Yeah, on my iPhone I just get constant reminders to give my credit card numbers to ApplePay or buy iCloud storage so it's not third parties trying get my money, it's the phone manufacturer doing it directly. Along with the bullshit "unsupported device" messages that come up now when trying to use a headphone adapter (which wouldn't even be needed if they had kept the jack), their moneygrubbing behavior has caused me to resolve never to give Apple another cent. I won't need another phone for a couple of years but I guess I should start looking now, it sounds like it's going to be a PITA to find one that's not constantly marketing to me and spying on me.
In the second paragraph of your source it says "The Treasury Department reported this week that individual income tax collections for FY 2018 totaled $1.7 trillion. That's up $14 billion from fiscal 2017". Wow, up $14B out of $1.7T, around 0.8% growth in an economy with around 3.5% growth. Way up!
Reading the article further does supply some useful numbers:
The only category that was down? Corporate income taxes, which dropped by 31%. Overall, federal revenues came in slightly higher in FY 2018 — up 0.5%.
So actual revenues are only up 0.5% (several other sources say 0.4%), that's less than inflation so in real dollars revenues are down (this non-profit, bi-partisan organization estimates down 1.5% in real-money terms and down 4.3% in relation to the GDP) . Corporations are paying a lot less and individuals are paying a little bit more, and the difference is being added to the deficit. The revenue is much less than the Republicans claimed it would be when the tax cuts were being debated, heck Mnuchin said that revenues would rise so much that it would actually decrease the deficit instead of the $1.5 trillion the CBO estimated at that time it would add to the debt over the next 10 years. Even that outlook was too rosy, they CBO says the current estimate of the tax cut's cost is adding $2 trillion in debt. Calling revenue that is falling in real dollars "way up" is par for the course for you, but limit your hyperbole to "tens of thousands of dollars" per illegal immigrant, bullshit claims on taxes are too easily refuted.
You say "the harassment continues from them" but the harassment wasn't coming from Grindr, the harassment was coming from his ex. By law, Grindr is not responsible for content posted by users to their service. That is what the federal court found, which is why they refused to extend the restraining order and why they dismissed the case.
If YOU had clicked into the dismissal document linked from the story, you would know that the temporary restraining order was issued by the state court, but then the case was moved to federal court where they denied the motion to extend the restraining order and ended up dismissing the lawsuit. I don't see anywhere in the article where it alleges that Grindr did not comply with the temporary restraining order for the 3 weeks that it was in force, can you please point that out to me? The only sentence in the article that even references the order is this:
The alleged harassment continued for months, even after Herrick obtained a temporary restraining order against Grindr that required the company to disable the impersonating profiles.
That doesn't say that Grindr didn't comply with the order, only that the harassment continued. It implies that they didn't, but that appears to be slanting the story to make you think that without them actually saying that it happened. Do you have any quotes or evidence that indicate the Plaintiff even alleges that Grindr didn't comply with the order? The actual complaint uses similar language as the article, alleging the "harassment continued" but not alleging that Grindr didn't comply. I could be wrong, but if you had a restraining order and you felt Grindr didn't comply with it why wouldn't you include that in the complaint?
Seriously, your comment reads like a 12 year old trying to sound smart, and failing really, really badly.
It's funny that you say that, since it appears the OP may be correct about thinner glaciers at the equator. From the Snowball Earth Wikipedia page:
A number of unanswered questions remain, including whether the Earth was a full snowball, or a "slushball" with a thin equatorial band of open (or seasonally open) water.
at the temperatures predicted by models equatorial sublimation would prevent equatorial ice thickness from exceeding 10 m
Given those statements, it would be reasonable to posit that the glacial erosion would be less pronounced at the equator. That may not be the case, but it's certainly reasonable and you didn't provide any evidence to the contrary. To belittle the OP's statement as juvenile seems to overestimate your own understanding of the period and the processes at work.
Stop lying corporations pay 40% of the taxes, and about 60% of the remaining income taxes are corporate profits passed through LlLCs and C corps, that are taxed higher than the corporate tax rate. You lie, but you were told that, and you wanted to believe the lie.
