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Quote: Originally Posted by ChiA Are you serious? The national minimum wage in Greece is 684 euros a month, 20GB of iCloud storage is 1 euro a month, 200 GB is 4 euros a month, 0.6% percent of that minimum wage. I suspect a Greek needing …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hagar Nobody knows how Homekit actually works, what the hardware requirements are and which devices will be compatible. Actually, that's not really true. If you get access to the MFi program, you'll know how Ho…
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I think Apple is doing this exactly as they should. I've done some tinkering with home automation, and I'm all too aware of security risks. If it brings money in slower, so be it. The last thing we'd want is some huge scandal because some third pa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Fred1 It's only about the fact that with the capital controls Greeks cannot pay anyone of any kind outside of Greece and cannot use their credit cards outside of Greece. Very true, not to mention that those users…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cash907 Also interesting RE: NyTimes' hit piece on Amazon, it couldn't have anything to do with Amazon releasing their sales figures and completely debunking NYT's statement regarding its refusal to list Ted Cruz's…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton The court will appoint Michael Bromwich, who will find nothing improper going on at Amazon, praise Jeff Bezos for creating competition with that nasty, nasty Apple, and return home after a light meal…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Ad-hom right off the bat, nice! ---> Ad hominem? No. Ad hominem would be if I left only one negative interpretation. I gave a range of possible reasons, one of which being me being possibly wrong, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley I'd take universal health care over a couple of moon rocks any day of the week. But hey, you throw away your billions any way you want. Actually, you probably won't get one without the other, at least at…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Ah, irony. K. Nah, let’s not say that, as it’s not what I said. Your lack of comprehension is independent of any discussion. That would make sense, given that you lack those things. It would stand…
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Quote: Originally Posted by qvak HOLY CRAP, AN ACTUAL MOON LANDING CONSPIRACY THEORIST! I thought your existence was just a conspiracy theory. Well, considering I'm an engineer working in nuclear I'd say my opinion would hold a bit …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil No, we haven’t. Not by our choice. On this topic? Your general lack of comprehension thereof, really. "Not by our choice" you seem singularly unaware of how the world works, or very unwilling to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Nothing? Except perhaps that some do sound uneducated and childish? The problem being that those who sound so.... is a subject of debate. In my own opinion, the ones who have been calling the oth…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dasanman69 Is it any hotter, and more humid than it gets in NYC during the summer? From what I understand you can afford it: go and have a look for yourself! It's a nice city to visit
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Quote: Originally Posted by spheric Wow. That site is...insidious. You do realise that it's entirely editorialising, right? They're construing a correlation and simply claiming that it was immigration, and putting off all other explanat…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Nope, that would be the socialist practices put into place in the last 70 years. You might want to try educating yourself on a topic before speaking on it. Actually, that would be the right-wing pra…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Elijahg Yes, but the economic output of an individual Greek is half what an American is, so the numbers arent as far apart as you think. It's the socialist ideals that aren't working, as usual. It never does work. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil So as long as no humans of any political inclination are allowed to involve themselves in any way, socialism works pretty well. I think that’s the best description of the process that I’ve ever seen.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich Some interesting points, however part of that enormous US debt also includes money loaned to Greece. Germany is, of course, the biggest lender. Yes, I totally concur with your argument here. The comp…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Why not? Let the banks fail in 2008 and you get everything that is happening now, but happening then. I imagine there would be at least SOME recovery from a real collapse after 7 years, unlike what has…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][ It's called accountability, and yes, people are accountable and responsible for the choices that they make in life. Operating word being "they". You as a person owe 140k dollars in US debt, where the…