This is about Apple, not Samsung, nor any other company Chinese or otherwise.
It's about just about every single electronic device you've bought over the last ten years. But it's only a problem when Apple is involved, due to the Hatorade Distortion Field.
In fact the raspberry pi is made in the UK in a Sony factory. As an ethical consumer I buy from these companies.
Uh huh. And you typed this post on the pi? Cuz pretty much every computer and mobile devices you can buy is made by the same suppliers Apple uses, and it's been that way for a very long time.
Apple, a company I boycott due to their human right abuses, anti consumer lobbying, media manipulation, anti greenpolicies and simply not producing good products.
Sounds more like you've been swept up in the Hatorade Distortion Field and are looking for reasons to justify your irrational, religious-like beliefs in one company's products.
Your premiums are going up because the ACA forces everyone to buy insurance while providing zero cost controls
Fixed. Insurers have no incentive not to raise premiums by double digits every year when everyone is forced to buy their junk product by law - or pay a penalty which then underwrites the cost of their junk product for low income Americans. And pharma/device manufacturers have no reason to moderate prices when everyone has insurance to "pay" for them.
Whereas before, people were starting to opt out of insurance all together. Now you have a situation where people can't afford to go to the doctor because money they would have had to spend already went to their premiums. Thanks Obama!
The ACA was a bad law. But it was the best we could get with a right-wing backstabber who killed the public option long before Congress could vote on it
Also fixed. Also a second source for people who like to dismiss HuffPo out of hand.
The reality is that the public option, despite having no real support from Democratic party leaders, enjoyed 80% support from the public, including a majority of Republican voters. You'd have a hard time finding a more popular policy proposal. It could have easily passed, if Obama wanted it to.
I would have more faith in Sander's single payer if his state and others would implement it first.
See above. States couldn't do their own plans until last year - and even now it requires a waiver from the Secretary of HHS. Good luck getting that through a Trump or Hillary appointed nominee - thanks Obama!
If democrats can't get it to work at the state level why would it work at the national level?
Because its what the rest of the industrialized world does - for less money while providing better care.
The problem with this old tired meme is that Americans' higher prices subsidize the rest of the world's lower prices.
Nonsense. Most pharma and medical devices profits go into dividends, bonuses and advertising. Not R&D. And much of that research you paid for anyway, as taxpayer-financed research at public universities - before the university licensed it to a pound-you-in-the-ass corporation.
He was charged with committing six felonies. He was arrested and arraigned. He was indicted by a grand jury. He received ample and high powered legal representation throughout. He met with prosecutors multiple times to discuss lenient plea agreements and rejected them all to have his day in court. Arguably, Schwartz was afforded more due process than the majority of people in this country get. Only an idiot would claim otherwise.
Only an authoritarian dipshit would pretend pea deals are fair deals. If the prosecutor is willing to accept 6 months in prison then WTF was she threatening him with 35 years in prison. Our jackbooted SCOTUS has signed off on the tactic of the state threatening decades in prison to force plea deals of months or years, but that doesn't make it any less obscene. Remember: this leads to totally innocent people pleading guilty to crimes they didn't commit to avoid spending most of their adult lives in prison, dipshit.
In the summer of 2002, Banks was arrested and charged after classmate Wanetta Gibson falsely accused him of dragging her into a stairway at Polytechnic High School (Poly) and raping her. Faced with a possible 41 years to life sentence, he accepted a plea deal that included five years in prison, five years of probation, and registering as a sex offender. Wanetta Gibson and her mother Wanda Rhodes sued the Long Beach Unified School District, claiming the Poly campus was not a safe environment, and won a $1.5 million settlement.[17][18] According to Banks, his lawyer told him that he stood no chance at trial because he would be tried by an all-white jury who would automatically assume that he was guilty because he was "a big, black teenager."[19]
You're a fucking idiot. This brainless psychopath sat at home and decided to have fun by sending the police into a situation where the expected a dangerous armed person holding hostages. Without him doing this, the police would have stayed at their police station and nothing would have happened.
YOUR fucking idiocy. The cops rolled up and shot the first guy the saw within seconds. Note that in this pranker's history of making false calls, not one person got shot in their underwear after coming out with their hands up. Cops get false or misleading calls all the time, and manage to do it without getting their guns off. Especially when the description given of the house completely doesn't match the one the cops are facing. At a distance. With body armor and shields capable of taking direct shots.
