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It's selling by the truckload's, 309 million people in the USA, that means 1/390 people have one. It took Apple over a year and a half to sell its first million iPods. It took Apple 74 days to sell its first million units of the iPhone. (It took three days each to sell the first million units of the iPhone 3G and 3GS). It took Apple 28 days to sell its first million iPads.

What opened my mind in this chapter, was a sign hold up by a "red shirt" demonstrator in Bangkok saying: YOUR WEAPON'S COME FROM OUR TAXES, DON'T USE THEM AGAINST US.

It becomes a easy story, the establishment with his huge conglomerate of manpower of slaves and supporting infrastructures melting tons of peoples tax money away into private pockets. You can call it "match fixing" in the "war over public tax money".

“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina. (He spoke without PowerPoint.) Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, who banned PowerPoint presentations when he led the successful effort to secure the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005, followed up at the same conference by likening PowerPoint to an internal threat. “It’s dangerous because it can create the illusion of understanding and the illusion of control,” General McMaster said in a telephone interview afterward.

The first women submariners are likely to be aboard ballistic and guided-missile submarines as they have more living space and will not require alterations.

Chief of Naval Operations, Adm Gary Roughead, said: "It would be foolish to not take the great talent, the great confidence and intellect of the young women who serve in our navy today and bring that into our submarine force."

When Eyjafjallajökull cleared the Airspace, all BA aircrafts have been down to earth. I am a frequent BA flyer and I observed the change in speech the airline industry goes through. The new announcements after each touch down are "We thank you for choosing BA , bla , bla and for your continuing support". That means we supporting the industry now? Is that a change of their mindset? Is this just a clever marketing turn?

Mr Sani, governor of Zamfara / Nigeria age 49, marrying girl of age 13. "I as a senator paid a dowry of $100,000 (£66,000) to the child's parents - and have brought the girl into Nigeria from Egypt". "History tells us that Prophet Muhammad did marry a young girl as well. Therefore I have not contravened any law. Even if she is 13. "As a Muslim, as I always say, I consider God's law and that of his prophet above any other law," Mr Sani said.