Either way, it's a moot point. If you don't want all of that stuff, just disable the app. It's not like windows where disabling built in apps breaks shit.
First off, The Maps dependency could easily be solved by having some sort of a stub saying "Maps isn't installed, would you like to install it through the Play Store?" if the app is removed but the API is called.
This has two problems:
- You're actually counting on developers to properly detect whether or not it is present instead of just assuming that it is. (Believe it or not, this isn't as easy as it sounds.) - Dependency hell (see RPM of yore.)
It's much easier, from a developer and usability standpoint, if the requisite libraries remain intact. Google Maps is such a common library on Android that it's just silly to get rid of it entirely. As I mentioned, you can always remove the user components of it, though I'm not sure why you'd want to do that to be honest; its bar none the best mapping app you can get anywhere. Besides, before Google Maps, having turn-by-turn car navigation was a luxury, now it's just something everybody has. Prior to Google, most phone manufacturers made you pay extra (usually a $10+ monthly fee) to have that, and now with Google you pay zero, plus it's a lot better than even dedicated GPS devices.
Moreover, for the Win10 apps that don't have a simple uninstall, it is possible to run a Powershell script, or W10Privacy (and a number of similar tools) to remove them.
This is only true for a handful of them. Try as you might, but you can never remove Cortana, Xbox, Edge, and a few others, no matter how hard you try. And even then, if you kill some otherwise non-uninstallable apps like Groove and Maps, the start menu does annoying things, like showing a blank icon that you can't get rid of.
Oh, and did I mention that it's literally impossible to remove ANY of these apps from a Windows phone? Like you just plain fucking can't do it, no matter what.
but to remove 'system' apps on Android requires rooting, which tends to void warranties, ruin resale values (because of the eFuses), and prevent things like Samsung Pay and Snapchat from running
At least that's even possible. Try removing Cortana or Edge. Let me know how that works out for you. And at any rate, you can root without popping eFuses or voiding warranties (in fact, under Magnuson–Moss, it's illegal for a manufacturer to void your warranty just for rooting) and yes, you can even get Samsuck pay or Crapchat to work while rooted. Though truth be told, you don't have to remain rooted in order to delete these apps; once they're deleted you can safely unroot. Or you can forgo rooting entirely if you delete them from your recovery.
And again, need I mention that it's literally impossible to remove ANY of these apps from a Windows phone? It's just fucking impossible.
The trialware bundling has been a problem for quite a long time on Windows machines
That's fine, except Microsoft now bundles it with stock Windows builds. It's literally impossible to obtain Windows without trialware/adware these days, unless you have a ton of money to buy an enterprise license.
That depends on the market. Over here, mortgages tend to be about half (on a monthly basis) of what rent costs.
Either way though, I honestly can't wait for the next real estate crash. Houses are way fucking overpriced, and I'm about to the point where I could just pay cash in a market like the one seen in 2011.
We haven't yet seen Trumpanomics, but I suspect they will be full of fail, which is perfect so long as we don't see stagflation.
Or maybe all the cigarette and pot smokers moved out because federal law applies to the apartment complex and smokers have to go outside the gates to smoke.
There is no such law. An apartment manager might tell you that just to get you to cooperate, but there's no actual law requiring that. However, as per the Fair Housing Act, if one tenant has breathing problems and another nearby tenant smokes, they can force the smoking tenant to move to another unit and/or move out of the complex entirely. If the landlord doesn't comply and doesn't forcibly move that tenant, they can get sued.
The apartment I used to live in had rules requiring that all smoking happen off premises, which was just their own bylaw that you had to agree to when you signed your lease. However, the one I live at now doesn't; they just have to be in certain designated areas.
No matter what though, in the event of any kind of dispute, the law (rightfully, IMO) tends to discriminate against the smoker's civil rights if they conflict with that of a nonsmoker's civil rights.
If MS can't do it, what are the chances and new comer can do it. So Google is a natural monopoly.
What do you mean MS can't do it? Not only do they do it, but they specifically make it so that you can't opt out of it. They literally record every URL you type, every search term you use, and every link you click, and you aren't allowed to turn it off.
