What is reasonable expectation? When people assume something, they are to blame for their assumptions, and nobody else. It is victim blaming, because instead of taking an active role in deciding how to live their lives, they have chosen to go the Zombie route and not think at all, because that is much too hard. Why blame Facebook for doing what Facebook wants to do, to provide a better experience to their customers (Advertisers)?
When you are the product, you have no rights. After all, you have a choice of being a product, or not. Don't blame Facebook when you sell yourself off for convenience.
It is already happening. And with the push of 3D printers, and advanced CNC milling machines and so forth, the actual people who will thrive are the ones that can see a problem, cut a solution out in a CAD program, Mill and Print the parts needed and sell or license the patents off. You did patent the idea, right?
Unskilled, semi-skill laborers that can be replaced by robots, need to be replaced by robots. In the future, the real wealth will be created by those that are creative, artistic, and highly skilled craftsmen.
Statists always suggest government is the ONLY solution to problems the government creates. It is time we stop accepting that premise as true, and make them prove it. In this case, they have proven they can't do the job, so fire the whole bunch and start over.
Actually, private contractors are the second worse option, the worst option, which the TSA went for is Unionized Government Employees. The union protects everyone, especially the lazy, evil, and corrupt members, and makes it nearly impossible to fire anyone for anything. You practically have to be on camera raping little girls before you can be fired (suspended, tried convicted and sentenced before actually being "fired") And you can't fire the TSA and replace it when it proves itself absolutely worthless (as in this case).
The fact is, the TSA is worst case scenario, and another fine example of "government" working hard to extract as much tax payer money as possible.Private contractors would do a much better job, cost less, and have better accountability than the current TSA does. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and in this case, the pudding tastes like shit.
If you give your privacy away, just so you can post status updates about your life, you're not really concerned about privacy, are you?
In other words, most people could not care any less about "privacy" since they are practically posting their daily lives on facebook. The problem is, those people are dragging the rest of us down along side them.
The "desktop" is dead. The new model is the "cloud hybrid" of ChromeOS, Android and iOS. This is just an extension of the client/server market found in enterprise, but now available to just about everyone, where Google, Microsoft (O365) and iOS all converge in concept. The difference is, Google is lightyears ahead of Microsoft in this new hybrid, and offers most people everything they need in an "office suite", and does so way better than anything the other two do.
I have to use O365 and Google Apps. And having used both, Google is much better suited for your average user than Microsoft, which seems to think you should need a MIS degree to use O365; Making it harder to use, for no apparent reason.
All I said was Taxes are regressive. Period. I can point to a thousand examples of rich avoiding taxes, while everyday people are stuck with them. They are regressive.
How many poor and working class people are benifitting from Apple? Lots. Access to the entire worlds knowledge at one's fingertips. And while I understand you said "stock" you're ignoring the obvious. Every person who has access to an extra 97.90 (today's closing price) can benefit from Apple stock. It is their choice, as they have every opportunity to do that (instead of buying 1/2 a pair of Nike's)
OR they could buy six shares of AAPL instead of that iPad.
So, what planet am I from? Earth, grounded in reality. Unlike the Bern'ed out ones who are grounded in envy, hate and wearing Rose tinted Socialist goggles.
Actually, it is "billions and billions" that are homeless or hungry around the world. Your use of national lines is quite endearing, but the only way to solve this problem is a worldwide socialistic dictatorship, with confiscatory taxes on everyone. Then the rich can't pay to avoid taxes, and everything will end up being "fair". That is the goal, right?
Maybe, some poor Bernie supporter thinks that Government has a right to all of the money earned by people, and thus is entitled to it via taxes, and can't understand why people would do anything to legally avoid paying confiscatory taxes.
Your assumption is that the government has a right to the money, at whatever tax rate YOU think is "fair". I would suggest to you, that all taxes are regressive, as the rich can always pay to avoid taxes, while the poor and working classes cannot. Government doesn't have a right to people's hard earned money.
Thus providing additional evidence that taxes, all of them, are regressive. The poor cannot avoid taxes, and the rich can simply move their money out of reach of government. It is NOT evil to avoid paying taxes using every legal means necessary. It is evil to assume government has a right to your money via Taxes.
