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Not that it matters - buy what you want as long as it's not a Blackberry or Windows Phone, but: Astronomical price difference - Typically about $0-50 between comparable models. Across 2 years, that's like $3/mo. You own 3 motorcycles, so... ;-) Small screens and shitty cameras on iPhone - Look at the new 6 and 6 Plus and say that again :-) Constrictive and closed operating system - To do what? I'm in I.T. and used to think that mattered, but I no longer tinker with mobile operating systems. Perhaps you do. Can't torrent - Isn't a PC a far better Torrent device? Annyway, what are you torrenting ;-) No expandable memory - True, you choose your capacity when you buy the phone instead of spending roughly the same $ adding RAM later. So, if you're a heavy portable media user, just buy the largest capacity i-device. Pretentiousness of fanboys - Why does that matter to you? I have a friend who's a rabid Android fanatic, but I wouldn't let that stop me from buying a good Google deviceLike I said, it doesn't matter to me, and both the Android and Apple ecosystems are very strong and stable, so the choices of 1 or even 1 million people isn't going to make a dent in either.

It'll be interesting. Apple really needs to step up its game to compete with Samsung and others, especially if it wants to get into the wearable market. In my opinion, wearables are going to have to be customizable to replace fashion and luxury watches, to justify anything costing more than a couple hundred bones. Other wise folks will stick with $100 fitness bands.

Yea, glad you're OK. Not sure I would have fared as well.

Well that didn't take long! I'd be all over it if I didn't already have a '13.

If folks haven't seen it, Pokey just listed his WR250R. A great model from a great guy. Lots of add-ons too.

Existential moment of reflection: can the soulless kill the soulless? And what happens to the captured souls trapped in freckles when a ginger dies?

Gotta love the derptastic comments about the liberal media, right below the premise that the photo is of the officer and that the police department hasn't released it. To the media. Who hasn't reported it. Because it's liberal.

Looks interesting but I'll probably need to pass due to another event that weekend.

Nothing beats a hungry, constantly-learning mind that reads, programs, plays with databases, APIs, different operating systems etc. on the side. I.T. isn't typically a 9-5 job even after you've been at it 10+ years, so if you're breaking in, dive deep and learn to breathe water because you'll be there a while. Stay with it and it all pays off handsomely, but that persistence and drive is what separates the earners from the posers. That's not to say you don't learn from co-workers, in fact good mentors are invaluable, but they need to deliver too, so every hour with you is an extra hour they'll need to make up, hence the term RTFM. A degree is helpful and some places require it but not all do. My attitude is that you should make the most of every opportunity, and don't say no to an IT job unless it's clearly against your direction or the pay is stupid low. With every job or task or experience, reflect on how it's crafting a better and better story about your value. You will be selling yourself, make no mistake, and the moment/month/year you forget that, you'll be let go for someone else who can better articulate their value to whomever is writing the checks.

Having graduated from DeVry, I can echo what the guys are saying. Beyond that, Information Technology across the board is booming even in a stumbling economy. Programmer, database administrators, system admins, business analysts and quality assurance folks make good money and there are lots of employers in the major Ohio cities and beyond.

Also many (all?) Advanced Auto Parts stores will read your code for you if you can get the vehicle there. Clearly they hope you'll buy repair parts from them if you do the work yourself.

You have a good point about Kris' verse format. I bet he's been stewing over differences with Will Hayden for quite a while and has been biting his tongue until now. I seriously doubt he has given much consideration to the legal ramifications of his post, and anyway comes off to me as a bit religiously arrogant (the Jehovah reference doesn't help), so I'm not surprised to see him capitalizing on the moment. I wonder what he means by his wife's property being his? Was Will Hayden trying to claim ownership of Stephanie and Kris' spinoff company, or was it more? I wish I know more about the real back-story now.

Should we really be arming squirrels?

