Sony does not have a monopoly in any market, regardless of how much they try to lock people in. I boycotted Sony when the bright minds behind Sony Music decided to give their customers rootkits, and my quality of life has not suffered because of my refusal to buy Sony products.
You posted a bunch of links about problems with Samsung TVs. Why exactly do I need anything from Samsung either? I've had a Sharp Aquos that I bought a decade or so ago back when a 55" LCD TV cost $3500, and I've never had a single problem with it. You don't need Sony. They have proven multiple times that they will screw their customers, regardless of which division in the company is releasing the products. Their computers with all of the proprietary connections and hardware were designed to screw you, the rootkit bullshit was designed to screw you, and removing advertised features from products after the fact was specifically to screw you. You're like some battered wife with Stockholm syndrome though, show your loyalty and hope that they next time they screw you it's not so bad.
Let's find out, instead of relying on your memory.
The term swiftboating (also spelled swift-boating or swift boating) is a pejorative American neologism used to describe an unfair or untrue political attack. The term is derived from the name of the organization "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" (SBVT, later the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth) because of their widely publicized - and later discredited - campaign against 2004 U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry.
Since the political smear campaign that the group conducted against Kerry, the term has come into common use to refer to a harsh attack by a political opponent that is dishonest, personal, and unfair.
I like this one:
Charges of "swiftboating" were made by supporters of both major candidates in the 2012 presidential election. Republican Party strategists compared attacks on Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital to swiftboating, saying that, "It's very clear they are trying to re-create and take a page out for the 2004 Bush campaign".
"Hey that's not fair, they're trying to do to us what we did to them."
You realize Hillary is responsible for probably over a million deaths and a good part of Europe being overrun ?
That's not even the worst of it! I have it on good authority that she personally authorized the MURDER of over 12 billion people, and is DIRECTLY AND PERSONALLY responsible for the fact that Australia sunk into the ocean. She also created herpes.
I haven't heard that name in years. Kind of funny what he's been up to:
As of October 2003, Wallace was working as a DJ in New Hampshire, making weekly appearances at area nightclubs. Wallace performs under the name DJ MasterWeb.
In March 2006, the FTC filed a suit again against Wallace and SmartBOT for practices similar to the 2004 suit. This time Wallace and his co-defendants were ordered to pay $5,089,550.48 in fines.
In May 2008 Wallace and Rines were ordered to pay $230 million to MySpace by the L.A. District Court when they failed to appear for trial.
Wallace filed for bankruptcy in June 2009. On October 29, 2009, federal judge Jeremy D. Fogel awarded Facebook $711 million in damages.
In August 2015, Wallace pleaded guilty to electronic mail fraud and criminal contempt of court as well as admitting to mass spamming in 2008 and 2009. He also pleaded guilty to violating a court order to not access Facebooks' computer network.
In June 2016, Wallace has been sentenced to thirty months in prison and ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution for bombarding Facebook users. U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Davila also sentenced Wallace to mental health treatment and five years of probation once he is released. Judge Davila barred Sanford Wallace of possessing or using any computer without the permission of the probation order.
He's been fined nearly a billion dollars, he's banned from creating MySpace profiles or accessing Facebook's network, and in general possessing or using a computer, he's a repeat offender with criminal contempt and only caught 30 months in jail. He probably deserves at least 5 years, with another 10 on probation. Maybe he'll go back to DJing.
The day is still relatively young, but hopefully that's going to be the stupidest thing I see today. I hope it's all uphill from here.
So can a janitor at the State Department can claim "experience in the executive branch"?
Well, technically, I suppose they could, but it makes a shitload more sense if the goddamn Secretary of State is making the claim instead of you when you push a mop around.
does that make federal judges also part of the executive branch?
Are members of the judicial branch members of the executive branch? I don't know, what do you think, Constitutional Scholar AC?