Barriss told them that he had doused the house with gasoline. The cop didn't shoot for fear of his own safety, he shot because he believed the guy may have been planning to burn the whole house down (which would have killed the hostages that they believed were in it).
Did the guy come out of the house holding a signal flare or lighter? No? Then why are so many people repeating this excuse?
He supposed had the building rigged, and could have killed all of his hostages in a second.
Then shooting to kill was still an asinine idea, if he was holding a dead mans switch. Just another bullshit excuse for trigger happy cops.
If he had a gun, he still could have shot someone - a headshot would kill someone easily, even with nothing more than wimpy little 9mm girl's purse gun.
Not at range at armored cops with bulletproof shields.
Trying to pretend there is no way he could have been dangerous is silly.
Trying to pretend there was any justification for this shooting is willful authoritarian dumbfuckery. For all the cop knew the man walking out and complying with instructions was a hostage.
I agree. Plus, the police chief and SWAT team leader must be absolute imbeciles to not be cognizant that "swatting" is a thing over the past several years and failed to train their staff to exercise some caution when they have not ascertained the threat. They should be fired.
That and cops get false or misleading calls all. the. time. Anyone who can't assess the actual situation as it actually happens has no business holding a gun as a cop.
Part of the original call was that gasoline had been poured inside the house. If that report was real it wouldn't take a gun to kill three more people, just a little butane lighter; the police knew that.
Did the man come out of the house holding a cigarette lighter or signal flare he could have used to set the place on fire? If not, all you have here is another bullshit excuse for an inexcusable shooting.
Except for the part where he went in expecting a hostage situation and the presumed hostage-taker presented a clear headshot.
Changes nothing. The police force could have had a live feed of the hostage taker eating human babies, and it wouldn't have given justification to shooting an unarmed man who came out with his hands raised up. But to go down this line of attempted apologia - for all the cop knew the man walking out the door was a hostage himself.
Of course it's not going to happen, but this incompetent cop with an itchy trigger finger needs to spend more time in prison than the prankster, as he's the one who shot and killed an innocent man for no reason.
If her ultimate goal is book sales for her life story, running for office is a great way to keep her name in the news. Otherwise, being released, she's yesterday's news.
My, what great sniveling snobbery you have, my dear. If you can't win by yourself against an authoritarian police state committing and covering up crimes against humanity, at least you can do your part to bring attention to it. By doing things like running for office even if it only means getting 1% of the vote in a primary, so people don't forget what you did or went through.
I see you're keeping the streak alive. I have yet to see a person who casts judgment on Manning give one flying fuck about the massive corruption and war crimes she revealed, or want the people who committed those crimes to pay for their actions.
But she's impulsive in a dangerous way
Uh, NO. She tried the "chain of command" and was blown off, just as Snowden was. And she gave documents to a responsible organization, one with a 100% track record of authenticity, who vetted them before release. Do tell how she was going to uphold her Oath of Office to defend the Constitution (not neocon war criminals) without leaking to the press.
politically inexperienced
She has a whole lot of experience with the lawless authoritarian state and the torture the USG commits against people in detention (prolonged solitary confinement). Getting one advocate against those things into higher office is hardly unreasonable.
and has proven herself a bad judge of character in terms of who she allies herself with
She wasn't allied with the FBI stooge Lamo. You referring to Assange here? The same Julian Assange who has a 100% track record of authentic releases, and has been subject to more authoritarian character assassination?
You're talking UBE? That would be great, but the other advantage to increasing the minimum wage is raising the floor of wages overall. If Mary can quit her $15 an hour job working in an unairconditioned factory because sweeping floors at 7-11 pays just as much, the factory will be forced to raise wages. If Bob can quit his high-stress sales job that averages $19 an hour because the now air conditioned factory pays just as much, the company he works for will be forced to pay more, etc. The benefits trickle up.
What part of this commerce taking place in South Dakota don't you understand? If Amazon wants to sell crap to customers in SD, they can pay SD sales taxes. Tie yourself up into knots if you want, but it's not a hard concept to grasp.
overpopulation. why isn't it ever talked about as the ROOT reason?
