My theory is that they really only care about lowering taxes. They kind of care about the other stuff, but childish as it is, they just really don't like paying taxes. Even if only richer people are getting most of the tax cuts they like the idea and principle of the matter. Trump signed a big tax cut (and appointed Gorsuch), so he's a success no matter what.
...the tech in a simple phone these days is brushing up against million dollar Hollywood mocap tech. Obviously, there's an exponential difference between the two, but...
It's a lot of added complexity for hardware and software just to gain a small extra space for showing status icons (which won't be enough space anyway).
Oh, and while I'm here, I'd just like to add "FUCK FITBIT" for screwing Pebble owners over...
Well while you're still here, I'd just like to add that Pebble was screwed to begin with and it's not Fitbit's fault. Pebble made the ugliest non-touchscreen smartwatches you could buy. Functionality was great, but they missed the fashion aspect.
I'll see your anecdote about the G3 and raise you mine. I had a G3 which was one of the best phones I've ever had. Great form factor. No hardware problems. The ROM didn't seem bloated to me, just heavily skinned. Great form factor. Maybe you dropped it too much? The only reason I got rid of mine was to get a fingerprint reader.
Even the look? When I first saw images of the car I said to myself "I hope they sell a crap load of these before the Model 3 ramps up production because I can't believe anyone would buy one of these if they can get their hands on a Tesla".
So why didn't you lead with that 3 posts ago instead of disagreeing based on falsehoods? It seems you're just against it regardless of what anyone says.
As to your latest rebuttal, I'm pretty sure "wait until it's a problem" isn't a good strategy. At that point a lot of damage could be done and it may be too late to fix with the glacial pace that the government moves.
Competition has worked on the internet thus far because the means of transmission have traditionally been landline phone cables. You mention AOL being pretty much the "world's ISP", but there were still local upstarts that would/could compete because ultimately you connected to AOL through a dialup service. These days the fiber has been laid and the cell towers have gone up and they're all owned by a few massive entities. Net neutrality comes from people's worry that these large companies (who actually compete with services like netflix) won't just keep the gate wide open like AOL had to in the dialup days. They would stand to profit quite a bit by prioritizing their own services and making Facebook or Netlifx pay extra to get their content across.
I'd be happier if I had the option of being able to pay a private hospital for care if I had the money.
If there's a private hospital it sucks resources from the public ones. The better doctors want to work there. Patients who pay for care at that hospital are now removing income from the public one. It's very similar to the effect of private schools in large cities. There are great schools that are very expensive and then public schools close by which are absolute shitholes. I'm not exactly advocating that we do away with private schools (or maybe I am, I don't know), but my point is that injecting capitalism into an industry doesn't always provide the greatest benefit all around.
What's the difference between Canada and the US again? Right. You can't pay for your own healthcare in Canada at all, everyone get's in line and you just might die from waiting. Where as if you have money in most cases you can get that care.
Why should those with money go to the front of the line?
This honestly doesn't worry me too much. If the Trump admin can repeal the regulation so easily then the next democratic administration can re-institute it just as easily. The ISPs know this, so I doubt they'll invest too much in paid prioritization in the near future.
I don't WANT a random app to be able to skirt around not having root access by claiming to need permissions for "Accessibiliy".
They can't. You would have to specifically go into the accessibility settings and move the slider to "on" for that app. Just don't do that. What I don't WANT is privacy nuts like you demanding a reduction in currently functionality that I happen to find extremely useful.
I'm not sure you fully understand the problem that gnome is trying to solve. It's OK to develop a base to add on to. That's how software development works. Pushing customization and extensions out to the distros is the *right* thing to do. No one will ever agree on defaults/customizations, so not spending lots of time on that for the default gnome3 is just more efficient.
FWIW I just switched from Windows to Ubuntu on my office computer and I tried Budgie, Mate, KDE, and Gnome3. I much prefer gnome3. This is mainly due to the full screen app selector and window picker (also I love the hot corner) and awesome extension support (love "Workspaces to dock").
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My theory is that they really only care about lowering taxes. They kind of care about the other stuff, but childish as it is, they just really don't like paying taxes. Even if only richer people are getting most of the tax cuts they like the idea and principle of the matter. Trump signed a big tax cut (and appointed Gorsuch), so he's a success no matter what.
People don't like when others skirt the law for profit. It's not being an asshole to the uber drivers so much as empathy for the taxi drivers.
...the tech in a simple phone these days is brushing up against million dollar Hollywood mocap tech. Obviously, there's an exponential difference between the two, but...
