Posts by rbryanh

Advertising is the vilest of crap.   The only thing dumber than doing something stupid because everyone else has done so is refusing to do something intelligent because everyone else has done so.

The Walton family has been a scourge on just and fair labor practice in America.  Five minutes with a search engine will teach you more about their corruption, greed, and selfishness than you ever wanted to know about...

The destructive working conditions in Apple's factories have deserved and gotten lots of attention.   Walmart makes Foxconn look like day care for rich kids.  Ethically, the only significant difference between the two is...

Mom twists her neck toward the back seat and snarls, "Don't make me stop this court room!"   Greed makes people so very, very stupid.  The pathetic antics of people who've convinced themselves the purpose of life is...

A so-called democracy which allows its alleged representatives to give tax breaks to one of the most profitable corporations on the planet should not be surprised to find itself bankrupt, and no one who does business with a corporation...

"Apple accused of sidestepping taxes"   The legal abstraction we call a "corporation" was created, in large part, to enable the wealthy to avoid paying taxes.  To focus on any individual corporation is to completely miss...

Precious yet tedious. Cloying yet cold. Offensive in the all-too-common assumption that modern celebrities are models for anything other than narcissism and a pathetic, doomed obsession with popularity. But more to the point… A...

"The height of such a device would be roughly the same width as the current iPad."

The one thing seldom mentioned in these sorts of comparisons is that Windows-only products have absolutely no appeal to many of us. Their whole ecosystem is limited and limiting. Microsoft has yet to produce a credible OS for a...

As Apple improves working conditions in Chinese factories, they move their retail employees toward what could eventually be a sweatshop model.