Poll: Kwanzaa 101 2012 (Video) - Aunk (The Cultural Health Guy)'s column on Newsvine: "Hetep and Respect, every holiday is a Cultural Health opportunity. If you have never seen the seven principles of Kwanzaa take a look. If you have seen them and need a refresher here it is. One of the nice things about the holidays is that we get a chance to learn about each others holidays and the culture behind it ."
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iPhone tool automatically screens calls - CBS News
Corporate executives have administrative assistants to screen their calls for them. Now you can do the same thing yourself with your iPhone.
Call Bliss is a powerful iPhone app that extends the phone's "do not disturb"feature, which appeared in Apple's (AAPL) latest operating system for its mobile devices, iOS 6. Using iOS 6, it's easy to block all calls at particular times of day. You can also mark "favorite" contacts who can get through the filter,
I said to Siri Do Not Disturb
Sire said:
OK, Just let me know when you need me.
If you don't want your apps to disturb you, you might want to change your Do Not Disturb settings,
Siri while you are accurate that is not what I meant, lolt but you were helpful.
Bottom line Siri does not do DND yet, but Call Bliss does.
Now I thought that when I left corporate America my Admin Asst days were behind me, well not so fast. See link for details below. Now just wait until Siri has This Do Not Disturb added to here knowledge bank.
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Winter Solstice 2012 - Infographic
There are all types of complex astrologically calculated explanations of the sun and how the winter solstice works. I built this simple Infographic for the average Joe like me.
In Dr. Amen's lecture he mentioned the Great Pyramids first of the seven wonders of the world as a celestial clock that told seasonal time i.e. Summer Solstice and winter solstice. I could not picture it in my mind as is the case for many of us so I made this Infrgraphic to help me and you.
In Classical African Civilization, Kemet (Ancient Egypt) everyone knew when the seasons changed and the Winter Solstice arrived because they had the biggest celestial clock in the world. Like the watch on your wrist one just need look at it.
These Africans invented the calendar we use to this very day consisting of 360 days with 5 days added. The Kamu (Kematians) in accordance with their monothiestic practice lived for 360 days and listened to God and the cosmos on these five from the 21 to 24 ending on 25.
For more on this subject see the link below to Dr Amen's Radio Show on the topic
Winter Solstice 2012 - End of What World?
Source:
Winter Solstice 2012 - End of What World? 11/29 by Taui | Blog Talk Radio
I will post some more here on this subject as we go through this Solstice the once in a life time end of a 5,000 year era.
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| The world Celestial Clock c 10,000 BCE |
In Classical African Civilization, Kemet (Ancient Egypt) everyone knew when the seasons changed and the Winter Solstice arrived because they had the biggest celestial clock in the world. Like the watch on your wrist one just need look at it.
These Africans invented the calendar we use to this very day consisting of 360 days with 5 days added. The Kamu (Kematians) in accordance with their monothiestic practice lived for 360 days and listened to God and the cosmos on these five from the 21 to 24 ending on 25.
For more on this subject see the link below to Dr Amen's Radio Show on the topic
Winter Solstice 2012 - End of What World?
Is this the time to plan an end of the world party or a beginning of a new era party? You have heard many views on this holiday season come hear the central worldview on this important event through Dr. Amen.
Source:
Winter Solstice 2012 - End of What World? 11/29 by Taui | Blog Talk Radio
I will post some more here on this subject as we go through this Solstice the once in a life time end of a 5,000 year era.
A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and Other Winged Dinosaurs
Those who read my lowly blog will no doubt be familiar with the work of Matt Martyniuk. As an incredibly talented paleoartist, Matt's restorations of prehistoric life are both aesthetically appealing and meticulously researched. In particular, he specializes in (and is probably best known for) depicting Mesozoic birds (=Aviremigia in his personally preferred usage). Additionally, he is a founding member of WikiProject Dinosaurs, a collaborative project that aims to increase the quality of Wikipedia dinosaur articles, and is single-handedly responsible for many of the life restorations and (especially) iconic scale charts present on the online encyclopedia.
One of the greatest contributors to the excellence of Matt's paleoart is the sheer thought and research that has been put into them. Many of the posts on his blog, DinoGoss, discuss aspects of paleoart that are frequently glossed over and yet immensely crucial to the field, such as the processes and biological significance behind feather colors. For this reason I have long thought that it would be magnificent if Matt wrote a self-illustrated book on restoring Mesozoic birds.
