Posts by Rampant Spaniel

Winklevoss twins claim to have enormo $11m Bitcoin stash

No but it would be an idea!

But seriously, what I was saying, and what you will find elsewhere (you alluded to it yourself when you mentioned Barclays) is that when you come into money via some level of chance rather than skill, what you do with your money should be guided by your skills. If you earned the money entirely via your own efforts then you will have a diverse portfolio, you will make decisions about investments in the areas you understand, but you will use other peoples talent to grow your money outside of those areas.

Say you are an amateur metal detectorist, you find a huge horde of gold and get your 50% of it. Now, do you take it upon yourself to go into the precious metals market, or do you buy yourself a new metal detector and invest the rest in funds managed by people who at least supposedly should understand the investments they make and have a proven long term track record of a decent ROI. My thoughts were just that they basically seem to have found themselves in a very good situation and seem to be taking very large risks (bitcoins and internet VC, yes you might find the next twitter or youtube or amazon but honestly the odds are stacked against you and even when you do hit it big how long will it last? AOL, Yahoo, Myspace even Hulu now is looking a little suspect). I guess there is the easy come, easy go mentality, but personally I'm not sure I would be taking as many risks using my own knowledge. VC is a tough field, even the best investors lose more times than they win (the key is that they make more when they win then the sum of their loses). It's their money and their call :)

Re: whats PG ?

Haven't seen the movie :-) They had a good idea, but once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is proof ! To be fair, relying on an oral contract and no nda isn't great either.

sorry pinot gris :-) Significantly nicer than rehydrated twigs ;-)

So they lucked out on somewhere in the region of 220 million, and decided to becom venture capitalists and buy some bitcoins? I must be strange as frankly if I lucked out on that kind of money (as opposed to having the skills to earn it) I would be on the beach with a few bottles of PG. I'm not sure I would be playing roulette with internet startups (as they have never ever been associated with bubbles) or bitcoins.

Dubai splurges on 700hp, 217mph Lamborghini police cruiser

Re: 911

The babylon do frequently use 'police spec' cars, although exactly what that means varies (larger fuel tanks, tuning etc).

As for the 5 series, it may be lowered but I doubt by much as it would leave them having to slow excessively for speed humps in a chase. The clue is the blue light on, the popo is just ragging the car and has switched lanes loading up the suspension on that side making it appear closer to the ground.

I'm all for them having suitible cars, it makes sense that at least some of them have more poke then a corsa. Engaging in 200mph chases is a little risky however. You also know some idiots will take racing the local plod supercar as a badge of honor.

Oh S**T, here comes a robot to take my job

Re: Patients?

As for robots :-) You design a robot that can do tasks we need, make it intelligent so it can do them well, make a robot to build the robots and another to maintain them. Now the human race relaxes and does 'what it wants'.

I can tell you where that ends, quickly and painfully with you down a mine somewhere digging up ore for your robot overlords. Without the need to push yourself the vast majority of the human race would end up obese simpletons ripe for subjugation. Go look at somewhere like Wythenshawe, tell me theres no such thing as devolution (in the social sense, as most of our recent evolution has been mental \ social) once the need to work is removed.

Re: Patients?

@James

Actually no, I didn't fail to notice. I did actually address it. I said we need a system like the US which BETTER supports (i.e. more money) those who have worked but genuinely have issues paid for by not being so generous to those who haven't ever worked although they are able. I agree entirely that during a recession even people who made the right choices in life will find themselves out of work. They deserve a living wage whilst out of work until things pick up and they get another job. The people out of work during the middle of an economic boom for no good reason, why should they get more than they need to avoid starvation?

Take the money from them and give it to the people who did work and now can't find work so they can keep their house and feed their kids. Provide them with free training, relocation assistance, actual useful help. Why take what they need and see them lose their house or not afford clothes for their kids just so somebody else who has no intention of working ever?

