Apple is being pushed around by the Chinese government. They really need to begin building automated plants in the US. China can suck it. The fall of the Western world started when we gave China the know-how and resources to build our cheap stuff more cheaply. Then they moved on t to better stuff. Now they're controlling the whole system. Apple will eventually lose much of their company if they stay in China. Get out now. Apple: you can survive on Western profits, you sellouts.
Why not? Because then their profit margin on their $1000+ phones would only be 99.5% instead of 99.9%.
All the big tech companies seem to be in a giant rush to knuckle under to totalitarian regimes, and I'm not sure who's worse at this point. Google, whose motto seems to be "Sure, Be Evil!" or Apple, who is about to turn over all the records for every Chinese Apple customer to the Chinese Government?
Huh. I was modded to oblivion here just the other day for saying that China is an evil totalitarian regime.
It was a different context though. It was about China censoring unapproved points of view. I was pointing out that that is just what evil totalitarian regimes do.
I wanted to put some context around Mr Scaccia's review.
First, no disputting it, I'm fat. I take issue with the rude and slob parts. I shower every day. I say please and thank you. But, fat, unfortunately I can't dispute that.
OK, let's talk about our interaction yesterday.
That's awesome. That's how you handle all this social media carp today.
Democrats won in nine of the 10 most-gerrymandered districts. But eight out of 10 of those districts were drawn by Republicans.
That's how gerrymandering works. You don't create districts for your own party to win, you create single safe districts for the other party to win to "contain" the opposition votes in one district so they don't affect the others.
For example, the most common type of gerrymandering in North Carolina is to put all the black voters into one district. By sacrificing that one district, you improve your chances in the five surrounding districts. This is from the article you cited:
"Contrary to one popular misconception about the practice, the point of gerrymandering isn't to draw yourself a collection of overwhelmingly safe seats. Rather, it's to give your opponents a small number of safe seats, while drawing yourself a larger number of seats that are not quite as safe, but that you can expect to win comfortably. "
Oh dear. You accidentally left out Maryland when you quoted him.
Yeah I didn't like them adding adware to downloads either so I bought SourceForge and removed the adware. Doesn't really matter if we convince anyone else, we're just gonna do right by the 1 million daily users and 430,00 projects there
That's like buying the Chicken Ranch and trying to convince people that it's just a bar and hotel now. While still calling it the Chicken Ranch.
Going after Google for discriminating against disabled people is a lot less clickbait-y than "conservative white males."
Maybe because he's not being clickbait-y, he was responding internally to a request for his feedback (not "using company resources to promote his views"), and that therefore Google was indeed discriminating against him on the basis of protected class (his race - you think similar views expressed in this scenario by a fashionable race would have resulted in a firing)?
There needs to be better ways for parents to limit *what* they can do on a device at any given time of the day. Being able to specifically lock down Instagram unless all homework and chores are done would be most welcome.
Exactly. It gets tiresome listening to the usual/. parenting experts (generally childless dudes living in Mom's basement) rant about "parents not doing their job".
It's nice to have some good tools with which to do the job.
It's not like these keyboard warriors generally support the "ok, no phones for the kids at all then" solution. But that's the only solution if there are no parental controls or limited functionality phones.
Knowing things has fallen out of fashion. We now carry around the whole of human knowledge in our pockets and it's cramping my style. I used to be able to toss out random bits of Hollywood trivia that sound truthy and that make me look like I know something interesting. I could say something like, "Did you know Laurence Fishburne had a recurring role on PeeWee's Playhouse?" or "Did you know that Natalie Portman was cast in The Professional based on a Sesame Street performance?" That used to be mildly impressive and entertaining. Now anyone can just ask Alexa if I'm full of shit. "Knowing" things is dead. The answer to every question is "Just Fucking Google It".
It did make things more difficult for future Cliff Clavens, to be sure.
In the UK, toothpaste ads are quite common, so I think that your theory is incorrect. Perhaps they simply spend their marketing budget elsewhere, for example, paying for prime shelf space in supermarkets?
In the UK, they still have toothpaste ads because... no, I can't... it's just too easy...
> If you aren't aware, Mint's distros are always named after a woman.
The rest of the summary has nothing to do with the name. It's only commentators that are making a fuss over nothing, either using this as an excuse to lambaste so-called social justice warriors, or to be behave like so-called social justice warriors.
Uh, the sentence literally right before that one, in the summary, is "The biggest news is that it will be called 'Tara.'"
Norway exempts new electric cars from almost all taxes and grants perks that can be worth thousands of dollars a year in terms of free or subsidized parking, re-charging and use of toll roads, ferries and tunnels.
