Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 106
...and continue making profits, which is the most important thing!
...and continue making profits, which is the most important thing!
...all hell would break loose.
We would be hearing [from media houses], how the country is just a gas station; how their tech is subpar; how the country has lost direction under Putin... What else?
[...] The group, in a 15-page complaint, alleges the platforms for Starbucks' mobile app and digital payment cards are akin to an "involuntary subscription." Customers can only reload money in $5 increments, with a $10 minimum purchase.
How about having Starbucks pay interest on any balance that cannot be spent on any of their cheapest products?
For instance, if I have a $2 balance yet their cheapest product costs $2.01, then I should get interest on that $0.01 automatically.
Sounds logical to me!
From the article...
Apple said that future changes could also affect how the company charges developers for access to its platforms; how it manages distribution of apps outside of the App Store; and “how, and to what extent, it allows developers to communicate with consumers inside the App Store regarding alternative purchasing mechanisms.”
Emphasis/bold/italic mine...
Apple know these changes are coming and will affect them in the mentioned ways. Why be vague? Is it a trend? Main steam media houses have also employed such language especially in Ukraine's battle with Russia..."could" becomes part of the lexicon...What am I missing?
Since the false arrest of Robert Williams near Detroit in 2020, multiple instances have surfaced in the US of arrests after a face recognition model wrongly identified a person. Alonzo Sawyer, whose ordeal became known this spring, spent nine days in prison for a crime he didn't commit. The lack of face recognition training at the FBI came to light in a GAO report examining the protections in place when federal law enforcement uses the technology.
[Bold/Italic mine]
Can someone tell me what we in these US of A still do very well, and can be proud of?
...court declined to go into any more detail about the incident, but said that as it "continues to analyze and mitigate the impact of this incident...
Blame Russia. That's it.
...when it comes to Google's search business or Microsoft's office suite and its closed but changing file formats.
These folks really think we're fools, right?
I just don't understand why Telegram developers won't make its font size customizable...
...and the first specification of PDF, the language of documents. Today, both technologies predominate in their respective use cases.
I have always wondered why Microsoft's XPS format for documents never got its Internet Explorer moment - a moment where it became the "default" for lack of a better word, even for a few years!
We prevented them from using Salesforce and people are considering that a PUNISHMENT? What a strange world.
What would you call it, dude?
"Personal information was processed for the purposes of advertising when in this case that is not allowed,"
I have a solution for FB:
Just advise users that *not* giving Facebook the wherewithal to use data for advertising will limit functionality or degrade the user's experience.
Most will simply agree, for Facebook has got what every company wishes it had - Numbers.
"...We will not hesitate to use the Entity List and our other regulatory and enforcement tools to protect U.S. national security."
Russia is doing just fine with the most serious sanctions regime meted against any country in history. So will China in my opinion.
BTW, Russia was supposed to have run out of resources to "bankroll" its war operations by [end of] April last year - hasn't happened, huh!
Frankly, this "sanctions" business from the "mighty" USA, is becoming stale. China will simply ignore.
A vehicle from this well known American car brand refused to move by failing [or refusing] to disengage the brake because "software " determined the driver had not pressed the brake pedal!
Needless to say, I will avoid such vehicles for as long as I can.
Well, how does one explain how whole developed countries can agree to "shooting themselves in the foot" by supporting measures that guarantee high inflation, anger from citizenry due to the high cost of everything; blindness to how the world hegemon is playing them to "his own benefit" by supporting sanctions.
The same world hegemon has done even worse in the past; responsible for chaos, loss of life and mayhem in many lands; not to mention the frivolous reasons fronted for the senseless wars...I could go on for hours...
What's wrong with these governments, I wonder!!
...It's been operating on the red since...
Dude, what's your point? How about the USA that spent close to $3 trillion dollars (much of it borrowed BTW), on a senseless war spanning 2 decades - only to surrender to "barefooted" warriors they set out to fight in the first place!! And to your point: ALL mass transit systems in the USA operate at a LOSS. 100% of them!! Let me advise you of AMTRAK - losses for years! Huh!!
...It makes no financial sense...
This line of thinking is described in the video. Folks especially in the west being myopic - thinking not beyond the next election cycle...
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