I appreciate the rep point, thanks man, and I totally agree with you about the 2-party system. I'm thoroughly disgusted by the lack of shared ownership and accountability our current political pair has created. I at first was excited about the Tea Party's potential to shake everyone up in that regard, but became repulsed by what I think is a divisively constitutional-literalist tenor, so maybe that's why I can barely stop myself. It'll now be years before another opportunity comes along to re-merge the discourse. Just to split hairs though, private jets more often use the thousands of rarely-used community airports funded by federal and state grants as well as local taxes. Sure, there are fuel taxes and sometimes a landing fee, but those are minuscule compared to the staggering cost of maintaining tarmac, approach beacons, hangars and so on (this coming from a private pilot who myself also benefits from those things). Perhaps the wealthy don't directly use highways as much, but their businesses do for ground transport. Those businesses are also far more dependent upon public water and sewage and having safe, healthy, educated workers available (thus emergency response, health care and schools). That's what the prez meant when he said that businesses aren't just built by themselves - there is an operating environment they depend upon. Try opening a boutique candle store in Somalia. Of course, the public also benefits greatly from (non-parasitic) businesses, so it's entirely unfair to depict businesses simply as users. They generate jobs, stimulate credit markets (most of us can't pay cash for a house), uplift the quality of life and so much more. That's what's usually lost on the far left. The uproar about tax inversions is as much emotional and political as anything, sure. That's because it plays against the American notion of fairness and heck, even patriotism. It's hard for me to describe a company that loves this country in the same breath while describing how they moved their headquarters to reduce their tax obligation to the public that makes this great land available for business.

I really wish that was me buying the WR. It would make a fine upgrade to my CFR230L but like Brian, I'm on my Strom so much more.

Um, yea. And I wonder how his wife feels about him outing her like that. Shouldn't that have been left up to her?

Now, I should apologize as well - reading my post again this morning, it's clear I'm less than unbiased, indeed the current tax code is F'd up, and it causes businesses to adapt in unintended ways. Maybe someday the public discourse won't be so polarized and we can come to a series of rational, step-by-step simplifications...?

I'd say that's a pretty damning character reference...

NOW you come in with dispassionate, intelligent facts! Next time, start there . Look, I may be a fan of social justice, but I'm no f'n derp. My position is that even if you're a tax expert, that doesn't make your values trump others on the issues of macroeconomics. Agreed, double-taxation is unfair, but it's less unfair to lower-and-middle-class citizens who I'd argue should be encouraged to invest even small amounts of capital so they can participate in the monetary system and feel some level of co-ownership. Personally, I'd get rid of the capital gains tax only as long as loopholes were compensatingly eliminated. The wealthy already benefit disproportionately from public resources and infrastructure, so it's not unreasonable to tax them enough to keep peasant revolts at bay.I completely agree that the costs of the current tax code is badly distributed and duplicated, making the whole affair that much LESS efficient. But it wasn't just social-justice liberals that created that mess. The code has been jerrymandered so much, I don't think it's possible to assign blame anymore. Don't tell Fox and MSNBC though - it would break their little hearts.10% may not sound like a lot percentage-wise, but dude, that's still a very large amount of money for the government to give up. Eliminate that income source and you'll either increase the deficit by 10% or will have to cut costs, which would putting millions of Americans out of work, not only in the government sector but private goods and services suppliers as well (the unemployed don't buy much). Now don't twist my words to suggest I'm saying we have an obligation to employ workers regardless of their value proposition - I'm saying that there would be a shock which would take years for private employers to accommodate, IF at all, because you know that a large amount of that freed capital would never make it to the market. Indeed, there are parallels in Detroit's draw-down that will keep sociologists and economists busy for decades.That's a key problem in my mind. We can talk and talk and talk about simplifying the tax code (which I'd again fully support) but I have no faith that Republicans will play fair if the Tea Party has any involvement, and changes WILL be slanted to the wealthy, who will take advantage of public resources and human capital in ways we haven't seen since the 1800s. There wouldn't be enough on top to pay for goods and services that the bottom deliver and it would take several generations for the bottom to build back up. Moat diggers and gun makers would do very, very well though...

Me neither, not yet anyway. The daughter's corroboration could be the game changer though, if she sustains it.

Agreed, she's going to have a lot to process. His whole family too - Stephanie (his older daughter) appeared to be pretty close to him on the series and in fact he appeared to run his whole company with a paternalistic theme. Every single one of them has to be feeling like they were not only betrayed, but violated.

But not by a 9 year old not ready to handle one under irresponsible instruction.

What you brought were pejoratives, name-calling and incomplete data shrouded in an illusion of actual knowledge.

Well, we were having a largely rational discussion into you derped in.

I'm not an advocate of either but I don't think that's a sure bet. Nor conversely do I think that elimination of the capital gains tax would precede a new era of economic prosperity as Forbes argues. Both would dramatically change the investment landscape to be sure, but Wall Street is very, very smart and would find ways to profit from the new landscape. I know having worked with an investment wing of a very large bank, that there are business contingencies for both, and I know that some have already run simulations and have (re)organizational plans if either were to happen. Also remember that they have lobbies. Many, strong lobbies. So it's fairly unlikely that either will happen in the next decade or two.