There is a largely-held perception that Apple's success is due to slick advertising. Where Apple has excelled is in product management as a function of marketing. They have powerfully identified the feature set and price points people will pay for their products. They have accurately forecast demand so that they can leverage volume purchasing of components to keep the price at those acceptable points while building in a healthy profit margin. They are firing on all cylinders, and even a few cylinders nobody thought existed.
Yes, there is a name for when people buy products that in 6 months they will be unhappy with and need to buy the latest trend, fashion. Apple has moved from being a computer company to a fashion house, we shall see how well they(Apple) weather the death of their idea man.

...must result in an eco-police state with massive Federal micromanagement.
Zen fascists will control you, 100% natural!

...but I have to say that comparing someone I disagree with to Hitler is somewhat more reasonable than doing so with someone I agree with
FTFY.

And besides, the President can argue that until he's blue in the face -- without congressional support, it's dead on arrival.
Google Korematsu v. United States and then tell me what a president can and can't do through executive orders. Not to mention not all Syrian activists are saints, and not all members of Assad regime are monsters, life is never that simple.

They were sometimes arrogant, often egomaniac, but they were in it for their vision of the future, not for the paycheck and the nice kickbacks from the lobbyists.
Sort of a today Germany, tomorrow the world mentality?Yeah, we will all miss those guys.

Not his insistence that Congress add 2 lines to the NDAA to let him imprison americans without a trial? Not his assassination of 3 american citizens (including a 16 year old child) w/o giving them a constitutional a right to trial?
Son, your outrage is 68 years too late. See Ex parte Quirin and Korematsu v. United States for when you should have felt outrage.

That utopian world in which technology is a positive force for humanity and where rational thought and curiosity replace ignorance-based fear and militarism was a island of serenity in a small town full of bible-thumping, anti-intellectual fundamentalists.
You do realize it was about Star Fleet right? A military organization.

BUT BUT BUT BUT the free market will take care of it! Incentives and all that shit.
Is your supposition that the best laws arisein response to a crisis before cooler heads can prevail?

Long-term, I think alcohol biofuels will win out. Alcohol is nearly as good a storage medium as gasoline/diesel.
No, it's not. Diesel fuel =45.4 MJ/kg(38.6 MJ/L), Petrol=47.2MJ/kg(34 MJ/L). E85(ethanol 85% 15%gasoline)=33.1MJ/kg and 26.5 MJ/L. That's nearly a 30% loss in energy density. Not too mention the hygroscopic nature of alcohols.

All this debate in the USA about health care spending and delivery ignores the biggest factor in predicting lifespan: how much time is spent walking everyday.
That's why our forebears lived to be so much older than we who were born after the invention of the wheel and the internal combustion engine will live. Or your biggest factor in predicting lifespan neglects the importance of clean water or nutritious food.