Re: Patients?

ok so who pays for it? We all get to do whatever we want but who picks up the bill and who does the jobs nobody wants to do?

Re: Patients?

There is usually more work than people think. They just live in the wrong area of the country, don't want to retrain or don't want to take a job 'beneath them'.

People say universal employment is gone, it probably is (and was probably never truly here), but how much of the gap (across the entire economic cycle) is people who have made poor decisions. My experience, across two economic cycles is a total of just under 6 weeks of unemployment about half of which was due to an illness. I had to move across the country and also moved countries entirely (although not for work), I have left a cushy lab job and worked the next day as a labourer. Should I ever need it I would love for social security \ welfare to be there, but as a stop gap or a safety net, not a way of life. Sometimes you have to fight like hell to get a job and do stuff you never imagined you would end up doing, and when the economy goes to shit you may spend some time out of work.

It just isn't economically sound nor in the best interests of the country to turn around and remove the financial incentive to work. We would be significantly more broke. Yes families have to eat and as I suggested there is an alternative system that actually does a better job of protecting those out of work, but there is a strong incentive to find more work built into it. If we protected the system from abuse better it would be far better equipped to help those who truly need it. You can wait all your life for another post as an assistant deputy executive in marketing, or you can roll up your sleeves and clean shitters on a work site until you can retrain and find a better job. I'm sorry if this is coming across as insensitive, it's tough to phrase it better, but I think sometimes people need a wee push for their own good. Look how many people didn't have work in the UK between 2003 and 2008. We were bussing in eastern euros to work on farms, too many people already here turned their noses up at work like that, too hard, not enough money, those people really piss me off.

Re: Patients?

Then where is the motivation for people to work? We already have literally millions of people who have made themselves unemployable. Yes there are also many who are unemployed or on reduced incomes through no fault of their own and these people truly deserve adequate support until they find work, but subsidising people who haven't ever worked and have no intention of working is fundamentally unfair. There is an obvious exception for those truly unable to work, but far too many people just made bad choices. I would strongly favour replacing the UK 'dole' with something similar to the US system where unemployment benefit is related to your salary and length on contribution and time limited (this period has been extended during times of mass unemployment). So if you have a family, mortgage, car etc and get canned, you can get by without losing the house etc for a year or so (longer in a depression) giving you time to get another job and not have your life ruined. Should you have never worked and be in reasonable physical & mental health (i.e. not genuinely precluded from work) then expect food stamps that cannot be spent on bingo, fags or stella.

Social security is incredibly important, but so is protecting it from abuse. An outright guarantee of a liveable wage (i.e. significantly more than welfare) would just be abused by too many.

'Sorry, I don't get the drama around having an always-on console'

I don't see talktalk suggesting they are willing to pony up the 10's of billions it would take to ftth the entire country. As much as I am not a fan of BT or their dithering, I can respect the not wanting to hock the entire company twice over to pay for a new network that will just handed over to offtwat to set the prices at the whim of lobbying and uninformed public opinion.

WTF is... H.265 aka HEVC?

Re: Patients?

Sorry, my fault for not being clear :-) I was attempting to say that by adding your patents to a standard you are losing control to some degree of the sale of the patent so in doing so you are saying I am choosing a lot of units sold at a low price over fewer higher priced sales and the ability to control it's sale ala Apple vs Samsung. You cannot withold sales to stomp on a competitor as its adoption as a standard forces people to need it.

Not only do they have to sell their patents, they pretty much have to do it at a sane price to everyone (even companies they don't like) otherwise you get no sales. If they scuppered h265 was a silly price then webm v9 or similar would become the dominant codec and h265 would fade into insignificance (like memory sticks, but again I think that was semi intentional to keep them limited).

Now it doesn't mean it's free and it still causes issues for free os's but a patent pack for a few bucks covering all your reasonable media needs is a reasonable proposition (at least to me, probably even a few more bucks if it was cross platform and multi device). There is also the potential for an ad supported media player with codecs by someone like google. Free is nice, but not everything can be completely free in all ways all the time.

