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thinkman@chartermi.net said:
"Gutted MacPro"……new one coming in 2019 for certain!

“After 2018” is not “in 2019 for certain.”

"Gutted Mac Mini"……no one outside of Apple knows the future of the Mini, but I've read more stories about it's eventual revision.

So still gutted, since the model before the current one had better performance and wasn’t completely fucking sealed up.

"Gutted Displays"……except they have at least one new one coming out with the MacPro

I doubt that, never mind the quality issues of the unibody Cinema Displays… Hey, does anyone know what the “lifespan” of one of these displays is supposed to be?

not to mention the fact that there are many great 4 & 5k displays that are compatible, excellent quality, and often a real bargain!

I’m actually thinking of getting one of those 21:9 displays. LG will have a 21:9 “retina” next year. It’s too rich for my blood, but I doubt I need the pixels anyway.

the guts to come out as gay.

I won’t say another word on the subject here, but it has absolutely fucking nothing to do with “guts” and doesn’t relate to the discussion.

Rayz2016 said:
Really? What people says about Apple products is tied to your self-esteem? How does that work?

Let me tell you a little story about modern liberalism…

patchythepirate said:
Thanks, it really is strange just how difficult it is for Apple to understand the basic needs and functional dynamics of online social engagement.

Can you give your thoughts on what Apple could actually do in this sector that is worthwhile at all? Why does music need “social networking”, and why did Ping fail? DOES ANYONE EVEN REMEMBER PING?

dysamoria said:
...humane and ethical positions, just because they anger the status quo socially conservative/hostile corporatists?...

What part of the status quo is supposed to be conservative, exactly? Or are you claiming that, by definition, all statuses quo (status quoi?) are “conservative”? There’s not a damn thing that fits the definition of the word conservative in globalist corporatocracy, but they sure as hell are angered by (and are hostile to) true environmentalist efforts, for example.

Such people are on the wrong side of history... repeatedly.

It’s cute that you think that’s an argument. I’m not even commenting on whatever it is you’re saying. I take no side on whatever issue this is. I just know that you’re objectively wrong because you think that your statement is relevant or true.

If they think social equity is a threat to capitalism, they're likely doing capitalism wrongly and are part of the problem.

I’ll pull this sentence out of context and agree with it out of context.

I don't like anything he's doing with Apple's business. I don't care about stock market gambling or profit margins. As a customer of their product, I only care about the quality of the product and it is not where it was years ago. I think Cook is driving Apple into a path of deep self-injury by focusing all efforts on feeding shareholder lust / Wall Street pathology. I'm not in any position to benefit from Cook's social politics; I just respect him using his position to promote humanitarian and ethical ideologies, rather than being callously "neutral" like most corporations.

lkrupp said:

The flood gates have opened with the completion of the AT&T/Time Warner acquisition. First it was Net Neutrality, now this. Will the “government should protect me and regulate everything” movement wring their hands in paranoid angst, waiting till they can’t get to moveon.org because an evil empire has blocked them?

Normally I agree with you, but we only have six media companies and they’re all run by the same people. They have to be broken up and utterly destroyed. The same goes for the 10 food companies and even some of the tech giants. Well, one of them. Make the industry diverse again. This is seven years ago, and further consolidation has happened since then. I can’t find the full resolution anywhere anymore.

rob53 said:
The New T-Mobile is planning on spending $40B on supposed upgrades.

Ha. Only 100 million at best. Even commie HuffPo knows that telecoms won’t ever pay a damn thing.

foregoneconclusion said:

Negative inflation = weak economy.

Nonsense. Maintaining–and even growing–purchasing power is in no way weak.


Never mind the underlying concept “driving” the market–fiat currency. Every single fiat currency in surviving recorded human history has collapsed to its objective market value–absolutely nothing whatsoever–in historically short order. The number of fiat currencies to do so is 500. Sorry, 500 currencies whose name starts with A. Just the As. Not even the most common letter.

Fiat currency has no value.
Currency is a claim check to money.
Money, as a physical object, is a store of value, and as such must be nigh immutable.
Value is the application of wealth.
Wealth is a person’s time and effort.

Fiat currency is created out of thin air. This is the foundation of all Western banks (et. al.). Need more economy? Print more currency! Rather, type some extra zeroes into a computer and more currency is created. This devalues every single dollar already in existence. Banks are allowed to do this through the system of fractional reserve, whereby they are only required to keep a portion of all deposits on hand at any given time. Depending on the account type, this fraction is between 0% and 10%. The bank is allowed to loan out the rest, at interest. And count that currency TWICE in their books–once as “your”****** “deposit”, and once for the loan. The person with the loan uses the fake, newly-created currency to go buy something, and the third person deposits it in the bank. THE BANK MAY THEN LOAN THAT CURRENCY OUT AGAIN, WITH ONLY A FRACTION OF IT KEPT IN RESERVE. CREATING YET ANOTHER SUM OF CURRENCY OUT OF THIN AIR.

And that’s just the SMALL banks. Since the Federal Reserve is a private corporation, it LENDS the US government its currency, AT INTEREST, in exchange for treasury bonds. Every single dollar in existence has more than a dollar of debt behind it. There is no such thing as a “debt ceiling” or an ability to repay any government debts. These concepts definitionally do not exist. It is physically impossible to repay the debt, ever, by the definition of the word. 

This is the problem with our economy. This is what will cause the Second Great Depression. This is the system that will make post-WWII Hungary’s hyperinflation look like the daily fluctuation in the price of a gallon of milk. Tens of millions will die. YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT’S WRONG SO THAT YOU CAN KILL ANYONE WHO TRIES TO PROPOSE IT AGAIN. 

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
– Henry Ford

The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the Revolution.
– Benjamin Franklin

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.
– Woodrow Wilson

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce, and when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
– President James A. Garfield

Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you; and when you lost you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves.
– Andrew Jackson

Here are the simple facts of the great betrayal. Wilson and House knew that they were doing something momentous. One cannot fathom men’s motives, and this pair probably what they were up to. What they did not believe in was representative government. They believed in government by an uncontrolled oligarchy whose acts would only become apparent after an interval so long that the electorate would be forever incapable of doing anything efficient to remedy depredations.
– Ezra Pound

******”Your” is in quotes because you don’t even own your physical currency. All currency is the property of the Federal Reserve. Not only does it have no intrinsic value and is not backed by anything, it’s not even yours.

spice-boy said:

Despite what the libertarians claim here The Federal Reserve came about after a century of boom and bust and financial disasters involving banks.

Fun fact: You have no idea what you’re talking about. Not only am I not a libertarian, your own vaunted Fed admits to causing the Great Depression. What boom/busts were not created by private banks before the Fed? Oh, remember when the Second Bank got terrified of Andrew Jackson and purposely crashed the US housing market? I do.

...why the FR was needed in 1913…

It wasn’t.

...and more than ever is needed in 2018.

Hopefully you don’t starve when the Second Great Depression hits. Not insulting at all; I seriously just hope you learn from this nonsense.

...overlooking the banks…

I’m directly addressing the banks as the cause of this problem, though. You realize that inflation before the Reserve was -0.2%? Negative. From the founding of the country to 1913. And when the Reserve finally got what they wanted in 1971? Fucking asymptotic.