For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

Especially as most studios want to charge 3x the cos for 3D blu-ray..

Last time they rarely ever applied promotions to 3D content. So the regular blu-ray would be $12- $20. But then they would want $35-$60 for the 3D version. It is very hard to justify paying 2x-4x the cost of the 2D.

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

Google at least allows you to add other app stores to your Android device. Apple, big Foxtrot-Uniform.

I think if they force Google to, then Google better be able to turn-a-round and have Apple forced to do the same.

And when that happens, folks are less likely to jump ship, and be burned.

Corporations are also colluding to keep labor costs down. So that large employers are not offering incentives to draw employees because many are contemplating layoffs and down sizing.

They grew up hearing their hearing the slightly older generation decrying the BS corporate America has continuously hit GenX with. And have decided that if the corporations want these sorts of things, they damn well better pay a livable wage or the companies can go f*** themselves.

Which many companies are doing, as we have seen where retail outlets haven't even been able to keep their hours due to staffing, or had entire fast food store employees quit. Maybe it is time for companies to actually pay up. Instead of wanting degreed employees for the same wages they were paying 25 years ago.

SpaceX is a commercial space company. Arguably, the first legitimate one (yes, Bezos and a few others have their companies, but none of those are fully functioning delivering satellites, payloads, and passengers into space).

Until very recently, ALL space launches and programs were handled by NASA and the government. ALL of these rules, procedures, and policies are in fact new. Many are legacy procedures from the hey day of the Apollo space program. For commercial space ventures to thrive there is going to need to be more fluidity of processes and procedures, regulations will need to be relaxed and made more reasonable. A simple change should not be reliant upon a 3 month period of time and to be told two days beforehand that they will not have time to address the matter. There should be a requirement that any change be logged to the flight plan. But it should not be dependent on a small government agency to micromanage every detail.

All these regulations and procedures are new for commercial space, and they need to adjust to the needs of a fledgling industry. (And filing a lawsuit is generally how you get change done in government + lobbying congress.)

If the FAA doesn't adjust, eventually what will happen is that SpaceX and the entire commercial space industry will move outside of the country. Either become entirely seaborn, or more likely pick a tiny island nation on the equator to build their spaceports. And they will just bypass the government entirely. This will eventually happen anyways.

One day, it will make more sense to simply mine an asteroid, 3D print parts, build spaceships in space, and have companies who are not bound by ANY nation. And don't get approval for deploying ships or satellites, only to land their ships.

Thanks.

Most cops are too stupid to figure that out... LOLZ

Wrong decision, probably because of bad defendant case. This is often how bad decisions are made. They argued the 5th,.. but this case is a 4th amendment case.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,"

Secure in papers and effects (phone is effects).

Secure in their persons, who does the thumb belong to?

We will be the first generation to die younger than our predecessors in ages.

That jet has a major design flaw IMHO. The two fuselages are interconnected at a single point. Were an engine or mechanical failure to impact one side of the aircraft, it is likely the torque will be so great that it will tear the aircraft apart.

The tail should have been connected like a P-38 to minimize flex so that the aircraft doesn't torque itself apart.

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Not impressed in the least. I mean, how can you have an API Management product that didn't even provide a count of consumers registered for a given API. And did not even apply an alphabetic sort on the list. SMH

What sucks is that this acquisition will probably mean we are stuck with webMethods for a few more years.

*sighs*