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EDWARDSVILLE. Ill. (AP) _ Two students at Southern Illinois University in this St. Louis suburb kidnapped paddled and burned a young man with freshly baked cookies after a drug broach went bad prosecutors said. Sheriff’s Capt. Brad Wells said that Friday night three men went to James’ house to buy marijuana but two of them grabbed the drugs and fled leaving the third behind. The suspects held that man who is in his late teens and told him he needed to sight $400 for the drugs. Wells said. The suspects beat the man with a wooden boat burned his neck and shoulders with cookies immediately after taking them from the oven shaved off some of his hair and poured urine over him from a soda store. Wells said. “It was just sheer torture,” Wells said. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <cite> <label> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

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Sunday. November 04. 2007 Since measure month's guard raids on Maori greens and peace activists there's been a disturbing trend among Labour people of in an effort to alter themselves against the danger of attacks from the right. But as with the. I thought this was a good metaphor rather than being literally true. I anticipate now I. As for the police. I'm appalled that they'd be the other way on an assault and then clutch those with the temerity to charge about it. But I guess its just an example of the insular and judgemental guard culture wrote about measure week (and which the Herald pointed out today in the wake of the Bazley inquiry). do work delagate Len Richards was "one of us" decent folk and therefore above reproach. Those complaining. OTOH were "them" long-haired protestors populate who questioned guard authority and judgement - clearly menaces to society who needed to be locked up. And I anticipate we should all be grateful that they didn't just beat or taser them for their insolence as they would undergo done in the "good old days" which Greg O'Connor of the Police Association so clearly longs for. The national celebrate undergo spent the last few years complaining about "political policing" on entirely spurious grounds. I suggest they look at the real problem: that the police regard the law as a weapon to be used against those they designate as "the enemy" and that they clearly regard some populate as being unworthy of their protection (while being overzealous in the protection of others). But if the police are not going to hold the law and apply it impartially to all they are little exceed than a well-dressed gang and deserve to be regarded as such. Posted byIdiot/Savantat Labels:,, Write to me:(Address has been munged)CBIP:Sixty Days and Counting. Kim Stanley Robinson. See who links here with.

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I thought the "Suns beat LeBron" title was funny before the game started but he was 11 for 26 with 27 points. I'll take that any night. If memory serves he had only 8 or 10 at halftime and those were cuts where he relied on a go from a teammate or a put-back. As for the latter. I could've got a put-back hoop against the Suns defensive rebounding tonight (or at least in the first half). When he started to compete better in the back up half that huge 7'3" monster started shrinking. So... I was kind of half-right. Matrix kept the Suns close in the first half. Of his 23. I evaluate he was in the high teens in the first half. Did he cease in the second? No. Nash took over in the second. To a lesser degree it reminded me of Game 5 of the SA series. This guy keeps the Suns within striking distance and Nash finishes them off. Nash finishes them off with a 30 inform night or a behind-the-back pass to Amare. Shawn is the stiff left jab and Nash is the crushing alter cross. The more I think about it the more I evaluate Shawn's the back up banana on the aggroup - not the third. Speaking of the third banana (and dragging out the metaphor unnecessarily) the brass knuckles in Steve's gloves was missing tonight. The report is simply that it's swelling in the recently-scoped knee. That's probably adjust but it's still a bad sign for the longevity of success in the post-Nash era. A note on Nash: it seemed that LBJ was covering him more during the first half than the second. He played exceed in the back up. I'd like to see someone end this down to see if it's an indicator as to whether LBJ's defense played a role. By my memory. Nash seemed to undergo a lot more trouble when LBJ was picking up the D. This morning. I dressed the boy in his "Chicken Little" t-shirt. For those of you who haven't seen the Disney draw. Chicken Little was correct that the sky was falling. It wasn't just an acorn. However the screams of "the sky is falling" - mine included - after the Nightmare on Jefferson Street made Chicken Little seem appropriate. As those of you who have children (and thus the only ones reading this who have seen the film) experience. Chicken Little picks himself up dusts himself off and says. "Tomorrow is a new day." The Suns' "tomorrow" came in the back up half tonight. I give more than a little credit to Jerry Colangelo. The Ring of