Iâ(TM)d argue it also pushed Apple to make health integrations, health data capture, and display of that data very important to how they built out iOS and Apple Watch.

Me! Me! I use Windows (and even Linux occasionally) at work, and Beeper's great for letting me continue text conversations with family and friends. It gets me a similar (although not quite as nice) experience as I do when I'm on a Mac like I do when I'm at home. The alternative is to either a) keep pulling my phone out of my pocket, or b) I just don't bother until I leave for the day, unless my phone's blowing up. I'm not looking at it for "bring iMessage to android", it's more "let me text from my computers - ALL OF THEM, not just ones Apple let me buy." I wish either Apple let me a) use iMessage on other platforms, even for a reasonable monthly fee, b) use another SMS platform entirely (like you can do on Android), because then I could turn off iMessage and use Signal or even Google's Messages app which could potentially do RCS itself. But no, the walled Apple garden doesn't allow for that, but I don't live in just the walled garden, and I'm tired of looking at the other gardeners who can mix and match their petunias with growing carrots or feeding cattle - I just get roses all day long... yay.

The difference is NOT TRIVIAL. I own a Tesla, and have the CCS adapter. Try picking up a CCS cable, and then go try picking up a Tesla one. Major difference in weight, maneuverability (especially when cold), and ease of "bending" around to plug it into your car.

The emacs balloon would be so bloated it'd make a 747 look small, so vim balloon to the rescue!

Not quite - they would have bothered when they opened them up to the public. Before they were public, the app was sufficient. Now that it's open to the public, this law now applies. And they're not the only one - all of the CSS chargers have to have them if they are available for public usage. Tesla's just a high profile clickbait target.

Cite the law, then. Because it's not illegal. If it was, the multitude of companies doing it for the last decade would already be bankrupted.

Now, buying CONTACTS - yes, those require a prescription. But glasses do not.

No, because every developer, network admin, DBA, etc.. will all quit. None of us are in control of that decision but we would have the liability for it. Make COMPANIES be liable, but not individuals. Doctors, plumbers, etc.., all have their own individual certifications and work for each other in their own industries (that is, doctors are part of a medical doctor company, plumbers for an HVAC or plumbing company, etc..), but IT professionals are in every kind of company, so we don't answer to someone with experience in the field. Accountants in a company aren't held to the same standard as CPAs in a CPA firm. We don't get to decide our "actions", the company does. Most of the time, we have advised them - SEVERAL TIMES - that there is a risk with their decision and they make it anyways against our professional judgement, and we can't override them.

If you were to hold us responsible for that situation, we would refuse to do our "job" and you'd see resignations everywhere.

Yes, yes it does. I literally have to deal with this every time I clone an Ubuntu VM at work, disconnect it from the network so it can't try to take over the existing VM's IP, and I get to wait 90 seconds while it decides the ethernet isn't connected. I f*scking hate it. I wish I could control-C it, because I could then skip on with life and update the network config before bringing up the network. So at least once a week I get to deal with this broken "I have a static IP, but I can't let you go on with life until I try to bring up the interface - even though it's static so DHCP doesn't really matter!" mess.

Just an FYI, no, they didn't wear them all day, every day, in large numbers. Surgeons would wear them while in surgery, and remove them afterwards. Some nurses and doctors in infectious disease research or treatment programs might wear them for a significant part of the day, but most medical professionals did not wear them all day long for months on end.

Mind, I'm no Trumpette, and I think wearing a mask isn't the end of the world. I'm more pissed that China and Trump have gotten away with literal murder and we have done nothing against either one. And now we have an endemic virus that will be with our species FOREVER. F*ck the idiots who let this happen when it was preventable.

Thank goodness it's not! My oldest is a math genius (just scored 97th percentile on the 9th grade PSAT math test) - he was able due to his gifted status to take two math classes a year (one per semester) in 7th and 8th grade, and in 9th grade he's taking 12th grade precalc. If he'd been held back due to laws like this he would be completely disinterested in pursuing math as a career since he would come to hate school and math specifically. He kept complaining about the other classes, but math kept him interested, and now next year he'll be in 2 honors classes and one AP class (Calculus).

It's a GREAT thing that smart kids can excel beyond their classmates, and I think we have plenty of options for them to do so. Where we fall down is those students who are behind the curve - the ones who learn slowly, in "unusual" ways that teachers aren't familiar or comfortable with, or students who simply don't care. Those students we still need to figure out

^^ This. At this point, if you want to be vaccinated, you can be. So, if you're not, that's on you. There are VERY FEW contraindications (basically, you have to have started the shots, and had a bad reaction - CDC source: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/c...), so no, get your shot, or take your chances.

I really feel for those people who can't get the shot because of autoimmune diseases/immunodeficiency, but the problem is even colds and the flu can sicken or kill them easily, so they already had to self-isolate for most of their lives prior to COVID.

"Playing devil's advocate for someone having sex with young, trafficked girls provided by a sex offender who offered them up isn't really the smartest move for someone wanting to be taken seriously about anything is it?"

So.. you don't seem to understand - you're assuming it's a true statement. You're already playing into the prosecution of someone who can't even defend themselves. You're part of the problem.

And most merchants handle cards, too. You didn't cite sources for if handling cash is cheaper or more expensive for the merchant than processing debit and/or credit transactions.

And in some states, merchants can offer a discount/lower price for paying in cash. Colorado did this a couple years ago, and doesn't seem to have ended the world.