As someone who did tech support for Macs many years ago, I cant buy them being more robust or reliable.
Because you're a Hateboi. Too bad Apple has placed at or near the top of hardware reliability since the Jurassic age.
Pretty much anything you can get from a Mac these days can be gotten from another manufacturer for less money.
If you're a sophist who thinks that a 7 lbs plastic brick is the same thing as a 3 lbs machine aluminum laptop because they have the same processor, sure. Comparable products cost comparable prices.
Except the wank factor of course.
Your projection is noted. Look, Zombie Jobs isn't holding a gun to your head. If you don't like Apple products....try...not buying them. I have no use for a large-screen phone or one with a curved screen, but you don't see me whining at length about Samsung the company. I just buy what I want that does what I want.
So a journalist becomes persona non grata with Apple, can't get information about The New Big Thing until long after their competitors have published articles about it, so they get a reputation for being slow to publish about new stuff and probably end up with a reputation for recycling other peoples information because they can't get anything from Apple.
Apple isn't the Deep State. It's MO is not to have "senior officials" make breathless claims to the WaPo or the NYTimes to be written down as fact in the Sunday edition. Their MO is to have the "big reveal" at a public event.
So 1) what you're talking about doesn't exist 2) ignores the plethora of clickbait in trolling Apple. See: John Dvorack in the 90's, or for the damn kids out there....just about any story on Slashdot. Like this one.
And the rest of us are free to tell you that you're guzzling from the Freedum Hatorade bong at the rate of a gallon per minute. If you don't want to put your app on Apple's App Store....don't fucking put it on Apple's App Store. Zombie Jobs isn't holding a gun to your head, so just go ahead and 1) get over yourself 2) release under whatever license suits your phancy.
Baby eating is a bit outlandish, but how about blueprints for a domestic Predator Drone base to deal with protestors and terrorists? You can't call that a 'nothingburger' after the NDAA, which allows military detention without trial.
they could sit down and face the fact that there is clearly too many people in the area
Red herring. Residential use in California is about the same as what's used for almonds alone. And much of that residential use is by 1%ers on lawns, swimming pools and golf courses. California has more than enough water for it's people. What it doesn't have is enough water to use billions of gallons on thirsty rice, almonds, fracking, etc.
DDT ban has literally killed more people than Hitler.
Speaking of Randian Dumbfuckery, this canard was debunked years ago. DDT wasn't banned for malaria prevention, it was banned for agricultural use - which was breeding DDT-resistant mosquitoes. Which means you just made a self-debunking argument.
Yes, let's forget the Hezbollah in Lebanon who started the last Lebanon-Israeli war
A continuation of blaming wars started by Israel on those bombed by Israel. The rest of your post is a combination of blather, projection, ignorance and confirmation bias.
You're requesting a cite for remedialknowledge of the subject? This is no more obscure than Saddam not having WMD's or Bush ignoring the Taliban's offer to hand over Bin Laddin before he invaded Afghanistan.
SECRETARY LEON PANETTA:....I think the pressure of the sanctions, I think the pressure of diplomatic pressures from everywhere -- Europe, United States, elsewhere-- is working to put pressure on them, to make them understand that they cannot continue to do what they're doing. Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No.
It's Americans wagging their finger at Iran, which is like watching Jack the Ripper telling Larry Summers that he has a bad attitude when it comes to women. The only country to have ever used nuclear weapons has spent a decade threatening to bomb a country for the nuclear weapons program the CIA says Iran doesn't have.
"Then there was that whole 'taxation without representation' thing..."
That's just another part of the farce though. Because people had to pay taxes but couldn't vote unless they owned property. Which is.....taxation without representation.
2) Because their government has a reputation for trustworthiness rather than a reputation for being batshit crazy?
Because that's not the worst case of projection in history? Iran hasn't attacked another country in hundreds of years. It hasn't overthrown democracies around the world to satisfy it's thirst for empire and capitalism - it was the recipient of such a 'regime change' courtesy of the CIA. Iran hasn't had a worldwide kidnapping and torture program, isn't sending robot planes to blow up teenagers in Mexico and then call them "military aged males". Etc.
