Because crappy repair shops do a crappy job. That reflects negatively on Apple's brand. Also Apple thinks they own their devices even after you buy them, and a lot of their customers feel more comfortable being owned.
"If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours."
-- Marilyn Manson: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, 1998
Used to play D&D. Can vouch for the truth of this statement.
You scoff but it's true. So many wonderful subcultures have been culturally appropriated and destroyed by mainstream invasion. Remember that white girl who wore the Chinese dress to prom?
WHO. Name names. You're not talking about right vs. left, this is nationalist vs. globalist, democratic vs. authoritarian.
The FBI did indeed commit multiple felonies and colluded with the Clinton campaign. We have hard evidence, which you doubtless have seen unless you live in a cave or an echo chamber.
You used alt-right to mean libertarian. Don't be coy, everyone saw what you did. It's a common tactic of the far left. After all, if someone is a Nazi, why bother engaging with them or their ideas? All you have to do is shout at them and dehumanize them, presto all done. It has the theraputic side effect of making progressives feel better about themselves.
I used to wonder about these people who complained about "online harassment". Then I was accused of it myself. Apparently disagreeing with people online is "harassment". It is even worse if you have good arguments to back up your positions.
I think the mechanism here is making someone feel bad about her opinions. A lot of people regard their opinions as facts and live in echo chambers where they only receive positive feedback. To enter the real world where someone presents opposition and backs it up with evidence is very hurtful.
Feelings are injured and a quick way to restore mental homeostasis is to write off the criticism as "harassment". Then, you are a victim and we all know about the sacredness of victim culture. Those who injure victims are oppressors and the writings of oppressors are wrong without any evidence needing to be presented. The fact that they deliberately harm victims is proof enough that their opinions and facts are utterly corrupted and must never be considered by serious people. The slogan "Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable" sums it up neatly.
Because Google accepts bad data from third parties without verifying it. They're Google, they're more powerful than most governments. They could fix the problem if they cared, but they don't care. Just like most governments.
The working class in our society are the deplorables. Why would you want to help them? They voted for Trump; let them suffer. Or maybe you're one of them?
For an actual person you seem to have few ideas, don't make arguments, and consist entirely of personal attacks. I don't think you could pass a Turing test.
Isn't it weird how leftists are all about taking from those who have and giving to those who have not, and deserving has nothing to do with it? Right up until the point that it's their own money that's being redistributed. Then suddenly they pull a 180 and become tightfisted fiscal conservatives. I'm baffled and don't have any explanation of why people would betray their sacred principles.
Europeans have been ruthlessly free riding off of American payments for a long time.
The role NATO plays in the world today? It doesn't play any role. Its role was to defeat the Soviet Union, and it did that 30 years ago. Its role today is apparently to provide free security to wealthy first world nations that could easily pay for it themselves.
We Americans are hurting bad, and we need to pull back from providing for other countries and take care of our own people. Europeans despise us; they demand we get our troops off their soil. Every American military base in Europe has ugly hate spraypainted all over its environs. When's the last time you heard of a pro-American military rally in Europe? Never, of course. When's the last time they had a "hate America" rally? Yesterday?
Leftists are not liberal. How do you tell a liberal from a leftist? Easy. Liberals believe in free speech. They might disagree with what you say, but they'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Leftists like yourself use censorship as a weapon of first resort. Being offended is reason enough to use this extreme measure. Intimidation is another frequently used tactic.
The entire idea is capriciousness. That way, they can do whatever they like with no constraints. Give Americans clear guidelines and they'll cleverly think of something Europeans didn't think of. Capriciousness is a hallmark of authoritarian governments. They LIKE that you have to live in fear of them changing their minds. It's very troubling that a representative government like the EU is aping this method.
Did you know far-left group MoveOn.org literally got their name from telling everyone we should not pay attention to the fact that Bill Clinton is a rapist? That was their motto. A literal rapist, and they said, "Censure and move on." Believe all women my ass.
Europe is already making a mint from unfair trade agreements with us. They pocket a cool $150 billion every single year. Just to be clear, remember Bernie's "free college" program that was widely mocked as unaffordable? That was $60 billion a year. Trump's wall? $25 billion one-time. 150 big ones still isn't enough for them. Even with all this fat cash, they can't find enough money in the cupboard to pay for their fair share of NATO. Why are we even in NATO any more? It should have thrown itself a victory party after the Soviet Union fell and been disbanded. Most members can't fight an invading girl scout troop successfully, much less make a meaningful contribution to collective defense. How about contributing instead of taking? From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, isn't that the quintessential European sentiment?
What I heard was, we pay for their shit and in return we get compliance with our wishes. This hasn't been true for decades if it was ever true at all. Instead, we get overtly hostile acts like this. And before anyone starts, this didn't begin with Trump. It goes back a long way.