Well, OK... if you basically paid me to own one, I'd probably have one too.
We can't have a situation where every time some political hack carries snowballs into congress to make a point it is rightfully dismissed as crackpot antics. Yet when there is a specific incident on the other side of the ledger be a storm or heat wave it becomes acceptable to try and publically link instances of weather to "climate change".
Exactly so. I made this point on (one of?) yesterday's/. climate stories.
If you are going to be over the top in selling your agenda, don't be surprised when we don't buy.
Yes, yes, climate does not equal weather, blah blah.
Still, "climate change" was originally popularly sold as "you are all going to fry like eggs if you don't join our political positions!" and you know it was.
To still be smug when we are scratching our heads and pointing at the frozen sharks is just a bit too much.
Just admit that at the very least, you did a terrible job of explaining what the problem is, and how it will manifest itself, and how soon. Our questions/observations (made through our chattering teeth) are therefore very understandable. You're sorry. You'd like a fresh chance to explain.
You don't need tax breaks when you manage to avoid paying any taxes at all. In the realm of social justice, this whole thing is obscene. It doesn't benefit society, and it certainly doesn't create jobs.
Well, I don't know if we can just arbitrarily say that.
It might not create any jobs. But it's not impossible that a huge corporation prospering more just might in fact create more jobs on balance. They'd have more to spend on salaries, for one thing.
As far as "benefiting society", from the "social justice" point of view that might be arguable as well. Having a behemoth corp that just so happens to control everybody's search results on your side in politics has to have some value after all...
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Apple is being pushed around by the Chinese government. They really need to begin building automated plants in the US. China can suck it. The fall of the Western world started when we gave China the know-how and resources to build our cheap stuff more cheaply. Then they moved on t to better stuff. Now they're controlling the whole system. Apple will eventually lose much of their company if they stay in China. Get out now. Apple: you can survive on Western profits, you sellouts.
Why not? Because then their profit margin on their $1000+ phones would only be 99.5% instead of 99.9%.
All the big tech companies seem to be in a giant rush to knuckle under to totalitarian regimes, and I'm not sure who's worse at this point. Google, whose motto seems to be "Sure, Be Evil!" or Apple, who is about to turn over all the records for every Chinese Apple customer to the Chinese Government?
Huh. I was modded to oblivion here just the other day for saying that China is an evil totalitarian regime.
It was a different context though. It was about China censoring unapproved points of view. I was pointing out that that is just what evil totalitarian regimes do.
Just check out this gem from Google Maps:
Response from the owner 4 years ago:
This is the fat slob.
I wanted to put some context around Mr Scaccia's review.
First, no disputting it, I'm fat. I take issue with the rude and slob parts. I shower every day. I say please and thank you. But, fat, unfortunately I can't dispute that.
OK, let's talk about our interaction yesterday.
That's awesome. That's how you handle all this social media carp today.
That's how gerrymandering works. You don't create districts for your own party to win, you create single safe districts for the other party to win to "contain" the opposition votes in one district so they don't affect the others.
For example, the most common type of gerrymandering in North Carolina is to put all the black voters into one district. By sacrificing that one district, you improve your chances in the five surrounding districts. This is from the article you cited:
Oh dear. You accidentally left out Maryland when you quoted him.
Yeah I didn't like them adding adware to downloads either so I bought SourceForge and removed the adware. Doesn't really matter if we convince anyone else, we're just gonna do right by the 1 million daily users and 430,00 projects there
That's like buying the Chicken Ranch and trying to convince people that it's just a bar and hotel now. While still calling it the Chicken Ranch.
I mean yeah, it might work ... but good luck.
"Government officials confirm the mission was lost".
Now you might doubt the veracity of that statement and keep your tinfoil hat on, but it doesn't get more certain than that.
Well, I don't think it's necessarily tinfoil to wonder if official government statements about a secret project might be less than fully accurate.
I am for rational NN. And i am 100% Republican.
If your party votes no on NN, will you change your vote?
I'm not him, but no, I wouldn't (though I too am for NN). There are a few other issues out there, you know ...
Umm, $2MM doesn't go that far, really. That's not retirement-level don't-need-to-work money,
Er, at retirement age it would be, in most of the country anyway.
At the very least it would give him plenty of time to find a job, lol
Going after Google for discriminating against disabled people is a lot less clickbait-y than "conservative white males."
Maybe because he's not being clickbait-y, he was responding internally to a request for his feedback (not "using company resources to promote his views"), and that therefore Google was indeed discriminating against him on the basis of protected class (his race - you think similar views expressed in this scenario by a fashionable race would have resulted in a firing)?
