Apple could alleviate this problem by allowing an iOS user to download software from an approved developer. That's what they do for the Mac.

Since a phone usually has more personal information on it, they could warn the users that downloading from anywhere else other than the App Store avoids the warranty of their device, since there is a good possibility that malware was installed thereupon. That way if somebody wants to download directly from any software developer, they could do so, but at the risk of forfeiting the warranty that Apple gives on their devices.

The problem is nowadays that much software if not most of it is now subscription, in other words it is rented. Therefore in effect Apple only rents your the device.

We have decided to invest enough money in solar electricity and storage, to be independent from the grid for everything electrical other than heating or cooling. The only limitation is that there has to be at least five hours of sunshine in the day to recharge the battery and supply normal daytime use. That limitation is because of the size of the battery storage. The excess solar electricity generated is stored in the grid if available. That energy is used later for heating and/or cooling

In case the grid is off, any excess electricity generated by the solar panels is used by the water heater for showers and other domestic use if the batteries are 80%+ charged. In case the sun doesn't shine at all, there is a small RV sized generator, that charges the batteries. If the grid shuts off, which it often does in the winter, the batteries take over instantly. If it were not for an indicator light, we would not know that the grid is off until we notice that the heating/cooling system is not working. In the living room/kitchen area, there is a wood stove we can use for heat and the kitchen cookstove runs on propane gas.

You are unable to counter the fact that warmer means better for all biology. That means better food production in the now too cold places. Therefore you resort to being a grammar Nazi.

These so-called experts also attempt to forecast the weather along with climate change. They can't even all the time forecast the weather for next week. Then they tell us that climate change will happen in the next decades or so. If it does get warmer, which isn't even certain, then that will only be good, because energy use, including electricity consumption will go down in winter. Just think of the vast areas on earth right now that are too cold for human habitation or agriculture.

If we are not careful, at some point law enforcement will persuade the politicians to pass a law to make it illegal to communicate in AES256. If you are caught doing that or teaching others to speak that language, they will put you in prison. Then 10 years later the Supreme Court MAY decide that such a law was unconstitutional.

Is there anybody on earth who could be trusted with the encryption keys? As soon as two or more people know a “secret”, then it is no longer a secret.

You sound like Paul Ehrlich of the 1970s and his infamous "Population Bomb”. You need to be a little more creative with your reasons of why you want to rob the rich to give to the poor. Robbing the relatively few rich will not make the many poor much better off then they are now.

You sound like Paul Ehrlich of the 1970s and his infamous "Population Bomb" BS.

Ultimately corporations are owned by groups of people. Instead of taxing the group, why not just tax the individual people that own the corporations. Oh wait they do that. Therefore the money is taxed twice already.

If the government allowed corporations to bring their money back from overseas tax free, provided they use that for investments in the US that create jobs, what would be wrong with that?

I should have clarified that statement with the qualifier: from the perspective of those INSIDE the simulation, that simulation did not exist before the program booted. The maximum speed at which a simulation can run is limited by the clock rate and other architectural constraints of the processor. There is a maximum speed at which the simulation can happen. This simulated speed or passage of time within the simulation as it appears to the entities within the simulation is entirely up to the programmer, but will be less then the maximum. The programmer of the simulation can often choose the hardware requirements as well.

Simulating a frictionless pool table without any parameters that those inside that simulation can change is still under the control of the programmer. It would indeed be a boring simulation.

As for the speed of light in our world, we know that it is a maximum limit, but nobody has any idea why that particular limit was chosen. That was a decision the programmer made and he never told us why He chose that particular speed we observe.

Whatever those exceptions are, they are still programmed into the program. Even with exceptions, the statements I made above apply to EVERY simulation. No simulation exists until the simulation program starts executing.

Any revelation made by anyone, including the Creator of our simulation or any simulation, ultimately can only be BELIEVED or not. That is why God, the Creator of our simulation has revealed that we must come to him by FAITH alone. Whether you consider the universe to be independently real or whether it is a simulation ultimately tells you nothing about the purpose of your existence. Such a purpose can only be revealed to you, but if that is done, you can believe that revelation or refuse to believe it. In the Bible it is claimed that Jesus Christ is the Creator, the programmer of the simulation and he said, "I am the Truth, the Way and the Life..." Everyone can choose to believe that or not. It makes no difference whether you believe that this universe is indeed a simulation or whether it is independently and objectively real. Ultimately in this life, none of us can get away from faith or lack there of.

It is not necessary for our existence to be a lie. The existence of the Sims in SimCity is not a lie to them either. Their existence seems very real to them, just as real as our existence seems to us. Just like the creators of SimCity have a purpose for having created their simulation, why couldn't the Creator of our simulation not also have a purpose? In either case, that purpose could only be known if the Creator of the simulation decided to REVEAL that purpose. Anytime someone reveals something to you, the only choices you have is to either BELIEVE that revelation or not. That is why is the master programmer, God himself, has set the requirement of FAITH in order for the Sims(humans) to have a relationship with him and to learn the purpose for their existence.