Almost half of all federal revenue (48 percent) comes from individual income taxes.... Corporate income taxes make up about 9 percent of federal revenue
You know you can get an adapter with both power and standard audio jack for $10-$15 on Amazon right?
Which won't work, since Apple has decided to disable any "unapproved" accessory. Amazon is full of adapters that no longer work. I recently got a new work iPhone and it was a horrible experience to obtain a headphone jack adapter and I still need to ship the non-working ones back to Amazon so the experience isn't even over yet. I ended up paying the Apple tax and buying the "official" adapter from their store and it is low quality. It's made with very thin wire and flimsy jacks. It is already shorting out in one ear and I've only had it a month. The reviews for the adapter on Apple's site are all negative and say it's a piece of junk but I don't have a choice of another manufacturer since Apple has decided I can only buy Apple branded accessories. I'm stuck with this phone since my work only lets me update every 2 years but my next phone certainly won't be made by Apple and it will have a headphone jack.
The problem is that with the recent tax cut, the revenues didn't increase nearly enough to offset it. It's nowhere near the levels the Republicans claimed it would rise to when they passed the tax cuts, it's not even to the level that the CBO estimated it would be so this tax cut is likely going to add to the debt even more than the 1.5 TRILLION dollars the Republicans claimed it would. The GDP has grown at similar levels as during the Obama administration and tax revenues have actually gone down on an inflation-adjusted basis. Studies that have looked at the economic impact of the corporate tax cut mostly went to share buybacks, companies didn't use the money to expand or invest, they gave it to their owners. It doesn't seem to have spurred any growth in the economy at all. The result of this tax bill seems to be that the rich got richer and the middle class (and the future middle class) will be paying the price.
Most people (80%) are employed by small businesses. That's a statistical fact.
Are you just making up numbers? Just calling it a fact doesn't make it a fact. The Small Business Administration says that small businesses represent 49.2% of employment and 42.9% of payrolls. Do you have a source for your 80% number? It seems like the SBA would have pretty good statistics on something like that.
I believe the difference is the element of greed in this type of scam. It's more pronounced in the classic Nigerian 419 scams but present in this one as well, the person gets scammed because they think they are going to get a huge payoff for often ethically questionable activity (funneling a bunch of Nigerian oil money out of their banks, bribing prison guards, etc.). I think people have a lot more sympathy for tech support or "your grandson is in jail" scams than ones where people are promised a huge payout for sending some money now because they think that greed was a large element of why the scam worked.
I recently got a new iPhone and unless Seratonin is the "angry neurotransmitter" I didn't get any blasts of it. There are many things that don't work as expected or are an annoyance, like constant "reminders" to set up Apple Wallet but the missing headphone jack is the source of most of the ire. It didn't even come with a headphone adapter so I had to buy one , which doesn't work. There's not a technical reason for it failing, it works fine for 1:45 then stops working with an "Unsupported accessory" message. It's just Apple trying to squeeze a few more dollars out of me, forcing me to buy THEIR overpriced accessories (which should be included with the phone in the first place). In my case it is counterproductive because instead of thousands of dollars in future phone purchases Apple will never get another dollar from me because of the horrible experience. Heck, look at the reviews for the basic headphone adapter from the Apple store, most of the reviews are one star:
This is my 7th one I’m one. As some one that loves wired headphones because I hate charging them this dongle is the worst !
I'm on my third lightning adapter since April. They don't last more than 2-3 months and are very cheaply made.
And these are the reviews from the Apple fanbois. It doesn't seem like they are feeling Seratonin blasts either.
Well, this plane flew around the world on just solar cells. Granted, it's more akin to the unmanned gliders you mentioned above but it was manned and flew a lot of miles on just solar power. Solar panels certainly aren't going to totally power an aircraft that carries a lot of passengers or freight but if they add to the range it might make sense to include them.
You realize that Tesla doesn't make rockets, right? SpaceX is a completely different company with nothing in common with Tesla other than Musk. Robyn Denholm isn't the chair of SpaceX and so her appointment shouldn't have any bearing on SpaceX's naming conventions.
