Your personal views of Jon Stewart are more important then the particulars of whether or not Apple blocked a current events show from talking to the head of an important government department?

You could say that about a lot of things really, people often just combine existing things into something new. Sometimes someone takes something that many people have been making and does it massively better then any of them. In Apples case they took existing touchscreen and mobile device tech that was largely pretty mediocre and only had very niche appeal and they refined it into the absolutely massive success that was the first iPhone. They weren't the first people to make a mobile phone with a touchscreen but they did it far better then anyone before them had. I've never owned an iPhone and likely never will but I respect the iPhone for what it was and how it's defined the mobile phone to this day.

I don't think you could have made a statement that's more "pure conjecture" then that unless someone has actually asked everyone what they consider everything to be. Also if you intend this to be dismissive of what I said then it's also just as dismissive of any other opinion you hold about what you consider the word to be so it's a fairly vacuous thing to say if you have any point you're trying to make.

Doesn't really have anything to do with it being a poor choice of words in this context but ok, fine. Good for you.

Since when are kids having their views of Monkeys distorted by rumors? That's a new one for me.

If it's a reference to humans in general then they could have used the word humans. What's not conjecture is that it's a poor choice of words no matter the intent. Monkey is generally considered an ethnic slur so using it like that in regard to an incident concerning the possible wrongful arrest of a black woman is at best tactless and possibly far worse.

It's only an error if what's being said is incorrect.

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According to this article " a 2021 study from the University of Chicago estimates that 53% of people living in homeless shelters and 40% of unsheltered people were employed, either full or part-time, in the year that people were observed homeless between 2011 – 2018."

People in shelters or who are unsheltered aren't crashing at a friends place so what the other person asserted appears to have backing. There is maybe an error in saying 40% of homeless people have full-time jobs as this study says "full or part-time" but they do work regardless.

Yea, that's a fucked up state of affairs.

Where I'm from there's zero tipping and no one thinks about people messing with their food like that. Pretty weird to pay money for food and then feel obligated to pay extra to make sure they don't mess it up.

It would be like if a dude from the Mafia just stood in a restaurant and if you didn't give him 5 bucks when you got your food he would spit in it and pull a gun if you tried to stop him.

Except it's not a member of a crime family, it's the person you already paid for the food.

Oh boy, you should watch season 4.

I don't think it speaks that many volumes. Now criticizing someone in a public forum who said they found a piece of content interesting when you haven't even watched it, that's a pretty good indication of your character.

Also what the heck does 1999 have to do with anything? Is that supposed to be a "respect your elders" argument or something?

I'm from NZ. All power outlets in homes have switches, I can't remember a time in my life when they didn't.

I've been around the US a bit and I don't think I went anywhere that had switched outlets.

Also the US have giant light switches compared to NZ. I have a few places in my house with 6 switches in the same place, if I used US switches I would need about 3 times more space to fit them.

I was thinking of it like someone handing you a flyer in the street and you find $10 stuck to the back of it.

Then when you go back to the person and say '"Hey there was $10 stuck to the flyer, you should be more careful" they try get you arrested for stealing their money.

That's a really weird thing to say in the comment section of a news site.

What else could you possibly expect other then a long stream of what people think?

For me the difference is a copy of a real painting will never be exactly the same one that was originally painted. It might be so damn close you can't really tell them apart but you'll always know that copy never actually sat in the artists studio while he pored blood, sweat and tears into it. Having that actual object has weight.

A digital file? You can copy it 100% exactly over and over and over again. I would personally wonder if whatever video file the buyer ended up with was actually the prime file that came of the camera in the first place? Maybe, but I don't think you could ever know 100% for sure. How would you tell it apart from a backed up copy? A backed up copy isn't the original and would have as much value as ripping it off youtube if having the original file is your desire.

I can understand the desire to own the original Mona Lisa or even to own a prop that was used in a movie you love, even if there are multiple versions of it. It was still there at the movie and has a real connection to it. It's a thing you can hold in your hand and know no one else has that exact one because it's there in your hand.

A digital file is just not the same.

They might sell these to consumers but they really aren't the target market I'm sure.

This is for high-density enterprise storage where mechanical disks still feature heavily and will for a long time.

When you want to put together 1PB in storage with a mirrored RAID the cost difference of high density SSDs vs HDDs is major.

Also SSDs have crap write endurance compared to HDDs. That doesn't tend to matter when you install some games and then don't really write much else to the drive for a while, the average consumer will often be hard-pressed to exceed the rated TBW. But in Enterprise you might generate a pile of data then delete it in a few months to make room for some new data you're writing. SSDs aren't appealing in this situation when they cost more and break faster.

Deliberately missing the point doesn't help your case.

*WOOSH*