Tell that to the average Apple fan who when you tell them that an iPhone lacks the ability to do X, Y, Z, they respond "just jailbrake it man".
Does the average Fandroid have more or less self-awareness on this topic, after rooting his Android device to disable carrier locks and remove bloatware?
Adding the option to turn on and off cellular data alone is worth the price of admission to battery misers. Speaking of batteries, you can install a tweak that will disable the alerts that start locking your screen at 20% until you click "ok".
Other bennies: being able to scp files to your phone, use your phone for tethering without paying the carrier extortion fee, and mute camera noises.
iPhone 4 devices were sold until September 2013 and can't be updated to iOS 8, which was released in September 2014.
Which was four years after its release, if you're picking the cherries half full.
both were, admittedly, bough near the release of the next model
Products purchased at the end of their life cycle, when they are discounted to be free-with-contract, have a shorter period of support than the current model? Zounds.
I wonder what the venn diagram looks like of the people who complain about Apple's "walled garden", yet have purchased a game console, car or media player without complaint.
Their entire system of government is designed to set up a relatively reasonable set of rules.
There's nothing reasonable about using Star Chamber's or holding suspects incommunicado. Sweden might have hippy health care, and they might not execute prisoners, but their justice system is otherwise straight out of the middle ages. They will detain you and deny outside contact, even to speak to a lawyer.
Swedish legal procedures have been discussed here often enough that I have to assume you are engaging in wilful distortion.
Yes, they have, but that wont stop you from repeating the same debunked Zombie Lies.
Swedish prosecutors have interviewed other suspects abroad without first dragging them back to Sweden, and they could promise at any time that Assange wont be handed over to the United States. They have refused to do so, which means this is not about any alleged rape.
So, on this wilful[sic] distortion, are you using a cannon or a howitzer for your projection?
His claims that if he went to Sweden they'd send him to the US. Ummmm, really? Because if there were a nation I would be worried about handing me off to the US clandestinely, it would be the UK.
The UK has rules against deporting people to regimes that practice torture and the death penalty. Regimes like....the United States. Just ask Chelsey Manning, who was subjected to torture for a year and a half before being dragged into a kangaroo court. If this were a black bag operation with plausible deniability, MI-5 would hand him over without a heartbeat - but for a well known dissident in the middle of the country, not so much.
Whereas Sweden participated in the kidnapping of two men, to send them off to be tortured. The Sweden that pointedly refuses to promise not to hand Assange over to the U.S., despite Assange's offer to return to Sweden if such a promise was made.
A highly-edited video, with deceptive commentary, that shows how several 'journalists' embedded in a terrorist group that was in the middle of an attack on US troops were killed when the terrorist group received air bombardment?
You mean this tired historical revisionism? The helicopter crew straight up murdered a bunch of civilians minding their own business. There is nothing in the unedited video that gave them cause to open fire on people who weren't posing a threat to anyone, much less those who tried to help the dying.
Then they'd pick up the fucking phone and question him about the alleged rape. They haven't done so. Assange has said he would return to Sweden, if the government promised him they wouldn't hand him over to the United States. They haven't done that either.
Which means, for anyone not suffering from willful blindness, that this isn't about rape. And spare us the BS of "Sweden can't promise that". The biggest paid hack on this issue, Rei, has even admitted that Sweden can't extradite for "intelligence crimes". Guess what revealing classified cables is?
Don't leave your house for the next five years because you have every reason to fear you will be made a political prisoner, and tell us how awesome it was.
Social Security money scarcity is to inhale large numbers of younger workers (this, by the way, is the exact problem Ponzi schemes have and why they were made illegal, and why it's a legitimate comparison
It's a legit comparison if you're a moron who doesn't know WTF he's talking about. If SS was a Ponzi scheme, the first person on the program would have been a billionaire. The next few thousand people would have been millionaires, and so on until the last to join would be left with nothing.
None of that is the case. None. Which is why you, sir, are a moron.
SS is completely self-funded. The "trust fund" was never supposed to be permanent, but the Boomers paying ahead on their earned retirement benefits. Guess where the Boomers will be by the time the trust fund is depleted? Dead.
Maybe you don't see the correlation. Can't help you there.
I have no problems seeing selective reasoning.
you'll opt for one of the many less than 2 pound graphite laptops offered by Lenovo, HP or others
Many? According to Google, the lightest HP laptop is.17 pounds heavier than a Macbook. The lightest Lenovo laptop is 1.72 pounds, 8.5% lighter than the Macbook.
If you are willing to compromise on weight then MacBook comes back to the front but at a higher cost than other performance equals.
You can't get from "weight doesn't matter" to "8.5% difference is a 'compromise'" without hackery. Sorry.