WTF are you arguing about? Is the Department of State part of the executive branch of the federal government or not? Is the Secretary of State who leads that department part of the executive branch? These are simple yes or not questions, they aren't trick questions at all. No need to bring up janitors or judges.
Many people, after watching the actions of Debbie Wasserman Shultz and the DNC in organizing the primaries and debates, would disagree with you. The contest was set up to provide as little resistance as possible to Hillary, and only when Sanders started to call the DNC on that did things start to change. Shultz is the current DNC chair, and she was the Clinton campaign co-chair in 2008, are you really trying to suggest that she was perfectly neutral in this entire process, and did not have her thumb on the scale for Clinton? If you want to claim that the DNC was unbiased in running the primaries, then you need to address issues like these (that list was written 6 months ago, by the way, it doesn't even include Nevada or other recent events).
Surely you're not trying to argue that the DNC did not formally and officially nominate Hillary before the primaries. If that's what you're arguing for, that's not the same argument that I'm having.
That's good if that works for you, there are plenty of people though looking for better hardware. This is the phone that has better hardware for half the price, it's the same thing they did with their other two phones. I'm sure that the current batch of $200 phones have hardware that is still not as powerful as the phone I paid $400 for 2 years ago. What is "worth it" to someone is based on what they want their phone to do, and for how long. If all you do is text and call then you don't need a smart phone at all.
I guess they've just run out of things to upgrade to justify the high price.
It's a low price, actually. You own the phone, you are buying it outright, you are not renting it from your carrier and paying monthly. An unlocked Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, for example, costs $790. That's what the Oneplus Three competes against, so it's $400 versus $790. I own my Oneplus outright, I don't rent it from my carrier, so my cell phone bill is lower. You're still paying for your phone, just not all at once. If you cancel your contract early you'll notice that your carrier bills you for the remainder of the phone price.
spending $400+ on a new phone every year or two is a little rich for my tastes.
Yeah, I thought that paying $400 for my Oneplus One 2 years ago was a little much, but it's the best phone I've ever owned. It has great hardware, and the OS has received regular updates. In fact, the reason why I don't feel the need to upgrade to the Oneplus Three is because my phone still works fine. And, in those 2 years, my cell phone bill has been less every month because my carrier didn't subsidize my phone. It also didn't come pre-loaded with a bunch of crap software, the only thing on it was the OS with the default apps.
A top of the line phone, unlocked, which you own, with no crap on it, which you can move between carriers (or even use 2 carriers at the same time if you need to), for half the price of the competing phones. That's what you're getting, but if that's not what you're looking for then feel free to continue renting.
My Oneplus One arrived with Cyanogenmod installed (I never switched to OxygenOS after the deal with Cyanogen fell through). There isn't a single app that can't be uninstalled, there aren't any paid apps at all as far as I can tell. Everything was pretty stock CM, I assume it's the same deal with the newer phone. I may upgrade, but the only thing that is stopping me is that my phone still works fine, that's why I never got the Oneplus Two. The only things that may be pushing me to upgrade are stupid bugs in some of the CM apps, for example the email client doesn't exactly download and view attachments (you know, not that something like viewing a PDF from email is a huge use case or anything), and the messaging app is slow to update the list of messages, it sits there for a while before displaying anything. I may finally just install a different email client, but those are the only real gripes I have. There are a couple settings I'd like a way to change also, for example I don't need a notification every time my phone gains or loses a signal, and it would be great if I could turn my phone silent and disable the vibrate without turning off all notifications.
For your other questions or concerns, Oneplus has an active community forum that should be able to address anything.
OxygenOS was developed by OnePlus, not the Chinese government. Unless you care to cite a source which shows otherwise, of course. The OxygenOS kernel is here if you'd like to go through it:
Jill Stien, Presidential Candidate for the Green party said "Trump says terrible things, but Clinton does terrible things."
