You completely missed the point. Just because China often violates IP doesn’t necessarily mean they did in this case. MANY MANY things are made in China by Western companies. Home Depot and Harbor Freight design tools in-house and have them made in China. Just because a factory worker in China recognizes a tool sold by Home Depot doesn’t mean the design was stolen.
The original team remade it as a VR game with a new name in roughly 2017. I played a demo of it at PAX and felt like it was 1996 all over again.
“We don’t have a problem with migrants being here legally if they follow all the rules.”
Migrants follow all the rules.
“You need to leave.”
My favorite story was actually from my buddy’s playthrough. He duped the poison apple from the assassin’s guild quest using the arrow glitch. He then duped it 50 more times and put-pocketed one into everyone’s pockets in a specific town. When they all went to lunch they ate them and died. An entire town of dead people. It was hilarious.
It doesn’t help that the site would show aftershocks as the first hit instead of the primary quake.
This story is about the much stronger 5.2 in Julian, not the 3.5 you are talking about.
There was a 5.2 nearby that this story is referencing.
This is basically one group threatening to commit crimes in a posh neighborhood, and the city choosing to punish the victim so that the rich people won’t be inconvenienced. Instead of going after the people threatening or committing crimes, they choose to trample on rights to avoid commotion.
They also are avoiding all talk about it in their echo chambers. I went into r/conservative to see what they were saying about this, and there is not one post that I could find about it. There’s a ton of other things they are talking about, mostly tariffs since those affect the money people make/spend, but nothing about this case. It’s almost like they are intentionally not talking about it…
We got a Shake Alert 100 miles away in Los Angeles. Didn’t feel anything, though, which is expected for a quake this size.
No, he meant rap. It’s the best way to communicate his feelings over the state of the country.
To be fair, Starbucks coffee kinda sucks.
Or in windy weather, or with other helicopters around, or with bad thermals…
Helicopters are 35% more dangerous than planes, but that stat includes small aircraft, which are 10x more dangerous than jets. So they are WAY more dangerous than jets. By hour they are 85x more dangerous than cars, but comparing traveling similar distances they are 4x safer than cars.
Saying they’re only dangerous compared to any aircraft if poorly maintained is just incorrect.
How? By taxing the shit out of the wealthy.
There should be no billionaires. Period. If someone created something so insanely valuable that they actually earned a billion, then awesome for them. They can still have $999 million and be better off than 99.999% of the world. Most people who have over a billion got that money through screwing over people and exploitation. They don’t deserve to have more than a billion. Nobody needs more than a billion, and I can’t think of anyone who has actually earned it.
The next step is targeting the way wealthy people get wealthier. Tax assets instead above some number of millions instead of just income and capitol gains. Change the way corporate officers are paid and how boards of directors are made up of other corporate officers all voting for each other to get higher salaries. I’m not smart enough to come up with a way to attack the profits made by exploiting cheap labor in other markets, but maybe something like a global minimum wage that lifts up workers in other countries while not giving CEOs as much incentive to do it.
Finally, I would go after housing costs. I would ban corporations from owning single family housing and place a HUGE tax on individuals owning more than 3 homes (with moderate taxes on more than 1 home, then a higher tax on the 3rd home, then a ridiculous tax on the 4th). Limiting foreign ownership would also help out.
I’m not sure how much of their profit margin Apple would give up. It depends on how much phone sales slow down when prices go up. Is the cell phone market elastic or inelastic?
The labor is 2.5x more expensive than minimum wage. Do you think Apple will have minimum wage workers doing relatively skilled labor like soldering and assembling electronics? I’ll likely be more in the $15-$20/hour range before even looking at benefits. I don’t know how many person hours go into assembling a phone, but it’s not just a few. That alone would probably add a few hundred to every phone.
Like you said, the most expensive portion is not the labor, it’s the parts that are mostly sourced from China and Taiwan… which have huge tariffs in the scenario Trump is talking about.
Because he has other things he wants from an electronic voting system company.
If you just have the seat paired with a normal American toilet, I don’t think it does much. But the seat with the Toto toilet, which has FAR less water in the bowl when doing your business, is very effective when things don’t go off to the side or not fully underwater. It’s always annoyed me how much smellier toilets can be in Europe if you miss the deep but narrow “chute.”
I have a toilet seat that opens for me when I walk up, lights up the bowl for me, is heated, has an air filter for smells, a bidet and blow dryer, and closes when I leave. Might as well give it a pulse-ox and ECG while I’m at it.
Yes, they export a lot, but this would only be to one country. The US is likely their biggest trade partner by a large margin, but they could still trade with 176 other countries.
It will hurt them but not cripple them. The US gets SO MANY things from China that it would cripple our country. Every computer chip outside of the TSMC fabs, every junk toy, half our clothing, tons of car parts, everything sold at Harbor Freight and Home Depot, cell phones, etc. They’ll still be able to sell those to the rest of the world, but the US would have to switch up our entire global supply chain. It would take years to recover.
Don’t forget the price of eggs.