Because it's a lie Western Exceptionalists tell to make themselves feel better. You use the same amount of resources as 30 people in a developing country.
frankly I am glad Trump (whom I despise) dumped on Africa. the population is exploding while their gov'ts are corrupt and it will result in misery for many, with numbers increasing rapidly.
Because of colonialism, bitch. Go force (rich) Europeans to pay a hundred trillion dollars in reparations, and those countries can all be greatly improved.
The US constitution prohibits states from taxing interstate commerce.
South Dakota isn't looking to regulate commerce between Minnesota and Iowa. It's looking to tax products shipped to South Dakota residents - so what's the anti-tax argument again? If you're in SD and order some crap from Amazon and don't want to pay taxes - feel free to drive to the nearest Amazon warehouse and try to pick it up.
But minimum wage is still a subsidy - just not one that you pay through taxes.
Yes, if you're a shareholder missing out on some dividends because the employees no longer have to use food stamps. Not via higher prices, as those are always set to what the market will bear. If companies can increase prices without losing customers, they aren't going to wait for a hike in the minimum wage as an excuse to do so.
As opposed to the European way of making employees so expensive that you have 20% youth unemployment, who you then prop up with social programs, theft and other criminal behavior?
Willful American Ignorance in action. Countries like Greece, Ireland and Portugal (in particular) are slaves to the Euro, and unable to devalue their own currencies while deficit spending to stimulate their economies and unemployment. They've been forced into "austerity" to please central European bankers, which has lead to a steep downward spiral in the economies.
Which would still be the case if they slashed or even eliminated their minimum wages. You can't grow your economy out of a depression via poverty for the working class.
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classic Apple Hateboi Wankery
It's about just about every single electronic device you've bought over the last ten years. But it's only a problem when Apple is involved, due to the Hatorade Distortion Field.
Uh huh. And you typed this post on the pi? Cuz pretty much every computer and mobile devices you can buy is made by the same suppliers Apple uses, and it's been that way for a very long time.
Sounds more like you've been swept up in the Hatorade Distortion Field and are looking for reasons to justify your irrational, religious-like beliefs in one company's products.
Fixed. Insurers have no incentive not to raise premiums by double digits every year when everyone is forced to buy their junk product by law - or pay a penalty which then underwrites the cost of their junk product for low income Americans. And pharma/device manufacturers have no reason to moderate prices when everyone has insurance to "pay" for them.
Whereas before, people were starting to opt out of insurance all together. Now you have a situation where people can't afford to go to the doctor because money they would have had to spend already went to their premiums. Thanks Obama!
Also fixed. Also a second source for people who like to dismiss HuffPo out of hand.
The reality is that the public option, despite having no real support from Democratic party leaders, enjoyed 80% support from the public, including a majority of Republican voters. You'd have a hard time finding a more popular policy proposal. It could have easily passed, if Obama wanted it to.
He didn't want it to.
See above. States couldn't do their own plans until last year - and even now it requires a waiver from the Secretary of HHS. Good luck getting that through a Trump or Hillary appointed nominee - thanks Obama!
Because its what the rest of the industrialized world does - for less money while providing better care.
Nonsense. Most pharma and medical devices profits go into dividends, bonuses and advertising. Not R&D. And much of that research you paid for anyway, as taxpayer-financed research at public universities - before the university licensed it to a pound-you-in-the-ass corporation.
Of following her Oath of Office to defend the Constitution - not your war criminal neocons.
Only an authoritarian dipshit would pretend pea deals are fair deals. If the prosecutor is willing to accept 6 months in prison then WTF was she threatening him with 35 years in prison. Our jackbooted SCOTUS has signed off on the tactic of the state threatening decades in prison to force plea deals of months or years, but that doesn't make it any less obscene. Remember: this leads to totally innocent people pleading guilty to crimes they didn't commit to avoid spending most of their adult lives in prison, dipshit.
Uh, no. But thanks for the most bizarre non sequitur I've seen in a while.
YOUR fucking idiocy. The cops rolled up and shot the first guy the saw within seconds. Note that in this pranker's history of making false calls, not one person got shot in their underwear after coming out with their hands up. Cops get false or misleading calls all the time, and manage to do it without getting their guns off. Especially when the description given of the house completely doesn't match the one the cops are facing. At a distance. With body armor and shields capable of taking direct shots.