Gilens & Page found that the number of Americans for or against any idea has no impact on the likelihood that congress will make it law.
"The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."
One thing that does have an influence? Money. While the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have a "statistically non-significant impact," Economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence.
http://scholar.princeton.edu/s...
on this issue given the disasters in the Middle East that your country is causing?
USA out of the middle east. No more wars. Out of Syria, out of Venezuela, out of NATO. The whole world hates us because we meddle. Our people are hurting, we need a break. Let's solve our own problems before we think we can take on the world's problems. How about a humanitarian intervention in our inner cities instead of some foreign shithole where they despise America and everything it stands for?
How do you verify that the money was spent on its intent? You don't. There was no mechanism. It was just a transfer of money from us, who need it badly for our own people, to a bunch of corrupt kleptocracies that would simply steal the money and ship it right back overseas.
Bahaha, like the far left gives a shit about working class Americans. They voted for Trump! You think they're racist fascist deplorables, remember? Who's better: you educated people or the people of walmart? The working class thinks the world is flat, Jews have dual loyalty to Israel, God created the world in 7 days and illegal immigrants are coming to take all the jobs away. Pull the other one.
If we actually are a great country,
Glenn Loury, asked whether he believes African Americans should be encouraged to take pride in being citizens of the United States, he offers this characterization of the view espoused by many progressives:
Americaâ(TM)s overrated. America is a bandit, a gangster nation. America is run by war criminals. American capitalism is rapacious. America is nothing but hypocrites. They dropped the bomb on Hiroshima; they exterminated the Native Americans and they enslaved the Africans. White supremacy rules here. Why should I want to fight and die for such a country? I donâ(TM)t want to fight and die for it; I donâ(TM)t even want to stand while the anthem is being played for it!
The cultural distance between progressives and working class people is now vast and I see little reason why that should change.
The term "Pow Wow" is offensive if used in any setting besides Native American ceremonies. Especially by someone wearing redface. It's like going around calling people "Chief".
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Because crappy repair shops do a crappy job. That reflects negatively on Apple's brand. Also Apple thinks they own their devices even after you buy them, and a lot of their customers feel more comfortable being owned.
"If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours."
-- Marilyn Manson: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, 1998
Used to play D&D. Can vouch for the truth of this statement.
You scoff but it's true. So many wonderful subcultures have been culturally appropriated and destroyed by mainstream invasion. Remember that white girl who wore the Chinese dress to prom?
WHO. Name names. You're not talking about right vs. left, this is nationalist vs. globalist, democratic vs. authoritarian.
The FBI did indeed commit multiple felonies and colluded with the Clinton campaign. We have hard evidence, which you doubtless have seen unless you live in a cave or an echo chamber.
You used alt-right to mean libertarian. Don't be coy, everyone saw what you did. It's a common tactic of the far left. After all, if someone is a Nazi, why bother engaging with them or their ideas? All you have to do is shout at them and dehumanize them, presto all done. It has the theraputic side effect of making progressives feel better about themselves.
I used to wonder about these people who complained about "online harassment". Then I was accused of it myself. Apparently disagreeing with people online is "harassment". It is even worse if you have good arguments to back up your positions.
I think the mechanism here is making someone feel bad about her opinions. A lot of people regard their opinions as facts and live in echo chambers where they only receive positive feedback. To enter the real world where someone presents opposition and backs it up with evidence is very hurtful.
Feelings are injured and a quick way to restore mental homeostasis is to write off the criticism as "harassment". Then, you are a victim and we all know about the sacredness of victim culture. Those who injure victims are oppressors and the writings of oppressors are wrong without any evidence needing to be presented. The fact that they deliberately harm victims is proof enough that their opinions and facts are utterly corrupted and must never be considered by serious people. The slogan "Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable" sums it up neatly.
Because Google accepts bad data from third parties without verifying it. They're Google, they're more powerful than most governments. They could fix the problem if they cared, but they don't care. Just like most governments.
The working class in our society are the deplorables. Why would you want to help them? They voted for Trump; let them suffer. Or maybe you're one of them?
That's the "ad hominem" logical fallacy: attacking the person instead of refuting the argument. You know better than that...
Does it make you feel good to call people who disagree with you Nazis?
For an actual person you seem to have few ideas, don't make arguments, and consist entirely of personal attacks. I don't think you could pass a Turing test.
Isn't it weird how leftists are all about taking from those who have and giving to those who have not, and deserving has nothing to do with it? Right up until the point that it's their own money that's being redistributed. Then suddenly they pull a 180 and become tightfisted fiscal conservatives. I'm baffled and don't have any explanation of why people would betray their sacred principles.
You neither engaged with my ideas nor refuted anything I said. Is thegarbz account a script that auto-posts?
Europeans have been ruthlessly free riding off of American payments for a long time.
