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ETA: updated 12:30 EST to reflect comments from two posters which made a very good point; I missed a risk ( Read more... )

This, apparently, is what happens when you subject an iPhone to 9Gs in an F-16 during a dogfight:


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...in small towns, run by corrupt justices with no legal training and little oversight, who do things like:

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7651231.stm

A wager on whether people will be dumb enough to follow this? Inbreeding among Saudi families? You got me.

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...you wouldn't know enough to reinvent technology? Well, I did, and apparently I'm not alone, because these guys did something about it:


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On a slightly lighter note...

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I agree with this article: a mortgage is a business transaction, and homeowners are being suckered into thinking that walking away from an underwater mortgage carries ethical implications when it doesn't. Whatever bank the mortgage is with walks away from bad financial deals all the time. And the argument about "walking away from their ( Read more... )