5% growth in a slowing market is actually pretty good. No, it isn't 15% or 10%, but it is still pretty good. And considering your investing options in the current world economy, it actually pretty damn good.
So everything else is relative. It just depends on what you're comparing against.
To answer the question: Apple needs to NOT forget who breads its butter. You don't need to nickle and dime your customers to death to survive. Looking at the lifespan of "smart phones", from the time of Palm Pilots and feature phones, I saw what a "Smart Phone" could have been. I carried both, and wish they were one device long before the Treo and iPhone came out. There are synergies that are clear, and when they are apparent, work on making them functional. Right now, there are synergies that can be made, Apple just needs to figure out what they are.
I have my ideas of where those synergies are, and Chromebooks (with Android Apps) comes closest to lining them up. That idea still fall short of my idea. I think Google is on the right path, but their thinking (at least publicly) is still short sighted.
IMHO the reason Blackberry failed, was that they tried to monetize the whole Blackberry ecosystem, from their Server Platform to each device, while at the same time, not providing enough improvements to their products that they quickly became 2nd tier phone manufacturer when Apple iPhone was released. This lead to people ditching the more expensive, less functional Blackberrys for iPhone and when Android finally took off, nailed the coffin shut.
FWIW, I owned a Blackberry, and my biggest complaint was that they tried to make me pay $5 / mo for turning on the GPS chip in the phone. That is, until it became clear that iPhones and Androids had such a feature for free. And then it was too late, for me, and for them. It was the classic case of trying to milk a dying cow, until it became clear that doing so would finish the cow off.
Voters voted for the idiots running the show. These Statists (both DNC and GOP) are to blame for creating these laws. There is ONLY one party that is not in support of using the State in economic issues such as this. I am not talking about copyrights (which is in the Constitution) I am talking about creating a set of rules that allows for industry suppression of competition, en masse, such as the DMCA take down system.
There is a fix, which is to require FALSE take down requests to be civilly liable for the false take down. In this case, the original content owner should sue the crap out of Fox in civil court and should they prevail get paid quit handsomely.
No, TV show ratings show evidence that misogyny exists
Just because you think it, doesn't mean it does. TV show ratings don't show anything, but how people feel about TV shows. That Misogyny exists is irrelevant here. Because it exists, you can point to just about anything in life and say "Shows evidence of misogyny", in the same way that DiHidrogen Monoxide is present in all sorts of dangerous compounds. BTW, did you know that 100% of all cancers have DiHydrogen Monoxide present?!!!???!!!!
And all your stats indicate is that Men shows have more universal appeal than women shows do. And that is actually not misogyny.
It is right up there with trying to say that because Empire is panned by white people, that white people are racist. However, I would counter that logic by saying a "black show, about black people doing black things in a black way" is actually where the "racism" comes in. It isn't something culturally relevant to anyone but black people and people who want to be immersed in that subculture. In fact, if you substitute "asian" or "latin" or "indian" or even "Gear heads" for black, I'd bet very few people would be interested it that show unless they were part of that culture. Empire might be a fantastic show, but it is of limited appeal because the subject matter is itself limiting. And there is nothing wrong with limiting your audience, as long as you understand what you're doing. And it isn't racism, it is about cultural relevancy to the subculture you're targeting. And there is nothing wrong with that. That isn't racism.
Perhaps THAT is the problem going on here. Its like the crap my wife says when I watch MMA or Car Shows or whatever, and the derogatory comments she makes about them, but should I say something about sex in the city I'm a fucking pig* .
*Not really, making stuff up that I've seen in other couples do.
Yes, you use emotionally charged terms like "disgusting" while not actually answering the question I posed. I know why.
No, it is the implication that a person is wielding their child as a tool with criminal intent to defraud a society rather than, you know, being a human being and trying to make a better life for one's self and family that makes you racist.
Which "race" am I talking about here? Exactly? If you can't tell, that is just an empty throwaway phrase designed to be dismissive without any facts to back it up. You walked right into that one.
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What is reasonable expectation? When people assume something, they are to blame for their assumptions, and nobody else. It is victim blaming, because instead of taking an active role in deciding how to live their lives, they have chosen to go the Zombie route and not think at all, because that is much too hard. Why blame Facebook for doing what Facebook wants to do, to provide a better experience to their customers (Advertisers)?
