tallest skil

50 billion dollar fine. Now. Why? For human rights violations. Let’s try to catalog the meaningful ones.

The United Nations. Putting aside how much of an enemy to humanity itself the United Nations is, it does have some interesting documentation. One of these documents recognizes (which generally means fuck all for a government in practice, but hey) the human right to privacy.

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

The United States. The Constitution implicitly grants a right to privacy in the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th amendments. “BUT THAT’S ONLY THE GOVERNMENT!” the leftists will scream. Ah, but which multinational corporation receives FUNDING FROM MULTIPLE GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD? I wonder…

India. The Indian constitution implicitly grants the right to privacy under Article 21, and affirmed in Kharak Singh v. State of U.P.[lxxi]

It held that “an unauthorized intrusion into a person’s home and the disturbance caused to him thereby, is as it were the violation of a common law right of a man -an ultimate essential of ordered liberty, if not of the very concept of civilization”

China. LOL, just wanted to have a laugh today.

EU. Do you guys even recognize the general right to privacy? I see an act for a “digital right to privacy” including “anonymization on request” (like, the deletion of stuff from a website), but you clearly don’t honor that. Would I have to look at each constituent country’s own laws to see if they include a general right to privacy? 

danwells said:

insert from the front, hot-swappable, but proprietary. That would be such a classic Apple move

Emphasis on classic, as the last product Apple sold that had a hot-swappable drive (much less a port on the front) was the XServe. In 2010.

There has not been a Mac that will take a standard PC GPU in a very long time (the cheesegrater never would since it needed odd EFI firmware, even though the slots were standard).

All GPUs that have drivers work beautifully in OS X and Windows on the old Mac Pro. The only thing you don’t get with an off-the-shelf card is a visible EFI boot screen, and you can just run that blind. Wait for the boot sound, hold Option for 20 seconds to let my drives spin up, right arrow, right arrow, Return. Boom. I’m in Windows instead of OS X, but I have a GTX 980 instead of a stock card.

NY1822 said:

how close does everyone here live to an apple store....curious 

2.5 hours.

lmac said:

If Apple times its product launches right, the new Air will be ready for Back to School.

School has already started, so no.

kingofsomewherehot said:

B.S.

Batteries are lifespan-limited... they NEED to be able to be replaced.

Like, you know, just buy a new computer. Why can’t you, like, just afford a new computer every three years?

SpamSandwich said:

Because it will be prohibitively expensive to drive a vehicle due to insurance rates

And whose fault is that? It’s already prohibitively expensive to buy a suppressor (never mind the unconstitutional extra tariffs and registrations for one). And why might that be?

and because the perception may as well be that one is an anti-social psychopath who wants to kill people instead of take a fast and safe ride in an autopiloted vehicle like all the other 'good people'.

“You don’t really need that larger magazine, anyway.”