Re: Patients?

If you mean me, no I was saying the opposite, that the pricing isn't an issue unless you want everything free. The pricing seems to be set at very sane levels.

Re: want it for computer monitor

They have been around for a while, Barco? and Eizo, they just cost a fair bit :-) Even in the past year it has been 30-40K USD territory.

Re: The benefits to streaming

@Jeddiah

True but it is 50% via compression plus X% via improvements in broadband speed. You cableco updates to a newer docsis or just upgrades capacity and all of a sudden you have the extra capacity you need. Our cableco doubled our connection speeds for no extra cost last year. This is one step in the right direction, others will also help :-)

Re: Math problems

2K is very close to HD (within a few percent) and HD seems to be selling well. UHD is just as close to 4k. I would suggest you wait until you can see uhd footage on a uhd screen before making concrete judgements about it. Once the cost falls, there is more content and we can see it in action there may be more of an argument for it. UHD should be streamable at 8-12mbps for average quality, closed to 20mbps for crisper pictures. Not exactly impossible or out of reach today. My home connection is nothing special but could probably manage a single uhd stream. It currently handles a couple of netflix hd streams.

You may be right about people not wanting it, I said the same about 3d, but only after I saw it in action. I've seen true 4k footage and UHD and it's pretty darn awesome but I haven't seen it side by side with HD on the same size screen yet so I'm waiting.

Re: Ah, another patent encumbered format

Honest question, can't you just reverse engineer your own version of the codec? Isn't that how it's currently done anyway?

Re: Patients?

All those patents aren't worth jack if you price it at a level where it's cheaper to use an alternative. Given this is a standard patents should be available under FRAND terms, there will probably also be a patent pool. Patents didn't kill Mpeg2, h.264 nor will they kill h.265. Now what they did to memory sticks, thats another story but I think that was semi intentional.

On another note, UHD is not 4k x 2k, it is UHD, 4k is 4k. Sorry :-) They are actually at least 2 distinct resolutions (4k actually does have a couple of flavours, neither of them taste of UHD) but its a minor point. I shall climb back under a rock now lol

This is good, I can see it being adopted quickly by the likes of netflix, amazon (prime), Hulu et al as it should save them money and it's a selling point for phones. The $1-$2 (probably lower in bulk) in royalties it will add to a handset you should recoup in reduced data costs as a user. I remember reading some earlier documents on h.265 which said they aimed for it to be less processor intensive than h.265. Quite whether that took into account the rate at which processors advance I'm not sure but given that relatively low end arm chips should be able to chew this stuff once its hard coded in I can't see it being the monster that Blurays were initially, where the players needed a relatively high amount of grunt for the time. This should also go a long way to smoothing the transition to UHD discs, coupled with all the newer higher capacity bluray prototypes out there UHD should be relatively easy to do. Sets are now on the market and getting cheaper, hdmi caught up (no more 4 cable bodges) in 3-5 years UHD should be about mainstream (maybe $1200 sets, $250 players, $30 bluray 2.0 discs, streamable on 10mbps that kind of level). Lets see if it sticks better than 3d :-)

Tech titans team up to push immigration reform

Exactly, and attracting talent should be about the best and the brightest, not entry level engineering jobs. We should have a system that brings the very best talent out there into the economy, not those in the 'engine room'.

Bringing in BSc's does very little for improving the chance of people at the bottom of the ladder moving up, bringing in people at the top of the ladder creates more ladders.

Re: The real reason...

True. Or we could fix our education system. Or implement a system whereby if a company wants to bring someone into the country, someone already there (who hasn't ever worked but could have) gets to swap and have their 'vacation' paid for by additional taxes on the inbound person or additional taxes pay for education.

We have too many people who are unemployable through their own choice, we have too many people trained in things they wanted to do, not that we need as a society, we have a poor education system that obviously isn't serving our needs.

