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Sorry. You did not deserve that and I wish I had not posted that comment.

That's true, also I was too harsh.

This article was posted before and debunked. Believe it if you like.

If you believe your own claptrap you shouldn't you be killing as many humans as possible?

The fucking title says blacked out.

>i may never be able to tell you "i told you so", because in the future there may be no platform for us to express our discontent.

Statements like this make people roll their eyes and walk away. You don't need hyperbole to explain why mass surveillance is dangerous.

Google did not have to follow Apple's lead, yet they did.

When it does we will know the lizard people got to pg.

>whatever the developers did someone would just crack it so why should anyone pay for games?

Isn't this largely mitigated on iOS with code signing? Unless you jailbreak, which most won't bother with, it doesn't matter if it is cracked, you won't be able to load it.

Money is root of evil today, but if you ask for any rise it's no surprise, they're giving none away.

>most people who are offered/asked nicely to stop coming in to work earlier will come to a suitable arrangement

What kind of arrangement? Keep all the money but don't come in? I would think three months at a position you are leaving would be kind of awkward.

The mail in rebate is also trying to get feedback from the customer, which is very difficult.

>people are lazy and you might be surprised but the fact is that they don't want to do work even for their own requirements.

And they will pay to avoid even the easiest chore. We got tired of not getting any response from people using our free trial and briefly required them to call us to activate their free trial. People started paying for the first month rather than make a phone call and some that paid never even used it. Crazy.

They lost 40% of their revenue in mobile phones in Q2 2013. It is amazing they retained any composure at all after being so thoroughly crushed.

I don't think you understand the scale of the US economy.

>Move to Europe!

If you are starting a technology company you may want to rethink that idea.

>It's a big terrified nanny state where everyone in charge seems to be too scared to let anyone do anything cause it might hurt them emotionally or physically.

California is quite left of center, a bit of America becoming like Europe. At least, for now, you can still fire, and therefore hire at will, so they haven't gone completely over the edge.

From the article:

>There are scores of fast-food outlets, bakeries and cafes near Main Street, a half-mile away.

Too busy feeling smug to read the god damn article?

There are much bigger problems with the US than how religious it is currently. Gitmo is a disgrace, healthcare is a mess, keep running deficits. Being too religious is the least of the problems. The US is flawed, but it is not a theocracy despite what Europeans may believe.

If you believe a caricature to be literally true how are you not confused? I suspect many know it is not anywhere near true but enjoy anything that paints the powerful US in a bad light.

No, it is claptrap.

>Both have values centered on abject ignorance and strict religious ideas

Having other confused people agree with you does not make it true. You believe in a caricature regarding both countries.

While this claptrap will get you lots of up votes, the idea that the US is intentionally preventing the education of citizens of these countries is laughable. It is one of their stated goals to use education to undermine these regimes. The more educated they are they harder it is for their governments to keep control of them.

Apple products hold value amazingly well because they are well built. My 04 iBook is still in service. Cheap crap will fill landfills.

>I don't see people suggesting we all vote for one specific kind of car we are all going to drive for the next 4 years.

There are huge regulatory hurdles to releasing an automobile, for good reason.

Insisting on absolutely no government sounds dogmatic. Surely we can have enough government to negotiate a truce between warring police tribes.

The closest I have come to anarchy is off-campus housing. Are there examples of your ideas working in real life?

The problem with living in an anarchist collective is that no one does the dishes.

Hopefully Russia doesn't have a doomsday machine.

They probably used Google Maps and Streetview to get there.

It is not that they really think it is worse, it is just easy to get up votes by claiming they are.

Thank you, I especially liked this little bit:

> A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics." All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.