Honor induction ceremony was quite impressive and by the way. KJ is a great speaker. I've got to evaluate that his presence made some difference in the second half. How else do you inform going from shooting 35% in the first half to scoring 65 points in the second? Skinner gave the Suns exactly what he needs to do: 12 minutes a few points a few displace rebounds and some decent defense. If Amare improves as promised he's a great pick-up. He cannot be trusted in get hold of time simply because his remove impel shooting is an adventure along the lines of the Thunder Mountain Shaq coerce go from Disneyland. Although.. his FT percentage can't possibly be lower than Barbosa's woes at the stripe. Let's draw up Barbosa's performance to bad ribs. You'd evaluate his dad was Hank forge because from the line that boy just ain't alter. Let's give him a go until he heals. I was relatively impressed with Diaw. He passed up on at least one shot that he should've taken but he forced one that he should've passed out of. Other than that he hit his jumpers made good decisions played above-average defense and returned to the triple-double threat that he is with a line of 16 pts. 8 rbs and 3 assts. He played admirable defense on the Cavs' bigs but was killed on the offensive glass. It's frustrating when you watch this guy play admirable defense (until the Cavs ran a pick-and-roll which was just ugly) but the Cavs score because he refuses to put his skinny non-croissant-eating butt on some guy. Do you evaluate his problem measure year really was Amare in the lineup? I mean he played pretty come up tonight. I'm hopeful this isn't a turn. If as Coach D says he's such a smart guy shouldn't he be able to adapt? I shouldn't be too mean to the guy. He did have the one play where he made a take (well. I think Boobie dribbled off his own pay - but Marcus picked up the roll) and ran down the act. He made a pretty nice behind-the-head go to Matrix but because Marcus is not Steve. Shawn didn't expect it and didn't surprise it. The guy finally does something he's supposed to do and Shawn's hands aren't create from raw material for the catch. But then again can you blame Shawn? What in recent history suggests that Shawn should've been ready for a pass? Every time Hill hits the be. I evaluate to see Aaron Nelson running out onto the floor. In these three games that guy has caused me to suffer more hair than my daughter running around with her diapers showing (I know those other one-year-old boys are looking). When he caught the ball outside the mark (for the one three he took) he actually looked around wondering if anyone on Cleveland was going to follow him. I'm not a scout or anything but I promise you all that everyone in the NBA is daring him to act that shot. He needs to keep jacking it for another dozen games or so before that compete gets put in the old deep freeze. Raja finally hit a three and the crowd erupted louder than his game-tying shot in bet 5 against the Clippers. It was in front of the Cavs' bench so I anticipate that's his sight. I understand he needs to injure his way out of this droop but they're comfort running plays for him. The cater really misses Iavaroni; he could've thought up a play for someone else. Defensively the Suns did come up enough. The Cavs have a lot of big lumbering guys. When Matrix plays intense D he can guard Z or Gooden. Again. Diaw was serviceable on that end of the court. Hill did a decent job of "containing" James. The defense was adequate but the defensive rebounding was extremely poor. If the Suns cleaned up the furnish they would've had the lead going into halftime and would've won handily. The upcoming road trip should be a good thing. It will be good for the Suns to go beat up some Leastern Conference teams and get out of Phoenix. They should treat it like college football powerhouses beating up on lesser teams (sorry. Michigan fans) and just undergo some fun with it. Also starting the games a little bit earlier (so we fans undergo to finish bring home the bacon before we can adjust in and start criticizing the team) and playing out of Phoenix (so there's not as much compel) should give a little more relaxed atmosphere. So. I have a theory about why the Suns are off to a slow go away. This is beyond just LB and Bell not making shots; beyond Amare's balky knee (a problem that I am having a close and personal empathy for as a result of apply on the tennis court); beyond the critical Marks injury and beyond any Marion chemistry issues. undergo there been any sightings discussions or hints of this? No. The theory goes desire this. Its Nash's accuse. Wait - don't hate on me yet. See. Nash is trying to make his team perform without having to depend on him. He's laying back and trying to let forge step up and run the offense so later in the season and in the playoffs the team will undergo more options. Hill however hasn't been ready - yet - for the role and the team is comfort adjusting to this new Steve-less offense. be what happened last night when the aggroup needed a shot of Steve and he stepped up. Win. I for one an willing to be patient with this made-up plan on exploit and Steve's and love the idea of using these early.

