Reshared post from +Clayton Morris
Sad to hear of Neil Armstrong's death. We throw around the term "hero" a little too lightly these days. He was an American hero.
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Grasshopper on the front window http://t.co/1I8sBr5g
Reshared post from +Dan Gillmor
My Guardian piece on what the Apple-Samsung verdict may mean. Hint: It's very bad for competition.
Apple crushes Samsung in quest for global tech domination
Dan Gillmor: A US jury has rubberstamped Apple’s exploitation of the patent system. But Samsung’s $1bn loss will cost consumers dear
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I have long criticized the current intellectual property system (both patent and copyright) as outdated and unneeded for the modern world. I criticize the companies despite the fact that they are a symptom rather than the cause because I and other consumers don't have the power to influence the politicians that generally only listen to big corporate donors.
By refusing to spend my dollars on Apple products (despite the fact that I use existing Apple products like the Macbook Pro I'm writing this on) and encouraging others to do the same, perhaps we can influence Apple and in turn they can influence politicians to change the system.
I know I'm tilting at windmills, but it's really all I can do. After all we are often told that the only way to influence corporate policies is with our purchasing habits. So let's change our habits until the system changes for the better.
#boycottapple #boycottthesystem
Reshared post from +Mike Elgan
Why Apple Sues
Apple’s critics generously assign a variety of motives to Apple for filing lawsuits.
Apple sues because it wants to control the market, overcharge for its products, exclude competitors from the market or punish competitors for daring to not think different. It’s all part of Apple’s “quest for global tech domination.
But these aren’t actual motives. These are appeals to emotion. They’re legitimate perspectives, but expressed to negatively encapsulate spectacularly complex technical, legal and ethical issues into sound bites that make you want to agree with the author that Apple is bad and wrong.
Apple has only one motive for patent lawsuits, and I’m going to tell you what that motive is:
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Ford and Sprint giving away #2013FordFusion pace car after #NASCAR Homestead finale http://t.co/LezsYkVx
@davidkiley No, patent law has outlived its usefulness in our technological world. It now only enriches those that can accumulate patents
That’s it, I’m not buying anything else from Apple
Reshared post from +Clayton Morris
Politicians should just stop talking about stuff they don't understand, like medicine and science.
GOP lawmaker: Virtually impossible to get AIDS through heterosexual sex | The Raw Story
Tennessee state Sen. Stacey Campfield (R) falsely claimed on Thursday that it was nearly impossible for someone to contract AIDS through heterosexual contact. “Most people realize that AIDS came from …
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If a politician doesn't want to answer the questions, they should come right and say no comment in front of the camera or recorder. This is bullshit.
Reshared post from +Talking Points Memo
Second Local Station Says Romney Camp Asked For No Akin Questions
Before Mitt Romney appeared via satellite on an Ohio TV station WHIO Thursday, his campaign told a reporter it would prefer Romney did not get questions about Todd Akin. Fortunately for the Romney cam…
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AT&T and T-Mobile again remind us of why we should grateful their merger collapsed
It wasn’t that long ago when American wireless subscribers seemed resigned to the fact that AT&T (T) was going to gobble up T-Mobile and that Sprin
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