longpath

vmarks said:

It would be very interesting to know how the entire OS is designed to track the user, and their basis for writing that.

It appears as though Special Agent Strzok has iOS and Android confused.

nikon1 said:

“ Jensen reportedly managed to get Moyer to promise that Apple would donate 200 iPads, worth about $70,000, to the Sheriff's Office. Undersheriff sung also extracted from Chadha, the insurance broker, a "promise of $6,000 worth of luxury box seat tickets to a San Jose Sharks hockey game."

In California, it is illegal to carry a concealed firearm without a CCW license that can cost between $200 and $400.

So these 2 CLOWNS (Moyer & Chadha) risked their careers and wanted to avoid paying between $200 & $400 to legitimately get their CCW legally?  They should be imprisioned for pure greed and stupidity.

What a pair of Morons!

No, your comprehension of the situation is the lacking piece. They weren’t trying to skirt fees. Approval of application for a CCW is entirely at the whim of the official. It’s an inherently racist and classist process where even if you have money, a spotless record, have exemplary relevant skills, etc., you can still be turned down, without cause. I can only presume you don’t have a CCW and have no concept of the difference between a shall issue and a may issue state.

Military experience with millimeter wave radar says otherwise and such radars pump out a lot more energy than a smartphone. If what they are alleging was true, civilian planes would be crashing every time a military helicopter illuminated it with its radar. Strangely, I can’t find a single instance of this ever occurring. Could it be that like many bureaucrats, they are fear mongering to maintain and grow their power? No, it couldn’t be that…

marsorry said:

Unbelievable, happens to the best of them I suppose. Wouldn’t it have been cheaper and safer to just get a permit???

You completely misunderstood. No, it wouldn’t be cheaper and safer “just to get a permit”. They were trying to get a permit; but such is the case for all “may issue” states, that it is entirely up to the whim of one or more officials, no matter how perfectly you dot your I’s and cross your T’s. I can only assume you don’t have a CCW and have zero concept of what’s involved, especially in a state like California with decades of racist gun control laws (look up the Mulford Act). Your statement suggests that you honestly don’t understand that applying for the permit you said he should have applied for is what was happening when the deputy and sheriff looked for extras. 

urahara said:

I am starting to believe that in the most cases the government only makes the situation worse. This is one of those situations. With “twin monopolies” - LOL, they have even coined a new term just to make their absurd case which hurts free market.

The US House of Representatives has a lower level of individual representation of its alleged constituents than any other comparable body in any other industrialized democracy, whether direct or limited, and has been so since 1929. This is nothing more than asserting power in order to grow power. By definition, a twin anything is not a monopoly. This isn’t the first time politicians have fabricated terms in order to frighten the ignorant and justify their violation of the takings clause. It won’t be the last.

I read this situation as a classic case of politicians ruling on subject matter they are functionally illiterate on. It's not localized. I regard it as endemic to the political class, everywhere. It's not a left or right issue. It is an issue of authoritarianism & presumption of competence where none exists. I see it often in areas of technology and economics. This is not a case of "our politicians" vs "their politicians".  Politicians frequently presume they know better, about anything they can force through threat of violence, as all laws ultimately are, with little to no consideration of the consequences. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/enforcing-the-law-is-inherently-violent/488828/

https://rlo.acton.org/archives/87651-yes-law-is-inherently-violent-but-thats-not-the-problem.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-12-04/law-puts-us-all-in-same-danger-as-eric-garner

My concern with resurrecting the MacBook name is the possibility of it only offering USB-C, without Thunderbolt, as was the case with the prior model. The current Air, ought not to be succeeded by a model that drops Thunderbolt.

flydog said:

longpath said:

Sounds like extortion & racketeering to me.

That’s because you have no idea what those words mean. 

On the contrary, I am perfectly aware of the fact that government is, of its nature, a protection racket, and using the state to compel peaceful parties to specific actions is extortion.

 I encourage you to read Murray Rothbard’s Anatomy of the State.

In my view, the lack of processor & RAM differentiation from the offerings of the Mac Studio is the Achilles heel of the Mac Pro. If there was an extra tier of processor & RAM options exclusive to the Pro, it would be a lot easier to justify the extra weight & volume. Studios in Sonnet rack mounts take up a lot less rack space. Free standing Studios take up a lot less desk, or under desk, real estate. The absence of MPX support is also problematic, as the only internal RAIDs I know of are MPX modules. For a 3D animator, the Studio paired with an external RAID makes more sense, whether they’re working in Unreal or C4D & then overlaying 2D effects in After Effects, a workflow that’s won multiple Emmy awards for multiple Olympic Games coverage.

I absolutely cannot understand why a driverless vehicle needs to have performance handling dynamics. It seems as though Apple is going out of its way to design a rolling oxymoron.