Again, we’re positing based on suppositions. This is never a good way to talk about a device.
Agreed. So don’t do it. Idiots.
She has, for example, called for the elimination of the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, denounced the BP compensation fund for victims of the oil spill as a slush fund, and suggested that her candidacy was a mission for God.
Tea Party Choice, Sharron Angle, Scrambles in Taking on Harry Reid
It’s a strange political environment right now. Republicans are going to win a lot of elections in November, and that should mean that as a party, they get more moderate, right? It’s the same problem the Democrats suffer from now: they have a broad coalition that includes representatives and senators from conservative districts, so liberal ideas like, say, including a public option in the health care bill tend to be dead on arrival.
It seems like the opposite could be true this time. Republicans will make gains, but their caucus could very well be more conservative, not less, because there will be so many of these tea partiers around. Weird.
The phrase: Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.
…is bullshit. It’s more like:
Build a better mousetrap… and then blog and create videos about it and hope that the Mousetrap Store features it … and just maybe the world will beat a path to your door.
I don’t think anybody can know exactly what the impact of these taxes is on G.D.P. We put them through econometric models that have a very poor record forecasting recession. Conclusions based on such models must be suspect.
Alan Greenspan, who is calling for the repeal of all the Bush tax cuts
In whatever kind of a “race” life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
Christopher Hitchens, on his recent cancer diagnosis
A second argument—that N.P.V. would empower regional candidates—goes further: it is the exact opposite of the truth. Do I really need to explain why awarding a hundred per cent of a state’s electors to the plurality winner in that state favors candidates whose appeal is regional as opposed to national? “The George Wallaces of the world, which right now have basically no impact on national elections, would have a much larger voice,” she argues. No impact? In 1968, Wallace, whose appeal was regional, got 13.5 per cent of the popular vote and 46 electoral votes. In 1992, Ross Perot, whose appeal was national, got 18.9 per cent of the popular vote and zero electoral votes.
Hendrik Hertzberg: Debating National Popular Vote
Facilitate audience conversations and drive engagement with social currency
Mr. Bob-san. You are sitting quietly in your study. And then there is a bottle of Suntory whiskey on top of the table. You understand, right? With wholehearted feeling, slowly, look at the camera, tenderly, and as if you are meeting old friends, say the words. As if you are Bogie in “Casablanca,” saying, “Cheers to you guys,” Suntory time!
The message was clear: Microsoft still doesn’t understand why its Tablet PC concept has repeatedly bombed over the best part of a decade.
Here’s the list of Android phones you can buy today other than the Nexus One which support Android version 2.2: {}.
John Gruber, on the end of the Nexus One