Also why does google, fb etc not just open an office over there and keep the programmers in India or wherever? Easier, cheaper etc. Intel has offices abroad (don't they have a significant design facility in Israel?). It's coding, it's not like there is a complicated supply chain to manage or local resources to keep close to. Hell one guy even managed to outsource his work to China for ages before anyone noticed! I just think the current situation is not the best answer for the entire country (but is for a few companies), unpopular as my thoughts may be :)

Dinosaur embryos FOUND: Resurrection 'out of the question'* - boffin

Re: Patients?

heh, that was an sgi crimson iirc? Didn't they do a hollywood and have something like a quadra sat on the desk though with the monitor hooked up to the crimson?

Re: Patients?

Check France, they have been acting a little shifty lately. Perhaps trying to find a dino frog with huge legs?

IBM Australia on the stand over $1bn blowout

Re: Patients?

and even sadder, the same company comes back to bid again, and often wins more contracts.

This was a payroll system right? Pretty much the same thing many companies manage to do pretty well most of the time (my experience is that screwups are usually user generated) yet their hideously expensive version of sage still can't get it right. Managers from both the government and IBM need to be taken out a beaten as an example. This BS has to stop but it won't until people are actually accountable. Having done a stint on the railways (engineering) I noted more caution when mistakes potentially meant jail (and the very least the end of your career) then elsewhere when it meant reaching for the excuse book, then turning it into some weird kind of success and getting a bonus.

Hey Intel, Microsoft: Share those profits with your PC pals, eh? - analyst

Re: Why is there such a disconnect

True and also neither the new hardware or OS doesn't add anything you WANT :-) No sit up and beg awesomeness.

Re: Mature market

I could be very wrong about this, but the 'mobile space' seems to be innovating and accelerating far quicker than the desktop arena. Desktop and laptop cpu's seem to be plodding along with modest incremental gains (at least for intel) where each year you get maybe a 10-15% boost. Mobile chips seem to be approximately doubling in speed (not mhz, but gflops). Amd are no longer lighting a fire under intel. Ultrabooks seem to be pushing cpu development towards graphics.

What I would love to see is Intel take something like the 4770, throw away the gfx part of the die and add more cache and cores then put it in a workstation laptop (lenovo w series?) with decent cooling . Now make it actually scale performance, so when it's on mains it runs circa 80w but drops speed and watts on battery. I have heard intel make noises about it in the past but their laptop chips always seem to take a performance hit. I would pay good money for that, add a 17inch 4k screen and I'd pay a hell of a lot more (especially if the OS played nice at that res, would be perfect for photo editing). Theres just not much exciting going on, it's all nice safe incremental updates. Apple to their credit are pushing screen resolutions up. Spending $2k -$5 on a laptop or a desktop, it's got to deliver something wow, and honestly it's too easy to go thats too close to what I have, lets wait till next year oh and maybe grab a tablet as they are relatively cheap and fairly versatile, especially with remote desktop.

Google asks Blighty to slave over its Maps for FREE

Re: Patients?

Not a cheap shot, but I thought Apple should have done something similar to this when they switched. If they had been upfront and said, this is basically an open beta, please send feedback, heres how to do it, less piss may have been showered on their bonfire. The issue there was it was launched as 'something so good Jesus would have only spent 4 hours in the desert if he had an iphone' when in reality he probably would have died in the middle of an Aussie national park.

Re: Patients?

No Dragons?

French spies do a Barbara Streisand over secret nuke radio base

Re: Deliberate misinformation?

I was thinking along similar lines. Drawing attention to this site would give them more freedom to get up to whatever they want at another installation because this place will now be tinfoil hat central.

Microsoft Xbox gaffe reveals cloudy arrogance

Re: @censored

I have a battery powered house (well parts of it anyway lol) for a minute or two until the genny can be started. if you had a dodgy street supply you would too. Not everyone lives in a city with lte and fibre and awesome utilities, those of us that don't adapt :-)

@censored

And why is that?

