Trump *did not* enter the race as a favour to Hillary.
Sure he did. They've been friends for decades, he's given her shitloads of money, and notice how quickly he reneged on his campaign promise to see her prosecuted?
He ran as a stunt, and was shocked at how much traction he got (with all of Hillary's media minions giving him the lion's share of the news coverage), so the ego took over and he went for it.
the democrat apparatus also stuffed the ballot box for Trump during the primaries
Got a source for that? I know that Trump entered the race as a favor to Hillary to sow discord in the Republican ranks, but I haven't seen any evidence that the apparat did anything more for him than give him round-the-clock news coverage that starved out his rivals.
Marx used to claim that a single shoe factory could supply all the people of the world with shoes if only greedy capitalists got out of the way.
Marx was a thoroughly deluded idiot, and it's no surprise that state dependency with another coat of paint on it is being pushed by his brain-dead followers.
You seem to somehow have missed that most jobs will go away and not be replaced with others.
Bullshit.
In 1900, 80% of Americans worked on farms. Today, it's around 4%. This did not result in 76% unemployment. Any job that can be performed by a machine, should be performed by a machine. This drops the cost of goods and services, to everyone's benefit, but most of all to those with the lowest earning ability.
We can't know what kind of work people will be doing a century from now, any more than people could guess in 1900, but there is no reason to believe that there will be no use for human labor.
and a lot of them will do exactly that. Your economy loses whatever productivity they might have contributed, socialists get more dependent voters to re-elect looters, and their kids grow up believing the world owes them a living.
You have only to look at the effects of multi-gerneration welfare dependents in the USA and the UK to know how destructive this is.
how can Apple gain a proprietary stranglehold on the industry?
Stupid question is stupid. Apple has no desire for a "proprietary stranglehold" on the industry, and no matter how many times they prove exactly that, idiots like you will keep tossing off this stupid canard.
Remember when Apple got the RIAA to give up on DRM for music? How about when they open sourced Swift? How about their contributions to WebKit? How about the time and money they invested in LLVM and Clang? Did they get a word of thanks from you?
There are plenty of situations where recursion gets the job done with a minimum of code complexity. You just need to be aware of what the runtime costs might be.
I've had plenty of Internet Tough Guys pull that shit on me too, including a couple who mentioned where I was living or working at the time, and my response has always been "bring it on". None of them has ever shown up.
that the best way to store an analog sound still is an analog recording medium
This is not true, and it never was. Every analog medium out there has a greater level of THD than CDs do, even the first time you play back a tape or vinyl disc. Every time you play it after that, vinyl accumulates physical damage, while tape emulsion wears and imprints on adjacent loops of the tape. Not to mention, tape stretches, disks warp, drives vary in speed, etc, etc.
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Trump *did not* enter the race as a favour to Hillary.
Sure he did. They've been friends for decades, he's given her shitloads of money, and notice how quickly he reneged on his campaign promise to see her prosecuted?
He ran as a stunt, and was shocked at how much traction he got (with all of Hillary's media minions giving him the lion's share of the news coverage), so the ego took over and he went for it.
-jcr
there is ZERO proof the DNC "rigged" anything.
Oh, get serious. The whole "superdelegate" apparatus exists only to thwart the will of the voters.
-jcr
the democrat apparatus also stuffed the ballot box for Trump during the primaries
Got a source for that? I know that Trump entered the race as a favor to Hillary to sow discord in the Republican ranks, but I haven't seen any evidence that the apparat did anything more for him than give him round-the-clock news coverage that starved out his rivals.
-jcr
had an admin go rogue
If you know who the perp is, there's all kinds of options available.
-jcr
Problem solved.
-jcr
Marx used to claim that a single shoe factory could supply all the people of the world with shoes if only greedy capitalists got out of the way.
Marx was a thoroughly deluded idiot, and it's no surprise that state dependency with another coat of paint on it is being pushed by his brain-dead followers.
-jcr
You seem to somehow have missed that most jobs will go away and not be replaced with others.
Bullshit.
In 1900, 80% of Americans worked on farms. Today, it's around 4%. This did not result in 76% unemployment. Any job that can be performed by a machine, should be performed by a machine. This drops the cost of goods and services, to everyone's benefit, but most of all to those with the lowest earning ability.
We can't know what kind of work people will be doing a century from now, any more than people could guess in 1900, but there is no reason to believe that there will be no use for human labor.
-jcr
Frankly i find it amusing that anyone thinks there is any option other than a basic income for all people.
Frankly, I find your snotty condescension towards people who are smarter then you quite tedious.
-jcr
and a lot of them will do exactly that. Your economy loses whatever productivity they might have contributed, socialists get more dependent voters to re-elect looters, and their kids grow up believing the world owes them a living.
You have only to look at the effects of multi-gerneration welfare dependents in the USA and the UK to know how destructive this is.
-jcr
Apple's marketing department
No, just a shareholder.
-jcr
it's one of the best Windows tablets you can buy.
Talk about damning with faint praise!
-jcr
how can Apple gain a proprietary stranglehold on the industry?
Stupid question is stupid. Apple has no desire for a "proprietary stranglehold" on the industry, and no matter how many times they prove exactly that, idiots like you will keep tossing off this stupid canard.
Remember when Apple got the RIAA to give up on DRM for music? How about when they open sourced Swift? How about their contributions to WebKit? How about the time and money they invested in LLVM and Clang? Did they get a word of thanks from you?
-jcr
You're a moron.
-jcr
That would be good to know if, god forbid, I ever had to deal with C++ again.
-jcr
There are plenty of situations where recursion gets the job done with a minimum of code complexity. You just need to be aware of what the runtime costs might be.
-jcr
Could anything in the world possibly be less relevant to /. readers than some jaded hag's opinions on Thiel, and the silicon valley?
-jcr
Apple intentionally making older devices unusable with a forced OS update
That's a stupid lie. Apple improves the performance of older devices by upgrading the OS.
-jcr
They just pull shit like this as often as they can
Yeah, how dare they force people to upgrade their OS at no charge, the greedy bastards!
Oh, wait...
-jcr
45 years spread over a bunch of drives without a failure doesn't mean that we can expect any individual drive to last 45 years.
-jcr
If it has active ingredients at all, it's not homeopathy.
-jcr
I can tell that you don't know the difference between an analog recoding and a symbolic representation. Thanks for playing, and better luck next time.
-jcr
How the fuck do you lose information in an analog medium!
Oh, for fuck's sake. If you can't answer that question yourself, then STFU and quit embarrassing yourself.
-jcr
I've had plenty of Internet Tough Guys pull that shit on me too, including a couple who mentioned where I was living or working at the time, and my response has always been "bring it on". None of them has ever shown up.
-jcr
I know it started as a backlash over bad MP3 compression,
Actually, it was a backlash against bad CD mastering. This was years before MP3 quality was an issue.
-jcr
that the best way to store an analog sound still is an analog recording medium
This is not true, and it never was. Every analog medium out there has a greater level of THD than CDs do, even the first time you play back a tape or vinyl disc. Every time you play it after that, vinyl accumulates physical damage, while tape emulsion wears and imprints on adjacent loops of the tape.
Not to mention, tape stretches, disks warp, drives vary in speed, etc, etc.
-jcr