I remember reading that the Finns started playing over radio frequencies the famous polka song "Säkkijärven polkka," which was found to be extremely effective in shutting down remote controlled land mines the Red Army placed on the ground and causing casualties for several months starting around September 1941. So much so that the Finnish Army ended its jamming practice by spring 1942 as the batteries on the Soviet mines lost its charge.
In many cases we ARE paying a lot for a good education, but we're also not getting the desired outcome in many cases. I took my kids out of public school (in one of the richest school districts in the country) for similar reasons to the OP above. They spent much of their time in class being bored and actively sandbagged by their teachers. On top of that was all the contrived "woke" indoctrination nonsense. They were already getting good grades, but now they are learning significantly faster and actually enjoy the process more.
Best thing we ever did.
The labels don't give a fuck. They have never been on the side of the artists. This is just another way they'll use to game the system to keep most of the profits in the system to themselves.
The same goes for much of the "data" driving their stock mark....er....casino.
Having lived there for years as an expat and seen entire sections of cities with many thousands of newly built flats that were vacant and stayed vacant, I think it's only a matter of time before that house of cards implodes.
The "nong min" don't take kindly to the apparatchiks that have been benefiting from the egregious corruption and self dealing. It's going to be ugly when it implodes.
Fear or corruption?
This isn't some Manhattan style project, with great secrecy over methods, attracting the best and brightest.
It is a MASSIVE wealth transfer though, disregarding law and scrutiny, with some of the most dubious leading the charge.
I would rather that it was fear driving this as there would be more evaluation of how this will play out globally instead of an endless black hole to dump the nation's wealth.
I wouldn't buy anything of consequence from IBM these days. They're going down the transactional "how do I amp up the dollars extracted from you by X% per year" route rather than focusing on what their customers want/need.
It will be interesting to see how VZ positions itself as its market share erodes. These layoffs are a very temporary band-aid to their very high SG&A costs. They still operate like an old school monopolist carrier. Consumers and businesses have more choices these days and VZ is going to have to re-learn how to earn their business.
Those have worked pretty well for me. The downside is that Samsung's longer-term support is spotty, at best. It's disheartening to buy a relatively expensive tablet and then 3 years later it is no longer getting updates from Samsung even though it's perfectly fine from a hardware/speed standpoint. So I eventually just caves and started using an ipad. A little pricey, but it works and I'm not sweating the support suddenly vanishing.
Best,
While I concede that not every person on the planet has a smartphone and not every smartphone owner wants to install an app to manage their boarding pass (frequent flier details and other things as well), it is a LOT easier to manage that way if you're a frequent traveler. The only times I have used a paper boarding pass for the last 15-ish years is when I didn't want to bring my phone to my destination (i.e. China).
I'm guessing that Ryanair has done the math and decided that they don't care if the folks who prefer paper passes choose another airline. Perhaps the cost of supporting that option exceeds what they expect to lose by some people choosing another airline.
I think the Chinese government needs to severely cull the number of EV manufacturers down to four at most: BYD, SAIC, Geely Group and Chery. And give them unlimited resources to make their EV's truly world-class vehicles that comply even with the US Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
But much of what was learned from the iPhone Air will go into the iPhone 18 models arriving in March 2027. This means:
1. The back looks like iPhone 17 Pro but with only two camera sensors.
2. Larger camera plateau will mean most of the electronics will be inside the camera plateau.
3. Will use stainless steel chassis but will be a bit thinner than iPhone 16/16 Plus models from 2024.
4. Wraparound antenna will be stainless steel.
5. Will come in 6.1" and 6.6" screen sizes with just about no bezels, so the 6.1" model will be about the size of the 2017 iPhone X and the 6.6" model feels like a thicker iPhone Air.
6. Full MagSafe support including Qi2.2 support for 25 watt wireless charging.
7. Apple A20 SoC with 12 GB of RAM.
8. New silicon-carbon battery with 3,900 mAh on the 6.1" model and 4,500 mAh on the 6.6" model.
9. C2 radio modem, including mmWave support for US models.
10. N1 (or its successor) I/O chip.
11. Return of better-quality speakers.
12. USB Type C port with up to 40 watts initial charging speed and possible USB 3.2 1x1 5 gigabit/second data transfer speed.
In short, it looks like the current iPhone Pro but with only two camera sensors in back, stainless steel chassis and thinner chassis (but not as thin as iPhone Air). It will be available in multiple colors, including the colors supposed claimed for the iPhone 18 Pro models. Note the rumored haptic touch buttons won't arrive until 2028.
Interesting idea. Not to mention the colonialization of resources that goes with war (to the victors...).
The new model seems to be investment in R&D (cough... AI, cough...) to increase efficiency (which also corresponded with America's manufacturing dominance), but that has taken a backseat to profit taking and hype.
And so we are back to the prospect of war.
but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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