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  • Apple videos encourages iPhone 11 users to make 'slofies'

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    ArcaSwiss said:
    So they come up with this absurd trick then expect people to use it?   Get lost Apple
    Agreed. Slofies, Memoji, Animoji, all just dumb.
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  • Apple sued over atrial fibrillation optical sensor in Apple Watch

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    I'm usually very skeptical of these suits, but this one might have legs.
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  • Apple's AC Wellness offering free genetic testing to employees

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    Genetic screening for disease prediction is still in its infancy. It’s way too early for general screening like this. Unless you have a reason to suspect a particular disease, I would jot do this. Heck even if I did suspect something I’d pass. It’s still way too early.
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  • Tim Cook signs letter urging the US to remain in Paris Agreement

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    JWSC said:
    DAalseth said:
    "Together, we know that driving progress on addressing climate change is what's best for the economic health, jobs, and competitiveness of our companies and our country."
    Or, to put it another way, "We've figured out a way to make money out of adopting this proposed change, so we're all for it!"
    Exactly. Despite all the doomsayers we hear out of the Alberta oil patch, the White House, and from other people with a vested interest in polluting, it is possible to run a profitable business green. The green economy is the future. People can either join in it or keep making buggy whips and whining about how their jobs are disappearing. 

    Yes, it’s too bad for the hundreds of thousands of workers who will be put out of a job because Ottawa and Quebec would rather import their oil and gas from Russia.

    The blind righteousness of the climate change crowd exemplifies “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”  When you intentionally put your own countrymen out of gainful employment in preference for an autocratic regime that will happily continue to export oil and gas for all its worth, it seems to be an Ethics 101 fail.

    Does Canada even have an energy policy that is self sustaining?

    Way to totally miss the point.
    Alberta could be a leader in solar, and wind, and geothermal, and biomass. But it won’t until it gets the idea out of its head that it is oil country only. The same goes for Texas, the same goes for most of the world. I WANT our fellow Canadians in Alberta to be prosperous, and I can see the handwriting is on the wall for oil. The trouble is that for political reasons the leaders there refuse to accept what is blindingly obvious to the rest of us.
    A century ago Canada was a world leader in asbestos production. Even after it was clear that it killed people, Canada didn’t stop production to send to third world countries, where it was killing people. It was only a few years ago that they finally closed the last mine, and the town dependant on it has not yet recovered. I fear that Alberta is going to follow the same path. Keep producing what they know, be unwilling to change, and then be crushed when the market isn’t there any more. Alberta, has a chance to make a smooth transition. Over the next decade it could eliminate oil production from the tar sands and move onto other more profitable industries. The question is do they have the foresight to do it. 
    As an old pilot told me years ago, when you have an emergency you have a choice, go down in a controlled fashion, or fight to stay in the air as long as you can and then have an uncontrolled crash. That is the choice oil producing states, provinces, and countries have. It will be those that refuse to accept that change is inevitable that will be harmed. They will be harmed by their own short sightedness, not by those of us who are telling them they are in great danger. 
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  • Tim Cook signs letter urging the US to remain in Paris Agreement

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    davgreg said:

    The time to act would have been back when a certain Apple Board member made a film about the problem...
    Or about ten years before that. Back in the ‘80s there was testimony before Congress about the issue. They all listened, thanked the scientists who spoke, and then did nothing. 
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