I am an Apple user at home, and a PC user at work. Once one learns how to use them, PCs are not terribly more complicated to use than Apples, but...one does have to learn how to use them. Apples have a learning curve, too, but a shallower one. They are more straightforward and intuitive to use for non-techies.

More pertinent to me, Apple products are more aesthetically pleasing, more beautifully designed, simply more pleasing to the eye.

This may be irrelevant to some, or even to many, but it is of crucial importance to me. I cringe at the ugly aesthetics of non-Apple PCs, and at the ugly interface of Windows. (I haven't worked with Vista, which does appear to be attractive, but it's largely a swipe of OS X.) It is worth it to me to pay extra for beautiful design.

And...I don't get the overemphasis on gaming...who gives a fuck about computer gaming? (Rhetorical question: I know many do, but I can't fathom the fascination.)

Koutetsu said: "I don't see how I could use (iPhone) in the car without risking an accident."

Well, you shouldn't be using iPhone or ANY cellphone while driving...it's as impairing to the driver's attentiveness and responsiveness as drinking alcohol. Several American states have already made it illegal to use cellphones while driving.

...I freaking want one!

I am a happy Mac user and Apple fan, but I was indifferent to iPhone...primarily because I am not an avid cell phone user. I have one, but I keep it turned off whenver I'm near a land line, and I view it as only a backup phone so I can be reached or can reach someone when I'm away from a land line or on the move. Additionally, although I own an iPod, I don't even carry it with me much of the time...I find I generally prefer to hear the ambient noise around me when I'm walking around. (When I DO decide to carry it with me, I do highly enjoy it.)

Finally, my cell phone service provider is not A.T.&T.

However, five minutes into the iPhone tour, I began to desire it...10 minutes in I lusted for it...and 15 minutes in I knew that one day I will have one. I think I may switch service providers when my current contract expires simply so I can get the iPhone. It looks like a wonderful mobile device...and it's beautiful in use or just to look at.

This will be a hit.

I do not believe for a second that any of the actors in this administration who advocated for war or who were instrumental in effecting our invasion really believed Saddam had substantial stores of WMD or ongoing development programs. They knew they had to scare America into accepting and favoring their war plans, and after the trauma of 9/11, they had to hang the prospect of even greater destruction over our heads. They knew no other rationale would suffice.

I do think they believed they would find remnants of Saddam's previous weapons stores, aging relics a decade or more older, and they could then point to those remains, however few, as validation of their pre-war claims. They lied about what they knew in the certainty that they would find enough after the fact to make it appear as if their cynical war-mongering had merely been sober, well-grounded warning of the danger (sic) facing us.

Does anyone else see the karmic irony in this, given that the youthful Steve Jobs, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, was a phone phreaker?

"The question is...

...does anybody take him seriously, considering the complete hypocrisy just sited in Glenn's article?

-- Adam Parker"

Given that the torture inflicted by this administration on hapless terrorism suspects in Gitmo and Abu Ghraib and elsewhere has been legitimized by Yoo's opinions while he was a Bush DOJ lawyer, and given that he left government to teach at UC Berkley's law school, I'd say plenty of people take Yoo damned seriously.

One shudders to think of the students who will emerge from Yoo's classes with a completely perverted view of the proper role of law, the Constitution, and the government vis a vis American citizens and our civil rights. Will the violence visited physically against humans as a result of Yoo's opining be matched by the violence done to young minds in his law classes? Will he birth a generation of young lawyers who see the law purely as a tool to be manipulated by those in power in order that they may impose their will on those whom they wish to dominate?

I'm curious that UC Berkely would lend its imprimatur to this legal and ethical fraud by employing him to teach at their law school. Do they have no sense of integrity? No sense of shame?

I'm also appalled that the students at the school do not stage walkout strikes to compel he be fired.

Yoo brings with him wherever he goes the stink of torture and tyranny, of moral and intellectual depravity.