So why are you touting all the time that Apple was not pushed off the market?
It was clear the first time: if the constant whining here about the lack of SD card slots on iOS devices was remotely representative of consumer demand, Apple would have taken a pounding from devices that do have those features. That hasn't happened.
and people do complain constantly (at least here) about Android cell phones with no SD and swappable battery.
That's laughable. Slashdot posters no more complain about those things on Android than they complain about the "walled garden" on a Wii or an XBox.
My question, which nobody in the mainstream asks, since the powers-that-be in each party are apparently in favor of some sort of amnesty provision: What do you tell the hundreds of thousands in line who are going through the process legally? Tough luck, you should have sneaked across the border/overstayed your visa and waited a few years?
Wake up, Blame & Shame.. it's what you are doing right now, you are running around in circles and complain about that you cannot advance.
That's the exact sort of "both sides are guilty" handwaving bullshit that I'm talking about. You wouldn't pretend that the Jews and the Spanish Inquisition were "equally guilty", nor would you for the Popes who forced Jews into ghettos, nor the Russian Czars that waged pogroms on them. So stop pretending that Palestinians aren't the victims and the Zionists aren't a bunch of racist colonialists.
But yes, israel is too blame for many things, so is the Hamas & Fatah
Israel created Hamas to undermine Fatah. You've obviously been blinded by 60 years of Zionist propaganda. It is simply impossible to look at the facts or history of the situation and pretend the Zionists have any standing, any more than it is possible to pretend the mass land theft of Native Americans was in any way reasonable, nor the South African Apartheid which is a mirror of Israeli Apartheid.
Modern Democrats are far, far to the left of the older Democrat party on most issues.
When modern democrats are far, far to the right of Ronald Reagan, that's some pretty pathetic willful ignorance of history, with a sideshow of irrelevant quotes that have nothing to do with policy.
Reagan increased taxes to reduce the deficit while Obama continued Bush's budget busting tax cuts.
Reagan signed a treaty requiring the prosecution of those who commit torture, Obama grants them immunity.
Reagan pulled out of Lebanon, while Obama has made arrangements to continue the Afghanistan war through two terms of Obama's successor.
Reagan adamantly insisted that Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit, whereas Obama constantly tries to cut it.
Reagan never started a war without Congressional authorization, like Obama did with Libya and all the people he's bombing that the CIA doesn't even bother to claim have Al Qaeda ties.
Reagan started DOJ investigations that sent 800 banking executives to jail for the S&L crisis. Not only has Obama not prosecuted a single banker for a fraud 70 times as large as the S&L's, he spent billions of taxpayer money bailing them out.
Reagan didn't push a corporate trade treaty that would shred national sovereignty on regulation or consumer protection.
And that's Reagan, not the guy that started the EPA, proposed a national income, or expanded Social Security. You're so far off-base you're off-plant.
And yet we 'brazenly' allow MILLIONS of people to cross our borders ILLEGALLY and don't do a God Damn thing about it yet we are willing to waste what I'd bet was at least a million dollars 'enforcing' a court order on one of our own citizens... Please tell me someone else here sees the hypocrisy in this.
Okay, lets pretend for a minute that the descendants of white invaders hating on the descendants of native inhabitants isn't 1) racist 2) willfully ignorant of how the U.S. was formed 3) willfully ignorant of a century of American imperialism in Latin America. If some guy from down south lost his farm to NAFTA, lost his mom to a CIA-backed death squad, lost his dad to the U.S. backed right wing dictatorship that overthrew a democratic government....the least you can do is let the poor bastard work at a Wal-Mart in Toledo.
You still have a fail since Obama has dramatically increased deportations of immigrants over his Republican predecessor.
The only Cheneysque thing Obama hasn't continued and expanded is the torture program. Everything else, Obama has done bigger and better than his predecessor - more spying, more countries bombed, more executive privilege, more FOIA requests denied, more prosecutions of whisteblowers than all previous presidents combined times two.....
Also, other ways Obama is not a neo-con: Obama is not anti-abortion
That's part of the problem: you seem to have confused "neocon" with "Christian Right". The two are not remotely the same thing - not all homophobes have a hard-on for bombing Iran, and not all imperialists want to ban abortion. Case in point: Dick Cheney "evolved" on gay marriage almost 10 years before Obama made it cool.
.neo-cons criticize and oppose Obama at every point.
To do what right wingers always do: move the conversation to the right. Like on domestic policy: before the ACA was Obamacare, it was Romneycare, and before that Dolecare, and before that the Heritage Foundation plan. Yet the Republicans went and lost their minds once the Democrats adopted the 20 year old Republican plan as their own.