This type of data includes details about web browsing, search and query activity in the Microsoft browsers and Cortana, and local file searches on the device.
Text typed in address bar and search box Text selected for Ask Cortana search Service response time Auto-completed text if there was an auto-complete Navigation suggestions provided based on local history and favorites Browser ID URLs (which may include search terms) Page title
While Chrome collects some of this data, you can in fact turn all of it off by simply unchecking everything in the privacy section. If you do that, then the only time Chrome pings Google's servers is when it's checking for updates, which you can verify with wireshark.
Tell that to all the people that got Chrome shoved onto their system and made the default when they downloaded a completely unrelated program like CCleaner or Java.
Honestly, I'd be surprised if you could even name anybody who has had this happen to them and was upset about it. If they were really that bothered by it, they could have easily avoided it. And even then, for Windows 10 users, Microsoft resets edge back to the default browser basically every 6 months (along with a bunch of other settings, like resetting Bing back to the default search,) and in order to change Chrome to the default browser, it takes three steps, and during each step Microsoft nags you to stick with Edge.
Yet in spite of all of this, a majority of people opt to make Chrome their default browser. You can't even argue that they were somehow tricked into doing that because the way Microsoft redesigned things, there's no way that it can be anything other than a deliberate choice.
And how about how they bundle gapps into Android and make it impossible to remove
That's not quite true. As of Android 7, Google deliberately made it so that most bundled apps are moved to the user partition after first boot and can be subsequently deleted. The only ones that can't be deleted are the ones that are integral to the operation of other apps. For example, Google Maps is integral to the operation of apps like Strava or Endomondo, and thus can't be fully removed, though it can be disabled so that the main app is inaccessible (and likewise the icon isn't available in the app drawer.)
If MSFT was pulling that shit? People here would be screaming for an investigation and fines....hypocrisy thy name is Slashdot.
Very very false. Unlike Google, Microsoft bundles many apps that outright can't be removed or even have their icon nixed from the start menu. Examples include onedrive, onenote, cortana, skype, groove music, edge, maps, xbox, and a few others I can't think of at the moment.
Some other annoying things that Microsoft does and Google doesn't include (as mentioned above) resetting all of your application defaults to Microsoft's applications after every major patch (roughly every 6 months) and including advertisements basically everywhere. Lock screen? Ad. Solitaire? Ad. Start menu? Ad. Explorer? Ad (namely OneDrive ads.) And that's not even getting into the bundled adware/trialware like Solitaire, Candy Crush, etc.
Google includes neither ads nor adware in Android. Granted, some OEMs do, but on Windows the OEMs do much worse than that, like superfish for example, or how basically every single one of them includes trial antivirus software of some kind that constantly nags you to buy it while at the same time making you even more vulnerable to malware.
Even on desktop, where Microsoft sets Bing as the default search engine, and even makes it unintuitive to switch to Google in its edge browser, users still overwhelmingly change their default to Google.
And there's really nothing compelling them to do so; they simply have a preference for it.
I'm usually all for the idea of breaking up monopolies, but I don't see any compelling reason to do so in this case, nor do I see any need for any kind of adverse action against them.
Microsoft was different in that they forced OEMs to pay licensing for every PC sold, regardless of whether their software was included, and then if you needed to use a particular application, you had no choice of OS.
Google may be in a similar boat in most parts of the world for Android, but not for the US or Japan. Though even for other parts of the world it's a stretch because iOS is a realistic choice, but Apple prices themselves out of most markets.
Curious how they interpret genesis then. If the big bang theory is accurate, then a god simply cannot have created the universe. It all comes down to relativity: If the universe started as a single dimensionless point, then the gravity would have been so strong that time didn't exist. If time didn't exist, then there was no time for a god to create the universe.
I suppose that one could argue that a god created "the heavens and the earth" after the fact, with heavens referring to places immediately visible to earth, i.e. the moon and the sun. It's a stretch, but arguable.
