They are doing one better. They are instituting a policy to degrade and make obsolete their older products so you will be forced to buy the upgrade just to keep your current iPhone working. Coupled with the $1000 price on new iPhones, much of the profit will be invested into making this practice industry wide. Now that the Consumer Protection laws have been gutted, consumers will just have to learn to live with constantly increasing prices and more and much shorter usability cycles on newly purchased equipment. Expect, $2500 iPhones with a year or two.
What Apple won't tell you is that they now have plans to make all of their new products become obsolete for work poorly unless you buy their latest and most expensive upgrade. Take that consumers. Under Trump, you have no right to fight back.
Yes, but Trump promises to change that by imposing tariffs on non-US made components in order to drive up prices and thereby provide additional subsidy to fossil fuels, by once again making them cost-competitive with alternative power technologies.
Trump gives no though to the fac that tariffs imposed by Smoot-Hawley greatly intensified the Great Depression by throwing hundreds of thousands out of work, just as Trump proposes to do for the US solar industry.
Storage is already viable, as Musk recently demonstrated in both Australia and in Puerto Rico. Not only viable, but extremely cost effective, not to mention saving the costs of environmental cleanup.
But of course the modern GOP would have us all believe there is no problem living in sh_t, whether it be chemical, nuclear, or sociological, because after all, modern republicans don't need a clean environment in which to thrive.
The GOP recognizes that such word bans will now be essential, since they are essentially ending funding for prevention of the spread of Zika Virus and other mosquito vectored diseases. The last thing they want to have is someone quoting the terms "science-based" or "evidence based", or "fetus" in government documents that demonstrate that the failure to mitigate the deleterious effects of these diseases in arguing against the Trump administration's anti-science based positions that are likely to kill thousands in the decades to come, particularly now that with global warming is expanding vector ranges of tropical diseases northward at an astounding clip.
If the evangelicals ever figured out that Zika will probably kill more of the "unborn" than abortions in the decades to come, it would have a devastating effect on his base. Better to ban the word, than let the truth come out from their perspective.
Sadly, there is nothing "safe" about flying nuclear reactors. Once they crash and the contents of their reactors breached, radioactivity is rapidly concentrated in top predators (= humans), which get 50% of their protein from the world's oceans.
We would do better seeking a world-wide ban on flying nuclear reactors rather than encouraging our potential adversaries to build them.
Given the Trump administration's approach to global warming and undoing rational planning, one can now legitimately wonder whether they will first cook us from the outside in or the inside out.
You seem to be unaware of just how vulnerable warships are to aircraft. If drones can be made cheaply, particularly relative to warships, then the battle will largely be over before it has begun.
Besides, China is busy making electric, battery powered ships, that cost much less than nuclear powered ones. Looks as if US military strategy is about to learn some lessons the hard way, should war break out down the road. At that point, the best outcome we could hope for is mutually assured destruction, not exactly a pleasant thought, but apparently likely to be unavoidable..
Yes, this is one of the reasons a number of islands in Arcrtic seas are now permanently off-limits to humans as the radiation levels will remain too high from nuclear submarines that were scuttled or were accidentally lost and their reactors breached. Sadly, so many fish sticks and other fish-food products now have higher baseline levels of radiation.
Keep a very close eye out on the state GOP reps and senators that have pushed this legislation to see where the kickbacks are going.and who is getting them.
As Ben Franklin said, the constitution created for us a republic, if we can keep it. With the GOP in charge stand a very good chance of loosing it.
The next logical step is likely for the government to allow them to vote, not to mention also provide the AI they need to "make an intelligent choice".
You make a good point. However, the days where the US is the world leader are rapidly coming to a close. Part of the reason for this can seen by numerous other responses in this thread demonstrating that people would rather find a reason to bitch and make wisecracks rather than do anything positive to keep up with our foreign competitors. In Korea and Japan one can purchase 10GBit/s internet speeds for less than $50/month. This year China will lay 10 times more fiber than the US, while also building more high speed rail, more wind and solar power, increase their exports to US and the rest of the world at about 2.5 times the pace of the US, All the while, the supposed "talent" in the US will busy putting their money into fattening the wallets of Comcast and AT&T execs.
Best not fix the roads as it only encourages people to spew more carbon dioxide into the air. California is already breaking record temperatures with temperatures over 100 F in late October. In a few years, temperatures in the 120-130 range will be common in much of Southern California.
I totally agree. The more detailed information, the better.
In reality the crux of the complaint here is that "Hey, we need to dumb down Wikipedia because I am too lazy to study and learn on my own." Perhaps what is really being argued for is a Wikipedia for Dummies". The reality is that there is nothing stopping anyone from "solving this problem", except, of course, their own innate laziness.