Doesn't NASA need a spacecraft that can fly to the IIS before selling seats on it? They don't currently have vehicle that can go to the IIS. Are they selling seats on the SLS, which might get cancelled after spending billions? Or are they selling seats on the Soyuz, Dragon or Dreamliner, which they don't own?
The very first US satellite launched (70+ years ago) was launched into LEO and hasn't de-orbited yet.
Really? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...: Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States... Explorer 1 was launched on January 31, 1958... It remained in orbit until 1970
And that's with a 358x2550 km orbit. The majority of the Starlink satellites are slated to be in a 350x350 km orbit, they will decay much faster than Explorer 1 because of the lower apogee.
Don't look for sensibility when it comes to book pricing. Not that long ago distributors tried charging more for an eBook then a paperback, because you know.. greed. And if not for a silent revolt by readers refusing to buy something less for more, they probably still would.
They obviously still are, the post you replied to had an example of a book where the paperback is $7.50 and the Kindle format is $10.00.
Why would my city care what I post to the Internet? Just what, exactly, are you alleging they are doing or might do? Most of my traffic is encrypted anyway so even if they did want to censor me they couldn't selectively do it. Of course they COULD, but it would be illegal for them to do it. I worry much more about a private corporation censoring my speech since it's not illegal for them to do it. Like I said, I've been on a municipal network for years and I love it, if something changes that I will hold my elected officials responsible. It's way easier to get access to my mayor than it is to get access to the CEO of Comcast.
Did you RTFA? It claims that much of the subsidy is in CASH. Othersources seem to support that assertion as well:
Wisconsin taxpayers will end up sending some $3 billion to the company. While state-level support is touted as tax relief, in fact Wisconsin has already waived almost all of the pertinent taxes for businesses. The taxpayer-funded $3 billion in incentives (the largest ever to a foreign company) will be paid largely in cash.
On top of that, the state will waive $150 million in sales taxes for Foxconn and pay the company up to $2.85 billion in tax credits — likely in cash
When looking a little further into it there are also bunch of projects that the state is doing to accommodate the factory. For example:
-State and local governments will also spend $400 million on road improvements, including adding two lanes to the nearby Interstate 94. And the federal government has committed to spend $160 million more in federal money to help pay for the interstate expansion. -The local electric utility is upgrading its lines and adding substations to provide the necessary power that will be used by the plant, at a cost of $140 million. The cost of those projects will be paid by 5 million customers in the area.
Even if they provide the jobs they originally committed to, it'll cost around $400,000 per job. How long does someone making $50k a year need to pay taxes in Wisconsin to recoup that outlay?
It's a blatant corporate handout. Politicians can afford to be so brazen these days because they have so polarized the political environment that their "team" will vote for them, no matter what. We're watching the downfall of democracy in America and a large number of people are applauding.
Personally, I just want people to have a choice of ISPs - that solves almost everything. Make the "last mile" a utility (and just a dumb pipe). Let many ISPs, local and giant, compete for the no-monopoly business from there.
That's exactly how my municipal fiber works, the city only owns the network and ISPs (or phone or television providers) can provide service over it. I have never heard of an instance where the city tried to exert any control over the content of the network, they just provide the pipe. The Republicans in the state legislature keep passing laws to try to shut the network down (in the service of their masters, the local cable and telco companies) but so far they haven't been successful. I've been on the network for years and it's always been lightning fast and way less expensive than cable internet. It's easier to be cheaper than cable if you just need to pay off your network instead of having to have the network pay for itself plus make profits every quarter in perpetuity.
So I gave my son a hypothesis, that humans and domesticated red foxes [wikipedia.org] would behave in a similar fashion - increased adrenaline levels from any source
The domestication of the red foxes had nothing to do with "adrenaline levels", it was done through selectively breeding the least aggressive foxes of each generation. Unless you chose your wife for her low levels of aggression the red fox experiment has no bearing on your son's aggression. I don't think your hypothesis is necessarily wrong in humans (spend less time doing aggressive things and you'll become a less aggressive person seems logical) but it doesn't have anything to do with foxes.
Capitalizing it doesn't make it change its meaning. You used it wrong, claimed it was a synonym when challenged on it and then doubled-down on your stupidity when shown proof. You certainly have the conservative mindset down pat.
