A retro-active price reduction: have you ever heard of such a thing???? They're a client of ours, but I still think this offer is amazing and really, really smart.
Problem is there are other apps that are more political that are already accepted into the store. Do we really want a company deciding what all apps on its platform can be about? No way! Where's the Apple that said "Rip. Mix. Burn."?
Interesting story in the Los Angeles Times -- I like when a far away paper does an overview story of something local; often, they do a better job of summing up and explaining.
Smoking outdoors doesn't hurt anyone except, arguably, the smoker. Littering and fire starting are dealt with by laws against that, not against smoking. What do you think?
Next, they want Apple to pay for anyone who hums the music that people listen to on their iPod. Then they want you to pay them $50 "just because we said so."
Jan Shaffer is a client of ours and we helped build this database, but her point is valid: any site calling itself a news site should be willing to disclose where the funding for their operation is coming from.
2,296 suggested panels. How are you possibly expected to find panels of interest? It's a world-wide high school popularity contest, but less well organized.
“Almost every American I know does trade large portions of his life for entertainment, hour by weeknight hour, binge by Saturday binge, Facebook check by Facebook check. I’m one of them. In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or writing, or working, or spending real time with people I love.”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)
