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Worst Company In America Round One: Apple Vs. Microsoft
It's so sad that Microsoft has become such an afterthought that they're no longer even seen as threatening.
...Unless you're trapped using their OS because your company's IS Department convinced your clueless boss that their Dockers™-wearing fiefdom is more important than your simply getting work done.
If nothing else, their getting caught red-handed (sigh, again) stealing others' ideas (Google's search results, in the latest (to date) example) earns their being Worst.
Apple Sues Amazon For Using The Phrase "App Store"
App Bizarre. App Market. App Oluza. App Emporium. App Shelf. App World. Apps Online. App Shack. Apps Droppin' Outta My Loins Like a Cage of Hamsters on Viagra.
You're Welcome, Amazon.
Oh, wait. You mean you expect someone else to not spend $100m to advertise "App Store" so you can ride their coat-tails for free? That they're gone through the expense and time of trademarking?
Darn. Poor Amazon.
Worst Company In America Round One: Time Warner Cable Vs. Facebook
As annoying as Hoodies are, I'm going to have to vote against government-installed regional quasi-monopolies instead.
I rely on the market to quash Facebook's popularity, much in the same way that AOL got p0wned after it tried to be all things to all people (except people expecting customer service and respect for privacy).
Family Drinks Milk Containing Dead Mouse For 3 Days, Sues Walmart
Doesn't Wal-Mart have a policy of always taking cases to court, never settling, as a way to intimidate people who think they've been wronged by them?
It seems that corporations want it both ways - clogging the courts unnecessarily when they should simply admit wrongdoing and settle, then send out their PR minions to hype up the "lawyers are money-seeking* shysters" message out of the other side of their mouth.
* Professionals seeking just compensation for their labors in a Capitalist market, in other words.
Fast Food Ads Are Often Opposite Of Reality
Those that are shrugging off the second, real picture with a "it's junk food - what did you expect?" are missing the point.
It's not that the real "food" is so visually unappealing.
It's that the promotional pictures used in ads is so completely divorced from reality. That is what Corporate controls, and that's where they fail.
Fast Food Ads Are Often Opposite Of Reality
How can something so fatty and salty be so lacking in volume and mass?
Couple Says Real Estate Agent Used Their Home For Sex
Geezus, people, don't have sloppy, sweaty, nakkid make-up sex in a rental open-house home.
That's what your local Ikea is for!
Congress OKs Unemployment Extension
It's also a difficult concept to understand that, unmolested, capital's natural state is to accumulate. The Robber Baron Age tests your hypothesis quite handily.
Short form version: it doesn't work well for the economy (or society) as a whole. For vibrant, consumer-driven economies (and vibrant, people-led democracies), Capitalism's rough edges require sanding.
One of these tools is to mediate extremes in wealth: too much (or too little) wealth is unproductive. Taxes are one way to maintain an equilibrium. Bloody revolutions being the other.
This, of course, besides the fact that (more) balanced budgets are a vital goal. And that Democrats have consistently done better in this regard (the US has also enjoyed better economic performance under Democratic Presidents, further supporting the above claims).
Did Microsoft Make Dell Take Back Love Letter To Linux?
Your Mac was infected? Or your Windows machine was vulnerable?
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Worst Company In America Round One: Apple Vs. Microsoft
Apple tries to save you from appearing on PeopleofWalmart.com, and you're angry?!
Really. There IS such a thing as "bad publicity".