For more than 10 years now, both the CIA and Mossad will tell you flat-out that Iran has no nuclear weapons program. Iran wants nuclear power for the same reason the U.S. was offering it to the Shaw it installed as dictator of Iran - so it can sell more of it's oil rather than using it for power.
Whisteblowers have been sent to Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Penitentiaries under the odious Espionage Act at a higher rate under Obama than all previous presidents combined.
But Petraeus, who casually flashed Specially Compartmented Information - a much higher classification than any of the Top Secret information released by Manning to Wikilieaks - just to impress his mistress, will only face probation.
Or the cable operator who was sentenced to years in jail for carrying a Hezbollah tv channel, because it's on a State Department list of terror groups, while at the same time prominent politicians from both parties openly accepted large amounts of money from MEK to lobby on the group's behalf. A group also....on the State Departments list of terror groups.
So we could see the same thing in Australia. Defense contractors will be free to skirt the law and sell to any shifty customer. People who annoy the state, though, will feel the full force of the law.
That's not logic. That's a butthurt response into having your contradictory beliefs laid bare. It's quite similar to the fundie who keeps sputtering that atheism is a religion right after being hit with the "yeah like off is a TV channel" line.
Oh, that's right! The FUCKING GOVERNMENT prevented competition!
This is just more Randian Dumbfuckery. How do your guys maintain your willful ignorance of the 19th Century? Of railroad barons and Standard Oil? Business interests have existed independent of government for millennia, as has the natural market force of consolidation.
Which is first and foremost found in utilities. You could finally find that Libertarian Magic Dust and retroactively remove all functioning government from the United States for the last 100 years and Ma Bell still would have been a monopoly. Because the last mile costs make it prohibitively expensive for anyone but another monopoly to challenge a monopoly - until those two monopolies merge for greater profit. Which is exactly what the Baby Bells have done in reassembling the original AT&T.
Believing in Santa Clause as a grown-assed-man makes infinitely more sense than believing in Randian canards.
Right, but most republicans are too damn stupid to realize that the republican candidates are the very ones trying to cut their social security benefits and allow Comcast to charge more for terrible internet access.
But it hasn't been Republicans slipping the SS cutting "chained cpi" into budgets for the the last several years - it's been Obama. Who's also talked up "means testing" and other cuts to Medicare. Who was also the only sitting politician from either party to attend the inauguration of the Pete Peterson Commission, who's sole purpose is to sell the public on accepting cuts to the SS and Medicare benefits they paid for.
Voters on both sides of the aisle are stuck with this two-faced Kubuki crap from party leaders. So far for 2016, it looks like voters will be stuck with Hillary Clinton, who will want more wars and benefit cuts, or Jeb Bush, who will push for more wars and benefit cuts.
Also to be fair, those cars started dying out in the 1910's as improvements in internal combustion engines made them much cheaper than electrical cars.
Very well. "The first commercial electric car in nearly 100 years that went beyond a trial run into commercial release". Better?
And you can see Leno driving one on Nova, as I did years ago. I figured as soon as I posed that there would be pedantry because somebody built a battery powered horsecart in 1859 that could go a couple miles an hour, even though interest in electrics mostly died out in the 1920's, according to your own link.
Very well. The first post-WWII electric car that went beyond prototype phase into commercial release.
So it is odd to me to suggest that they should have supported Romneycare at the federal level for two major reasons.
Conservatives are the ones who proposed Romneycare at the federal level to start with, when it was it was the Heritage Foundation alternative to the Clinton plan in '92. It was pushed again by Dole in '96, before finally being signed into law by Romney at a state level in the aughts.