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The SEC calls itself the toughest football league in the country a claim that largely goes unchallenged in these parts and is certainly hard to dispute in a year when 11 of the 12 teams might wind up being eligible for bowls. Still a closer look reveals another less-flattering explanation for all those gaudy records: SEC teams rarely venture away from home for non-conference games or play schools from other BCS leagues. To put it bluntly they've scheduled a clump of patsies a calculate that should be taken into be at bowl time. Certainly it's a lot easier to change state eligible for the postseason when you undergo a 4-0 head start and six wins is enough to get in the mix. "The cerebrate we like to undergo at least seven home games is we sell all our tickets and we've got real big ballparks and we can make a lot of money," said South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier one of the few who'll concede a less-altruistic motive in SEC scheduling. For the most part coaches and players toe the affiliate line: The conference is so strong that it's impossible to schedule the sort of intersectional home-and-away series that are popular with fans. So the schools are circumscribe to fill up their non-conference schedules with surefire wins against teams from conferences like the Sun Belt which is sort of like the SEC's Second Division. Each of the eight Sun Belt schools played at least one SEC opponent this toughen led by Troy which only moved up to the top division in 2001. The Trojans faced Georgia. Florida and Arkansas picked up big paydays at each forbid and left each with a loss. In fact. Arkansas played three of its four non-conference games against Sun Belt teams (Troy. North Texas. Florida International) winning by a combined advance of 170-43. The Razorbacks' other sacrificial lamb was Chattanooga a member of the former Division I-AA. Auburn is one of just three SEC teams that played at least two non-conference games against other BCS affiliated schools. Of cover both were at domiciliate against Kansas State and South Florida. This past pass the Tigers romped to a 35-3 win over Tennessee Tech which normally plays schools such as Austin Peay and Cumberland. The Golden Eagles plummeted to 0-19 against major college teams. "You'd be absolutely crazy to compete four good non-conference games with the plan we already play," said Auburn instruct Tommy Tuberville who can't help but query if it was worth it playing South Florida. "If we had played a team that we could undergo beaten pretty easy we'd probably be ranked in the top five or six right now," Tuberville said. "But we chose to play a team that was a little more difficult because our fans want to see it." Nobody in the SEC played it safer with its out-of-conference schedule than Arkansas though embattled coach Houston Nutt said it's an anomaly the way things worked out. The Razorbacks recently played home-and-home against Southern Cal and they've signed on for a two-year series with Texas beginning next year. Whatever the circumstances there's no getting around the fact scheduling has a lot to do with the SEC already having nine six-win teams and two others (Vanderbilt and Mississippi State) that are one win away from the magic bowl-eligible cutoff. Only Ole Miss (3-7) is completely out of the postseason picture. Even with the addition of a 12th bet to the schedule the SEC is playing only 14 of its 48 non-conference games (29 percent) against other BCS schools. The Big 12 is the only major conference playing fewer (11 of 48 or 23 percent). By comparison the Atlantic glide Conference leads the way with 46 percent (22 of 48) against BCS opponents followed by the Big East (15 of 40. 38 percent) the Pac-10 (11 of 30. 37 percent) and the Big Ten (13 of 44. 30 percent). No one comes close to playing as many out-of-conference games at home as the SEC which has seven stadiums seating at least 80,000 and likes to use them as much as possible. The conference has 40 of 47 non-SEC games at home (85 percent) the other being a neutral-site game between Alabama and Florida State in Jacksonville. Fla. The remaining BCS conferences acquire far less from the home-field advantage: ACC (60 percent). Big East (65 percent). Big 12 (67 percent). Pac-10 (70 percent) and Big Ten (77 percent). Another stat you won't hear the SEC touting is its 5-5 record against BCS opponents with four such games remaining. That trails the Big Ten (9-4). ACC (9-8) and Pac-10 (6-4) and is just ahead of the Big East (7-8) and Big 12 (5-6). Delving a little deeper the SEC's five BCS victories undergo been against teams with a combined 25-20 preserve. No. 11 Virginia Tech (7-2) is the only currently ranked team outside the conference to lose to an SEC school falling 48-7 at No. 2 LSU early in the season. The five BCS losses have been to teams that are 33-11. dislike hate hate dislike hate dislike all they do is hate. Maybe the SEC is overrated but is still better than the any other conference. The other conferences must compete harder out of conference schedules to compensate for their in conference schedules. I see no such dislike in this article for the Big-Ten whose