Why would I even read the link if the first line of is an obvious, lazy, over-generalized lie?

"Over the last decade, just three companies — Google, Apple, and Facebook — have generated most of the new ideas and most of the business momentum in the world of computing."

Only a moron who's view of computing comes from the pages of Time magazine would make such a pathetic, sweeping overgeneralization ignoring the vast innovations that have been happening in the wold of computing, driven by thousands of innovative startups. Linux, cloud computing and a dozen other area have thrown up a wide variety of innovations that have nothing to do do with those three very important (well, two very important, plus Facebook) but overhyped companies.

As seen here.

It's good to be the king...

That's one of the codewords that gets Obama's IRS to audit you.

...just like I'm sure the Obama Administration would never obtain the phone and email records for every American!

What?

Easily one of the Top 10 SF Writers of all time, and a huge stylistic influence on the field.

My own tiny tribute, along with scans of some of his rarer first editions from my library.

You know, the color Kindle that's been on the market a year and a half?

Pssst, I heard some other top secret rumors you might be able to use: I hear that Apple is working on a phone!

...when Google shuts down the service 18-24 months from launch.

And where, pray tell, were all those liberal groups receiving spite audits and having their tax exempt status held up?

...when they require three booster packs and a prime card bought off eBay to be competitive!

Why then have our political and business classes made the decision not to enforce immigration laws against an unchecked flow of illegal aliens from Mexico?

...at least according to witnesses, and he's still alive.

I guess he was surrounded by stormtroopers.

And a few random titbits about the bombing.

Ireland which went through some severe austerity

Except it didn't. "Ireland recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 7.70 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2012." And it was as high as 30.9% in 2010. Now, if you want to argue it was foolish to bail out Anglo-Irish Bank, that's a different argument.

Which part of "Real austerity is cutting spending until outlays match receipts" was unclear?

Did you forget Portugal, which is now trying the severe brand of austerity that you seem to favor

Except it isn't.

"Portugal recorded a Government Budget deficit equal to 6.40 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2012.

Which part of "Real austerity is cutting spending until outlays match receipts" was unclear?

The thing to remember when hearing about all this "austerity" in Europe is that no country in Europe has tried real austerity .*

Real austerity is cutting spending until outlays match receipts. As the linked chart shows, the overwhelming majority have raised taxes or continued deficit spending. Some have slightly reduced the ratio of deficit spending to GDP and called it "austerity." They're still digging a hole, they're just doing it more slowly.

Politicians are addicted to spending to prop up an unsustainable welfare state. They've seen what the future looks like in Greece and they still refuse to stop spending. And the current government of the United States is right there digging with them.

Austerity hasn't been tried and failed. It's been declared difficult and left untried.

(*with the possible exception of Estonia and one or two other small countries)

It buys other companies to graft onto itself to give its corpse the semblance of life...