I'm sure everyone who wants one already owns one.
They're selling replacements only at this point.
Also, time I deploy a "detachable" type to a user, one more person learns they will never have another one of these awful things. They all want a proper laptop thank you very much.
As far as the superhero movies go, they're not trying to make a good one, they're trying to make another one the same, because the previous one made lots of money.
They've succeeded too. Batman/Spiderman/Ironman/Whateverman is just the same movie released a couple of times a year since the mid 1990's.
This is what the AI is going to recommend: Fast and Furious Nine
Of course it will. They want to be able to churn out widgets exactly like the music business figured out how to do 15 years or so ago.
In the music industry's case they discovered that what Simon Cowell likes on his various TV "talent" shows can cheaply be packaged up and sold for a brief period before the next sound-alike comes along and starts the process again.
The movie industry wants to be able to do this too, and Fast & Furious 9 (or 10 or 11) is perfect for them.
I accidentally bought an LG V20 second hand (I bid $80 and won the auction) and it is a good phone.
The screen is a bit too big, but the removable battery is great. I have even had two updates in the last couple of months which is nice. Android V8.0 at the moment.
The LG apps are rubbish and there is always a better option in the Play Store.
The pre-installed Verizon apps are all annoying and stupid. Most of them don't work properly anyway, so they have all been disabled.
The "4100 mWh" battery I bought cheap from a Chinese website is not 4100 mWh at all, but that's hardly LG's fault.
We've voted B-Western actors into the White House so reality TV doesn't surprise me.
I can remember when that happened. The rest of the world laughed at you behind our hands, but we thought "Well, he's an idiot, and corrupt, but they can't do worse, can they"?
The next couple of guys were pretty much standard US presidents, so the world could more or less do business with them.
Then of course you elected the idiot son of a former president, and we thought "Holy Shit!. This guy's a moron, and America has gone into the hereditary monarchy game"! but we didn't actually laugh into his face or anything, because manners.
The next guy was black, which made a nice change, but of course there was no other actual change, despite the campaign slogan.
This guy however, is so sleazy, corrupt, and ridiculous that the UN assembly actually laughed at him when he made one of his stupid boasts.
The world is laughing at your president America.
in order to funnel resources to a few powerful individuals, however, then the stage is set for revolution...
Have a read of the Wisconsin/ Foxconn story on Slashdot today. That's what you wind up with.
To be fair, my country is no better. We have agreed to pay James Cameron 25% of the cost of his Avatar movies, with no cap. You can bet your bottom dollar (well, James can bet mine) that he won't pay a single cent of tax here, and the taxpayers funding his hobby will never see any of the billions in profit either.
Apparently paying massively profitable companies to come and do business is a good "investment".
Not taxing businesses and not taxing business owners are different things.
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
Here in the real world however, the two will wind up being exactly the same thing, and business owners will pay no tax.
That can't be right. An A/C above has claimed that it's the left's fault because the free market has sorted the problem out.
Or something. It made about as much sense as any "free market" argument does when people discuss the US ISP scene.
That's been tried before. It ended in almost every country in Europe having a revolution, governments fell and people died.
Have a good read about the revolutions of 1848. You will find that one of the triggers was the fact that in many countries the upper class (landowners and business owners) paid no tax. The costs of running the nations fell on everyone else.
Did they spend their massive profits on more staff? Hilarious. Of course they didn't.
Yeah, I found it weird New Zealand would choose Google given their strong attachment to personal privacy.
As a born and bred New Zealander, I have no idea where you get that idea from.
The average Kiwi knows absolutely nothing about computers, and the people who made this decision will be no different. They want it to "Just Work".
As with any sale this size though, it's usually about the kickbacks
There won't be any kickbacks. Check out the corruption perceptions index. We are either 1st or 2nd in the world for corruption.
This may be because of the many schools who demanded parents buy iPads. The pushback was pretty strong, and I know several people who told their kid's school to get stuffed when told they would have to buy one.
