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MrEd57076 t1_j29jxju wrote

You are trying really hard to defend nothing. If it wasn't for oil, them fools would be back to herding goats across the desert. I am looking forward to the day when technology renders them and their people, and anyone who defends them, irrelevant and puts them back where they belong. In their 3rd world cesspool with the goats as their girlfriends. Nothing in the entire middle east is worth fighting for except the oil. After that is gone, or no longer needed, they will be a forgotten footnote in history. A once was who was never respected or admired. Simply tolerated.

Edited, to take into account the douchnozzle defending them.

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KruppeTheWise t1_j29inbx wrote

The original iPhone was an iPod with phone capabilities. No app store. If you tried to tell anyone how big apps would get in 2008, they would laugh in your face.

The current gaming and meeting gimmicks VR is viewed as are analogous to slapping a SIM into an iPod and saying here, iPhone.

The company that makes the VR equivalent of the original iPhone could end up with something worth what the current Appstore is worth, with around $100 billion gross, if they can catch that lighting and stay on top of the market.

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Not_floridaman t1_j29gw1h wrote

The lightning McQueen is really fun! My son will sit there with it for 20-30 minutes!

As for the lock, yes I do. My husband is super paranoid but what sold him is that we can give it "guest codes" do they don't get our actual code and we can delete the guest codes as often as you need to so no one who shouldn't have access can't just walk in. My husband works weird hours sometimes coming home after midnight or gone overnight and I wasn't the best at remembering to lock the door so it's really, really nice not having to go back downstairs to lock the door if I forgot to until I had gotten into bed or he'll check when he's working and lock it for me (sounds creepier than it is lol, I'm just really forgetful and grew up in a house where we never locked the front door).

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0x1a3c3e7 t1_j29e19a wrote

Intellectual property, geographic exclusivity, superfluous consumer safety and environmental protections, zoning laws, high licensing fees and heavy licensing requirements, special tax laws, local ordinances.

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0x1a3c3e7 t1_j29d0tv wrote

In a normally functioning free market, this would draw competition and eliminate bad practices. That this is not happening means the market is protected by anti-competitive regulations. Regulations that were written and passed by the same schmucks who tried to fool us with this bill.

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Omnizoom t1_j29d0i8 wrote

Perfect example was fixing a wire on my dishwasher , one wire got chewed and it was chewed to close to connector for me to just splice it , I needed one connector and 3 small wires , that’s it , my only option was to spend 250 for the entire wire assembly

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