It might only be a reasonable price because there are third-party options. If Apple is the only one who can do replacement, they can charge whatever they want (or not offering the option at all, making you buy a new phone)

The thing is, with 1.3B phone users in China alone, they might not need the west to adopt. In comparison, US only has 327 million users — so it would be silly for developers not to port and adopt their apps if it turns out to be successful. If they can get into the Indian market (1.17B users) by offering low cost…

This is one of the reasons I am happy I’m multilingual. English, however beautiful and pervasive it is, is really lacking in the swearing department — you got fuck (and different tenses of it), a few different body parts, and none of those really make any sense (e.g., what does having sex has anything to do with…

Not familiar with the law in the US, but can someone explain how this is legal?

Unfortunately, the censorship is working; many young Chinese people do not know about 1989 and often have no idea what the protests are about.

For other times: smog - the air quality is often bad because of the factories in China. You can rarely see the clear sky.

At the same time, we get evangelical groups supporting this administration — is this God’s teaching? To punish innocent children and have no compassion?

They are not technically wrong - bleach can kill cancer, all known bacteria and virus (including the superbugs)  - the problem is getting it not to kill health cells.

If they paid, what stops the hacker from doing it again?

It’s part of the job description of a service-industry worker, no? You can’t take out your frustrations to the customers, even if you are in a shitty mood?

I also loved MiniDiscs. The main draw for me is the protection - while CDs scratches easily (you have to handle it like a bomb when it’s out of the case, which is hard to do sometimes) and tape is shit, MDs is a happy medium and the quality is decent enough to my untrained ears. I still had a player until a couple…

He is just a sad, sad child. He is behaving exactly like a grade school bully; the whole “I’m not gonna do it, but I could if I wanted to” act is just him trying to act big and tough while in reality he is just a privileged irresponsible child who lied to get out of military service and paying taxes.

I don’t understand why you need a MacBook to google — a Chromebook, or any laptop/desktop, runs browsers... and when you give up an iPhone, you have to go all the way to the Nokia? If you started off with Android, I think you’ll have a much easier time. Android, at least, is open-source; there are custom ROMs for most…

I didn’t think the problem with Apu was that it was voiced by someone who is not of Indian descent — if so, the fix is easy (just replace the actor) The problem was the stereotyping against Indian and South Asian heritage (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_with_Apu)

I didn’t think the problem with Apu was that it was voiced by someone who is not of Indian descent — if so, the fix is easy (just replace the actor) The problem was the stereotyping against Indian and South Asian heritage (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_with_Apu)

Should also get rid of Chief Wiggum (stereotyping police), Groundskeeper Willie, Chef Luigi, Fat Tony, and basically every character in the show. In fact, just end the show altogether. If the show isn’t afraid to push boundaries, it isn’t going to be funny anymore.

Right. In that case, the retailer pays the shipping instead of the taxpayer. So, you’ll get the same product for, say, $20 — where $10 goes to the same manufacturer in China and $10 goes to shipping (cheaper because of bulk) — The manufacturer loses nothing (still makes a $10 sale) and the cost of shipping is moved…

From what I understand, that package will still cost you $40 to send back after we withdraw from the treaty; it’s just that if you buy that package from eBay from a seller in China, it might no longer be free shipping and cost you $40 shipping to get it. So, in that scenario, you’ll end up paying $80 in shipping (to…

The problem is, no matter what he said or what he did, it wouldn’t make any difference — the divide is just too deep. The political views are now too emotional and polarizing — you are either blue, or red, and there’s so much hate between the two sides I don’t know if we can ever unite as a nation again.

Much of this debate is focusing on the wrong point — the accusation, no matter how credible, is very difficult to prove given the time and the nature of the crime. It’s very easy to turn this into a he-said/she-said situation and diverge the conversation (e.g., FBI can’t definitively prove the assault! So it didn’t…