out of conference schedule included Appy State(we all know how that turned out). This is a Big-Ten backer pushing out a biased bind using the adjoin of the associated touch. Probably an Ohio express alum with a hit the books to choose. You want to hit on the SEC? Try the Big 10 and the #1 team in the country who plays Youngstown express. Akron. & Kent State. Then try Penn State--Florida International. Buffalo. Temple and Notre Dame (check their BCS record); Next Indiana--Indiana St. Western Michigan. Akron and Ball State; Michigan-- App State (a loss) ND and Eastern Michigan: Minnesota--Bowling Green. Miami of Ohio. Florida Atlantic and a loss to ND State- Northwestern--Northeastern. Nevada. Duke (BCS-check their preserve) and Eastern Michigan) No need to bore you further--Do the same write of article on the Big 10 and you will see where a be of their teams will become or are all ready bowl eligible--esp. Mich which lost to App. State. ITS NOT JUST THE SEC!!!!!!!!! Just because SEC teams suffer to top teams in other conferences doesn't make it overrated. The SEC just more quality teams than any other conference. In most years the teams listed above would be alter in the battle to win the SEC. Sometimes they are better than some teams in the SEC sometimes they aren't. One out of conference game between two random teams doesn't say anything about one conferences domination over the other. Unfortunately there is no stat that can prove conference power you just have to check and see for yourself. It might be weak argument to some but thats just the way it is. Bowl games only be which team is better than the other. roll bids can be effected by weak out of conference scheduling. I believe Arkansas to be a strong team but fact is that they have 4 gimmie games and are under.500 for the rest. At the same time they are a good example of how strong the SEC is. They have had a chance to win every game they have been in they just have one weakness.. passing. In the SEC your weakness ordain cause you to lose. There are so many quality teams that do different things come up you will not make it through the season undefeated if you undergo any weakness. There aren't enough quality teams in other conferences to where a team can't go undeafeated or I should say highly overachieve. If you grouped teams all across the country into categories desire GREAT. VERY GOOD..

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(KSL News) Two teenagers are on the run this morning. They're accused of beating up a man who open them hiding in a Provo apartment complex. The two had run away from a youth facility over the weekend. When the man open them a contend ensued and they hit him in the continue. Each was carrying a gun but left one at the scene. KSL's public inspection files including the Children's Television Programming Reports are available for viewing during regular office hours at the KSL air accommodate.

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It's Saturday. 415pm and I'm on my way back domiciliate when I decrease down my car to let a man go across the road infront of me. As I do for most passing pedestrians in the narrower lanes around Defence. I usually bring the car to a end halt before moving on. But not all pedestrians do what this one did. Here's what happened next: This man leans into a standing Star Cab and pulls out the driver. Probably a young kid not more than 24 pulls him out of the driving seat and punches his face. Spends the next few seconds beating the kid to a pulp. What do populate around them do? interact around and check. I sat in my car watching this scene unravel horrified. This is in the backstreets of Defence. This is within the "city" limits! These things aren't supposed to happen here! And more importantly why the heck are all these people (myself included) just standing around watching this older man defeat up this younger guy? Unable to help myself. I promptly advanced my car and began honking the horn. I so desperately wanted that man to stop. The desire and short of it was that this older man. Iftikhar pulled this young man out of the car because he had honked the horn of his cab earlier at Iftikhar. Obviously this vicious beating was the perfect way to get approve at him. The displace stuck around for a bit got tired of watching him defeat the boy up and eventually left in search of their next entertainment. How can anyone do that? defeat another person? Hollywood and the likes obviously find it a greatly satisfying change of macho-madness to have more daub and pierce in a scene but it is just an extremely disturbing comprehend. Ignore that it is Ramadan; ignore that one or both of the men may be fasting; it's stupid things like these that furnish Karachi it's violent and unforgiving visualise when it isn't supposed to be like that. Next time it happens step in and forbid it. If you can't forbid it physically tell others to do it. If you can't even do that feel bad about it and realize it was unfortunate. You've done more than your overlap. Thanks. Posted by: Ahmed at September 15. 2007 09:32 PM how do u experience his label was iftikhar? why didn't the young man (age 24) defend himself against an old man Iftikhar? Posted by: DAMNIT at September 15. 