When you are the product, you have no rights. After all, you have a choice of being a product, or not. Don't blame Facebook when you sell yourself off for convenience.
It is already happening. And with the push of 3D printers, and advanced CNC milling machines and so forth, the actual people who will thrive are the ones that can see a problem, cut a solution out in a CAD program, Mill and Print the parts needed and sell or license the patents off. You did patent the idea, right?
Unskilled, semi-skill laborers that can be replaced by robots, need to be replaced by robots. In the future, the real wealth will be created by those that are creative, artistic, and highly skilled craftsmen.
Thus proving the (D) and (R) are exactly the same on the really important matters. And why I'll never vote for either.
Statists always suggest government is the ONLY solution to problems the government creates. It is time we stop accepting that premise as true, and make them prove it. In this case, they have proven they can't do the job, so fire the whole bunch and start over.
Actually, private contractors are the second worse option, the worst option, which the TSA went for is Unionized Government Employees. The union protects everyone, especially the lazy, evil, and corrupt members, and makes it nearly impossible to fire anyone for anything. You practically have to be on camera raping little girls before you can be fired (suspended, tried convicted and sentenced before actually being "fired") And you can't fire the TSA and replace it when it proves itself absolutely worthless (as in this case).
The fact is, the TSA is worst case scenario, and another fine example of "government" working hard to extract as much tax payer money as possible.Private contractors would do a much better job, cost less, and have better accountability than the current TSA does. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and in this case, the pudding tastes like shit.
If you give your privacy away, just so you can post status updates about your life, you're not really concerned about privacy, are you?
In other words, most people could not care any less about "privacy" since they are practically posting their daily lives on facebook. The problem is, those people are dragging the rest of us down along side them.
The "desktop" is dead. The new model is the "cloud hybrid" of ChromeOS, Android and iOS. This is just an extension of the client/server market found in enterprise, but now available to just about everyone, where Google, Microsoft (O365) and iOS all converge in concept. The difference is, Google is lightyears ahead of Microsoft in this new hybrid, and offers most people everything they need in an "office suite", and does so way better than anything the other two do.
I have to use O365 and Google Apps. And having used both, Google is much better suited for your average user than Microsoft, which seems to think you should need a MIS degree to use O365; Making it harder to use, for no apparent reason.
I am not pretending to be anything.
All I said was Taxes are regressive. Period. I can point to a thousand examples of rich avoiding taxes, while everyday people are stuck with them. They are regressive.
How many poor and working class people are benifitting from Apple? Lots. Access to the entire worlds knowledge at one's fingertips. And while I understand you said "stock" you're ignoring the obvious. Every person who has access to an extra 97.90 (today's closing price) can benefit from Apple stock. It is their choice, as they have every opportunity to do that (instead of buying 1/2 a pair of Nike's)
OR they could buy six shares of AAPL instead of that iPad.
So, what planet am I from? Earth, grounded in reality. Unlike the Bern'ed out ones who are grounded in envy, hate and wearing Rose tinted Socialist goggles.
Oh Great, a whole new Bathroom controversy as the Fury clans all want their own "non-human" bathrooms. Thanks Obama!
Actually, it is "billions and billions" that are homeless or hungry around the world. Your use of national lines is quite endearing, but the only way to solve this problem is a worldwide socialistic dictatorship, with confiscatory taxes on everyone. Then the rich can't pay to avoid taxes, and everything will end up being "fair". That is the goal, right?
Maybe, some poor Bernie supporter thinks that Government has a right to all of the money earned by people, and thus is entitled to it via taxes, and can't understand why people would do anything to legally avoid paying confiscatory taxes.
Your assumption is that the government has a right to the money, at whatever tax rate YOU think is "fair". I would suggest to you, that all taxes are regressive, as the rich can always pay to avoid taxes, while the poor and working classes cannot. Government doesn't have a right to people's hard earned money.
"confiscatory tax rate"
Thus providing additional evidence that taxes, all of them, are regressive. The poor cannot avoid taxes, and the rich can simply move their money out of reach of government. It is NOT evil to avoid paying taxes using every legal means necessary. It is evil to assume government has a right to your money via Taxes.
5% growth in a slowing market is actually pretty good. No, it isn't 15% or 10%, but it is still pretty good. And considering your investing options in the current world economy, it actually pretty damn good.
