I see your problem you think the president of the USA is actually a useful position. The president of the USA is actually the least powerful, least effective job in the USA.

The president doesn't make laws congress does, the president doesn't decide which laws are fair or balanced the judicial system does. The president doesn't even decide details of policy only vague generalities.

The president( i don't care which ones you like they all fall into this) can't make decisions. he can only choose between choices others make for him. he has three basic tools Force(military or civilian), Legal(lawyers), or Diplomatic(Negotations, etc) However he can't use force for anything but quick attacks or else congress must intervene. He can use legal but lawyers aren't useful for much. Diplomatic only works when the other party actually is willing to change.(that's why you can't negotiate with palenstine/isreal or the tea party, neither side can look at things from anyone else's view)

There is a reason why Presidents go into office looking healthy and come out Physically healthy but looking like they went through a meet grinder. Because they get all the blame, very little of the credit, and can actually change very little.

The president controls the price of oil about as much I do. The president controls the budget of the country about as much I do.

If your curious look up what the president is actually allowed to do in most cases all he can do is advise someone else to look into the problem and report back. Take the IRS scandal. I would be willing to bet the president knew about it a while ago. however he couldn't actually change the policies or punish people because congress ultimately controls those positions.

This true of every president they can at best suggest. whether or not they get listened to is another story.

I tried doing that with Fluorescents and realized it gave me headaches.

While I love daylight and during the day open windows as much as possible, At night I prefer 27k to 35k lighting.

Of course I am typing this on my laptop with a single 27k led on and 3 lit candles listening to music and drinking scotch. so I might be on the eccentric side(if only i was rich)

Since the one of the main talking point about android is the ability to side install apps.

Of course how can you be sure any app you install is genuine? Unless you write, compile and install it yourself and even that isn't 100% trustworthy.

So define ignorance when the professional have a hard time and the average person isn't smart enough to know what compiling is let alone do it.

Science is always weird. 100 years ago atom weren' known exist. electricity was some wierd etheral vapor. besides atoms and laws of motion and thermodynamics only cover somethings. we kept noticing funny results at the edge cases. The farther down we go the funnier the results get.

Eventually we will find out that all this quantum stuff actually makes sense and the funny properties are the results of us using planets the size of mars to figure out where the earth is. (relatively speaking).

Up to the st Lawrence and it can dock in Chicago. That would actually be shorter and faster than the Mississippi As the river and locks would slow things down out on the great lakes themselves they can get up to full speed.

Um at 3,200 miles I bet it goes by ship up the St Lawrence around the channels and locks and docks in Chicago.

That would br roughly that for range. and takes a lot of the traffic out .

You do realize that people earning less than $100,000 annual spend 90% or more of their income.

If the rich can get buy only spending 50% of their income then they aren't spending their fair share either.

The richer you are the less of your income you actually spend. sure you may own 5 cars and three large houses. but once the big money items are done you have a hard time spending the rest.

Better yet anyone earning less than $100,000 pays no taxes. Anyone earning between $100,000 and $500,000 pay 15% flat tax, anyone earning over $500,000 pays 25% flat tax. No donations, no discounts, no tax breaks.

You see the 90% of the population that suddenly has an extra roughly $15,000 (*300 million people) they will save some of it, but most of their tax money saved WILL be spent on goods and services every year. That is $45 billion that will be spent on the real economy instead of wall street's obviously inflated one.

Of course the other 10% will be supporting the rest of us, but since they WON'T spend their money anyways it might as well get put to good use.

Here is the trick no one earning over a million dollars annually is actually paying the 35% tax rate. The ones who get screwed are the ones earning more than $250,000 annually but less than a Million.

Ideally the thing to do is to tax investments that last less than an hour at 50%. Right now if you look at wall street the country is experiencing double digit growth. As wall street is supposed to be based on the fundamentals of the companies. it becomes surprising that the companies in question are experiencing at best moderate growth of 1-3%. The rest is the HFT and day trading that bankers love. It does add some liquidity to the market but HFT

Lastly the rich The top 10% of the country controls 75% of the wealth that means they should be paying for 75% of the tax bills but in reality are only paying 50%.

that's my thought. I can see uses for the heads up display tech. but i don't want the camera or voice control functions.

Camera is creepy, the voice control is stupid. Talking is the least effective way of communicating commands.

considering that out of the 1000 people 75% probably didn't hear about 3D printers before the news talked about 3D printed guns then yea there is a sample bias.

3D printers are a niche. they aren't talked about very often. Most people don't realize that you can upload a design and have a computer build a plastic model of something in an hour. Even things like CNC machines and laser cutters in the minds of average citizens are more hollywoodized than reality.

Put this into perspective. In 1970 a man earning $35,000 a year could afford to own a home, a car, and afford to have his wife stay at home to raise the kids. If the wife worked too then they probably had a second summer cabin somewhere.

in 2010 a man earning $35,000 is barely living above the poverty line.(depending on location) you can't support a wife to raise the kids, let alone anything else.

The average worker in the USA in 1970 earned $19.20
In 2010 the average worker earned $19.70

In 1970 the average CEO earned $500,000
in 2010 the average CEO earned $5,000,000

Now tell me what is wrong with that picture? Circuit city is my favorite example. in 2008 after a year of bad sales the CEO of circuit city came up with a plan to save $10 million over 3 years. He fired the top 3,000 highest paid non mangers and rehired new people in their place earning minimum wage. Wall street was happy, and he and the board paid themselves $5 million in bonuses immediately.

With in a year Circuit city was gone completely. why? because he fired the top 3000 sales people. He could have saved $10 million dollars immediately that year by cutting his and the rest of the executive boards salaries. They weren't doing anything anyways.

executive and upper level bonuses have gone out of control. Goldman Sachs had to borrow money from he US Government so it could pay bonuses. I always thought that if the company did poorly bonuses were to be cut first not last, but for the rich they payout bonuses and then close the company down.

Apple can switch to AMD, or apple controls the software, and the base OS is fairly cross platform, while the upper levels don't use much of platform specific optimizations.

take a look at windows RT/ Windows 8 and compare it to Apple moving from PowerPC to Intel.

expensive, demands ecosystem monogamy, and if it has problems you are told your holding it wrong.

I bet they will charge you to return it too.

Move to a short term apartment.

I get mail for the previous 4 tenants. one of whom lived for in that location for 3 years. Junk mail people never update their databases.

fortunately I get 90% of my mail electronically. bills, etc are sent by email so when i move I don't have to update them immediately.

really? ask dell, HP, levono, and all the other computer makers what a race to the bottom looks like.

No having multiple companies each trying to find an edge to expand into is what makes the market efficient.