I still don't get why anybody puts up with Gnome when KDE is available
I don't either, but Gnome is the default desktop on three of the big distros (Ubuntu, Redhat and Debian) so there must be a good reason.
I have given up trying to figure out what that reason is though, and just use KDE. Budgie seems like a nice option too.
Isn't it nice to have choices?
You raise some interesting copyright questions with your moral ones.
The copyright question that came to my mind is "If the actors never die, then why should the rights?".
You can bet some Hollywoo lawyer will have that same thought too. Pretty soon the necessary number of Senators and congressmen will be having that thought as well.
That particular A/C probably identifies as a conservative (or maybe even a libertarian) so the only thing that really matters is that his team wins. br>
Even if the world burns down, it won't matter because "liberal tears".
Technorati is a person who knows how to change a font to bold in Microsoft Word, according to old people.
You are an elite hacker because you have figured out how to post on Slashdot.
They paid Steph Curry to "design" some cases, so I imagine that's several millions of dollars they need to recoup.
If it was priced sensibly it might be a success.
My own company is going through this right now, having been bought by an investment firm a couple years ago.
I handed in my notice the day my old boss announced the company had been sold to an investment firm.
Most of the people I worked with were gone within a year, and the doors closed about a year after that. I am pretty easy going, but I won't work for an investment company, or an accountant.
Please note A/C that in many US states voters also have to register their party preference.
It is one of the many, many little ways the Republicans and Democrats keep their cosy little duopoly going and prevent the people of the US from having any real choice about who rules them.
They are not going to do a deal because they want to show any other waverers what happens if you leave the EU.
The tourism money is going to come regardless, Europe is a couple of hours drive away for the UK. where else are they going to go?
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I'm sure there are lots of those.
I'm sure everyone who wants one already owns one.
They're selling replacements only at this point.
Also, time I deploy a "detachable" type to a user, one more person learns they will never have another one of these awful things. They all want a proper laptop thank you very much.
As far as the superhero movies go, they're not trying to make a good one, they're trying to make another one the same, because the previous one made lots of money.
They've succeeded too. Batman/Spiderman/Ironman/Whateverman is just the same movie released a couple of times a year since the mid 1990's.
This is what the AI is going to recommend: Fast and Furious Nine
Of course it will. They want to be able to churn out widgets exactly like the music business figured out how to do 15 years or so ago.
In the music industry's case they discovered that what Simon Cowell likes on his various TV "talent" shows can cheaply be packaged up and sold for a brief period before the next sound-alike comes along and starts the process again.
The movie industry wants to be able to do this too, and Fast & Furious 9 (or 10 or 11) is perfect for them.
Economists are more like priests than scientists. Economics is just another stupid religion.
The screen is a bit too big, but the removable battery is great. I have even had two updates in the last couple of months which is nice.
Android V8.0 at the moment.
The LG apps are rubbish and there is always a better option in the Play Store.
The pre-installed Verizon apps are all annoying and stupid. Most of them don't work properly anyway, so they have all been disabled.
The "4100 mWh" battery I bought cheap from a Chinese website is not 4100 mWh at all, but that's hardly LG's fault.
Overall I am pretty happy with it.
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We've voted B-Western actors into the White House so reality TV doesn't surprise me.
I can remember when that happened. The rest of the world laughed at you behind our hands, but we thought "Well, he's an idiot, and corrupt, but they can't do worse, can they"?
The next couple of guys were pretty much standard US presidents, so the world could more or less do business with them.
Then of course you elected the idiot son of a former president, and we thought "Holy Shit!. This guy's a moron, and America has gone into the hereditary monarchy game"! but we didn't actually laugh into his face or anything, because manners.
The next guy was black, which made a nice change, but of course there was no other actual change, despite the campaign slogan.
This guy however, is so sleazy, corrupt, and ridiculous that the UN assembly actually laughed at him when he made one of his stupid boasts.
