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jerryy commented on the diary post Apple’s Two Faces: Power Gaps Between Brazil and China Foxconn Workers by Michelle Chen.
Vastly simplifying the difference between China and Brazil: both have huge markets, but Brazil’s labor pool is proactively protected, while China’s is not. “Brazil currently puts a hefty fee on imported goods. Despite these (which reportedly can triple prices) iPhone already accounts for an estimated 10 percent of local smartphone sales.” “There are some countries [...]
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jerryy commented on the blog post Apple Holding $60 Billion in Offshore Reserves for Ransom
You are mistaken in your claims.
The OS (operating system) is open source, called Darwin, it is free, you can install it on a variety of hardware setups. The GUI (graphical user interface) is what Apple restricts to their own hardware — that makes sure it actually runs on the hardware. Should you really push it, there is a thriving online community (look up Hacintosh) that will show you how to get the GUI part running on generic computers.
The price of the complete OS and GIU package has never been very high, the most any Apple OS and GUI package has cost is $129 — without needing any special phone home license numbers — compare that to the ‘generous’ terms offered by Microsoft, which are not. Nowadays the complete OS and GUI costs around $49..
Also, your claim about the hardware lockdown is misleading. Open up a Mac Tower computer. Making internal equipment changes does not get easier. Adding memory to any Mac machine that can actually use it is straight forward. Yup the iPhones and iPads are sealed pretty tight, but most folks do not want to open them up. As well as most folks do not want to replace motherboards on their computers, so those are a bit more harder to get at.
Lastly, now pay attention to what is written. the complaints about about the high prices and low quantities were from the older times when Apple had assembly lines here in the US. Not now, then. Long before the idea of unibody computers was even thought of. Now the prices are low and requested quantities are available.
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jerryy commented on the blog post Apple Holding $60 Billion in Offshore Reserves for Ransom
Ms. Rosalind, you might want to reread the report you are citing. It mentions Apple twice in the whole thing, first in a chart that lists corporate incomes and second in a line saying that Apple is asking for a repatriation holiday. None of the mentions are connected to the paragraph you quote.
In 2010, Apple paid an effective 24% US income tax (they paid $4.53 billion in US taxes. In 2011, they paid $8.52 billion in US taxes) much higher rate than many other US companies, especially upper income US companies.
The income Apple has outside the US comes from selling products outside the US.
Apple employs quite a few seasonal, part time and full time employees in the US abd also creates quite a few indirect jobs as well. (Yes, they create quite a few direct and indirect jobs in other countries as well, but they do it here as well.)
btw, GE has over 90 billion parked outside the US.
This is a weird attack on Apple, it used to be when Apple had assembly lines in the US, folks complained that the prices were ‘too high’ and ‘not available in large quantities’ so business buyers would not buy Apple’s products in large quantities, except for graphics departments.
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jerryy commented on the blog post Debating Whether It Is Legal to Kill US Citizens Abroad
Mr. Hitches is no longer around to defend his views, but his thoughts on Islam extended to all religions.
Mr. Dawkins is still around; he would prefer you use evidewnce to back up your claims:
“The mission of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science is to support scientific education, critical thinking and evidence-based understanding of the natural world in the quest to overcome religious fundamentalism, superstition, intolerance and suffering.”
He too has a view towards religions.
Without evidence, murdering Anwar and Khan, and Anwar’s son is just that — murder.
What you are advocating is the same as killing the clerk at Kinkos that helps a walk-in customer make photocopies, under the guise of the cleark must be the propgandist for some mafia organization.
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jerryy commented on the diary post Hey, Did You Happen to See the Most Beautiful Girl in the World? by Jane Hamsher.
I certainly hope that this turns out well for you and her. You do have the grace, don’t worry about the composure, that is what privacy is for.
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jerryy commented on the blog post Greenpeace: #OccupyDuke Energy in Asheville North Carolina
Greenpeace also sent out an email announcement aimed at collecting signatures:
A long URL.
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jerryy commented on the blog post Dan Choi Tarsands Trial Continues Today
1250 people arrested at the White House during the Tar Sands action
None had previous criminal records previous criminal records are normally a factor in deciding who to prosecute.
That is amazing considering that almost 7% of the US population has a criminal record (with about 1 in 15 people doing jailtime at some point). You would expect that around 88 of the 1250 would be joining Dan.
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jerryy commented on the blog post Nothing About the Insurance Market Makes the Individual Mandate Legally Unique
What you are using for your cost is more of a ‘gross average payout’ than a cost per person. Averages hide quite a bit. Say for example, a few hundred of the payouts are for cancer treatments, which is expensive, the payouts quickly overwhelm the ratio.
(It is the Bill Gates problem: put BG in a room with a 100 fast food employees, the average wage in the room is multimillionaire, even though all 100 fast food workers incomes put together will not add up to a single million.)
