Thursday, November 15, 2012

Misc

Device reportedly removes all ads from web pages. I'm skeptical.

Android captures 73 percent of the global smartphone market.

Wozniak believes Microsoft is being more innovative than Apple. That's like a snail being conserned that a dinosaur is more innovative that it. Neither of these companies would exist without government grants of monopoly in the form of patents.

Confronting the Lincoln mythology:
"Every other country in the world got rid of slavery without a civil war . . . . How much would that cost compared to killing 600,000 Americans when the hatred lingered for 100 years."
Not a rhetorical question, but one that demands an answer of another.

In a final reminder of how goofy Steve Jobs was, his uniquely ugly, 260 ft yacht looks like an Apple store.

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