Last I looked into it, Apple sells third-party Apps, Music, and Movies, AKA "Media" and the sales of "devices" are to increase consumption of the "media" they offer. I believe "Media" is the largest revenue source for Apple.
The medical information available will include allergies, conditions, immunizations, lab results, medications, procedures and vitals. The information is encrypted and protected through a user's iPhone passcode.
Imagine you've been in a serious car accident, you're taken to the hospital and while you are lying there unconscious the nurse stands near you fumbling with your iPhone, trying to figure out if you have any allergies. You, of course, being unconscious, can't tell the nurse your iPhone passcode.
How is this anything more than a folder on your phone? Sad that this is considered an "innovation" - how far Apple has fallen since Steve Jobs passed...
I recently ran my own, albeit limited, study on this very subject at my house and I found a direct link between my teenager's happiness and their use of their smartphones, although in my study I found a decline in happiness when I removed their smartphones, not the reverse, as this study purports.
In one extreme case, my teenage daughter claimed that taking away her smartphone amounted to torture.
I'll play - so let's say a corporation losses $1M, so they write it off - let's say it was a very successful company, so if they had not lost that $1M in profits they would have paid an estimated $350K in federal income taxes on it (under previous tax code in US), denying the federal government several hundred thousand dollars in tax revenue. But wait, there are also state and local taxes that will not be collected on that $1M, denying those governments tens of thousands in tax revenue, not to mention the remaining $500K plus that was not distributed to shareholders to spend or invest in America (assuming the thieves were foreign).
The numbers in the summary don't add up to $172 Billion, when I multiply 978 million victims times average estimated loss of $142 I come up with $138,876,000,000 - a lot of money, but not $172 Billion.
Solyndra was simply a textbook horrible business plan from beginning to end:
Built fragile, complex solar panels, in a heavily automated factory, on some of the most expensive land inte world, paying some of the highest wages and taxes, that sold at a premium that way exceeded the slight performance boost their curved design provided over plain, flat Chinese imports.
Their plan was so obviously horrible that when they applied for a half-billion dollars the analysts could predict, to the month, when Solyndra would go bankrupt - so they denied their federally-secured loan application.
Then the company 'liberally' donated to President Obama's campaign, theirloan application was approved, and then, as if by magic, Solyndra went bankrupt EXACTLY when the previous administration's analysts predicted!
Your idea of energy independence and saving the planet relies on solar panels built in inhumane factories by laborers earning slave wages, polluting the environment and then put on a cargo ship, shipped halfway across the planet, put on a train and delivered to your city. So far, your good with all that, but you draw the line at paying $165 for the solar panel?
You could buy a US made panel for slightly less, and satisfy yourself that the workers were likely paid a living wage, that the factory did not pollute the planet, and your panels total carbon footprint doesn't include an ocean voyage from China to to you.
Right, because currently all refined crude oil is not taxed - seriously?
More than 50% of the price you pay for gasoline at the pump in the US goes to the government in the form of taxes - I assume that is the case in most other countries, but I lack the motivation to find a link to support that belief.
Can't even begin to imagine the working conditions and wages us manufacturers would have to employ to compete with slave labor and zero environmental concerns as in China... but hey, if Trump does it, it must be bad!
The companies receiving the subsidies will have more money for lobbying, while the (far more numerous) companies hurt by the tariffs will have less to spend or will go out of business.
Subsidies? Tarrifs aren't distributed to domestic manufacturers, they are taxes, added to the federal budget.
You knew that, right? Seriously - you didn't think that the gov't collects tarrifs on imports and distributes the money to US manufacturers, did you?
Showing just have far Cuban has come on bitcoin and cryptocurrency, he announced earlier this week that his Dallas Mavericks will accept bitcoin and Ethereum as a method to pay for tickets starting next season. Even if the tech investor doesn't fully believe in cryptocurrency, he's clearly willing to try to profit off it...
Many/most retailers that previously accepted Bitcoin have walked away from the cryptocurrency because the valuation is too erratic - there is a fair to better chance any bitcoins accepted today as payment for goods and services will go down in value before the retailer can convert them to US currency tomorrow, costing retailers rather than profiting them..
Bonus side effect: they get to charge people who cannot afford a lump sum of 100$ more. Being poor is expensive.
Your complaint makes no sense - they don't charge people that "cannot afford a lump sum of 100$" more, they charge shipping. Same as many retailers that have free shipping for orders over $100 (for example), that doesn't mean people that pay "more" than they otherwise would if their order is under $100.
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How will a nurse get your iPhone passcode to unlock your medical records if you are unconscious?
Last I looked into it, Apple sells third-party Apps, Music, and Movies, AKA "Media" and the sales of "devices" are to increase consumption of the "media" they offer. I believe "Media" is the largest revenue source for Apple.
The medical information available will include allergies, conditions, immunizations, lab results, medications, procedures and vitals. The information is encrypted and protected through a user's iPhone passcode.
Imagine you've been in a serious car accident, you're taken to the hospital and while you are lying there unconscious the nurse stands near you fumbling with your iPhone, trying to figure out if you have any allergies. You, of course, being unconscious, can't tell the nurse your iPhone passcode.
How is this anything more than a folder on your phone? Sad that this is considered an "innovation" - how far Apple has fallen since Steve Jobs passed...
Don't you know that Smartphone = iPhone, so since the iPhone was released in June of 2007, that means smartphones were introduced in 2007.
