And let's not forget, "the guise of "security"" is the reason behind Apple's vindictively going after jail breakers.

These same jail breakers who added functionality in iOS4 (2010) which only finally started becoming available to regular uses these past two years. (Yeah, I'm including you in this, Liquid Glass!)

You reminded me of the "Unofficial" PC notebook which ran Mac OS.

Just going by my memory, there was a specific PC notebook which had the same hardware as one of the Mac Performa(?) desktop machines. After installing a boot loader, then the OS, and then another patch the notebook ran just fine except for two issues. I don't remember what one of them was. But the other was that it was hit or miss whether a bluetooth item would work or not.

How about we stop sellers from using a "BUY" button if we're not really buying or owning everything.

Require it to be replaced with a "LICENSE" button which leads to a window completely describing IN PLAIN ENGLISH what it means.

I bet the first thing they're building is a still.

The Crusher from the Bugs Bunny cartoons?

The committee will be composed of people not in the field. But that's okay because it'll be handed over to whatever AI company has given the President the most amount of money. They're the real committee.

And if the real committee needs proprietary information because of "concerns", then it'll have to be turned over.

And if that proprietary information just happens to be incorporated into the real committee's AI model, then...well...prove it.

"if runners reach the top of the building, they'll find Tom Cruise." - What if they go to the basement? Will they find David Miscavige's wife?

"Scientology is an official religion"
+ Scientology was not a recognized religion in the U.S. until 1993.
+ Before that their members still wrote their donations off their taxes as "religious deductions".
+ IRS charged them penalties.
+ Several Scientologists filed lawsuits against the IRS.
+ Members of the House/Senate were worried donations to their campaign from Scientology members would be made public if those IRS cases came to court.
+ Solution: They were given religious status and the lawsuits were dropped.

So, why was it so important elected officials wouldn't want to be tied to Scientology? Because of Operation: Snow White.

WIK: "Operation Snow White was a criminal conspiracy by the Church of Scientology during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. This project included a series of infiltrations into and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members in more than 30 countries. It was one of the largest infiltrations of the United States government in history, with up to 5,000 covert agents."

"Mary Sue Hubbard, Cindy Raymond, Gerald Bennett Wolfe, Henning Heldt, Duke Snider, Gregory Willardson, Richard Weigand, Mitchell Herman, Sharon Thomas, Jane Kember, and Mo Budlong, all high-ranking Scientologists, were convicted; prison sentences were as long as six years, though no defendant served that amount. L. Ron Hubbard was named by federal prosecutors as an "unindicted co-conspirator" and went into hiding for the rest of his life."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And yet, Charles Grassley (R-IA) still spearheaded the move to give them official religious status.

https://youtu.be/C_oTubcqceI

...it included the complete Epstein files and Hilary's e-mails.

To this day many wonder whether a "security fix" is just that or an excuse to prevent jailbreaking.

You know, the thing which was proven in court to be legal to do on your own device.

According to The Waltons (which took place during the Great Depression), it took a month to get stuff from the Sears catalog.

So stop bitching! :D

In the future will they say the early 2000's were the Clay Aiken?

Dread Pirate Roberts

Republican thinking:

Conservative Issue = "State's rights!"
Liberal Issue = "Federal Oversight!"

A good example: A Conservative's dog keeps coming into your yard.
Conservative: "You can't make me build a fence on my land!"
Liberal builds a fence on their land.
Conservative: "It blocks my view! You have to tear it down!"

I think competition has little to do with it. I think it has more to do with the beef industry being given leeway so they can get into the lab grown beef business themselves.

And by "get into" I mean buying up an already established company so there's no research and development involved. Buy your competition before they're competition.