Interestingly enough, if you actually read the bible, there's no mention of people going to heaven or even hell for that matter when they die, rather one can only presume that they just die (in fact, there's practically no mention of hell at all -- Our understanding of hell comes from two sources: Dante's Comedia, and Paradise Lost. Mentions of lakes of fire, and fire and brimstone (brimstone means sulfur) seem to describe volcanoes. The closest is some mention of a pit, which elsewhere in the bible a pit is described as just being a hole in the ground, and not a cavernous structure.)
The bible does suggest that some people will be resurrected at a future date, and their names were already written in the Lamb's Book of Life prior to the earth existing (the Lamb being Jesus.) So believing in Jesus or even just being a good person doesn't grant you eternal life, according to revelation:
If one wanted to get all sci-fi: If time is just another dimension that can be moved along (instead of just experienced a la time's arrow,) then the future could already be determined, thus the "book of life" determines who can be simply carried over from one part of time to another part, and thus "resurrected".
In other words, you die, and you can't tell the difference between one second and one billion years, and then suddenly you awaken again as your body matter has been either copied or moved to some other point along the axis. And from that point, eternal life?
Some other stuff: The bible does mention a New Jerusalem descending onto earth, which again if you want to get all sci-fi about it, could be interpreted as a massive spaceship of sorts, approximately 1,400 miles in length, width, and height.
At any rate, the bible doesn't seem to say anything about heaven being a bunch of people dicking around in the clouds, and mentions of what we commonly identify as satan seem to be either Nero Cesar, along with some Hitler like figure./end rambling
Aside from Thunderbolt (which is pointless with USB 3.1), micro USB already does all of that. The only benefit USB-C has is that it can be connected upside down, which isn't enough to outweigh the benefits of micro USB.
MicroUSB does NOT provide video capability, unless you use one of those crappy dongles that does video compression. USB-C not only does actual full bandwidth video, but in the Thunderbolt 3 configuration it even provides a friggin PCI-e interface. They even make external GPU enclosures that allow you to run an actual desktop GPU on a laptop if you'd like, and it works pretty well.
Honestly I've never had any problems with either USB 3 or Type-C, even when they were brand new.
IMO if they wanted to do something awesome, put one Thunderbolt 3 port and one USB 3.0 port on it, and nothing else. THAT would be simplicity. Then they could make their little dock thing just connect to the Thunderbolt port and work with just any Thunderbolt 3 device. Instead what we end up with is yet another proprietary power adapter, and both the power adapter and the dock become useless once you no longer have the computer.
Another bonus of using Thunderbolt 3 is that you could use an external GPU enclosure (i.e. Razer Core) and add any desktop GPU of your choice to it. Word is they work pretty damn well, though you sacrifice about 15% of the GPU's performance vs a regular desktop setup. (That, and Mac users will struggle to get them to work, but IIRC Apple did that deliberately.)
And for anybody who doesn't know, Thunderbolt 3 is 100% compatible with any USB-C device; uses the same form factor and the pinout is compatible.
C to C cables don't seem to have any problems. If more PC vendors would just adopt C ports, then we could just abandon A/B cables and adapters outright.
I suspect the drug companies will try to isolate what part of aspirin is preventing cancer, isolate it, and remove it from over-the-counter aspirin. Then they'll sell it to us for thousands/month. I guess it's time to stock up on some aspirin.
Because this has totally happened before? What else, IPv6 is a plot by the NWO to take over the world?
Anyways I could see them isolating it and then making a purified version, because taking aspirin in large amounts long-term is not good for you (it will probably result in loss of kidney function, among other things.)
Millions and millions of farmers have been displaced, and the fact is that those people are now doing more productive jobs instead. In fact, the reduction in the percentage of farmers correlates quite well with increased wealth of the general population.
warehouse workers, and factory workers. Cashiers
These three are already automated. In fact, a food company I worked at four years ago had two automatic warehouses and one automatic factory. Some people do run them, but not many.
I think it just needs to come before judicial review. Ideally a competent legal team could explain the three authentication factors:
Who you are: - Fingerprint, iris scan, any other form of biometric identification. - The government does have the right to compel you to identify who you are when you stand before a judge; this is well established, and the constitution doesn't offer any protection against this. Anonymous speech is a different subject though, and it is constitutionally protected.