Whilst the 'looking over the shoulder' aspect is annoying, always on is simply impractical for many people. Our power supply is about as stable as a pisshead on a tightrope. Not a huge issue as gennies and ups smoothes it out but when ther power is out the internet is down. I'm not going to spend money on a console and games that need an always on connection for ridonkukous reasons like advertising (like it will make games cheaper?) or anti piracy (seriously, wtf would I pay 70bucks for a game so you can cripple it when its offline because you can't devise an effective protection system). I loved our ps3 as a games console and media center, would consider an xbox 720 but the ps4 is coming home if ms try this.

Ahoy! Google asks US gov't to help sink patent 'privateers'

Re: Is there another side?

The issue with getting tough on patents at filing (and it's not that I disagree with you, but there is another side) is that it would greatly increase the cost of filing a patent. There is a choice, extensive vetting beforehand at greater cost, or vet later via the courts if there is an issue. On balance they decided upon vetting when a problem arises to reduce the initial cost of filing. Neither way is perfect, but there is a flip side.

The cynic in me believes that perhaps the method they chose results in more money for lawyers. Perhaps a better starting point would involve lawyers and deep wells.

Movie bosses demand Google take down takedown notices

Re: No adverts

There was me thinking I was the only one lol. I get they make it cheaper, but honestly I'd be happier to pay extra not to have the adverts and just throw an extra couple of shows on a day to fill the gaps. Hulu seriously pissed me off with those (and the fact that quite a few shows just redirect you to other sites), just double the damn price and let me watch. At least give us the option, it would be really easy to do with web streaming as it wouldn't impact scheduling any. Hulu is cheap, triple the cost and stream all the major stuff directly and throw in offline viewing \ cacheing then I would be happy. Hell even more than triple if you throw in movies. I won;t break the law to get what I want, I'll just spend my money elsewhere. If you want my money sell me something decent.

NORKS closes South-Korea-run industrial enclave

Re: Are the South Koreans Sorks?

Perhaps you are right, or at least would have been right decades ago. Honestly these days the emotions north koreans envoke is sympathy rather than hatred. Perhaps hatred towards one or two of them, but living in America, what I hear is pity for the poor buggers living such tough lives under the mental smurf. Pretty much one of the last countries you would expect to be sympathetic to norks given the history, rhetoric and political ideologies. I'm sure if you look hard enough you'll find people with plenty bad to say, but you always will, theres always a loony for every cause.

I can understand the motivation and obligation the US is under but I don't believe there is any political or social will for a conflict given the past 12 years. Nor do I believe China or Russia want to see a conflict, it would be bad for business, the US wouldn't be buying the weapons and the norks have no money to, so it's just going to damage their economies. There will be lots of cock measuring then somebody will throw them a tanker of fertiliser and it will all calm down again.

Do as I say not as I do.

Seems to be the tyrants creedo.

Uses a macbook, follows decadent capitalist sports, sports an unauthorised haircut, wears nikes, porks out whilst his peeps starve. No matter my thoughts on his political ideology, the man is a festering cnut of the highest order. The ideology is nothing but a method of control rather than his belief.

Norkoshop: How Pyongyang well and truly forked Adobe

Re: Topic? What's a topic?

I passed 2k a while back, it's no worry. Someone probably duffed the cronjob settings ;-) Just enjoy the chaos.

Re: I bow my head in utter respect

Truly superb! Plus any excuse to say they forked the gimp is worth a shot.

Disney shutters Star Wars game unit with 200 layoffs

Re: @Ledswinger

Thank you both! Although my children may now starve ;-) When a 'fanbase' for want of a better word, goes to these lengths it's crazy not to put out another game. They could have some serious fun with modern graphics, allow you to fly into atmospheres with realistic clouds and terrain etc. I'd happily pay 60 bucks for that game and it seems plenty of others would too!