Really? You're going for the "but Obama...!" defense? If you had read the article, you would know that they addressed that very subject and stated that Obama did not make calls on his cell phone when he was President:
President Barack Obama was careful with cellphones, too. He used an iPhone in his second term, but it could not make calls and could receive email only from a special address that was given to a select group of staff members and intimates. It had no camera or microphone, and it could not be used to download apps at will. Texting was forbidden because there was no way to collect and store the messages, as required by the Presidential Records Act.
So basically Obama had a email-reading device, not a cell phone.
TFA is based on the assumption that any consumer grade cell phone can be monitored at will by the Chinese and Russians.
Did you RTFA? It's based on intelligence developed by US agencies:
American spy agencies, the officials said, had learned that China and Russia were eavesdropping on the president’s cellphone calls from human sources inside foreign governments and intercepting communications between foreign officials.
Basically, the reporters talked to some sources in the NSA and CIA and they were told "The Chinese are totally listening in on Trump's cell phone calls, we hear them talking about it all the time when we're eavsdropping on them" and then they talked to some White House officials who said "We tried to take his phones but Trump doesn't like to be told what to do". The article didn't speculate about the method used to intercept the calls so what are you basing your above statement on?
The key detail is that the parts have to be labeled accurately. In the case of batteries, if the cells are replaced or anything is done that makes them not the original Apple part, they can't carry the Apple logo, making these an illegally-marked part.
This is wrong. The simple presence of an Apple logo doesn't make them "illegally marked". If I put a new aftermarket engine in my Ford, I can still sell it without removing the "Ford" badges on the car. If I put new laces in my shoes, I can still sell them without removing the Nike swoosh from the side. As long as it's made clear to the purchaser that the battery is refurbished then it doesn't matter if the Apple logo is on it as the seller isn't representing it as an Apple product. In fact, it sounds like from the article that these aren't even refurbished batteries, they are unmodified second-hand batteries (or at least the subject implies that they are):
"It couldn't be that someone who has these batteries sold them to me. It couldn’t be that someone took these batteries out of machines that were on demo in stores.machines that they owned, packaged them up and sent them to me,” Rossmann said. “No, they must be counterfeit. There’s no other explanation for it.”
In the US it's long been the law that you are free to sell any property you own. If I own it, I can sell it to another person if I wish. The First Sale Doctrine has been the law for a long time. Here, let me quote a little of the Wikipedia article for you:
In trademark law, this same doctrine enables reselling of trademarked products after the trademark holder put the products on the market. The doctrine is also referred to as the "right of first sale," "first sale rule," or "exhaustion rule."
Please do some further research on the above terms before spouting off with your "illegally marked" rhetoric. If what Rossman alleges is true (these are demo pulls or other legitimate Apple batteries) then he is perfectly within his rights to buy and sell them. Even if they are refurbished it's perfectly legal as long as that's made clear to the buyer.
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Yeah, on my iPhone I just get constant reminders to give my credit card numbers to ApplePay or buy iCloud storage so it's not third parties trying get my money, it's the phone manufacturer doing it directly. Along with the bullshit "unsupported device" messages that come up now when trying to use a headphone adapter (which wouldn't even be needed if they had kept the jack), their moneygrubbing behavior has caused me to resolve never to give Apple another cent. I won't need another phone for a couple of years but I guess I should start looking now, it sounds like it's going to be a PITA to find one that's not constantly marketing to me and spying on me.
In the second paragraph of your source it says "The Treasury Department reported this week that individual income tax collections for FY 2018 totaled $1.7 trillion. That's up $14 billion from fiscal 2017". Wow, up $14B out of $1.7T, around 0.8% growth in an economy with around 3.5% growth. Way up!