What you have: - Keys, fobs, ID cards, rfid tags, or any other physical object that isn't part of your body. - The government can compel you to turn over physical items that you have, provided a warrant is given. This can include things like documents, in addition to other physical evidence such as a bloody glove.
What you know: - Information, passwords, PINs, events you've witnessed but haven't written down (if it's written, it's physical, and can be turned over.) - Things that you know are well protected by the 5th amendment. The constitution is quite clear about that. Even if the government has proof that you know where a dead body is, they can't compell you to testify where its at (though they can offer you incentives, like how after Hans Reiser was convicted of murdering his wife, they offered to commute his sentence from death to life if he revealed where he hid her body.)
A 4 digit pin, or any password for that matter, is knowledge. When you divulge what you know, you are testifying. In this case, they are asking the suspects to testify against themselves.
Android has neither ads nor adware, nor does it even come with apps that show any kind of ads (unless you count ads found on websites while using Chrome.) Some OEMs add adware/trialware/crapware, but Google doesn't, especially in their first party devices which (at least until Pixel) were sold at below cost.
Even if Android did have ads, it would be somewhat excusable because you literally pay nothing for it; the cost isn't even baked into your device. Yet Microsoft not only makes you pay for Windows, but they put ads into the OS itself IN ADDITION to including ad laden apps.
Incomeequality is quite a pointless metric because it doesn't tell you jack shit. Instead you should be focused on consumption equality. I guarantee you that I'm living much better off than people in silicon valley on less that half of the income.
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Either way, it's a moot point. If you don't want all of that stuff, just disable the app. It's not like windows where disabling built in apps breaks shit.
First off, The Maps dependency could easily be solved by having some sort of a stub saying "Maps isn't installed, would you like to install it through the Play Store?" if the app is removed but the API is called.
This has two problems:
- You're actually counting on developers to properly detect whether or not it is present instead of just assuming that it is. (Believe it or not, this isn't as easy as it sounds.)
- Dependency hell (see RPM of yore.)
It's much easier, from a developer and usability standpoint, if the requisite libraries remain intact. Google Maps is such a common library on Android that it's just silly to get rid of it entirely. As I mentioned, you can always remove the user components of it, though I'm not sure why you'd want to do that to be honest; its bar none the best mapping app you can get anywhere. Besides, before Google Maps, having turn-by-turn car navigation was a luxury, now it's just something everybody has. Prior to Google, most phone manufacturers made you pay extra (usually a $10+ monthly fee) to have that, and now with Google you pay zero, plus it's a lot better than even dedicated GPS devices.
Moreover, for the Win10 apps that don't have a simple uninstall, it is possible to run a Powershell script, or W10Privacy (and a number of similar tools) to remove them.
This is only true for a handful of them. Try as you might, but you can never remove Cortana, Xbox, Edge, and a few others, no matter how hard you try. And even then, if you kill some otherwise non-uninstallable apps like Groove and Maps, the start menu does annoying things, like showing a blank icon that you can't get rid of.
Oh, and did I mention that it's literally impossible to remove ANY of these apps from a Windows phone? Like you just plain fucking can't do it, no matter what.
but to remove 'system' apps on Android requires rooting, which tends to void warranties, ruin resale values (because of the eFuses), and prevent things like Samsung Pay and Snapchat from running
At least that's even possible. Try removing Cortana or Edge. Let me know how that works out for you. And at any rate, you can root without popping eFuses or voiding warranties (in fact, under Magnuson–Moss, it's illegal for a manufacturer to void your warranty just for rooting) and yes, you can even get Samsuck pay or Crapchat to work while rooted. Though truth be told, you don't have to remain rooted in order to delete these apps; once they're deleted you can safely unroot. Or you can forgo rooting entirely if you delete them from your recovery.
And again, need I mention that it's literally impossible to remove ANY of these apps from a Windows phone? It's just fucking impossible.
The trialware bundling has been a problem for quite a long time on Windows machines
That's fine, except Microsoft now bundles it with stock Windows builds. It's literally impossible to obtain Windows without trialware/adware these days, unless you have a ton of money to buy an enterprise license.
