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There shouldn't be coercion involved to get you to buy another of their devices.

They are just scared to death that people will "defect" to the iPhone. Because if they do, they will never look back.

Face it. Samsung is already the top-end of the Android world. So if people decide on another Android device this time around, like Huawei, they'll likely be back to Samsung when they realize that the other brand is shit.

But if most people switch from Samsung to Apple, they will never buy another Android phone again.

That's not trolling or flamebait (although I am SURE it will be modded as such), that's market research.

Can send them to Apple for their disassembly robot.
http://fortune.com/2016/03/27/...

"No disassembly Stephanie!" -obligatory Short Circuit reference.

At 1.2 million phones a year it should just take a little over 2 years for Liam to do all 2.5m... assuming one could be tweaked to work with the SGN7.

So he claims - but when you consider his track record on keeping his promises, it's not promising. No, he hasn't been a politician before, but we can examine his past record in business. How has he dealt with his business partners, and how did he deal with shareholders when he was running a publicly traded company?

The answer is he's pretty much screwed over anyone who ever put their trust in him. He regularly refuses to pay people who he hired to do work for him on contract. When he had a publicly traded company, Trump Hotel and Casino Resorts, he ran it into the ground while thoroughly looting as much as he could from it.
Citations:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06...
http://fortune.com/2016/03/10/...

So believe him at your own risk, because if he keeps this promise, it'll be a first.

Hillary was also proven guilty by admitting she destroyed emails after receiving a subpoena from Congress which is at a minimum Obstruction of Justice. She is guilty of perjury again by looking at her own testimony where either she lied to Congress or the FBI Director did. Within the statues of the law, she is guilty of mishandling classified information. Proven by the FBI directory who for her case, and only her case, put a stipulation of mens rea on filing charges. NO other cases in the US have used intent as a stipulation for assessing guilt, NONE. Intent has not even been used in the sentencing of cases against US Military mishandling classified materials. Some of which were completely accidental (US Marine who found a paper in his laundry and turned it in only to be handed over to the courts).

Can we stick to facts please...

Hillary did not say that she destroyed email after receiving a subpoena from Congress. The guy managing her email destroyed the emails after being asked to remove personal emails months earlier but he slacked off and didn't delete them until later. The FBI found that there was no collusion. Even the Republicans in Congress couldn't find any evidence. Anything beyond that is just political grandstanding... unless you have hidden evidence to add to the discussion...

http://www.politifact.com/trut...
http://www.politifact.com/trut...

As for intent, historical court cases does not back up your assertion that intent was not a requirement for a successful conviction. Here is a good article explaining the previous cases:

http://fortune.com/2016/07/06/...

Google and Microsoft have now unequivocally claimed that they have done nothing like this, ever. http://fortune.com/2016/10/04/...

Will Microsoft be threatening to sue Microsoft for using its patented technology in Android.

Here's Why Nokia Is About To Get More Money Out Of Its Patents

Flash crash, baby! And who else to start one?

How dare the United States fine an American company!

Sales aren't the only area affected by the need to keep the money flowing. Research grants work the same way. In order to keep your job you have to produce the data the people with the money are looking for.

I've worked in sales with a quota. I've worked in research.

They don't remotely work the same way. The sales were sales, nothing particulary difficult. My sponsors wanted correct answers, not something that corresponded with their desires. There were no "wrong" outcomes, just abandoned avenues.

For the occasional rogue researcher, there's a path to find out their transgressions. Most take this very seriously, and disgrace can be forever http://time.com/3084494/japane...

Andrew Wakefield lost his career permanently after his conman anti vaccine conspiracy came to light.

Malcolm Pearce did fraudulent work on ectopic pregnancies - presumably transplanting the out-of place embryo into the uterus and resulting in a full term healthy infant A man who signed on as co-author because of being the head of the medical department where Pearce worked, one Geoffrey Chamberlain also lost his career in disgrace.

Dong Pyou Han was sentenced to 4.5 years in jail, and a fine/repayment of 7.2 million dollars.

