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With Corona having a virus and all, there are fewer workers putting the iPhones together, which is creating a potential shortage. Will folks have to come up with a new addiction, or ::gasp:: keep their current one a little while longer?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
modified 24-Feb-20 12:51pm.
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David Crow wrote: or ::gasp:: keep their current one a little long while longer?
you forgot iphones are purposely designed to slow down as they get older
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They'll have to buy high-quality tech that's made in the US, instead.
I am NOT going to laugh my head off
I am NOT going to laugh my head off
I am NOT going to laugh my head off
I am NOT going to laugh my head off
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's not like Tim Cook wouldn't have a contingency plan already in place to ensure this doesn't happen.
But if it does, you can be sure Apple will find a way to spin it in such a way they can benefit. Wouldn't be the first time they make artificial scarcity work in their favor.
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I'll sell you mine  for the right price. Seriously, the only reason I have a phone is for emergency purposes and the occasional customer call.
Well, let's change that, the reason I have an iPhone is because my teen daughter wanted one, then the wife got involved with getting the family plan under the guidelines of "as long as it does not cost more than the current plan." Yeah, we still had some price creep. Still waiting
So far, the only people who really call me all of the time are spammers. Other than that, I would be happy with a flip phone.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I'll go once. Going to regret it, but what else is new?
This post made in support of bacon 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Now that version of corona would be 100% fatal!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Perfectly legal. If it sounds ridiculous, remember that human ownership of anything at all is just as ridiculous. cats have just as much right to claim ownership of stuff as people do, and they're one of the few species we interact with (without massacering them) that assert their ownership.
But they have the common sense to only assert temporary ownership. As soon as they walk away from something, they relinquish ownership. Humans are much stupider than that.My favourite quote from the article: When the online marketplace noticed her outrageous claims two years later
Two years? Seriously? Given the number of offers on the site, that would mean that the number of employees dedicated to ensuring that offers aren't scams would be... lemme think... multiply number of pages by scanning time... carry the one... take away the number you first thought of... Oh, cool! It comes out at a round number!
The number of people checking that their customers aren't being conned is... Precisely Zero!
Looks like too much effort is put into scraping as much money as possible out of the site, and almost no effort is put into customer safety and requirements.
The "microsoft testing method" is not appropriate to an environment where people can do harm.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's a non-armament treaty. I wasn't aware that she was stationing weapons on the Sun.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: That's a non-armament treaty.
I just followed the link from this Forbes page. I see nothing in there about it being a non-armament treaty.
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Um, the government article is from the "Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance", and the first sentence of the first paragraph reads:Quote: The Outer Space Treaty, as it is known, was the second of the so-called "nonarmament" treaties
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You mean you expected me to actually read things?
I went straight for Article II, which is what was being quoted.
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Quote: Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation
The lady ain't no nation, and won't build no military bases, so the terms of the treaty are irrelevant, which is why the Spanish court allowed -- and later defended -- her claim.
And yes, it's asinine, but, at least in this case, everyone involved made money out of it (especially the lawyers), secure in the knowledge that it wouldn't make a jot of difference to anything (unless, of course, people started trying to charge for the photons emitted from the square metres of their "property", which would make lawyers even happier).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Usually they add drugs to items to make them appealing not take them away. Does not sound like a successful business model.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I for one do not wish them well!
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I, for one, like Roman numerals
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Cp-Coder wrote: What is the world coming to?
A giant omelet; without egg. 
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Ah! Dec-oeuf!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I thought your french was bad, but you manage to make puns
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Some people prefer decaf coffee later in the day, and producing it typically means using solvents, so beans without caffeine would probably reduce costs.
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"premium" decaf (an oxymoron, no?) is decaffeinated with either super-critical (i.e., liquefied) CO2 or a water-based process.
Now technically, both are solvents (Imagine that! You willfully ingest that solvent water all the time hidden in all you eat and drink!) - but in either case, the 'fear factor' is gone form those who must have one.
And so far as I know, nothing about either method (let alone halogenated alkanes) is simply and selectively limited to just the caffeine - and hence the ruining of the coffee to various degrees when it is decaffeinated debouched.
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How brilliant! The whole point of coffee is the caffeine! 
What is the world coming to? 
