I don't think you're aware of this, so even though I think I'm stating the obvious, I'll do it anyways. Here it goes:

Passion != fun

mac: shiny, and with unix under the hood, costs about 3-4 times what it should.
linux: shiny, and with unix under the hood, costs exactly what it should ($0).

I think we can all agree on these simple truths, and based on these truths:

mac user: a fool recently parted from his money.

there fixed it for ya

perhaps you speak some truth, but:

I would imagine Mac users are also...

More likely to passionately believe that Obama is the Messiah.
More likely to scoff at people who don't have the right $150 jeans from Abercrombie.
More likely to be overpriveleged spoiled children of rich parents.

In short, more likely to be young self hating white democrat socialist surrender monkeys?

>>No. Just no.
probably written on a mac
Indeed "urban" IS code for "black" which may not work in this context because "black" is not code for "computer owner."

that 52/25/23 split is the breakout of hunch users, which is already a skewed sample set (people who like hunch). using the market share numbers instead I calculate that amongst the (perhaps less skewed) sample set of "people who own computers" 38% are liberal, 61% are conservative.

this pleases me because: I think people who buy macs are sad fashion victims, that (white) liberals are self hating fully brainwashed morons, and that the "higher education" system is a lot more about creating mac-loving whitey-hating libdrones than learning anything.

That's a failure, certainly, but calling it the 'main failure' is a bit of a hyperbole, IMO.

Can the cores be clocked down individually?

The say slavery is over, but Obama is clearly up for sale.

The beautiful thing about language is the inferences that can be naturally made and understood in certain phrases because of your continued use of a language. Saves everybody time, and it makes grammar snobs like you seem annoying, which hopefully keeps your arrogant ass out of the gene pool.

The thing about situations like this is that resolving issues ultimately comes down to who has more bargaining chips. If Iran all of a sudden realizes that push is going to come to shove BEFORE they have the capability to use their trump card, capitulation is suddenly much more likely.

Sometimes a good mediator isn't afraid to deflate one party's ego so that they can come to realize that their ass is grass if they don't sit down, shut up, and take the deal that's being offered to them. This is one of those situations where one party's ego is far bigger than the pile of chips they have in front of them. If efforts aren't made to knock that party's ego down a few notches, a peaceful resolution is not likely.

You're kidding, right? The US rolled up Iraq in less than a week not only once, but twice. As far as invasion is concerned, the US has the best track record of any modern military. The "problems" you hear about involve occupation. The fact that you're ignoring the fact that the problems we're facing in our occupation of Afghanistan or Iraq don't even hold a candle to the occupational efforts of other modern militaries is of course typical of the liberal mindset. We were in Japan for 40 YEARS, 4 Decades before they got back on their feet, we were in Germany for 30. We still hold the Philippines, Guam, Somoa, etc..

Iran would be rolled in less than a week just like Iraq was, twice. The only difference would be Israeli troops on the ground with US logistical and heavy arms support as opposed to a full American invasion with US boots, bombs and small arms headed inland.

i suspect that microsoft inadvertently helped define the netbook: manufacturers wanted to use XP, microsoft wanted XP to die already (still does.) Microsoft parried with the XP-ULPC license, which I believe was only to be installed on machines with no more than 1GB ram and 160GB hard drive. So there's part of the standard. Throw in a 9 or 10 inch display and delete the optical drive and we have arrived in netbook land.

my dual-boot Acer Aspire runs 3.5 hours of XP, or 2.0 hours of Ubuntu netbook edition. Linux power management sucks. The laptop is now the "desktop," so until Linux gets serious about power it's going to be relegated to a beige/black box under your desk/in your server closet.

Longtime Windows user, eh? I'm sorry to hear that.