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It is also a major factor in global warming. This is a good thing. 

to reduce the cost, space, and energy of producing meat. 

no, but apple could at least make sure they are somewhat capable of handling a dose of daily life. they clearly know how to, because they have done so in the past, why cant they now? this thing is a BIG device, and its weakest point just so seems to be the axis right in the middle of its longest side, and from a quick look.. it doesnt look like apple has bothered with much extra bracing inside the chassis.
 
mind you, i'm not just against apple in this regard.. there's a lot of phone manufacturers that create stunning products that shatter if you look at them the wrong way.. i find it a very sad statement as a whole that in this current mobile device market, a brand like caterpillar can roll in and make a phone that is legitimately better than the majority of similarly priced phones.

That's some fine irony right there.

Seasonic is the OEM of many of Corsair's AX series PSUs. Their common OEM partners are Seasonic and Flextronics... Seasonic has always been a top tier PSU manufacturer.

people like you are the reason that people shut down any criticism of social media platforms censoring people with "it's not the government, 1a doesn't apply" instead of actually debating the whether we think it's ok morally. 
 
Also this really just seems like an extension causing it. 

There are no independent experts, not how that works. Read below
 

We don't know for sure yet, but here's some things to note. 


1. This doesn't happen to other non-counterfit electronics parts as far as I'm aware. This is not typical. 
 
2. They did this in norway too in the form of a lawsuit, and these were refurbs too. They lost. 

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/04/13/apple-lawsuit-repair-shop-norway/

3. This is a well known tactic of apple, it just typically happens to people that are less famous and people dont fight them. Everyone knows to avoid any third party parts with the apple logo, and even refurbs (which are legal). No one else uses this tactic, even again actual counterfeits, as "actual counterfeits" are typically not sold as original and bear the logo because they are made in the same factory, and just have the logo sharpied out sometimes. 

https://www.laweekly.com/news/fake-iphone-parts-alleged-to-be-worth-250-000-seized-in-san-gabriel-valley-three-arrested-2388286
https://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1788191-iPhone-screens-seized-by-US-Customs-cell-Phone-repair-is-illegal!
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/249947/iPhone+screens+seized+by+customs
https://www.local10.com/news/federal-agents-raid-smartphone-repair-shops_20151127205611881

No other company that makes consumer electronics that I know of feel it is in their interest to crack down on people repairing their devices, even with legal parts, using these means.  They typically only go after people selling counterfeit devices anyway, because that's actually undercutting them in a real way. 


4. Usually for any action to happen, Apple has to make a request to the government to have the stuff seized. It is up to the trademark owners to protect their trademark, and this is a trademark case. They typically report suspected trade violation to the CBP, like so here.

https://eallegations.cbp.gov/Home/Index2

CBP can just do it anyway of course, and believe it or not, in both cases they ask apple to verify if they are counterfeit or not, and apple can basically say "we don't know" and they are rejected. Apple is the final say, and they can claim "we can't tell" on legit parts all they want, perfectly legal to do that. They're not required to give a yes or no. 
The ONLY way the CPB does this automatically is if the manifest said "apple something" on it and they just seize that shit just in case. Why? This is a thing they are watching for. I wonder why. You can register your desire for them to watch for counterfeits of trademarked products. The CBP also lets trademark holders flag recipients for scrutiny. 


5. Up until very recently, Rolex used this kind of abuse of the system to seize any known Rolex watch entering the country. This included counterfeits of course, but legit watches and stamped parts were not allowed either. To order a rolex from outside the us, you had to deal with a seller who knew how to work around this. Typically, you are supposed to be fine ship 1 or two of them as a clear personal buyer, but ship more and they would be seized guaranteed, even if legit. Many people claimed to have their single watch shipments seized anyway.  
 Oh, and you can buy a "rolex" Chinese fake on the streets of new york for less than 20$. I know, I've seen it myself in 2009-2010, and I still hear this comparison. They were targeting legit ones and repair. The only legit way to get a rolex here was to wear or declare on a flight with a person. You could carry or wear ONE

6. There is no legit way to buy these parts, nor will apple fix the devices they are intended for.
 
7. Apple holds no grey market import restrictions as they likely don't qualify for it, being a worldwide trademark. 
 
https://iprs.cbp.gov/Pages/ResultDetail.aspx?id=103916&searchText=Apple AND Inc




People are alleging this is because Louis rossman just fire a big shot at apple on a major Canadian network. This is enough time for them to add him to a list and for a shipment to be intercepted. I doubt this, he was probably already on this list if they do the additional scrutiny option
 

Up to the mods. If you think it's crossed that point, you should report the post in which you think it happened, and explain in the report why you think what you do.

It's been proven time and time again that consumers don't care, even when caring is in their best interest. Your average consumer is uninformed about market conditions and neither knows nor cares enough to see the long term negative effects of their purchase. That's literally the whole reason why consumer protection laws exist in the first place. The "vote with your wallet" idea is fine in theory but completely broken in practice.

maybe market cap, it's impossible to be by units sold.

I doubt that you'll be able to find any cards at 500$ just like you can't find any 2080/2080ti's at msrp at the moment.

On top of that the price itself is too much too, a gtx 970 was 'only' 329$, 1070 was 379$ and now we're at 500$ for a 2070 just 2 years later. Can't image what the next series will cost if it keeps continuing like this.

A lot of people don't seem to realize, he isn't being sued for some random insult. Elon doubled down on the claim a second time at a later date. I guarantee this suit wouldn't have been brought were it not for that. 

Pauls isnt

The backlash against this seems a little ridiculous.
 
I'm actually surprised that if we've had this system for so long now, it's never been tested before. If something major happens to the country, I'd like to know about it. I don't get to watch TV or listen to the radio all day long so this would certainly reach me faster than anything else. 

The backlash against this seems a little ridiculous.
 
I'm actually surprised that if we've had this system for so long now, it's never been tested before. If something major happens to the country, I'd like to know about it. I don't get to watch TV or listen to the radio all day long so this would certainly reach me faster than anything else. 

*Finnish police during the investigation*

The best thing about that image is how they cleverly hide the notch

While I like my XZ1 Compact, can't say I've enjoyed the body looks of the XZ2/3 models...  Also don't like the removal of the 3.5 mm connector they started with the XZ2.  Still, at least they haven't put a stupid notch in the screen.  If they continue with that and also making the compact versions I might stick with the Sony devices.

HAH, that's nothing...
 

There is good news that are not lies,  in fact there is probably just as much good news out there as bad news, but bad news sells so you rarely hear the good news.   Why is it such a crime for people to want to filter out the over represented bad news every now and then?

10nm is an engineering failure from the so called "leading fab" in the world funded by the money printing machine named Intel. 7nm from GloFo was on track but their parent company doesn't want to bankroll more R&D because they aren't profitable. Not really the same problem

Performance per watt is different as performance doesn't scale straight up like that. For example, vega does amazingly well at lower powers but vega 64 still struggles to hold its own against the 1080. So I don't see this as an announcement of double performance. 

Its more of a:
Hey-Ho hey-ho where did your enterprise market go?

Educate yourself fool!
 
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