Apple is looking at Vietnam. I don't know how viable that is or what percentage of their manufacturing will be done there, but putting all your manufacturing eggs in one basket isn't a good idea.

EOM

From the FS: "Mr. Trump has defiantly denied saying anything inappropriate on the call, but the transcript shows he clearly referred by name to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., a leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, and encouraged Mr. Zelensky to reach out to Mr. Barr. "

Zelensky was the one who first brought up Biden's pressure during the Burisma investigation. What would you do if someone brought up a possible crime, nothing? Trump did nothing illegal. In fact he did what what anyone should do. The summary makes it look like referring to Biden was unsolicited.

"An angry MIT alumni". I'm not so much pedantic as peevish. For female singular it's alumna.

Sadly, thieves seem to be multiplying these days. When possible I have Amazon deliver stuff to my PO Box or an Amazon Locker. It has worked pretty well.

For a laugh, search YouTube for fake packages disgusted homeowners left outside their door for thieves to steal. Some packages disperse fowl smelling liquid into the thieve's cars; others make rattlesnake noises; others have GPS trackers to catch them.

Yeah, what a codist remark.

I agree it was a stupid solution, but for a government agency to put panels on rooftops and parking lots, they would have to be government owned ones. That can be done, but it's not like there are millions of hectares of them.

Public roads probably have a lot more total area than buildings, so that part of the idea might have had some initial appeal before figuring the maintenance costs out. Too many government decisions are long on emotional appeal and short on practicality.

Citations from reliable sources? Not that I doubt you a priori, but memes found on partisan sites can get started with little critical examination.

" ... dummies are closer to average males ... "

Sexist.

Possibly so. Butterfly keyboard, ultrathin laptops with lifetime issues, ... etc. He prioritized aesthetics too much above functionality.

Haven't heard that one. The engine peels the banana before eating it?

It was forever ago when I went through the calculations, but it is indeed an interesting property of lasers that their beam initially shrinks in diameter with distance and then grows. So it could defocus instead of focus, depending on distance.

One advantage to being big. On the other hand, I don't know how nimble Apple can be at its current size. With a dictator (Steve Jobs) at the helm, and a small product line, size wasn't too much of a problem. Not sure how things will be now.

Donald Sadoway, a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on Musk's claims:

"I would have used the same words, I'm glad someone with such a big reputation put it on the line."