dysamoria

Why did I even come to this comment thread. I knew what I’d find: a bunch of corporate bootlicking, in the form of anti-tax, anti-government, antisociety commentary. Wannabe millionaires, siding with the abusive power structure that rules over them, because they hope to someday exploit all the same abuses to end their embarrassment at not being millionaires themselves. It’s not even just ambition; it’s admiration & downright worship of those who abuse to win. Excusing any abuse because the “success” justifies the means. It’s sociopathic.

You’re not part of the 1%. You’re not a million or billion dollar corporation. You’ll probably never be. You’ll only ever be the servant of one, if that. It’s not because you’re unskilled. It’s not that you aren’t hard-working. It’s just that skill & hard work isn’t what gets you there, no matter what American “bootstrap” propaganda and survivorship bias tells you.

The proposed changes to tax law aren’t relevant to you, nor do they hurt the 1%, because the 1% have more money than most of us could ever know what to do with (though the corporate bootlicking and anti-society rhetoric suggests you’d be happy to try to spend it all on yourself).

Get a sense of scale. Dump the “success story” idolatry. Learn to respect society more than you worship laissez-faire capitalism.

Yes, US tax law is broken, but it’s not because of efforts to get corporations to pay their fair share into the societies they leach off of and exploit. It’s because the US law willfully perpetuates those abuses and US culture actively rewards sociopathy.

AppleZulu said:

It still looks kind of like it was designed by people who would really prefer if it was just a DOS prompt.

I hate Windows & Microsoft as much as the next Mac user, but what are you talking about here?

I’ve never agreed MORE with an Apple Insider headline.

I had Windows on my first MacBook Pro, way back in the day. The reason I didn’t stick with it was the trackpad behavior was abysmal. It was inferior, by far, to Mac OS trackpad behavior, but also poor in general, which seems to be consistent with that platform, as I’ve never had a GOOD trackpad experience on Windows.

Because of Windows, I hated trackpads. Apple’s trackpads had to be extra good to convert me and now I AM a convert. I love the gestures. I only use a mouse for gaming and occasionally image editing/art (where a Wacom tablet is more often in use). My only complaint with Apple trackpad behavior is the dead spots around the periphery. I understand the motive (avoid accidental touches), but the execution is annoying. It’s still better than any mouse Apple ever designed (it’s as if they actively & consciously WORK at being bad at mice).

dbendixen said:

k2kw said:

lam92103 said:

Excellent. Tech companies have way too much power and abuse their monopolies for the detriment of the consumer

Nothing meaningful will get through a democratic Congress controlled by Tech Companies.   Zuck is probably lining up his Forward.US  allies to block this.

I had the same thought. Seems odd. At least one of those bills hurts smaller companies (at least their shareholders/owners) by preventing them from being acquired by larger rivals. 

You’re demonstrating the problem with our economy: you’ve characterized a lack of shareholder supremacy (or the obstruction of shareholder greed) as “harm to a smaller company”. From the angle of a customer, shareholders are irrelevant, yet they end up driving all company behavior, which almost always is to worsen product and services for greater share price and profit. The point of a company isn’t “to get hooks into the market and then sell it off to a bigger competitor for a quick cash-out of the Wall Street gambling den tokens”.

It’s a broken “economic theory”.

killroy said:

mcdave said:

AppleInsider said:

The Platform Competition and Opportunity Act, another part of the legislation package, would bar tech companies from acquiring rising rivals. The Augmenting Compatibility and Competition bill would make it easier for consumers to use rival tech services together and switch between those platforms.

Goodbye MS Office or Windows. Goodbye Android or Gmail. 

Is it even possible to force Apps to run on another OS?

The government is getting more brain dead every day. The Augmenting Compatibility and Competition bill should die a painful death. MS Office works on Mac and PC.
So does Open Office. There's Windows for ARM testing.

It does seem to be the one with the least realism and logic, and the most need for understanding of platforms (which we know none of these officials has). Maybe if there were actually specificities for this part...??