You don't get to come back a year (or a century) later and say, "Hey, I just found out what that painting is actually worth. Give it back."

Actually... Why not? You said yourself you're in the wrong and you certainly acted in bad faith, so why shouldn't your victim have their demand to annul the deal enforced?

As opposed to people with nativist and inward looking views, companies like Apple HAVE to work overseas, and if you keep following the US govt kool-aid, then you will only be able to do business with Western Europe and other allies.

Try to understand that a big part of the world actually sees the US as the big bad empire that they portray China to be and it makes sense that they ask Stewart to tone it down a bit.

It's not that China is a big bad empire, it's that Xi is an emperor who's unable to placate his people with promises of a better tomorrow due to China's economy having caught up enough that the rubber band has gone slack and dictatorships being inherently incompatible with the rule of law which a strong economy requires, so his only hope for survival is to placate them with promises of glory which makes a confrontation with China and West pretty much inevitable, and Xi knows that. It's the same deal as with Russia, US is simply being wiser than EU was.

Basically, what's business to Apple is a weapon to China, and China is a fundamentally hostile nation to anyone who doesn't think Xi would make a great world leader, which he wouldn't judging by everything I know about life in China and also because he's a genocidal tyrant. That's not "nativist" or "inward looking", that's simply realism.

I recently saw a very insightful interview where dictatorships are defined by things you cannot criticize, like the CCP in China, Kim Jong-un in Korea, etc. In the US the thing that will absolutely get you canceled will be talking about the Israeli lobby and the influence such a small group holds over US culture in general.

Seriously? You're equating getting canceled with getting disappeared?

Note that such a system would also prevent Slashdot from leaning left and censoring conservatives, which they're doing now by institution an idiotic "karma". Slashdot karma is all about politics. And Slashdot is left leaning. One could express that cutely as "CowboyNeal is an imbecile".

But you're not being censored. Your comment is right here, readable for all who care to engage with users with bad reputation. That you have managed to earn a bad reputation through your own actions does not reflect badly on Slashdot or CowboyNeal, it reflects badly on you. It is the consequence of your actions, in other words, your karma.

That most people ignore you doesn't mean you're being censored, it just means that they think you and your opinions are not worth listening to. That your response to this is that the government should force them to pay attention just serves to demonstrate that their judgement is completely right. It's not a political judgement, it's a judgement about you as a person.

Given your vitriol here, I think you know that too, and judging by the fact that you keep posting on Slashdot despite hating the place I doubt you're more welcome elsewhere either. So perhaps you should reflect on the only common factor for a change, try to see your self from other people's eyes and maybe, just maybe accept that you might actually be the one who's in the wrong and needs to change? It's painful, but so is eternal bitterness, and there is no government big enough to make other people like you, so those are your options.

Wouldn't it make it much easier to read headlines, if Slahsdot used the modern sentence capitalization instead?:

"Apple's industrial design chief Hankey to leave 3 years after Ive."

Isn't being alive more important than short term cheaper fossil-fuel cost?

To prevent a 2C average increase and catastrophic tipping-point anthropogenic climate change, we need to emit less than 2.1 tonnes of CO2e per person per year in total in the short term, and 0 tonnes by the medium term.

Average car use is 2.4 tonnes of CO2e per driver per year, just from the car.

2.4+everything else > 2.1.

Electric cars average 1.15 tonnes of CO2e per driver per year, just from the car.

The options are clear: reverse climate change and stop the Anthropocene extinction event; or continue to have too many kids, use cars, fly, use fossil-fuel electricity, eat meat, and by doing so make the biosphere "unlivable" for us and most complex life.

I have an Android work phone, but I still use my ancient BlackBerry (no SIM card, so no internet) with physical keyboard buttons for my alarms, calendar, to-do, notes, passwords, and music.

I've used touch screens for years on Android, but I'm still nowhere near as fast on it as I am on my ancient BlackBerry. I still make mistakes when typing on touch screens, and struggle to move the cursor to where I want it.

"at least 46% [of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch] was comprised of fishing nets" 2018-03-22 Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic

Unsustainable human overpopulation results in the fishing industry torturing to death about 2 trillion fish every year.

The Norwegian audience probably loved it. Norway is the 4th biggest exporter of natural gas, and the 9th biggest oil exporter. Their policy is "make money now by turning the Anthropocene extinction event into a mass extinction event later".

To prevent a 2C average increase and catastrophic tipping-point anthropogenic climate change, we need to emit less than 2.1 tonnes of CO2e per person per year in the short term, and 0 tonnes by the medium term.

Having 1 child averages 58.6 tonnes of CO2e per parent per year, 23.7 in poor countries, and 117.7 in rich countries like the USA (2050 vs life expectancy).

58.6 > 2.1.

We need to have a fertility rate of about 0.01 per person for several decades, or we'll turn the Anthropocene extinction into a mass extinction and make the world "unlivable".

=$42.2 billion for AT&T, T-Mobile US (bought Sprint), and Verizon.

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Do not feed the trolls.

Fixed in version 103.0.5060.134

The Lenovo page only shows the header and footer, so I allowed lenovo.com to run scripts - eventho that shouldn't be necessary to view an information page on a patch for their security flaw.

Still blank.

So I allowed cross-site scripting from adobedtm.com. Still blank.

So I allowed cross-site scripting from go-mpulse.net. Still blank. The fuck?

So I allowed cross-site scripting from confirmit.net. CAPCHA just to view a page info on their security bug? Still blank.

There's 1 more cross-site script, a metric page. Okay, quantummetric.com allowed. Still blank.

New cross-site script from maps.googleapis.com. Allowed. Still blank.

Do I need to whitelist the site for cookies or disable uBlock Origin, in order to see their page about their patch for their security flaw? What. The. Fuck?

An unlivable biosphere will definitely cause society to collapse, whereas a sustainable way of living have in the past and can definitely in the future lead to having a continuing society. We could choose to replace our omnicidal ponzi-scheme economy with a sustainable system - just like we got rid of economies based on human slavery.

I agree tho that most voters are incapable of thinking long term and/or are sociopaths incapable of empathy.

So we can make the biosphere unlivable by continuing to use fossil fuels, turning the Anthropocene extinction into a mass extinction event and choosing to kill billions of people and most genera, or

to vote to tackle by far the biggest and root cause by reducing our unsustainable fertility down to 0.01 per person for several decades.

I'm guessing the vast majority of people will keep voting to make the biosphere uninhabitable.