 4 years investigating Lehman Brothers whose malefesance resulted in economic catastrophe, and last week announced no charges would be filed. The investigators will, no doubt, soon get lucrative new jobs on Wall Street.

Some more examples, a 90 billion a year windfall for pharma from Medicare D which was barred from negotiate drug prices. Billy Tauzin rammed through Medicare D and then took a job as a drug company lobbyist. There are massive tax breaks for an oil industry which is making staggering profits. There are hundreds of billions in pork laden contracts to defense and homeland security contractors.

Its called crony capitalism, its a trade mark of banana republics, thats what America has now, and the American people are being royally screwed by it. They have every right, in fact its their duty, to be in the streets of New York and Washington D.C. every week until its stopped and we get our Constitution back.

Once again proving the efficacy of restraining orders. Most often used as leverage in a divorce, restraining orders serve no rational purpose. If someone wants to hurt another person, they will, no matter the existence of the restraining order.

Nope its not a stereotype, its well established that the Audi A6 is the semi official car of choice of the Chinese Communist party official.

The mistresses and princelings apparently favor Ferrari's.

If you aren't familiar with the term princeling they are the children and grandchildren of the giants of the Communist party, the comrades of Mao back in the day, the marchers of the Long March, champions of the worker, who have now suddenly all become staggeringly rich, are driving around in Italian sports cars, and have lost touch with the prolateriat.

Israel practices ethnic cleansing because they are putting Palestinians in the West bank and Gaza in what are basically open air prisons. Apartheid in South Africa used the term Bantustan's or homelands when they did the same thing to blacks. In Europe when the practice was applied to Jews they were called ghetto's the most famous being the one in Warsaw which under German occupation has striking similarities to Gaza.

  Israel is actively engaged in a long range plan to preserve a Jewish "democracy" by disenfranchising Palastinians which due to the demographics of a much higher birth rate will eventually hold the majority in Israel counting the occupied territories. When that occurs Israel will, for all practical purposes, be an apartheid state with a minority holding power through elections that are democratic in name only.

The fact that Israel is aggressively putting settlements in to occupied territories, which is a violation of international law, and are aggressively displacing Palastinian in the process is the icing on the ethnic cleansing cake.

As for why Nazi's were called right wing its because they practiced state capitalism and were radically anti union which placed them on the opposite side of the spectrum from leftists and communists which are in theory at least entirely for workers and unions. Right wing state capitalists make no pretense of being a workers paradise, workers work to serve the state and the party, and the well connected party members tend to be rich and powerful. In practice Nazi Germany and Stalinst Russia weren't really very different, but that's mostly because Stalin staged a counter revolution, hijacked the Russian revolution and when he did it became a Communist state in name only. China did the same transition from Communism to counter revolution and state capitalism when Mao died and the "Gang of Four" including Mao's widow were deposed. The party started "special economic zones" and slowly embracing state capitalism from 1978 on, so today it is for all practical purposed a Fascist state and Communist in name only.

Your test sentence is not a good one. The traditional one that is similar to what you posted is "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog". Others may be found here or google it.

No. AC above is conflating approximations and interpolations of iOS to OS X. It is true that Apple doesn't increase hardware requirements if they can avoid it. If they can't, there is usually a pretty clear reason: 040->PPC->x86/64, single vs multi-core/cpu, presence of discrete graphics, etc.

Pearl Habor was no rationale at all for doing anything to Japan. The U.S., Britain and the Dutch had embargoed Japan's oil supplies in July 1941. Japan made it quite clear then that they considered that an act of war since it was going to completely strangle Japan militarily and economically. War was inevitable from that point and FDR and the U.S. military knew it. Japan had no choice but to seize the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) to restore their oil supply, and to do that they had to neutralize the U.S. Pacific fleet.

The specifics of when and where the Japanese would attack might have been a bit of a surprise but the U.S. knew full well it was coming. Its up to the conspiracy theorists to make the claim the U.S. intentionally let the Japanese maul Pearl Harbor because FDR needed a day of "infamy" to goad the American people in to entering World War II, something the very isolationist American people had been loathe to do up to that point. It did a great job of whipping Americans in to a war frenzy, and producing a gusher of volunteers for the military, something that simply wouldn't have happened if FDR had just declared war on Germany and Japan without a provocation.