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avon b7 said:

lkrupp said:

iCave said:

I'm not sure which country you are from, but looking at high quality health care and affordable education provided in most of the European Union, it bears evidence that high taxes, when used the right way, do pay social dividends.

Complete baloney. The ONLY reason the EU has the social programs it has is because the EU members have NO military budgets to speak of. Instead the EU relies on the United States to protect it from the Russian Bear, the Middle East Islamic radicals. If the U.S. pulled out militarily from the EU and NATO those countries would have no choice but to dramatically increase their military budgets and those social programs would suffer big time. For over 70 years now the U.S. has spent its treasure to keep the peace in Europe.

Now that is baloney. The absence of conflict in Europe is precisely because of the EU. 

As for external threats and U.S 'protection', simply pull out of NATO if it costs too much!

That won't happen because the U.S wants to keep its military bases in Europe. It wants to continue selling arms. It needs NATO allies. Without them (however 'small' their financial contribution) the Gulf wars would not have been possible and with so much debt, the U.S is rapidly approaching a point where it might have hardware to parade around but no be able to use in actual conflict. Wars are expensive.

I'll take a balanced welfare state over any of that.


https://www.businessinsider.com/how-nato-budget-is-funded-2018-7

You're believing the spin from the Eurocrats I'm afraid, the EU has done NOTHING to prevent conflict in Europe.
When Yugoslavia split and war broke out, including ethnic cleansing, it wasn't the EU that stopped it, it was NATO with the USA and UK at the forefront.
As for the current ongoing war in the Ukraine, that's solely due to the EU courting the Ukraine to get them to join as part of their ongoing aggressive expansionist policy. Every observer pointed out that Russia would never allow Ukraine to join, but the EU persisted.
Meanwhile there is civil unrest across Europe - weekly riots in France for months - and the rise of extremists on both left and right due to the EU's disasterous Euro policy. Economists warned back in the 90's that allowing countries with divergent economies to use a common currency would result in economic collapse, so rules were put in place to stop it. But when Eurocrats realised that Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and France would fail the test and be excluded from the Euro, they decided to ignore their own rules. As a result they set in train the sovereign debt crisis that erupted in 2009 and is still ongoing. The reason they did this was simple to trap these countries in the EU, leaving after having adopted the Euro would be nearly impossible.

The USA and Canda should consider a mutual defence pact with a smaller set of countries - the UK and France account for nearly 50% of ALL of europe's military capability. In the long term, the like of Macron in France and the Eurocrats in Brussels want to undermine NATO and rely more on an EU Army. The hilarious thing is they don't want to fund it properly, for example, Germany's armed forces reduced to a token force with most ships, aircraft, and submarines unsable due to repairs being required.

hentaiboy said:

AppleExposed said:

Now with embedded spy chip!

NO THANKS.

yojimbo007 said:

Lol... while the world is absolutely suspect of Huawei’s credibility In the security realm ... they want to sell to the The Biggest Ani-Huawei brand, Apple ...lol

The Brits are happy enough to use Huawei.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-europe-britain/britain-managing-huawei-risks-has-no-evidence-of-spying-official-idUSKCN1Q91PM

I’d say that is a simplification. 🇬🇧
The Huawei that was in EE’s 4G network is being replaced and GCHQ experts in the last few days have said their are huge security issues just down to the really poor standard of coding in Huawei’s devices. (GCHQ have a unit that scrutinises all of Huawei’s firmware.)
Huawei have even admitted to this and have promised an improvement programme.
Given the other members of the Five Eyes alliance have banned Huawei from 5G networks, I’m pretty sure the U.K. will do the same.

Given it can identify the sound from movies and tv shows as well as music, the value of Shazam’s technology will have increased in value since the EU Parliament passed the controversial Digital Patents Directive. Social media platforms will need something like this to identify possible copyright infringement on all  videos uploaded by users.

Apple users are elites. They’re the intellectual elite that thinks differently and doesn’t slavishly buy Microsoft products. It’s an elitism of free thought, appreciation of good design and guaranteed build quality. It’s not an elitism of money; though of course good design and quality control all cost.
So cheaper Apple products, so long as they uphold the company’s core principles are fine with me. 👍🏻

As regards this refresh.
The original 11” MacBook Air was considered unsuitable for many as it originally just contained a single USB port. It’s popularity exploded when Apple added more ports, ultimately it had 2 x USB 3’s and a Thunderbolt 2...
Perhaps if this refresh adds more ports to the MacBook we’ll see a similar increase in sales  🤔

This announcement isn't a surprise, Microsoft has past form of using dominance in one market to leveridge their position in another. The addition of an Edge browser will be to offer a 'superior experience' for users of Office365 which a lot of corporates are migrating to. As iOS is the premier mobile platform it makes sense for Microsoft to have both Office apps for iOS and a browser. Office is still Microsoft's biggest money earner so protecting its dominance in the enterprise is their top priority.
Of course Microsoft won't mind if by giving the best Office365 experience via Edge, rather than other browsers, lazy users start to use Edge for all their browsing needs and not just for Office...