Reading the article further does supply some useful numbers:
So actual revenues are only up 0.5% (several other sources say 0.4%), that's less than inflation so in real dollars revenues are down (this non-profit, bi-partisan organization estimates down 1.5% in real-money terms and down 4.3% in relation to the GDP) . Corporations are paying a lot less and individuals are paying a little bit more, and the difference is being added to the deficit. The revenue is much less than the Republicans claimed it would be when the tax cuts were being debated, heck Mnuchin said that revenues would rise so much that it would actually decrease the deficit instead of the $1.5 trillion the CBO estimated at that time it would add to the debt over the next 10 years. Even that outlook was too rosy, they CBO says the current estimate of the tax cut's cost is adding $2 trillion in debt. Calling revenue that is falling in real dollars "way up" is par for the course for you, but limit your hyperbole to "tens of thousands of dollars" per illegal immigrant, bullshit claims on taxes are too easily refuted.
You say "the harassment continues from them" but the harassment wasn't coming from Grindr, the harassment was coming from his ex. By law, Grindr is not responsible for content posted by users to their service. That is what the federal court found, which is why they refused to extend the restraining order and why they dismissed the case.
If YOU had clicked into the dismissal document linked from the story, you would know that the temporary restraining order was issued by the state court, but then the case was moved to federal court where they denied the motion to extend the restraining order and ended up dismissing the lawsuit. I don't see anywhere in the article where it alleges that Grindr did not comply with the temporary restraining order for the 3 weeks that it was in force, can you please point that out to me? The only sentence in the article that even references the order is this:
That doesn't say that Grindr didn't comply with the order, only that the harassment continued. It implies that they didn't, but that appears to be slanting the story to make you think that without them actually saying that it happened. Do you have any quotes or evidence that indicate the Plaintiff even alleges that Grindr didn't comply with the order? The actual complaint uses similar language as the article, alleging the "harassment continued" but not alleging that Grindr didn't comply. I could be wrong, but if you had a restraining order and you felt Grindr didn't comply with it why wouldn't you include that in the complaint?
Seriously, your comment reads like a 12 year old trying to sound smart, and failing really, really badly.
It's funny that you say that, since it appears the OP may be correct about thinner glaciers at the equator. From the Snowball Earth Wikipedia page:
Given those statements, it would be reasonable to posit that the glacial erosion would be less pronounced at the equator. That may not be the case, but it's certainly reasonable and you didn't provide any evidence to the contrary. To belittle the OP's statement as juvenile seems to overestimate your own understanding of the period and the processes at work.
Stop lying corporations pay 40% of the taxes, and about 60% of the remaining income taxes are corporate profits passed through LlLCs and C corps, that are taxed higher than the corporate tax rate. You lie, but you were told that, and you wanted to believe the lie.
Citation needed. Quoting this document:
You know you can get an adapter with both power and standard audio jack for $10-$15 on Amazon right?
Which won't work, since Apple has decided to disable any "unapproved" accessory. Amazon is full of adapters that no longer work. I recently got a new work iPhone and it was a horrible experience to obtain a headphone jack adapter and I still need to ship the non-working ones back to Amazon so the experience isn't even over yet. I ended up paying the Apple tax and buying the "official" adapter from their store and it is low quality. It's made with very thin wire and flimsy jacks. It is already shorting out in one ear and I've only had it a month. The reviews for the adapter on Apple's site are all negative and say it's a piece of junk but I don't have a choice of another manufacturer since Apple has decided I can only buy Apple branded accessories. I'm stuck with this phone since my work only lets me update every 2 years but my next phone certainly won't be made by Apple and it will have a headphone jack.
The problem is that with the recent tax cut, the revenues didn't increase nearly enough to offset it. It's nowhere near the levels the Republicans claimed it would rise to when they passed the tax cuts, it's not even to the level that the CBO estimated it would be so this tax cut is likely going to add to the debt even more than the 1.5 TRILLION dollars the Republicans claimed it would. The GDP has grown at similar levels as during the Obama administration and tax revenues have actually gone down on an inflation-adjusted basis. Studies that have looked at the economic impact of the corporate tax cut mostly went to share buybacks, companies didn't use the money to expand or invest, they gave it to their owners. It doesn't seem to have spurred any growth in the economy at all. The result of this tax bill seems to be that the rich got richer and the middle class (and the future middle class) will be paying the price.
Most people (80%) are employed by small businesses. That's a statistical fact.
