Actually it makes a huge difference. I'm using the GN with the extended battery and the difference betwixt the two is *immediately* noticeable. Over the past 4 hours my battery has drained 7%. Most of that time it's been just sitting there, but I've read and replied to well over 20 emails, texts, and facebook messages…

Regardless of whether it has an NFC chip...any battery you buy for $8 won't have 1/2 of the noted battery life. It'll be dead in a year and the entire time you'll be working off of an inefficient battery.

But that phone *needed* 2500+. The Thunderbolt is one of the most energy-inefficient phones on the market.

Actually, that's not completely accurate. The problem with many of the nukes from the cold war and before is that they were made *very* cheaply. Russia didn't invest enough money in the R&D side, so many of them are pieced together with inadequate construction. This means the detonators are often *very* untrustworthy,…

They own those planes so they can use them for business reasons. They own them so they can send the jet to pick up potential clients or help transfer people around, it's not purely for *them*.

You seriously are deluded if you think that rival companies would all start coming together without legislation. Some industries would see it, but none the less capitalism would ensure that more competition would spring up. There are plenty of other industries that aren't even governed by monopolistic laws.

You're assuming people don't have a choice. If airlines were demanding $5k for a ticket people *would* start driving, no matter how much of an inconvenience it would be. On top of that, a new airline selling tickets for $500 would get pretty much all of the consumer traffic, if they provided adequate services. There…

I wasn't saying people wouldn't take advantage of each other, but Capitalism allows for this too.

I'm not saying all things would be taken care of without taxes...but your point is exactly what's wrong with the mindset of America.

Oh, and I forgot about the stereotypes thing. It, basically, translates to solid impression. It's a simplified view based on assumptions. I realize that assumptions are almost always a bad idea to make, but a vast majority of stereotypes come from *somewhere*. Allow me to break down the simple stereotype you said…

I guess we have different viewpoints because aside from my family I didn't have *any* help in paying for college. I was refused multiple scholarships because my family has money (I was told that more than once). My family makes good money, but I didn't want to make use of it because I don't like doing things that I…

Completely disagree. The government shouldn't be the entity controlling how much money is taken and where it goes. There is *plenty* of public good without any taxes...my company donated more money this year than we spent on taxation...and I promise you our donations went further than our tax money. Not to say we…

Beyond all of the other discussions, I definitely can't disagree that the influence of money on politics is ridiculous.

My statements aren't true about all OWS protestors, but like any stereotype it, by definition, comes out of some amount of truth (hence the term, stereotype). Many of the OWS supporters I've met and spoke to are either angry students, folks that are no longer part of the work force, or people with stories of family…

I'd like to point you to YouTube, or really any news outlet other than CNN. Most of them do nothing but spout out numerical figures they've been told and commentary preached about on a few select networks. Many of them think Capitalism is the reason our country is where it's at.

As I said above, there are just as many taxation and corporate laws that completely screw business-owners. It's definitely possible to stretch above 50%. Think about it this way: A business owner only answers to himself. He is the one that ends up paying for any losses. A vast majority of his income can be stripped in…

A President or CEO of a company has different taxes associated with the position that increases the amount required to pay because they also have to account for the taxation from the company. It can stretch much higher than 35%.

That has nothing to do with it. They're protesting things they barely understand. If someone wants to protest McDonalds for paying minimum wage, they absolutely have the right to do it. It doesn't mean their protest is going to be respectable and logical.

Let me break this down in the shortest and most succinct way possible.

Your sources are completely wrong. I've had multiple pentile screens, multiple iPhones, and multiple Super AMOLED Plus screens (currently own a Galaxy S II). The screen on the Nexus is far better than all of them.