If I had mod points, I'd mod you up. Spot on.

Come on - All of us Android users are the ones subsidizing the iPhone hipsters, where else do you think they're making up the profits?

The problem is that when they say they want to "lower taxes for everyone", typically 90+% of the "tax break" goes to the top 1% who can actually afford to pay more taxes.

The "military industrial complex" is a real problem. I'm for a strong defense, don't get me wrong. Paying "contractors" multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars a year is bullshit. They're mercenaries, short and simple. We're using our military to protect the interests of the corporations that are buying our politicians. This seems to be a much stronger trend on the Republican side, though that may be due to the differing rhetoric of the parties.

I think our country would be much better served by a parliamentary-style replacement of our current Congressional mess. Spread the power out amoung more than two parties. Give the vote percentages from each state to presidential candidates, instead of winner-take-all (I know this is state-by-state). Term limits in congress. Lots of things that will never happen because it would be the lawmakers legislating themselves out of a job.

And Bush & Co did everything they could to accelerate the rush of jobs and manufacturing offshore while simultaneously bankrupting the country by lowering taxes and starting multiple un-winnable "wars". Our great-great-grandchildren will be paying our debt if the country hasn't declared default by then. Most likely the US will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of China and Monsanto by then.

We got some iPads here at work to eval for use in various places. I was very underwhelmed. OTOH - My family and I really enjoy our Asus Transformer tablet. Whenever my kids are home for my weekends, a common question from my wife is "Where's the tablet?" I am very happy about not being tied to iTunes either. There's only one iPod left in the house, and it's a nightmare of support when she has problems.

Schutzstaffel would be more appropriate. The Gestapo was run by Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS till 1939 then under the various German "Police" forces after.

So, your completely non-intuitive method of attaching a PDF via opening a few apps to just get AT it to send in an email is better than, say, long-press, send, select email, and off to the races?

> "reminding" the American people

Brings to mind Darth Vader - "I have modified the terms of our agreement. Pray I don't modify it further..."

The Tea Party may have had these goals *in the distant past*, but it's now a flunky tool of the Evangelical Xtian movement whose goal has been to corrupt and take over government since the 70's. The only thing it really accomplished was to make the Republicans look like even bigger stooges of the military and corporate America.

You can thank the Bush Administration for taking most of the teeth out of the Fair Labor Standards Act. I read the whole thing cover-to-cover about 5 years ago, there were decent protections for those of us in computer-related fields. Once Bush's changes went into full effect, our HR department wasted no time in rolling out changes to attendance/tardy policies, destroying vacation rules and taking away vacation time. I resent the HELL out of being told I have to be on call every third week, answer the phone 24x7x365 if it's my specific area of expertise, then I'm told if I'm 5 minutes late I'll be written up. 10 years and I never had hard-coded office hours. I used to do a job, not warm a seat. They get less out of me now, even though I'm in the office more.