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jcc said:

Why?! Her forefathers raped and pillaged countless people all over the world. Did no one take any history lessons? Did Tim Cook not study history??

Who, the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas? 

prismo said:

Have you considered that a large target audience for this phone are people with pacemakers? And that Apple needs a phone on the market that will not cause pacemakers to stop working?

From the FDA.gov website: "Magnets in Cell Phones and Smart Watches May Affect Pacemakers and Other Medical Devices"

"The FDA is aware of published articles which describe the effect that sufficiently strong magnetic fields can turn on the magnetic safe mode when in close contact. The FDA also conducted its own testing on some products that use the high field strength magnet feature and have confirmed the magnetic field is both consistent with the publications and strong enough to turn on the magnetic safety mode of the medical devices in question. The FDA believes the risk to patients is low, and the agency is not aware of any adverse events associated with this issue at this time." (MY BOLD)

I'm not a doctor but we have pacemaker wearer in the family and they work great. The cardiologists told us that a pacemaker patient should avoid close (defined by Medtronic and FDA as 6" or less) or prolonged contact with electronic devices, all of which have a magnetic field. So don't hold it against your pacemaker, don't wear it in a pocket over your pacemaker. It's better to use it on the side away from the pacemaker to be cautious. It applies to all cell phones, watches, radios/walkie-talkies, game controllers, etc. When the pacemaker is too close to a magnetic field it goes into a protective "magnet mode" until the field is moved away, and it resumes normal operation. BUT depending on the heart problem, this period of pacemaker inactivity can be debilitating or fatal, so patients always have to be aware. All this and more is in the website quoted above.

9secondkox2 said:

blastdoor said:

elijahg said:

Is two people leaving really an "exodus"?

Ha ha -- yeah, like when Moses and one other guy left Egypt :-) 

Um… the entirety of Israeli’s enslaved by Egypt left Egypt…

I know…I missed the Sarcasm. Lol

"In short, the biblical writers invented the idea that the Israelites lived in Egypt in order to impel them to maintain their distinctiveness in Canaan. And the story of servitude in Egypt is an allegory of servitude to Egypt. Our ancestors, among others, did perform forced labor for Egyptian taskmasters, but they were never slaves in Egypt."

 The Original Torah: The Political Intent of the Bible's Writers  (ReformJudaism.org)

muthuk_vanalingam said:

Pema said:

There is an old proverb, 'we live in interesting times'. I would suggest that now it needs to be updated to say 'we live in insane times'. 

In 1933 sociopathic criminals took over the Reich Chancellery and ended up murdering millions of people and ultimately causing the death of 12 Million Germans and a destruction of a great many German cities. 

Now we have a similar sort of situation whereby the plans of the current US administration is going to unleash God only knows what on the world. Just consider some of the recent moves: Patel (a certifiable lunatic) taking over the FBI; RFK (a dangerous conspiracy theorist) taking over the Department of Health; Musk moving chess pieces around the government like its a board game. 

Now the tariffs are going to ruin Apple's most profitable market outside the US. 

I don't see how we don't end up with mass chaos and WWIII.  

I am from India and I don't have much knowledge on US politics. But one point to make as an outsider - In the last 10 years, under which party's rule in US did the major conflicts in the world occur? There were no major wars in the world during Trump's first presidency. And two major conflicts (Russia Vs Ukraine, major escalation of Gaza conflict) occurred while Joe Biden was president. For the outside world, it does look like Democrats are the ones creating major conflicts in the world, in order to maintain US supremacy in the world order. Trump's presidency was not so bad for world peace, indeed it was damn good when compared to Biden's term. Not sure how Trump's second term would turn out to be in terms of peace in the world, but hoping that it would be similar to his first term. If that happened, then world is better off with Trump as POTUS.

The Russso-Ukrainian war started in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. Nice try blaming it on Biden, as if all wars anywhere are the fault of whomever is president of the US at the time, and completely ignoring Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Kashmir, Congo etc.which have been going on for decades, hotter or colder. The Gaza conflict, for instance, now in a truce arranged by Biden, is the fifth conflict between those two countries going back to 2008, but really going back to 1948. 

