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iPad wont be what kills off the internet. iPad does not have any capability to kill off anything besides small publishers through piracy some day, it is almost worthless. I dont know a single person who wants one or will buy one at the moment, outside of tech geeks and douchebags/douchebaguettes. Have you guys tried it out? Its self abuse to use it for more than an hour. Outside of piracy, the market will be minimal. Those who use it for reading will eventually want the choice to read books on their computer as well, eventually turning it into a bad mouthed paper weight. Expect the introduction and proliferation of piracy sooner or later, and the economics that comes along with it. Without piracy as a trojan, iPad will flop.
I would have left it there, but speculate on the idea of the internet going away as mentioned by the OP, and might be a heavily debated topic in the future, the real threat to the internet is an increasingly communistic power hungry government, banks, and the corporations that reasonably would want the internet to be limited to the pedestrian capabilities of a cellphone at best or a television at worste, these entities have a reasoanble interest in killing off or at least supressing the internet. Its not something a flimsy inaccessible device can do. The banks, corps, government and its military arm who created the internet are starting to see the internet as a threat, and not a pure benefit. A threat towards the control of wealth and society, independent thought, knowledge, and intelligence amongst other far reaching interests.
The spread of wealth, potential and inevitable growth of the middle class through the internet's accessible free commerce and enterpeneurship made the banks and corporations they control worry. They realised the internet's potential early, inflated the prices of everything to maintain control of individual and small and mid sized business wealth, and ideally would like to keep the gap between the rich and the poor growing. This maintained control of the average person who enslaved by debt to banks and government, as we have been for the past century. The internet also allowed the distribution of wealth, which was premptively held down by inducing high inflation of all goods and services, inflated food pricing, inflated real estate prices, inflated oil, energy, and commodity pricing, traps like an orchestrated mortgage market rise & collapse, limitations on credit...which closed the lid on anyone or business that needed air. This was all pre-meditated.
So, due to the internets growth, the potential it gave the average person...high inflation in every business sector was used to supress and control growth. AOne of the evils of a bank controlled government & economy, one that needs the majority to be poor or struggling, a small % rich, and a weak middle class only wealthy enough to want to borrow money on interest and credit. Meanwhile, they created more wealth for the rich through the sale of higher(over) priced goods and services in all sectors of business. Speaking of the rich, even though we have had all the potential the internet affords corporations, all the accumulated advancements of technology in modern society, prices and cost of living keeps rising, while corporate costs go down (though im sure accounting tricks can say otherwise), and the need for a decently paid workforce has decreased. Technology and the internet has benefitted one side of the coin more than the other side, and all the potential benefit the other side (society and the average citizen) has seen has been heavily and intentfully supressed. Also, this inflation helped create a poorer lower class population, that needed to go to war....war profiteering 101.
As a realist and humanist, I know I talk down technology a lot, because of the problems it causes society at cultural, psychological, biological, social and other important aspects. On the flip, great minds have made good use of the internet, the average citizen learns off the internet, and use the internet to their benefit in some way. If we lost the internet, and it was replaced by a cellphone level or a television level technology, I can only imagine society losing something very important towards maintaining a good life, or at least the perception of one.
ps: SHORT AAPL between 310-360, currently $274. Easy money. Note : My short call is based on accurate reporting of sales, with no extensive padding of iPad or iPhone 4 sales.
disclaimer : consult your investment professional first, though i'm sure they're telling everyone to buy buy buy while they sell sell sell, as the racket allows 
ps2: Why the F is a 2 liter bottle of Soda $1.79? Essentially carbonated water + syrup. I doubt it costs the supply chain more than $.40-$60 cents. And how do they get away with charging that much? Where the F is the competition in our so called "free market capitalism"? 
edit: OP removed the article?
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commercial and underground electronic music (house/techno/trance/other) will surpass today's hip hop/pop/rock/country in worldwide interest...if it has'nt already.
Last edited by Kismet7 on Jun-30-2010 at 13:12
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