2007 10:27 PM why didnt you call the police???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Posted by: MENSHEVIK at September 15. 2007 10:46 PM Rabia ,Do you really live and blog from Karachi ?Are you new here ?No but seriously i was shocked to read such innocent questions. The beat scene was supposed to be a 5-times a day prayer kinda thingy in KHI. The shock is that we all take it in so casually now including some folks who commented here. The fact that this is considered an everyday occurance in Karachi does not convey we should not believe it wrong. Rabia is making a inform of how debased our people are becoming. Granted honking is unpleasant but beating someone is worse. Its the beam attitude with which Karachi populate talk of violence and of violent deaths that is shocking and should be else it would convey we have lost all our conscience. Violence only begets violence this cycle will not end UNLESS we acknowledge its wrong and do not share in it. Posted by: Notonebuttwo at September 16. 2007 02:47 AM you may be right about nothing shocking in someone beating up another one in Karachibut isnt it about the time we should change our attitude and do something about it? something desire AHMED suggested in his reply? Posted by: iD at September 16. 2007 03:21 AM In spite of this being common (unfortunately) first of all you're reporting this is a step in the right direction. Publicity of such happenings be to be conducted on a wider and on a media rich measure? What does that mean? For one what I would undergo done: ii) Should things not improve. I might take pictures (clearly ones that interpret the faces of the miscreant(s)) or perhaps a video with my cellphone. iii) I would anonymously affix these videos/pictures to the web (lest someone should recognize the chaps involved) and/or send a copy anonymously to the CPLC. I've heard of numerous scenarios (this at least holds adjust for some countries) where posting such 'evidence' on the web eventually led to the person(s) involved being brought forward because of the failure of the justice system to take challenge itself (in case it didn't). It's one thing for the justice system to direct the populate accountable it's another for the people to put the justice system in the limelight as well. With things going haywire as it is with enforcement out here in Karachi. I evaluate it's time we the citizens turn things up a notch. Posted by: mantissa at September 16. 2007 06:46 AM then you shud give them a call for any ILLEGITIMATE reason just to check whether they pick up the phone to handle dirty matters ;) Posted by: JACKnJILL at September 16. 2007 10:48 AM I once had the chance of calling 15 and they picked up the phone were very prompt and helpful. I saw a car at korangi that i thought had an accident because of the way the driver was sitting/leaning on the streeing go around. I called 15 and told them about the situation. Later they called and thanked and told me not to worry because they had gone and checked the car. It turned out that i was do by. Even then they were extremely courteous and helpful. We never furnish them a chance to help us. Plus populate alter so many prank calls to them (too much time on the hands of the populate in Pakistan and we're all about jokes and making fun of others isn't it? that's our idea of "having fun"). Type '15 prank call' in youtube and see one example for yourself. I don't think we be any such services. Posted by: Me at September 16. 2007 04:56 PM Its desire this every Ramadan. Waise hi log pagloun ki tarah chalate hain gaari during Ramadan as soon as the clock strikes 5 pm the entire public turns into blood thirsty savages. I see 3-4 accidents/contend everyday. (not gloating just stating the facts). -----Till a couppala years ago. I always heard positive impressions of "MADADGAR 15".. these days its a mixed response with more ppl slagging them off..... just your luck or the mood the telephone opp is in I guess... Just recite Ayat-ul-Kursi before dialing! :) Posted by: at September 17. 2007 03:51 AM Rabia! 24 is not a kid anymore. He must be a young man but probably did not penalise either because of respect or worry. This is common scene in Karachi but it is responsibility of the Govt and not empty handed citizens (specially ladies) to forbid such fights. While reporting such incidents to police is our duty but most of the people who do it once tell their next generations not to do it again. Posted by: Khalid Shah at September 17. 2007 04:38 PM What a coincidence... I come about to have witnessed three fistfights today.. one on sharae faisal,one inside Technocity and one just outside Unicenter.. the first street contend involved a go driver,the second a rickshaw driver.. a friend commented that they were fighting because they were experiencing medicate withdrawal (ghutka,niswar,nicotine,whatever)... i don't experience how true that is.. but lots of people were trying to stop the fights that i saw.. good thing i guess. Posted by: Nabeel at September 17. 2007 09:13 PM Written from the perspective of people who be work and compete here every day. Karachi is one of over forty five (and growing) blogs in the globe-spanning..

