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AirTag tracking busts rich kid stealing presidential campaign yard signs
Interesting. Remember that in some states, conviction for a felony offense results in a lifetime of revoked voting rights.
In 2020, I saw more Republicans Against Trump signs than either Biden or Trump signs. Suspect that if GOP convention in 2020 had chosen someone other than Trump (which they could have legally done), Biden would not have won both the Popular and Electoral vote. In both 2016 and 2020, Trump lost the popular vote. In 2020, Trump lost both the popular and the electoral vote. Trump helped Biden BIGLY! I'd argue that nobody helped Biden get elected more than Trump. -
M1 iMacs failing with dark horizontal lines on screen
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Tim Cook sells Apple stock worth in excess of $50 million
Doesn't seem too much for a company that has a market capitalization around $3.431 TRILLION.
Compared to Microsoft at $3.096 trillion, HP Inc. at $34.31 billion, or IBM at $205.2 billion .
If you own an S&P 500 index ETF, Apple is likely the largest percentage of the fund.
AAPL is likely 7% of the fund, with MSFT around 6.5% and NVDA around 6.1%.
Saudi Aramco market cap. is around $1.744 trillion (or about SAR 6.5 trillion}.
Most chief executives periodically sell large chunks of stock.
Decades ago, Bill Gates owned a much larger percentage of Microsoft stock (than currently).
Gates owned 45% in 1986, but 1.34% in 2019 (shortly before retirement).
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macOS Sequoia causing issues with third-party security tools and web browsers
While I have Firefox as a secondary browser, and a Chromebook as a backup machine, if a given site doesn't work with Safari, I usually take my business elsewhere. Rarely, I will call customer service and refuse fees to have the vendor manually key in an order or service change. Sometimes the issue is with a third party service the vendor uses. There are "user agents" for Chrome, Edge and Firefox (and different versions of Safari) under the "Develop" tab in Safari, but often these make little difference. Sometimes, I think there is missing data on the vendor's computers that causes the actual processing problems.
My pre-retirement employer would not pay for software or software maintenance and support if web-based code did not pass initial and periodic tests against Chrome, Firefox and Safari (they did not care about Internet Explorer or Edge at the time). This was stated in their contract with the developers. They had many corporate lawyers on staff. -
Apple A16 chip is now being produced in the USA
Many other countries are also subsidizing chip foundries. Germany, Japan and Israel have major chip fab projects. Chip building for defense purposes in the US is largely funded by the Department of Defense, with small amounts from the CHIPS act.
Before high tariffs, war was less likely. Tariffs are a main cause of inflation, and contributed to the depression from 1929 onward. Of course, our prior and current presidents appear to have flunked world history, economics, diplomacy and manners. Still, I doubt there will be a major war. Russia is having a hard time with relatively small and scrappy Ukraine. China still gets a ton of business from other major powers. No president has substantially reduced imports from China. Prices would spike up, unless work was moved to lower cost Vietnam or even lower costs in parts of Africa. If Trump and Biden are right on tariffs, then Reagan thru Obama were wrong.
Reagan supported peaceful and hardworking immigrants (who by the way cut cost of US production). Immigrants have been subject to indentured servitude or slavery in the past. Immigrants are not eating cats or dogs (any more than those whose families immigrated here long ago). Only Indian Tribe descendants are true natives, and they appear to have originated from elsewhere long ago. Remember it is illegal to eat beef in most of India (cows are considered Holy, and it can land you in jail). Stranded US born folks have been known to eat sled dogs and even fellow explorers in the past. In dire situations, US military members have eaten dogs, cats and just about everything else.
War always costs both sides a lot of money and productivity. First targets in any wars would be roller and ball bearing plants, jet engine and turboprop plants, airline plants and shipbuilders. Oil and gas pipelines and refineries, along with electric and gas utilities would be targeted. Chips for defense use are likely stockpiled in some secure location (along with medical and pandemic supplies). We could survive without new cars, trucks, laptops, desktops, tablets and phones for a few years. Parts could be grabbed from broken equipment. Gasoline would probably be rationed, along with many foods.