So there's an easy test here for political hackery: ask Republicans why they didn't vote for Clinton in '92 and '96, if Obomneycare is so horrible. And ask Democrats why they didn't all jump ship and support Romney in '08, if Obomneycare is so awesome. Both groups invariably respond with empty partisan butthurt.
bush tax cuts expired, if he continued them, they are now his. Funny how that works
Sure they are. Obama owns them the same way he owns extensions to the Patriot Act, since they now bear his signature. Why would that be funny? Did you think I was an Obamabot after calling them out by name? I have contempt for blind partisan tribalists of all stripes.
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Because you're a Hateboi. Too bad Apple has placed at or near the top of hardware reliability since the Jurassic age.
If you're a sophist who thinks that a 7 lbs plastic brick is the same thing as a 3 lbs machine aluminum laptop because they have the same processor, sure. Comparable products cost comparable prices.
Your projection is noted. Look, Zombie Jobs isn't holding a gun to your head. If you don't like Apple products....try...not buying them. I have no use for a large-screen phone or one with a curved screen, but you don't see me whining at length about Samsung the company. I just buy what I want that does what I want.
Try it some time.
Apple isn't the Deep State. It's MO is not to have "senior officials" make breathless claims to the WaPo or the NYTimes to be written down as fact in the Sunday edition. Their MO is to have the "big reveal" at a public event.
So 1) what you're talking about doesn't exist 2) ignores the plethora of clickbait in trolling Apple. See: John Dvorack in the 90's, or for the damn kids out there....just about any story on Slashdot. Like this one.
And the rest of us are free to tell you that you're guzzling from the Freedum Hatorade bong at the rate of a gallon per minute. If you don't want to put your app on Apple's App Store....don't fucking put it on Apple's App Store. Zombie Jobs isn't holding a gun to your head, so just go ahead and 1) get over yourself 2) release under whatever license suits your phancy.
Baby eating is a bit outlandish, but how about blueprints for a domestic Predator Drone base to deal with protestors and terrorists? You can't call that a 'nothingburger' after the NDAA, which allows military detention without trial.
Red herring. Residential use in California is about the same as what's used for almonds alone. And much of that residential use is by 1%ers on lawns, swimming pools and golf courses. California has more than enough water for it's people. What it doesn't have is enough water to use billions of gallons on thirsty rice, almonds, fracking, etc.
Speaking of Randian Dumbfuckery, this canard was debunked years ago. DDT wasn't banned for malaria prevention, it was banned for agricultural use - which was breeding DDT-resistant mosquitoes. Which means you just made a self-debunking argument.
Any more dumbfuckery, or are we done here?
"Kano is ten pounds of dumbfuck in a five pound sack"
If a bakery refuses to put that on a cake, which group is is discriminating against?
A continuation of blaming wars started by Israel on those bombed by Israel. The rest of your post is a combination of blather, projection, ignorance and confirmation bias.
You're requesting a cite for remedial knowledge of the subject? This is no more obscure than Saddam not having WMD's or Bush ignoring the Taliban's offer to hand over Bin Laddin before he invaded Afghanistan.
It's Americans wagging their finger at Iran, which is like watching Jack the Ripper telling Larry Summers that he has a bad attitude when it comes to women. The only country to have ever used nuclear weapons has spent a decade threatening to bomb a country for the nuclear weapons program the CIA says Iran doesn't have.
Then you know even less about the concept of irony than Alanis Morissette, but you are a very stupid person.
"Then there was that whole 'taxation without representation' thing..."
That's just another part of the farce though. Because people had to pay taxes but couldn't vote unless they owned property. Which is.....taxation without representation.
An Adolf Hitler cake is your counter-example? The dumbfuckery is strong with this one.
Israel is the only member of the nuke club in the region, and the only nation likely to use them.
Because that's not the worst case of projection in history? Iran hasn't attacked another country in hundreds of years. It hasn't overthrown democracies around the world to satisfy it's thirst for empire and capitalism - it was the recipient of such a 'regime change' courtesy of the CIA. Iran hasn't had a worldwide kidnapping and torture program, isn't sending robot planes to blow up teenagers in Mexico and then call them "military aged males". Etc.
