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spheric said:

Wesley_Hilliard said:

9secondkox2 said:

ITGUYINSD said:

9secondkox2 said:

williamlondon said:

ramanpfaff said:

A professional grifter. Robbing any fool that will listen to him. Humanity has failed. 

The key here is the “fool,” without whom the entire movement would crumble.

Last I saw, a moderator here was deleting the same kind of posts for attacking politicians. but I guess it only applies to whatever side has the favorable bias. Have some consistency. 

The "side" is the same side most of the entire world sides with.  Sorry you're not on the majority side.

Not the majority on this forum. But in the country? See the recent election. 

Okay, *looks at recent election*

Total number of people in America: 340 million

People that voted for Trump in 2024: 77 million

People that voted for Trump in 2020: 74 million

People that voted for Trump in 2016: 62 million

You can't count the total population, as a bunch of those aren't even eligible to vote (due to being underage, and to systematic disenfranchisement of convicted criminals in many states). You also cannot count those who didn't vote, since NOT voting automatically means tacit agreement with whatever the outcome is. 

Total number of votes in 2024: 156 million. 

Trump got 49.4% of total votes cast. 

You absolutely can count the total populus when someone claims that the majority of the country supports a candidate.

In one sentence you mention "systematic disenfranchisement of convicted criminals in many states" and in the next you state "NOT voting automatically means tacit agreement with whatever the outcome is". Additionally, I know of a lot of people who can't vote due to age that didn't want a felon, rapist, and conman in office. How about the 3.2 million Americans whose permanent residence is Puerto Rico? How can you say that everyone of those people were in "tacit agreement" with Trump winning the election?

Do you not recall that FL changed the voting rights of previously convicted felons, but then Ron DeSantis then targeted and arrested many of those people who voted legally to scare off would-be Democratic voters in the future? I can understand why they would then not want to risk more jail time or even legal fees, and it has nothing to do with not wanting to vote.

How about the voting is set up to disenfranchise those that would not likely vote for a Republican? Things like gerrymandering to simply making voting so difficult that hard working people with families simply can't get the time to cast a vote?

Voting should be fair and balanced but it's unbalanced from the EC down. 

Wesley_Hilliard said:

Also, no, I don't wish violence on people that buy the Trump phone. lol. I just hope it's an unmitigated failure like the cybertruck. Also, there is some concern about the build quality in a device so cheap that, as Mike pointed out, faced issues before. Maybe consider wearing fire retardant gloves and pants anyway.

I wish the CyberTruck wasn't a failure. People complain about how it looks, but I never cared. I wanted it to be a truck that lived up to the originally demoed hype and simply be a good pickup truck. It was shown to be incredibly poor in every category.

I put a deposit down for one right after it was announced. I eventually got my deposit back but that was after there were talk of changes being made that I didn't like, the delays that were mounting, and seeing how Musk's antics were escalating. I do feel bad for CyberTruck owners that thought they were getting a quality vehicle in the 6 figure range, especially since the Musk we saw during the demo 5.5 years ago is not the same Musk we saw this past year.

By contrast,  Trump has spent multiple decades fleecing customers with silly products and running fake charities and fake schools, failed casinos used only to launder money. Even without getting into all the specific grifting, sexual assault/rape, being besties with Epstein, ignoring the constitution, and the litany of other crimes he's committed, the people that will buy this phone have had this info and simply don't care, so for them I don't care if they get screwed by this phone being another grift the way that guy was upset that the expensive Trump watch he bought for his wife was a cheap Chinese knockoff that said RUMP.

Mork said:

Alert:

I read many years ago that after WWII, Japan started copying some western items.
One was the Parker pen.
They cunningly named it the P.arker Pen and manufactured it in a small town they renamed Usa thereby circumventing any international copyright laws by stating it was the P.arker Pen made in USA.
They played their trump card.

I've found a couple things that mention trademark imports and one mentions Japan, but I'm coming short with slight derivation of the name and the town name.

https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3461&context=wlr
https://jbipl.pubpub.org/pub/v8otyici/release/1

Wesley_Hilliard said:

williamlondon said:

Wesley_Hilliard said:

If you find yourself disagreeing with the same user over and over to the point arguments break out, might I recommend the ignore function.

1. Click the user's name in a post to access their profile.
2. Click the little person icon in the top right of the profile page.

3. Click ignore.
4. Never see their posts again and have peace.
5. Manage ignored users or add more via your profile settings.

It’s a bit offensive you keep posting this, plus it does nothing to hide the responses, which are ALWAYS there, many from the “just as bad as trolls”-hyper argumentative types that won’t let a comment just pass by. The types that are indeed warranted to go on Ignore are not here in good faith, are not here to engage in interesting tech conversations, but rather to foment unrest and garner a bunch of attention for themselves by making childish, juvenile, offensive and inflammatory comments, something a productive discussion forum with adult members shouldn’t have to tolerate.

MacRumors years ago decided to stop enforcing their own rules and decided that coddling trolls was the route forward, a bunch of us here are from that forum and that era which we (thought we) left behind and here is where we landed (happily I would add!), but things seem at times to be headed in the exact same way and your interjections are doing nothing to deny this path.

Also, the ignore function works. I tested it earlier and their posts disappeared from the thread. 

It will remove the original comment, but those comments still show up as quoted comments when someone replies to them. I think there's also a notification of a new comment in that thread when an Ignored person replies.

I don't know how it could be better from a per-user standpoint, but I do wish it was better. I do like how other forum systems hide a post that gets too many downvotes but that also allow you to unfurl inline if you so desire.

sflagel said:

I still don't understand why anyone would prefer to manage their lights, heating, and curtains in one central spot in a big house, instead of in the individual rooms where those things are located. I can understand managing them from a watch or a phone that one always carries around, but a central fixed hub? But what do I know.

It doesn't mean you can't manage them in each room, it just means that you can also manage them from a central location.

I feel that home automation is still pretty sloppy, but I do like the direction it's going. Having the home connected ultimately does lead to a centralized system that can more intelligently control rooms. For instance, if there are sensors that detect movement it can know to turn off lights and other items when the rooms are not in use. This can also be used to turn items on in an intelligent way. Then there's programming which will eventually be overtaken by a simply AI setup based on usage, which can vary from season to season.

One scenario may be that you're returning home after being gone for 2 weeks. You had already told the system to go into Vacation mode. This mot only turned off your water heater, turned of the water main, and didn't run the heat in your home unless the house got below a certain temp. Your coming home fairly late after this trip so your driveway/walkway lights have already turned off for the evening, but the system knows you are now close by so it turns these on without you having to tell it to. It also reenabled the main water shutoff valve, started the recirc on your tankless water heater, and put the house to the appropriate temp, opened the garage door when you pulled up, and of course turned on necessary lights inside.

These are things that are doable today and have been for years all while still being able to control them yourself in every room.

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I won't know if Apple's offering will be right for me, but I do look forward to where a connected home is going and I'd like a company that does better with personal information security to handle it.