Moderated troll? Seriously? You liberals are cunts.
Calling something "free" when it isn't and then trying to silence others for pointing it out.....
NOTHING IS FREE. No amount of putting your hands over your ears and humming loudly is going to change that. Sometimes the food is donated voluntarily, but it still wasn't "free". Someone took a personal financial hit to help others. Sometimes that financial hit wasn't voluntary. Regardless, it's a disservice either way to call it "free".
It's DONATED or APPROPRIATED. All food or aid of any type is the result of someone's LABOR and RESOURCES.
Simple real-world math: Apple pays about $5 for the battery itself. There's a $24 profit margin.
Why, yes the BOM on the battery is pretty easy to get if you just Google the fucking numbers on the cells.
Someone ban this dipshit fuckwit already.
You didn't factor in labor to remove the old battery and place the new one. Therefore, all of us reading, we can assume you really do not know what you are talking about
And you want to ban someone for disagreeing with you? Are you 12? Maybe you should just.... leave.. You appear to be very unhappy here.
Care to share any scientific study done to prove that Indian techs are incompetent?
Do you have the stats to back up your claims?
Or is this just a case of the usual xenophobia and racism?
There is ALWAYS at least one cunt who has to make it about race. That cunt, this time, is YOU.
You obviously know nothing about science. Rarely can a theory be PROVEN correct. It's far easier to prove a theory is incorrect.
You could run test after test after test on a theory, have all the tests come up aces, and then one person could run a slightly different test and prove you were full of horseshit the whole time.
By contrast, you could come up with a theory, run a test, and have that test disprove your theory on the very first go.
Take gravity, we have a pretty good idea of what causes it, but it hasn't (and probably never will be) PROVEN. We can only approach the theory with greater and greater levels of certainty. 80%, 90%, 99.1%, 99.2%, etc.... But at any time, someone COULD come along and shoot everything down with a test that proves our current ideas wrong.
You are half right and half wrong. Yes, it's a service, but it's not provided by a private corporation. Most internet in the United States is provided by a private corporation that has an EXCLUSIVE deal with a township, city, county, or other political subdivision. They are effectively a mandated monopoly in league with the government.
The government uses Eminent Domain to acquire the land for the poles, trenches, conduits, etc which they then sell or lease to said private corporation. At the same time, they (the government) then forbids other companies from attempting to do the same thing.
You speak as if you have any knowledge of how this shit works and then you proceed to utter words that show you do not. I worked for AT&T for nearly a decade. I KNOW how they operate. It's not ethical, but it's no different, really, than how the other incumbent hard line operators work. So, I'm not picking on AT&T in particular but on the industry as a whole. It's absolute government sanctioned protectionism.
Vast areas of California have one internet service provider. If you have two or three options you are really lucky. Huge areas have no hard line capability at all. They are relegated to the shitty service that is satellite or, if they get lucky, a WISP (such as mine) will be able to work out enough deals with private landowners to actually get high speed internet into an area. But this is a massive headache. It would be much easier/fairer if I was able to operate on the same footing as the incumbents. But, protectionism......
The US dollar is not hard to replicate. It might be hard for OTHERS to replicate, but it is EASY to replicate for the US Government who is currently printing it by the untold billions. This practice was not possible when the money actually had metal backing it or in it.
There's always one in every crowd. The guy who flaps on and on about how gold isn't really valuable. Never mind that for the better part of about 5,000 years humans have agreed (for whatever reason) that gold & silver are "money".
Back in the day (and maybe still today) there were guys who would research the shit out of companies and if they found the stock price versus the value of all of the company's assets were out of sync (stock price was too low), they would buy up 50.1% of the company (via stock), force a sale, and then liquidate the whole company. Whatever they made from the sale minus the cost of the stock was the profit.
My memory may not be accurate on what the procedure was called, but I seem to remember the guys were generally called Corporate Raiders.
Didn't matter if the company was profitable, or in good long term shape, it was a way to make a quick buck and there were people who did it.. Fucked a whole lot of folks out of good jobs once the company was liquidated......
If you want to do a hostile takeover of a company, what's one way you can do it? Yep... buy 50.00001% of the voting stock...... Or regular stock if they haven't been split into voting vs non-voting. You now control the whole company...
