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Apple's Haves and Have Nots, Around the World
Rambo Tribble writes "As this story in the Economist notes, Apple's policies regarding international sales are often confusing and outdated. Apparently, Apple either hasn't been aware of political and social changes in the world over the last 20 years, or doesn't wish to acknowledge them."
Soulskill rightly notes that at least some of the complained-about policies boil down to Apple's adherence to local copyright and licensing laws.
Apple either hasn't been aware of political and social changes in the world over the last 20 years
Can you really blame them? MOST people are unaware of contemporary economic and social changes over the last 20 years. There seems to be no shortage of what people, despite their own best interest, fail to know or understand. For example, most people don't know that among many others corporations, Apple artificially inflates their market value by misrepresenting their risk. And that Apple's capital is actually worth half of its perceived value, along with most companies who directly or indirectly supported the incremental establishment of a parasitic shadow banking institution which has now compromised more than half of the WORLD market. But hey, Wall Street has never shown signs or publicly admitted the existence of a shadow banking system, so I guess that means I'm a whacko conspiracy theorist. Only when this parasite stops working in symbiosis with legitimate institutions and instead attacks its host in order to systematically consolidate power will people begin to believe the countless voices who warned against Wall St and the Fed to begin with(otherwise known as conspiracy theorists).
Oh well, I must be deranged to believe my eyes when I see the market spiral out of control, encountering practically no resistance, with such velocity that explosives must have been planted in the building..err I mean someone mistyped "b" instead of "m". Give me a break, this market short-circuiting "bug" was a staged event with which the bankers will leverage propagandized public opinion to steamroll over any semblance of free market, essentially dismantling U.S. sovereignty and leaving us, the American people, homeless on the continent our forefathers conquered.
Understand, the inception of the fed was over 100 years ago. Our economy has experienced relative stability during the course of most of that time. We gave the fed the right to artificially reduce interest rates, print fiat fake currency, and sell off massive portions of our debt to other nations as collateral. The cracks in the financial dam had accumulated en masse, though most were not aware of such weakness, the dam has COLLAPSED and the shadow banking system is EXPOSED. The same bankers who created this cluster fuck will swoop in and "punish the wicked"(buy small fish out) and consolidate the rest of the wealth. Meanwhile, the American and world populations believe that vengeance against the bankers will come in the form of "comprehensive financial reform." Again, while thats exactly the kind of reform we need, it is far from what we will get. The bankers are writing legislation to fix a problem they caused in the first place. Seriously, fool me once?