If you're going to out one company for being in business with Foxconn, why not out them all? Own a game console? Your Xbox, PS3, and Wii were all made here. Like to read? This is where your Kindle came from.

Foxconn isn't just producing ithings and iphones, they assemble 40% of the world's electronics. Here's a list of SOME of Foxconn's clients (from wikipedia):

Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
Amazon.com (United States)
Apple Inc. (United States)
ASRock (Taiwan)
Asus (Taiwan)
Barnes & Noble (United States)
Cisco (United States)
Dell (United States)
EVGA Corporation (United States)
Hewlett-Packard (United States)
Intel (United States)
IBM (United States)
Lenovo (China)
Logitech (Switzerland)
Microsoft (United States)
MSI (Taiwan)
Motorola (United States)
Netgear (United States)
Nintendo (Japan)
Nokia (Finland)
Panasonic (Japan)
Philips (Netherlands)
Sharp (Japan)
Sony Ericsson (Japan/Sweden)
Toshiba (Japan)
Vizio (United States)

IBM also submitted, by far, the largest number of patents for 2011 than any other firm in the world. For the 19th year in a row.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/20120112230304_IBM_Tops_U_S_Patent_List_for_19th_Consecutive_Year.html

@joedirt

I think both I and Mr. Greenwald understand what a corporation is. Let me describe it in another way from you, even though I don't think your description is wrong. Is it a free collection of citizens arranged for a specific end. For instance, the ACLU is a corporation. Are we going to start staying that only certain groups of freely gathered citizens are allowed protection under the law? Are we going to start writing different sections of laws for different factions of people? I can honestly say this is the WORST idea we could have to amend the constitution in this way. This is the same kind of logic that denies voting rights to minorities, and to women, or to Catholics. Specifically limiting certain groups participation is censorship of the worst kind, it is also forbidden by the constitution, see Article I, Section 9.

And @dystopianfuturetoday, if money isn't speech, then isn't there no problem? I mean, no "group" has vocal cords persay, but factions are things we all are a part of. How is a political faction, or a family faction, or a business faction, or a religion faction any different? The ALCU isn't that much different than IBM computers, or the Church of Christ in the way the carry out their actions. They are groups of freely gathered people with common aim to achieve certain goals, and as such, have a right to freely petition the government in the affairs that concern them collectively. I don't see how collective spending is any more of less evil that individual spending. If you aren't free to petition the government as a certain faction because some other faction has successfully lobbied your legal pacification, then far have we fallen from what was supposed to be the thrust of the 10th federalist paper.

Not to say that I don't support some form of campaign finance reform of sorts, but I do not agree with the legal notion of denying people the ability to do with what they own they like; spare it harm someone else, because some other group doesn't like you...it is horrible and reeks of the worst kind of oppression.

Believe me Mr Dirt, I find all those subsidy and bail outs abominable, just as I found those terrorists on 911. But I will not permit anyone to pass a new sort of patriot act against the rich that really is attacking us all in the end. I say this not as a rich man, but one whom exists in poverty.

(crap, misclick on the upvote, sorry dirt )

I think they got close on 4/5 there.

\>> ^FishBulb:

IBM's predictions for innovation from five years ago:
We will be able to access healthcare remotely, from just about anywhere in the world.
Real-time speech translation—once a vision only in science fiction—will become the norm.
There will be a 3-D Internet.
Technologies the size of a few atoms will address areas of environmental importance.
Our mobile phones will start to read our minds.

IBM's predictions for innovation from five years ago:

*We will be able to access healthcare remotely, from just about anywhere in the world.
*Real-time speech translation—once a vision only in science fiction—will become the norm.
*There will be a 3-D Internet.
*Technologies the size of a few atoms will address areas of environmental importance.
*Our mobile phones will start to read our minds.

1...2...3...4...5. 5 out of 5 that are bullshit, misleading, or just plain bad ideas.

Generating power from your bike and/or water pipes. BS and misleading.
Biometrics, already demonstrated to be -way- too easy to fool, and there is no way to revoke them. Won't even begin to address the misleading claims that "as always, you can opt in or out of the system."
Mind-reading - right. They can't even manage natural language accurately, after spending 25 years on commercial products. I'm sure brain scans are easier, though.
The gaps between information haves and have-nots will cease to exist. Anyone that believes that, raise your hand. Anyone?
Analytics, deciding for you what you want to see. Because living 100% of the time in your own personal echo chamber is such a great way to stay in touch with reality. The knowledge level of Faux News viewers provides a reasonable estimate of how well that works.

In short, total bullshit. But what else would one expect from IBM, a company that sells nothing else.

I'll give you a hint... IBM is based in the U.S. but Philips isn't.
>> ^Phreezdryd:

>> ^ant:
>> ^Phreezdryd:
>> ^ant:
>> ^Phreezdryd:
I certainly don't miss installing programs from a pile of floppy disks.

Or discs.

Not a fan of "disks"?

Are there such things as compact disks (CDs), digital video disks (DVDs), etc.?

Not sure why, but all the magnetic storage media, floppy or hard, have been called "disks", while optical media got "discs". The basic physical difference I see is that magnetic disks are usually encased in something rectangular. There's probably a historical fun fact on this somewhere.

yes, you could get really creative with the searches. or you could be wasting hella time.
I really dig what google is doing, altho i'm of the same mind when it comes to the IBM Jeopardy computer that did a better job at recovering trivia than the other candidates.
higher intelligence is something else. but i'm stoked nonetheless

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And not one mention of IBM's role in the Holocaust.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

Yeah, Watson is a bit of a cheat. Give him average human reflexes if you want to test how good he is at Jeopardy. We all know a computer can beat a human in the reflexes department.


Not just reflexes...give him human humility or doubt. That'll be enough to slow him right down and start Hunting Sarah Conor!

>> ^Truckchase:

>> ^ant:

>> ^Truckchase:

>> ^ant:

Wait, I missed a Frontline episode? Dang it!


My bad, it was Nova. The Frontline episode from this last week was about sex slaves. Slightly different...


Oh. I have the whole documentary submitted on http://videosift.com/video/Smartest-Machine-on-Earth-IBM-Watson ... I only upvoted yours since it was IBM Watson. Heh.
Ant, you know that Watson can't love you back right?


I love you.

>> ^ant:

>> ^Truckchase:
>> ^ant:
Wait, I missed a Frontline episode? Dang it!

My bad, it was Nova. The Frontline episode from this last week was about sex slaves. Slightly different...

Oh. I have the whole documentary submitted on http://videosift.com/video/Smartest-Machine-on-Earth-IBM-Watson ... I only upvoted yours since it was IBM Watson. Heh.
Ant, you know that Watson can't love you back right?

>> ^Truckchase:

>> ^ant:
Wait, I missed a Frontline episode? Dang it!

My bad, it was Nova. The Frontline episode from this last week was about sex slaves. Slightly different...


Oh. I have the whole documentary submitted on http://videosift.com/video/Smartest-Machine-on-Earth-IBM-Watson ... I only upvoted yours since it was IBM Watson. Heh.

>> ^ant:

Wait, I missed a Frontline episode? Dang it!


My bad, it was Nova. The Frontline episode from this last week was about sex slaves. Slightly different...