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How Barack Obama Secured the Most Important Voting Demographic: The Idiots

I have seen our future, and it’s a movie by Mike Judge.

How Barack Obama Secured the Most Important Voting Demographic: The Idiots

You Can’t Fix Stupid, But You Can Buy It For $8 Billion
The Peter Schiff Show (11/7/2012)
The founding fathers warned us years ago about the dangers inherent in democracy. They considered democracy to be tyranny of the majority. In fact, they actually referred to democracy as “mobocracry.” That is why they established the United States as a Republic. The Constitution guarantees to each state in the union a Republican form of government, and contains all sorts of safeguards to protect us from the evils of democracy. Unfortunately over the years, little by little, those safeguards have been torn down. The result has been every bit as disastrous as the founders feared.

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MS Messenger Gone in January

OK, whatever. I think have as many friends on MSN as I do on ICQ.

Microsoft and Skype to axe world’s most popular IM client early 2013 • The Register

Microsoft’s Instant Messenger will be sacrificed for Skype by the end of March 2013, it has finally emerged.

The software giant’s Skype business has blogged Windows Live Messenger will be “retired” in the first quarter of 2013, except in mainland China.

Skype said it will work with Windows Live Messenger users during the next few months to help with the transition and “offer information and help along the way”.

Microsoft began moving users with Skype 6.0 for Mac and Windows, which allows you to sign into the service using a Microsoft account.

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Stalker, a JQuery Plugin for Sticky Elements

This looks like a handy tool for implementing a sticky nav bar.

Box Tech Blog » Stalker, a JQuery Plugin That Follows Users on a Page

When we designed the new header for the Box Webapp, one of the goals was to make navigating the site easier and more intuitive, which we decided could be achieved by putting search front and center alongside access to the main areas of the application.  In order to have those controls readily at hand and for an enhanced user experience, we decided to have the header follow users as they scroll down a page.

(You can see a very simple demo of how the plugin works here.)

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Half-Life 3 on Linux Only

Wow! Half-Life 3 will be a Linux exclusive? Uncertainty about desktop UI aside, this is a huge boost for Linux on the desktop. Hey, maybe Valve can convince Canonical fix or abandon Unity.

Play4Real » Valve Officially Passes On Windows 8, Confirms Half-Life 3 is Linux Exclusive

At the Ubuntu Developer Summit, Valve employee Drew Bliss said that Linux is a more viable platform for gaming than Windows 8. Gabe Newell, Valve director, has officially solidified Valve’s stance on Windows 8 by announcing that Half-Life 3 is exclusive to Linux.

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Canonical and Microsoft are marching Desktop UI off a cliff

Doesn’t it seem like Apple has played a terrible trick on Microsoft and by extension parts of the Linux community?

Apple’s poisonous Touch silently kills the GNOMEs of Linux Forest • The Register

If a major Linux desktop falls in the forest and no one is around to use it, does it make a sound?

That’s a question the GNOME project would do well to contemplate. The once mighty Linux desktop has stumbled and looks like it might be poised to come crashing down after the release of GNOME 3.

Here’s the problem: the radical rewrite that is the GNOME 3 desktop seems to have pleased almost no one.