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Google's advert claims "The ultimate Android experience", not the "The minimum common set of features Android experience".

First thing you have to understand is that the ownership of a patent alone doesn't make an organization a "Patent Troll." It may be true that AGIS is struggling in the marketplace but they have full legal right to own patents and protect said patents as they deem appropriate and exercise that right whenever it is beneficial to them. I also agree others on this thread that your belligerent language only makes you seem childish and immature.

I don't think that blurry photos of a bearded guy is evidence to start a war... I mean, that guy looks more like Phil Robertson than some top Russian commando. This whole situation makes me think that eastern Ukraine is like the American South.

This article is very east coast biased. For someone that grew up in Northern California I always found Goya is too Spanish and not as common out here than it is in the East Coast. I tend to opt for El Mexicano products, especially since it has a more Mexican flavor and it is a Bay Area company.

One of the great things about the Bay Area is that there are a ton of ethnic grocery stores, such as Mi Pueblo and Ranch 99.

This is how I read between the lines and understood their statement: The Fourth of July reminds us as Americans of the freedoms and rights all citizens of our country are guaranteed by our Constitution. Among those is freedom of speech, often exercised in protests of various kinds. NSA does not object to any lawful, peaceful protest but be advised that we will be monitoring your freedom of speech and anything you say or ever had said may be used against you in a secret court of law.

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This page has too many popups... I couldn't read the article.

No. The article is a link bait opinion piece that is not all to thought out, as evident by it's original claim that a large region of Indian wants to be part of China.

I remember that days after 911 there were some fake/spam emails that where forwarded around that claimed that more attacks where eminent, including at malls and other public areas. These were immediately debunk and people went about their business.

I hate to agree too, but he is right. Now, compared to him I don't have a lot of people following me and even I got a lot of weird event invites. I can only imagine the number of invites he received from his 1.8 million followers. This feature was not Scoble tested.

I may have a contrarian view, but Craigslist not only has the right to choose who can consume their data, but how and when. It also, has the right to make it available any which way it likes. The idea that PadMapper has any right to Craigslist postings because it is a better service is ridiculous; it's like me saying that I think your house looks unkept so I am going to move in.

I found that one individual had applied for 300 gTLDs, Google for 98 including for .lol and .foo. In reality, each company could have used just one gTLD such as .google and could have extended it having app.google domains. To Dave's point, these domains are not necessary open for the public. If google wins, .dad, they don't have to give you a domain in that gTLD.

Legalizing drugs by itself does not imply that the price of drugs will fall and that the violence will end. Lest not forget that, in Latin American, revolutions have been fought because of the impact of the exploitation of the people and land for the cultivation of commodity products such as bananas (see Banana Wars in Wikipedia) and for which gangs like La Mara are a consequence. Drugs for personal use are legal in Mexico, so the violence itself is not related to the criminalization of drugs, it's related to the profit of drugs. And legalizing drugs only strengthens the cartels grip on that profit (see OPEC).

The one key aspect that I often find that is missing from the intellectual reasoning of the drug cartel violence in Mexico is that most Americans don't understand that narco culture that exists in Northern Mexico. For over 30 or 40 years, there has developed a narco culture in Mexico where songs and movies have been influenced by the trade (see Chalino_Sánchez). Basically, Chalino_Sánchez was like the Mexican Jay-Z except he didn't sell out and was gunned down by an unknown assailant.

Instagram = filters + social. Istagram doesn't have the best platform for filters or social, but is a case where the sum is greater than its parts. For filters, I prefer Camera+ and for this type of sharing I like Tumblr. If only Tumblr had a photo filter app.

Svbtle Is About Pushing Blogging Forward? That is like Scoble saying that Quora is the biggest innovation in blogging over the past 10 years.

Whether or not this is the future of blogging, I've learned something from this whole episode... don't go on Hacker News to show off a two feature minimalist pet project, arrogantly state it's close to elite members only, and not have it re-implemented in hours. It's called Hacker News for a reason.