Sorry, I don't live in the PC world where you you think you live where you need to fill out forms and have them certified before having sex. It seems that your fantasy world where you get to be the one choosing (instead of the participating adults) what is and isn't consent is just that: your fantasy. You can send all the memos you want but until the laws change, they have no effect.
So you find yourself "enlightened" enough to decide what is/isn't a crime, eh? You wouldn't condemn innocents at all, no, no. An accusation is all that suffices as long as the (thought) crime is one of those you are interested in & you can target the population you want to suppress. You should move to Turkey, they are having great success criminalising thousands and thousands of their people the way you want to.
Sorry but no. Federal funding for campaigns was voted in by people wanting to limit the importance of special interests (read wealthy contributors) to avoid the common people being squeezed out & not your revisionist make the govt pay for it with OUR money theory.
Then you need to take a closer look at Putin's history with his neighbours and ex-partners. The only kind of relationship he wants is of subservience. Look, I was a anyone but Hillary guy since Bill was President. Trump is using Putin to do his dirty work for him but that's a fools game.
I'm anti Trump, however I'd still like to know what country does not accord tax benefits for companies or people with a bad year and that puts people in jail for following their laws.
Putin clearly wants a weak U.S. President, thus Trump who wants to come in and break things and appoint outsiders over Clinton who will be using people from the Clinton & Obama presidencies.
Thus handing the entire political process off to private interests? The reason there is federal money is to limit the influence of these private interests.
"supposed"?!? Anyone that can say that influence in political parties is not related to past favours with a straight face has insufficient acumen to comment on real-world politics.
The fringes of both the Democratic and Republican parties believe that all they need to do to win the general election is win their primary.
The reality is that unless both fringes manage to do so for the same election, centrist voters, who are the one who determine who wins in general elections will abandon the party with the fringe candidate.
Unfortunately for the Bernie fringies willing want to see everything burn, they're outnumbered by the people in the Republican party who are disgusted with Trump.
So for you it's your inability to earn enough to buy an iPhone that motivates your hate. Poor poor you, so envious of what you cannot have. For normal people desire motivates them to work harder so that they can obtain what they desire. Pathetic haters like you turn inward and lose their grip on reality because everything gets filtered by their petty little hate. You cannot go down the rabbit hole because you already live there.
No android phone is as well developed and easy to use as an iPhone. It does what I need securely and elegantly.
Because whoever sold you whatever you use isn't in it for the money... Rational thought is clearly beyond your merger means.
I care more that I am able to buy an easy to use, secure product I want at the price I want and long term support than about useless trivialisations by a jerk with an irrational hate-on.
I know it's impossible for an apple hater to engage his brain when whining that swiss knife style thick phones are the only true way of making phones so I won't even try asking you.
There was no direct replacement for delivering read-only media to clients when the Superdrive was dropped yet we muddle through.
The Lightning port adapter is a direct replacement for the Jack. Need to charge at the same time? Use a dongle or a base. Need higher quality than the iPhone DAC delivers? Use an external DAC.
Whining "BUT I DON'T WANNA" and pretending that THIS migration is somehow special is for fools.
Given that Apple sells protective covers, you have a weird idea of what "obvious" means. Apparently reading or using the word Apple in any sentence inverts the meaning for you for some bizarre reason.
Adding models has costs. Apple doesn't cater to tiny niche markets and their market research shows that those who would buy a thick phone over a iPhone+battery case is too small to merit it's development.
You highly doubt... but you have absolutely no idea of the costs/benefits. Again Apple/Samsung/... do have the knowledge and other than a few relatively poor selling models, nobody is making thick phones anymore. Apple in particular is well known for concentrating it's production only on models that sell well instead of trying to fill each and every niche.
The aftermarket battery case market is there for the small percentage who want thickphones.
I prefer to determine who's in the minority & who's not by taking a look at sales figures and looking at which companies survive year after year.
We've seen a number of cycles where companies that come into the market, undercut the others prices & then fall victim to the next entrant. It's not sustainable and a few months/years later support tanks. If you want to continue relying on these least expensive manufacturers, be my guest. It's not for me.
The ThickPhones and their accompanying belt holsters are no longer among us. Thin enough phones that you can put into a case if you desire or not if you don't & plug into an external battery when needed make up the vast majority of phones sold this decade.
But you go ahead and and refer to the best selling phones as paper thin phones because of course it's your opinion that determines who's in the minority.
Apple/Samsung/... do market studies. The market studies show that very few people buy these phones that you need to put in a holster like we did 20 years ago.