Now if you will, let us compare disgrace ending in suicide, disgrace ending in lost careers, with the treatment of the head of the unit of Wells Fargo that was doing this sandbagging, Carrie Tolstedt. http://fortune.com/2016/09/12/...

She made the decision to retire after 27 years, and is getting 125 million. Nearly the amount of the fine levied against Wells Fargo. Toltsted profited off the sandbagging, and although Wells Fargo could have elected to demand the fraudulently received money in a device named "clawback", she is keeping the money that was illegally obtained.

And finally, who was punished? It's pretty difficult to call retiring with a 125 million bonus punishment. But the employees who fell to the pressure to do this industry standard dandbagging? Oh - they were fired. Seldom happens to the technicians involved in a research fraud case, unless they were highly complicit

Fscking identical treatment between scientists and the banking industry - damn near exact, eh? Meantime the stockholders are picking up the Wells Fargo tag.

And that's the really weird thing. A huge amount of fraud going on, and people committing the fraud getting away stock free, and people who might have an issue with scientists act like they should be lined up and shot for their malfeasance.Yet appear to think that the bank fraud is just business as usual. I dunno if that's you or not.

If he doesn't get some cash flow from SpaceX soon all three of his companies will go down in flames

It appears the penalty for Apple/Google/Et-al's anti-poaching deal a few years ago was not strong enough to send a message to other companies thinking of the same.

http://fortune.com/2015/09/03/...

I thought Bosch was in this up to their necks? How come a poor near-retirement engineer at VW is the one on the hook? http://fortune.com/2016/08/19/...

As GE is one of the largest companies in the world Currently #11 on the Fortune 500.

It is number 26, but the point is taken. It is probably one of the largest companies most people have never heard of.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ka...
http://www.washingtonexaminer....
http://fortune.com/2016/04/12/...

But hey, you need to keep the plebes riled up.

"Amazon and NVIDIA, the venture arms of the CIA"

Unsurpringly, Amazon is *the* cloud service supplier for the the CIA...

On the other hand, In-Q-Tel (the *actual* venture arm of the CIA) has partnered with companies like...

* Booz Allen (the actual employer of Edward Snowden during his short stint as an NSA contractor)
* Intelliseek (eventually purchased by Nielsen Online, the folks help decide what programs get air time)
* Keyhole (eventually purchased by Google to become google earth was also partially funded by NVIDIA)
* Safeweb (eventually purchased by Symantec, the same sellers of the popular Norton Anti-virus software)

As always, the truth is out there, and some of it is a little bit unnerving...

Or have they figured out how to pack more kilowatt-hours into the same physical space?

That one.

Tesla is changing the battery format it uses now that the Gigafactory is open and they produce their own cells. This new cell design is optimized for the needs of Tesla, and not other things like laptops.

Maybe more than actual users.

Remember, the internet is where men are men, women are men, and kids are FBI agents.

Women are bots, and the bots are traps. Ashley Madison Used Chatbots to Lure Cheaters, Then Threatened to Expose Them When They Complained

HP is doing what is done by companies which have amassed more wealth than they know what to do with, and in which the spark of innovation has long since died: They'll pay any amount (because money is "cheap" to them) for anything to anyone. Fiorina is long gone, but we should invent a verb for this practice in honor of her. http://fortune.com/2015/09/17/... http://www.businessinsider.com... http://fortune.com/2011/08/21/...

They keep doing it because it's a great tactic to prime the stock price: shareholders only see the short term gain, and by the time the company splutters the instigators are drifting to the ground in their golden parachutes.

HP is doing what is done by companies which have amassed more wealth than they know what to do with, and in which the spark of innovation has long since died: They'll pay any amount (because money is "cheap" to them) for anything to anyone. Fiorina is long gone, but we should invent a verb for this practice in honor of her. http://fortune.com/2015/09/17/... http://www.businessinsider.com... http://fortune.com/2011/08/21/...

They keep doing it because it's a great tactic to prime the stock price: shareholders only see the short term gain, and by the time the company splutters the instigators are drifting to the ground in their golden parachutes.