Curious if we have a similar cause from Parkinson's or ALS, the later of which has seemingly no identifiable congenital cause.
I recall when nobody knew that bacteria caused ulcers, and this was long after we knew about bacteria.
That depends on the market. Over here, mortgages tend to be about half (on a monthly basis) of what rent costs.
Either way though, I honestly can't wait for the next real estate crash. Houses are way fucking overpriced, and I'm about to the point where I could just pay cash in a market like the one seen in 2011.
We haven't yet seen Trumpanomics, but I suspect they will be full of fail, which is perfect so long as we don't see stagflation.
Or maybe all the cigarette and pot smokers moved out because federal law applies to the apartment complex and smokers have to go outside the gates to smoke.
There is no such law. An apartment manager might tell you that just to get you to cooperate, but there's no actual law requiring that. However, as per the Fair Housing Act, if one tenant has breathing problems and another nearby tenant smokes, they can force the smoking tenant to move to another unit and/or move out of the complex entirely. If the landlord doesn't comply and doesn't forcibly move that tenant, they can get sued.
The apartment I used to live in had rules requiring that all smoking happen off premises, which was just their own bylaw that you had to agree to when you signed your lease. However, the one I live at now doesn't; they just have to be in certain designated areas.
No matter what though, in the event of any kind of dispute, the law (rightfully, IMO) tends to discriminate against the smoker's civil rights if they conflict with that of a nonsmoker's civil rights.
What does "single dimensional point" even me?
Read it a second time.
Does a God need it?
Unless your god can outright ignore logic and do things like divide by zero, then yes, your god most certainly does need it.
If MS can't do it, what are the chances and new comer can do it. So Google is a natural monopoly.
What do you mean MS can't do it? Not only do they do it, but they specifically make it so that you can't opt out of it. They literally record every URL you type, every search term you use, and every link you click, and you aren't allowed to turn it off.
To wit:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
Browsing, Search and Query data
This type of data includes details about web browsing, search and query activity in the Microsoft browsers and Cortana, and local file searches on the device.
Text typed in address bar and search box
Text selected for Ask Cortana search
Service response time
Auto-completed text if there was an auto-complete
Navigation suggestions provided based on local history and favorites
Browser ID
URLs (which may include search terms)
Page title
While Chrome collects some of this data, you can in fact turn all of it off by simply unchecking everything in the privacy section. If you do that, then the only time Chrome pings Google's servers is when it's checking for updates, which you can verify with wireshark.
Tell that to all the people that got Chrome shoved onto their system and made the default when they downloaded a completely unrelated program like CCleaner or Java.
Honestly, I'd be surprised if you could even name anybody who has had this happen to them and was upset about it. If they were really that bothered by it, they could have easily avoided it. And even then, for Windows 10 users, Microsoft resets edge back to the default browser basically every 6 months (along with a bunch of other settings, like resetting Bing back to the default search,) and in order to change Chrome to the default browser, it takes three steps, and during each step Microsoft nags you to stick with Edge.
Yet in spite of all of this, a majority of people opt to make Chrome their default browser. You can't even argue that they were somehow tricked into doing that because the way Microsoft redesigned things, there's no way that it can be anything other than a deliberate choice.
And how about how they bundle gapps into Android and make it impossible to remove
That's not quite true. As of Android 7, Google deliberately made it so that most bundled apps are moved to the user partition after first boot and can be subsequently deleted. The only ones that can't be deleted are the ones that are integral to the operation of other apps. For example, Google Maps is integral to the operation of apps like Strava or Endomondo, and thus can't be fully removed, though it can be disabled so that the main app is inaccessible (and likewise the icon isn't available in the app drawer.)
If MSFT was pulling that shit? People here would be screaming for an investigation and fines....hypocrisy thy name is Slashdot.
Very very false. Unlike Google, Microsoft bundles many apps that outright can't be removed or even have their icon nixed from the start menu. Examples include onedrive, onenote, cortana, skype, groove music, edge, maps, xbox, and a few others I can't think of at the moment.
