Grow up, smarten up, and learn to live like an intelligent human being intead of some ignorant ass racist
I agree with your sentiment yet nothing in his post implies race. There is a move by some to have "illegal" classified as a pejorative. It's a legal status, nothing more; Unless you're projecting your bias.
Who wants a watch that only works with an iPhone?
Duh, iPhone users
If you don't like the iPhone 7 will you really ditch your $1k smart watch just so you can switch to a better phone?
Just to interject politics where they don't belong, you're saying "If you like your iPhone, you can keep your iPhone?"
The Apple Store for Education does, however, suggest they market directly at students.
The App Store/iTunes sells games, movies, and books, even more people are fond of those than students. Students also don't have lots of disposable money, if you're following the student debt crisis. The vast majority of spending is on entertainment, ~90% of Google's store revenue in 2014 was games, I'd imagine entertainment vastly dwarfs education on the Apple platform.
Particularly since the new MacBook is sold to students at a discount.
Implying only the new ones, or MacBooks are discounted? Nearly all mac products are discounted if you're involved in education.
They're not unique in offering discounts, nor is this a new trend - what people learn with is very important when becoming a professional. Additionally, how do you explain all the Apple devices in movies? They're not used by students exclusively there either. It's a fashion statement, which applies to significantly larger monied demographics.
30 years ago (1998)
Are these dog years?
The full quote is Voltaire's, "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
This quote belongs to Evelyn Beatrice Hall from a work published over a century after his death.
In her biography on Voltaire, Hall wrote the phrase: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" (which is often misattributed to Voltaire himself) as an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs.[2] Hall's quotation is often cited to describe the principle of freedom of speech.
You're honestly equating helping slaves escape with tax-dodging?
They were property after all, I think he'd be more concerned about the use tax tbh. No sympathy for the law breaker after all.
His position is absolute. Would you prefer a godwin? This isn't Social Justice it's the argument that law breaking is immoral no matter what the law. Do you seriously not see the fallacy with equating laws with morality? It implies following laws makes one "good", no matter what the law. The law is the law after all! It became a moral argument when the word wrong was used, instead of against policy, or illegal. It's the same rhetorical trickery used by Politicians and other slithery characters.
The teller was wrong
It's a good thing Slavery isn't still practiced. Law breaking isn't immoral.
Its not the regulations killing materials costs.
I didn't claim that, my comment about regulations was specific to software. My argument was they charge the prices they do because they can. Costs are passed on. Look at how much insurance charges.
Materials is a self inflicted wound. multiple hospitals tried to get better pricing by forming GPO companies. A good idea, but somewhere down the line the majority of them wound up in just a few dozen GPOs. Many of those merged and talked them in to long term contracts. Like 99 year contracts.
Interesting. Since I'm a cowboy today, why can't these organizations reorg and shirk their contracts? Probably not worth it because the vast majority of overhead typically incurred by an organization is the personnel.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
