Yes, but if they flip 1 million watches, Apple has still sold 1 million watches.

Please step away from the 50's and 60's, the "military-industrial" complex is way to small to effect the economy. DoD spend about $600 billion a year (of which about $300 Billion is spent on salaries, benefits, etc.) and that pales in comparison to the rest of the nearly $4 Trillion federal budget and won't budget the $17 Trillion U.S. economy. In fact, even large companies are doing all they can to get away from reliance on DoD because of uncertain funding and small ball funding.

So, following your logic, the Eisenhower should never have started the interstate highway system since it wasn't part of the bare basics. Come to it, we should halt all federally funded cancer research since that's not a basic either. And Grandma can come and live with you, affording her is not a government bare basic. Neither is the EPA and all those emission controls, a round of mercury for everyone. Airline safety can be left to the airlines, auto safety to the car companies, drug safety to the drug companies. I can see the light!!!

I believe the county that San Diego is in (is it San Diego county?) has a poo processing plant. At first the residents were a bit squeamish but now seem to accept it.

Unless you pump the excise brine directly back into the ocean and kill all the life around the pump outlet. Similar thing happens with CO2. I've head the specious argument we don't have to worry because we're just recycling CO2 by burning coal, oil, and gas. Yes, that's true. However, it is important to note that all the sequestered CO2 put into the atmosphere isn't mere recycling.

As in everything, it is important to have a sense of proportion. Math is your friend.

Hmm...okay, let's remove all security with respect to airplanes. Care to fly now?

I see. So a Muslim cleric is now a trained psychiatrist who can spot an Islamic nutjob from a regular Muslim...by what, precisely? Wanting to do something the cleric wouldn't entertain himself?

So China is somehow incapable of buying the chips through a 3rd party? Maybe we could sell the Department of Commerce to China...nice regulatory agency, cheap, bit of wear around the edges and maybe a bit dated but it would fit well within China's Stupidity Index for Chinese What are Involved in Security against...errr...for the People.

Because humans also generated religious nutjobs who rather wish death becomes us.

Strangely enough, global warming is related to a decrease in the number of neurons of politicians denying the Earth is a system with interlocking parts. It is also subtlety related to the Amen Corner of American Politics where some Supreme Deity will do something only when conditions get bad enough to kill off most life rather than before when it might actually do some good.

The only sane option is mutual disarmament and it is chimera, it will never be realized because you'd have to get India and Pakistan to agree. And even if you did, Putin would keep several back and threaten the West with them. He's recently made such threats. Also, every two-bit Islamic My-Dick's-Too-Small Head-O-State would realize that with a secret program, they can break out and threaten the West with Convert or Die. Allah is a cruel, unfeeling god.

Just kidding about Allah, he's so Other that he never communicates directly with Man. I suspect he's so Other he doesn't really exist. Any angel messengers he used are really ETs that like to screw with earthlings. The Greek Guy with the electric hair has warned us about them.

Secular democracy? Present day Turkey? You must have missed the memos from Erdogan. The king of Jordan said it best, (I paraphrase): Erdogan thinks of democracy as a bus, when he reaches his destination, he's going to get off."

And currently Turkey is turning a blind eye to Daesh if not actively supporting them.

Erdogan is whore. He and his band of religious nutjobs will turn Turkey into an Islamic theocracy in 10 years with no democracy left.

To use C#, I'd have to trust MS. Never.

It might run on winders, but the bugs are not OS related. They are, however, related to the stupidity of Hospira and their software guys.

One person above raised an interesting issue, which we have all known about. If you clamp down on security, users find the system unusable. Normally, this isn't such a big deal but in medical systems it is a very big dead due to the possibility of people dying as a result...either too much or too little. Solving this problem is critical for medical systems, i.e., how do you make the security tight but flexible enough to be properly managed. People do stupid things, like lose passwords, let viruses go inside security perimeters, etc.

1. All that will happen is that CCIN will disappear and magically pop up again with a new name, different premises, different phone numbers, but with the same slimeballs in charge. The companies will whine, if they find out about it, to the Chinese government. The Chinese government will open an alleged investigation and that will be last anyone will hear the investigation. Meanwhile, the companies will again become frustrated, do to the new entity what they did to CCIN. Go to 1.