Destroying the economy? you mean the economy that that by any measure has done nothing but improve for 6 years?

" about limiting the right of the Federal government from infringing the rights of the people"

How is monitoring infringing on any rights at all?
No where is the constitution does it say you can't be monitored.

" that "Shall make / not" means exactly what the dictionary says it does. "
No, that's stupid, at the very least. see 'literally'.

" The first and second amendments alone have been trampled with literally tens of thousands of laws that take away or limit said rights (I haven't even touched the other amendments)."
false, but nice of you to have drank the NRA koolaid.

Why? why won't it survive? there is no rule that states you can't have an equally monitored democracy.

I loved those.

it's how that data is used.
We are going to be watched, because modern society is watching everything.
Democracy can handle the monitoring of everything, if protection and regulations are in place an enforced.

NSA? all that data they have in no way impacts democracy.

business owners have every right to act like dickheads. Just like you. I'm not sure why you think otherwise,

Of course I'm not sure why advertising makes then a dickhead in the first place.

Yes, they cold never find a gut in a hate with LEDs. You just blend right on in.

The world needs hypocrites to. I suppose.

Would you rather have an ad for cereal sent to you why you are looking at cereal? or an add for tampons?

You are going to get an ad in any case.

The selection here isn't 'no ad' or 'focused ads' it's 'random ads' or 'focused ads'

OTOH I'm not sure how you learn about anything new without ads.

You can magical get fat. You can change the way you matabilize food, you might retain a little extra water, other than that you aren't gaining more fat than the calories you eat.

This country is gotten so fa,t it doesn't know what fat is. I had a conversation with someone complaining becasue his BMI said he was fay. I said 'you are fat'. He looked at me is disbelief.
I'm like, yes you are fat, not obese, but id you stomach is not smaller than you chest, you are fat.
Rule of thumb, may not apply to people on the extreme of the bell curve.
Right not people seem to think you aren't fat until you get some roll which is typically obese.

Anyways, you sister in law is using her medications an excuse to eat too much. Probably they zapped some energy form her and she doesn't move as much, thus needing fewer calories. That was speculation.

Yes, lets destroy a use of technology that will make everyone's life easier.
Idiot.
You're going to get ads. With or without this, all this does is send you ads that have a high statistical chance of being something you might be interested in.
Frankly, you're an ass.

That is correct. People are horrible with economics. However that perception is a real issue the industry needs to contend with.

The poster comment was about the mark-up, and it's an Apple discussion, so bringing up Google/Android/Anybody else would be irrelevant. You're reply was simply a knee jerk Apple apologist response.
He never said evil, you did.

The poster in no way makes their opinion known on those other products. You CAN make sarcastic remarks about Apple and also make sarcastic remarks about other companies.

If you check the plug, why do you need to know which way the device considers up? You already looked at the connector.
And the mini-USB standard is in no way brain damaged.

While Apple is known for changing connectors, they are always an improvement.
And the new connector is pretty awesome.