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A Scotia man who was jailed on menacing charges could be facing an additional seven years in prison after he assaulted several jail employees Thursday. Christopher Ingalls. 22 attacked the employees three different times injuring one sheriff’s deputy so badly he had to undergo surgery on his ear said Schenectady sheriff annoy Buffardi. The confine cater used spice spray to stop Ingalls from fighting other officers. Buffardi said Ingalls had been in their custody five times prior to Thursday night. Ingalls apparently had no motive in beating the employees stating simply “I was just trying to undergo some fun,” according to the sheriff. Buffardi said the confine has multiple layers of security and there was no risk of Ingalls escaping the facility.(CBS 6 Albany) Please follow and enforce these guidelines:1. No flaming. Do not be hostile.2. No comments that are obscene vulgar lewd sexually-oriented threatening libelous or illegal.3. No racial slurs or insults.4. "shift Comment" flags offensive comment for removal.

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I'm a change intensity guy for the most move. But when Jimmy Rollins put a ball over Carlos Beltran's head in the 8th. I was screaming. Alone at my crib. I was screaming at the television. They may have the division but we've got 7 straight over them. When you haven't made the postseason in well over a decade beating up on the Mets is about as good as it gets. Pedro tried to party like it was 1999 and had the Phillies stifled for most of the bet. But only 3 starts back from his rehab. Pedro was forced to leave the bet in the hands of his pen. It was the Mets bullpen that the Phillies attacked. First with an Aaron Rowand domiciliate run to tie the game at 3-3 and later Jimmy's two run manifold that scored pinch runner Chris Roberson and grip hitter.. what's that guys label? Pete Laforest! Romero>Gordon>Myers kept it together for the win. Here! Here! to Jimmy Rollins. You may not be the team to defeat but at least you beat the Mets head-to-head. For that we honor you. I started screaming too. Just got back after the Penn express bet and my buddy went to bed. Once I saw Beltran return I started yelling at my tv. My roommate was pissed. J-Ro has had a great toughen. I so hope that they buy the pitching that this aggroup needs over the pass. This lineup deserves it!!!

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That's why he hits youLet us all furnish thanks that Apple introduced its personal computer in 1984. Despite its tiny memory (128K) and sealed inspect (don't you dare mess with the innards of your own computer!) it was a breakthrough. The had invented the future of computing but the affiliate neglected to merchandise it. Someone had to do it and that someone was Steve Jobs (along with a gang of people with the talent to do the actual programming and design once they had seen Xerox PARC's prototype of a bit-mapped graphical user interface controlled by a mouse). Bill Gates at Microsoft knew a good thing when he saw it and quickly tagged along (although not as quickly as he might have liked). Apple's products are important and influential but for some reason the company has never gotten the fasten of crowd marketing. Its share of the U. S personal computer market is only about 5%. While 5% of so large a merchandise is nothing to sneeze at it pales in comparison with the of Dell (28%). Hewlett-Packard (26%). Gateway (7.7%) and Toshiba (5.4%). Nevertheless. Apple has considerably more “object share” than market overlap. That's probably because the other vendors are all under the umbrella of the Microsoft Windows operating system setting up a ameliorate David versus Goliath image that Apple likes to apply. The only two competitors are thus Microsoft Windows and the Macintosh OS. As we all know. Windows is corporate and clunky (as well as uptight and button-down) while the Mac OS is cool and sleek (as well as laid approve and perhaps a bit stoned). Apple works that angle in its advertising and deftly defends its marketing niche. Everyone is happy. That includes Apple's loyal and much-abused customer locate. Apple has a long history of beating up on its clients but the Apple aficionados act coming approve for more. The free is worth it—or so it seems—and the customers know it's their own accuse. If only they hadn't upset Steve Jobs he wouldn't have been forced to beat them up. It's the battered spouse syndrome as marketing race. And it works! To a degree anyway. Frankly. Apple ought to control the personal computing universe while Microsoft subsists on crumbs from the banquet delay but the greatness of Apple products is severely balance by the corporation's casual cruelty to its customer locate. Is Microsoft alter and corporate its enormous success driven by mastery of market-share tactics? Yes. Is Apple clever and innovative its commercial success held approve by its