They may be non dividend paying and non voting, but they still represent an ownership of the company. If you hold 10% of the stock, regardless of it being non-voting and non-paying you still own 10% of Google.
Precisely because any idiot can register a domain with dell in the title, but to get an authorised subdomain.dell.com goes through a verification process and is immediately and obviously representative of Dell as a corporation.
What verification process? Internal to Dell? I hope you're not suggesting a registrar is involved because subdomains are a part of DNS only.
If there is a "process" involved, that is internal to Dell only and their own fault.
See what happens when a dumbass like you opens his mouth and speaks with authority on something you know nothing about?
Apps absolutely CAN see what cell tower you are connected to. Go read the Android developer documentation.
You basically implied the GP was an idiot and you succeeded in proving that it is YOU that is the moron. Good job.
List getAllCellInfo ()
Returns all observed cell information from all radios on the device including the primary and neighboring cells. Calling this method does not trigger a call to onCellInfoChanged(), or change the rate at which onCellInfoChanged() is called.
I've seen FedEx using rental vehicles during heavy delivery times (xmas, new year, etc) and also I've talked to guys who had a rental when too many trucks were down for repair and there were no spares.
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Moderated troll? Seriously? You liberals are cunts.
Calling something "free" when it isn't and then trying to silence others for pointing it out.....
NOTHING IS FREE. No amount of putting your hands over your ears and humming loudly is going to change that. Sometimes the food is donated voluntarily, but it still wasn't "free". Someone took a personal financial hit to help others. Sometimes that financial hit wasn't voluntary. Regardless, it's a disservice either way to call it "free".
It's DONATED or APPROPRIATED. All food or aid of any type is the result of someone's LABOR and RESOURCES.
Assholes...
Simple real-world math: Apple pays about $5 for the battery itself. There's a $24 profit margin.
Why, yes the BOM on the battery is pretty easy to get if you just Google the fucking numbers on the cells.
Someone ban this dipshit fuckwit already.
You didn't factor in labor to remove the old battery and place the new one. Therefore, all of us reading, we can assume you really do not know what you are talking about
And you want to ban someone for disagreeing with you? Are you 12? Maybe you should just .... leave.. You appear to be very unhappy here.
The combination of name and logo might be enough to push a US court to reject a copyright.
Copyrights and Trademarks are two different things..........
Care to share any scientific study done to prove that Indian techs are incompetent? Do you have the stats to back up your claims? Or is this just a case of the usual xenophobia and racism?
There is ALWAYS at least one cunt who has to make it about race. That cunt, this time, is YOU.
You obviously know nothing about science. Rarely can a theory be PROVEN correct. It's far easier to prove a theory is incorrect.
You could run test after test after test on a theory, have all the tests come up aces, and then one person could run a slightly different test and prove you were full of horseshit the whole time.
By contrast, you could come up with a theory, run a test, and have that test disprove your theory on the very first go.
Take gravity, we have a pretty good idea of what causes it, but it hasn't (and probably never will be) PROVEN. We can only approach the theory with greater and greater levels of certainty. 80%, 90%, 99.1%, 99.2%, etc.... But at any time, someone COULD come along and shoot everything down with a test that proves our current ideas wrong.
Quit calling it "free" food. It's not free. Someone is paying for it, probably under the threat of a prison sentence.
This guy gets it!
I'm so tired of hearing how gold/silver swing in value. NO THEY DON'T. That piece of shit worthless paper in your pocket is what swings in value.
The same thing that an ounce of silver could buy in 1964 (last year silver was in US coins) can STILL be bought for an ounce of silver. END OF STORY.
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Jeeze.........
Here: https://www.wired.com/2013/07/...
I'm just wondering why a story about internet has a photo of electrical linemen on a high tension tower.......
You are half right and half wrong. Yes, it's a service, but it's not provided by a private corporation. Most internet in the United States is provided by a private corporation that has an EXCLUSIVE deal with a township, city, county, or other political subdivision. They are effectively a mandated monopoly in league with the government.
