"Nobody will go against the will of the government "
You missed a few words there... The people who've gone against their government weren't being fed (kept, actually) by that government; those words you dropped actually were important.
It wouldn't apply; Apple didn't make it break due to the use of an incompatible part any more than Ford made your brakes stop working because you used Mopar parts instead of Motorcraft. Agreed, however, that it's all kinds of shitty for the system to refuse to even attempt to use a part it doesn't recognize; if a bad part is used, it would benefit them to try and use it, then sell a new laptop when it fries (thereby voiding the warranty).
Why, yes, they can't invalidate the warranty due to unauthorized repairs or modifications that didn't cause the problem. However, what has been reported is that they've designed a system such that any (or at least most) unauthorized repairs will cause a problem... which, then, will invalidate the warranty, at least as far as that problem is concerned. If the battery puffs up after your SSD replacement causes the system to refuse to boot, they'll still be on the hook for the battery, but they'll have no obligation to make the system bootable again.
We'll have to wait and see if they've actually implemented what was reported, but it's not a violation of MMWA if they did... even if it's shitty and underhanded.
Apple is part of the PC ecosystem. Their computers are capable of running Windows, just like every other PC; and every other PC is capable of running MacOS, just like every Mac.
Apples motherboards (which they call logic boards, but they're literally the same damn thing) simple contain a superfluous bit of hardware (funny, TFA is about just that sort of thing) that unmodified MacOS checks for the presence of before booting; but it's simple to work around, and that little chip, present or not, has no affect on the operation of the system, from the end user's standpoint. Again, much like the one in TFA.
Oh, and Apple's keyboard issues the past few years... I've had to go back and correct every single word in this post that contained the letter F. Some were missing, some were doubled, and I've been dealing with this for over a week.
Yes, then idiots eventually convinced the world that mental institutions were inhumane and forced us to let all the psychopaths go free longe before I was born. As a result, you all get to deal with me today. Ain't progress grand?
See? You're starting to come around. And I mean that sincerely, no snark or sarcasm. Yes, what we have today is worse than slavery, in a way; I wasn't there to see it, but I would imagine slavery was worse in other ways. What makes the current situation worse is that there's not just a single law we can change at the federal level to fix it, it's a compounding of federal, state, and local laws, most of which likely weren't even intended to have any racial influence, on top of individual racism and a generally ignorant population (regardless of race). And it took a civil war to chang the single law.
Oh my fucking God, no. Everything you just listed are examples of racism, with the exception of being flat broke and starting from nothing after slavery ended.and nobody in the following generation dealt with that. So, again, Black slavery in America is over, nobody today has to deal with its effects, so let's concentrate on the other things you listed and blame them on the individuals, still alive today, who are responsible for them, rather than the individuals, long dead, who were responsible for a different atrocity. All you do by blaming slavery is give the perpetrators of today's racist wrongs a place to point their fingers: you're saying it's not their fault, it's the fault of a bunch of dead guys, and they're running with that and saying "whoopsie, guess there's nothing we can do, then." STOP LETTING THEM DO THAT. Blame today's living, breathing, racist scum for today's problems; hold them accountable and, for fuck's sake, educate anyone you still hear blaming slavery, as they are part of the problem.
Coil quality matters, and the cheaper Qi chargers tend to have shit coils. I note the same with my S9+ when I use a cheap charger, not so with the better ones.
That last one would offend, at the very least, Transformers fans. Optimus Prime wasn't a leader, he was a member of a team, and the other Transformers were not subservient to him.
I wish I was joking, but I'm not. You would certainly offend someone with those terms. This is why it's silly to change the existing ones.
The problem isn't that SJWs have gone too far, it's that they haven't gone far enough. They got as far as seeing that someone was offended and decided something must be done; they didn't get far enough to realize that everything offends someone, rendering their efforts futile and pointless.
I never said racism doesn't exist. Read my other posts in this thread, fuckwit. Racism and slavery are two very different things, and people need to let the one that ended (Black American slavery, that is; there's still quite a bit of slavery about) go, so they can deal with the one that's still with us.
We have a lot of work to do, and not enough time to fuck around dealing with what was already fixed a century and a half ago.
When one Black African tribe enslaved another Black African tribe, that was a race thing? Are you saying they did it because they were Black? I mean, that's racist as fuck, my man. Also, nobody here said "show me one slave alive today"; on the contrary, we both agreed that slavery is still alive today.
empathy - the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Hmm...
Most of the former slaves I'm aware of [...] don't give a flying fuck about programming terminology.
Disprove that. Then talk about empathy.
Since we're talking about Black American slavery here, you can't disprove that. Nobody has ever, in recorded history, lived anywhere near 150 years, let alone longer, so no former slaves are even alive to be offended by it. Therefore, the supposedly offended group, with which you insist we empathize, has a population of 0.
Yes, white men bought slaves, who were already slaves, from African tribal leaders who didn't have slaves yet until the white man started slavery. Nailed it.
Go read a goddamn history book.
Also, slavery hasn't ended, not by a long shot. Just the slavery perpetrated by white men in the US.
None of what you described has a fucking thing to do with slavery. Racism, yes, but I did already suggest that we address those issues, did I not? Oh, you wouldn't know because your ignorant piece of shit ass jumped up to reply after the 2nd paragraph of my comment. Go read it all, then come back and act like an adult.
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You mean you forget what having memory is like?
You seem to be confusing sadism and masochism.
And I'm honored to have my 3rd "0, Troll" in over a decade and a half on this site. It tells me I'm probably right.
"Nobody will go against the will of the government "
You missed a few words there... The people who've gone against their government weren't being fed (kept, actually) by that government; those words you dropped actually were important.
