And how about the other 2 accusers who have since recanted their allegations of Kavannaugh? I hear a deafening silence from the left about that. Oh, and let’s defend Tyson while throwing any conservative under the bus. 

Yes I read and responded to your posts. You, on the other hand, have not responded to my questions. You want to include suicides along with murders in conversations about gun control. Suicide and murder are drastically different events, one voluntary and one not, and you offer no differentiation on gun laws to prevent…

You don’t seem to understand that suicide is not caused by owning a gun. Half of all suicides in the US don’t involve guns. I’ll bet you 99% of all suicides in Japan don’t involve guns. That logic is ridiculous and easily proven wrong as I have already done. Please tell me how banning hi-cap magazines will prevent…

I didn’t say that nor did I imply that. But you tell me what law will stop people from killing themselves if they want to. So gun ownership is the primary reason people commit suicide? See how dumb that sounds?

I think we are all agreed on protesting violence and hate in all forms from anyone. It does achieve a certain effect but not necessarily the way we want to achieve it.

When you include suicide and accidental death the numbers do change. I’ve never said otherwise. But it is a false equivalency to include suicide with gun murders. You can read my response to another poster in which I show how suicide rate and gun ownership numbers do not track across the world. There are countries…

Yes I am not including suicides. Including suicides is an anti-gun tactic used to inflate gun deaths. However, when you look at gun ownership, gun laws and suicide rates around the world there is little consistency to make a declaration that more guns equal more suicide. Japan has virtually no civilian guns and a…

that make semi-automatic guns fully automatic

Well, the device is yours, to a certain extent. But I believe the manufacture of the device should have some after-sales input into how the device is used. For example, Apple shouldn’t have to repair your iPhone for free if you drop it or throw it down on the ground. That is certainly helping Apple make more profit…

Well, if developers are that unhappy at 30% they could focus on Android. I’m sure they would like this cost to go away or be reduced. Who wouldn’t? I don’t like paying $61/lb for dry aged rib-eye steak from Omaha steaks but I don’t see myself suing them for lower prices. I’ll just go somewhere else and find cheaper…

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Interesting articles. I found that one German example a little suspect though. From a press-release photo? I’d like to know more about that.

Not sure what comment you’re replying to. But in regards to Google updates I was referring to various hardware devices not always getting or providing updates to old versions of Android.

Really? Because Netflix doesn’t work that way on my iPhone, it takes me directly to the Netflix web page. Hulu throws up a message to go to the web to manage my account. Amazon Prime also doesn’t appear to go through Apple as it has an auto-renew option. Xfinity also doesn’t require the Apple app to renew as my bill…

There is definitely a convergence between what mobile devices can do and what your laptop/desktop can do. I’ve never argued against that point and in fact have argued quite vigorously for that point. While I agree that smartphones and tablets are getting closer to laptops and desktops there are still major differences…

An iOS is Apple’s property. You don’t own iOS, only the right to use it. 

Feeling trapped in a smartphone choice and actually being trapped are 2 different things. The fact is you can change from one phone type to another and it’s not that hard.

That sort of confirms what I thought. You have to renew via the app for the 30% to kick in. You can still go to the web page and renew with no commission going to Apple. I do think that not allowing links to renewal pages on the Web isn’t right and that is anti-competitive. I also don’t think Apple has the right to…

I’m not entirely sure what the exact policy is so it’s a bit hard to debate the merits of the policy. However, I can’t imagine that Apple said you ‘must’ renew or create subscriptions via the app. I can’t see how they could possibly enforce that in any way if that app runs on other devices.

No more arbitrary than people saying an iPad isn’t a computer it’s a “tablet”.