Only an apple user would consider their phone a fashion accessory... How many 5c's you got there? One of each color so you can match any outfit? Cool there metro man.
So....you're going to explain how roads are publicly paid for while still complaining that mass transit is publicly paid for. Okaaaay.
Taxes on fuel mostly, which are paid by the users of said roads when they fill up their cars to drive on the roads.. Some are supported by tolls around here too. Or didn't you realize that the government did that?
Maybe mass transit is free in your neck of the woods, but everywhere else in the country you need to buy a bus, subway or rail pass to use it.
at one point unions made sense the labor laws were woefully inadequate and workers were regularly exploited.
However, since the 1970's labor laws
Did corporate greed disappear in the 1970's? No? Then why would workers no longer need unions to protect them exploitation? This "unions were useful in the past but not now" talking point requires willful ignorance since.....at least 1980.
The artificial limiting of opportunity in order to drive up or preserve peoples income should never and can never be tolerated.
So how long have you hated democracy? And why do you fascists think that is normal for the corporate class to organize their capital (money) but abhorrent for workers to pool their capital (labor)?
but they are just as capable of protecting incompetent workers and demanding their members out of their job
Except that's the sort of tired anti-union claptrap the parent might have been referring to. Incompetence: how many workers do you know who are happy to do someone else's work in addition to their own? Out of their jobs: on some planet where unions accepting cuts to preserve jobs isn't a constant story in this country? Where cuts to public sector unions aren't being made to pay for the tax cuts for the rich passed a couple years ago?
Workers will be a lot better off when they cast aside anti-worker propaganda.
No and you know it. He means has more features because those are what are cool.
And if someone were to make the same comments but using iPhone in place of Android, they'd be dismissed as Fanbois swayed by fashion. And you know it.
I don't give a shit if the phone physically looks "fashionable" but, like any tool, it needs to have the options, sensors, software, and whatnot that makes it the right tool for the right job.
Those are called "product preferences". Most people manage to talk about their preferences without pretending that products that lack said preferences have design flaws. Hatebois and Fandroids do not seem to realize this.
are just as bad. Now watch my karma tank cause I pointed this out.
As funny as a conservative being afraid of liberal persecution....on Fox News. This is Slashdot, which has been down on Apple since the Beleaguered Era.
Now SD is the only memory card format (worth talking about), can be read everywhere or using a cheap ass USB adapter, and is about $20 for 32GB.
So why hasn't Apple been pushed out of the market again? Past success is no guarantee for the future...just ask Nokia.
So low end gets more storage than Iphone/Ipad for a shit ton less money.
And if that was important for consumers, Apple would have had to add SD card slots or join Blackberry in marketshare. If someone actually wants a device with a slot, they are free to buy a device with a slot - product preferences don't have to be a religion. Zombie Steve Jobs isn't holding a gun to your head.
And again, none of of these complaints are aimed at any of Apple's competitors when they make the same product decisions. Not SD cards, not swappable batteries, not walled gardens.
The iPad doesn't have a (Micro)SD card slot, so they only way to get more storage is to pay $100 at each increment
If it was sooooooo important for consumers to have SD expansion, the iPod would have been pushed out the market a couple years after it was introduced - not dominate the mp3 player market until the present. It's also telling that nobody complains about products from Apple's competitors that offer neither SD expansion nor swappable batteries.
What I find amazing is how many Apple users brag about the extreme profit margin Apple is extracting from them, as if that is something positive for consumers.
What I find amazing is how Fandroids like to complain about Apple's margins at the same time they're paying the exact same prices for their Android phones.
It would have been much simpler to lie and claim they saw him swerve or drive recklessly to justify the stop
And then explain why the dashcam was shut off on the cruiser? It's a matter of record now that cops use "parallel construction" to launder illegally gained surveillance into lawful convictions.
It's odd that people focus on the 911 call when the "I smelled MJ" part is really more open to abuse.
It's not one or the other. It's another piece in a police state puzzle.
Jesus tapdancing Christ, this has been refuted three times now. The tip did not warrant the search, the tip only warranted pulling the driver over. The marijuana smell warranted the search
So you're point is that he missed a step?
1) Police officer sees car he wants to search
2) Police officer calls 911 placing an anon tip
2.5) Police officer claims to smell marijuana
3) Police officer gets to do whatever the hell he wants.
Jesus tapdancing Christ the 4th Amendment is saved!
