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• In Bigger News: FCC Opens White Space & Frees iPhone I was always baffled by Apple exclusively giving the iPhone to AT&T. It’s not in Apple’s DNA to tie the customer experience of their products to someone else. Exclusively or otherwise. Multi-year or otherwise. Apple’s built their reputation on owning and controlling the entire stack; OS, applications, hardware. Hell, Apple’s never been crazy about
• Oh, Canada?  We’re watching some Degrassi Junior High tonight and a bit about the U.S. invading Canada came up. Now, it may surprise you that my public school education didn’t discuss the multiple times we invaded (War of 1812, Fenian Raids of the 1860s), or planned to, our northern neighbors. First I heard of an invasion was
• Historical Political Drama Double Feature  Last night, Jen and I watched All the President’s Men, off the Netflix. It’s the screen adaptation of the Watergate investigation starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward & Bernstein, or “Woodstein”. Considering the whole thing went down months before I was born, my understanding of Watergate is ethereal at best. The movie
• Taking Your State Out of the Running “Highly-skilled labor is very mobile in this global economy” - Thomas P.M. Barnett Something to keep in mind when drafting legislation on what people can and can’t do in your state. To Madison and Milwaukee, I’m sorry.
• End Illegal Immigration - Send More Jobs to Mexico The reason America has so many illegal immigrants is the same reason America (and any other country) has immigration. Same reason young Americans flee the Dakotas. Those places suck. Building a fence between the US and Mexico won’t make Mexico suck less (or NoDak) - illegal workers sending money to their home country just might. US,