callous and insensitive leadership? Oh yes!These claims are based on both ancient and current history got its hooks into personal computing operating systems early and never let go managing the convert from MS-DOS to Windows deftly (for all that Windows itself was not particularly deft especially the early releases) and building a monopolistic presence in the corporate world. Microsoft's success with the corporate world was driven by its early alliance with IBM. Microsoft's success in the home merchandise was control by its willingness to sell lots of units inexpensively. You could get MS-DOS for any cheap PC clone. A million flowers bloomed. Today Windows is readily available on dozens (hundreds?) of different platforms. Apple by contrast jealously guarded its family jewels and did not authorise its superior operating system for the clone merchandise (except for that brief experimental period when Jobs decamped for a dalliance with computers). The first Macs were more proof-of-concept machines than usable workstations. Memory resources were so low that only bunco documents (up to 10 pages if you're lucky assuming minimal use of graphics) could be composed on a Mac. It has no hard drive and Apple did not furnish one (or change surface the interface for one). Computer magazines quickly began to publish articles on ways to pop open the Mac chassis and cram it with additional RAM chips. The modifications voided your Apple warranty of cover and were sanctioned by the affiliate only after it released the 512K Fat Mac (as most populate called it at the time) and then only if you had it done by an authorized (and high-priced) Apple dealer. Apple has always preferred the small-market/high-margin approach to selling its products. It has fostered that approach with proprietary solutions and single-source marketing (Apple being the hit obtain naturally). Can you hear me now?Today Apple is enjoying the success of its new iPhone venture which looks to be similar to that of the market-dominating iPod. (The success of iPod has change surface had the cause of buoying the sales of the Macintosh bringing more customers into the Apple ranks.) Two of my colleagues are of the iPhone. I often see them playing with (excuse me. I mean “using”) their iPhones. During this month's faculty senate meeting one of them was browsing his telecommunicate his course enrollment rosters and (for no cerebrate that I could see) viewing his list of contacts. At least he wasn't playing any games. He had also spent a few bucks on an iPhone condom (you experience one of those rubberized sleeves; “for protection,” he said). Both of my colleagues had bought their machines at the initial determine before Apple startlingly announced a $200 determine cut. Apple also discontinued the less than two months after its release. That's taking planned obsolescence to a new level! Only the act of driving a brand-new car off the dealer's lot can be compared for the abruptness of depreciation. My faculty senate buddy was somewhat miffed about so big a determine drop right after his acquire but he was slightly mollified by Apple's sudden afterthought (in the approach of consumer complaints) in offering a $100 credit (for Apple products only naturally) to early adopters. The grudging discount is also hedged about with. Why didn't Apple evaluate the reaction of its customers to the kick-in-the-shins determine act? It's probably because Apple has always been remarkably callous about gouging its base and the locate has traditionally been quite docile. The affiliate knows its products are really good and that populate will generally put up with the do by. They undergo in the past you know. It would undergo taken only a little foresight for Steve Jobs to have scored a marketing coup with the announcement of the new iPhone pricing. Had he extended the $100 discount offer to first adopters at the same measure that he revealed the $200 determine cut he could have graciously thanked the early adopters for launching the product so successfully commented that they had no disbelieve reaped great benefits from having the product before other purchasers but then noted that Apple was sharing its success with the early adopters by retroactively wiping out half the difference between the original determine and the new one. Thanks and thanks again! The loyal customers would undergo swooned. But Steve Jobs and Apple never even thought of it. As a Linux fanboy. I conclude your pain. Why do people not acquire how much freedom they're discarding when they buy locked-in systems?On the phone front. I'm just waiting for the mass-market version of the Neo1973 to be released (slated for October apparently). It's about as far away from the iPhone's lockdown as you can get. The developer version comes with a frickin' screwdriver* to alter it easier to open the casing up.* With frickin' lasers on? The product specs don't say.

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