No, he is stating the fact that most of the killing of the natives took place accidentally. It is the modern revisionist who calls the unintentional killing a genocide.

Don't forget their cheapest desktop that can hold two hard drives and an optical drive is the Mac Pro.

The operative word being "holds". With USB and Thunderbolt, there is *zero* reason to have more than one hard drive slot inside a Mac.

The next Mac Pro doesn't have *any* internal drive bays. None of the creative pros, whom the machines are targeted at, are complaining. They're happily going to connect multi-terabyte RAID arrays to it via any of its six thunderbolt 2 ports, each of which offers more bandwidth than a multilane 6Gbps SAS port.

Apple charges for upgrades; that is not 'charging for the OS"; OS is not available "for purchase." It can be made to run on hardware not offered by Apple, but to do so is against the license.

Apple's machines are not built using commodity hardware. They have commodity components like hard drives, memory, and in some cases, graphics cards.

Apple develops all aspects of their computers in-house.

"The best solution" has nothing to do with "the apple tax." Yes, they're interested in maximizing profit - so is every company, in case you hadn't noticed, fuckwit. That they don't offer what *you* want doesn't mean that there is an "apple tax."

The Mac Pro serves a market for creative professionals whose applications are by and large GPU accelerated, and newer GPUs slot into it just fine. That the processors are older Xeons doesn't really matter. However, in case you hadn't noticed, the Mac Pro just got a complete redesign.

"Facts", indeed.

"So... you can buy twice the amount of ram at -retail- for 30% less than Apple will charge you just to upgrade. THAT is the 'mac premium'."

Odd then, that Dell, Lenovo, and HP all charge this "mac premium" on their computers.

Seriously, you do realize *all* vendors do this, right? They're taking advantage of people who a)don't know they can get it cheaper elsewhere, or don't want to be bothered with the hassle of ordering, don't know how to install the component, or don't have the time b)don't want to be hassled with fingerpointing when something breaks c)are financing the purchase and thus want it all rolled into one d)are purchasing for non-personal use and are limited in terms of suppliers and whatnot.

The NTSB also appears to not be considering that there are people on motorcycles, foot, and bicycle.

That's particularly poor, given that motor vehicle occupant safety has gone up, while pedestrian and cyclist safety has plunged. Why? Cars are increasingly safe for occupants, yet nothing is being done to stop drivers from plowing into other people.

All the safety has simply made people less careful. Why should they be careful? They're unlikely to be seriously injured, insurance will cover the damage and injuries, and they sure as hell aren't going to get charged with any crimes.

You can drive into a storefront and injure half a dozen people and not even get a ticket.

Kill a cyclist and the police will term it an "accident" - all you have to do is say the sun was in your eyes or you were changing the radio station. A little girl in Texas lost both her parents because a guy in a pickup truck slammed into her parents. His excuse: he'd looked down to change the station (and somehow drifted several feet onto the road shoulder.)

Wow, I wish my business strategy were failing as successfully as theirs.

The myth of the "apple tax" or "mac premium" has always been based on pretending that the largest distinguishing feature (the operating system) doesn't exist, or isn't worth anything to people in the market for a new computer. Windows 7 closed the gap a bit, but OS X is still less virus-prone, has better backup integration, doesn't use a registry, and benefits from less platform diversity / hardware+OS from the same vendor.

It also ignores the fact that for years, whenever PC magazines have tested Macs, they've consistently found them to be amongst the best-performing machines money can buy at time-of-release. Boot Camp changed things dramatically, in the sense that suddenly PC magazines could directly compare them to PC hardware with the same benchmark tools.

Apple is reaping the benefit of in-house design (instead of "show me what you got that we can slap our label on"), top-notch system architects, and aggressively securing rights with suppliers for major components to get the best stuff before everyone else.

I have a 15" early 2011 MBP right now, and my job is giving me a 13" Air next week. As much as I love the MBP, I'm looking forward to carrying 3 pounds instead of 4.5 pounds in my messenger bag on the BART. It doesn't seem like a big difference on paper, but is hugely noticeable in practice.

parked in a way that they think nobody can see them

Psht. Some cops have hiding down to an art form. I remember driving along the highway and thinking "Why does that snowbank have a police light bar...."

As I drove by, I saw he'd precisely trimmed the snowbank with a shovel, flat-topping it just enough to see over and for his radar unit.

That said, we don't need speed enforcement. We need illegal/improper/unsafe operation enforcement, proper crash investigation, and criminal penalties for negligence that results in property damage or injury.

I'm guessing "Gnome User Aggrevation/Deprecation Enhancement Committee", based on their past output.

I guess that's why you won't see them with an Android load and a discount. MS has probably contracted with ASUS not to do that.

Cats are a product of their upbringing and environment, like many critters, people included.

Cats that grow up in very active households tend to be very sociable towards strangers (same for "shop" cats). Cats that grow up spending their lives with someone who doesn't socialize much, tend to be more skittish of strangers. Cats that grow up by themselves tend to be more sociable towards humans; cats that grow up with another cat tend to be more social with the other cats (playing, following, snoozing, etc.) and more aloof to humans.

Cats can be passive, cats can be assertive. I dated someone whose cat decided that when we were making out on the couch, that was a swell time to climb up and sit on her back and purr and knead her back.

I've known people who had cats who would play fetch; it's not that unusual - and my cat came when he was called, usually because he knew that it meant he'd get a warm lap, petting, or ear/chin scratching.

You know how hard the plane accelerates when it's full of fuel, you + all the other passengers, luggage, cargo, etc on take off? Enough to push you back into the seat preeeeeeetty hard, right?

Imagine that same force, but in a plane with no passengers, no cargo or luggage, and a light fuel load.

It won't do 62,000 feet a minute like a F-16 will, but I've heard pilots describe unladen performance as breathtaking, and at airshows, they can buzz the runway and do a HARD climb.

Maybe if we'd all spent a little more time in the dorms shooting for $10 bounties than headshots, we'd be paying on smaller loans.