I love having detailed information, particular with respect to concepts and topics in mathematics. Yes, many ideas are very hard to learn and to understand no matter how often I read them. Nonetheless, having information out there that I can strive to understand, perhaps by additional reading or additional resources is critical to learning.
If you are too lazy to study and learn, then you shouldn't be surprised that you don't understand much. The universe and everything in it is complicated. Sadly, simply proclaiming "God Did It", isn't of any use, since that can always be said about everything and any convenient moment, without providing any explanation whatsoever. Sure, its easier, but essentially uninformative. Nonetheless, we now have people in the US arguing that topics such as Physics and Biology shouldn't be taught in schools because they are simply based on "theory" and are just too hard thus creating embarrassment to parents and students. Should we get to this point, then we might as well hand the future over to foreigners and others, as surely they will own it.
True, but in the desert in Dubai freezing to death would take hours, whereas on Mars it will happen in a fraction of a second.
Those planning a trip to Mars had better bring their jackets, all of them to be worn simultaneously. Urination and defecation on Mars will be life-threatening activities.
Dubai could go solar and export the electricity. They do have lots of sunshine.
However, my sense is that they won't do it fast enough to matter and most of Dubai will be underwater in a few hundred years at the current rate of acceleration in global warming.
Dubai would be a horrible place to simulate conditions on Mars. Dubai has temperatures that range from 6.1 C - 48.5 C. In contrast temperatures on Mars range from -127 C to 20 C (at the equator at high noon). A better choice would be Antarctica during the southern hemisphere Winter..
"if your life is affected by a browser, you need to re-evaluate your life."
it's probably because your browser provider has just sold your personal information to some hacker, who has just assumed your identity and sold your house, told your employer you are quitting your job because the company stinks, divorced and deported your wife, and sold your kids into slavery.
You are so correct. The cost of wind and solar are now a small fraction of the cost of nuclear when all costs are considered. Given the very real prospect of radioactive contamination that may persist for tens of thousands of years, nuclear fission holds no commercial promise. Nonetheless support for research for containable fusion reactors should be sustained..
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They are doing one better. They are instituting a policy to degrade and make obsolete their older products so you will be forced to buy the upgrade just to keep your current iPhone working. Coupled with the $1000 price on new iPhones, much of the profit will be invested into making this practice industry wide. Now that the Consumer Protection laws have been gutted, consumers will just have to learn to live with constantly increasing prices and more and much shorter usability cycles on newly purchased equipment. Expect, $2500 iPhones with a year or two.
What Apple won't tell you is that they now have plans to make all of their new products become obsolete for work poorly unless you buy their latest and most expensive upgrade. Take that consumers. Under Trump, you have no right to fight back.
Wouldn't be hard, all you would need is lots of balloons, a source of helium, and a giant mist net.
Why is it that so many people think that the oceans should be used as an open sewer and that there is no such thing as ocean currents?
Yes, but Trump promises to change that by imposing tariffs on non-US made components in order to drive up prices and thereby provide additional subsidy to fossil fuels, by once again making them cost-competitive with alternative power technologies.
Trump gives no though to the fac that tariffs imposed by Smoot-Hawley greatly intensified the Great Depression by throwing hundreds of thousands out of work, just as Trump proposes to do for the US solar industry.
Storage is already viable, as Musk recently demonstrated in both Australia and in Puerto Rico. Not only viable, but extremely cost effective, not to mention saving the costs of environmental cleanup.
But of course the modern GOP would have us all believe there is no problem living in sh_t, whether it be chemical, nuclear, or sociological, because after all, modern republicans don't need a clean environment in which to thrive.
The GOP recognizes that such word bans will now be essential, since they are essentially ending funding for prevention of the spread of Zika Virus and other mosquito vectored diseases. The last thing they want to have is someone quoting the terms "science-based" or "evidence based", or "fetus" in government documents that demonstrate that the failure to mitigate the deleterious effects of these diseases in arguing against the Trump administration's anti-science based positions that are likely to kill thousands in the decades to come, particularly now that with global warming is expanding vector ranges of tropical diseases northward at an astounding clip.
If the evangelicals ever figured out that Zika will probably kill more of the "unborn" than abortions in the decades to come, it would have a devastating effect on his base. Better to ban the word, than let the truth come out from their perspective.
Sadly, there is nothing "safe" about flying nuclear reactors. Once they crash and the contents of their reactors breached, radioactivity is rapidly concentrated in top predators (= humans), which get 50% of their protein from the world's oceans.
We would do better seeking a world-wide ban on flying nuclear reactors rather than encouraging our potential adversaries to build them.
Given the Trump administration's approach to global warming and undoing rational planning, one can now legitimately wonder whether they will first cook us from the outside in or the inside out.