If cases were more than a negligible market you'd think that Apple or Samsung would cut the market off with thicker phones. They haven't.
With all the claimants that Apple bought Beats & eliminated the Jack in some dark conspiracy to gyp buyers out of more money, you'd think that EVIL APPLE would also be doing the same thing to this (as you pretend) flourishing market for cases with Jacks. They haven't.
Ahh, isn't 20-10 hindsight wonderful? Too bad your memory is going.
Ever used a teletype there junior? My first computer was a PDP-11 where you had to enter the boot code digitally with a front panel numeric keypad, My first connection to to the Arpanet was using a Multics account & I still have the special punch I used to use to turn single sided 8" & 5"1/4 floppies into double sided ones. "Us old folks..." Humbug!
Each of the migrations I mentioned was whined about exactly as being losing something irreplaceable: Floppies: Zip drives are fragile and USB keys are too expensive! Whine, whine, whine... Serial ports: But I don't WANT to have to carry around a usb-to-serial dongle! They get LOST and it's just NOT PRACTICAL! Whine, whine, whine... Optical Drives: I deliver projects to my clients by writing them to a CD, install software using DVDs and watch Movies using the SuperDrive. NOTHING EXISTS that can do all of that for me today!!! Whine, whine, whine...
Oh, but: "WHAT! I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO PLUG IN THE FREE ADAPTER OR USE AN EXTERNAL USB DAC!!! I WANT THINGS TO STAY JUST THE SAME!!!" That's somehow completely different.
People that really care about the sound quality (like my professional musician friend) are already using external DACs. There are a range of prices available.
People who don't care will just plug the adapter into their existing earphones. Some will try Bluetooth and discover that it's good enough. Some will find Bluetooth too laggy or find the sound quality deplorable (& hopefully start pushing for better Bluetooth).
Some will buy cases with Jacks in them.
Whiners will pretend that their whining is proof of more than that their whining is self-reinforcing.
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Sorry, I don't live in the PC world where you you think you live where you need to fill out forms and have them certified before having sex. It seems that your fantasy world where you get to be the one choosing (instead of the participating adults) what is and isn't consent is just that: your fantasy. You can send all the memos you want but until the laws change, they have no effect.
So you find yourself "enlightened" enough to decide what is/isn't a crime, eh? You wouldn't condemn innocents at all, no, no. An accusation is all that suffices as long as the (thought) crime is one of those you are interested in & you can target the population you want to suppress. You should move to Turkey, they are having great success criminalising thousands and thousands of their people the way you want to.
Sorry but no. Federal funding for campaigns was voted in by people wanting to limit the importance of special interests (read wealthy contributors) to avoid the common people being squeezed out & not your revisionist make the govt pay for it with OUR money theory.
Then you need to take a closer look at Putin's history with his neighbours and ex-partners. The only kind of relationship he wants is of subservience. Look, I was a anyone but Hillary guy since Bill was President. Trump is using Putin to do his dirty work for him but that's a fools game.
While he's no doubt a pig, "they let you do it" implies consent and you'd need to document lack of consent to prove anything more.
I'm anti Trump, however I'd still like to know what country does not accord tax benefits for companies or people with a bad year and that puts people in jail for following their laws.
Assange's last major supporter is Putin.
Putin clearly wants a weak U.S. President, thus Trump who wants to come in and break things and appoint outsiders over Clinton who will be using people from the Clinton & Obama presidencies.
Some people. Not people in general nor most people and hopefully not enough people.
Thus handing the entire political process off to private interests? The reason there is federal money is to limit the influence of these private interests.
"supposed"?!? Anyone that can say that influence in political parties is not related to past favours with a straight face has insufficient acumen to comment on real-world politics.
When WikiLeaks does it they're influencing the election. What's the difference?
In a word: Putin.
The fringes of both the Democratic and Republican parties believe that all they need to do to win the general election is win their primary.
The reality is that unless both fringes manage to do so for the same election, centrist voters, who are the one who determine who wins in general elections will abandon the party with the fringe candidate.
Unfortunately for the Bernie fringies willing want to see everything burn, they're outnumbered by the people in the Republican party who are disgusted with Trump.
So for you it's your inability to earn enough to buy an iPhone that motivates your hate. Poor poor you, so envious of what you cannot have. For normal people desire motivates them to work harder so that they can obtain what they desire. Pathetic haters like you turn inward and lose their grip on reality because everything gets filtered by their petty little hate. You cannot go down the rabbit hole because you already live there.
