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  1. Re:Slashvertisement? on 'I Asked Apple for All My Data. Here's What Was Sent Back' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "u will be plugging their product/products"

    What am i plugging? i just think this reads like one of those "paid advertisements" you sometimes find in newspapers. Sort of like an actual story, but clearly placed as an ad.. but iwhtout the "paid advertisement" banner.

    FWIW, I have an iphone SE and android Galaxy S8.. both have pro's and cons and both are from for-profit companies...

  2. Slashvertisement? on 'I Asked Apple for All My Data. Here's What Was Sent Back' (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    This Slashvertisement brought to you buy Apple.

    Anything else you want to tell us about this wonderful company while you are here?

  3. That is when they will suddenly remember that they are citizens of some other country (the one they didnt want to pay taxes to) and would like to be rescued at great tax payer expense.

  4. Re: Should be useful for most drivers... on Tesla Model X Breaks Electric Towing Record By Pulling Boeing 787 (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    reposting but logged in (cant login from work).

    dont let facts stand in your way.

    It is all about coefficient of friction.. Inflate the tires and you can pull it.. not your car.. YOU.. there are a lot of videos of humans pulling planes. Do those people have more "power" then the tesla X? This is just showmanship.. it comes up every few years, usually with trucks pulling trains. If you want to see some real fun, have the tesla X take the plane to highway speeds and try to stop it.

    This is the company that makes those "puny little cart-like vehicles".. https://www.victorygse.com/man...

    And the specs show it has 160 BHP.. so around the same a honda civic but TONS of torque.

    PUSH BACK AIRCRAF TOWING TRACTOR SUPER BRUTE EQUITECH FMC MODEL B-500 DESIGNED WITH A DETROIT DIESEL 8.2L TURBO DIESEL ENGINE - ENGINE WITH 8 CYLINDERS, 160 BHP BRAKE HP, 430 LBS OF TORQUE AT 1700 RPM, 10 QUARTS OF OIL, 33 GALLONS OF FUEL TANK CAPACITY, TUBE AND FINE RADIATOR 37 QUARTS, TRANSMISSION WITH 6 FORWARD SPEEDS 3 REVERSE,

    Honda Civic :
    240 horsepower (180 kW) at 8,000 rpm and 160 ftlbf (220 Nm) at 7,000 rpm.

  5. Re:investment choices on China Plans $47 Billion Fund To Boost Its Semiconductor Industry (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

    President Dwight Eisenhower

  6. Re:Polar bear replant in grab bags? on Tech Conferences Moving North as Trump Policies Turn Off Attendees (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    (e.g. 60 on a side streets)?

    Where did you get this from?

    I lived in Canada most my life, and the US for a few years. I drive the same speeds in both countries because the limits are very similiar. Sidestreets are NOT 60 zones... they are "50 unless otherwise posted". 50km/h is 31 MPH, which is consistant with the 30 - 35 miles an hour on US side streets.

    Larger roads are posted 60, but they are not "side streets" and the same roads in the US would be posted 40 or 45 which is about the same.

    Interstates are 55-60 MPH while highways are 100 km/h here (62mph).

    "canadian bacon" is something i have only ever seen in US grocery stores. It looked like round slices of ham?

  7. Re: Not fast enough. on While More People Switch To Streaming TV, Cable Stocks are Plummetting (investors.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you referring to the cables which were in many cases were installed 30 or more years ago?

  8. Re:Oh Really? on Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I remeber when i lived in the US there was a big sign by the highway "Day labor pickup".. Not some cardboard sign, but an actual metal sign like the government pots, complete with a nice waiting area for all the illigial workers..

  9. Re:where are these jobs? on Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As a Canadian who lived in the US for ~4 years before returning to canada.. Running back for health care would be hard. after 183 days outside the country they cancel it on you.

    "All provinces, except Ontario and Newfoundland, require you to actually live in your home province for at least six months plus a day (183 days in most years) in order to be considered a permanent resident of that province, and therefore qualified for provincial health insurance (medicare) benefits. That means actually residing in your home province and being able to prove it, if necessary, not simply owning a residence there and living in Portugal, Mexico or California for eight or nine months."

  10. addording to this teardown : https://www.abiresearch.com/pr... they are doing OK with margins.

    Apple imight be attempting to make $300/unit, but based on the article not selling well.. Amazon makes $15 on their cheaper dots and are selling them like crazy.

  11. You have evidence that Amazon is losing money on every sale?

    There is a reason Apple has the most profitable products.. they sell for way above cost. Perhaps Amazon's echo/dot have less markup and they make it up in volume?

  12. Re:Cook yaps out of both sides... on Tim Cook Says Ads That Follow You Online Are 'Creepy' (cnet.com) · · Score: 0
  13. Re: Tubes, or... on Update: Possible Active Shooter Reported at YouTube HQ (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    mostly because of morons such as the NRA and their "I'll give you my gun when you pry (or take) it from my cold, dead hands" slogan.

