If you deleted Phone, you'd have what? A glorified iPod?

It's not as simple as that for defects in the OS. They'd need a distribution mechanism for official system patches. It's totally doable, but not in their basic system design. It may come to a future Android version though.

On 5.0 and up you can DISABLE them and then they simply wont run until you re-enable them.

So it's not a perfect solution to bloat (never being there in the first place is the perfect solution) and not even as good as a complete uninstall, but it makes their presence unobtrusive. They don't even show up in the list of apps you can run until you re-enable them from the Settings menu.

That doesn't matter. As an employee of the company the work you do for the company belongs to the company unless you have a contract that says it belongs to you and not the company.

If you have such a contract, it doesn't matter where you do the work.

Most companies will try to get you to sign a contract that says any work you do that's even remotely related to the work you do for the company belongs to the company, even if nobody at the company asked you to do it.

For some people, freedom to own your work is way more valuable than pay. If that's you, you need to negotiate a different working relationship and probably employee is not what you want.

Slide 10:

Unrecoverable Bit Error Ratio = ( number of data errors ) / ( number of bits read )

Don't worry. We'll keep the right half.

$880 Billion - $ 564 Billion = $316 Biillion, which is about $260 K per household after tax. So if you were to say it's all going to come from the top 1%, they'd be taxed at an average 64%.

You might call that "confiscatory" but it's not eating the seed corn.

Why limit your methods to the slowest one available if the problem is urgent?

I don't think it's right to call the default browser that comes with a device bloatware.

It's the default browser on a lot of Android devices though, and I think it's pretty uncommon for people to use other than the default browser on a phone or tablet.

That's more perception than reality. Aside from the possibility of getting assassinated, it hasn't shortened their life expectancy noticeably.

Stuff you might put in (or on) your wrist preventing Apple's watch from working right isn't really a problem with the watch. You did something non-standard to your skin and now you want some tech company to compensate for it?

It's not their problem; it's your problem. But it's not a very significant problem in the big picture because only a tiny percentage of people have tattoos on their wrists. Of those, a minority want one. Of those, only a few percent can afford one. We're talking a handful of people affected. Why should Apple care?

"To make our health care system efficient, the system needs to be more market oriented: a health savings account started at birth with some kind of catastrophic insurance coverage. That's the only way to make it work."

That's your response to the US spending more per capita than the UK? You're incoherent. The UK has a much more socialized system that makes them much less sensitive to cost of services than US consumers.

If you want it to cost like the UK system, design it like the UK system. THAT is at least coherent thinking.

Well, I don't really think rich people should pay for it ALL. Just a lot of it.

But let's look at that math. According to http://www.forbes.com/sites/mo...
the top 1% average in 2012 was $717,000 per household and there are roughly 1.2 million such households. Their income was therefore about $880 billion. Figures aren't in for last year but it's safe to say they're considerably higher.

The deficit last year was $564 billion. So yes, they could pay the deficit and have money to spare.
If you recognize that nobody's proposing that they do it without help from the moderately well-off, it starts looking not at all out of reach.

But paying the deficit wasn't even my point. If you want to nationalize health care, you do it with taxes. INSTEAD of the health-insurance premiums and all the nickel and your-whole-bank-account charges we pay now. Not in addition, INSTEAD.

Obama is not running.