As it turns out, he did. About a month ago he teased us all with a picture of the following book cover on Facebook, and later wrote a more extensive article about the subject on DinoGoss.
The book is now out. Having spent two years in the making (so that's why Matt hasn't uploaded much on his DeviantArt for a while), for most part the book does not disappoint. The first few sections of the book detail the evolution and diversity of Mesozoic birds as well as things to take into account when restoring them, some of these incorporating updated versions of DinoGoss posts. Being the very topics I'd hoped Matt would cover were he to write a book, I found these chapters highly enjoyable and they will doubtless serve as a useful guide to other paleoartists looking to illustrate Mesozoic avifauna. Longtime followers of Matt will likely be able to identify nods to his online interactions and activities. Case in point, in order to demonstrate how feathers can obscure skeletal features, Matt uses the deinonychosaurs Troodon and Saurornitholestes to show that even dinosaurs that are supposedly anatomically disparate may have been hard to distinguish in life were we armed only with skeletal characteristics for identification, the same genera Mickey Mortimer used as an example in a comment on DinoGoss.
The main bulk of the book is presented in, as the title implies, a field guide format. With two chapters on oviraptorosaurs, five on deinonychosaurs (and some phylogenetically ambiguous paravians), one on non-ornithothoracine avialans, four on enantiornithines, and five on Mesozoic euornithines, each preceded by a phylogeny indicating the likely positions of taxa discussed, this presents near-comprehensive coverage on the known extent of aviremigian variety in the Mesozoic. Life restorations of almost all known Mesozoic aviremigian species are present, often shown in multiple views, poses, and sometimes ontogenetic stages, each accompanied by a scale chart done in Matt's recognizable style. For a great many aviremigian species, especially avialans, these are likely the first time they have been seriously restored, much less in print. Ornithologically savvy readers will be able to identify choices in coloration inspired by modern birds, though none fall into the trap of being a direct ripoff of a modern species. The succinct but informative text (as is typical for a field guide) lays down the physical characteristics, habitat, and known natural history of each taxon. Much of this will be a great help for buffing up the descriptions in my own list of maniraptors, again particularly with respect to avialans. There are a few cases where I felt that certain interesting facts that could have been added were missing, like Sinornithosaurus being known to have been preyed on (or at least eaten) by the compsognathid Sinocalliopteryx, but such preferences delve into the subjective side of things. Species too fragmentary to be reliably restored are listed in an appendix at the end of the book.
The book is immensely up to date, including even the last aviremigian to be published prior to its launch (Shengjingornis) and incorporating new research on the number of covert layers present in basal aviremigians. A recent paper that heavily influences the content of the book but came out too late to be extensively incorporated was the description of wings in ornithomimosaurs. Though the wing feathers of these specimens are not directly preserved, the authors of the study suggest they were pennaceous, potentially making ornithomimosaurs (and thus all maniraptoriforms) aviremigians. Should this be the case, any subsequent editions or companion volumes to this book would have to include at least ornithomimosaurs, therizinosaurs, and alvarezsaurs in addition to the groups it already has. Commendably, this discovery does get acknowledged in the introductory chapters of the book, and either way this does not cheapen this guide's value. Science marches on is an inevitable acquaintance of the best of us, and the book remains an indispensable reference for the groups it has managed to include.
If there's anything that does remotely detract from this gem, it's the typos. While on the whole they don't hamper the usefulness of the book, typos are abundant enough to be noticeable, especially to paleo-savvy readers. Most of these are spelling errors, but the most glaring example is that Cryptovolans is incorrectly stated to hail from the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta, Canada. More extensive proofreading could've considerably increased the quality in this regard.
A bibliography is available at the back of the book, which I approve of (the last reference listed even has quite a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor to it), though I do feel that even more references could have been included. For instance, Velociraptor being known to have scavenged was evidently based on Hone et al. (2010), and yet this paper was not listed as a source. There are also countless specimen description papers that must've been referenced in a project of this type but are not mentioned. Although creating an exhaustive bibliography may not have been the main purpose of this book, it does appear strange to me that only some of the references used were credited. This is arguably especially important for the unpublished tidbits that are brought up. For example, Tianyuraptor is said to have had long neck feathers based on an undescribed mid-sized dromaeosaurid that preserves this feature and may be a specimen of said taxon. Those who are aware of this specimen will know the source of this, but those who know Tianyuraptor only from its published description (based on a specimen that preserves no feathers at all) may well be confused by this information.
