roamerz

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by roamerz 3y ago
> But you and I aren't entitled to a sustained monopoly because it benefits us. Does 20.1 percent market share constitute a monopoly?(2023 Forbes) Seems like people have plenty of choices of what kind of cell phone to purchase. >
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by roamerz 3y ago
>The fear of low-profitability is what drives that behavior Are you sure about that? Seems like a pretty bold statement where you would have to have some kind of inside information. I don't have anything to substantiate this but I w
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by roamerz 3y ago
If I opened a laundromat I doubt I’d need to fill out something for the DOE. I think this is nothing more than another agency using the DOE for a conduit to get that information for them.
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by roamerz 3y ago
Yeah I have had to make that call myself many times in the past. Never with FirstNet but definitely with AT&T and Verizon. It would be awesome if the carriers could put out a reliable announcement to the affected accounts that there is
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by roamerz 3y ago
Dang that's a bad look for them. Hopefully they can provide a thoughtful and honest postmortem.
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by roamerz 3y ago
I wonder if this extends to the Public Safety part of AT&T - FirstNet.
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by roamerz 3y ago
Thank you. The first link did not work. I think the correct one is: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLRB_v._Jones_%26_Laughlin_Ste... .
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by roamerz 3y ago
>which I'd say is fairly unconstitutional. Genuinely curious, what part of the Constitution protects their right to negotiate?
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by roamerz 3y ago
Cause and effect. The why’s matter not to me, the end user.
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by roamerz 3y ago
Just wow. Good for Apple! I DO want IOS to remain a walled garden as such. Look how many clicks those pesky do good gov regulators have a cost the world with those annoying "Yes I accept your damn cookies and privacy policy" on ev
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by roamerz 3y ago
> As a person responsible for maintaining a harbor in Lake Michigan, I am allowed to move 1 cubic yard of material a year, by hand, with a shovel looking at the picture he could have made a smaller channel moving the legal limit letting
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by roamerz 3y ago
It was an AM station so I wouldn’t rule out political motivations.
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by roamerz 3y ago
>There's just a look to them. Yup I’ve got a face for radio as well.
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by roamerz 3y ago
>The absolute void of interest to enforce the law is the problem here, not finding offenders. A couple of reasons come to mind: 1. Cops in our area are super busy handling call associated with theft, drug abuse, mental illness and homele
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by roamerz 3y ago
For the last few years they have had a bluetooth controller and a companion phone app. The other beauty of these is they have a data out port that is able stream the data for other applications such as overlaying the score on a live broadca
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by roamerz 3y ago
Interested to read up on that. Do you know of any articles that would provide an overview of how that works? In laymen’s terms?
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by roamerz 3y ago
That is likely true and I was in that game for awhile but tired of the effort required and the limited hardware that would be fully functional and reliable as a production device. With Apple it’s just easier and I can focus on other areas o
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by roamerz 3y ago
I would say to you that aren’t those very regulators to which you refer doing their very best to weaken the users ability to maintain privacy and not be snooped on? I don’t know about the EU but here in the U.S. there are always pushes afoo
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by roamerz 3y ago
I buy Apple products because in my opinion, they work on my behalf to protect my interests better than the other options available to me. I think they have been leading in this area and by virtue of competition have pushed other vendors to
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by roamerz 3y ago
If SCOTUS overturns the Chevron Doctrine it probably wouldn't matter much when this gets ruled on as it would likely be challenged after the fact. >>biased courts Yeah I totally am with you there. Courts should be about laws not
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by roamerz 3y ago
When I see that the plane has been in service for 30 years and has a cracked windshield I think less about the age of the glass and more about the rigidity of the airframe. Seems that as a plane ages out it would tend to stress those types
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by roamerz 3y ago
If I was openly criticizing the boss my expectation would be I was putting my continued employment at risk. That ain’t rocket science.
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by roamerz 3y ago
I think a better strategy that would require less ongoing maintenance would be for someone to build the mobile app and a routing server similar to what is in place now rather than reengineer the core server and mobile apps to use a differen
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by roamerz 3y ago
Pretty much all companies that care about making a profit and remaining viable offer loss leaders to build a customer base. I'm not saying that is what this is but it might be. I doubt the product would have been so widely adopted with
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by roamerz 3y ago
>> consider a worse chat experience with Android users a feature Well not really - it would be great if the sms feature set matched imessage. The main benefit to me when I see blue is that I know that person is probably at least authe
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by roamerz 3y ago
>> And it matters to me that my choice of device impacts the users I interact with. Interesting. How does this impact an Android user who sends text to you? To them everyone is green (or whatever color Android uses) correct?
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by roamerz 3y ago
>> it will be hard for apple to continue to claim they are pro-user when they appear to be this hostile toward android users. They are pro user - for Apple ecosystem users that is. And I’m good with that. Disclaimer: Yup I’m an Apple
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by roamerz 3y ago
>>and everyone is happy Except for the cars trucks and busses.. you know the ones who actually pay for such infrastructure. I would be more okay with such things if they separated the costs and made the bike lanes tolled or funded by
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by roamerz 3y ago
>Yeah, I know. It hasn’t worked out that way. This is where the writers of the Constitution missed the boat a little. With all of their smarts they probably could have written something in there to hold accountable those who would have a
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by roamerz 3y ago
Weapons systems used to be pretty hush hush. I wonder how much of the information you see these days is propaganda designed to mislead.

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