Danox

Napoleon was hardly short for his time, that was just English propaganda. Most of the human world today, 5’6-5’8 still represents most of the male population I’m only 6’-4 and most of the male population, even at that relatively tall height, don’t come close, and when I meet someone that is close in height or even taller it’s still a shock.

The poor millionaires, oh boy. Whatever shall they do? A member…

But India has a problem. India is one-third size of the United States or China, and they have 1.4 billion people and growing 2 billion or 2.3 billion is not going to work.

Microsoft Copilot was dead on the day Apple made their announcement that they weren’t giving Sam Altman/OpenAI any money for AI and the second nail was the announcement that Google was only getting a measly $1 billion refund (for Apple using Gemini) on the $20 billion dollars they were paying Apple for a default search position on Mac OS.

I would hope technology is moving into that direction, because the current primitive system is not sustainable. Also note, this will mean cooperation with all of your so-called allies, uh-oh…

Absolutely true…

What the banks want, and all the other financial institutions want is a free ride on someone else’s technology, without paying for it and it’s ironic because the Apple Pay system was only created by Apple because all of the other existing financial institutions believed at that time that the Apple ecosystems was too small to support, but once it became successful, all of a sudden they wanted in and cried foul to government to help them out.

Can I get a patent? On faster than light drive or blood Pulse_oximetry an idea first conceived in the (1840’s). The first useful invention that you could hold in your hand was created by a German scientist in the 1930s.

Apple still lost the American lawsuit however, but because of all the prior work in Japan, Germany and Britain from the early 1900’s the American patents have no standing in the rest of the world.

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

And yet Apple is doing well in the far East Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and Vietnam. They are competitive in some of the toughest markets to sell electronic devices into.

Doing well in Australia and New Zealand too. Aside from Taco the only big headwind is memory.

What tablet is better in the world today software and hardware wise?

Market inertia is the holdup.

What took so long? Now start building a Arm computers native to Europe the Dutch have a long history in electronics ie.. Phillips which collapsed mainly from self inflicted wounds similar to some of the old-line American companies IBM, Xerox, Motorola, and Kodak...

If you are rich, you want to be in places where you can enjoy and show off and well be rich. Living in some third world or second world hell hole or some deep red state with no mountains or beaches where you can’t drive and enjoy your fancy car just would not be fun it’s basically the reason why you wouldn’t want to be rich from America and live in Mexico or further south.

Not to mention your businesses need to be in relatively affluent areas where most people can afford your products and from an educational standpoint, most of the better schools are on the west coast or are in the upper east coast.

Worry. about the other 99% maybe more precise, the other lower 90% of American Society.

In Texas, like Florida, you get a bill for all improvements within your neighborhood or development as they come. Just because the tax may appear low on the front end, that doesn’t mean you don’t pay for the same relative lifestyle as everybody else in the United States of America.

Even though all the states have their differences they all live relatively the same, in short, if you are an average person, you pay pretty much the same as any place else. It’s only the wealthy who get to hopscotch and dance over the top of all the bodies of the (working class) below.

There’s nothing California can learn from Texas, but if you want to live like Texas or Oklahoma, you can just move to Bakersfield, California hint: that part of California sucks.

You’re just carrying water for him. Zuckerberg is a winner. Zuckerberg and the other 214 billionaires in California will be fine you don’t have to suck up to them they’ll be ok a billion times over.

Wealthy people won’t be driven out of the state. There is a reason why California, Washington, Oregon and the northeastern United States are doing well in comparison to the great middle it’s the total package.

Geography, post-secondary education, relative openness/acceptance/tolerance towards people who are different, religion, race, ethnic group etc.

The best decision my parents made was leaving Tennessee and Texas and coming to California thank you.

If you are retired and did manage to buy a house and are not rich, proposition 13 is the only thing keeping you in your house.

As someone who lives in California. Goodbye please move to one of those red states. Florida? This percenter will stay in California, and if I had to, the only other two places I would go would be Washington or Oregon, and if the United States was still on good terms with Canada, British Columbia which doesn’t look too bad, but I’m staying on the west coast of North America.

214 out of 40 million people, there is no need to carry water or suck up to them.

Sales tax and the gasoline tax are use taxes. They are about as fair (democratic) as you’re gonna get because it’s based upon use most the other taxes whether they’re high or low, you can’t escape from particularly if you are the average person in the middle, and once again, if you benefit from capital gains, that is a huge life-changing benefit, which most working people don’t have. Vote yes. on proposition 40 if you are in California the less than .001 and even the 1% will easily survive.

