Many companies have departments that are loss-leaders (every company that has technical support or human resources, for example). I'm sure that Threads is a loss-leader for Facebook right now, but they wanted to have it to get their foot in the door with the people bailing on Twitter.

The entry-level machines are aimed at corporations buying in bulk.

Apple doesnâ(TM)t control the SMS protocol. Incorporating the protocol into Messages allows cross-platform communication. Making somebody âoefeel bad about their choicesâ isnâ(TM)t an antitrust issue. The platform supports multiple, alternative messaging platforms, all of which I tolerate for the same reason Android users put up with feeling like theyâ(TM)re getting the short end of the stick. My wife is the only person I regularly communicate with via Messages.

I have lived in Japan for 16 years and it was TEPCO. They were told long before that the plant needed higher dikes to protect it and they ignored the warning. The most galling part is that the plant was operating on a special extension - it should have been decommissioned in January of that year.

If youâ(TM)re a power user used to keyboard shortcuts, colors donâ(TM)t really matter. Mouse users != power users.

You canâ(TM)t apply the tired,old âoejust pay market rates!â argument to an inflexible need with no competition. You have realize that New Yorkâ(TM)s economy as a whole depends on the service functioning properly. It would be better to subsidize it with taxes rather than give all that money to Bezos.

When Adobeâ(TM)s businesses decisions force users to invest thousands of dollars in hardware upgrades, I think theyâ(TM)ll worry. If your two-versions-old, essentially free OS upgrade is still based on personal preferences, you probably donâ(TM)t use CC professionally and therefore donâ(TM)t factor into Adobeâ(TM)s future plans.

Said me about 15 years ago. In other news, Linux is about to take the PC world by storm.

Taking Alex Jones down was his own fault. Inciting violence has long been considered an exception to free speech.

Also, corporations can regulate whatever they want internally. Itâ(TM)s called capitalism. When the government does it, itâ(TM)s unconstitutional.

As in heâ(TM)d like to regulate free speech similar to the way they do in China.

Hillary legitimately lost (worst candidate ever), but Trump did not legitimately win (electoral college).

The DNC was broke both because of Obama letting it languish and because Hillary Clinton made them sign a contract funneling all subsequent donations into her election.

Youâ(TM)re right that she lacked a platform, and that hurt her. The corporate Democrats havenâ(TM)t learned yet, but come November, Progressives are going to have a caucus in Congress and the left will have a voice in government again.

Wikileaks showed a political bias in the election that should trouble you. It shows that they got played as well.

Ajit Pai works for a Republican government, so of course he uses the power of big government to control the market.

Here in Japan, you canâ(TM)t get less than 40GB up and down for $30 a month (on wireless). Pay $20 more and you get 70GB-plus. In the home, itâ(TM)s 150GB for wired at around $40-$60. Currently weâ(TM)re part of a co-op, so we pay $12 a month for that speed.

Thatâ(TM)s a right-wind framing to the question. âoeSure, weâ(TM)re all going to die, but itâ(TM)s not our fault!â Still going to die.

Also, carbon emissions are down due to an increase of use of natural gas from fracking, which is also untenable and damages the environment.

We already fund up to 80% of pharmaceutical R&D through our taxes. You forget that the pharmaceutical lobby is the most powerful one in Washington. It's a rigged system and we pay the price. Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.

I live in Japan, where the government is allowed to negotiate prices and can declare certain things (such as MRIs) benefits to the common good and therefore mandate that they be made cheaply available. Finally, drug patents only last for three years. One of the reasons the TPP would be bad news for the other countries: the US wants everyone to extend the patents to 12.

You're assuming that they're the original company that did the R&D and that they didn't subsidize it with public funding (which can cover 80% of those costs). They may have just as likely bought out another company that did the actual work and are now cashing in on the results. It's the far more common way these things are done.