So everything else is relative. It just depends on what you're comparing against.
To answer the question: Apple needs to NOT forget who breads its butter. You don't need to nickle and dime your customers to death to survive. Looking at the lifespan of "smart phones", from the time of Palm Pilots and feature phones, I saw what a "Smart Phone" could have been. I carried both, and wish they were one device long before the Treo and iPhone came out. There are synergies that are clear, and when they are apparent, work on making them functional. Right now, there are synergies that can be made, Apple just needs to figure out what they are.
I have my ideas of where those synergies are, and Chromebooks (with Android Apps) comes closest to lining them up. That idea still fall short of my idea. I think Google is on the right path, but their thinking (at least publicly) is still short sighted.
IMHO the reason Blackberry failed, was that they tried to monetize the whole Blackberry ecosystem, from their Server Platform to each device, while at the same time, not providing enough improvements to their products that they quickly became 2nd tier phone manufacturer when Apple iPhone was released. This lead to people ditching the more expensive, less functional Blackberrys for iPhone and when Android finally took off, nailed the coffin shut.
FWIW, I owned a Blackberry, and my biggest complaint was that they tried to make me pay $5 / mo for turning on the GPS chip in the phone. That is, until it became clear that iPhones and Androids had such a feature for free. And then it was too late, for me, and for them. It was the classic case of trying to milk a dying cow, until it became clear that doing so would finish the cow off.
Average people setting up average home networks are on average, unable to patch anything.
Average people don't care until it is too late, and then it is too late to care. (file under "Its all over but the crying")
Really, when was the last time you checked the Vulnerability list for your home networking products? And when was the last time before that?
Voters voted for the idiots running the show. These Statists (both DNC and GOP) are to blame for creating these laws. There is ONLY one party that is not in support of using the State in economic issues such as this. I am not talking about copyrights (which is in the Constitution) I am talking about creating a set of rules that allows for industry suppression of competition, en masse, such as the DMCA take down system.
There is a fix, which is to require FALSE take down requests to be civilly liable for the false take down. In this case, the original content owner should sue the crap out of Fox in civil court and should they prevail get paid quit handsomely.
No, TV show ratings show evidence that misogyny exists
Just because you think it, doesn't mean it does. TV show ratings don't show anything, but how people feel about TV shows. That Misogyny exists is irrelevant here. Because it exists, you can point to just about anything in life and say "Shows evidence of misogyny", in the same way that DiHidrogen Monoxide is present in all sorts of dangerous compounds. BTW, did you know that 100% of all cancers have DiHydrogen Monoxide present?!!!???!!!!
And all your stats indicate is that Men shows have more universal appeal than women shows do. And that is actually not misogyny.
It is right up there with trying to say that because Empire is panned by white people, that white people are racist. However, I would counter that logic by saying a "black show, about black people doing black things in a black way" is actually where the "racism" comes in. It isn't something culturally relevant to anyone but black people and people who want to be immersed in that subculture. In fact, if you substitute "asian" or "latin" or "indian" or even "Gear heads" for black, I'd bet very few people would be interested it that show unless they were part of that culture. Empire might be a fantastic show, but it is of limited appeal because the subject matter is itself limiting. And there is nothing wrong with limiting your audience, as long as you understand what you're doing. And it isn't racism, it is about cultural relevancy to the subculture you're targeting. And there is nothing wrong with that. That isn't racism.
Glad you didn't say Voyager! Because that would be misogyny against Captain Janeway!
TV show ratings now = Misogyny
Perhaps THAT is the problem going on here. Its like the crap my wife says when I watch MMA or Car Shows or whatever, and the derogatory comments she makes about them, but should I say something about sex in the city I'm a fucking pig* .
*Not really, making stuff up that I've seen in other couples do.
Transgendered = Creation of science.
Most Chromebooks also have SD cards slots for storing data locally. This make the lack of storage a non-issue.
Yes, you use emotionally charged terms like "disgusting" while not actually answering the question I posed. I know why.
No, it is the implication that a person is wielding their child as a tool with criminal intent to defraud a society rather than, you know, being a human being and trying to make a better life for one's self and family that makes you racist.
Which "race" am I talking about here? Exactly? If you can't tell, that is just an empty throwaway phrase designed to be dismissive without any facts to back it up. You walked right into that one.