This year Hollywood is ending the year with a vengeance amidst the remake of the 1969 classic, TRUE GRIT, which starred the original Hollywood bad ass, John Wayne .

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When we saw the Corsair 900D at CES we knew we had the enclosure we needed to make the original Hailstorm look like a small mid-tower system and not the bad ass high performance system it really was.

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Armstrong thus becomes a bad-ass American folk hero, a Robin Hood in stars and stripes, if you like.

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The U.S. was bad-ass, too, with 155% more phones sold, or 3x what IDC was forecasting for the overall smartphone category.

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A.L.L.S. The acronym, according to some, stands for Bad-Ass Load-Lifting Suckers.

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So poorly defined is he that a supporting character actually chimes in late in the game to explain that he really is a bad-ass after all.

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It makes for really bad-ass T-shirts, too.

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Apple is taking that supposedly wasted cash hoard and kicking serious ass while the rest of the computer industry sits around sucking its thumb and starts complaining about big, bad Apple cleaning up components and shutting them out.

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