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I would argue that politics have actually gotten cleaner (in the US). Violence used to be commonplace in political races, and now are virtually unheard of.

The cynic in me says that they don't mention it because that won't generate as much funding for autism research.

"Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer "extortion". The "X" makes it sound cool."

They needed proof that an unreleased Apple device belonged to Apple? Who else could it possibly have belonged to?

It's not unheard of in the US, either. Though I doubt most people who say it really know what it means.

Knowing a child's name makes it much easier to get that child to trust you. When that name is matched to a photo, and is linked to an adult via facebook, it makes it easy for someone to find the child.

Saying that an ambush predator is more "friendly" than one that chases prey down is like saying that a landmine is more friendly than a rocket.

The Arizona law, whether you support it or not, is about the farthest thing from libertarianism.

The Fortune PR person explicitly asked him to have his posts about the excepts put up at the same time as the actual excerpts on the Fortune site.

Yeah. I think Arrington misunderstood what they asked him to do (which is fine), and then flipped out when they tried to correct his misunderstanding (which isn't).

If it were just fear, people wouldn't hurl abuse at police officers, they would just be quiet. In fact, the amount of abuse that police take shows that most people don't fear them (not that they should).

This is exactly the kind of unintuitive behavior that he was complaining about.

It's hard to blame the cops for not interacting with the community, though. I lived in a similar neighborhood in Oakland, and saw 75 year old grandomthers calling the cops "pigs" to their face.

Some of the hostility toward the police is justified, much of it isn't. But whether it is or isn't justified, it exists, and it's hard to blame cops for not going out of their way to be sociable with people who, more likely than not, hate them because they are police.

Religious schools are frequently subsidized by the sponsoring religious group, and Catholic schools tend to employ a lot of nuns, who cost the school very little.

I'm glad I'm not the only person who found the (shortened) version almost incomprehensible.

The word "terrorism" is not only applied to Muslims. McVeigh is called a terrorist. The IRA were called terrorists.

Regarding d, you CAN (theorically) build an XNA game with any tools you want. It just has to be compiled to .NET bytecode and use the microsoft APIs for accessing system resources.

Nobody is saying that apple has to give developers the ability to run native code, or to use private iPhone APIs. What they are saying is that Apple shouldn't be able to require us to use C/C++/Objective C to create the executable. That would be like Microsoft requiring XNA to be build with C#.

Wolfram talks about how he will be using his software to revolutionize science, and you can too for the low, low price of $299.99.

Again.

Also, the renter doesn't pay property taxes (directly, anyway), while the homeowner does.

You don't think Apple "drove hype" for the iPad? Seriously?

Also, I'd be willing to bet that Microsoft ships more new products each year than Apple (meaning a larger number of different products, not just more total).

Tell that to California.

"but you can be sure that this time the politicians are not only caring about their re-election."

That is all politicians EVER care about. No exceptions.

Both of which could well happen again.

While price controls of food cause problems, they sound really good to voters when there is a recession, and thus they sound really good to politicians.

Because that should be the developer's decision to make, not Apple's?

One of the regulatory tests for abusing market position is unevenly applying rules to lock-out certain competitors. If Apple does allow things that are technically forbidden, but ban flash, they may open themselves up to an anti-trust lawsuit.

Or, more cynically,

Point 1 is in reference to a non-Apple product

Point 5 is in reference to an Apple product

"doesn't mean they're unreliable" Well, from the point of view of an employer, it kind of does. They never know when you will leave for a new job.

That's odd, mine says 50.

Also, a lot of the salt on salted nuts falls off and ends up in the bottom of the jar, so you don't actually eat it.

Colas have 35-50mg of sodium per can, depending on the brand.