flydog

JWSC said:

Turkey provides just another example of why cryptocurrencies have a good chance of winning out over state backed currencies in the long term.  It’s not inevitable.  But cryptocurrencies can provide a safety net to common people who lack the political power to determine what’s best for themselves and their countries.

Economically incompetent state leadership typically acts in ways designed to keep themselves in power and in the good graces of powerful economic interests regardless of the consequences to the overall population.  This move by Erdogan will prove tremendously damaging to the Turkish economy and will hurt the vast majority of its own citizens.  It’s another strong argument for cryptocurrencies.  People deserve to be able to make a choice.

Yet another ridiculous argument in support of crypto as a currency replacement.

Inflation in the US has averaged less than 4% over the past 40 years, and its value relative to the Euro, Chinese Yuan, and other major currencies is practically the same as it was 40 years ago. Yet your genius plan to fix this non-existent problem is to create a "safety net" using a speculative highly-volatile asset such as crypto, which can lose half of its value in a single day. 

Get your head examined.

maximara said:

tenthousandthings said:

maximara said:

I thought this had already been decided and not granted.  What am I missing?

The first request for a stay was to the original judge. This request is to the circuit Court of Appeals. 

The original judge was unlikely to grant a stay. The appeals court is the appropriate court to grant a stay, and it seems likely it will do so. 

Except that is not what the title says: "Apple again asks Court of Appeal to stay Epic Games injunction" ie Apple previously went to the Court of Appeals and was refused.  I again ask what am I missing?

You’re not missing anything. It’s a poorly written article by someone who doesn’t understand how the law works. 

There is no new appeal or new new request for an injunction. Apple appealed the original judgement last month. Appealing a court’s judgement doesn’t prevent the judgement from taking effect so Apple asked the judge to issue a stay while the appeal played out. She denied that.  

CheeseFreeze said:

stoneyg said:

So by this logic Walmart shouldn't be able to advertise for a product they sell in stores when it's also available on the manufacturer's website, because they're making money that the manufacturer could have instead.

I seriously don't get this argument from Epic, et al.

The difference is that Walmart is not the only retailer in the world, like Apple/Google being the only large players in the space. Walmart doesn’t have world dominance. Manufacturers use dozens of retailers to sell their goods. 

Furthermore, Walmart still allows customers to engage directly with the manufacturer of the purchase (e.g toys, equipment) and in fact they rely on the manufacturers consumer warranties and support next to their own standard TOS. 

Your comparison is way off. 

Not sure what hole you pulled this "world dominance" rule from, but developers are free to develop software and market it via any platform they choose. They are not required to sell only on the App Store, Google Play Store, or any other store.  Many developers, including Epic, Spotify, and the rest of these idiots crying foul, create apps for multiple platforms and the web. 

This was litigated ad nauseum in the Epic case, and Epic lost. Time to move on. 

And you're seriously using Walmart as an example to support your ridiculous "word dominance" logic?  WTF.

Appleish said:

I know that there are a lot of use cases out there for some to need the new Intel Mac Pro, but knowing the M1 MBPs were coming, how many could have just waited.

All those Mac Pros out there can't be upgraded to Apple Silicon. What a waste. Flame away...

Under your illogical and absurd reasoning, people should would never buy anything since something better will always come along in a few years time.  

iOS_Guy80 said:

lkrupp said:

Record quarter... Wall Street not happy. Lather, rinse, repeat... ad nauseam. AAPL dropping like a rock in after hours trading. And the beat goes on.

Could be a fantastic buying opportunity in the morning.

2% is not “dropping like a rock.”