You're missing the big picture: Nobody will go against the will of the government that feeds them.
Everything you say is true, except for the bit about common sense. More of us on welfare than ever is exactly what they want.
So then the parts should be free, as well?
Have you seen me praising Tesla? If not, why are you asking me?
It wouldn't apply; Apple didn't make it break due to the use of an incompatible part any more than Ford made your brakes stop working because you used Mopar parts instead of Motorcraft. Agreed, however, that it's all kinds of shitty for the system to refuse to even attempt to use a part it doesn't recognize; if a bad part is used, it would benefit them to try and use it, then sell a new laptop when it fries (thereby voiding the warranty).
And Apple can't afford to do that?
Except that it's more of a "you broke it when you installed an incompatible part" situation, which MMWA explicitly allows to invalidate a warranty.
So, then, how is Jon Deere getting away with it?
Why, yes, they can't invalidate the warranty due to unauthorized repairs or modifications that didn't cause the problem. However, what has been reported is that they've designed a system such that any (or at least most) unauthorized repairs will cause a problem... which, then, will invalidate the warranty, at least as far as that problem is concerned. If the battery puffs up after your SSD replacement causes the system to refuse to boot, they'll still be on the hook for the battery, but they'll have no obligation to make the system bootable again.
We'll have to wait and see if they've actually implemented what was reported, but it's not a violation of MMWA if they did... even if it's shitty and underhanded.
Apple is part of the PC ecosystem. Their computers are capable of running Windows, just like every other PC; and every other PC is capable of running MacOS, just like every Mac.
Apples motherboards (which they call logic boards, but they're literally the same damn thing) simple contain a superfluous bit of hardware (funny, TFA is about just that sort of thing) that unmodified MacOS checks for the presence of before booting; but it's simple to work around, and that little chip, present or not, has no affect on the operation of the system, from the end user's standpoint. Again, much like the one in TFA.
Oh, and Apple's keyboard issues the past few years... I've had to go back and correct every single word in this post that contained the letter F. Some were missing, some were doubled, and I've been dealing with this for over a week.
Yes, then idiots eventually convinced the world that mental institutions were inhumane and forced us to let all the psychopaths go free longe before I was born. As a result, you all get to deal with me today. Ain't progress grand?
See? You're starting to come around. And I mean that sincerely, no snark or sarcasm. Yes, what we have today is worse than slavery, in a way; I wasn't there to see it, but I would imagine slavery was worse in other ways. What makes the current situation worse is that there's not just a single law we can change at the federal level to fix it, it's a compounding of federal, state, and local laws, most of which likely weren't even intended to have any racial influence, on top of individual racism and a generally ignorant population (regardless of race). And it took a civil war to chang the single law.
Oh my fucking God, no. Everything you just listed are examples of racism, with the exception of being flat broke and starting from nothing after slavery ended.and nobody in the following generation dealt with that. So, again, Black slavery in America is over, nobody today has to deal with its effects, so let's concentrate on the other things you listed and blame them on the individuals, still alive today, who are responsible for them, rather than the individuals, long dead, who were responsible for a different atrocity. All you do by blaming slavery is give the perpetrators of today's racist wrongs a place to point their fingers: you're saying it's not their fault, it's the fault of a bunch of dead guys, and they're running with that and saying "whoopsie, guess there's nothing we can do, then." STOP LETTING THEM DO THAT. Blame today's living, breathing, racist scum for today's problems; hold them accountable and, for fuck's sake, educate anyone you still hear blaming slavery, as they are part of the problem.
Well then, I'm sure my ignorance on the subject has offended somebody. Good for them.
Coil quality matters, and the cheaper Qi chargers tend to have shit coils. I note the same with my S9+ when I use a cheap charger, not so with the better ones.
That last one would offend, at the very least, Transformers fans. Optimus Prime wasn't a leader, he was a member of a team, and the other Transformers were not subservient to him.
I wish I was joking, but I'm not. You would certainly offend someone with those terms. This is why it's silly to change the existing ones.
The problem isn't that SJWs have gone too far, it's that they haven't gone far enough. They got as far as seeing that someone was offended and decided something must be done; they didn't get far enough to realize that everything offends someone, rendering their efforts futile and pointless.
I never said racism doesn't exist. Read my other posts in this thread, fuckwit. Racism and slavery are two very different things, and people need to let the one that ended (Black American slavery, that is; there's still quite a bit of slavery about) go, so they can deal with the one that's still with us.
We have a lot of work to do, and not enough time to fuck around dealing with what was already fixed a century and a half ago.
Jesus you people are stupid
Looking in a funhouse mirror again, eh?
empathy - the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Hmm...
Most of the former slaves I'm aware of [...] don't give a flying fuck about programming terminology.
Disprove that. Then talk about empathy.
Since we're talking about Black American slavery here, you can't disprove that. Nobody has ever, in recorded history, lived anywhere near 150 years, let alone longer, so no former slaves are even alive to be offended by it. Therefore, the supposedly offended group, with which you insist we empathize, has a population of 0.
No, I was suggesting that someone had their head firmly planted up their ass. Much like you seem to.
Yes, white men bought slaves, who were already slaves, from African tribal leaders who didn't have slaves yet until the white man started slavery. Nailed it.
Go read a goddamn history book.
Also, slavery hasn't ended, not by a long shot. Just the slavery perpetrated by white men in the US.
None of what you described has a fucking thing to do with slavery. Racism, yes, but I did already suggest that we address those issues, did I not? Oh, you wouldn't know because your ignorant piece of shit ass jumped up to reply after the 2nd paragraph of my comment. Go read it all, then come back and act like an adult.