I appreciate conservative author P.J. O'Rourke's comments on NPR:
"I am endorsing Hillary, and all her lies and all her empty promises," O'Rourke continued. "It's the second-worst thing that can happen to this country, but she's way behind in second place. She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters."... "This man just can't be president," O'Rourke said, alluding to the nuclear codes the commander-in-chief takes control of upon assuming office. "They've got this button - this briefcase. He's going to find it."
I'm pretty sure this is going to be the election where a third party candidate is who I'll be voting for.
Join the club. Don't worry, it's not shameful or anything. I did that last time, it felt good to vote for someone who I felt represented me instead of voting against someone that I didn't like. C'mon, it's fine, go ahead and actually give your support to someone who you feel earned it. It might be a weird feeling for a lot of voters, but really it feels good.
I have a friend who believes in a lot of conspiracy theories that don't have much evidence, like chemtrails for example. He'll try to convince me that they're true and he thinks it's funny when I continue to insist that there is no evidence and get angry or frustrated about his unsubstantive claims. Maybe 4 or 5 years ago he had a new one, that the NSA was recording every phone call in the US. I was telling him how much access they would need to do that, at every phone company, how much storage space they would need to save all of that data, even if it was just text and not even audio, all of the reasons why that shouldn't be possible and, if it was, someone would know something and would tell everyone.
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In what world are your consoles going obsolete in 2 years?
The same world in which you have to spend $700 every 2 years on a PC to continue playing games.
Sony does not have a monopoly in any market, regardless of how much they try to lock people in. I boycotted Sony when the bright minds behind Sony Music decided to give their customers rootkits, and my quality of life has not suffered because of my refusal to buy Sony products.
You posted a bunch of links about problems with Samsung TVs. Why exactly do I need anything from Samsung either? I've had a Sharp Aquos that I bought a decade or so ago back when a 55" LCD TV cost $3500, and I've never had a single problem with it. You don't need Sony. They have proven multiple times that they will screw their customers, regardless of which division in the company is releasing the products. Their computers with all of the proprietary connections and hardware were designed to screw you, the rootkit bullshit was designed to screw you, and removing advertised features from products after the fact was specifically to screw you. You're like some battered wife with Stockholm syndrome though, show your loyalty and hope that they next time they screw you it's not so bad.
Russky's don't beat around the bush on surveillance and at least they are truthful about it.
How do you know that they're being truthful?
No, he's referring to the AK that comes off the Glock.
Because it allows Apple to harvest messages from users to train their AI.
And some things around here never change. Good to see you again, APK.
Let's find out, instead of relying on your memory.
The term swiftboating (also spelled swift-boating or swift boating) is a pejorative American neologism used to describe an unfair or untrue political attack. The term is derived from the name of the organization "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" (SBVT, later the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth) because of their widely publicized - and later discredited - campaign against 2004 U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry.
Since the political smear campaign that the group conducted against Kerry, the term has come into common use to refer to a harsh attack by a political opponent that is dishonest, personal, and unfair.
I like this one:
Charges of "swiftboating" were made by supporters of both major candidates in the 2012 presidential election. Republican Party strategists compared attacks on Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital to swiftboating, saying that, "It's very clear they are trying to re-create and take a page out for the 2004 Bush campaign".
"Hey that's not fair, they're trying to do to us what we did to them."
You realize Hillary is responsible for probably over a million deaths and a good part of Europe being overrun ?
That's not even the worst of it! I have it on good authority that she personally authorized the MURDER of over 12 billion people, and is DIRECTLY AND PERSONALLY responsible for the fact that Australia sunk into the ocean. She also created herpes.
I haven't heard that name in years. Kind of funny what he's been up to:
As of October 2003, Wallace was working as a DJ in New Hampshire, making weekly appearances at area nightclubs. Wallace performs under the name DJ MasterWeb.
In March 2006, the FTC filed a suit again against Wallace and SmartBOT for practices similar to the 2004 suit. This time Wallace and his co-defendants were ordered to pay $5,089,550.48 in fines.