There are also a few unexplained omissions to the list of Mesozoic aviremigians. Borogovia, Pamparaptor, Shanag, Otogornis, and Longchengornis are neither included as field guide entries nor mentioned in the appendix (or anywhere else that would explain their truancy). Hesperonychus is also bizarrely absent, despite being namedropped in one of the introductory chapters. (Edit: And Alethoalaornis too. See comments for more on the situation with these MIA taxa; thanks for chiming in, Matt!)
These are but quibbles, outweighed immeasurably by the book's numerous finer points, and if this review appears to imply otherwise it is only because I hold this work to such high standards. This is a book I'd recommend to everyone with an interest in some of the most wonderful of all creatures (i.e.: birds) and easily deserves a place of its own among works of this genre.
One of the greatest contributors to the excellence of Matt's paleoart is the sheer thought and research that has been put into them. Many of the posts on his blog, DinoGoss, discuss aspects of paleoart that are frequently glossed over and yet immensely crucial to the field, such as the processes and biological significance behind feather colors. For this reason I have long thought that it would be magnificent if Matt wrote a self-illustrated book on restoring Mesozoic birds.
As it turns out, he did. About a month ago he teased us all with a picture of the following book cover on Facebook, and later wrote a more extensive article about the subject on DinoGoss.
The book is now out. Having spent two years in the making (so that's why Matt hasn't uploaded much on his DeviantArt for a while), for most part the book does not disappoint. The first few sections of the book detail the evolution and diversity of Mesozoic birds as well as things to take into account when restoring them, some of these incorporating updated versions of DinoGoss posts. Being the very topics I'd hoped Matt would cover were he to write a book, I found these chapters highly enjoyable and they will doubtless serve as a useful guide to other paleoartists looking to illustrate Mesozoic avifauna. Longtime followers of Matt will likely be able to identify nods to his online interactions and activities. Case in point, in order to demonstrate how feathers can obscure skeletal features, Matt uses the deinonychosaurs Troodon and Saurornitholestes to show that even dinosaurs that are supposedly anatomically disparate may have been hard to distinguish in life were we armed only with skeletal characteristics for identification, the same genera Mickey Mortimer used as an example in a comment on DinoGoss.
The main bulk of the book is presented in, as the title implies, a field guide format. With two chapters on oviraptorosaurs, five on deinonychosaurs (and some phylogenetically ambiguous paravians), one on non-ornithothoracine avialans, four on enantiornithines, and five on Mesozoic euornithines, each preceded by a phylogeny indicating the likely positions of taxa discussed, this presents near-comprehensive coverage on the known extent of aviremigian variety in the Mesozoic. Life restorations of almost all known Mesozoic aviremigian species are present, often shown in multiple views, poses, and sometimes ontogenetic stages, each accompanied by a scale chart done in Matt's recognizable style. For a great many aviremigian species, especially avialans, these are likely the first time they have been seriously restored, much less in print. Ornithologically savvy readers will be able to identify choices in coloration inspired by modern birds, though none fall into the trap of being a direct ripoff of a modern species. The succinct but informative text (as is typical for a field guide) lays down the physical characteristics, habitat, and known natural history of each taxon. Much of this will be a great help for buffing up the descriptions in my own list of maniraptors, again particularly with respect to avialans. There are a few cases where I felt that certain interesting facts that could have been added were missing, like Sinornithosaurus being known to have been preyed on (or at least eaten) by the compsognathid Sinocalliopteryx, but such preferences delve into the subjective side of things. Species too fragmentary to be reliably restored are listed in an appendix at the end of the book.
The book is immensely up to date, including even the last aviremigian to be published prior to its launch (Shengjingornis) and incorporating new research on the number of covert layers present in basal aviremigians. A recent paper that heavily influences the content of the book but came out too late to be extensively incorporated was the description of wings in ornithomimosaurs. Though the wing feathers of these specimens are not directly preserved, the authors of the study suggest they were pennaceous, potentially making ornithomimosaurs (and thus all maniraptoriforms) aviremigians. Should this be the case, any subsequent editions or companion volumes to this book would have to include at least ornithomimosaurs, therizinosaurs, and alvarezsaurs in addition to the groups it already has. Commendably, this discovery does get acknowledged in the introductory chapters of the book, and either way this does not cheapen this guide's value. Science marches on is an inevitable acquaintance of the best of us, and the book remains an indispensable reference for the groups it has managed to include.
