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Comment: False (Score 1) 341

by unassimilatible (#43417383) Attached to: Sequester Grounds Blue Angels
If Obama averages a golf trip and vacation every 4 months then that would make the number of trips taken around 16

Obama averages a lot more trips than that. You aren't counting his golf outings, his record number of fundraisers (or taxpayer-paid political events), some of which he flies in for an hour and leaves.

He certainly is not the king of vacation days. That honor falls to President George W. Bush

Not analogous, since Bush never presided over a sequester, let alone was one his idea, let alone did Bush threaten to veto a bill offering him budgeting discretion on a sequester, and then close the White House to tours and stop the Blue Angels, and then cry, "we have no money!"

Comment: And the golf trip with Toger? (Score 1) 341

by unassimilatible (#43413807) Attached to: Sequester Grounds Blue Angels
And those golf trips and vacations every 4 months Obama takes? How much do those cost taxpayers? Like a million dollars each flight?

Any sentient being knows Obama threatened to veto congressional bills to give him some budgeting discretion in the sequester, so he can blame Republicans for the arbitrary cuts. So far, based on polls, the public doesn't seem to be falling for it, despite the media not reporting this key little fact.

Comment: This is true of all crimes (Score 1) 687

by unassimilatible (#41577871) Attached to: Laser Strikes On Aircraft Becoming Epidemic
"There is not a legal solution that is going to work. People just don't get it. Throwing people in jail doesn't solve the problem."

Tell me about all the types crimes that have been eliminated from throwing people in jail. So I guess we should legalize rape and murder.

Deterrence is but one purpose of the criminal sanction.
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+ - Owners of 2011 Motorola models furious their phones won't run Ice Cream Sandwich->

Submitted by unassimilatible
unassimilatible writes "Owners of three 2011-launched Motorola phones are furious that the company has reneged on its vow to support their models with the latest Android version, Ice Cream Sandwich. Models affected are the Photon 4G, the Electrify, a re-branded Photon available on the US Cellular network, and the Atrix 4G, a flagship phone that debuted on AT&T in the United States in 2011.

The result is that thousands of people in the middle of two-year carrier contracts will have to use Android 2.3, known as Gingerbread, for the foreseeable future. Motorola had promised owners Android 4.0 support, which would bring a host of new features and security updates. Instead they are stuck on Gingerbread, an operating system that was already a year old when some bought their Moto phones.

Meanwhile, iPhone 3GS users are reporting that iOS 6 works great on thier 2009-era phones."

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Comment: Stop quoting Groklaw for crissakes (Score 1) 387

by unassimilatible (#41163127) Attached to: Why Juries Have No Place In the Patent System
Groklaw is an obviously anti-patent site. Don't quote them as authority on mainstream patent law.

The whole point of this article is that the average juror isn't smart enough for these cases (forgetting the 7th Amendment).

Now we have a foreman with a patent, and he's too smart? Catch-22 much? I guess we need these ivory tower philosopher kings to administer your "software and hardware should be free, fuck Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution" ethos.

"The foreman told a court representative that the jurors had reached a decision without needing the instructions."

Fucking lie. Stop relying on Groklaw and listen to the actual foreman's interview:

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/apple-vs-samsung-foreman-we-focused-on-evidence-eRnU07ChTjeV8MuvEiBSxw.html

Comment: Right, and women shouldn't sit on rape trials (Score 1) 387

by unassimilatible (#41163085) Attached to: Why Juries Have No Place In the Patent System
Because they have vaginas. And anyone who owns physical property can't sit on a theft or burglary or robbery trial? Only ascetic monks can sit on those?

So the average juror is too dumb, but a patent holder is too smart?

Bullshit. Anyone can be fair if he puts his mind to it.

Comment: CEO's do not equal rank-and-file employees (Score 4, Insightful) 272

by unassimilatible (#40415289) Attached to: Google Touts Worker Tracking As Own CEO Goes MIA
So, why not reassure those worried about the situation by publicly tracking Page's location via Maps Coordinate?

Uh, because there would be no point? What does the CEO's location have to do with stock performance?

And I'm no Google fan (I'm an Apple stockholder), but there are obviously some security issues involving the whereabouts of a famous billionaire CEO (e.g., kidnap and ransom?) that don't apply to the rank-and-file employee.

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