It's not as if Obama has strayed at all from his predecessor's policies on war, executive supremacy, and foreign policy.

Obama got the Arab League* to endorse the no-fly zone over Libya, and got the Europeans flying many of the missions, for a final cost of about $2 billion and no known American lives. Does that sound even remotely like either of Bush's wars?

* Which, mind you, is not only Arab and Muslim like Libya, but also mostly dealing with internal dissent themselves, and are obviously wary of Western intervention themselves. How eager do you suppose they were to throw Libya under the bus?

A no-name company with a skeevy CEO, a custom OS instead of Android or something more well-supported? Maybe at $100, or possibly even $200.

I fear your expectations for a $100 tablet may be a bit high.

I really don't see how my reader could be significantly improved.

In no particular order:

1. The background color of e-ink is not ideal, and should be able to display something resembling white, if not actually a user-selectable color.
2. The resolution of e-ink can be improved, at least to 300 dpi or so.
3. While the flashing refresh is bearable, it's obviously not ideal.
4. Depending on what you're reading, rich color.

Yes, because the bleeding hearts couldn't stand seeing it locally, so they got rid of polluters, sweatshops, abusive management. IF we could export those guys to China, they would clean up China, which is pretty much a hellhole. Better than it was 10 years ago, but still a hellhole..

If that's the kind of country you want to live in, seems to me it'd be more efficient to move you to China than to send the "bleeding hearts" to transform China.

Can't we just face the reality that some races are actually better are certain things than others due to millions of years of evolution?

You misunderstand the reported problem entirely.

Even if we assume your assertion is correct, the average still means nothing in this context. Even if 2% of white people have IQ of 130 but only 1% of black people do (numbers entirely made up for illustration purposes), we would expect the 1% to be approximately as successful as the 2%. If they aren't, then we might reasonably want to understand why.

The tallest woman was 2.48m tall. Would you expect her to be shorter than a 2.48m-tall man, just because women are shorter than men on average?

Manned exploration may be really expensive, but if we can do it right I think it would be far far more efficient than robotic probes.

What about robotic probes that cost half or even about as much as manned exploration? The choice isn't just between tiny rovers and astronauts.

You mean the Xerox that "was allowed to buy pre-IPO stock from Apple, in exchange for engineer visits and an understanding that Apple would create a GUI product", according to Wikipedia?

Make no mistake if they didn't have to - they wouldn't have.

WebKit was created in 2002 with IIRC about 400,000 lines of KHTML code. While this is a good chunk of code, let's not kid ourselves that this represents something Apple couldn't have written from scratch to keep closed. Still, Apple presumably saved some development effort, and the resulting code is enjoyed by many - including Nokia and later Android. How biased do you have to be to turn a win-win-win story for open source software into a snide comment?

Blame the broken system rather than the companies who take advantage of what they're given.

Well, these are powerful companies that either helped draft those laws, or are not doing much to fix it...

No, we should fix three problems: One, make it easy for top talent to come work in the US, permanently. Two, make the temporary worker program live up to its name, instead of displacing US workers. Three, stop taxing true temporary workers for a benefit they are not eligible to receive. Your proposal attempts to use an injustice to make up for another, which is not only wrong in principle, but also ineffective since the US workers are still angry anyway.

The H1B is not a "dual intent" visa. Rather, the doctrine of dual intent is recognized for people on that visa: they may be here with temporary intent for one job, but have permanent intent with regard to another one IF they obtain lawful permanent resident status. In other words, their having permanent intent is NOT a visa violation (as it would be, with, say, a TN1 visa.)

You've just described why the H-1B is commonly referred to as a "dual intent" visa: you're allowed to have that second intent. Now, since you assert that it's actually not a "dual intent" visa, please also explain what a true "dual intent" visa actually means.

You getting an A+ in your algorithms class doesn't matter to me at all as someone doing hiring. You having experience, knowing how the real world works is what matters.

Why does it have to be either-or? I would not hire a programmer who knows nothing of algorithms any more than I would a 4.0-GPA CS graduate who never learned to write code. Part of "experience in the real world" is learning that using the right algorithms is very important, just as important as the ability to write good code.

Can you explain your thought process to me, beginning to end?

Allow me. Start with the core assumption that Apple users are sheep, who are unwilling or unable to think for themselves. Thus, they are defenseless against Apple's powerful marketing, much like unarmed civilians against an attacking army. As the invading army must then take responsibility for the safety of the civilians, so must Apple provide the most ideologically-pure (open source, Free, etc.) products to its sheep. Any mishap is therefore Apple's fault, because the users are so utterly helpless.

Yes, at the core of this thought process is an insult, because they just can't think of any reason that an intelligent person would buy an Apple product after considering alternatives.

You are basically saying you tried Windows 98 and hated it therefore Windows 7 has to be just as bad.

Don't blame customers for their bad first impressions if you don't care enough about your brand to do right by them the first time.

And yet there is no epidemic. If Mac users are the rich idiots that the stereotypes depict, why wouldn't every other Mac be full of trojans? At some point, when observation keeps contradicts your prediction, you're gonna have to review your premise.