The person who isn't the cop. Unfortunately.
Did the guy come out of the house holding a signal flare or lighter? No? Then why are so many people repeating this excuse?
Then shooting to kill was still an asinine idea, if he was holding a dead mans switch. Just another bullshit excuse for trigger happy cops.
Not at range at armored cops with bulletproof shields.
Trying to pretend there was any justification for this shooting is willful authoritarian dumbfuckery. For all the cop knew the man walking out and complying with instructions was a hostage.
That and cops get false or misleading calls all. the. time. Anyone who can't assess the actual situation as it actually happens has no business holding a gun as a cop.
Did the man come out of the house holding a cigarette lighter or signal flare he could have used to set the place on fire? If not, all you have here is another bullshit excuse for an inexcusable shooting.
Changes nothing. The police force could have had a live feed of the hostage taker eating human babies, and it wouldn't have given justification to shooting an unarmed man who came out with his hands raised up. But to go down this line of attempted apologia - for all the cop knew the man walking out the door was a hostage himself.
Of course it's not going to happen, but this incompetent cop with an itchy trigger finger needs to spend more time in prison than the prankster, as he's the one who shot and killed an innocent man for no reason.
My, what great sniveling snobbery you have, my dear. If you can't win by yourself against an authoritarian police state committing and covering up crimes against humanity, at least you can do your part to bring attention to it. By doing things like running for office even if it only means getting 1% of the vote in a primary, so people don't forget what you did or went through.
I see you're keeping the streak alive. I have yet to see a person who casts judgment on Manning give one flying fuck about the massive corruption and war crimes she revealed, or want the people who committed those crimes to pay for their actions.
Uh, NO. She tried the "chain of command" and was blown off, just as Snowden was. And she gave documents to a responsible organization, one with a 100% track record of authenticity, who vetted them before release. Do tell how she was going to uphold her Oath of Office to defend the Constitution (not neocon war criminals) without leaking to the press.
She has a whole lot of experience with the lawless authoritarian state and the torture the USG commits against people in detention (prolonged solitary confinement). Getting one advocate against those things into higher office is hardly unreasonable.
She wasn't allied with the FBI stooge Lamo. You referring to Assange here? The same Julian Assange who has a 100% track record of authentic releases, and has been subject to more authoritarian character assassination?
You're talking UBE? That would be great, but the other advantage to increasing the minimum wage is raising the floor of wages overall. If Mary can quit her $15 an hour job working in an unairconditioned factory because sweeping floors at 7-11 pays just as much, the factory will be forced to raise wages. If Bob can quit his high-stress sales job that averages $19 an hour because the now air conditioned factory pays just as much, the company he works for will be forced to pay more, etc. The benefits trickle up.
Always nice when you guys come out wearing your hoods to start with, it saves so much time for all involved.
What part of this commerce taking place in South Dakota don't you understand? If Amazon wants to sell crap to customers in SD, they can pay SD sales taxes. Tie yourself up into knots if you want, but it's not a hard concept to grasp.
Because it's a lie Western Exceptionalists tell to make themselves feel better. You use the same amount of resources as 30 people in a developing country.
Because of colonialism, bitch. Go force (rich) Europeans to pay a hundred trillion dollars in reparations, and those countries can all be greatly improved.
South Dakota isn't looking to regulate commerce between Minnesota and Iowa. It's looking to tax products shipped to South Dakota residents - so what's the anti-tax argument again? If you're in SD and order some crap from Amazon and don't want to pay taxes - feel free to drive to the nearest Amazon warehouse and try to pick it up.
Yes, if you're a shareholder missing out on some dividends because the employees no longer have to use food stamps. Not via higher prices, as those are always set to what the market will bear. If companies can increase prices without losing customers, they aren't going to wait for a hike in the minimum wage as an excuse to do so.
GDP percentage is a non sequitur on the subject of individual tax rates - but you probably knew that before you posted.
Willful American Ignorance in action. Countries like Greece, Ireland and Portugal (in particular) are slaves to the Euro, and unable to devalue their own currencies while deficit spending to stimulate their economies and unemployment. They've been forced into "austerity" to please central European bankers, which has lead to a steep downward spiral in the economies.
Which would still be the case if they slashed or even eliminated their minimum wages. You can't grow your economy out of a depression via poverty for the working class.