I recently ran my own, albeit limited, study on this very subject at my house and I found a direct link between my teenager's happiness and their use of their smartphones, although in my study I found a decline in happiness when I removed their smartphones , not the reverse, as this study purports.
In one extreme case, my teenage daughter claimed that taking away her smartphone amounted to torture .
Why couldn't his "no attack" message have gone out over the very same system that issued the "not a test" nuke warning?
Does the alert system rely on twitter for updates?
Why can a message that says "this is not a test" go out based on a single button push?
I'll play - so let's say a corporation losses $1M, so they write it off - let's say it was a very successful company, so if they had not lost that $1M in profits they would have paid an estimated $350K in federal income taxes on it (under previous tax code in US), denying the federal government several hundred thousand dollars in tax revenue. But wait, there are also state and local taxes that will not be collected on that $1M, denying those governments tens of thousands in tax revenue, not to mention the remaining $500K plus that was not distributed to shareholders to spend or invest in America (assuming the thieves were foreign).
That doesn't sound "victimless" to me
The numbers in the summary don't add up to $172 Billion, when I multiply 978 million victims times average estimated loss of $142 I come up with $138,876,000,000 - a lot of money, but not $172 Billion.
Solyndra was simply a textbook horrible business plan from beginning to end:
Built fragile, complex solar panels, in a heavily automated factory, on some of the most expensive land inte world, paying some of the highest wages and taxes, that sold at a premium that way exceeded the slight performance boost their curved design provided over plain, flat Chinese imports.
Their plan was so obviously horrible that when they applied for a half-billion dollars the analysts could predict, to the month, when Solyndra would go bankrupt - so they denied their federally-secured loan application.
Then the company 'liberally' donated to President Obama's campaign, theirloan application was approved, and then, as if by magic, Solyndra went bankrupt EXACTLY when the previous administration's analysts predicted!
Amazing!
Suck it up, buttercup.
Your idea of energy independence and saving the planet relies on solar panels built in inhumane factories by laborers earning slave wages, polluting the environment and then put on a cargo ship, shipped halfway across the planet, put on a train and delivered to your city. So far, your good with all that, but you draw the line at paying $165 for the solar panel?
You could buy a US made panel for slightly less, and satisfy yourself that the workers were likely paid a living wage, that the factory did not pollute the planet, and your panels total carbon footprint doesn't include an ocean voyage from China to to you.
is there some reason 'single payer' healthcare coverage is better than 'employer paid' healthcare coverage?
Right, because currently all refined crude oil is not taxed - seriously?
More than 50% of the price you pay for gasoline at the pump in the US goes to the government in the form of taxes - I assume that is the case in most other countries, but I lack the motivation to find a link to support that belief.
How many times does Trump have to literally extinguish all life on planet earth before you fools listen?
You literally have no idea what the word 'literally' means, do you?
Assuming you still live on planet earth, I don't think he has even once 'literally' extinguished all life on the planet...
Note the phrase, "net exporter of refined petroleum products."
Because it's illegal to export US crude oil.
Can't even begin to imagine the working conditions and wages us manufacturers would have to employ to compete with slave labor and zero environmental concerns as in China... but hey, if Trump does it, it must be bad!
The companies receiving the subsidies will have more money for lobbying, while the (far more numerous) companies hurt by the tariffs will have less to spend or will go out of business.
Subsidies? Tarrifs aren't distributed to domestic manufacturers, they are taxes, added to the federal budget.
You knew that, right? Seriously - you didn't think that the gov't collects tarrifs on imports and distributes the money to US manufacturers, did you?
12 GB, four processor machine takes forever to open Quicken
No, it doesn't. What POS low-end AMD did you buy that has 12 Gigs of RAM?
Why would anyone would intentionally buy the literally cheapest desktop they could find and complain about performance.
How much longer would it take to open Quicken if that same machine ran Linux? (Infinitely longer, since Quicken doesn't run on Linux)
How much faster would Quicken run on a $200 Mac running OS X? (Trick question, cheapest Mac is nearly 5x what your AMD budget desktop cost)
Guess what, performance sucks when you buy absolute lowest-cost system possible.
Showing just have far Cuban has come on bitcoin and cryptocurrency, he announced earlier this week that his Dallas Mavericks will accept bitcoin and Ethereum as a method to pay for tickets starting next season. Even if the tech investor doesn't fully believe in cryptocurrency, he's clearly willing to try to profit off it...
Many/most retailers that previously accepted Bitcoin have walked away from the cryptocurrency because the valuation is too erratic - there is a fair to better chance any bitcoins accepted today as payment for goods and services will go down in value before the retailer can convert them to US currency tomorrow, costing retailers rather than profiting them. .
Why should Spain have a say, if Catalonia doesn't want to be Spanish any longer?
Uhm, because it currently IS part of Spain?
Looks like they want to break off the wealthy beachfront areas in the state from the agrarian rest of the state.
Think of it as the haves and the have-nots
and dump down and learn noting early on.
What the heck are you trying to say?
Does Tim Cook's nephew care what his uncle says about social media?
Bonus side effect: they get to charge people who cannot afford a lump sum of 100$ more. Being poor is expensive.
Your complaint makes no sense - they don't charge people that "cannot afford a lump sum of 100$" more, they charge shipping. Same as many retailers that have free shipping for orders over $100 (for example), that doesn't mean people that pay "more" than they otherwise would if their order is under $100.
For me last straw was Amazon's refusal to sell an item I wanted unless I was a prime member.
What item, specifically, did they refuse to sell to a non-prime customer?
Maybe they "discovered" enough people were willing to pay $12.99/month?