If there's anything that does remotely detract from this gem, it's the typos. While on the whole they don't hamper the usefulness of the book, typos are abundant enough to be noticeable, especially to paleo-savvy readers. Most of these are spelling errors, but the most glaring example is that Cryptovolans is incorrectly stated to hail from the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta, Canada. More extensive proofreading could've considerably increased the quality in this regard.
A bibliography is available at the back of the book, which I approve of (the last reference listed even has quite a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor to it), though I do feel that even more references could have been included. For instance, Velociraptor being known to have scavenged was evidently based on Hone et al. (2010), and yet this paper was not listed as a source. There are also countless specimen description papers that must've been referenced in a project of this type but are not mentioned. Although creating an exhaustive bibliography may not have been the main purpose of this book, it does appear strange to me that only some of the references used were credited. This is arguably especially important for the unpublished tidbits that are brought up. For example, Tianyuraptor is said to have had long neck feathers based on an undescribed mid-sized dromaeosaurid that preserves this feature and may be a specimen of said taxon. Those who are aware of this specimen will know the source of this, but those who know Tianyuraptor only from its published description (based on a specimen that preserves no feathers at all) may well be confused by this information.
There are also a few unexplained omissions to the list of Mesozoic aviremigians. Borogovia, Pamparaptor, Shanag, Otogornis, and Longchengornis are neither included as field guide entries nor mentioned in the appendix (or anywhere else that would explain their truancy). Hesperonychus is also bizarrely absent, despite being namedropped in one of the introductory chapters. (Edit: And Alethoalaornis too. See comments for more on the situation with these MIA taxa; thanks for chiming in, Matt!)
These are but quibbles, outweighed immeasurably by the book's numerous finer points, and if this review appears to imply otherwise it is only because I hold this work to such high standards. This is a book I'd recommend to everyone with an interest in some of the most wonderful of all creatures (i.e.: birds) and easily deserves a place of its own among works of this genre.
Netherlands' Put on Cultural Terrorist Nations Watch List.
Today the Netherlands' became the first nation in modern history to be put on the Cultural Terrorist Nations Watch List. The Dutch people and their nation earn this dubious holiday distinction for "Black Pete" and the dis-ease it infects their children with.
Here is how I rate "Black Pete" and the Dutch Nation on Cultural Health. (I also put this post here so that readers do not think I did not give them a chance to respond and to provided additional information)
USA's National Cultural Health Rating is 53% (up from 0 to 25% pre 2008)
Netherlands' National Cultural Health Rating is maybe 5%
Their Culturally Poisoned national holiday has earned them the distinction of being the first nation in modern history to be put on the cultural terrorist nations watch list.
Let's Go To The Video Tape
Just when you though you have heard all the cultural poisoning in the known world, SURPRISE!
Cultural Literacy Minute: The Dutch were main players in World War Zero (WW0) {"Slave trade"] and the murder of 100 million+ Black people.
It is interesting to note, that with this disregardful history of cultural terror, physically lasting up until recently with the relative hand full of Dutch that had their foot on the necks of 51 million Azanians (South Africans); the Dutch people during this time of peace on earth and brotherhood to man should have White Supremacy (Racism) as the corner stone of what they teach their children on this holiday.
One organization reinforcing the Zwarte Piet image is educational broadcaster NTR, which also airs "Sesame Street" in the Netherlands. It has developed a popular fake news program for kids, devoted to the doings of the wise white Sinterklaas and his many bumbling Petes, all with the traditional blackface look.
Can you imagine the poisoning and dis-ease NTR is pumping into it's nations children?
Several years ago, the broadcaster experimented with a story line in which the Petes were turned different colors after sailing through a magical rainbow. That drew thousands of complaints, in part because the backlash against immigration was cresting at the time: Fans said changing Pete was sacrificing Dutch cultural heritage to the forces of multiculturalism.
It sounds like, not only did we inherit Santa Claus from the Dutch but we inherited some Romney, kill Big Bird, type Republican extremists from the dutch.
Cultural Terrorist Nations Watch List
1. Netherlands
If you have other suggestions for the list please advise
I am keeping a close eye on Egypt who has a Muslim Brother hood President that looks like he wants to force a theocracy on the citizens instead of the multi-ethnic/religious democracy their revolution was for. The Brother Hood is on Record as saying they want to blow up the African Pyramids in the land they invaded. Keep a sharp eye.