In May 2008 Wallace and Rines were ordered to pay $230 million to MySpace by the L.A. District Court when they failed to appear for trial.
Wallace filed for bankruptcy in June 2009. On October 29, 2009, federal judge Jeremy D. Fogel awarded Facebook $711 million in damages.
In August 2015, Wallace pleaded guilty to electronic mail fraud and criminal contempt of court as well as admitting to mass spamming in 2008 and 2009. He also pleaded guilty to violating a court order to not access Facebooks' computer network.
In June 2016, Wallace has been sentenced to thirty months in prison and ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution for bombarding Facebook users. U.S. District Court Judge Edward J. Davila also sentenced Wallace to mental health treatment and five years of probation once he is released. Judge Davila barred Sanford Wallace of possessing or using any computer without the permission of the probation order.
He's been fined nearly a billion dollars, he's banned from creating MySpace profiles or accessing Facebook's network, and in general possessing or using a computer, he's a repeat offender with criminal contempt and only caught 30 months in jail. He probably deserves at least 5 years, with another 10 on probation. Maybe he'll go back to DJing.
Don't sell him short, he also makes music. And I bet he didn't even get a dime for that.
Yeah it would. It would be cool if they could also remotely upgrade the hardware. Ah, wishes.
The day is still relatively young, but hopefully that's going to be the stupidest thing I see today. I hope it's all uphill from here.
So can a janitor at the State Department can claim "experience in the executive branch"?
Well, technically, I suppose they could, but it makes a shitload more sense if the goddamn Secretary of State is making the claim instead of you when you push a mop around.
does that make federal judges also part of the executive branch?
Are members of the judicial branch members of the executive branch? I don't know, what do you think, Constitutional Scholar AC?
WTF are you arguing about? Is the Department of State part of the executive branch of the federal government or not? Is the Secretary of State who leads that department part of the executive branch? These are simple yes or not questions, they aren't trick questions at all. No need to bring up janitors or judges.
Many people, after watching the actions of Debbie Wasserman Shultz and the DNC in organizing the primaries and debates, would disagree with you. The contest was set up to provide as little resistance as possible to Hillary, and only when Sanders started to call the DNC on that did things start to change. Shultz is the current DNC chair, and she was the Clinton campaign co-chair in 2008, are you really trying to suggest that she was perfectly neutral in this entire process, and did not have her thumb on the scale for Clinton? If you want to claim that the DNC was unbiased in running the primaries, then you need to address issues like these (that list was written 6 months ago, by the way, it doesn't even include Nevada or other recent events).
Surely you're not trying to argue that the DNC did not formally and officially nominate Hillary before the primaries. If that's what you're arguing for, that's not the same argument that I'm having.
When GP said "anointed her without any input", that happened before the primaries started.
Um. No, not like that.
So I'm inclined towards middle range phones, so that I'm spending $200-$400 every two or three years instead of $600-$700.
That's where Oneplus comes in. You can get the top-of-the-line hardware for half the price of their competitors.
That's good if that works for you, there are plenty of people though looking for better hardware. This is the phone that has better hardware for half the price, it's the same thing they did with their other two phones. I'm sure that the current batch of $200 phones have hardware that is still not as powerful as the phone I paid $400 for 2 years ago. What is "worth it" to someone is based on what they want their phone to do, and for how long. If all you do is text and call then you don't need a smart phone at all.
I guess they've just run out of things to upgrade to justify the high price.
It's a low price, actually. You own the phone, you are buying it outright, you are not renting it from your carrier and paying monthly. An unlocked Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, for example, costs $790. That's what the Oneplus Three competes against, so it's $400 versus $790. I own my Oneplus outright, I don't rent it from my carrier, so my cell phone bill is lower. You're still paying for your phone, just not all at once. If you cancel your contract early you'll notice that your carrier bills you for the remainder of the phone price.
spending $400+ on a new phone every year or two is a little rich for my tastes.