For more than 10 years now, both the CIA and Mossad will tell you flat-out that Iran has no nuclear weapons program. Iran wants nuclear power for the same reason the U.S. was offering it to the Shaw it installed as dictator of Iran - so it can sell more of it's oil rather than using it for power.
Whisteblowers have been sent to Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Penitentiaries under the odious Espionage Act at a higher rate under Obama than all previous presidents combined.
But Petraeus, who casually flashed Specially Compartmented Information - a much higher classification than any of the Top Secret information released by Manning to Wikilieaks - just to impress his mistress, will only face probation.
Or the cable operator who was sentenced to years in jail for carrying a Hezbollah tv channel, because it's on a State Department list of terror groups, while at the same time prominent politicians from both parties openly accepted large amounts of money from MEK to lobby on the group's behalf. A group also....on the State Departments list of terror groups.
So we could see the same thing in Australia. Defense contractors will be free to skirt the law and sell to any shifty customer. People who annoy the state, though, will feel the full force of the law.
How many corporate missions to how many moons/planets/comets since then?
Randian. Dumbfuckery.
That's not logic. That's a butthurt response into having your contradictory beliefs laid bare. It's quite similar to the fundie who keeps sputtering that atheism is a religion right after being hit with the "yeah like off is a TV channel" line.
This is just more Randian Dumbfuckery. How do your guys maintain your willful ignorance of the 19th Century? Of railroad barons and Standard Oil? Business interests have existed independent of government for millennia, as has the natural market force of consolidation.
Which is first and foremost found in utilities. You could finally find that Libertarian Magic Dust and retroactively remove all functioning government from the United States for the last 100 years and Ma Bell still would have been a monopoly. Because the last mile costs make it prohibitively expensive for anyone but another monopoly to challenge a monopoly - until those two monopolies merge for greater profit. Which is exactly what the Baby Bells have done in reassembling the original AT&T.
Believing in Santa Clause as a grown-assed-man makes infinitely more sense than believing in Randian canards.
In the same way that a Hummer is more cost effective and environmentally friendly than a Prius - another example of wishful Randian thinking.
But it hasn't been Republicans slipping the SS cutting "chained cpi" into budgets for the the last several years - it's been Obama. Who's also talked up "means testing" and other cuts to Medicare. Who was also the only sitting politician from either party to attend the inauguration of the Pete Peterson Commission, who's sole purpose is to sell the public on accepting cuts to the SS and Medicare benefits they paid for.
Voters on both sides of the aisle are stuck with this two-faced Kubuki crap from party leaders. So far for 2016, it looks like voters will be stuck with Hillary Clinton, who will want more wars and benefit cuts, or Jeb Bush, who will push for more wars and benefit cuts.
Also to be fair, those cars started dying out in the 1910's as improvements in internal combustion engines made them much cheaper than electrical cars.
Very well. "The first commercial electric car in nearly 100 years that went beyond a trial run into commercial release". Better?
And you can see Leno driving one on Nova, as I did years ago. I figured as soon as I posed that there would be pedantry because somebody built a battery powered horsecart in 1859 that could go a couple miles an hour, even though interest in electrics mostly died out in the 1920's, according to your own link.
Very well. The first post-WWII electric car that went beyond prototype phase into commercial release.
Conservatives are the ones who proposed Romneycare at the federal level to start with, when it was it was the Heritage Foundation alternative to the Clinton plan in '92. It was pushed again by Dole in '96, before finally being signed into law by Romney at a state level in the aughts.
So there's an easy test here for political hackery: ask Republicans why they didn't vote for Clinton in '92 and '96, if Obomneycare is so horrible. And ask Democrats why they didn't all jump ship and support Romney in '08, if Obomneycare is so awesome. Both groups invariably respond with empty partisan butthurt.
Sure they are. Obama owns them the same way he owns extensions to the Patriot Act, since they now bear his signature. Why would that be funny? Did you think I was an Obamabot after calling them out by name? I have contempt for blind partisan tribalists of all stripes.