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  • US could hit Russia with export rule that killed Huawei, banning US tech

    hydrogen said:
    Deprive Russians from iPhones is inhuman !

    So the U.S. is considering weaponizing its biggest and best corporation.  What could possibly go wrong?
    byronl9secondkox2
  • US could hit Russia with export rule that killed Huawei, banning US tech

    tmay said:
    ... Stupid.   Very, very stupid.
    The post above is chock full of misinformation.
    Given the many times that I have countered George since he has been here, I'll spare you the details. Do your own searches on the details.
    It's actually entertaining whenever GBM speaks. I always wonder how he's going to defend brutal dictatorships, and he always manages. I would like to have seen him defend the dictatorships back around 1940.

    I wish websites like this would have a way we could block certain users from being seen by us. I know a few people would block me, but I think GBM would take top spot.

    I don;t defend "brutal dictatorships".
    But I do object to instigating totally unnecessary wars.

    All we have to do is guarantee that NATO will not threaten Russia by moving into (another of) its neighbor(s).
    But, we instead favor war.   Economic war (at least for us).  But still, war.

    Who is going to pay for this war of ours?   As usual, it will be us.

    But, I am sorry if the truth does not support your war mongering imperialism.  Perhaps it is YOU that should be blocked?
    byronl9secondkox2
  • US could hit Russia with export rule that killed Huawei, banning US tech

    emoeller said:
    Putin is maniacal and not easily dissuaded.   If both iOS and Android were cut off that would be devastating as the home grown mobile OS that Russia is using is terrible.   Along with other sanctions it would cripple the Russian economy.

    Putin is far from maniacal.   He is calculating.  Coldly, calculating for what is best for his country.

    In 2014 Hillary promised Ukraine a NATO membership if they left the Russian fold.
    NATO and its missiles, fighter planes, bombers, tanks, etc... on Russia's border are a direct threat to Russia -- just as they were to us in 1960 when Russia started moving them into Cuba.
    How did Putin respond to Hillary's foolishness?  By making sure she was not elected president.  And, we didn't hear anymore about NATO in Ukraine till Biden took office.

    How did Russia respond to all of that?
    Russia wanted ALL Ukrainians to have a vote - so they supported the Minsk agreement.  But western Ukraine blocked it (after agreeing to it) -- so only western Ukrainians got to vote -- and they are voting to let in NATO missiles next door to Russia.   Russia is understandably worried about that -- just as we were when missiles were shipped to Cuba in 1960 when we said:  Either remove them or there WILL BE WAR!

    The west knows better than to face Russia militarily.  So it is taking the Trump route with "sanctions".
    But, like with Trump's.  It is us who will pay the price. Oil prices are already headed up to $100.

    Meanwhile, we've been throwing economic warfare around since 2016 and those we are targeting are beginning to take action to defend themselves.  That will weaken us even further.  Actually, a LOT further when the dollar and U.S. financial systems are no longer the world standard.

    The losers in this cock fight will be, once again, us, the people.
    All we have to do is commit to never letting NATO into Ukraine and this nonsense would be at an end.  We would lose nothing and the world would gain peace.
    But no.  Instead we're starting an economic war.
    ... Stupid.   Very, very stupid.

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  • Apple VP of health talks about the company's responsibility to keep users healthy

    The headline -- about "Apple's responsibility" for its customer's health raises interesting questions:

    I have seen that question debated in medical forums:  namely: what responsibility do physicians and healthcare organizations have for their patient's health?  
    When a fat person comes in with metabolic syndrome -- big belly combined with hypertension and diabetes -- what responsibility does our (so called) healthcare system have to correcting the cause of his disease (too many BigMacs and video games) -- or does its responsibility end with merely treating the effects and symptoms of that lifestyle by prescribing more pills & procedures?

    Unlike Apple, it seems that most physicians agree that their job ends with the pills & procedures.  And, it is the patient's responsibility to seek health through a healthy lifestyle.  But, few patients know what a healthy lifestyle is or how to achieve it -- so nothing happens.  Their doctor's pills keep them alive but never cure them of the chronic diseases they suffer from.
    FileMakerFellercgWerksmuthuk_vanalingam
  • Apple VP of health talks about the company's responsibility to keep users healthy

    Apple continues to walk that narrow line between our healthcare system (which is really a DiseaseManagement system) and actual healhcare -- which requires a healthy lifestyle of diet, exercise, stress reduction and sleep.

    But, while because of things like the FDA, it is necessary to walk that fine line, it dilutes Apple's real push for healthy lifestyles -- which our DiseaseMangement system marginalizes because they can't make money from either dead people or healthy people.   So THEIR goal is to keep us sick, but alive.
    ...  That is, of course, working against Apple's push to health.

    That is:  Apple is trying to get us healthy but has to work with a system trying to keep us sick.
    FileMakerFellercgWerksmuthuk_vanalingam