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  1. fragmentation on iPhoneXsMax, Now That's a Tongue Twister (om.co) · · Score: 0

    A few years ago, the rant was against Android fragmentation. There was just one iPhone, one resolution. Well now that THAT is no longer the case, Apple has tossed it all to the wind and gone to name fragmentation... Can't wait for the iPhone Xs Max SE Plus Rose Gold Special Edition!

  2. Why two SIM cards? on Apple Moves the iPhone Away From Physical SIMs (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you already have two SIM cards that need to be swapped, you really should look at virtual phone numbers from Google Voice and many other providers. The SIM for your domestic needs, and the virtual phones can be for everything else. I have active phone numbers on my phone right now in Hong Kong, Germany, and the US.

  3. Re:Sweet on Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Explain, then, how I am getting them for my 3+ year old Note 5 as well.

  4. Re:Sweet on Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    "Wish I even had a dick..." - Anonymous Coward

  5. is that ALL killer bots, or only those who don't remove extremist posts from the Internet in 1 hour, or those who don't pay for links? I have to know what's not allowed in the EU after all....

  6. Re:Sweet on Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure what new feature you're alluding to that I'd want. It seems to do everything I could ask for...

  7. Re:Sweet on Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Currently still getting them for my more-than-3-year-old Note 5, which is on WiFi only as a home controller. So - I'd expect at least that long.

  8. Re:OS updates on Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    My Note 5 still gets updates. It's a little over 3 years old at this point.

  9. Re:Sweet on Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I get updates about every other week for my Samsung Note 8... Last update was September 5th, in fact.

  10. Missed a prime naming opportunity on Apple Unveils iPhone Xs, iPhone Xs Max, iPhone Xr (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    They could have released a professional version and called it the iPhone XP!

  11. Re: Like all things socialist as on Swiss Village Votes for Free Money. Now It Just Needs the Cash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a bit more than 5 weeks a year, every year, for your adult working life, pre-paid. If you're not able to get ahead with that good of a start - then private charity. At what point does welfare become enabling behavior rather than a safety net? Put the net out there, tell people what it is - and if they choose to jump off the side, well - that's how you learn. Failure is a great teacher.

  12. First used in 1953. it's got lots of generic versions available - just buy and import one of those. Sounds like a small pharma lab identified a drug without really any other US manufacturers and is trying to capitalize on it - before someone else just fires up and brings in the generics from one of the big pharma companies for pennies on the dollar.

  13. And ignore the Spanish Empire, the French Empire, the German "troubles" (times two), Portuguese expansion, Italian expansion, etc... Yeppers, it's just those bloody brits who were terrible!

  14. Re: Another, But It Will Work This time, scenario? on Swiss Village Votes for Free Money. Now It Just Needs the Cash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The rich people are the ones benefiting most from our society and reaping the most rewards. It is fair that they proportionally contribute the most to maintaining that society.

    So we agree the rich pay their fair share of taxes? Because every actual metric, every piece of data, says they do - but somehow it's a continual meme of the socialists that they do not.

  15. Re: Another, But It Will Work This time, scenario? on Swiss Village Votes for Free Money. Now It Just Needs the Cash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And how does that affect the fact that the rich do pay at least their fair share, and the lion's share of income tax (and pretty much all capital gains taxes)?

  16. Re:And what drives hurricanes? Water evaporation on Climate Change Drives Bigger, Wetter Storms -- Storms Like Florence (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Now, go back up this thread, to where I said it is essentially zero (which it is at the poles, when you compare it to a 'global temperature' of 16 deg C), and where there was a discussion about temperature differences and water content between the poles and the tropics. The water held in the tropics (30 deg C+) is an order of magnitude larger than that at a -10 deg C pole. Sublimation is essentially zero at the poles - water held in the air at the poles is essentially zero, compared to what is held world-wide.

  17. Re:ridiculous on Swiss Village Votes for Free Money. Now It Just Needs the Cash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm a proponent of UBI, but this plan is ridiculous. You've basically just seen what happens when you let the lower 50%ile vote for a wage increase (spoiler: they'll say yes every time).

    And that is why, in the US, we have a Senate with equal representation per State, and we have an Electoral College for the Presidential election. Mob rule really does break down, eventually...

  18. Re:Another, But It Will Work This time, scenario? on Swiss Village Votes for Free Money. Now It Just Needs the Cash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You might want to see who really pays the income tax in the US. It actually is the rich, paying well more than their "fair share", unless you mean they should pay a much higher share of income taxes as compared to their share of total income.

  19. Re:Like all things socialist as on Swiss Village Votes for Free Money. Now It Just Needs the Cash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, socialism is everyone 'putting in/taking out" from the Government, including businesses. Fascism is the Government forcing businesses to do their bidding via regulation and threat of force. Bernie likes to mix socialism and fascism together...

  20. Re: Like all things socialist as on Swiss Village Votes for Free Money. Now It Just Needs the Cash (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    IF we're going to have UBI, I'd like to see a system where everyone "gets" 5 years of UBI, from age 18 to 65, and this replaces welfare/unemployment insurance. If you use it all up by the age of 23, and want more - too bad. Whatever you don't use by the time you reach 65, you get in a lump sum (with interest, prime rate) tax-free. It's your share of taxes over your lifetime, you can choose when you want to use it.

  21. Re:Damn .... on Google Replaces Its USB-C Headphone Adapter With a More Expensive Version (theverge.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's not really the cost of the adapter that irks me so - it's the fact an adapter is needed in the first place. At least the VAST majority of Android phones still have a headphone jack. Oh, and most support AptX, AptX HD, and hi-res audio (unlike iOS devices) if you care about those things...

  22. Re:And what drives hurricanes? Water evaporation on Climate Change Drives Bigger, Wetter Storms -- Storms Like Florence (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Why yes, I have! And if you actually look at how much water vapor can be contained in air versus temperature you will see it's a logarithmic function and essentially zero at temperatures at or below freezing. Sublimation or not.

  23. Re:And what drives hurricanes? Water evaporation on Climate Change Drives Bigger, Wetter Storms -- Storms Like Florence (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Water evaporation is essentially zero for temperatures below freezing. The poles warming from -15 deg C to -10 deg C will not increase the water vapor content of air in any measurable amount.

  24. Accumulated Cyclone Energy is statistically flat, and potentially falling.

  25. Not to mention that Harvey came in from a different body of water, and was trapped by a high pressure ridge to the North, and mountains to the East and West. Florence is coming in to a completely different area with high pressure to the North and mountains to the West only. Using Harvey as an example of what Florence will do is like saying the fact Michael Jordan was MVP multiple times means that Ferrari will win next year's F1 championship.