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I was very excited when first hearing about the Ipad coming out but now im not sure anymore....
Please read this you might be buying some thing you might not need:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/apples_ifail_tabletus_interruptus_20100127
Steve Jobs calls his new tablet “a magical device at a breakthrough price,” but chances are you don’t need one and can’t afford it anyway.
It’s basically a giant iPhone that goes for $729. It costs more if you want more storage, less if you can do without mobile broadband and don’t need as much room for videos, music and so forth. With six models to choose from—16-, 32- and 64-gigabyte flavors, each with or without a 3G radio—prices range from $499 to $829.
That’s about two to three times as expensive as most netbooks, those inexpensive miniature laptops that Steve Jobs treated with such derision at the beginning of his iPad presentation. Of course Apple hates netbooks—there’s no way to charge an outrageous premium on a zero-margin product. But customers love them. Netbook sales shot up 103 percent in 2009, and Apple wants in on that bigger-than-a-smartphone-smaller-than-a-… honey. Hence the iPad.I was very excited when first hearing about the Ipad coming out but now im not sure... more
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So it has been one week now and the people of Haiti are still in shambles
1.5 million Haitians are homeless, 200,000 or more have died
Are we doing enough to help these people or should we stop helping them all together ?
I know we need to help them but how much and to whom...
- I dont want the money going into the hands of local militias...
More Troops from U.S. and U.N. Heading to Haiti (update):
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/more_troops_from_us_and_un_heading_to_haiti_20100119/So it has been one week now and the people of Haiti are still in shambles
1.5... more
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How Are We Kept In Line By Our Own Shallowness & Well Entertained Psychopath & Sociopath Tendencies ?
According to Award-winning author and journalist Chris Hedges, we live in two societies:…one, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world and can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth; the other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic where serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins.
Washington has become Versailles. We are ruled, entertained and informed by courtiers. The popular media are courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are courtiers. Our pundits and experts are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games. We are being had. - Chris Hedges
Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
http://pulsemedia.org/2010/01/13/chris-hedges-on-the-empire-of-illusion/
Chris Hedges Writings...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/category/hedges/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges
I REST MY CASE !
"Politics is the showbiz of industry." - Frank Zappa
HAVE A RED PILL ;)How Are We Kept In Line By Our Own Shallowness & Well Entertained Psychopath &... more
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Professional prankster group Improv Everywhere’s “No Pants Subway Ride” is one cultural trend that appears to be taking off. Despite a frigid winter, participants in as many as 43 cities around the world commuted in their underwear
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/pictures_of_no-pants_subway_riders_20100111/
In the words of one participant, quoted by the BBC, “We’re just trying to put smiles on people’s faces.”Professional prankster group Improv Everywhere’s “No Pants Subway... more
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If you’ve seen the TV series “Whale Wars,” you know all about the Sea Shepherds, those activists who try to obstruct Japanese whalers, to the chagrin of whale eaters and Greenpeace alike. The group just lost a very expensive carbon fiber and Kevlar speedboat in the craft’s maiden confrontation with a Japanese whaling vessel.
The Sea Shepherds and the Japanese are blaming each other for the sinking, but anyone with real sea legs would instantly recognize the culprit: The Shepherds renamed the speedboat from Earthrace to Ady Gil. Every sailor knows it’s the worst kind of bad luck to rename a vessel.If you’ve seen the TV series “Whale Wars,” you know all about the... more
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When most people think of war they think of a nation taking over another.. They don't think about dead bodies in the street or blown up soldiers...
But that is the reality, I believe that having a military is needed but so are people that can help avoid war.. The internet has helped so many have a voice when they cant talk... (I am talking about those people fighting barefoot in the streets for freedom)
President Obama lifted the ban on soldiers images but media still sweeps most of it under the rug...
We (The internet community need to share and make people realize about the world around them)
Check out this amazing article it will make you think twice about war :
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_pictures_of_war_you_arent_supposed_to_see_20100104/
When is War the only option?When most people think of war they think of a nation taking over another.. They... more
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I just spent the last 2 hours looking at video from Iran, the people are fighting to be free...
People are fighting back:(Raw, Stunning Footage Of Iran Protesters Saving Prisoners From Getting Hanged)
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/iran_protest_videos_20091229/
The US should help with creating a FREE IRAN!I just spent the last 2 hours looking at video from Iran, the people are fighting to... more
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Michele Bachmann has become well known for her anti-government tea-bagger antics, protesting health care reform and every other government “handout” as socialism. What her followers probably don’t know is that Rep. Bachmann is, to use that anti-government slur, something of a welfare queen. That’s right, the anti-government insurrectionist has taken more than a quarter-million dollars in government handouts thanks to corrupt farming subsidies she has been collecting for at least a decade.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/michelle_bachman_welfare_queen_20091221/Michele Bachmann has become well known for her anti-government tea-bagger antics,... more
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Will Tiger Woods finally talk to the police? Who will replace Oprah? (Not that Oprah can ever be replaced, of course.) And will Michaele and Tareq Salahi, the couple who crashed President Barack Obama’s first state dinner, command the hundreds of thousands of dollars they want for an exclusive television interview? Can Levi Johnston, father of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s grandson, get his wish to be a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars”?
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/addicted_to_nonsense_20091129/Will Tiger Woods finally talk to the police? Who will replace Oprah? (Not that Oprah... more
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