I bet their existing Apple watch was getting lonely in the drawer all by itself. Now they can buy something to keep it company.

With its 97% Satisfaction rating, I don't think there are actually too many languishing in drawers.

Check your facts before you post, Hater.

Kind of amazing they haven't figured out how to make their system redundant, distributed, and/or robust.

If they're clueless enough to buy 11,000 surface tablets from Microsoft, it is not that amazing. They are (were) the poster child of Microsoft services for air lines: Microsoft Dynamics and Delta Air Lines: Innovative technology and personal service equals empowered employees and happy travelers

You underestimate the impressive levels of cognitive dissonance practiced by Trump supporters. . . (watch them rant against this post with their one free hand. . .)

The biggest issue in this election will be job security. Some 75 million US households (about half of all the workforce) cannot cover a surprise $400 expense, and 76% of all Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck.

On one side we have Clinton, who wants to expand US globalization and also give citizenship to illegal aliens, which will dump 17 million new job seekers into the market overnight.

On the other side we have Trump, who wants to move the illegals out of the country and prevent them from coming back, and renegotiate some of our globai agreements.

If you think any other issue is more important, then by all means vote for her.

But if you have concerns over job uncertainty, then Trump's the way to go.

That's not cognitive dissonance, it's called "prioritizing".

That's irrelevant. That only makes it against their TOS, giving them grounds to terminate the account/service.

It's also against their TOS to login using someone else's credentials, and violating the TOS in that manner may be deemed Wire Fraud under the Act, and Has been before.

See, the Netflix case, where sharing passwords resulted in Jail time, and the Federal Appeals court upheld the password sharing as a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violation.

This is more insightful than you may realize.

http://fortune.com/2015/01/10/...

From the link:
"Today marks the 15th anniversary of one such calamity when media giants AOL and Time Warner combined their businesses in what is usually described as the worst merger of all time."

I think you're right, though. This is very much like TimeWarner + AOL.

Who is producing that wealth?

Here's the list.

Why don't those who aren't working, work, so that they can get some wealth of their own?

Because people don't get to work just because they want to; they work because a company was willing to hire them. Companies don't hire unless they need to -- and they don't need to, because we still have a shortage of aggregate demand

"But what about entrepreneurs" you're about to ask. That requires having a profitable idea and the capital to implement it, and frankly, most people are too stupid and/or poor for that.

Furthermore, your question is ill-posed: wealth is not produced through work. Wealth is produced through owning productive assets. Even if you're earning a six-figure income, if you are spending it instead of acquiring productive assets (e.g. stock in the companies listed above) you're still a pauper.

Why would those who you claim are hoarding money keep it, instead of investing it in some productive enterprise?

Ask Apple; they're the ones hoarding the biggest chunk of it ($203 billion, according to the most recent source I could find).

http://fortune.com/2015/07/20/...

The main point being that growth is gradually slowing at the moment, not that growth is negative.

Who the fuck complains about a company not letting some random outsiders touch their property?

About twenty years ago, I was visiting Seattle and told my friends I wanted to get a picture in front of Microsoft. We were met by three cars of security guards with flashy lights and asked to leave. I got my picture just before they showed up.

3) Squander his inheritance? So, that should leave him with less money than he got from his family, right?

Nope. If I give you half a billion dollars, and 30 years later you only have 4 billion, then you've still been a pretty big fuck up. Losing all of it would be an even bigger fuckup, but only growing it to 4 billion is still a WTF.

Which is demonstrably not true, or even close to true. So again, you're lying.

Your pretty quick to jump to calling other people liars... but this is where that claim comes from:

If I leave you 500 million dollars and then 30 odd years from now you have $4billion and change after starting a bunch of businesses, bankrupting some, succeeding at others, selling steaks at sharper image, doing a profitable stint on celebrity apprentice, and telling yourself your worth 10 billion based mostly on 'brand name value', then you would be the 'very successful' Donald Trump.

If I leave you 500 million dollars, and stick it in a brain dead simple market ETF and wait 30 years - then you'd be worth 13+ billion. 9 billion more than Trump. And 3 billion more than even Donald Trump claims he's worth.