Cultural Terrorist Nations Watch List
1. Netherlands
If you have other suggestions for the list please advise
I am keeping a close eye on Egypt who has a Muslim Brother hood President that looks like he wants to force a theocracy on the citizens instead of the multi-ethnic/religious democracy their revolution was for. The Brother Hood is on Record as saying they want to blow up the African Pyramids in the land they invaded. Keep a sharp eye.
Source: MSNBC/Newsvine Original story and my comments and discussion regarding "Black Pete".
Microsoft calls Google 'Scroogle for Screwing with Search Results -Video
: "In an outburst of Christmas spirit, Redmond creates a shopping Web site that paints Google -- and its search results -- in a very unfestive light." This is a must read, not only is Google ripping people off with the Iphone clones they call droids, now now they are also tricking computer illiterate shoppers who do shopping searches.
Microsoft calls Google 'Scroogle' | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
It is interesting to note that Apple is the most trusted computer maker in the world and the "do no evil" Google is degenerating into to hell fire pits of moral turpitude.
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Microsoft calls Google 'Scroogle' | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
It is interesting to note that Apple is the most trusted computer maker in the world and the "do no evil" Google is degenerating into to hell fire pits of moral turpitude.
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Iphone Beats Android in US Market Share and Corporate Mind Share
iPhone’s market share in the US increased to 48.1%, and surpassed Google‘s Android 46.7% in the twelve weeks ending October 28, 2012 according to a report released by Kantar Worldwide. There are three important underlying themes.
Three Trends Underlying Apple's iPhone Market Share Surge
First, there was pent-up demand for the iPhone 5, which most likely affected less-impressive Q2 2012 and Q3 2012 market share results. Applereleased the iPhone 5 at the end of September, and experienced supply constraints for several weeks, going into the earnings release in the end of October. Even with supply constraints, Apple surged past Android to take the top billing in the US for the past twelve weeks, with only a handful of weeks without supply constraints.
The Samsung Galaxy 3, which has also proved to be a very popularsmartphone, was released in May. So, while Samsung benefited from its new product introduction over the summer, Apple will benefit from its iPhone 5 release in this period. I have written previously that smartphone market share numbers can be distorted period-by-period due to the timing of product introductions, and be influenced in any period by carrier subsidies and promotions. For example, carriers can promote different smartphones on their websites. The iPhone is the fifth and fourth smartphone displayed for Verizon and AT&T, respectively. And, if one goes into a carrier store, chances are that the phones of which they have the greatest inventory are the ones a customer will hear about first. It takes a determined customer to wait for an iPhone, and apparently they did. This is what the Kantar numbers have borne out for the short term.
The real test will be the Q4 2012 market share numbers. Q4 is different from other quarters because manufacturers introduced a bevy of new products at the end of August for sale by the holiday season. The fourth quarter will be a horse race among the newest products on the market and the largest number of consumers buying them. The momentum, currently, appears to be with Apple.I
For Full Story AIThree Trends Underlying Apple's iPhone Market Share Surge - Forbes:
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Who is trending Iphone vs Samsung Galaxy S3 InfoGraphics
Who is trending Iphone vs Samsung Galaxy S3 Google trends has the answer. The InfoGraphic will surprise you.
It is interesting to note that the popularity of the Samsung s3 (Iphone clone) according to Google the Droid evil doer themselves is trending below the Ipad mini and it just got here. The Ipad mini officially makes the non American Samsung Galaxy, about which they has been so much hype in the media, neither fish nor fowl. It is to big to be an Iphone and too small to be and Ipad Mini. Why when the Iphone 5 was announced Verizon could only sell S3's by Giving them Away. Wow! a picture is worth a thousand words.
| The broadest Interpersonal Computer (IPC) lineup in the world Where is the Trend InfoGraphic? |
It is interesting to note that the popularity of the Samsung s3 (Iphone clone) according to Google the Droid evil doer themselves is trending below the Ipad mini and it just got here. The Ipad mini officially makes the non American Samsung Galaxy, about which they has been so much hype in the media, neither fish nor fowl. It is to big to be an Iphone and too small to be and Ipad Mini. Why when the Iphone 5 was announced Verizon could only sell S3's by Giving them Away. Wow! a picture is worth a thousand words.