Some other annoying things that Microsoft does and Google doesn't include (as mentioned above) resetting all of your application defaults to Microsoft's applications after every major patch (roughly every 6 months) and including advertisements basically everywhere. Lock screen? Ad. Solitaire? Ad. Start menu? Ad. Explorer? Ad (namely OneDrive ads.) And that's not even getting into the bundled adware/trialware like Solitaire, Candy Crush, etc.
Google includes neither ads nor adware in Android. Granted, some OEMs do, but on Windows the OEMs do much worse than that, like superfish for example, or how basically every single one of them includes trial antivirus software of some kind that constantly nags you to buy it while at the same time making you even more vulnerable to malware.
Even on desktop, where Microsoft sets Bing as the default search engine, and even makes it unintuitive to switch to Google in its edge browser, users still overwhelmingly change their default to Google.
And there's really nothing compelling them to do so; they simply have a preference for it.
I'm usually all for the idea of breaking up monopolies, but I don't see any compelling reason to do so in this case, nor do I see any need for any kind of adverse action against them.
Microsoft was different in that they forced OEMs to pay licensing for every PC sold, regardless of whether their software was included, and then if you needed to use a particular application, you had no choice of OS.
Google may be in a similar boat in most parts of the world for Android, but not for the US or Japan. Though even for other parts of the world it's a stretch because iOS is a realistic choice, but Apple prices themselves out of most markets.
I'm not sure where this idea of classes comes from; I see more of a spectrum.
Curious how they interpret genesis then. If the big bang theory is accurate, then a god simply cannot have created the universe. It all comes down to relativity: If the universe started as a single dimensionless point, then the gravity would have been so strong that time didn't exist. If time didn't exist, then there was no time for a god to create the universe.
I suppose that one could argue that a god created "the heavens and the earth" after the fact, with heavens referring to places immediately visible to earth, i.e. the moon and the sun. It's a stretch, but arguable.
Interestingly enough, if you actually read the bible, there's no mention of people going to heaven or even hell for that matter when they die, rather one can only presume that they just die (in fact, there's practically no mention of hell at all -- Our understanding of hell comes from two sources: Dante's Comedia, and Paradise Lost. Mentions of lakes of fire, and fire and brimstone (brimstone means sulfur) seem to describe volcanoes. The closest is some mention of a pit, which elsewhere in the bible a pit is described as just being a hole in the ground, and not a cavernous structure.)
The bible does suggest that some people will be resurrected at a future date, and their names were already written in the Lamb's Book of Life prior to the earth existing (the Lamb being Jesus.) So believing in Jesus or even just being a good person doesn't grant you eternal life, according to revelation:
https://www.biblegateway.com/p...
If one wanted to get all sci-fi: If time is just another dimension that can be moved along (instead of just experienced a la time's arrow,) then the future could already be determined, thus the "book of life" determines who can be simply carried over from one part of time to another part, and thus "resurrected".
In other words, you die, and you can't tell the difference between one second and one billion years, and then suddenly you awaken again as your body matter has been either copied or moved to some other point along the axis. And from that point, eternal life?
Some other stuff: The bible does mention a New Jerusalem descending onto earth, which again if you want to get all sci-fi about it, could be interpreted as a massive spaceship of sorts, approximately 1,400 miles in length, width, and height.
https://www.biblegateway.com/p...
Battlestar galactica's resurrection ship, ya?
At any rate, the bible doesn't seem to say anything about heaven being a bunch of people dicking around in the clouds, and mentions of what we commonly identify as satan seem to be either Nero Cesar, along with some Hitler like figure. /end rambling
Aside from Thunderbolt (which is pointless with USB 3.1), micro USB already does all of that. The only benefit USB-C has is that it can be connected upside down, which isn't enough to outweigh the benefits of micro USB.
MicroUSB does NOT provide video capability, unless you use one of those crappy dongles that does video compression. USB-C not only does actual full bandwidth video, but in the Thunderbolt 3 configuration it even provides a friggin PCI-e interface. They even make external GPU enclosures that allow you to run an actual desktop GPU on a laptop if you'd like, and it works pretty well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Not only that, but in terms of physical durability, USB-C will WAY outlast MicroUSB.
