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This Is What Apple Would Look Like If It Was Run By Obama

 Imagine President Barack Obama running Apple . (Hey, he has to do something if he should lose in November.) How hard could it be after his top-down remodeling of nearly 20% of the U.S. economy? Of course, Obamacare doesn’t just try and change how government operates. Insurers, doctors, hospitals, drug companies, and medical-equipment makers are just some of the private-sector actors that Obamacare forces to dramatically alter how they run their businesses. But rather than markets and competition and consumer choice driving those changes, it’s the mandates of government bureaucrats and theories of academics such as healthcare economists. And the chief executive office officer of this vast effort is Obama himself. And surely if Obama can be CEO of the $3 trillion, economy-spanning Obamacare Inc., then running Apple (current market capitalization: $559 billion) would be no trouble at all. Here’s how Obama might run the consumer electronics giant — ObamApple — using his theories about

Giant cosmic eyes of the Atacama Desert

via bbc.co.uk In the dry and empty lands of the Atacama Desert in Chile, several giant telescopes eye the sky to unlock mysteries of the Universe. They are run, solely or in partnership, by the European Southern Observatory (Eso), which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary. Eso astronomer Joe Liske talks about space and telescopes - and the organisation's plans for the future.

Ashton Kutcher To Play Steve Jobs In Upcoming Biopic

Ashton Kutcher has just signed on to star as Steve Jobs in the indie pic "Jobs," according to Variety . "The film will chronicle Steve Jobs from wayward hippie to co-founder of Apple ," reports the trade. Kutcher will shoot the film in May while on hiatus from his CBS sitcom "Two and a Half Men." Five Star Institute's Mark Hulme is set to finance and produce the film, while Joshua Michael Stern ("Swing Vote") will direct from a script by Matt Whiteley . When Jobs passed away in October, Kutcher took to Twitter to express his condolences: "I never thought I could be so busted up about the loss of someone I never met. #stevejobs. Sending love & light to everyone @Apple & the entire Jobs family. Today we lost a Giant who will be missed even by those who didn't know him." Doesn't sound like an April Fool's joke to us. Now read about Ashton Kutcher's $200,000 trip to space with Richard Branson >