    Plus the view that citizens with guns prevent crimes, etc.. yet the statiscits clearl show this is NOT true.. in face, often when joe gun carring citizen tries to get involved (say to prevent a robbery) they end up dead as well.

    At some point, they will realize it isnt 1776, the british are not returing, that the "citizens" dont stand a chance against the national army, and the 2nd ammendment will be ammended.. and go with similair laws as the rest of the world.

  14. Re:Tubes, or... on Update: Possible Active Shooter Reported at YouTube HQ (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    So who do you register your property with so others dont claim it as their own?

    No home registration, auto registration for you?

    Maybe one day you will accept the idea that perhaps gun ownership is a privilege and not a right, similiar to what you find in the rest of the world (which has much lower gun related deaths).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    note how that is per 100,000 citizens..

  15. Re:Use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy? on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually this is incorrect.

    Read about "e-packets" from the source..

    This is why it costs less to send a package from China to New York then it does to send a package from New York to a block away.

    http://about.usps.com/news/nat...

  16. C'mon, Really, another "Steve jobs" post? on Steve Jobs Tried To Warn Mark Zuckerberg About Privacy In 2010 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Didnt like "EVERYONE" warn about facebook abusing privacy?

    Zuck sure guards his privacy, buying up adjcent property to keep the rifraff away.

    Canada has went at them a few times over privacy issues.

  17. Does this include all the "trump" branded stuff? on Trump Announces $60 Billion Tariff on Chinese High-Tech and Other Goods (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Doesnt trump and his several members of his family sell various "made in china" goods (trump shirts, etc).

    If "Made in the USA" is so important, why isnt his own stuff made there? Do as i say and not as i do?

  18. Re:Amazon has no incentive to change... on Amazon's Jeff Bezos Called Out On Counterfeit Products Problem (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting on a few fronts.. you are close to markham and had a counterfit samsung.

    I've had the same deal, bougt a 64gb, clearly fake. after contacting the seller they toyed with me for a bit until i told them i was leaving negative feedback, contacting amazon, and my credit card company to reverse the charges.

    i agree, they need to do something with the marketplace sales.

    As time goes on i find amazon is turning into aliexpress (chinese imports), but with really fat margins in exchange for reduced shipping times.

  19. Re:Better idea on Sweden Considers Six Years in Jail For Online Pirates (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    Posts like yours are always fun to read.. you take something, twist it to suit your needs and then state your view.

    you are correct, theft is a criminal offense.. Legally Theft is defined as :"Theft, in law, a general term covering a variety of specific types of stealing, including the crimes of larceny, robbery, and burglary. Theft is defined as the physical removal of an object that is capable of being stolen without the consent of the owner and with the intention of depriving the owner of it permanently."

    Now can you outline what "physical removal of an object" takes place when somene commits copyright infringement? What "object" has been removed preventing the owner from using it?

    Just because people like you keep calling it "theft" doesnt make it theft.. at this point in time it remains copyright infringement and that is a civil matter.

  20. Re:I love unions on 'No Drones or Driverless Trucks', Demands Teamsters Labor Union (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    You havent been in a truck stop in decades, have you?

    I stopped in once and was shocked at just how clean it was.

  21. Dara Khosrowshahi has benefits right? on Uber CEO Urges 'Portable Benefits' for Gig Economy Workers (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    So.. Dara Khosrowshahi probably has a fantastic benefits package, but those who "work for him" cant have one?

  22. Re:The iPhone X is a terrible phone on Apple Might Discontinue the iPhone X This Summer (bgr.com) · · Score: 2

    what, a 3d printed face mask isnt enought? https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

  23. Re:The iPhone X is a terrible phone on Apple Might Discontinue the iPhone X This Summer (bgr.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    why do people always post "cite your evidence.. i 'll wait" but cant seem to bother using GOOGLE??

    Here is a 10 year old boy unlocking his moms phone
    https://www.wired.com/story/10...

    here is a mask unlocking a phone
    https://www.macrumors.com/2017...

    here is the face ID not working for apples own demo
    https://www.theverge.com/circu...

    try using google..

  24. Re:Tulips... on Warren Buffett Predicts 'Bad Ending' for Cryptocurrencies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    the components of the SP500 do something.. they manufacture, sell products. Most are not just another variation of "bitcoin" (how many coins are there now, > 1,500?).

    look up "long island ice tea" and explain how that happened.. Just jumping on the "bitcoin" bandwagon.

  25. Re:Inconceivable! on Warren Buffett Predicts 'Bad Ending' for Cryptocurrencies (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly" - This is a great book..
    https://www.amazon.ca/This-Tim...

    Every speculative bubble is 'different' then the last time.. Tulips, dot-com, subprime loans, Bitcoin. Every one is "different" right?