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Comment Re:Speaking as an Apple fanboi ... (Score 2, Insightful) 254

5. The App Store is primarily a fence, not a farm. Its purpose is to make the iPhone safe as a mass market device. So long as there are _enough_ apps to keep iPhone users giggly with delight as they finger their toy -- and there are plenty -- Apple will choose to err on the side of over-censoring. Better to block an app that might offend than make the iPhone seem threatening or risque.

This totalitarianism has been so successful for Apple that we should expect it to grow upwards as Apple introduces its next round of mass-market "computers," such as the rumored iPad.

Comment Official reply from Obama campaign (Score 3, Informative) 940

From the campaign:

We've been updating the entire website to ensure consistency across the pages. The full tech plan is still available on the page, so there is absolutely no substantive change to our policy -- folks who want more information can click to get our full plan. http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/issues/technology/Fact_Sheet_Innovation_and_Technology.pdf

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Journal Journal: Medic 2

I'm going to paramedic school. I'm being serious, too. I really am going to paramedic school. So about 14 months from now, the good people of a particular medium- to large-sized city will have the incredible joy of seeing me pump their veins full of fluids and odd elixers, then taking them to the hospital.

It could be a city near you! Eat hearty portions this holiday! Lots of egg nog and gristle! Have another three or five tom and jerry's drinks. 1000s of lucky winners each day!

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Journal Journal: Meth 3

This post raises a few curious questions. Since you fuckers are lazy, I presume, I will cut and paste it here to save a few clicks. Jesus you people are slothful bitches.

I wonder, if crack was legalized, would we be having a simular discussion over how best to prepare it? (not saying any of you here would do crack, just that if it was socially acceptable and all that)

Comment Re:My suggestions. (Score 1) 367

UserLinux 2004?! Service packs?!

Give me a break. Using the language of your competition (especially stupid versioning "standards" and marketing speak) is a surefire way to tell the world that you're the one playing catch-up.

Numbers will do just fine, as they always have. Extra decimal places for updates (Service packs... ha!) will do just fine, as they always have.

Use letters instead of numbers if you feel the need to be hip. Roman numerals have already been done of course. Try greek to appeal to the beer drinking college crowd. Use the phonetic alphabet for retro nerds.

UserLinux Foxtrot.Bravo

Mmhmm. Nice and stupid. Should go over well with the tools in marketing.

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Journal Journal: Trackback Trolling 1

You're familiar with MoveableType, yes? Well they have this little thing called a trackback. I propose, and it's most likely been well worn by now:
Trackback Trolling.

Let's say I write a highly inflamatory post: like this. Note that I did not write this. But I see its potential for highly inflamed responses.

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Journal Journal: German-style beef brisket recipe? 11

Anyone have one? I'm quite fond of beef brisket. And I've never had a German dish I disliked.

And, by the way, Lent is my favorite time of the year. Not because I'm Catholic, Lutheran or anything even remotely close. Presbyterian, in name only, to be exact. But the stores all go apeshit marking down the various fish products to appease the pious.

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