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OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

So if you play music though your Belkin adapter for an hour with the screen off, it stops suddenly forcing you to unlock your iPhone possibly while driving? That's not a good thing. This needs to be optional. Most of us don't really care if the police look at the crap on our iPhones.

Why would the music stop just because the phone locks?  

steven n. said:

The EU needs to exhort and make up laws and apply them expo-facto style to pay for their nearly backrupt social programs. With the exception of Germany, almost every country in the Union is on the brink of failure.

Does that fill you with glee?  The prospect of the gutting of social programs?   I know they offend some people ideologically.  What is it about capitalism that makes some people revel in the misery of the “losers”?

It’s all driven by hypocrisy and fear.  At best it is self righteous and ugly groupthink. I’m a feminist and firmly on the left but #MeToo is illiberal and anti-democratic.  It’s a pseudo-left McCarthyite-style witch hunt probably used to go after people to settle old scores. 

And since when does one have to approve of an artist’s values or conduct in order to buy and sell or enjoy their art?  And why only blacklisting for alleged sexual misconduct (that in at least some cases seems to include awkward passes as “assault”). 

And yes, the idea of enforced discussion moderation rubs me the wrong way too.  Why can’t people just read past text they disagree with or don’t like?  Moderation is an Orwellian term for censorship.  If this society tries to minimize government as much as possible and everyone runs around saying civil liberties are meaningless in the private sector then those liberties don’t amount to much. 

MacPro said:

jbdragon said:

If these carriers don't like Apple's terms, there's a simple answer to that. DON'T SELL THE IPHONE!!!!! Problem solved!!! Go sell the Samesung Phones. Why is this so hard. Everyone refuse to play around with Apple, Apple would in the end have to change their ways. My guess is Apple is finally taking a big enough chunk from Samesung to have a big enough effect to take notice.

I's suspect you hit the nail on the head.

How is that even remotely realistic?  Unless they collude, the first carrier to refuse to carry the iPhone would be marginalized and massively hemorrhage customers and revenue.  That is precisely why Apple is able to get these terms, and why government regulation is the only means to keep dominant parties from exploiting those who are compelled to do their bidding by market forces.  The proposed solution jbdragon described above could never happen, and is just political rhetoric for market fundies, and I sense this is understood even by the poster.  It's like saying "nobody's forcing you to keep that crappy job" when circumstances don't permit any other work.

Yes, we are all "free" to commit suicide.  It's some kind of denial or perhaps a bit of schadenfreude? 

I'm not conservative by any stretch of the imagination but I am sick of the mainstreaming of soft porn in TV shows.  Does anyone like the long drawn out sex scenes?  Even if you don't happen to be watching with a parent or child, they're just plain boring.  And enjoyment of gratuitous violence seems like an irresponsible whetting of dangerous appetites.  Heard about the numerous Dexter copycat murders?