To further Jon’s point, suppose the next time there is a crisis in the auto industry (given the economy …) the administration decides all folks in New York City, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco that take public transportation must buy a car. This economic activity will benefit car companies and cause a major disaster in those cities. Just finding the parking space for all of those apartment dwellers to put the cars is gonna be rough.
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jerryy commented on the blog post Light Bulb Industry Angered by Delay of Tougher Light Bulb Efficiency Standards (?)
The LED holiday lights are much better than they used to be, You point is well taken, holiday lighting as neat and wonderful as it is makes the numbers on the meter spin faster.
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jerryy commented on the blog post Light Bulb Industry Angered by Delay of Tougher Light Bulb Efficiency Standards (?)
Have you looked at the dimmer switches from Lutron? They work with dimmable CFL and LED bulbs.
http://www.lutron.com/Education-Training/LCE/Pages/DimmingCFLsandLEDs.aspx
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jerryy commented on the diary post House GOP Dim Bulbs’ Bright Idea? Raise Your Utility Bill by Scarecrow.
Appeals to authority are useful. You were engaging in ad hominem. Reread the timeline. I did bring in the word tungsten, it replaced the word incandescent that you were using. You are saying that mercury wil being dumped into the environment (somehow the very small amounts from a cfl bulb is worse than the large [...]
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jerryy commented on the diary post House GOP Dim Bulbs’ Bright Idea? Raise Your Utility Bill by Scarecrow.
There are several folks that blog and comment here that are pretty good at probability, perhaps you might consult with them as to the veracity of your line “So you accidentally stumbled upon and cited only sources that bolster your claim. It could happen.” “Pointing out risks is great. Good man. Ignoring relative magnitude (tungsten [...]
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jerryy commented on the diary post House GOP Dim Bulbs’ Bright Idea? Raise Your Utility Bill by Scarecrow.
“OK, so you select sources that bolster your claim, and ignore the ones that don’t.” You are making claims without presenting any evidence, you have no idea which sources I have considered. I have not understated any risk, I pointed out risks you have not even alluded to. :^) Try LED lights, they are pretty [...]
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jerryy commented on the diary post House GOP Dim Bulbs’ Bright Idea? Raise Your Utility Bill by Scarecrow.
I additionally point out the the EPA is releasing new standards for coal burning plants release of toxics, but expect the congress critter to once again prevent them from going into effect. Even with the Supreme Court basically telling the congress critters to let the EPA do its job.
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jerryy commented on the diary post House GOP Dim Bulbs’ Bright Idea? Raise Your Utility Bill by Scarecrow.
A CFL containing 5 mg of mercury breaks in your child’s bedroom that has a volume of about 25 m3 (which corresponds to a medium sized bedroom). The entire 5 mg of mercury vaporizes immediately (an unlikely occurrence), resulting in an airborne mercury concentration in this room of 0.2 mg/m3. This concentration will decrease with [...]
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jerryy commented on the diary post House GOP Dim Bulbs’ Bright Idea? Raise Your Utility Bill by Scarecrow.
Well, I hope I do not ruin your evening, but if you recall incandescent bulbs use tungsten for filaments. http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2396656 Tungsten is listed as an “emerging contaminant of concern” by the Defense Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, although its overall toxicity is low compared to lead or mercury. Chronic exposure can cause respiratory and [...]
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jerryy commented on the diary post House GOP Dim Bulbs’ Bright Idea? Raise Your Utility Bill by Scarecrow.
Thank you for pointing that out. Yeah, Faux Noise does breathe life into some zombie whoppers.
I figured I was better off not finding out if I was too close to a link-quote limit, just stick with the starting information and gofrom there.
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jerryy commented on the diary post House GOP Dim Bulbs’ Bright Idea? Raise Your Utility Bill by Scarecrow.
That depends on a lot more assumptions than you are putting forth in your argument. For example, older still functional toilets use up to five gallons of water per flush. New ones are right around 1.28 gallons per flush. Consider how many times per day one person uses the toilet, or how many times per [...]
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jerryy commented on the diary post House GOP Dim Bulbs’ Bright Idea? Raise Your Utility Bill by Scarecrow.
For some useful information about new lighting: http://www.gelighting.com/na/home_lighting/ask_us/faq_compact.htm CFL == compact fluorescent light “CFLs contain a very small amount of mercury sealed within the glass tubing – an average of 5 milligrams (roughly equivalent to the tip of a ball-point pen). Mercury is an essential, irreplaceable element in CFLs and is what allows the bulb [...]
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jerryy commented on the blog post Obama, Romney Neck and Neck in Key Swing States
So far if we are to believe these polls. it looks like President Obama might be able to beat fellow Republicans in the upcoming elections.
Did the poll takers ask to see how he would fare against an Independent or a Democratic opponent?
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