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  • Apple threatens to kill iMessage & FaceTime in UK if controversial law passes

    irnchrizirnchriz
    mayfly said:
    mayfly said:
    saarek said:
    Appleish said:
    From the country that instituted Brexit against popular opinion and had an unelected leader that was only in office for a few weeks, who destroyed hundreds of billions of pounds from their economy.
    Either you’re a revisionist or you simple don’t understand how referendums work.

    The vote for Brexit was clear, the majority of the population of the United Kingdom voted for it to happen (17.4M to leave vs 16.1M to remain).

    Yes, Scotland and, to a lesser degree Northern Ireland, voted to remain. However even nearly 40% of the Scots voted to leave which is a fact that the SNP never recognises as they pretend that all of Scotland voted to remain in the EU.

    Was it the right decision? Well, I don’t think we will truly know that for at least another 10 years. None of the  prophetic doom and gloom scenarios ever got close to materialising and the country was always going to be worse off during the initial divorce stage.

    Either way the result of the decision is largely irrelevant, what is relevant is that a democratic vote was taken and was then acted upon (albeit poorly).
    This is how democracy dies. The "democratic vote" was driven by anti-immigrant and racist factions with big megaphones stoking the fires of fear and loathing in the population to the extent that they vote against their own interests.

    Democracy is not about right or wrong - it’s what the majority vote for, no matter how stupid they may be.

    The first Common Market referendum and EEC membership referendum was in 1975 , to gauge support for the country's continued membership of the European Communities (EC) 

    Yes - 17,378,581 Votes (67.23%) - No - 8,470,073 Votes (32.77%)

    So that time (1975) the people voted to stay in then in 2016 another lot of people voted out. I could argue the first lot were manipulated and deceived by fear mongering (the disaster that would occur if the UK left), but that would be unfair.

    Unfortunately this is democracy, other systems have been tried with not really any better results.

    This is NOT democracy. This is subversion of democracy in favor of extremism, nationalism and racism. And it's the the next stop on the road to authoritarianism. Which is the next stop on the road to tyranny. Which is the final stop before the end of the road: tyranny.
    A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”

    Alexander Fraser Tytler
    mayflyradarthekatAlex1N

  • It wasn't a mistake -- Apple betas are now free

    irnchrizirnchriz
    Installed the betas on my iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPad Pro M1, Apple Watch Ultra MacBook Pro M1 and Apple TV.  As far as Betas go these are pretty damn stable, likely because there's not really a lot of new stuff this year.
    darkvaderwatto_cobra

  • Publishers demand to be paid for AI using their work

    irnchrizirnchriz
    The publishers could demand that each piece of work created list the generating seed command then list all sources used then demand payment for each source.  Of course, this could end up being thousands of sources and very expensive.
    watto_cobra

  • New HomePod vs 2018 HomePod - compared

    irnchrizirnchriz
    Hope it’s better built than the first.  Popping sounds then overheating failure or the pops stop but there’s little bass because the sub fried.  I have 4 working units left that I don’t use as they all were getting hot when used as a stereo pair in ARC mode with Apple TV when any Siri functionality was left enabled.  I really should have sold them on but didn’t want the hassle when they failed for someone else.  Guess that’s how Apple felt about the 1st gen too, LOL 
    JosephAUtwokatmew

  • Developers cautiously welcome prospect of third-party app stores

    irnchrizirnchriz
    It will make it easier to load on apps like emustation for retro gaming but I’m not putting anything from Epic on my devices. Oh, and a proper gamepass app would be nice too. But what I really really hope Apple do is to support third party stores like Microsoft supports non Xbox store stuff by booting the Xbox into a sandboxed developer mode.  This would give epic etc access but it’s a ball ache for normal users to do. 😀
    williamlondonwatto_cobra