All these years, Steve Jobs and Apple have been telling us about the mighty Goliath, Microsoft, and how they try and monopolize the marketplace and leave consumers without any choices. Then along comes the I-phone from Apple that's supposed to revolutionize the cell phone industry. While the I-phone itself is pretty amazing, the network it's tied to, AT&T isn't. Then along comes some ingenious people who figure out how to crack the I-phone and allow it to be used on other networks.
Now Steve Jobs announces that they're going to fight I-phone users being able to use their product on other networks.
Gee, Steve, who's become Goliath now, telling consumers what they can and can't do with the product they legally purchased?
Story HERE
Monday, September 24, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
George W. Bush killed Nelson Mandela
Haha! George W. Bush today once again proved what an "ASS" he is... here's a quote from his news conference today...
"Part of the reason why there's not this instant democracy in Iraq is because people are still recovering from Saddam Hussein's brutal rule. Sort of an intersting comment, I heard somebody say, `Where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas."
Sorry, George W., Nelson Mandela is alive and well!
Also, George Bush is threatening to veto a bill being pushed forward by Democrats to increase spending on Children's health insurance by $35 billion, to a total expenditure of $60 billion. He continued to say, "Members of Congress are putting poor children at risk so they can score political points in Washington," Bush said. He said that "more than a million children could lose health coverage" if the program is allowed to expire....of course what he's not saying is that without the extra $35 billion even more children will continue to go without health insurance coverage.
It's ok to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a war in Iraq that no one in this country wants, but GOD forbid we'd spend a small portion of that money on our own children!!
Complete story HERE at comcast news
"Part of the reason why there's not this instant democracy in Iraq is because people are still recovering from Saddam Hussein's brutal rule. Sort of an intersting comment, I heard somebody say, `Where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas."
Sorry, George W., Nelson Mandela is alive and well!
Also, George Bush is threatening to veto a bill being pushed forward by Democrats to increase spending on Children's health insurance by $35 billion, to a total expenditure of $60 billion. He continued to say, "Members of Congress are putting poor children at risk so they can score political points in Washington," Bush said. He said that "more than a million children could lose health coverage" if the program is allowed to expire....of course what he's not saying is that without the extra $35 billion even more children will continue to go without health insurance coverage.
It's ok to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a war in Iraq that no one in this country wants, but GOD forbid we'd spend a small portion of that money on our own children!!
Complete story HERE at comcast news
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Bush makes meaningless gesture...
President Bush today has announced that by next summer, he intends to cut U.S. troops in Iraq by 30,000.
This is basically a meaningless gesture since all he's really doing is recalling the "surge troops", which will just reduce the number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq to pre-surge numbers (130,000 - 140,000 troops). Good luck selling this "troop reduction" to the American public whom are becoming overwhelmingly sick and tired of U.S. involvement in the Middle-East.
Story here
This is basically a meaningless gesture since all he's really doing is recalling the "surge troops", which will just reduce the number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq to pre-surge numbers (130,000 - 140,000 troops). Good luck selling this "troop reduction" to the American public whom are becoming overwhelmingly sick and tired of U.S. involvement in the Middle-East.
Story here
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Flash Gordon on Scifi channel
Once again, Flash Gordon is being resurrected for the small screen. I'd like to say it's a great thing for science fiction on TV, but I'd be perjuring myself. The Scifi channel's incarnation of Flash has been "re-vamped" for the modern era, and it's not good news.
What we end up with is not the dashing, heroic figure out to save Earth and Dale Arden from Ming the Merciless, instead we get a slightly goofy, ex-olympic athlete whose only true interest lies in getting his father back, who may or may not be held hostage on Mongo by Ming. So far, at least, Dale Arden isn't Flash's love interest, she's his ex-girlfriend, who is engaged to a nerdy, no-nonsense cop that so far we've only seen about five minutes of. Dr. Zarchov is now a geeky under-graduate student who used to work with Flash's father, and is about as incompetent a scientist as you can be.
Don't look for any rocket ships in this show either, all transport between Mongo and Earth is accomplished via "wormholes" that are called "rifts" on the show. The special effects are under-whelming, especially considering how accessible high-end sfx is these days thanks to computers. That would be forgivable if the story plots were better, but they're not. Every episode so far has been a hackneyed compilation of plots from other, better science fiction shows of the past.
The best thing that could happen to the Scifi channel's Flash Gordon, would be to put it out of it's misery before it's forced to suffer through much more!
Friday, September 07, 2007
You can tell the9/11 anniversary is getting close....
You can tell the 9/11 anniversary is getting closer...the government is once again trotting Osama bin Laden out to shake him in front of us to scare people. Supposedly, he's releasing yet another cryptic video tape in which he'll tell us about all the nasty things al Qaeda has in store for us.
One thing I'd like to know...if our government can know ahead of time when Bin Laden will be releasing a video taped message, why can't they figure out where he's hiding and capture or kill him? After all, he supposedly is the mastermind behind 9/11, and I'd think therefore that the Bush administration would be highly interested in snagging him. It's been six years now though, and he's still walking around a free man. Sure, we've captured and killed Saddam Hussein (who's not even linked to al Qaeda), and many other supposed leaders of al Qaeda...but for some reason, the big guy himself seems to be invincible!
One thing I'd like to know...if our government can know ahead of time when Bin Laden will be releasing a video taped message, why can't they figure out where he's hiding and capture or kill him? After all, he supposedly is the mastermind behind 9/11, and I'd think therefore that the Bush administration would be highly interested in snagging him. It's been six years now though, and he's still walking around a free man. Sure, we've captured and killed Saddam Hussein (who's not even linked to al Qaeda), and many other supposed leaders of al Qaeda...but for some reason, the big guy himself seems to be invincible!
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