The world is laughing at your president America.
in order to funnel resources to a few powerful individuals, however, then the stage is set for revolution...
Have a read of the Wisconsin/ Foxconn story on Slashdot today. That's what you wind up with.
To be fair, my country is no better. We have agreed to pay James Cameron 25% of the cost of his Avatar movies, with no cap. You can bet your bottom dollar (well, James can bet mine) that he won't pay a single cent of tax here, and the taxpayers funding his hobby will never see any of the billions in profit either.
Apparently paying massively profitable companies to come and do business is a good "investment".
Not taxing businesses and not taxing business owners are different things.
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
Here in the real world however, the two will wind up being exactly the same thing, and business owners will pay no tax.
The US already paid $200 billion to the Telcos
That can't be right. An A/C above has claimed that it's the left's fault because the free market has sorted the problem out.
Or something. It made about as much sense as any "free market" argument does when people discuss the US ISP scene.
You could just not tax businesses at all
That's been tried before. It ended in almost every country in Europe having a revolution, governments fell and people died.
Have a good read about the revolutions of 1848. You will find that one of the triggers was the fact that in many countries the upper class (landowners and business owners) paid no tax. The costs of running the nations fell on everyone else.
Did they spend their massive profits on more staff? Hilarious. Of course they didn't.
Yeah, I found it weird New Zealand would choose Google given their strong attachment to personal privacy.
As a born and bred New Zealander, I have no idea where you get that idea from.
The average Kiwi knows absolutely nothing about computers, and the people who made this decision will be no different. They want it to "Just Work".
As with any sale this size though, it's usually about the kickbacks
There won't be any kickbacks. Check out the corruption perceptions index. We are either 1st or 2nd in the world for corruption.
This may be because of the many schools who demanded parents buy iPads. The pushback was pretty strong, and I know several people who told their kid's school to get stuffed when told they would have to buy one.
I still don't get why anybody puts up with Gnome when KDE is available
I don't either, but Gnome is the default desktop on three of the big distros (Ubuntu, Redhat and Debian) so there must be a good reason.
I have given up trying to figure out what that reason is though, and just use KDE. Budgie seems like a nice option too.
Isn't it nice to have choices?
You raise some interesting copyright questions with your moral ones.
The copyright question that came to my mind is "If the actors never die, then why should the rights?".
You can bet some Hollywoo lawyer will have that same thought too. Pretty soon the necessary number of Senators and congressmen will be having that thought as well.
That particular A/C probably identifies as a conservative (or maybe even a libertarian) so the only thing that really matters is that his team wins. br> Even if the world burns down, it won't matter because "liberal tears".
Technorati is a person who knows how to change a font to bold in Microsoft Word, according to old people.
You are an elite hacker because you have figured out how to post on Slashdot.
Oh. Fraud is a partisan political thing now?
OK.
Here's a link, for those who might be interested.
It's worth a read. It pulls no punches and is quite funny.
They paid Steph Curry to "design" some cases, so I imagine that's several millions of dollars they need to recoup.
If it was priced sensibly it might be a success.
Why waste time with that?
Because fraud may have been committed? Investigating crimes is one of things Attorneys General do.
That is not what the New York AG is investigating.
The investigation is into whether or not the anti-network neutrality comments involved fraud.
My own company is going through this right now, having been bought by an investment firm a couple years ago.
I handed in my notice the day my old boss announced the company had been sold to an investment firm.
Most of the people I worked with were gone within a year, and the doors closed about a year after that. I am pretty easy going, but I won't work for an investment company, or an accountant.
Please note A/C that in many US states voters also have to register their party preference.
It is one of the many, many little ways the Republicans and Democrats keep their cosy little duopoly going and prevent the people of the US from having any real choice about who rules them.
For the very good reason that the US did not vote to leave the EU.
They are not going to do a deal because they want to show any other waverers what happens if you leave the EU.
The tourism money is going to come regardless, Europe is a couple of hours drive away for the UK. where else are they going to go?