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macplusplus said:

This has nothing to do with Jony Ive. Intel forced Apple to go minimalistic because of the generous heat it produces. Give it more enclosure it would retain more heat. Now that Intel has gone, with Apple Silicon you can make it as large as you want because the heat is minimal.

This is all sorts of wrong.

Weird and slightly underhand that Apple would do this without informing the developers.  Others claim that Apple aren’t selling apps, just providing a platform. Unsolicited advertising services goes a bit beyond a simple platform.

If true, of course.

slow n easy said:

It is very distressing how litigious the U.S. is. I just feel very strongly that we should take personal responsibility. The crash was not the fault of the car. It was the fault of the driver. I still, after all of these years, think about the woman who sued McDonald’s because she spilled hot coffee on her lap. I of course believe that people should have the right to sue, but people take it way to far. If people are trespassing on my property without my consent, they should not be allowed to sue me for example.

What you should be more distressed about is how corporate PR is so effective at damage control that it can turn a 79 year old woman who had her labia fused closed by the heat of McDonalds coffee into a self serving villain and the poster child for greedy lawsuits when all she wanted was help with her medical expenses and for McDonalds to stop serving unreasonably hot coffee that could cause third degree burns in 3 seconds.

https://www.enjuris.com/blog/resources/mcdonalds-hot-coffee-lawsuit/

What a crock.

There are still lots of Intel Mac users out there using software that runs perfectly well on Intel Macs, that is not in active development. The software is still good, and there’s no reason whatsoever to drop it.

The relentless march for the new leaves lots of casualties in its wake, and I quite like a lot of software that will never be updated for Apple Silicon. There are some apps I really liked that never got upgraded to 64 bit and I eventually left them behind, but not without regret. I imagine there was some good Power PC or Moto 68000 apps that got left behind too.  

waveparticle said:

Which country do you live? 

I've never hidden where I live, and you could find it fairly easily by browsing through this forum, but since you won't admit to being a Chinese citizen I'll be damned if I'll just voluntarily submit to your questioning of my nationality.

waveparticle said:

You do not comprehend my point on comparing western culture with Chinese culture. 

I do, I just don't agree with or respect it.

waveparticle said:

Is US Western culture? Is government formed within a culture? 

It's a western culture.  Maybe even the dominant western culture, from some perspectives.  But it is not western culture.  There's a whole lot more west than the USA.

As for whether a government is formed within culture... sure?  So what?

waveparticle said:

In US, crime rate is very different between the ethnic groups. This is the fact that cannot be talked about in US. Every crime committed by a minority, the news cannot say it is done by certain minority. The political correctness wants to make US colorless. In this sense, US does not have real free speech. When a fact cannot be reported, there is no free speech. This is why that U Michigan music professor lost his job by playing a movie that prominently showing a certain race. 

What is your explanation of the higher crime rate then? Don't use the gun. Because robbery rate is also high that California pass a law to decriminalize robbery using the $950 threshold. 

That's a whole load of stuff about the USA given that I've already said that the USA is only one country in the West, only one of many that have been formed from a Christian tradition, and many others have a much lower violent crime rate.

The stuff about political correctness and free speech is just unmitigated bullshit.  And rather nonsensical in the context of this conversation.  China does not have free speech, so why are you even bringing up free speech as a point of contention?

The USA has a higher crime rate probably for many reasons, that I'm in no way qualified to document.  I have a suspicion that the US origin myth of violent revolution for independence and freedom, and then expansion across the continent under a paranoid shadow of European colonialism may have made parts of it intrinsically violent and disrespectful of law and authority, especially on the edges, but I have no real evidence for that.  The inequality and racial division are almost certainly contributory too.  And they are talked about.  Quite a lot.

How about you say why you think the Christian tradition has anything to do with it.  Compare it with Poland or Spain, both very Catholic countries with crime rates on a level with China.  Or with Denmark or the Netherlands, countries with crime rates lower than China, and largely Christian, both Catholic and Protestant.

Or how about Japan, a country that has a not dissimilar historical values system from China, but a lower crime rate?

Maybe realise how reductive your simple, stupid explanations are?  And how transparent they are in their attempts to deflect from the subject at hand.

waveparticle said:

Xinjiang has several incidents of terrorism. CCP thought a new policy of educating Uighurs. The idea originates from Chinese culture. CCP is heavily criticized by western nations as genocide. This is conflict between two great cultures. All my arguments are based on this truth. You don't know Chinese culture. You don't have this background. This is why you and many other people always get confused. George has a very open mind. He can understand it. 

As I have said previously, including in conversations with you, I am part Chinese.  I do have this background.  And this idea doesn't originate from Chinese culture.  It is unfortunately common throughout the world and is just called fascism, or ethnic-nationalism.  The fascism of the Han and the CCP against the other peoples of China and against diverse thought.

Xinjiang has had incidents of separatist agitation, but the broader Uighur populations are not the culprits.  What is being done is a fascist crackdown on a different culture, that you excuse because "Chinese" culture (read: Han CCP) is the only one that counts.  Never mind Uighur culture of course, that doesn't deserve any consideration, because it's not "real" Chinese according to Beiijing. 

"Education" is an extremely generous description of what has been reported to be happening in Xinjiang. At the very least it doesn't address the widespread surveillance and restrictions on the entire region that have been in place for years, and at its worst is a blatant smokescreen for the incarceration, physical, emotional and sexual torture being practiced, with either the direct or tacit approval of the authorities.