They wouldn't do this. They didn't use a former hookup of Osama bin laden's to get him. They just went in and nabbed him. Why aren't they just nabbing him now with the help of Scotland Yard and MI6 and the SAS?

Here's a clue: He's NOT THAT IMPORTANT.

Yawn.

The mental gymnastics you have to do to go from, "Politically active woman has run in with creepo rapist megalomaniac with a revolutionary fetish" to "The US wants his head and is using this woman to get to him" is ABSURD. It's conspiratorial thinking AND slut shaming AND rape apologetics, now only if someone will tie this to male rights I'll hit internet male asshole bingo thanks to the free space.

Putting the thing into a plastic case and embedding the keyboard was Steve's idea. Trying to keep it simple and not suck is still kind of a revolutionary concept.

We're all so willing to live with things that suck. I mean, even OSX sucks in many ways(I prefer it because it sucks less than Windows, and while Linux is great for stability, living with the OS is a kind of suck I can't deal with; even if it sucks less overall).

If Henry Ford listened to his customers he'd be selling faster horses.

What users want is to be able to do things and not worry if the whole thing goes pear shaped due to bad software. Or that they're faced with crappy interfaces. Or if they're faced with ... Well. It goes on.

Given how often the slashdot crowd is just plain wrong, I'd say they have a hit on their hands with windows 8 and metro. But it's likely to fail.

The apple way would be to periodically scrap your business model, and try something new. From the Apple 2 to the Mac, from Classic OS to OSX, from iPod to iPhone, to letting iOS cannibalize OSX sales...

The apple way would be to give away VS.net and rebuild windows from scratch. They're half assing this one. I say metro or not. Ship or get off the pot.

So it's over basically. I mean, Paul has zero chance at this delegate gambit.

He's not going to win the nomination.

Actually Woodrow Wilson predicted that having Germany pay reparations was a REALLY bad idea. It wasn't the hyperinflation that screwed Germany it was the war reparations.

Those who do not understand history are doomed to become libertarians.

Keynesian economics hasn't failed. It didn't fail for most of the 20th century and only started failing when we let morons like Arthur Laffer and Alan Greenspan run things.

What do I think caused the problems?

Subprime lending with super low interest rates artificially inflating housing prices motivated by irrational self interest in the form of bonuses and spiffs by bankers, lenders and other financial institutions.

Also, short sighted whiny business owners who declare that we can't bother possibly raise wages with relation to inflation because that would be un-American. How dare people earn a living wage!

You probably tuned out because I didn't scream "GOVERNMENT!" and instead went with a more nuanced answer.

What's going to fix our problems isn't at the end of a gun or radical Governmental upheaval in favor of a libertarian ideology.

What's needed is a massive shift in cultural mores and norms finally saying that the fucking rich aren't paying their fair share and are actively trying to hoard what wealth they have in fear of it going away.

Being taxed at 3 or 4 or even 10 percent higher marginal tax rates with no tax loopholes by being paid in stock or other instruments isn't going to be the end of the world.

Because all of our problems are caused by the fed and none of those racist newsletters with his name on it are his.

Seriously. We're in serious trouble. We need serious people. We need serious economists and policy wonks.

Tearing it all down because of ideological purity isn't serious. It isn't even close. It's childish and stupid.

Because it'd be an amazing feat of engineering.

If they can prove that Google's really wrong about open and the tradeoffs you have to make with open with regards to security and ecosystem, it'd be so damned cool.

Of course warp drives are cool too, but I don't see that happening either.