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I think it's interesting, but I didn't need another underpowered device with a conventional laptop LCD in my life. Really like the e-paper of my older-school kindle though! I might get a MS surface device, or maybe an Android-based alternative in a bit, and run the Kindle software on it. Rather than be limited to what Amazon allows and their device can handle... but Kindle does sound pretty cool for the price. Will be interesting to see how it compares with the Google Nexus. There will always be people paying twice as much for iPad/iPad minis though--for not much more capability...

Do you know if they allow / block tethering of another device to your phone to pass through internet data? I really wish would Google would do more than talk about google phones... actually release one that could be used on any carrier completely unlocked, damn it. Then it wouldn't matter as much that Boost's phones were out of date... Hey, if you get to be tech writer do I get to be BoyToy Tech Critic in residence?

Since the original posting of the photo was lost in the kerfufle.

Wish it did. Every other forum site I frequent doesn't make me go through extra steps to login just minutes after I already have if I close and re-launch my web browser. Givin the checkbox, it's clearly a feature that is supposed to be there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHYQmRhQqpM&feature=player_embedded

Lawrence O'Donnell hit it head on though... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88A70OWdV1U&feature=player_embedded

I generally agree with you TY, but headlines like the one of this thread are *very* dangerous--especially for unreliable Democrats, so there is a part of me that wonders if keeping it close wasn't strategy on his part. "We don't have it locked up, everybody *needs* to vote!" kind of thing...

Because he was exasperated at all of Ryan's bald-faced lying!

Though both Biden and the moderator tried their hardest to get actual details out of Ryan they only succeeded a couple times... but at least it's now out there that Romney/Ryan supports making abortion illegal, though yesterday one was saying through the courts and one was saying legislatively... and Ryan had the audacity to continue to promote the idea of privatizing Social Security. I wish Biden had brought up that the Medicare privatization/voucher BS would be yet another big health insurance profit giveaway. But overall I was impressed Biden's performance, though it may've came off better on TV than radio (where I heard it) and may've been a lot easier to follow for people already familiar with the issues versus the undecided/low information voters (fire BAD!) who were the real demographic that needed to be hit... Sadly, Ryan came off fairly well too, especially if you didn't know everything he was saying was evasive bullshit...

Hitchens has a question for the devout Mormon: But I think we know where Willard's real allegiance lies: $$$,$$$,$$$

Why Obama Now.

Continuation of the meme...

Damn it, they have a point!

Speaking of TV, the (fucking half) season of Warehouse 13 just ended. It was a good but surprisingly dark season. Eager to see where it goes when the other half season airs next year...

Anytime I know beforehand that the makers of Lost are involved in something I avoid it like the plague. I don't have time to invest in season after season of something that brings up interesting ideas/questions but then *doesn't do a fucking thing with them*. Prometheus was actually the quintessential example of what happens...

I agree with the sentiments in this thread, but still feel uneasy. We've backed some despicable people into a corner and we know they'll stop at nothing to gain--but especially to KEEP power. No, he has not, not in the least. A brave, moral, or caring man would have stood up to the forces that are destroying his party with small-minded bigotry, zealotry and misogyny, even thinking it would cost him the election (and we now know it couldn't have made it any worse...). Instead he pandered his ass off and even his own fucking campaign said his positions on things are as reliable as an etch-a-sketch drawing; the only vision he's ever clearly and consistently expressed is of an America that gives even more to the wealthy--like himself. --- IF there is no Karl Rovian master stroke and progressives win a clear mandate I hope to FSM that Obama uses it this time instead of pissing it away. Getting corporations under control and campaign finance straitened out are the life or death of our country as a whole.

I fear this isn't even a drop in the bucket compared to what the NSA has been up to *in America* since 9/11.

One of these days I'd like to understand why you are so desperate to see almost exclusively the positive in him. Yes, if you don't count many core teachings of his religion (about caring for the poor, the near-impossibility of rich men in heaven, his documented indifference to others' suffering), yes, he's *otherwise* lead a moral "christian" life. *SO HAS HIS OPPONENT!* So how exactly is this relevant? I think most all of us have come around to feeling Bill Clinton was a better president than either of these candidates are likely to ever be--yet he was the opposite, so fucking what? And you know what, picking and choosing that his womanizing is worse than Mitt's profiteering at others' expense while on the other hand giving Mitt credit for giving money to his cult/religion to proselytize with while ignoring the hundreds of thousands of lives Clinton's Global Initiative has saved in those same countries--without any strings--in order to declare Mitt morally superior to Clinton... I just don't get. But then again I ask so fucking what, because, again, *Obama's* got no history of being anything but a devoted family man and practicing Christian. A man who's work and care for the poor seems a hell of a lot more CHRISTian than his opponents'! Here's a thought, it's fairly easy to agree that the two most Christian Presidents we've had in our lifetimes: President Carter and the second President Bush, were also--for whatever reasons--the worst. So how about we try something else, intelligence and vision, perhaps?

And yet your average voter, and certainly your below-average Fox-watching voter are far more familiar with long-dead Acorn than this and the even worse suppression efforts *currently underway*.

So by this logic, practicing Nazis were just a product of their time/place and share no responsibility? It's not that he was born into it, is "culturally" a Mormon that I'm talking about. He was an active, influential, ADULT, proselytizing member of the church at a time when its membership policies were not much different from the KKK's--and there is no record whatsoever of him protesting or even dissenting their policies at that time. A church which *still* teaches fairly awful things about Native Americans, I believe! There are records, however, of him protesting *in favor of* the draft *while dodging it*...

I also watched Elementary, and was pleasantly surprised. It is *of course* not nearly as good as BBC's Sherlock... I would say it's not even a particularly good version of Sherlock Holmes. But if you figure on that and just watch it as a detective/crime drama, it's better and smarter than most on American TV these days--not that this is saying much. Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu both did a pretty good job, the way she's setup is interesting, at least.

Got around to watching Last Resort last night and really enjoyed it! For anybody who's ever enjoyed a Tom Clancy novel, the pilot at least is a home run! Great production values and VFX, tense, well acted (especially Andre Braugher, of course!) But I'm very worried where it goes from here... it's really to bad it's a show on a regular broadcast network instead of a miniseries (or regular British series) because I'm not at all convinced there's a full season's content here--and I'm sure people are already working on how to stretch it to "6 seasons and a movie!". Didn't realize it's Shawn Ryan (The Shield and, more relevantly: The Unit), so that's a plus too.