If you're hoping for a peaceful Trump 2 term, you haven't been following his stated desires to use military force to take Panama and Greenland, and invade Mexico, for starters after just two weeks. Not to mention pissing off Canada, a reliable ally for a century and biggest trading partner, and South Africa.

The current US administration professes to believe in "America First", but really that means "America Only", and they don't realize they are going to cede their position as a world power in fairly short order, as more nations join BRICS in retaliation to the trade wars Trump desires. And more nations will exploit the power vacuum 

Why does he desires this? Because he thinks the "US was the richest before 1913 when we had tariffs." Of course he only understands that we had robber barons of extreme wealth that plundered the nation in that period, while the typical American could barely feed themselves, find jobs or educate their children.

A country of 380,000,000 will not wag the dog as it has in the past. And as the US withdraws from military alliances and influences as well as trade, they cede any global goodwill the country has generated by blood and treasure since WWI.  

Thatguy2 said:

Kamala is the democrat nominee? Who voted for her. Oh yeah no one. I remember now. She stole it from Joe, who we did vote for in the primary. Now that’s the decorum of cheating and stealing. Yup she’s just like us

The delegates to the Democratic convention voted for her, just like any other nomination convention by every other party every election. The nomination wasn't stolen from Biden, it was contested and he bowed out and endorsed Harris. Biden delegates were free to vote for Harris or another person. They voted for Harris almost unanimously, simple as that. It was not illegal. Democrats were concerned over Biden's incipient memory issues, unlike the other guy, whose full-blown dementia is on daily display.

charlesn said:

OH PUH-LEEZ.... yet another "Apple is doomed" IDC estimate. Yawn. Honestly, Apple Insider, it's a disgrace that you publish this as "news" instead of "fiction." As the saying goes, if I had a penny for every fake doom headline about Apple published by IDC, I'd be a very wealthy man. Once again, when Apple actually releases its Q1 earnings in a few weeks. we will see that this is utter nonsense as we always do. 

IDC has been doing this for decades. They used to have Microsoft and Intel as major clients, so it always seemed to have a built in bias. True nowadays, I don't know.

Another issue is that the president does not have the authority to levy and collect taxes, which is what his tariff scheme does. 

Per the US Constitution, Art 1 §8 Cl 1:

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States".

It's quite amusing that Stephen Miller calls this decision a "judicial coup", given the pervasive usurpation of judicial and legislative authority by the White House and its clown cabinet. It's J6 2025 to be certain.

That wine list and canapés must be really expensive. So probably no chicken nuggets or quarter pounders.

Is it a bribe? Do we really have to answer that, given the transactional nature of the guy ("If you like me, I like you--as long as you make it worth my while, Be a shame what could happen.")?

But that ship has sailed in the minds of 49.8% of the voters. 

mike_galloway said:

Whilst the short term ups and downs of the stock market can be ignored, the bond markets and dollar depreciation cannot, unless the USA wants higher borrowing and imports costs (above the tariff increases) and a risk of loosing reserve currency status. 

Lowering interest rates and tax cuts would make this all far worse.

While I agree that daily stock fluctuations of ±10-15 points doesn't matter, a loss of 5,000 points in a month matters greatly, as it can cause companies to sell assets, cementing the loss, and it affects borrowing, investing, manufacturing, sales and employees. You're correct about the bond market and currency devaluation. Losing the US Dollar's reserve currency status is quite remote at this time, though, as there is no other currency that can take it's place for a variety of reasons.

9secondkox2 said:

JonG said:

jesusfreak said:

Perfectly safe in jolly ol England.  No one is allowed to have firearms there.

Oh yeah, car thieves are so well known for obeying the law.

One reason why banning guns never works. It ensures only the criminals have them. 

Australia and Germany disagree with you (US has 33 times the gun death rate of Australia, and 77 times the rate in Germany, both of which severely restrict gun ownership. Singapore effectively bans guns and has essentially a 0% gun death rate. Data standardized per 100,000 population.

You can't seriously believe "it never works". That's positively trollish. I'm also a gun owner.