That fact aside, my original comment (“Texas is doomed. Efficient politicians are a danger to us all.”) was intended to be along the lines of Will Rogers “It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.” It wasn’t really about Texas, it was about the inherent danger of efficient politicians. I agree that using iPads can make the legislative process more efficient, but that doesn’t address the whole problem of politicians in general. They would still have to read what is on the iPad.

There is no need to be defensive, Texas isn’t that bad and despite all the puffery, it’s never going to actually secede.

Of course, you overlooked unemployment, budgets, cost of living and other winning points for Texas. I could go on and find good points and even MORE bad points for most of our 57 states, but you have turned this into an absurd contest simply because the state did something that seems wise and you just couldn’t allow that, could you?

You are shallower than a West Texas mud puddle in August…..

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal “Texas leads nation in numbers without health insurance”

Based on one example, I think perhaps your reading may be more the problem than my writing. You clearly have a tenuous grasp of the facts. I could go on, but there is no need to run up the score.

But then again, you might want to learn to write what you mean and then re-read it, rather than use words that mean one thing and then claim they meant something else.

That would make it SO much easier for us unworthy failures to understand…..

As far as letting the Feds set up the insurance exchange, is a ploy that allows to politicians to keep yapping about Obamacares rather than actually try to gain a beneficial outcome for their constituents.

These are not professional politicians, they all have actual real day jobs.

What they passed up on was the chance to design a system under the Affordable Care Act tailored to the needs of Texans. Otherwise, the Republicans in Tejas violated their own principle of local governance. The decisions regarding Texans will be made at HHS- not Austin.

Nice try. No style points.

I really thought with the advent of Windows 8, that computer users would start coming back to Windows desktops and notebooks in huge numbers. At least that’s what Steve Ballmer had said and I’m sure he knew what he was talking about.

/s

It depends on how you define “saving”. The economist would define “saving” as _not spending_. In absolute terms, that would mean not buying any new equipment whatsoever. Employees would bring their own equipment to work and Tea Partiers would rejoice.

Realistically, to purchase limited tablets versus full-fledged laptops isn’t “saving”, its is spending less than previously planned. Is that a good thing? Well, to determine that, one would have to stop obsessing about purchase price and start looking at what really matters: EFFECTIVENESS.

The question remains: is iOS effective as a laptop replacement? In many cases, the answer would be “no”. However, if all one does is email and managing media feeds, perhaps an occasional presentation tool (i.e., TELEPROMPTER), with no real productivity work at all, then a tablet is perfect.

Such a shame that we hold our elected officials to such low standards that they don’t even need productivity tools.

Apple needs to get serious about selling Macs to enterprises.