Companies exist to maximize shareholder value and make money on the bottom line. That’s it. Google allows consumers to use their service “for free” because that’s the business model. They make money by you using the service for free. Nintendo made the conscious decision to include a grip that does not charge your…

Yes, it is.

If you don’t think it’s fair and enough people “don’t let them”, then they will stop doing it. $$$ is the equalizer, that’s all there is to it. A company exists to make money, they don’t exist to give you anything for ‘free’ unless they think that giving this to you will affect their bottom line in a positive manner.…

And San Francisco’s budget deficit continues to rise every year.

How was any part of that trade done in “bad faith”?

He knows his youngest two kids don’t have a shot at the NBA so he’s trying to monetize them overseas with the shitty name he’s built for himself instead.

Someone drives a Fiat. Neat

If you buy one of these devices for someone before you know for sure that they want one, you’re at fault in the first place. This isn’t the type of gift you buy someone without knowing if they want one or not first, privacy concerns or not. This isn’t like buying someone shirt or tie.

I think he felt as though he had this image to uphold while he was in OKC because he was the face of the franchise. Now that he’s sold out and he’s playing second fiddle, his true self has emerged.

If Burfict hadn’t been knocked into next year, he would have jumped up and started throwing haymakers and all hell would have broken loose.

It was really funny to me how this hit and subsequent taunting didn’t cause a sideline clearing brawl. I think that’s a testament to how the Bengals players know that Burfict had…

That’s exactly how it is, and there’s no problem with that. The NFL isn’t a charity, nor is it a political platform.

Why is that an issue? You do understand that the NFL is a for-profit entity that exists to make money, correct? They aren’t a political platform.

You act like it’s wrong for the NFL to offer “hush money”. The NFL is not a political platform. It is a business that exists to make money. The NFL recognizes that continued protests on it’s fields every Sunday is not good for business.

They have offered “hush money” in the form of dollar bills going towards player…

And on top of that, they don’t owe anyone anything. They don’t “owe” the players a platform.

The NFL understands that this is a very delicate subject that isn’t just going to go away, and so they have actively tried to “work” with the players. Whether this “work” is sufficient enough is just a matter of opinion.

The NFL doesn’t exist to be a political platform. The NFL exists to provide entertainment and in turn, make money.

The non-presidential shitstorm that trump has participated in is causing much less damage than the presidential shitstorm that HRC would have participated in. Trump is a moron, but I’m glad he’s in office instead of HRC. He’s still a moron, though, and a laughable one at that.

It comes down to the risk that the franchises take in signing him, plain and simple. That’s it.

He might be a passable NFL QB, but he’s not elite. He’s not great. He’s passable. And for several NFL teams out there, he might give them a marginally better player under center. But only MARGINALLY better. These teams know…

I don’t believe that execs/developers sit in meetings and talk about forced obsolescence. But I do think that everyone has the common sense to understand that pushing out OS’s with continual bumps in resources needed to run said OS’s will, in effect, slow older phones with older hardware down. And it’s in the back of…

Interesting that you’re having some of the same problems with the newest phone. So it’s not necessarily an issue of forced obsolescence, it’s maybe that they just created a shitty OS.