Pretty much. Further meetings just means "How can we sneak this past the public."

I can't sort out how an image that dates back to the 17th century can possibly be copyrighted by anyone.

Fuck copyright has become an evil of absolutely astonishing proportions.

I don't know if Assad's quite that malevolent. I sure wouldn't have wanted to have been Uday Hussein's IT manager, that's for sure.

The thing about, say, the CIA or Mosad, they would hack, but not reveal they had and just keep reading the emails as they came in.

Margins are very low on electronics. You had to move a lot of product to keep a brick and mortar electronics store afloat even before the Internet and Walmart became such huge competitors. Quite frankly I rarely go into them any more. I find even taking shipping into account that I can find better deals online. I haven't bought an actual computer from a brick and mortar store in seven or eight years.

Amazon gets their stuff for free, I suppose. Amazon ultimately is the greatest enemy authors have ever known, but they'll be so busy attacking Google and the pirates that they won't realize that they just cut off their balls and handed them to one of the most repugnant back of crooks in the world.

That's because you're a fucktard. I suspect concepts like zero and water being yet cause you the same degree of consternation. Here's my advice to you. Just start jamming pencils into your eyes until the feelings go away.

Only navel-gazing morons mock basic research.

You realize these factories make more than iPads, right? And if China starts making itself unfriendly to a major foreign manufacturer (Apple is a BIG FUCKING COMPANY these days), they risk what amounts to the fuel of their economic engine.

My bet is that the whole thing will be squashed in very short order. The Chinese government knows what side the bread is buttered on.

And somehow one of them ended up on /.