After all, there is a vast difference between a shipment (sending the product to a warehouse or store) and a sale (customer actually purchasing the product).
It's nice that Samsung shipped more phones than Apple, but how many of them are sitting in a stuffed channel, as opposed to sitting in customer hands as a sold item?
Apple only reports actual sales, so until/unless Samsung reports actual sales, TFA means absolutely nothing at all, and looks awfully the same as Microsoft's old Xbox channel-stuffing antics.
If that conspiracy theory were true, wouldn't you think the DNC would be screaming outright about them somehow being fake, instead of trying to hand-wave so much over them?
Illegal, maybe, maybe not (depends on the presence and veracity of reports involving actual voter fraud). Either way, its unethical as hell...
The DNC is quite unique these days in that it actively went out of its way to push for a coronation, and not an actual primary - and that's not even talking about the whole 'superdelegate' bullshit.
(By contrast, the RNC seems to have been saddled with a candidate that most of its party leadership actively did not want under any circumstance...)
Voting for the lesser of two evils still means you;re voting for evil.
Seriously - it's like saying "Oh, I'm voting for Stalin because that Hitler guy is just nasty..."
Given the current state of dissatisfaction with the current duopoly, I'm amazed that folks aren't moving to 3rd parties more often these days. I mean, seriously, if there were ever a time when it could really make a difference...
But then, most people who claim to have an ideology are driven more by fear than by their own conscience these days...
Exactly. Not to mention that it appears (at least to me) that Blackberry is desperately casting about for a niche to make itself relevant.
There's no longer a real difference difference between what Blackberry makes and what is made by LG, Samsung, Huawei, Motorola, Xiaomi, ASUS, Sony... so what's the point of getting a Blackberry again?
They had a chance long ago, but chose to sit on their fat laurels instead of innovating. This is what they get as a result.
(I mean, damn, if they were to go Android early-on and customize/modify it for BES, then improve BES itself and give that away to enterprises, they might have had a chance to stay at least somewhat relevant... )
It won't matter, if the sheer number of "Bernie" bumper stickers replaced by "Clinton" bumper stickers here in Portland is any indication (most within the same effing week).
The dubious beauty of partisan politics is that for partisans, the people are almost interchangeable, and they'll hold their nose and vote for anyone - as long as the candidate they've been told to fear doesn't win.
I do wonder though if my father-in-law got intellectual whiplash when he went from Facebook postings of "Hillary is a corrupt wall street hack - vote Bernie!" to "But Hillary is honest and has integrity!" within less than a week.
Small point of order: Slavery requires no consent from the slave. Having a job means there's a *voluntary* consent between you and the employer.
You also failed to mention the act of self-employment (contracting, consulting, proprietorship, etc).
That said, there is still the small semi-slavery that is excess taxation, excess regulation, etc., although people tend to disagree on what constitutes 'excess' in these cases.
Prolly because the RNC didn't have one of their major pols stuff all that info onto a semi-swiss-cheese Microsoft Exchange box, running OWA, and plugged directly onto the public Internet...
You do realize that fear of The Other, induced by drama- (and eyeball-) seeking media, amped further by both sides to near-historic levels, is going to produce at least one whack-job on the scene with full homicidal intent, right?
Ditto for the DNC convention, come to think of it.
Kind of amazing how many people can be so easily manipulated by a mass media that largely doesn't even realize what kind of power they have. I find it interesting that they waste it on getting ratings (and thus advertiser dollars), truth be told...
Mine is actually $150US, 12mb/s and a 30GB cap... but I don't rely on much infrastructure to get it - just electricity and a satellite dish.
But then, my nearest neighbor is 1/2 kilometer away, and the nearest town of any size is 32 kilometers off. Call it a balance between quiet nature and connectivity.
I may not be able to simultaneously download 36 blu-ray pr0n torrents within a reasonable amount of time, but as compensation I don't have to deal with the noise from another family living on the other side of a thin (and overpriced) apartment wall, either.;)
Most telecoms prefer to buy congressmen anyway - they're far cheaper, and they get more done (from a 'subsidize-and-monetize-me point of view, anyway).
Dude, even in the bad old days when I was a broke-assed student, I was able to carve together a working PC by visiting the local geek shops and buying their used-but-still-working parts, then cobbling them together (I think the only above-average-skillset exception requried was my very first VGA monitor, which needed --and got-- a new flyback transformer and 15-pin connector.)
