It could be argued that HTC serves the enthusiast market just fine with its bootloader unlock service, which gives users the ability to load custom ROMs onto their phones.

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Human beings have the unique ability, among all creatures, to custom-create our own tribes, in order to solve problems in real-time.

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The complete Slacker Radio experience includes more than 200 expert-curated music stations, customizable programming from ABC News, comedy, custom artist-hosted showcase stations and leading music festival stations along with the ability for listeners to create their own personalized radio stations from a music catalog that is more than 10 times larger than Pandora.

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In this real world, there were things like custom software and ownership percentages and Machiavellian corporate struggles, all of which resulted in the ability to drive a heartbreakingly beautiful forest-green Range Rover up your own paved drive.

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Attempts in South Dakota or elsewhere to artificially limit the ability of companies and investors to transact with foreign firms according to their local law or custom is an unnecessary impediment to economic growth and common prosperity.

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