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"If you don't voluntarily do what we want, we'll force you."

Is this Hitler's Germany?

These folks sustain one of the biggest consumer data breaches in American history, then claim to be an electronics retailer.

Give me a break.

John Ruskin once said that people who focus on price alone are the legitimate prey of marketplace value leaders.

Apple's loudest critics know plenty ... including the price of everything.  But they know the value of almost nothing at all.

Extortion?  Backtracking?  Did no one learn anything from January 6?  

Remember Richard Nixon's comment to David Frost:  If the President does it, it's not illegal.

Nixon's party of law and order, fiscal responsibility and small government has been completely co-opted by a conman.  Voters have put this party in charge of the Executive and Legislative branches, and the fact that most members of the judiciary hew toward this party's views means the President can do whatever he wants.

I know I'm frighteningly out-of-touch, but I never knew PewDiePie existed until I read this article.

I wish the pleasure had been indefinitely postponed.

I think Mr Ramos is a dormant cyber pathogen.

The airline compelled the lady to check her bag, and then an airport employee rifled it and took what he wanted.  Had it not been for Spirit, the incident would not have occurred.  In my view, they're liable beyond whatever 'courtesy' they choose to offer.

Baggage handlers and porters are the 'weakest link' in TSA's perimeter.   Absent a thorough background check - which obviously didn't happen in this case, unless this was young Bazile's first rodeo - there's no real back-of-house security that will prevent another terrorist disaster.

If anyone wants to argue this point, I'd be happy to be told I'm wrong.  I fly frequently, and this is a constant worry of mine.

twolf2919 said:

The Trump Administration is the most extornist Administration in American history.  For them to call the EU simply enforcing their laws (that are disadvantageous to American companies) extortion is just hilarious.

And yet, millions of Americans voted for Trump and will think his strongman tactics represent 'winning bigly' for America.

I call this 'Revenge of the Rubes.'  The same rural voters who watched in horror as Barack Obama was elected – twice – now think that someone who lacks Obama's thoughtful, analytical approach is bound to put things right.

God help us.

As Steve Martin would have said, "It's a profit deal."

While my own carrier would likely offer nothing better, I'm glad I'm not an AT&T customer.

One imagines Sheriff Judd is also a Donald Trump supporter.