Seriously - back in the early 1990s, I could whip together a working 486 for roughly $300... back when the new ones would set you back $1500-$2500.
Nowadays, you can build a usable gaming rig out of new parts for $500-ish, and from used parts for what, $250, tops?
I find it kinda funny when they talk about price, actually.
A decent/usable gaming box, monitor, and mouse can be had for less than $500-$750. Buy the bits, plug them in, load the OS, and you're off to the races.
Meanwhile, that $200 console is going to need a $500-$1000(or more) big-screen TV (which will sit in your man-cave or mommy's basement, whichever), and if you want some l33t controllers that give you an edge in the game, that's gonna set you back at least $100 more - per controller. Of course, bad-assed headphone/mic set is de rigueûr, and that's gonna set you back from $35 to $100 extra or more... (Oh, and if you want a pretty cover for that controller to make you look bad-assed? that's an extra $150.)
Yeah... whatevs.
(also funny... my 2013-purchased MacBook Pro CPU/GPU is still more than capable of taking a CG render pounding that would turn most 2016-era laptop chips into a curl of smoke, so no worries on the 'OMG-you're-so-obsolete front.)
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Parent post and TFA made equal amount of sense.
After all, there is a vast difference between a shipment (sending the product to a warehouse or store) and a sale (customer actually purchasing the product).
It's nice that Samsung shipped more phones than Apple, but how many of them are sitting in a stuffed channel, as opposed to sitting in customer hands as a sold item?
Apple only reports actual sales, so until/unless Samsung reports actual sales, TFA means absolutely nothing at all, and looks awfully the same as Microsoft's old Xbox channel-stuffing antics.
...use a laptop; it comes with a keyboard at no extra cost.
(what?)
Funny thing, the Trump supporters are using the same tired argument...
How about we stop being told who to fear, and instead tell both parties to go to hell this go 'round?
If that conspiracy theory were true, wouldn't you think the DNC would be screaming outright about them somehow being fake, instead of trying to hand-wave so much over them?
It's all good - the FBI will never find intent.
...and the sheep will do as they're told. On both sides.
*sigh*.
Illegal, maybe, maybe not (depends on the presence and veracity of reports involving actual voter fraud). Either way, its unethical as hell...
The DNC is quite unique these days in that it actively went out of its way to push for a coronation, and not an actual primary - and that's not even talking about the whole 'superdelegate' bullshit.
(By contrast, the RNC seems to have been saddled with a candidate that most of its party leadership actively did not want under any circumstance...)
Voting for the lesser of two evils still means you;re voting for evil.
Seriously - it's like saying "Oh, I'm voting for Stalin because that Hitler guy is just nasty..."
Given the current state of dissatisfaction with the current duopoly, I'm amazed that folks aren't moving to 3rd parties more often these days. I mean, seriously, if there were ever a time when it could really make a difference...
But then, most people who claim to have an ideology are driven more by fear than by their own conscience these days...
It's dependent on how big of an AC unit you have (BTU rating).
Yeah, it's not EEE, but more like their even older mantra, slightly updated to today: "Windows isn't done until Steam won't run!"
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Wait - how did you learn what their new encryption scheme was going to be?
Now they're going to have to start all over... geez.
Exactly. Not to mention that it appears (at least to me) that Blackberry is desperately casting about for a niche to make itself relevant.
There's no longer a real difference difference between what Blackberry makes and what is made by LG, Samsung, Huawei, Motorola, Xiaomi, ASUS, Sony... so what's the point of getting a Blackberry again?
They had a chance long ago, but chose to sit on their fat laurels instead of innovating. This is what they get as a result.
(I mean, damn, if they were to go Android early-on and customize/modify it for BES, then improve BES itself and give that away to enterprises, they might have had a chance to stay at least somewhat relevant... )
That the violence in a rigged economy is homelessness and starvation...
...and that affects the business proprietor, welfare queen, or consultant... how?
It won't matter, if the sheer number of "Bernie" bumper stickers replaced by "Clinton" bumper stickers here in Portland is any indication (most within the same effing week).
The dubious beauty of partisan politics is that for partisans, the people are almost interchangeable, and they'll hold their nose and vote for anyone - as long as the candidate they've been told to fear doesn't win.
