4 billion, divided by 13,000 employees is $307,692 per employee.
At $15/hr, that's 20,513 hours of wages
At 2080 work hrs per year that's a smidge under 10 years

So we're giving them tax breaks to make products and the tax breaks are as much as the factory would pay local labor over a 10 year period?

As Rick Sanchez might day: "That sounds like welfare but with extra steps"

Does Tim Cook actually monitor Twitter and look for posts with a #TIMCOOK tag and then read them?

Since anyone with an ounce of brain will realize the answer is a big fat NO, shouldn't it also be obvious that tagging a Twitter post with someone's name is completely worthless, and that if you wanna report a fucking bug, you should go to that company's bug reporting website and do it there? Apple has one, it took me all of 2 seconds to Google for it: https://bugreport.apple.com/

Actually it should be obvious to people by now that Twitter itself is completely worthless. Just let it die, please?

Well he could try the same tactic: Explicitly lay out a plan on how the Martians will pay for it, and then act like he never did so and shut down the government until taxpayers pay for it (or more likely, until he gets bored, or people get so tired of his BS that they're ready for a political impeachment).

Nice glimpse into what your neighbors are into though.

and I don't get why anyone would watch this. Period.

Earplugs and text each other across the table.

Take your pick. Do you want to be able to upgrade the SSD in the future on your Apple computer, or do you want that SSD secured from someone reading it without your permission? If you can find a way to eat your cake and have it too then I'd like to hear it.

"...the T2 chip could render a computer inoperable..." and it went on from there. The hinge of this whole story rests on a "could". Twist the hinge one way, there is no story, the other way, and ... well ... you get this flame bait

You know, stuff that matters.

We do? It was?

The year ago quarter they sold 46.7 million phones. This quarter they sold 46.9 million.

FY 2017 they sold 216.8 million phones
FY 2018 they sold 217.7 million phones

Which of those figures show that sales are down?

Still the best bit was calling DirectTv and canceling the whole thing. Then asking to be transfered to the DSL department so I could cancel that too.

Is this a new kind of "in-line" dupe? Wasn't the old kind good enough????

In a pilot study with a small sample size, researchers looked for microplastics in stool samples of eight people from Finland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, the United Kingdom and Austria. To their surprise, every single sample tested positive for the presence of a variety of microplastics (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source). In a pilot study with a small sample size, researchers looked for microplastics in stool samples of eight people from Finland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, the United Kingdom and Austria. To their surprise, every single sample tested positive for the presence of a variety of microplastics.

It's far from perfect, and the bitrate on that video is abysmal. If he tried this on Blu-ray footage and kept the quality up, Harrison Ford's face would stick out like a sore... face.