There needs to be better ways for parents to limit *what* they can do on a device at any given time of the day. Being able to specifically lock down Instagram unless all homework and chores are done would be most welcome.
Exactly. It gets tiresome listening to the usual /. parenting experts (generally childless dudes living in Mom's basement) rant about "parents not doing their job".
It's nice to have some good tools with which to do the job.
It's not like these keyboard warriors generally support the "ok, no phones for the kids at all then" solution. But that's the only solution if there are no parental controls or limited functionality phones.
There is a need - or if you prefer, a market - for phones with limited capabilities, parental controls, etc.
It's been a few years since I looked, but this market was not being served well (or barely being served at all) when I did look.
I understand a lot of people don't like him but its not like he makes random posts with the n word or anything like that.
Because social justice! Away with you and your white male western capitalist logic, foul villain!
Knowing things has fallen out of fashion. We now carry around the whole of human knowledge in our pockets and it's cramping my style. I used to be able to toss out random bits of Hollywood trivia that sound truthy and that make me look like I know something interesting. I could say something like, "Did you know Laurence Fishburne had a recurring role on PeeWee's Playhouse?" or "Did you know that Natalie Portman was cast in The Professional based on a Sesame Street performance?" That used to be mildly impressive and entertaining. Now anyone can just ask Alexa if I'm full of shit. "Knowing" things is dead. The answer to every question is "Just Fucking Google It".
It did make things more difficult for future Cliff Clavens, to be sure.
This is gender specific.
No, it's *you* specific. Don't presume to speak for the rest of my or her gender.
Right, because he just invented/imagined very common gender dynamics, lol Nobody else ever noticed it or joked about it before.
It's not like governments would call anything that the existing occupants don't like "fake news" ...
I'm guessing India had an amateur hour setup and has no way of tracking how this information was even taken.
Maybe they outsourced it {rimshot}
In the UK, toothpaste ads are quite common, so I think that your theory is incorrect. Perhaps they simply spend their marketing budget elsewhere, for example, paying for prime shelf space in supermarkets?
In the UK, they still have toothpaste ads because ... no, I can't ... it's just too easy ...
The summary has one comment:
> If you aren't aware, Mint's distros are always named after a woman.
The rest of the summary has nothing to do with the name. It's only commentators that are making a fuss over nothing, either using this as an excuse to lambaste so-called social justice warriors, or to be behave like so-called social justice warriors.
Uh, the sentence literally right before that one, in the summary, is "The biggest news is that it will be called 'Tara.'"
I currently have 40 tabs open in my Firefox for Android session
Which Firefox for Android - aren't there several now?
Norway exempts new electric cars from almost all taxes and grants perks that can be worth thousands of dollars a year in terms of free or subsidized parking, re-charging and use of toll roads, ferries and tunnels.
Well, OK ... if you basically paid me to own one, I'd probably have one too.
and systemd!
Gesundheit!
The name of the release is the biggest news?
Because it's named after a woman?
Just like it ... always has been?
Oh Slashdot, what has happened to you?
We can't have a situation where every time some political hack carries snowballs into congress to make a point it is rightfully dismissed as crackpot antics. Yet when there is a specific incident on the other side of the ledger be a storm or heat wave it becomes acceptable to try and publically link instances of weather to "climate change".
Exactly so. I made this point on (one of?) yesterday's /. climate stories.
If you are going to be over the top in selling your agenda, don't be surprised when we don't buy.
Yes, yes, climate does not equal weather, blah blah.
Still, "climate change" was originally popularly sold as "you are all going to fry like eggs if you don't join our political positions!" and you know it was.
To still be smug when we are scratching our heads and pointing at the frozen sharks is just a bit too much.
Just admit that at the very least, you did a terrible job of explaining what the problem is, and how it will manifest itself, and how soon. Our questions/observations (made through our chattering teeth) are therefore very understandable. You're sorry. You'd like a fresh chance to explain.
Worth a try?
You don't need tax breaks when you manage to avoid paying any taxes at all. In the realm of social justice, this whole thing is obscene. It doesn't benefit society, and it certainly doesn't create jobs.
Well, I don't know if we can just arbitrarily say that.
It might not create any jobs. But it's not impossible that a huge corporation prospering more just might in fact create more jobs on balance. They'd have more to spend on salaries, for one thing.
As far as "benefiting society", from the "social justice" point of view that might be arguable as well. Having a behemoth corp that just so happens to control everybody's search results on your side in politics has to have some value after all ...