I do wonder though if my father-in-law got intellectual whiplash when he went from Facebook postings of "Hillary is a corrupt wall street hack - vote Bernie!" to "But Hillary is honest and has integrity!" within less than a week.
Small point of order: Slavery requires no consent from the slave. Having a job means there's a *voluntary* consent between you and the employer.
You also failed to mention the act of self-employment (contracting, consulting, proprietorship, etc).
That said, there is still the small semi-slavery that is excess taxation, excess regulation, etc., although people tend to disagree on what constitutes 'excess' in these cases.
Or is it different when Cliven Bundy types point their rifles at federal agents or illegally occupy federal buildings?
...small difference: Bundy didn;t ambush or snipe at the aforementioned agents. Dallas? Not so much.
Or in the case of the Timothy McVeigh types...
McVeigh was executed to the relief and morbid delight of both sides of the aisle, if memory serves.
You could just have easily said returned Vets have shot up over a dozen cops in the last couple of weeks.
...except for the fact that their social media pages were packed to the rafters with anti-cop racist spew (and not, say, pro-military veteran spew).
Prolly because the RNC didn't have one of their major pols stuff all that info onto a semi-swiss-cheese Microsoft Exchange box, running OWA, and plugged directly onto the public Internet...
You do realize that fear of The Other, induced by drama- (and eyeball-) seeking media, amped further by both sides to near-historic levels, is going to produce at least one whack-job on the scene with full homicidal intent, right?
Ditto for the DNC convention, come to think of it.
Kind of amazing how many people can be so easily manipulated by a mass media that largely doesn't even realize what kind of power they have. I find it interesting that they waste it on getting ratings (and thus advertiser dollars), truth be told...
"...will be using Microsoft..."
Yup.
Mine is actually $150US, 12mb/s and a 30GB cap... but I don't rely on much infrastructure to get it - just electricity and a satellite dish.
But then, my nearest neighbor is 1/2 kilometer away, and the nearest town of any size is 32 kilometers off. Call it a balance between quiet nature and connectivity.
I may not be able to simultaneously download 36 blu-ray pr0n torrents within a reasonable amount of time, but as compensation I don't have to deal with the noise from another family living on the other side of a thin (and overpriced) apartment wall, either. ;)
I doubt that they make the top 20 for anyone...
Most telecoms prefer to buy congressmen anyway - they're far cheaper, and they get more done (from a 'subsidize-and-monetize-me point of view, anyway).
Kinda reminds me of a variation of the old Rocky And Bullwinkle cartoons...
"Hey, Rocky! Watch me make $400 million disappear up my hat!"
"A-gain...!?"
Wake me when the EU starts demanding a ban on knives because criminals use them to stab people, thus hindering anti-assault efforts.
Urgh. Sometimes governments really get stupid when it comes to translating common sense to any concept that happens to be "...on a computer."
Wait, wait...
Dude, even in the bad old days when I was a broke-assed student, I was able to carve together a working PC by visiting the local geek shops and buying their used-but-still-working parts, then cobbling them together (I think the only above-average-skillset exception requried was my very first VGA monitor, which needed --and got-- a new flyback transformer and 15-pin connector.)
Seriously - back in the early 1990s, I could whip together a working 486 for roughly $300... back when the new ones would set you back $1500-$2500.
Nowadays, you can build a usable gaming rig out of new parts for $500-ish, and from used parts for what, $250, tops?
I find it kinda funny when they talk about price, actually.
A decent/usable gaming box, monitor, and mouse can be had for less than $500-$750. Buy the bits, plug them in, load the OS, and you're off to the races.
Meanwhile, that $200 console is going to need a $500-$1000(or more) big-screen TV (which will sit in your man-cave or mommy's basement, whichever), and if you want some l33t controllers that give you an edge in the game, that's gonna set you back at least $100 more - per controller. Of course, bad-assed headphone/mic set is de rigueûr, and that's gonna set you back from $35 to $100 extra or more... (Oh, and if you want a pretty cover for that controller to make you look bad-assed? that's an extra $150.)
Yeah... whatevs.
(also funny... my 2013-purchased MacBook Pro CPU/GPU is still more than capable of taking a CG render pounding that would turn most 2016-era laptop chips into a curl of smoke, so no worries on the 'OMG-you're-so-obsolete front.)