Time To Start Asking Republicans Directly: How Much Sex Is Too Much Sex?

Answer: Any sex that they aren’t having in the Dominican Republic with trafficked Russian women Rush Limbaugh-style.

Speaking of Apple, the new MacBook Pro that we have now is the single best tech device I have ever used. It is as near to perfect as any tech object could be at the current state of development, I think.

And the screen. Oh, the screen. I want to climb in their and play around as it is so beautiful.

If I were another computer maker I’d just cry looking at something like the MacBook Pro, knowing that no matter all my effort and all my tears, that I could never duplicate it.

It looks like Apple actually gets it – most users don’t want to struggle with a phone or tablet OS on their desktop PC.

And no, desktop PCs aren’t going away. What will happen is that the approximately 80% of the population who has no use for them will stop using them over time, and use tablets and their phones instead.

Still no reason to have a touch OS on the desktop.

This is funniest thing I ever heard one of my very Southern relatives say:

“I don’t like him. He don’t know shit form shinola.”

Then the relative looks down for a moment confusedly and says, “Wait a minute. I don’t know shit from shinola. What the hell is shinola anyway?”

(This is what shinola was.)

I have a completely unnatural addiction to icons and getting really good ones.

But I’m not sorry.

Sociological theorizing: I think that the trend of taking away features and choice from software users is not a singular phenomenon.

This authoritarian mindset must come from somewhere, and I believe it mirrors the move towards surveillance and control in society at large.

There is no reason for developers to remove features that many users depend on other than the desire to control. Yes, it makes coding easier (in some cases) but it also angers a large portion of your user base. So there must be some other explanation besides, “We just didn’t feel like implementing this,” especially when it was a feature that already existed.

Contrary to what is fashionable to believe lately by those who are barely cognizant of what they are measuring (or how to do so), I do believe there are certain trends in a society, and furthermore I believe there are rough but discernible generational differences (no matter how many scientists insist that there is not). After all, how could a generation that experienced the Cuban Missile Crisis and the worst of the Cold War not be different than one that experienced the rise of the internet and 9/11?

That said, I believe the increase in software authoritarianism is caused and reinforced by the general trend of the society veering that direction. To wit: the Patriot Act. Drone Strikes. NSA surveillance. I could go on.

Nothing in society happens by itself. It’s all a mesh, and all connected. No matter how many people attempt to disprove it, it’s still true.

“We did not develop this medicine for Indians…we developed it for western patients who can afford it," says Pharmaceutical CEO on expensive cancer drug patent.

Well, at least they are becoming more truthful these days. That’s…something?