Indeed. At no other time in human history have the two world's greatest superpowers performed an act of colonialism for the benefit of refugees and settlers from another continent.
the actual worst enemy for peace in Israel( In my count Gaza and west jordan area are part of Israel) is the whole politics of blame and shame
Hardly. An enemy of peace is the farce to pretend the two sides have equal grievances, or deflect from the crimes committed upon Palestinians by the crimes committed elsewhere on Jews. The formation of Israel was never possible without large scale land theft and ethnic cleansing of the people who were living on the land, to make way from settlers who had been living in Europe for hundreds of years.
Zionism = Manifest Destiny. A sense of entitlement to other people's land because god gave it to you.
Gaza and the West Bank are "open air prisons" of their own making. Their own making revolved around: Palestinians, sniping at civilians along the highways, strapping explosives to themselves and blowing themselves up at cafes, bus stops, and other crowded civilian areas, and so on. Of course we can't forget the "rock throwing" brigades either, or some of the other incidents.
Oh, get fucked already, racist. Israel is nothing more than a colonial operation from Zionists who have been living in Europe for hundreds of years, and was never possible to form without discrimination, land theft, and ethnic cleansing performed on Palestinians.
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It was clear the first time: if the constant whining here about the lack of SD card slots on iOS devices was remotely representative of consumer demand, Apple would have taken a pounding from devices that do have those features. That hasn't happened.
That's laughable. Slashdot posters no more complain about those things on Android than they complain about the "walled garden" on a Wii or an XBox.
How about....so what, we don't believe in crab mentality.
That's the exact sort of "both sides are guilty" handwaving bullshit that I'm talking about. You wouldn't pretend that the Jews and the Spanish Inquisition were "equally guilty", nor would you for the Popes who forced Jews into ghettos, nor the Russian Czars that waged pogroms on them. So stop pretending that Palestinians aren't the victims and the Zionists aren't a bunch of racist colonialists.
Israel created Hamas to undermine Fatah. You've obviously been blinded by 60 years of Zionist propaganda. It is simply impossible to look at the facts or history of the situation and pretend the Zionists have any standing, any more than it is possible to pretend the mass land theft of Native Americans was in any way reasonable, nor the South African Apartheid which is a mirror of Israeli Apartheid.
There is no justification for colonialism. None.
When modern democrats are far, far to the right of Ronald Reagan, that's some pretty pathetic willful ignorance of history, with a sideshow of irrelevant quotes that have nothing to do with policy.
Reagan increased taxes to reduce the deficit while Obama continued Bush's budget busting tax cuts.
Reagan signed a treaty requiring the prosecution of those who commit torture, Obama grants them immunity.
Reagan pulled out of Lebanon, while Obama has made arrangements to continue the Afghanistan war through two terms of Obama's successor.
Reagan adamantly insisted that Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit, whereas Obama constantly tries to cut it.
Reagan never started a war without Congressional authorization, like Obama did with Libya and all the people he's bombing that the CIA doesn't even bother to claim have Al Qaeda ties.
Reagan started DOJ investigations that sent 800 banking executives to jail for the S&L crisis. Not only has Obama not prosecuted a single banker for a fraud 70 times as large as the S&L's, he spent billions of taxpayer money bailing them out.
Reagan didn't push a corporate trade treaty that would shred national sovereignty on regulation or consumer protection.
And that's Reagan, not the guy that started the EPA, proposed a national income, or expanded Social Security. You're so far off-base you're off-plant.
Okay, lets pretend for a minute that the descendants of white invaders hating on the descendants of native inhabitants isn't 1) racist 2) willfully ignorant of how the U.S. was formed 3) willfully ignorant of a century of American imperialism in Latin America. If some guy from down south lost his farm to NAFTA, lost his mom to a CIA-backed death squad, lost his dad to the U.S. backed right wing dictatorship that overthrew a democratic government....the least you can do is let the poor bastard work at a Wal-Mart in Toledo.
You still have a fail since Obama has dramatically increased deportations of immigrants over his Republican predecessor.
The only Cheneysque thing Obama hasn't continued and expanded is the torture program. Everything else, Obama has done bigger and better than his predecessor - more spying, more countries bombed, more executive privilege, more FOIA requests denied, more prosecutions of whisteblowers than all previous presidents combined times two.....
That's part of the problem: you seem to have confused "neocon" with "Christian Right". The two are not remotely the same thing - not all homophobes have a hard-on for bombing Iran, and not all imperialists want to ban abortion. Case in point: Dick Cheney "evolved" on gay marriage almost 10 years before Obama made it cool.