Its a pretty valid to look at that and say that Trump is a terrible investor who squandered his inheritance. Because he's got 15 billion less than he would have had if he'd done basically just done nothing at all with it except park it.

cite: http://fortune.com/2015/08/20/...

Hell, my own investments have done over 1000% since the 90s. That's not exactly an achievement, since as the article notes, the S&P did 1300% since '88. If I'd had several hundred million inheritance, I'd be far richer than Trump today.

Not all the above ground testing was stopped in 1963. France continued atmospheric testing until 1974.. As for decreasing death rates, the study did not accomdate recent events, like the Fukishima tripple meltdown and it's recent impact

Why hasn't there been a drop in the number of Facebook or Twitter hits daily?

Good stats on this are hard to find. Perhaps there already has been a drop:

http://fortune.com/2016/04/07/...

http://www.investopedia.com/ar...

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A member of Australia's parliament tweeted a screenshot: https://twitter.com/TimWattsMP...

Why not? It is happening with gun control bills in the US that keep getting voted down...

The people never voted on a referendum on gun control.

It would be interesting to see what a referendum on the issue would look like if you took out all the people who are being funded by the NRA.

http://fortune.com/2015/12/03/...

erm... you mean that big scary organization that is really mostly funded by average citizens? (https://www.quora.com/Where-does-funding-for-the-National-Rifle-Association-NRA-come-from). I'm not a fan of lobbyists and I wish we could get rid of all of them but the NRA is one that is actually working as intended (giving a group of average citizens a collective voice).

So you're suggesting we exclude the people average gun owners have chosen to support (through donations to the NRA) when it comes to the specific issue they have chosen to support them for?

Why not? It is happening with gun control bills in the US that keep getting voted down...

The people never voted on a referendum on gun control.

It would be interesting to see what a referendum on the issue would look like if you took out all the people who are being funded by the NRA.

http://fortune.com/2015/12/03/...

In absolute terms Volkswagen is outspending everyone else for research and development. And they have been high on the list for decades. I, for one, am hoping all that work finally pays off big.

You're far from the first:

http://fortune.com/2015/12/10/...

Can't wait for President Trump to be in charge of getting this country out of debt.

Trump's tax plan would add at least $10T to the debt on top of the $10T expected under existing law. We could go from $19T under Obama to $39T under Trump. As Vice President Dick Cheney once said, "Deficits don't matter."

While his plan limits certain tax preferences and deductions, it does not include any reductions in federal spending. As a result, the Trump plan increases the federal deficit over the next decade by $10 trillion or $12 trillion, according to several estimates that do not include macroeconomic changes in GDP, investment and employment. Of course, these so-called "static" estimates do not reflect the potential tax revenue from the economic growth resulting from lower tax rates. However, even under "dynamic" scoring, which takes into account a broad range of macroeconomic effects of tax proposals, his tax cuts would still expand the federal deficit over the next decade by $10 trillion â" on top of the $10 trillion increase in the federal deficit already projected under current law.

http://fortune.com/2016/03/08/donald-trumps-tax-plan-primary/

I now. For instance it is clear that there was no one in the US who could build a factory, so Tesla had to bring in Eastern Europeans and pay them $5 a hour.

Selective quoting from a selective quoting news source, who is selectively quoting another selective news source.

The truth is that Tesla hired a third party construction company to do a turn-key project. That company hired another company, and that third company hired the worker. The court already dismissed Tesla from the worker's lawsuit for exactly that reason.

Your quoted article (Fortune) selectively reads the Mercury News article and wrongly interprets it as (and I quote) "Tesla paid workers as little as $5 an hour—a far cry from the $52-an-hour average the company would have to pay an American contractor.". None of this is true.

First of all, Tesla did not pay any of the construction workers. Tesla paid its contractor, who paid its subcontractor, who set and paid the wages. Second, Tesla does not have to pay $52 an hour. Tesla, chooses to pay its employees $52.