Yeah, I thought that paying $400 for my Oneplus One 2 years ago was a little much, but it's the best phone I've ever owned. It has great hardware, and the OS has received regular updates. In fact, the reason why I don't feel the need to upgrade to the Oneplus Three is because my phone still works fine. And, in those 2 years, my cell phone bill has been less every month because my carrier didn't subsidize my phone. It also didn't come pre-loaded with a bunch of crap software, the only thing on it was the OS with the default apps.
A top of the line phone, unlocked, which you own, with no crap on it, which you can move between carriers (or even use 2 carriers at the same time if you need to), for half the price of the competing phones. That's what you're getting, but if that's not what you're looking for then feel free to continue renting.
My Oneplus One arrived with Cyanogenmod installed (I never switched to OxygenOS after the deal with Cyanogen fell through). There isn't a single app that can't be uninstalled, there aren't any paid apps at all as far as I can tell. Everything was pretty stock CM, I assume it's the same deal with the newer phone. I may upgrade, but the only thing that is stopping me is that my phone still works fine, that's why I never got the Oneplus Two. The only things that may be pushing me to upgrade are stupid bugs in some of the CM apps, for example the email client doesn't exactly download and view attachments (you know, not that something like viewing a PDF from email is a huge use case or anything), and the messaging app is slow to update the list of messages, it sits there for a while before displaying anything. I may finally just install a different email client, but those are the only real gripes I have. There are a couple settings I'd like a way to change also, for example I don't need a notification every time my phone gains or loses a signal, and it would be great if I could turn my phone silent and disable the vibrate without turning off all notifications.
For your other questions or concerns, Oneplus has an active community forum that should be able to address anything.
OxygenOS was developed by OnePlus, not the Chinese government. Unless you care to cite a source which shows otherwise, of course. The OxygenOS kernel is here if you'd like to go through it:
https://github.com/OnePlusOSS/...
Jill Stien, Presidential Candidate for the Green party said "Trump says terrible things, but Clinton does terrible things."
I appreciate conservative author P.J. O'Rourke's comments on NPR:
"I am endorsing Hillary, and all her lies and all her empty promises," O'Rourke continued. "It's the second-worst thing that can happen to this country, but she's way behind in second place. She's wrong about absolutely everything, but she's wrong within normal parameters." ...
"This man just can't be president," O'Rourke said, alluding to the nuclear codes the commander-in-chief takes control of upon assuming office. "They've got this button - this briefcase. He's going to find it."
I'm pretty sure this is going to be the election where a third party candidate is who I'll be voting for.
Join the club. Don't worry, it's not shameful or anything. I did that last time, it felt good to vote for someone who I felt represented me instead of voting against someone that I didn't like. C'mon, it's fine, go ahead and actually give your support to someone who you feel earned it. It might be a weird feeling for a lot of voters, but really it feels good.
Is the Department of State part of the legislative or judicial branch?
I have a friend who believes in a lot of conspiracy theories that don't have much evidence, like chemtrails for example. He'll try to convince me that they're true and he thinks it's funny when I continue to insist that there is no evidence and get angry or frustrated about his unsubstantive claims. Maybe 4 or 5 years ago he had a new one, that the NSA was recording every phone call in the US. I was telling him how much access they would need to do that, at every phone company, how much storage space they would need to save all of that data, even if it was just text and not even audio, all of the reasons why that shouldn't be possible and, if it was, someone would know something and would tell everyone.
yeah...
However, changing that and nominating someone else requires deliberately overriding the popular will of the voters.
Oh. Well shit, that never happens.
Has anyone seen Al Gore lately?
or some kind of black swan event, like if she shot a bunch of kindergartners with an AR-15 on national TV while laughing gleefully.
So not just a regular crime, but one of those major tragedies. Got it.
5 Aviators 03/93 Plane Crash
Sweet Jesus, what are the odds that 5 aviators would die in a plane crash? Someone must answer for this!