To do what right wingers always do: move the conversation to the right. Like on domestic policy: before the ACA was Obamacare, it was Romneycare, and before that Dolecare, and before that the Heritage Foundation plan. Yet the Republicans went and lost their minds once the Democrats adopted the 20 year old Republican plan as their own.
Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh.
So....you're going to explain how roads are publicly paid for while still complaining that mass transit is publicly paid for. Okaaaay.
Maybe mass transit is free in your neck of the woods, but everywhere else in the country you need to buy a bus, subway or rail pass to use it.
Is that a rhetorical question?
Did corporate greed disappear in the 1970's? No? Then why would workers no longer need unions to protect them exploitation? This "unions were useful in the past but not now" talking point requires willful ignorance since.....at least 1980.
So how long have you hated democracy? And why do you fascists think that is normal for the corporate class to organize their capital (money) but abhorrent for workers to pool their capital (labor)?
Except that's the sort of tired anti-union claptrap the parent might have been referring to. Incompetence: how many workers do you know who are happy to do someone else's work in addition to their own? Out of their jobs: on some planet where unions accepting cuts to preserve jobs isn't a constant story in this country? Where cuts to public sector unions aren't being made to pay for the tax cuts for the rich passed a couple years ago?
Workers will be a lot better off when they cast aside anti-worker propaganda.
And if someone were to make the same comments but using iPhone in place of Android, they'd be dismissed as Fanbois swayed by fashion. And you know it.
Those are called "product preferences". Most people manage to talk about their preferences without pretending that products that lack said preferences have design flaws. Hatebois and Fandroids do not seem to realize this.
As funny as a conservative being afraid of liberal persecution....on Fox News. This is Slashdot, which has been down on Apple since the Beleaguered Era.
Drinking Hatorade isn't questioning.
I understand you want to throw stones at Apple for charging the same price as Windows and Android phones.
Factual descriptions aren't ad hominems. Have you tried Hatoradics Anonymous?
So why hasn't Apple been pushed out of the market again? Past success is no guarantee for the future...just ask Nokia.
And if that was important for consumers, Apple would have had to add SD card slots or join Blackberry in marketshare. If someone actually wants a device with a slot, they are free to buy a device with a slot - product preferences don't have to be a religion. Zombie Steve Jobs isn't holding a gun to your head.
And again, none of of these complaints are aimed at any of Apple's competitors when they make the same product decisions. Not SD cards, not swappable batteries, not walled gardens.
If it was sooooooo important for consumers to have SD expansion, the iPod would have been pushed out the market a couple years after it was introduced - not dominate the mp3 player market until the present. It's also telling that nobody complains about products from Apple's competitors that offer neither SD expansion nor swappable batteries.
Ah, so the proper term was Hateboi, not Fandroid. Sorry, my mistake.
And I still find it puzzling when people complain about Apple's margins while paying the same prices for Android and Windows phones.
What I find amazing is how Fandroids like to complain about Apple's margins at the same time they're paying the exact same prices for their Android phones.
Fusion centers + parallel construction = police state apologists need to find a new defense for the indefensible.
And then explain why the dashcam was shut off on the cruiser? It's a matter of record now that cops use "parallel construction" to launder illegally gained surveillance into lawful convictions.
It's not one or the other. It's another piece in a police state puzzle.
Or a paygo phone. If there's no GPS tracker in his squad car, he doesn't even have to get off the road to do it.
So you're point is that he missed a step?
1) Police officer sees car he wants to search
2) Police officer calls 911 placing an anon tip
2.5) Police officer claims to smell marijuana
3) Police officer gets to do whatever the hell he wants.
Jesus tapdancing Christ the 4th Amendment is saved!
If you are reaching for your fainting couch, you were never persuadable to begin with.
Indeed. At no other time in human history have the two world's greatest superpowers performed an act of colonialism for the benefit of refugees and settlers from another continent.
Hardly. An enemy of peace is the farce to pretend the two sides have equal grievances, or deflect from the crimes committed upon Palestinians by the crimes committed elsewhere on Jews. The formation of Israel was never possible without large scale land theft and ethnic cleansing of the people who were living on the land, to make way from settlers who had been living in Europe for hundreds of years.
Zionism = Manifest Destiny. A sense of entitlement to other people's land because god gave it to you.
Oh, get fucked already, racist. Israel is nothing more than a colonial operation from Zionists who have been living in Europe for hundreds of years, and was never possible to form without discrimination, land theft, and ethnic cleansing performed on Palestinians.