Are you just making up numbers? Just calling it a fact doesn't make it a fact. The Small Business Administration says that small businesses represent 49.2% of employment and 42.9% of payrolls. Do you have a source for your 80% number? It seems like the SBA would have pretty good statistics on something like that.
I believe the difference is the element of greed in this type of scam. It's more pronounced in the classic Nigerian 419 scams but present in this one as well, the person gets scammed because they think they are going to get a huge payoff for often ethically questionable activity (funneling a bunch of Nigerian oil money out of their banks, bribing prison guards, etc.). I think people have a lot more sympathy for tech support or "your grandson is in jail" scams than ones where people are promised a huge payout for sending some money now because they think that greed was a large element of why the scam worked.
I recently got a new iPhone and unless Seratonin is the "angry neurotransmitter" I didn't get any blasts of it. There are many things that don't work as expected or are an annoyance, like constant "reminders" to set up Apple Wallet but the missing headphone jack is the source of most of the ire. It didn't even come with a headphone adapter so I had to buy one , which doesn't work. There's not a technical reason for it failing, it works fine for 1:45 then stops working with an "Unsupported accessory" message. It's just Apple trying to squeeze a few more dollars out of me, forcing me to buy THEIR overpriced accessories (which should be included with the phone in the first place). In my case it is counterproductive because instead of thousands of dollars in future phone purchases Apple will never get another dollar from me because of the horrible experience. Heck, look at the reviews for the basic headphone adapter from the Apple store, most of the reviews are one star:
And these are the reviews from the Apple fanbois. It doesn't seem like they are feeling Seratonin blasts either.
Well, this plane flew around the world on just solar cells. Granted, it's more akin to the unmanned gliders you mentioned above but it was manned and flew a lot of miles on just solar power. Solar panels certainly aren't going to totally power an aircraft that carries a lot of passengers or freight but if they add to the range it might make sense to include them.
You realize that Tesla doesn't make rockets, right? SpaceX is a completely different company with nothing in common with Tesla other than Musk. Robyn Denholm isn't the chair of SpaceX and so her appointment shouldn't have any bearing on SpaceX's naming conventions.
Doesn't NASA need a spacecraft that can fly to the IIS before selling seats on it? They don't currently have vehicle that can go to the IIS. Are they selling seats on the SLS, which might get cancelled after spending billions? Or are they selling seats on the Soyuz, Dragon or Dreamliner, which they don't own?
The very first US satellite launched (70+ years ago) was launched into LEO and hasn't de-orbited yet.
Really? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...: ... Explorer 1 was launched on January 31, 1958 ... It remained in orbit until 1970
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States
And that's with a 358x2550 km orbit. The majority of the Starlink satellites are slated to be in a 350x350 km orbit, they will decay much faster than Explorer 1 because of the lower apogee.
Don't look for sensibility when it comes to book pricing. Not that long ago distributors tried charging more for an eBook then a paperback, because you know.. greed. And if not for a silent revolt by readers refusing to buy something less for more, they probably still would.
They obviously still are, the post you replied to had an example of a book where the paperback is $7.50 and the Kindle format is $10.00.
Why would my city care what I post to the Internet? Just what, exactly, are you alleging they are doing or might do? Most of my traffic is encrypted anyway so even if they did want to censor me they couldn't selectively do it. Of course they COULD, but it would be illegal for them to do it. I worry much more about a private corporation censoring my speech since it's not illegal for them to do it. Like I said, I've been on a municipal network for years and I love it, if something changes that I will hold my elected officials responsible. It's way easier to get access to my mayor than it is to get access to the CEO of Comcast.
Did you RTFA? It claims that much of the subsidy is in CASH. Other sources seem to support that assertion as well:
When looking a little further into it there are also bunch of projects that the state is doing to accommodate the factory. For example:
-State and local governments will also spend $400 million on road improvements, including adding two lanes to the nearby Interstate 94. And the federal government has committed to spend $160 million more in federal money to help pay for the interstate expansion.
-The local electric utility is upgrading its lines and adding substations to provide the necessary power that will be used by the plant, at a cost of $140 million. The cost of those projects will be paid by 5 million customers in the area.
