Happy Independence Day!
MacDailyNews and iPodDailyNews are taking the day off to hang out with family and friends, hopefully see the first Independence Day space shuttle launch (scheduled for 2:38pm EDT), watch fireworks, and celebrate Independence Day (United States).
If you’re celebrating today, too, we wish you a happy and safe Fourth. To everyone else, we thank you for visiting MacDailyNews and iPodDailyNews!
We will resume our regular Apple-, Mac-, and iPod-related news coverage on Wednesday, July 5th.
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Happy 4th everybody!!!
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Happy Fourth of July to those in the US!
Never mind that. Get back to work!
Is that un Francais telling us to get back to WORK? Wow.
Happy the 4th to all. Don’t forget the Nathan’s National Hot Dog Eating Finals are goin’ down at Coney Island, NYC. Ah, America.
Tune in to Channel Z – All static, all day, forever!
Work yourself little French person. Or are you still on strike for a 19 hr work week?
Let’s try to be civil, shall we?
Liberty Enlightening the World, known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty, is a statue given to the United States by France in the late 19th century, standing at Liberty Island in the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans. The copper statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship between the two nations. The sculptor was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, and Gustave Eiffel, the designer of the Eiffel Tower, engineered the internal supporting structure.
More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty
remember your still just one of the colonies really !!!! lol happy 4th
Have a blast, just throw it after you light it!
I’m just thinking of those poor Chinese sweatshop workers killing themselves for the Mac cause and here is MDN and friends taking time out from the battle for personal benefit (plus, since nothing is happening news wise here today, I thought I’d stir it up a little).
Should the English celebrate Independence Day too? Are they glad to be independent from the USA? Is it a bit rude of the Americans to have it as one of their _main_ holidays?
Imagine if the war of Independence had been lost and the Americas (South, North plus Canada) were islands belonging to England along with Northern Ireland. Then London would be the world’s pain in the … instead of Washington.
Or what if Utah had got their way and were an independent country trapped within the US! Weird to postulate, but ultimately pointless!
Magic word: ‘degree’ as in I have two degrees, but neither in history or politics, so ignore my rants.
Oh, how rude of me:
Happy Independence Day to all the US readers!!!
I hope all your fireworks miss the cat.
Happy 4th holidays & have a great 230th Birthday America!
On the point about Chinese sweatshop workers slaving away making the vastly superior to anything else iPod, go take a look at Lenovo – the Chinese company that bought IBM’s hardware devision – and low and behold the wonders of sweatshop labor in an entire range of PC’s!
Nike, Coca-Cola, Sony, DKNY, Levi Jeans and many more are just as guilty of using sweatshop labor to make their goods on the cheap.
I’m not condoning the use of sweatshop labor, but Apple did launch an investigation into Apple’s partner that makes the iPod. Nearly all the other corporate organisations just sweeped the issue under the rug by denying any involvement in the use of sweatshop labor.
MW ‘summer’ as in wow MDN it is summer!
So when’s the movie playing? Any new Aliens coming to the party?
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O no, it’s 4th July. I better run away from New York.
Cos:
1) Aliens are coming…..
2) Godzila are coming…..
3) Tsumami Waves are coming….
4) Ice-age are coming…..
5) The 70s King Kong is coming…..
6) Astoroids are coming…..
Run, run for your lifes……
>Nike, Coca-Cola, Sony, DKNY, Levi Jeans and many more are just as guilty of using sweatshop labor to make their goods on the cheap.>
They’re better off than if they didn’t have a way to earn anything.
While you are enjoying family, friends and good food this day take a moment to remember a couple of things:
1- Even as we enjoy one of the most open and free societies ever seen, hundreds of millions have never savored the sweet taste of freedom.
2- Even as we enjoy the bounty of our prosperous nation, countless souls struggle for the basics of survival.
3- Even as we are free, many suffer repression because they advocate and seek freedom.
4- The freedom we enjoy was purchased at a very high price by many, over many generations, in many places. Some died in the process.
5- Freedom is precious and must be defended, from the inside and the outside.
6- Those who are free have an obligation to encourage and help those who seek to be free by peaceful means.
7- When the freedom of anyone is trampled upon, all humanity suffers.
<b>Grace , Mercy & Peace to all.
All I have to say is NATO.
All your little countries are just bases to US.
So Frenchies and Englishites, just remember that when you drive one way for a day in any direction and hit either water or a border crossing.
Don’t mess with iTunes, that’s a order!
It’s not just Northern Ireland. Wales and Scotland are also part of the UK. It’s probably important to note that England itself is not independent. England doesn’t not mean the same as the UK. There is no English parliament. English members of parliament have a say in UK wide issues.
Wales and NI (I think NI. Not 100%)) have assemblies, with very limited powers. Scotland has a parliament that has greater (but still limited) powers, and has local laws and bank notes (though they’re still GBP). There is no English parliament. English members of parliament have a say in UK wide issues, but not on some issues in Scotland, NI and Wales. There’s a problem at the moment because representatives from Wales and Scotland DO have a vote on issues that affect England only (due to devolution of those issues to the Welsh Assembly and Scotland).
As this problem gets more and more coverage, there will be more and more call for independence FOR England rather than FROM England !
The best thing about living in Canada is that we get drunk and blow off fireworks 4 days before you guys….
Happy 4th to our buddies down below the 49th (and those other disconnected states).
Happy Fourth of July….
Those in the US should enjoy and celebrate our “freedom”. Mainly because it’s being stripped away by the current administration with daring alarm. That and the fact that this country is set on a very bad course means we should definitely appreciate what we have now. Our forefathers did such an amazing job that the country will probably hold strong for another ten years. But when you don’t invest in education, health care, raise the minimum wage, and stimulate the middle class there will be a price to pay down the road.
The best thing about living in Canada is that we get drunk and blow off fireworks 4 days before you guys….
And we won the war of 1812.
The best thing about living in Canada is that we get drunk and blow off fireworks 4 days before you guys….
And we won the war of 1812.
and we think sexual orientation is not a justifiable basis for denying people rights which are left open to other members of our society …
/and we burned down the White House
Go fourth and prosper!