The role NATO plays in the world today? It doesn't play any role. Its role was to defeat the Soviet Union, and it did that 30 years ago. Its role today is apparently to provide free security to wealthy first world nations that could easily pay for it themselves.
We Americans are hurting bad, and we need to pull back from providing for other countries and take care of our own people. Europeans despise us; they demand we get our troops off their soil. Every American military base in Europe has ugly hate spraypainted all over its environs. When's the last time you heard of a pro-American military rally in Europe? Never, of course. When's the last time they had a "hate America" rally? Yesterday?
Oh, you and I both know quite well what the Left thinks of ordinary Americans, and it's not pretty. Jonathan Haidt's experiments ask liberals and conservatives to fill out questionnaires about their values, then to predict how someone from the opposite tribe would fill out the questionnaire. He finds that conservatives are able to predict liberals' answers just fine and seem to have a pretty good understanding of their worldviews, but that liberals have *no idea* how conservatives think or what they value.
If one side understands the other better, and by extension probably their arguments better too, and still holds their position...that speaks to the strength of their position. When faced with questions such as "One of the worst things a person could do is hurt a defenseless animal" or "Justice is the most important requirement for a society," liberals assumed that conservatives would disagree.
Leftists are not liberal. How do you tell a liberal from a leftist? Easy. Liberals believe in free speech. They might disagree with what you say, but they'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Leftists like yourself use censorship as a weapon of first resort. Being offended is reason enough to use this extreme measure. Intimidation is another frequently used tactic.
The entire idea is capriciousness. That way, they can do whatever they like with no constraints. Give Americans clear guidelines and they'll cleverly think of something Europeans didn't think of. Capriciousness is a hallmark of authoritarian governments. They LIKE that you have to live in fear of them changing their minds. It's very troubling that a representative government like the EU is aping this method.
Censure and move on.
Did you know far-left group MoveOn.org literally got their name from telling everyone we should not pay attention to the fact that Bill Clinton is a rapist? That was their motto. A literal rapist, and they said, "Censure and move on." Believe all women my ass.
She got in to Harvard Law because of her race. Fortunately, our elite colleges have no record of racial preferences or corrupt admissions practices.
She listed herself as a minority on a legal directory reviewed by deans and hiring committees. Harvard called her their "first woman of color." At the time, Harvard was under enormous pressure to make a diversity hire.
Europe is already making a mint from unfair trade agreements with us. They pocket a cool $150 billion every single year. Just to be clear, remember Bernie's "free college" program that was widely mocked as unaffordable? That was $60 billion a year. Trump's wall? $25 billion one-time. 150 big ones still isn't enough for them. Even with all this fat cash, they can't find enough money in the cupboard to pay for their fair share of NATO. Why are we even in NATO any more? It should have thrown itself a victory party after the Soviet Union fell and been disbanded. Most members can't fight an invading girl scout troop successfully, much less make a meaningful contribution to collective defense. How about contributing instead of taking? From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, isn't that the quintessential European sentiment?
What I heard was, we pay for their shit and in return we get compliance with our wishes. This hasn't been true for decades if it was ever true at all. Instead, we get overtly hostile acts like this. And before anyone starts, this didn't begin with Trump. It goes back a long way.
Aren't you a gem. I tell you I'm in favor of US to stop meddling, and you still shit on me.
Princeton University study: Public opinion has "near-zero" impact on U.S. law.
Gilens & Page found that the number of Americans for or against any idea has no impact on the likelihood that congress will make it law. "The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."
One thing that does have an influence? Money. While the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have a "statistically non-significant impact," Economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence. http://scholar.princeton.edu/s...
on this issue given the disasters in the Middle East that your country is causing?
USA out of the middle east. No more wars. Out of Syria, out of Venezuela, out of NATO. The whole world hates us because we meddle. Our people are hurting, we need a break. Let's solve our own problems before we think we can take on the world's problems. How about a humanitarian intervention in our inner cities instead of some foreign shithole where they despise America and everything it stands for?
How do you verify that the money was spent on its intent? You don't. There was no mechanism. It was just a transfer of money from us, who need it badly for our own people, to a bunch of corrupt kleptocracies that would simply steal the money and ship it right back overseas.
Bahaha, like the far left gives a shit about working class Americans. They voted for Trump! You think they're racist fascist deplorables, remember? Who's better: you educated people or the people of walmart? The working class thinks the world is flat, Jews have dual loyalty to Israel, God created the world in 7 days and illegal immigrants are coming to take all the jobs away. Pull the other one.
If we actually are a great country,
Glenn Loury, asked whether he believes African Americans should be encouraged to take pride in being citizens of the United States, he offers this characterization of the view espoused by many progressives:
The cultural distance between progressives and working class people is now vast and I see little reason why that should change.
The term "Pow Wow" is offensive if used in any setting besides Native American ceremonies. Especially by someone wearing redface. It's like going around calling people "Chief".