Granted this was 15 years ago. The market was a lot different than it is now.
That being said, most people still buy their phones through their carrier. So whatever the carrier sales reps get paid the most to sell is what they push people towards.
Eh. Apps were still fairly new in 2010. It launched around the same time as the iPhone 4. Heck, the iPhone was still officially only available from AT&T at the time.
It looked like a knockoff iPhone 3G with a slide out keyboard, so it was at least twice the size. Lack of apps and social media weren’t what killed the Kin.
The entire system was designed around landowners being the only voters. So that meant only rich white men. Who had the time, personal desire, and societal expectation to stay current on social changes and the economy. They also had every reason to vote whenever possible. The core electoral system is based around these expectations and has had very few changes since it was created.
As voting rights were extended to more groups, the built-in structure of the system wasn’t updated. The rich landowners have every reason to vote, and the free time to do so and travel if needed. The system relies on an educated voting populace, which was already an expectation of those that were allowed to vote.
Modern Republicans have used those built in structural expectations to their advantage. And since lower turnout tends to go their way, they try to force that however they can, and regularly have courts throw their egregious shit out. So for decades now they have focused on replacing judges with sycophants in every state and federal opening they can. If those judges won’t throw out the bullshit, then they can do what they want.
Just in time for China’s 400% increase in gasoline vehicle exports since their citizens are buying EVs instead.
Every time this topic comes up it reminds me of this Gianmarco Soresi bit.
So did anyones live get saved by his action?
Yes actually. Insurance companies across the board suddenly started approving claims at a noticeably higher rate immediately after. A large enough increase that it was immediately felt by consumers and the media even covered the change. Thousands of lives were demonstrably improved by not having to deal with bullshit fights over claims being systematically denied by default like they had been.
Russia has been pretty reliable for ISS transit ever since they launched the first module for it back in 1998. Despite political bluster, they’ve followed through when needed. Including after we unilaterally decided to decommission to Shuttle with no replacement, leaving Soyuz as the only crew transit option available at all.
Oh look a Canadian that can’t see their own descent into the far right fascist rabbit hole on the horizon. Somehow even watching the US, you seem to still be headed that direction as if it couldn’t possibly happen in Canada. Because… reasons?
We look like fucking morons on the world stage.
The only sort of solace to this, is that many other countries are clearly following the same path, so its not something inherent to just the US. Idiots are everywhere, and they vote.
Everyone is pointing to the US, but the same initial precursors are happening under their own nose.
Of course, he was a head of state. He shouldn’t have even been charged. Duh.
I hope this strips off more MAGAts from the group.
And yet Proton is Swiss.
Oh people have definitely used corn for that. It is a phallic shape.
To be fair, corn is native to the Americas. And it can be made into virtually anything: food, fuel, cleaning products, even plastic (PLA).
That assumes they would even bother with the case. They easily could just refuse to even hear it when he inevitably appeals it all the way there.
the asker must know and trust the one providing the answer.
This is possible if there’s a central authority for that that everyone can agree to trust, like the government records directly. The issue is ensuring the rest of the chain remains anonymous so the only thing the authority gets is the request that an undisclosed service is verifying John Doe is 18+ and nothing else. And that’s not something many governments are going to want to allow with the increasingly alarming amount of authoritarian leadership.
So does most English print media and editorial content. They give a synopsis of what he supposedly was trying to say instead of putting his actual babble in it’s entirety most of the time.
Not at all. Just that the Republican majority isn’t willing to cross the line of fraudulently claiming something as serious as sedition at the moment.
The Republican machine is quiet because they know that crossed a line they don’t want to be directly associated with in the inevitable aftermath of prosecutions from this shit.
Literally the second paragraph, and the entire reason this article was written is because of the AirDrop compatibility being new:
Today, we’re introducing a way for Quick Share to work with AirDrop. This makes file transfer easier between iPhones and Android devices, and starts rolling out today to the Pixel 10 family.
The first step is ranked choice voting for everything from local to federal elections.
First past the post is literally the worst way to operate a voting system of your goal is to get an accurate representation of the populace.