You seem to be unaware of just how vulnerable warships are to aircraft. If drones can be made cheaply, particularly relative to warships, then the battle will largely be over before it has begun.
Besides, China is busy making electric, battery powered ships, that cost much less than nuclear powered ones. Looks as if US military strategy is about to learn some lessons the hard way, should war break out down the road. At that point, the best outcome we could hope for is mutually assured destruction, not exactly a pleasant thought, but apparently likely to be unavoidable..
Or you happen to eat seafood, which incidentally comprises about 50% of all protein consumed by humans.
Yes, this is one of the reasons a number of islands in Arcrtic seas are now permanently off-limits to humans as the radiation levels will remain too high from nuclear submarines that were scuttled or were accidentally lost and their reactors breached. Sadly, so many fish sticks and other fish-food products now have higher baseline levels of radiation.
Doesn't seem to be nearly as much of a problem as refusing to have sex with your boss.
Keep a very close eye out on the state GOP reps and senators that have pushed this legislation to see where the kickbacks are going.and who is getting them.
As Ben Franklin said, the constitution created for us a republic, if we can keep it. With the GOP in charge stand a very good chance of loosing it.
The next logical step is likely for the government to allow them to vote, not to mention also provide the AI they need to "make an intelligent choice".
Hardly out of line with the average US debt.
You make a good point. However, the days where the US is the world leader are rapidly coming to a close. Part of the reason for this can seen by numerous other responses in this thread demonstrating that people would rather find a reason to bitch and make wisecracks rather than do anything positive to keep up with our foreign competitors. In Korea and Japan one can purchase 10GBit/s internet speeds for less than $50/month. This year China will lay 10 times more fiber than the US, while also building more high speed rail, more wind and solar power, increase their exports to US and the rest of the world at about 2.5 times the pace of the US, All the while, the supposed "talent" in the US will busy putting their money into fattening the wallets of Comcast and AT&T execs.
Perhaps this time the city will ask for a jury trial.
Best not fix the roads as it only encourages people to spew more carbon dioxide into the air. California is already breaking record temperatures with temperatures over 100 F in late October. In a few years, temperatures in the 120-130 range will be common in much of Southern California.
I totally agree. The more detailed information, the better.
In reality the crux of the complaint here is that "Hey, we need to dumb down Wikipedia because I am too lazy to study and learn on my own." Perhaps what is really being argued for is a Wikipedia for Dummies". The reality is that there is nothing stopping anyone from "solving this problem", except, of course, their own innate laziness.
I love having detailed information, particular with respect to concepts and topics in mathematics. Yes, many ideas are very hard to learn and to understand no matter how often I read them. Nonetheless, having information out there that I can strive to understand, perhaps by additional reading or additional resources is critical to learning.
If you are too lazy to study and learn, then you shouldn't be surprised that you don't understand much. The universe and everything in it is complicated. Sadly, simply proclaiming "God Did It", isn't of any use, since that can always be said about everything and any convenient moment, without providing any explanation whatsoever. Sure, its easier, but essentially uninformative. Nonetheless, we now have people in the US arguing that topics such as Physics and Biology shouldn't be taught in schools because they are simply based on "theory" and are just too hard thus creating embarrassment to parents and students. Should we get to this point, then we might as well hand the future over to foreigners and others, as surely they will own it.
True, but in the desert in Dubai freezing to death would take hours, whereas on Mars it will happen in a fraction of a second.
Those planning a trip to Mars had better bring their jackets, all of them to be worn simultaneously. Urination and defecation on Mars will be life-threatening activities.
Dubai could go solar and export the electricity. They do have lots of sunshine.
However, my sense is that they won't do it fast enough to matter and most of Dubai will be underwater in a few hundred years at the current rate of acceleration in global warming.
Dubai would be a horrible place to simulate conditions on Mars. Dubai has temperatures that range from 6.1 C - 48.5 C. In contrast temperatures on Mars range from -127 C to 20 C (at the equator at high noon). A better choice would be Antarctica during the southern hemisphere Winter..
"if your life is affected by a browser, you need to re-evaluate your life."
it's probably because your browser provider has just sold your personal information to some hacker, who has just assumed your identity and sold your house, told your employer you are quitting your job because the company stinks, divorced and deported your wife, and sold your kids into slavery.
Clearly, we need to close down all US schools and universities to help Russia, China and others in exchange for perks for the 1%.
You are so correct. The cost of wind and solar are now a small fraction of the cost of nuclear when all costs are considered. Given the very real prospect of radioactive contamination that may persist for tens of thousands of years, nuclear fission holds no commercial promise. Nonetheless support for research for containable fusion reactors should be sustained..