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Samsung Galaxy Note II review - The Verge

There is another, less sanguine theory, that Iran will persist in its drive to achieve a bomb—or at least a break-out capacity to get one quickly if it so desired. The Iranians say they never trusted Mr Obama's offer of detente early in his presidency because of the heavier sanctions and the campaigns of sabotage and assassination that accompanied the offer. In the same vein, they deplore the American administration's recent decision to drop its longstanding classification of the exiled People's Mujahedeen of Iran as a terrorist organisation. So Iran's rulers will not easily trust future pledges to lift sanctions in return for nuclear concessions. In any event, Iran's leaders may now believe that such concessions would destroy the Islamic Republic's credibility and open it to a recurrence of the unrest that followed Mr Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election in 2009. So it is possible that an American policy of containment, even an undeclared one, might lead to a long campaign of attrition of the kind that impoverished Iraq in the 1990s, while leaving its leader in power.

...a regime that is thought not yet to have taken a definitive bomb-making decision...

Iran: Behind the rants, uncertainty grows - The Economist

You could say, roughly, that the Enterprise crew is conservative as a matter of method and liberal as a matter of goal.

‘Star Trek: The Next Generation' turns 25 – Grantland

I think when you look forward, our core capability will be software, (but) you'll probably think of us more as a devices-and-services company.

Likewise, in other public speeches he has described Surface as a "design point" that "may sell a few million" after it goes on sale on October 26th.

Ballmer discusses Surface pricing and Microsoft as a devices-and-services company - The Verge

...fifteen of the twenty-two people on Romney's foreign policy team worked for George W. Bush.

90 DAYS, 90 REASONS

Contemporary Bayside Living In Recently Upgraded Modern Home - Freshome

Cheetah robot sets 28.3 mph speed record, outrunning Usain Bolt - The Verge

Don't work on the basics every day? You'll fail.

Don't market constantly? You'll fail.

Don't solve your customer's pains? You'll fail.

Don't ship? Ha!

General Career Advice

...social reform, open markets and a representative form of government

Review: Voice of the New Global Elite - The National Interest

Artist Arran Gregory's ‘Wolf' is part polygonal, part primal - The Verge