I'm seeing lots of butthurt, but not a quantitative or qualitative argument. Got one? Why should 12% of the water users fork out to subsidize those using 80%? Do you also insist that Central Valley Farmers fork over billions in taxes to pay for mass transit in the coastal cities?
This is a bit like saying you're going to send someone to jail for getting rear-ended waiting at a traffic light - if the person was parked at a green light, drinking, in the middle of the night, with the rear of their vehicle spray-painted black to hide any reflective markings.
It's not that a hack happened.
It's that a hack happened due to willful negligence and incompetence.
Is North Korea publicly beheading a hundred people a year, the way Saudi Arabia is? Is North Korea executing people for engaging in sorcery, the way Saudi Arabia is?
If they are, they aren't doing it with the help of tens of billions in arms sales from the United States.
LOL, phantom. Okay, so explain why those using 12% of the water should make heavy investments to benefit those who are using 80% of the water, yet only contribute 2% to the state's GDP? Remember to bring your stash of 'shrooms and acid, as such an explanation isn't going to be possible without them.
Nice try, homophobe. "Traditional marriage" has variously meant:
Rapists marry their victims Soldiers marry the surviving daughters of the families they just massacred Kings marry hundreds of wives 80 year old men marrying 12 year old girls
Marriage has constantly been "redefined" throughout history, so all you've got is a red herring in addition to your flaming nazi shitbaggery.
Eich was a bigot. It's a free country, and he's allowed to have his personal views - but he also spent money to force those views onto other people. Would you guys be all indignant if a reasonably talented software manager was shown the door after he was shown to be a Klansman, and worked to deny basic civil rights to blacks or jews?
Islamist wackadoos wanting to take over Europe (and elsewhere) aren't doing so because they think the US has too big a military. They're doing it because they think the rest of the world should live under the culture they consider to be the only valid one.
You from the U.S.? It takes an extra special brand of racist dumbfuckery to be from a country that has bombed and overthrown dozens of countries over the last 70 years, gotten tens of millions of people killed, had a worldwide kidnapping & torture program, assassinates people based on "meta data", yet wag your finger at those people over there to whine about how irrational and violent they are.
The best part about it is, any Radical Islamofacism you can name is directly the fault of the U.S., or a direct backlash to U.S. imperialism. Don't like Iran's theocratic government? Blame the U.S. and Britain for overthrowing their secular democracy in the 50's. Say Pan Am Flight 103 was a horrible crime? Tell it to the family members of those on Iran Air Flight 655. Taliban got you down? Take it up with Zombie Reagan, who gave them weapons in the 80's. ISIS being a pain? Blame the Obama Administration for giving them arms and training to fight Assad.
And of course there's Saudi Arabia, the most brutal regime on the planet, which the U.S. sells billions of dollars in arms to every year.
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Forgotten that was five major software versions ago? Windows 10 is insecure, because XP had so many holes. Or something.
No dice. Burying the lede, Google it.
Does the average Fandroid have more or less self-awareness on this topic, after rooting his Android device to disable carrier locks and remove bloatware?
Adding the option to turn on and off cellular data alone is worth the price of admission to battery misers. Speaking of batteries, you can install a tweak that will disable the alerts that start locking your screen at 20% until you click "ok".
Other bennies: being able to scp files to your phone, use your phone for tethering without paying the carrier extortion fee, and mute camera noises.
Which was four years after its release, if you're picking the cherries half full.
Products purchased at the end of their life cycle, when they are discounted to be free-with-contract, have a shorter period of support than the current model? Zounds.
I wonder what the venn diagram looks like of the people who complain about Apple's "walled garden", yet have purchased a game console, car or media player without complaint.
You mean five major software versions ago? By that logic, Windows 10 is a security nightmare because XP had so many holes.
There's nothing reasonable about using Star Chamber's or holding suspects incommunicado. Sweden might have hippy health care, and they might not execute prisoners, but their justice system is otherwise straight out of the middle ages. They will detain you and deny outside contact, even to speak to a lawyer.
Yes, they have, but that wont stop you from repeating the same debunked Zombie Lies.
Swedish prosecutors have interviewed other suspects abroad without first dragging them back to Sweden, and they could promise at any time that Assange wont be handed over to the United States. They have refused to do so, which means this is not about any alleged rape.
So, on this wilful[sic] distortion, are you using a cannon or a howitzer for your projection?
The UK has rules against deporting people to regimes that practice torture and the death penalty. Regimes like....the United States. Just ask Chelsey Manning, who was subjected to torture for a year and a half before being dragged into a kangaroo court. If this were a black bag operation with plausible deniability, MI-5 would hand him over without a heartbeat - but for a well known dissident in the middle of the country, not so much.