The government uses Eminent Domain to acquire the land for the poles, trenches, conduits, etc which they then sell or lease to said private corporation. At the same time, they (the government) then forbids other companies from attempting to do the same thing.
You speak as if you have any knowledge of how this shit works and then you proceed to utter words that show you do not. I worked for AT&T for nearly a decade. I KNOW how they operate. It's not ethical, but it's no different, really, than how the other incumbent hard line operators work. So, I'm not picking on AT&T in particular but on the industry as a whole. It's absolute government sanctioned protectionism.
Vast areas of California have one internet service provider. If you have two or three options you are really lucky. Huge areas have no hard line capability at all. They are relegated to the shitty service that is satellite or, if they get lucky, a WISP (such as mine) will be able to work out enough deals with private landowners to actually get high speed internet into an area. But this is a massive headache. It would be much easier/fairer if I was able to operate on the same footing as the incumbents. But, protectionism......
Would you please learn how to spell "YOU'RE"? It's not that goddamn hard.
Oh for fuck's sake. COPIES. Why the hell would you spell it "copy's"?
it's ads not ad's. The ad does not possess anything nor is it a contraction.. It's simply a plural. ads
How the heck do you people graduate?
The US dollar is not hard to replicate. It might be hard for OTHERS to replicate, but it is EASY to replicate for the US Government who is currently printing it by the untold billions. This practice was not possible when the money actually had metal backing it or in it.
You don't think water is valuable? Are you delusional?
Water may not be particularly valuable where you are, but in many parts of the world it is possibly the MOST valuable commodity.
There's always one in every crowd. The guy who flaps on and on about how gold isn't really valuable. Never mind that for the better part of about 5,000 years humans have agreed (for whatever reason) that gold & silver are "money".
I'll do you one better.. What weighs more, a pound of gold or a pound of lead?
If you said they are the same, you are wrong.
Hint: Go look up the Troy vs Avoirdupois systems of weight.
Back in the day (and maybe still today) there were guys who would research the shit out of companies and if they found the stock price versus the value of all of the company's assets were out of sync (stock price was too low), they would buy up 50.1% of the company (via stock), force a sale, and then liquidate the whole company. Whatever they made from the sale minus the cost of the stock was the profit.
My memory may not be accurate on what the procedure was called, but I seem to remember the guys were generally called Corporate Raiders.
Didn't matter if the company was profitable, or in good long term shape, it was a way to make a quick buck and there were people who did it.. Fucked a whole lot of folks out of good jobs once the company was liquidated......
Worthless?
If you want to do a hostile takeover of a company, what's one way you can do it? Yep... buy 50.00001% of the voting stock...... Or regular stock if they haven't been split into voting vs non-voting. You now control the whole company...
As you can see, stocks are hardly worthless.
They may be non dividend paying and non voting, but they still represent an ownership of the company. If you hold 10% of the stock, regardless of it being non-voting and non-paying you still own 10% of Google.
If Google sells itself, you get 10%.
Precisely because any idiot can register a domain with dell in the title, but to get an authorised subdomain.dell.com goes through a verification process and is immediately and obviously representative of Dell as a corporation.
What verification process? Internal to Dell? I hope you're not suggesting a registrar is involved because subdomains are a part of DNS only.
If there is a "process" involved, that is internal to Dell only and their own fault.
Do you just make shit up? Why?
There are 193 member states in the United Nations.
Prostitution is legal in 69 countries, and semi/quasi legal in 10 additional countries. That's 79 countries.
79 is NOT half of 193. Your statement is a lie.
See what happens when a dumbass like you opens his mouth and speaks with authority on something you know nothing about?
Apps absolutely CAN see what cell tower you are connected to. Go read the Android developer documentation.
You basically implied the GP was an idiot and you succeeded in proving that it is YOU that is the moron. Good job.
List getAllCellInfo ()
Returns all observed cell information from all radios on the device including the primary and neighboring cells. Calling this method does not trigger a call to onCellInfoChanged(), or change the rate at which onCellInfoChanged() is called.
You know you are a racist asshole, right?
I've seen FedEx using rental vehicles during heavy delivery times (xmas, new year, etc) and also I've talked to guys who had a rental when too many trucks were down for repair and there were no spares.