As much as you think Apple is making the developers make twice as much. Apples app store is not perfect but it was a huge breakthrough for so many developers. Stealing apps isn't hurting Apple as much as it is developers.

Well, yeah, they're all in the bars.

"Also, don't you find it ironic that OWS is so heavily staffed by children of privilege like those two?"

No. The investment banker takedown of our economy put lots and lots of middle to upper middle class people out of work. Besides, what is your point? That children of privilege should not care about the country? Or that children of privilege are trying to overthrow the government?

The real conspiracy is that OWS got labeled as a bunch of dirty hippies when in fact they were regular people who were fed up, and the whole country should have been behind them.

"Tweaked troopers could run afoul of international law..."

This happens fairly often already. Are they saying it would be much worse? Also, what is the scenario for having these mutants here in our own country?

That's the real astroturfing going on here.

OWS was about holding the financial goons responsible for wrecking our economy. The FBI, et. al. was about cracking down on legitimate dissent, and that is unconstitutional.

It's probably no worse than it is for atheists in the US.

I only recently updated to iOS 6 with the Apple maps. It certainly seems fine to me; faster than Google maps was. I was unaware that the Apple maps simply did not work at all when it first came out. Or perhaps you're just exaggerating.

Yes, the initial Apple maps was a bit of a black eye. But the response to it was amazing. From the headlines I was sure that the civilized world was coming to an end. Cats and dogs sleeping together, etc.

"weather channel is now part of nbc / comcast so they have the funds to launch a satellite."

Not likely to happen until the company is forced to upgrade because they're losing customers. In the meantime the extra money will go for CEO and managerial bonuses.

Not so different from corporations in the end. No matter what it's all about power.

Not only that, but saying that the world isn't perfect is not a justification for not trying to make it better. It's also in human nature to try to improve things.

"...and like drunkenness, often reveals ugly facts about human nature..."

Mainly that when you've poisoned yourself enough you no longer function correctly.

I will second that and add http://www.markfiore.com/ if we're allowing animated content. Fiore is hilarious political commentary. For some people. :-)

If by "gets distracted" you mean "is an entitled narcissist" then I agree. Robots will take the deadliest thing out of the driving equation, ego.

And yet he did more than you.