Oooh, communicating in metaphor like this might rise to "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra". Count me in.

It sorta of reminded me of Diaspora in spirit, with blockchain as a bonus. Of course it was riddled with security issues and never went anywhere.

Check out the short staory "Manna" by Marshall Brain. It pretty much takes this scenario to it's endgame. It's a free online publication: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Menard's is heavily republican, and includes anti-union training in their manager courses.

On the Flipside... when fantastical gets hacked (my preferred Calendar app - and yes I have it on it's own password), you only lose only that data. The rest of your Apple account, and iCloud data is intact and safe. Personally, since I use a different variation of my password on every website, taking that same template to each app is no bother.

Are you really someone who uses the same password across the board???? yikes! It's modern times. Get 1Pass and be done with it.

This is true locally. State funding for the University of MN peaked in the 70's.

I dunno, we have one of these "shopping lifestyle centers" near us too. My impression is that is just reflects modern fattiness and laziness. Boo-hoo you have to park outside the mall and god forbid walk in a climate controlled environment to your store at the mall? NOW, you roll your fat self up to the door of each shop, waddle in and out, and drive 35 yards across the parking lot to the front of the next store you're shopping at. Repeat. Repeat. 'Murica at it's finest.

Have you Hackintoshed lately? Since the last couple versions of Clover, it's been a no brainer. My daily driver for the past two years has been a Hackintosh. Zero, I mean, zero issues. You could slap an Apple logo on it and sell it as a Mac. Rock solid. All functionality works. iMessage, Handoff, Continuation, Sleep, Bluetooth, WiFi, Ethernet, Sound. PowerNap, updates direct from the App Store. You name it. The scene has come a long way.

At least when Skynet arises, it will be cross-platform.

Econ Girl explains it for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLqStv4k06A

The promise of ADN was a "social backbone". You build the social network once, and add it to your app. They had a Twitter clone as a demonstration product (called Alpha). But the idea was, you didn't need to reinvent the wheel every time you created an app. So you sign up for ADN once. Someone invents Vine? Well, they integrate with ADN, and voila! Once you download Vine you have all your friends already there. You don't have to reinvite them and re-friend them on the latest app of the month. When you discover Instagram, well they are plugged into ADN so again your friends are already present and you don't have to find them again under a different username or whatever. That was the idea. The problem was1) They decided to go ad-free, so both developer and user accounts cost money initially. There was eventually a free tier of user accounts. 2) Outside of developers reading the spec, follow-on apps were slow in coming so for a long time, it was just a paid and ad-free alternative to Twitter. Eventually there were apps like Whisper, and Climber for example that duplicated Instagram and Vine and created private chat rooms and instant messaging like Whatsapp. The thing was, really they wanted to be an API, and no one was interested. Why share your most valuable thing, users and their data, with someone else? How do you monetize that if it's given away to everyone else on the network and to all apps? Better to build walls around the garden and sell ads. It's too bad. It had promise.

You can't have it both ways. When Obama bailed out the largest automaker with a *LOAN*, you trumpettes cried foul and pledged not to every buy anything from "Government Motors" or those greedy unions. Trump comes by and saves like half of the jobs that Carrier is sending to Mexico by *GIVING AWAY* taxpayer money and it's all "he's a genius deal maker" and "MAGA" with you folks. The hypocrisy is astounding.

tl;dr - This totally explains "Won't someone think of the children?!?!?!"

I dunno, on both my Windows 7 laptop and my older Macbook (non pro) the time estimates are both way off. It seems they both take into account what I'm doing right now and project it across the remaining wattage. If I'm surfing the web it might show 4 hours left but if I fire up Starcraft she sure ain't gonna go another 4 hours. So what's the point of showing a time? I can play about an hour of SC2 on my Win7 laptop before I get warning about needing to plug it in. Even though it could go all day with just a browser. I don't do anything super hardcore on my mac other than ios programming but I imagine it's the same. That big swing in time remaining as you change from task to task isn't at all accurate. Seems kinda opportunistic for Apple to do it now, when they are indeed having battery issues, but it's generally an idea I can support.

I was surprised to see my Honda dealer actively using them. Salesman used it as a wireless tablet in the lot to pull up specifics on different models I wanted to look at while we walked around, then when we went inside he docked it to a traditional monitor and keyboard and used it to get the paperwork going on my purchase. Only place I've seen one used, but it looked like a nice use case.