Whereas Sweden participated in the kidnapping of two men, to send them off to be tortured. The Sweden that pointedly refuses to promise not to hand Assange over to the U.S., despite Assange's offer to return to Sweden if such a promise was made.
Any more Concerns?
You mean this tired historical revisionism? The helicopter crew straight up murdered a bunch of civilians minding their own business. There is nothing in the unedited video that gave them cause to open fire on people who weren't posing a threat to anyone, much less those who tried to help the dying.
Then they'd pick up the fucking phone and question him about the alleged rape. They haven't done so. Assange has said he would return to Sweden, if the government promised him they wouldn't hand him over to the United States. They haven't done that either.
Which means, for anyone not suffering from willful blindness, that this isn't about rape. And spare us the BS of "Sweden can't promise that". The biggest paid hack on this issue, Rei, has even admitted that Sweden can't extradite for "intelligence crimes". Guess what revealing classified cables is?
Too bad reality disagrees with your fascist storyline.
Don't leave your house for the next five years because you have every reason to fear you will be made a political prisoner, and tell us how awesome it was.
It's a legit comparison if you're a moron who doesn't know WTF he's talking about. If SS was a Ponzi scheme, the first person on the program would have been a billionaire. The next few thousand people would have been millionaires, and so on until the last to join would be left with nothing.
None of that is the case. None. Which is why you, sir, are a moron.
SS is completely self-funded. The "trust fund" was never supposed to be permanent, but the Boomers paying ahead on their earned retirement benefits. Guess where the Boomers will be by the time the trust fund is depleted? Dead.
I have no problems seeing selective reasoning.
Many? According to Google, the lightest HP laptop is .17 pounds heavier than a Macbook. The lightest Lenovo laptop is 1.72 pounds, 8.5% lighter than the Macbook.
You can't get from "weight doesn't matter" to "8.5% difference is a 'compromise'" without hackery. Sorry.
I'm seeing lots of butthurt, but not a quantitative or qualitative argument. Got one? Why should 12% of the water users fork out to subsidize those using 80%? Do you also insist that Central Valley Farmers fork over billions in taxes to pay for mass transit in the coastal cities?
Makes as much sense.
This is a bit like saying you're going to send someone to jail for getting rear-ended waiting at a traffic light - if the person was parked at a green light, drinking, in the middle of the night, with the rear of their vehicle spray-painted black to hide any reflective markings.
It's not that a hack happened.
It's that a hack happened due to willful negligence and incompetence.
Is North Korea publicly beheading a hundred people a year, the way Saudi Arabia is? Is North Korea executing people for engaging in sorcery, the way Saudi Arabia is?
If they are, they aren't doing it with the help of tens of billions in arms sales from the United States.
LOL, phantom. Okay, so explain why those using 12% of the water should make heavy investments to benefit those who are using 80% of the water, yet only contribute 2% to the state's GDP? Remember to bring your stash of 'shrooms and acid, as such an explanation isn't going to be possible without them.
Nice try, homophobe. "Traditional marriage" has variously meant:
Rapists marry their victims
Soldiers marry the surviving daughters of the families they just massacred
Kings marry hundreds of wives
80 year old men marrying 12 year old girls
Marriage has constantly been "redefined" throughout history, so all you've got is a red herring in addition to your flaming nazi shitbaggery.
Thanks for revealing your specific bigotry and homophobia in public.
Eich was a bigot. It's a free country, and he's allowed to have his personal views - but he also spent money to force those views onto other people. Would you guys be all indignant if a reasonably talented software manager was shown the door after he was shown to be a Klansman, and worked to deny basic civil rights to blacks or jews?
If not, why not?
Your winger butthurt on behalf of a bigot is noted.
You from the U.S.? It takes an extra special brand of racist dumbfuckery to be from a country that has bombed and overthrown dozens of countries over the last 70 years, gotten tens of millions of people killed, had a worldwide kidnapping & torture program, assassinates people based on "meta data", yet wag your finger at those people over there to whine about how irrational and violent they are.
The best part about it is, any Radical Islamofacism you can name is directly the fault of the U.S., or a direct backlash to U.S. imperialism. Don't like Iran's theocratic government? Blame the U.S. and Britain for overthrowing their secular democracy in the 50's. Say Pan Am Flight 103 was a horrible crime? Tell it to the family members of those on Iran Air Flight 655. Taliban got you down? Take it up with Zombie Reagan, who gave them weapons in the 80's. ISIS being a pain? Blame the Obama Administration for giving them arms and training to fight Assad.
And of course there's Saudi Arabia, the most brutal regime on the planet, which the U.S. sells billions of dollars in arms to every year.