No android phone is as well developed and easy to use as an iPhone. It does what I need securely and elegantly.
Because whoever sold you whatever you use isn't in it for the money... Rational thought is clearly beyond your merger means.
I care more that I am able to buy an easy to use, secure product I want at the price I want and long term support than about useless trivialisations by a jerk with an irrational hate-on.
I know it's impossible for an apple hater to engage his brain when whining that swiss knife style thick phones are the only true way of making phones so I won't even try asking you.
There was no direct replacement for delivering read-only media to clients when the Superdrive was dropped yet we muddle through.
The Lightning port adapter is a direct replacement for the Jack.
Need to charge at the same time? Use a dongle or a base.
Need higher quality than the iPhone DAC delivers? Use an external DAC.
Whining "BUT I DON'T WANNA" and pretending that THIS migration is somehow special is for fools.
Given that Apple sells protective covers, you have a weird idea of what "obvious" means. Apparently reading or using the word Apple in any sentence inverts the meaning for you for some bizarre reason.
Adding models has costs. Apple doesn't cater to tiny niche markets and their market research shows that those who would buy a thick phone over a iPhone+battery case is too small to merit it's development.
You highly doubt... but you have absolutely no idea of the costs/benefits. Again Apple/Samsung/... do have the knowledge and other than a few relatively poor selling models, nobody is making thick phones anymore. Apple in particular is well known for concentrating it's production only on models that sell well instead of trying to fill each and every niche.
The aftermarket battery case market is there for the small percentage who want thickphones.
I prefer to determine who's in the minority & who's not by taking a look at sales figures and looking at which companies survive year after year.
We've seen a number of cycles where companies that come into the market, undercut the others prices & then fall victim to the next entrant. It's not sustainable and a few months/years later support tanks. If you want to continue relying on these least expensive manufacturers, be my guest. It's not for me.
The ThickPhones and their accompanying belt holsters are no longer among us. Thin enough phones that you can put into a case if you desire or not if you don't & plug into an external battery when needed make up the vast majority of phones sold this decade.
But you go ahead and and refer to the best selling phones as paper thin phones because of course it's your opinion that determines who's in the minority.
I've got a Work Android phone so my Android is free.
Using Android for work is the reason my personal phone is an iPhone - so that I can use it and not have to screw around with it.
Apple/Samsung/... do market studies. The market studies show that very few people buy these phones that you need to put in a holster like we did 20 years ago.
If cases were more than a negligible market you'd think that Apple or Samsung would cut the market off with thicker phones. They haven't.
With all the claimants that Apple bought Beats & eliminated the Jack in some dark conspiracy to gyp buyers out of more money, you'd think that EVIL APPLE would also be doing the same thing to this (as you pretend) flourishing market for cases with Jacks. They haven't.
Then buy a case and stop whining that Apple doesn't make your perfect phone.
Serial ports and Floppies and Optical drives were all present in my PCs for years and years and years. Now they aren't anymore.
Ahh, isn't 20-10 hindsight wonderful? Too bad your memory is going.
Ever used a teletype there junior? My first computer was a PDP-11 where you had to enter the boot code digitally with a front panel numeric keypad, My first connection to to the Arpanet was using a Multics account & I still have the special punch I used to use to turn single sided 8" & 5"1/4 floppies into double sided ones. "Us old folks..." Humbug!
Each of the migrations I mentioned was whined about exactly as being losing something irreplaceable:
Floppies: Zip drives are fragile and USB keys are too expensive! Whine, whine, whine...
Serial ports: But I don't WANT to have to carry around a usb-to-serial dongle! They get LOST and it's just NOT PRACTICAL! Whine, whine, whine...
Optical Drives: I deliver projects to my clients by writing them to a CD, install software using DVDs and watch Movies using the SuperDrive. NOTHING EXISTS that can do all of that for me today!!! Whine, whine, whine...
Oh, but: "WHAT! I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO PLUG IN THE FREE ADAPTER OR USE AN EXTERNAL USB DAC!!! I WANT THINGS TO STAY JUST THE SAME!!!" That's somehow completely different.
People that really care about the sound quality (like my professional musician friend) are already using external DACs. There are a range of prices available.
People who don't care will just plug the adapter into their existing earphones. Some will try Bluetooth and discover that it's good enough. Some will find Bluetooth too laggy or find the sound quality deplorable (& hopefully start pushing for better Bluetooth).
Some will buy cases with Jacks in them.
Whiners will pretend that their whining is proof of more than that their whining is self-reinforcing.