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DOJ is demanding that Apple produce new software to meet this request. Apple shouldn't be doing such work for free, and they are standing up to this precedent. DOJ is in the wrong.

I would never put a Google Home or Amazon Alexa device in my home, or whatever thing it is that FaceBook is supposedly building. This device's privacy, plus it being an intelligently calibrated WiFi / Bluetooth speaker is appealing, to me at least.

Some people don't like whimsy I guess.

Business Chat also puts an emphasis on privacy: users don't have to log in via Facebook to share a huge profile that includes everyone they know, their political orientation and all their other personal details; nor do they surrender contact information that signs them up for tons of future, unsolicited offers and spam.

Thank good. How hugely I hate that "log in with Facebook" option, seen on so many websites. Adding to the Zuckerberg Stasi file on me? No thanks.

tyler82 said:

wizard69 said:

Really, it puzzles me that this sort of construction was even permitted,   I can't imagine load bearing glass holding up well at all in an earthquake.    Especially the theater entrance where there appears to be no supplemental support at all.   I can see the roof there coming down on people with massive pancakeing effect.   

This is one of the most pompous statements I've read in a long time. 

I know! As if they just went ahead with production flippantly and with zero due diligence – as if not a single structural engineer was involved in such a massive architectural project. It's like me asking Michael Schumacher to remember to keep his tires inflated.

BuzzFeed is a failing pile of garbage. Avoid.

Apple has other income streams that can support Apple Music at low margins. Apple Music does not need to be a knockout. Like Apple Pay, it keeps people in the ecosystem. Spotify's royalties to artists are weak compared to Apple Music. Apple can squeeze Spotify. And it comes under the banner of supporting artists. Spotify is not doomed, but I would bet on Apple Music, esp with their decent growth.

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cnocbui said:

eBay is your friend, for when your memory is having a Trump moment.

Yeah, I've seen a few t shirts that are being sold at places like Ebay.

I would prefer to get one because I was actually there in person, and not just bought it from some random person online.

As for having a Trump moment, rumor has it that Hillary may have parkinson's, very serious. There's a mysterious handler always close to her, holding some sort of medical device or a shot in their hands, ready to be used at a moments notice.

There's something funny with her. I think the YouTube clips here speak for themselves: http://www.dangerandplay.com/2016/08/06/hillary-clinton-stroke-seizure-coughing-fits/

Their founder donated to some anti-gay organization, if I recall correctly. So what? What about 99.9% of the rest of their company? If I avoided every company whose CEO was a piece of garbage, I would have few consumer goods companies to buy from. I eat CFA all the time, and I have never once witnessed their employees being anything but extremely polite and competent. That is what matters to me.

redefiler said:

Seriously?

When your boss has to tell you to stop arguing over team politics at work,
that's a clear sign that your team politics are complete immature bullshit.

Obama was an inexperienced, petty, self-aggrandizing clown, now there's just a different one.
Grow the fuck up, America.

The most insufferable people on my FB feed are liberals. I used to be one, so I understand how they hold different views. But I learned as I got older that I cannot justify any and all behavior I feel like engaging in simply because I believe I have the moral high ground. To a triggered liberal, all actions are justified, because their end goals are so completely necessary! No discussion!

This letter is not too bad. But it comes off as passive-aggressiveness from a sore loser. Do Apple employees need to be reminded to stop arguing about politics, and to just do their job?