What?
With the tiny bezels it's actually smaller than a lot of phones with even smaller screens.
If the Trump admin can rescind the rules this quickly, the next Dem administration can just put them back.
It's a lot of added complexity for hardware and software just to gain a small extra space for showing status icons (which won't be enough space anyway).
Oh, and while I'm here, I'd just like to add "FUCK FITBIT" for screwing Pebble owners over...
Well while you're still here, I'd just like to add that Pebble was screwed to begin with and it's not Fitbit's fault. Pebble made the ugliest non-touchscreen smartwatches you could buy. Functionality was great, but they missed the fashion aspect.
I'll see your anecdote about the G3 and raise you mine. I had a G3 which was one of the best phones I've ever had. Great form factor. No hardware problems. The ROM didn't seem bloated to me, just heavily skinned. Great form factor. Maybe you dropped it too much? The only reason I got rid of mine was to get a fingerprint reader.
Do you us ATMs and online banking? Do you know how many tellers you have put out of work?
None.
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Do we even need to? Cryptocurrency has proven itself pretty useless when it comes to both storing wealth and making day to day transactions.
You would then still need iron nerves not to have sold by now.
I like everything I've seen about the Bolt
Even the look? When I first saw images of the car I said to myself "I hope they sell a crap load of these before the Model 3 ramps up production because I can't believe anyone would buy one of these if they can get their hands on a Tesla".
So why didn't you lead with that 3 posts ago instead of disagreeing based on falsehoods? It seems you're just against it regardless of what anyone says.
As to your latest rebuttal, I'm pretty sure "wait until it's a problem" isn't a good strategy. At that point a lot of damage could be done and it may be too late to fix with the glacial pace that the government moves.
Competition has worked on the internet thus far because the means of transmission have traditionally been landline phone cables. You mention AOL being pretty much the "world's ISP", but there were still local upstarts that would/could compete because ultimately you connected to AOL through a dialup service. These days the fiber has been laid and the cell towers have gone up and they're all owned by a few massive entities. Net neutrality comes from people's worry that these large companies (who actually compete with services like netflix) won't just keep the gate wide open like AOL had to in the dialup days. They would stand to profit quite a bit by prioritizing their own services and making Facebook or Netlifx pay extra to get their content across.
I'd be happier if I had the option of being able to pay a private hospital for care if I had the money.
If there's a private hospital it sucks resources from the public ones. The better doctors want to work there. Patients who pay for care at that hospital are now removing income from the public one. It's very similar to the effect of private schools in large cities. There are great schools that are very expensive and then public schools close by which are absolute shitholes. I'm not exactly advocating that we do away with private schools (or maybe I am, I don't know), but my point is that injecting capitalism into an industry doesn't always provide the greatest benefit all around.
What's the difference between Canada and the US again? Right. You can't pay for your own healthcare in Canada at all, everyone get's in line and you just might die from waiting. Where as if you have money in most cases you can get that care.
Why should those with money go to the front of the line?
This honestly doesn't worry me too much. If the Trump admin can repeal the regulation so easily then the next democratic administration can re-institute it just as easily. The ISPs know this, so I doubt they'll invest too much in paid prioritization in the near future.
Congress, through more regulation, arranged for it to be PROFITABLE for banks to make money-spinner loans.
Which legislation was this?
I don't WANT a random app to be able to skirt around not having root access by claiming to need permissions for "Accessibiliy".
They can't. You would have to specifically go into the accessibility settings and move the slider to "on" for that app. Just don't do that. What I don't WANT is privacy nuts like you demanding a reduction in currently functionality that I happen to find extremely useful.
No need for a military then I guess.
China taxes consumption. America taxes production. So they build, we buy. This is a major reason why we have massive deficits and debts.
How does government spending have anything to do with the way taxes are calculated? I think you're oversimplifying a wee bit.
At first I thought it was an innocent mental mix-up. Then you did it again.
You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a...
I'm not sure you fully understand the problem that gnome is trying to solve. It's OK to develop a base to add on to. That's how software development works. Pushing customization and extensions out to the distros is the *right* thing to do. No one will ever agree on defaults/customizations, so not spending lots of time on that for the default gnome3 is just more efficient.
FWIW I just switched from Windows to Ubuntu on my office computer and I tried Budgie, Mate, KDE, and Gnome3. I much prefer gnome3. This is mainly due to the full screen app selector and window picker (also I love the hot corner) and awesome extension support (love "Workspaces to dock").