I’m going to jump in on the bandwagon and heap praise on Fraser Speirs’ brilliant analysis of the iPad and the tech world’s reaction to it. I pretty much am in complete agreement, and I wish I had written this.
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I’m going to jump in on the bandwagon and heap praise on Fraser Speirs’ brilliant analysis of the iPad and the tech world’s reaction to it. I pretty much am in complete agreement, and I wish I had written this. Good! The jury did the absolutely right thing here. There should be no debate, no deliberation, no contemplation. If you kill people, any people, just because your sky-daddy tells you to, you are a murderer. Now, because I actually have consistent and logical moral beliefs, I hope that this cock-sucker is sentenced to life in prison. Because state-sanctioned murder is just as reprehensible as sky-daddy sanctioned murder. Inevitably, amongst the rest of the inane wailing about the iPad in the last 48 hours, the old “closed system” meme has reared its tired head. The particular form of that meme that I want to focus on is a particularly annoying variant and one that is best expressed by Alex Payne in his blog post On the iPad. In yonder post Alex makes the assertion:
Perhaps, but let me counter with a bit of my own history. My first computer Continue reading iPads, “Hackers” and the Death of Computing Courtesy of Penn Jillette, my response to 95% of the iPad “analysis” out there: Thanks to my pal Peter Cohen for thinking of this first Yes, the fucking iPad is finally here. Now, at least, the craptastic blog posts and articles can have some basis in reality…or not, this is the blogosphere we’re talking about here. As we all know, the question burning up the intar-tubes is, what does Darby think of this thing. Well, dear readers fear not, for all shall be revealed. Read on to learn the truth. Continue reading iPad Calculus The day of days is upon us, so I thought I’d do a quick run-down of the various rumors that have been bandied about. I’m also going to give my estimation on the likelihood of said prediction coming true. Continue reading My Predictions – Unicorn Edition
Sage wisdom from The Rude Pundit.
Sometimes I think that those of us on the left take ourselves too seriously. Thanks, then, for Jon Stewart to take us all down a peg when needed. |
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