Honestly I've never had any problems with either USB 3 or Type-C, even when they were brand new.
IMO if they wanted to do something awesome, put one Thunderbolt 3 port and one USB 3.0 port on it, and nothing else. THAT would be simplicity. Then they could make their little dock thing just connect to the Thunderbolt port and work with just any Thunderbolt 3 device. Instead what we end up with is yet another proprietary power adapter, and both the power adapter and the dock become useless once you no longer have the computer.
Another bonus of using Thunderbolt 3 is that you could use an external GPU enclosure (i.e. Razer Core) and add any desktop GPU of your choice to it. Word is they work pretty damn well, though you sacrifice about 15% of the GPU's performance vs a regular desktop setup. (That, and Mac users will struggle to get them to work, but IIRC Apple did that deliberately.)
And for anybody who doesn't know, Thunderbolt 3 is 100% compatible with any USB-C device; uses the same form factor and the pinout is compatible.
C to C cables don't seem to have any problems. If more PC vendors would just adopt C ports, then we could just abandon A/B cables and adapters outright.
That's socialism.
Germany has never had any problems with overbearing governance, so stop the fear mongering and show me your papers, please.
I suspect the drug companies will try to isolate what part of aspirin is preventing cancer, isolate it, and remove it from over-the-counter aspirin. Then they'll sell it to us for thousands/month. I guess it's time to stock up on some aspirin.
Because this has totally happened before? What else, IPv6 is a plot by the NWO to take over the world?
Anyways I could see them isolating it and then making a purified version, because taking aspirin in large amounts long-term is not good for you (it will probably result in loss of kidney function, among other things.)
On the other hand, increased productivity has been speculated as a cause of the Great Depression
Actually its interesting that you linked this, because Smoot-Hawley is actually believed to be what kept the depression going:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There are millions and millions of truck drivers
Millions and millions of farmers have been displaced, and the fact is that those people are now doing more productive jobs instead. In fact, the reduction in the percentage of farmers correlates quite well with increased wealth of the general population.
warehouse workers, and factory workers. Cashiers
These three are already automated. In fact, a food company I worked at four years ago had two automatic warehouses and one automatic factory. Some people do run them, but not many.
I think it just needs to come before judicial review. Ideally a competent legal team could explain the three authentication factors:
Who you are:
- Fingerprint, iris scan, any other form of biometric identification.
- The government does have the right to compel you to identify who you are when you stand before a judge; this is well established, and the constitution doesn't offer any protection against this. Anonymous speech is a different subject though, and it is constitutionally protected.
What you have:
- Keys, fobs, ID cards, rfid tags, or any other physical object that isn't part of your body.
- The government can compel you to turn over physical items that you have, provided a warrant is given. This can include things like documents, in addition to other physical evidence such as a bloody glove.
What you know:
- Information, passwords, PINs, events you've witnessed but haven't written down (if it's written, it's physical, and can be turned over.)
- Things that you know are well protected by the 5th amendment. The constitution is quite clear about that. Even if the government has proof that you know where a dead body is, they can't compell you to testify where its at (though they can offer you incentives, like how after Hans Reiser was convicted of murdering his wife, they offered to commute his sentence from death to life if he revealed where he hid her body.)
A 4 digit pin, or any password for that matter, is knowledge. When you divulge what you know, you are testifying. In this case, they are asking the suspects to testify against themselves.
Android has neither ads nor adware, nor does it even come with apps that show any kind of ads (unless you count ads found on websites while using Chrome.) Some OEMs add adware/trialware/crapware, but Google doesn't, especially in their first party devices which (at least until Pixel) were sold at below cost.
Even if Android did have ads, it would be somewhat excusable because you literally pay nothing for it; the cost isn't even baked into your device. Yet Microsoft not only makes you pay for Windows, but they put ads into the OS itself IN ADDITION to including ad laden apps.
The main problem they're going to have (other than paying a big settlement) is that they'll be permanently locked out of the self driving business.
Incomeequality is quite a pointless metric because it doesn't tell you jack shit. Instead you should be focused on consumption equality. I guarantee you that I'm living much better off than people in silicon valley on less that half of the income.