Comment At Least China Won't (Score 1) 402
confiscate your laptop like the U.S. does at the border.
confiscate your laptop like the U.S. does at the border.
If the quality is anything like the rest of the crap being made in the USA now, you better stay away from those models.
No one is "winning" the battle against cancer in general.
The cancer rate is increasing, not decreasing, despite all of the money spent and gone over the past 50 years.
Were killing ourselves by consumption and exposure to unnatural and unnecessary chemicals produced by a highly profitable chemical cartel.
Look, even the mammogram industry (doctors, hospitals and manufacturers) has programed the public with the myth that mammograms saves lives.
After ten years of study, it's been shown to not be true.
More people are diagnosed, but no more people die.
Mammograms are painful and a waste of time and money in many cases, but the almighty dollar is mightier than the truth.
And breast cancer rates keep going up, no matter how many ribbons people wear and money they give.
"There is a natural urge to share the things you care about deeply."
Who says? Do you have any proof of this natural urge?
"Its a shame, especially since political discourse is so very essential to a healthy society."
Who says? Do you have any proof of this? The U.S. is obsessed with political discourse to the point of being a dysfunctional society.
I'm an ex-pat who's lived outside the U.S. for twenty years (this year). It's been fascinating to watch the transformation of America from a distance over the past decade.
It's fascinating, like watching a car crash in slow motion is fascinating.
I was working on contract with the dominant Japanese phone manufacturer that supplied NTT DoCoMo. The same concept (pipe dream) was discussed then and we all knew that simultaneous translation of Japanese (insert language) would be here about the same time we all get our flying cars.
Anyone who speaks Japanese knows the Grand Canyon-esque gap in context and meaning between spoken, informal Japanese and slang and idiom-ridden English.
You are leaping to some wrong conclusions.
I do not live in the U.S.
Apple did indeed force me to update.
My iPads froze and the only function available was to download the iOS upgrade.
I had no choice.
I'm in Japan and the new Apple maps does not support addresses in Japan. There is no way to use any bookmarked locations with the new app.
I have used Apple and Windows products for over 20 years. I liked my Apple Macbook and use iPads in one of my businesses. We deliver using the iPad maps app and maintained a history using the previous app.
Imagine losing all that data? That's what Apple did to me with this unannounced change. They put their own selfish agenda above their customers. They could have easily brought back the old app.
Bastards. I'm tired of both Apple and Windows forcing me to use devices and applications only the way they decide I should use them.
How about calling them what they are: corn syrupy drinks?
Give the best workers promotions and raises so they become the bosses of the slackers. Fire the slackers and hire non-slackers.
I know that seems mean and insensitive to Americans today, but it works in my business. I'm running a business, not a group therapy hug-a-thon.
America is headed into an abyss of economic pain next year and there will be plenty of people getting laid off. There will be far more people than jobs, so the slackers better get their heads out of their asses, because they're going to be out on their asses soon.
And I'm one of them.
I bought iPads for my business mainly to use the maps feature for home delivery of our products. All of my data saved for customers is gone!.
The new maps are incomplete and utter crap. I'm in Japan and in Japan, we read and write Japanese. The new maps are in written using western alphabet and not kanji! Only an idiot company would piss off millions of (soon-to-be-previous) customers like this. Half of the countries on the planet now have no working maps function.
I've gone from being an Apple fan, who bought Apple for 20 years, to someone who will never, EVER, buy another Apple product.
There is a system in Japan where we get a flash of information on TV even before we feel a strong earthquake. I had a few seconds to brace before many of the hundreds of aftershocks after the large 9 Magnitude quake last March 11. Obviously, the warning time depends on how far you are from the epicenter.
"If you don't stop stalking and harassing me, I'm calling the police!"
"We are the police."
It's ironic that almost the exact same percentage of Americans sponge off, uh, work for the government or are paid as a contractor or supplier to the government.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce