Agreed. I would say that without an audio-out port, a phone, tablet, and most other computing devices are also defective.

But musicians for recording use the USB ports for audio interfaces. Apple "Pro" gear keeps getting less and less pro as they keep removing ports. Pro gear means it has flexibility to connect to many types of hardware. Wake up Apple!

My name ain't Sherly.

Sometimes it's headphones, and sometimes it's just earbuds... but when I'm watching one thing on my computer, and my wife is watching something else on her iPad, we both usually wear headphones.

In that situation there's no real advantage to Bluetooth devices - and a couple real disadvantages.

1) With Bluetooth, you have to make sure your device is charged first
2) With Bluetooth, occasionally the audio can get slightly out-of-sync with the video

We haven't finished yet. Perhaps next century we start throwing asteroids at the Earth. A few dinosaur killers strategically dropped could really change things.

maybe the simple fix is to revoke EVERY tax exemption and deduction for any company that defies federal laws. Its amazing how these mega corps will fold when their money is threatened. Instead of 5 billion in taxes, now you owe 192 billion. Here's your bill.... "uhhh.... wait! here is everything you wanted. Also here is their porn history, their toilet routine, and their browser history too." Yea.... just revoke their tax shelters. If not, then I will have a new found respect. But my money is on an 'inconvenient truth'.

Kid lost 30 pounds while being in ICE custody for only 21 days.

Probably because he was a fatty who lived on junk food. Sorry you didn't get ten tons of pizza in detention.
From the article, "Situations including conflicting reports from the individual and multiple birth certificates can, and should, take more time to verify
So what's the problem? Fatty didn't get his junk food on and lost some weight while it took 21 days to sort out his shit show identification papers.
Oh my god!
Maybe all Americans should spend 21 days in detention, would cut down on the obesity.
It's like the end of the worlds, I didn't get my hamburgers!!!!!
How about making sure all your paperwork is in order if you are an immigrant and they are clamping down on illegal immigrants.
Seems fucking logical to me.
Once again, no one is saying they don't want immigrants, they are saying they don't want illegal immigrants.

How do you know the guy entering the country on a visa is not a mass murderer?

Many users expect to be able to plug laptops into good quality speakers without connectivity issues, lag issues, and so forth, as well as to easily and reliably connect headsets for conferencing.

Without a commonplace audio-out port a laptop is borderline defective.

I think I use that as much as all of the other ports, HDMI/USB, so it is heavily used. I wished they would add a little extra reinforcement to it as I have a crack developing.

I don't use a laptop, and surely, you can stop calling me Jack.

You have to be physically present in a country to apply for asylum. That's how it works pretty much anywhere. Since the international community has recognized in the 1950s that satisfying the usual entry technicalities may be impossible for many people fleeing from danger, a universal principle applicable to all asylum claimants has been adopted that asylum seekers are expressly not to be penalized for actions that would be otherwise illegal, as long as they're related solely to getting onto the soil of the country where they're applying for asylum. Said article literally says

All participating countries have enshrined these principles into their local legislation differently, but for US purposes, legislators have apparently concluded that "without delay" means "within one year". They've also apparently enshrined the "coming directly" principle in form of the concept of a "safe third country", which is a status that has been denied to Mexico until now.

Nobody says you *have* to *accept* them. You just can't have them undergo an asylum determination procedure that would violate international law. Apparently the US is in habit of doing that quite often, though.

The Nazis were socialist - they 25 point plan is all socialst bollox, and Hitler's got soem great quotes about socialism going.

that they also killed people and behaved in a authoritarian way is actually pretty par for the course in all socialist governments ever.

What's more of a public interest is how thes esocialist got called right-wing fascists when its pretty clear they were left-wing scum instead. I guess its because facist has had its meaning changed from the early Italian days (note: facist, from the Italian 'facine' meaning 'bundle of sticks' - ie "stronger together" which is the perfect analogy for socialism!)

Socialism: has great media PR, but really bad reality.

For the price of those headphones, I simply cannot get anything that sounds as well without any input lag using bluetooth. Never even mind the longevity: a bluetooth headphone will eventually have dying batteries. Unless I physically damage my cabled headphone, it will last me a lifetime. New ear pads can be easily bought and replaced.

There simply is no contest.

"We believe that wireless is a great solution for headphones."

He's wrong.

No it did not. It gave three women the opportunity to take a temporary position and gain experience in a job that, without the parental leave, would never have existed. The women were presumably all hired knowing that it was a temporary position so they knew beforehand what they were applying for and this gave them an opportunity to show what they could do that they would not otherwise have had.

Just separating parents and children is so extreme that it qualifies as cruel.