Both articles are so full of bullshit that it just hurts to read it. And you, stupid parrot that you are, don't do any research yourself but merely cry your liberal foul. Stop whining and do your own research.

I now. For instance it is clear that there was no one in the US who could build a factory, so Tesla had to bring in Eastern Europeans and pay them $5 a hour.

Irrelevant. APIs can not be copyrighted, period. End. Of. Discussion.

According to the Federal Appeals Court-- whose opinion is the only one that matters (since the Supreme court declined the case)-- you are wrong. APIs can be copyrighted. End of discussion.

You may not agree, you may not like it, but that's irrelevant.

http://fortune.com/2015/06/29/...
http://readwrite.com/2015/06/2...
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

HP's memresistor project "The machine" is going to so thrash this technology to hell and back. They are talking about petabytes of data as fast as ram. You won't need to have a separation between ram and disk anymore. They already have prototype and they should show up in a few years.

http://fortune.com/2016/03/02/...

Admittedly, this article is almost 3 years old, but I can't find the one I read recently.. Apparently local bookstores are actually _growing_ in popularity and sales.

http://fortune.com/2013/09/20/...

That doesn't solve your lack of having a store, I just thought it was surprising.

You mean like this

Considering the number of frivolous lawsuits Trump has initiated, I'm thinking tort reform won't be at the top of his list either.

Remember when everyone was calling Tom Wheeler, and by extension Obama, shills that were in the pocket the of the cable industry?

Yes I remember at the time he was proposing an internet fast lane.

2014 [pivot] 2015

Not that I'm complaining.

Swastikas sound just a tad suspicious, innit?

Not at all. The Trump campaign is littered with nazis:

http://fortune.com/donald-trum...

Also, who could forget this nice lady working for the Trump campaign with stormfront tattoos and "88" tattooed on her hand.:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money."
                ---Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone

Yeah, these are the "masters of the universe" that tanked our economy, was bailed out for 10s of billions of dollars after their CEO became the treasury secretary, then outsourced 1,000 American jobs and gave their execs huge raises and paid "up to" a paltry $5 billion for defrauding their own customers.

No high level execs at Goldman Sachs went to jail,and the systemic problem is worse today than before the crisis.

Why would I give even even a penny to admitted criminals with a proven record of abusing their customers and being grossly selfish and irresponsible?!

Fuck those guys. Seriously.

union busting? I can't support that.

Unions are organizations, which openly and blatantly work coordinate to maintain and raise the prices of what their members are selling — their labor. Their official goals are to have 100% of each profession belong to their respective union so that no employer — a buyer of labor — would be able to buy from any other supplier. Cartels — or wanna-be cartels.

When goods-manufacturers or service-providers try the same collusion with each other, we — rightfully — apply trust-busting laws to them. When, for example, Staples tried to merge with Office Depot, the government blocked the deal on the grounds, that the resulting entity would have a monopoly power in the office supplies market. Why, then, would we not only allow, but encourage monopoly in the healthcare, firefighting, law-enforcement, construction, education and other labor markets?

The same trust-busting laws and monopoly-prevention rules ought to apply to all. But it gets worse — when the union-members use blatantly illegal methods to fight for their monopoly, they are handled with soft gloves and their crimes are investigated individually (if at all). Instead, of course, anti-racketeering laws ought to apply — because the crimes are committed on behalf of a corrupt organization.

I've been out of work for months and months (in the past, even years at a time). there is no one to speak for me

Maybe, you just need counseling. Maybe, you are an entitled prick, who believes, the rest of the world owes you a living. Whatever it is, your personal sob-story makes no argument — speak for your own self.

$300 Million because Diversity(TM) http://fortune.com/2015/01/12/...

Not really, if that becomes a problem, we'll just re-institute the ban on exporting oil from the US. We've done it before.

That's the sort of stupid I expect from someone who's doomed to repeat history. Hint: first you have to lift the existing ban, and, it didn't work last time either - because you're a bunch of greedy, deceitful, cheating, ignorant bastards (mostly).

http://fortune.com/2015/08/20/...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news...