Even if they provide the jobs they originally committed to, it'll cost around $400,000 per job. How long does someone making $50k a year need to pay taxes in Wisconsin to recoup that outlay?
It's a blatant corporate handout. Politicians can afford to be so brazen these days because they have so polarized the political environment that their "team" will vote for them, no matter what. We're watching the downfall of democracy in America and a large number of people are applauding.
Personally, I just want people to have a choice of ISPs - that solves almost everything. Make the "last mile" a utility (and just a dumb pipe). Let many ISPs, local and giant, compete for the no-monopoly business from there.
That's exactly how my municipal fiber works, the city only owns the network and ISPs (or phone or television providers) can provide service over it. I have never heard of an instance where the city tried to exert any control over the content of the network, they just provide the pipe. The Republicans in the state legislature keep passing laws to try to shut the network down (in the service of their masters, the local cable and telco companies) but so far they haven't been successful. I've been on the network for years and it's always been lightning fast and way less expensive than cable internet. It's easier to be cheaper than cable if you just need to pay off your network instead of having to have the network pay for itself plus make profits every quarter in perpetuity.
So I gave my son a hypothesis, that humans and domesticated red foxes [wikipedia.org] would behave in a similar fashion - increased adrenaline levels from any source
The domestication of the red foxes had nothing to do with "adrenaline levels", it was done through selectively breeding the least aggressive foxes of each generation. Unless you chose your wife for her low levels of aggression the red fox experiment has no bearing on your son's aggression. I don't think your hypothesis is necessarily wrong in humans (spend less time doing aggressive things and you'll become a less aggressive person seems logical) but it doesn't have anything to do with foxes.
Capitalizing it doesn't make it change its meaning. You used it wrong, claimed it was a synonym when challenged on it and then doubled-down on your stupidity when shown proof. You certainly have the conservative mindset down pat.
So, you are seeking to contradict me on the basis of the synonyms I chose? "Right wing" and "Right-minded" are the same things, dear
No, those are not synonyms. From https://www.dictionary.com/bro... (the only definition, I'm not cherry picking):
Being conservative has nothing to do with having correct, honest or good opinions. Try not to be so patronizing when you are wrong-minded, dear.
Really? You're going for the "but Obama ...!" defense? If you had read the article, you would know that they addressed that very subject and stated that Obama did not make calls on his cell phone when he was President:
So basically Obama had a email-reading device, not a cell phone.
TFA is based on the assumption that any consumer grade cell phone can be monitored at will by the Chinese and Russians.
Did you RTFA? It's based on intelligence developed by US agencies:
Basically, the reporters talked to some sources in the NSA and CIA and they were told "The Chinese are totally listening in on Trump's cell phone calls, we hear them talking about it all the time when we're eavsdropping on them" and then they talked to some White House officials who said "We tried to take his phones but Trump doesn't like to be told what to do". The article didn't speculate about the method used to intercept the calls so what are you basing your above statement on?
The key detail is that the parts have to be labeled accurately. In the case of batteries, if the cells are replaced or anything is done that makes them not the original Apple part, they can't carry the Apple logo, making these an illegally-marked part.
This is wrong. The simple presence of an Apple logo doesn't make them "illegally marked". If I put a new aftermarket engine in my Ford, I can still sell it without removing the "Ford" badges on the car. If I put new laces in my shoes, I can still sell them without removing the Nike swoosh from the side. As long as it's made clear to the purchaser that the battery is refurbished then it doesn't matter if the Apple logo is on it as the seller isn't representing it as an Apple product. In fact, it sounds like from the article that these aren't even refurbished batteries, they are unmodified second-hand batteries (or at least the subject implies that they are):
In the US it's long been the law that you are free to sell any property you own. If I own it, I can sell it to another person if I wish. The First Sale Doctrine has been the law for a long time. Here, let me quote a little of the Wikipedia article for you:
Please do some further research on the above terms before spouting off with your "illegally marked" rhetoric. If what Rossman alleges is true (these are demo pulls or other legitimate Apple batteries) then he is perfectly within his rights to buy and sell them. Even if they are refurbished it's perfectly legal as long as that's made clear to the buyer.