No, it's really not. It is also what we do to US citizens who are arrested as others have noted. Just because it hits you and others in the feelz and you have a strong negative emotional reaction to it makes it neither cruel, nor illegal, nor unjust.

Nobody is punishing them. It is quite normal and reasonable for society to make accommodations to allow people to do important things that support and perpetuate the future well being of that society. Would you also argue that people should not have time off when they are ill because this is punishing healthy people?

My wife did exactly the same as yours - she quit her job when our first kid arrived. However, we are lucky enough to have salaries that can support a family without our wives working. Not everyone is as fortunate as us and I would argue that is very reasonable for society to provide some, in this case minimal, support for families who are perhaps not in quite as good a position as our own.

As for the gender issue, yes that is a problem. However, without this sort of protection you are pretty much excluding women from senior positions by potentially forcing them to restart their careers from several rungs lower on the ladder. I would argue that this is worse than the risk of illegal discrimination against young women. In addition there is considerable evidence from Europe and Canada that this is not a serious issue in the long term and can be dealt with by prosecuting high profile offenders.

TB is drug resistant because people stop taking the drugs when they start to feel better which gives the bug a leg up to evolution of the bug in developing resistance. Often months before the end of treatment patients stop taking the drugs. This is often exacerbated by the fact that most of the infected are homeless or drug users or both and on state supported care and once they feel better they want to get out of hospital and back on drugs.

A 6 month long course of pills guarantee's that the same thing is going to happen. They need to develop an implant like drug delivery system for TB to prevent this or TB will be resistant to this 3 drug cocktail in no time at all.

Your case of Trump Derangement Syndrome has been noted.

What do you propose we do with people that have crossed the border illegally? People that do so have broken the law, and adults that break the law with children in their care will be separated from those children. This is because we don't put children in prison but we do detain adults that did break the law.

If a person is in a country that is honestly seeking sanctuary in the USA then why hire a coyote to cross the border? Why not go to a port of entry and declare refugee status? In my mind anyone that crossed the border anywhere other than a port of entry should not be able to make a claim for sanctuary. Why would I say this? It's for their own safety. People that cross the border with a coyote are putting themselves at risk of being left for dead, raped, murdered, robbed, kidnapped, or any of a number of crimes against them. If they cross the border this way with children then they should not be considered a person responsible enough to care for a child. What kind of sick fuck takes a child across a desert, where any of a number of hazards could lead to their death, when a claim of sanctuary at a port of entry would be far safer? This tells me that they are not responsible adults, quite possibly a criminal evading capture, and should be separated from any child in their care. On top of being irresponsible for putting a child through such dangers THEY BROKE THE LAW BY CROSSING THE BORDER OUTSIDE OF A PORT OF ENTRY. We will separate children from the accused adults charged with their care because that's what we do with any case of an adult being charged with a crime.

Again, what do you propose we do with people that crossed the border illegally with children in their care? Should we put the child in a prison cell too? Should we tolerate criminal behavior just because there is a child present? This is completely logical to separate a child from an adult accused of a crime because we detain criminals and not innocent children.

You want to debate inhumane behavior? Fine, let's talk about the irresponsible adults putting children at risk by crossing the border illegally when they should be declaring their desire for sanctuary at a port of entry. Let's discuss Congress not providing funds for proper enforcement against this behavior that is illegal, dangerous, and too often deadly for innocent children. Let's discuss Congress not funding the detention centers properly, denying them the necessary blankets, soap, staff, and so on they desperately need to process these people as quickly and humanely as possible.

Hence there is nobody "lying" either. Rather obviously so. Most game makers avoid too direct references to politics, but not all do. Also obviously.

In addition, historically accurate facts and well-established scientific facts are already "political statements" to some people (there are a lot of stupid people around, so that is no surprise) and even completely fictional scenarios that do not reference anybody real can be taken to be political in most cases, because there are people somewhere in the story.

we can win USA first strike on NK!

Apparently Sriri is?

Neither Alexa not Google Assistant are limited like this, so it's totally news to me.

Bananas why anyone sticks with Apple.

Let's assume that the legal asylum seeker came through a port of entry and that their entry was lawful. Everything is peachy.

How do you know a child is a related to the claimant and not kidnapped?
How do you know that the claimant is not abusing, trafficking, or using that child as a shield to bypass border law?

Before the child separation agreement from the courts came in from the 90's (98?), children were kept with their families/claimants. Guess what happened. It was abused by criminals that took advantage of our compassion. That's why we have the agreement we have now. That agreement has such stipulations on how long a child will be separated, what conditions they be held, and by whom.

It was agreed that the brief time of separation was less harmful than allowing traffickers and criminals to abuse the system and use children as a shield.