News Opinion II: The Make-uping

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/22/EU-may-coordinate-aid-to-Irans-protesters/UPI-49051245677007/
1. The European Union has lately decided to start a conference in Stockholm to coordinate aid to Iran's wounded protesters. The ministers of Italy, France and Finland called for a common EU response for people seeking assistance in the violent aftermath of Iran's June 12 election in which hardline President Mahmoud Amadinejad was declared the landslide winner over his nearest rival, the moderate Mir Hossein Mousavi. Thirteen people died and more than 400 were wounded in the ensuing riots.

Opinion 1: Why do they need a conference to settle this? It's just a bunch of wounded people looking for help and opposition leaders looking to not getting killed. It's not exactly rocket science, nor is it quantum physics, that the EU should just give asylum to those that request it. "Knock, knock, who's there?" "Common sense!" "Common sense who?" "You should know me already, stupid!"

Opinion 2: Why do the Mahmoud supporters need to patrol the streets, anyway? Don't they have better things to do than pick fights with protesters. Don't they? Don't they!?!?!? In any case, the whole thing will be over within a year, unless someone decides to keep the fury rising. And who would do that?

Oh, wait, this is Iran. It's like the Atlantic Ocean of patriotism. My bad.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/technologynews/view/437829/1/.html
2. Over one million iPhone 3G S models have been sold through Sunday and six million customers have downloaded the new iPhone 3.0 software in the first five days since its release, says Steve Jobs, along with the statement that "Consumers are voting, and the iPhone is winning.

Opinion 1: Of course the iPhone 3G S is winning. It's priced ridiculously low. With those prices, no one can compete. Of course, it's low low price means that Apple will be sacrificing profits for market share, but they're still making a tidy sum, owing to the fact that the iPhone takes only a few dollars to make.

Opinon 2: But then again, the iPhone cost huge amounts of money to develop, so if they didn't sell that many, the iPhone 3G S would have been a complete and utter failure. A big risk, they took. A big risk.

Opinion 3: And then again, it didn't cost that much to improve. It's nearly the same, except for those tiny adjustments like improved fibre-optics, higher CPU speeds, ecetera.