The question of why McCaw did what he did is the oddest thing about this exceedingly odd story.

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Charlie McCreevy, the EU's internal-market commissioner, is none too happy about this sort of thing, though it is not clear what he can do to stop it.

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The last thing to notice about this ad is what Microsoft did not do: promote the operating system.

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But really what this is all about is the British government getting concerned about a thing called vehicle cloning.

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And you spend much more time thinking about what is the team that is going to run this thing.

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Now, no matter how you feel about the new logo or the ones at the contest page, the thing that I think is important about this is what it says about crowdsourcing design.

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Another thing that is worth noting about this news: contrary to what many people believe, the NIH has not up until now been deeply involved in the expensive and difficult process of discovering drugs.

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What I like about Ironman events is that it is a huge, huge risk to undertake this thing.

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But look, this was a -- the important thing about the Affordable Care Act is what it does.

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But in some ways, that's a healthy thing, because what that means is in 2012, as Harvey just said, we realize this is about us.

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