Did some one figure out from customer feedback that the original s3 was to big and to small and now they are trying to right size it and call it a "mini" to clone again an apple made popular term in IPC's.
When will Samsung actually demonstrate some vision and develop something that is not a clone of an American idea.
If you understand that one product line is glass and metal and the other is plastic then you know all you need to know about the two company's. Personally, I use Iphone!
Amen
Romney Looses because he failed to have an Iphone App for his ground game
That is right it was not Black and White it was a Romney management failure to use the mobile gold standard Iphone or even a droid Iphone clone app for his 30,000 ground game people in the swing states that cost him the big margin losses in the swing states.
The the so called ":small government" Republicans gutted the local get out the vote efforts of local states and replaced it with a centralized untested big government type Republican crap app that was deployed at 6Am on election day and failed killing the Republican ground game and ending whatever chance Romney had of winning.
This is the untold story of the election Romney was not a capitalist business man that made products like Jobs of Apple of Gates of Microsoft. these men we makers Romney was a taker, a vulture who scavenged for weak company's to sneak up on and attack.
I had all kinds of Obama apps on my Iphone. So this Romney technology failure goes down in history to prove once and for all that our President was and is a better businessman then Romney ever thought of being.
If Republicans expect to ever be elected to national office in my life time they need to rethink their mission, their position and their technology.
Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown | Ars Technica:
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The the so called ":small government" Republicans gutted the local get out the vote efforts of local states and replaced it with a centralized untested big government type Republican crap app that was deployed at 6Am on election day and failed killing the Republican ground game and ending whatever chance Romney had of winning.
This is the untold story of the election Romney was not a capitalist business man that made products like Jobs of Apple of Gates of Microsoft. these men we makers Romney was a taker, a vulture who scavenged for weak company's to sneak up on and attack.
I had all kinds of Obama apps on my Iphone. So this Romney technology failure goes down in history to prove once and for all that our President was and is a better businessman then Romney ever thought of being.
If Republicans expect to ever be elected to national office in my life time they need to rethink their mission, their position and their technology.
Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown | Ars Technica:
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Why Apple-Supplier Foxconn Should Open a Plant in the US?
"A new report alleges that Foxconn, the Taiwanese tech manufacturer that builds parts for Apple iPads and iPhones, is eyeing the US. " Will Apple make this happen?
In the Presidential debates the question was raised. How do we get Apple to build some plants in the USA? Apple needs to make this happen. At least build the Iphone that AT&T gives you for free with a two year contract here in America. Use mostly automated plants and put them in silicon valley and in Detroit and the old steel mill towns where Americans need jobs and Apple needs workers. Our government can step up to the plate in the name of infrastructure investment and provide our citizens with job training and the states can step up and give tax breaks.
There are two reasons this makes sense beyond the obvious JOBS, one is the Buy American call by the President, all Americans need to get on board with this including Apple. Secondly, I ordered an Iphone 5 in October and will probably not get it until December. This type of product backlog in the US is unacceptable. If apple had more control of the manufacturing process (US Plants) this would not happen.
Google is also an American company and they have brought an American phone manufacturer that need to convert to making effective Inter-personal computers - IPC's ("smartphones"). Suppose the Google phone was made in America and the Apple Phone was not? How would that change the market.
I am a die hard apple customer. I had an Iphone before there was an Iphone but it would make me think, as I am also a patriot.
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In the Presidential debates the question was raised. How do we get Apple to build some plants in the USA? Apple needs to make this happen. At least build the Iphone that AT&T gives you for free with a two year contract here in America. Use mostly automated plants and put them in silicon valley and in Detroit and the old steel mill towns where Americans need jobs and Apple needs workers. Our government can step up to the plate in the name of infrastructure investment and provide our citizens with job training and the states can step up and give tax breaks.
There are two reasons this makes sense beyond the obvious JOBS, one is the Buy American call by the President, all Americans need to get on board with this including Apple. Secondly, I ordered an Iphone 5 in October and will probably not get it until December. This type of product backlog in the US is unacceptable. If apple had more control of the manufacturing process (US Plants) this would not happen.
Google is also an American company and they have brought an American phone manufacturer that need to convert to making effective Inter-personal computers - IPC's ("smartphones"). Suppose the Google phone was made in America and the Apple Phone was not? How would that change the market.
I am a die hard apple customer. I had an Iphone before there was an Iphone but it would make me think, as I am also a patriot.
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