Which is why the majority of people in California who work for a living shouldn’t be carrying any water for billionaires or hundred millionaires, you could even extend that down to someone who’s worth 10 million, until you get to that level, you don’t realize how many people over that level have it very easy.

In comparison to the majority of the population, you know the other 99%. That’s right, you heard it right. 99% of the population does not have $10 million free and clear without debt. In other words, if you are still paying off your house you are not in that upper bracket.

Even the conservative states who supposedly stand for the individual can’t get anything like proposition 13 passed through their state legislature and it’s been over 48 years.

If you are a billionaire or 100 millionaire, you probably got rich in California, Washington, or Oregon, or probably in the northeast of America in the last 50-60 years, if prop 40 passes, it will have the same effect as prop 13, a positive effect long-term that is, if you manage your finances, most of the states in the Union you are out of luck. why is that?

The article contains significant inaccuracies. Individuals in the lower and middle economic strata need not advocate for the interests of billionaires or those with assets exceeding $100 million; these individuals have already benefited disproportionately.

Over the past 50 to 60 years, wealth concentration in many Western nations—coupled with the relocation of jobs to East Asia—has primarily favored the upper class rather than the middle class. Similarly on a different battlefield, Brexit has not served the majority of the United Kingdom’s working class population the average citizen has experienced a decline in wealth. In Great Britain, most residents did not benefit from North Sea oil revenues, which were largely directed toward affluent groups—a contrast to Norway’s more unselfish. forward thinking approach of establishing a sovereign wealth fund which benefit it all to the consternation of the wealthy well connected conservative class within Norway.

Remarkably, adherence to sound financial principles—living within one’s means, settling obligations, and saving—can enhance long-term economic stability across all income levels and even at the governmental level.

Much like Proposition 13, voting in favor of Proposition 40 is a straightforward choice. Historically and currently, western political leaders have failed to act in the best interest of the majority usually, they have to be dragged along kicking, and scratching.

It shall be interesting will the middle and lower end carry water for the wealthy again and vote against their interests to save the lucky 214 billionaires in California, that’s right you heard it right, 214 out of 40 million people…

The billionaires won’t be going anywhere. There’s a reason why the West Coast, California, and Oregon are what they are, when compared to the rest of the United States outside the Northeast, climate, higher education, better business opportunities, better political climate for the population, particularly if you look a little different or have a different religion in comparison to a large part of the United States, particularly after 1945.

Dell’s innovation to the computer industry was build to order, selling computers direct, and later online in short streamlining the buying process. IBM, Sun, Digital, and SGI we’re at a whole different level, and they were at that level because of their capabilities.

They could’ve have potentially changed the game (like Apple) and competed against Microsoft and Intel, but they were fixated on selling basically to the corporate level which was in hindsight not a good decision long-term, and eventually it cost them all, their loss was immeasurable because of the hardware and more importantly operating system capabilities they had in house.

That is what made Sun, Digital, and SGI loss hurt even more. Dell is nothing in comparison, just a bargain box maker with no ambitions beyond. Losing those other companies hurt because when you control the hardware and the operating system software, you potentially can build anything.

Look no further than Apple computer. I must admit, back in the day I wanted a Next computer or an SGI computer because of the graphics and sound capability, but the only thing I could afford at the time was an Amiga computer later on, I had to settle for a work related Microsoft computer using AutoCAD, Revit, Navis and a few other graphics programs.

The ultimate value of Sun, Digital, or even SGI was the fact that they were both hardware and operating system software companies. When they went down, it was a big blow to the American computer tech industry.

If Microsoft and Nvidia team up work out, you won’t have to.

You sound very ridiculous. Why is Apple obligated? to follow Nvidia? or AMD? or Microsoft for that matter?

Intel said no to designing iPhone chips, IBM and Motorola couldn’t see a future of faster/better chips to meet the demands of future tech devices, Apple with that crazy CEO, Steve Jobs? Had to go it alone and the rest is history.

The Apple Silicon design group appears to be on a roll. What next? Bringing memory in house? I think they will. Because that will be the only way they can build the devices they want to build at a reasonable price going forward.

Before you yell no what is it about the last 28 years have you missed? They seem to be able to execute long-range projects when it comes to hardware and software in comparison to their tech peers, looking forward to the M7 ultra, in-house memory and the C3 modem.

Apple’s advantage is being the last vertical computer company from the 1980s speaks for itself. having control of the hardware and the operating system software with the ability to create new ecosystems is their advantage in comparison to hardware or software only companies, Note: the tech world would be a better place if Sun, SGI, Digital, Acorn, Motorola of Schaumburg, Illinois had been able to survive the Microsoft/Intel onslaught.