Whilst this is extremely hard for the staff, I hope they will get picked up quickly, perhaps this is a good oppertunity for someone to pickup the rights to xwing \ tie etc and release new updated versions. Perhaps I am donning rose tinted goggles but they were epic games and are probably some of the few titles that I would actually pay current game prices to purchase. I spent a lot of time attacking corvettes etc would be awesome to see those games brought bang up to date! I hadn't heard any rumours about LA doing it, disney wouldn't have a clue themselves so maybe someone else will buy the rights, would make sense for them to grab some of the staff as well. Maybe add a bonus level where you just slay that jamjar creature!

Swedish judge explains big obstacles to US Assange extradition

Can he be extradited from a European country to potentially face the death penalty? I thought that was blocked?

Australia to reveal tech giants' tax tricks

Re: Very badly written sorry

Nicely written, thank you for the explanation.

However I must take issue with one part re the incompetence. They do have some minimal level, look at the m50. The EU paid for the vast majority (85%?) of that road and when you leave the airport what is waiting for you? A ****ing toll booth about 100 yards past the sign that says we didn't pay for it. It was a few years back so it is probably camera based now but I thought that was either the height of cheek or cunning, I couldn't work out which :) You think you could have used some of that foreign tax to pay for your own damn roads ;) It must have taken some level of competence to get the EU to pay for your roads, steal their tax revenue and then charge them for using the roads when they visit? Respect! I would do it if I could!

Copyright troll Prenda refuses to explain legal strategy

Re: @Rampant Spaniel: Rights

Thank you for the explanation :-) I was a little confused as there are countries with a right to silence, but a right not to self incriminate is rather paradoxical as by invoking it you are admiting guilt, I guess no one ever said the legal system made much sense!

Re: Rights

So it doesn't mean you are hiding a self incriminating statement? Is that not the point of "pleading the 5th"? That you not bear witness against yourself. It might not be an outright admission of guilt, but is it not a tacit admission that you are withholding a fact which would incriminate you in a wrongdoing? Just curious.

Of course it doesn't mean you can get out of paying tax on ill gotten gains, always have to pay the revenoo.

Obama seeks $100m to unlock your BRAIN's secrets

Re: "Jump-start a sagging economy"

Probably very little directly. Possibly more indirectly, call it trickle down education. As I said above, I would much rather see them funding antibiotic research, but I would imagine the lobbyists for the pharma companies would shit breeze blocks if that came up and lots of campaign donations would suddenly vanish.

Although that and a lot more could easily be paid for by scrapping tax breaks on private jets ($300m a year) and for oil companies ($2.5 bn a year). I'm not entirely convinced there needs to be tax breaks for either as it amounts to a government subsidy and thats not exactly capitalist right? Governments subsidizing already profitable companies?

This doesn't stand a chance of getting past Boko Haram in the house. Apparently the gubernent needs to stop all that edukayshun stuff and replace it all with good hearty private Christian schools.

God forbid the 'lower classes' grow brains and start to questions stuff like GMO food or wars to boost certain lobbying companies profit loss sheets.

It would be nice to see a government initiative on funding new antibiotics.

Model S selling better than expected, says Tesla

@ecofeco

No, but it did seem like you forgot that electric cars use batteries that cause a huge impact on the environment and are take a significant amount of their power from fossil fuels.

Battery powered electric cars at the moment only give people a false sense of wellbeing about their bunny hugging credentials. They just moved the damage from the tailpipe \ exhaust to the power stations \ strip mines and processing plants. Peoepl think, yay I got a prius I'm an eco warrior, no you aren't. You little slotcar results in huge ass mines which devastate the land and nearby rivers, the ore is then transported to be processed creating more pollution, this is then manufactured into actual battery packs which last maybe 5-7 years before they need to be recycled or disposed of, creating more pollution, AND then the entire time you have most likely been burning fossil fuels to power the damn thing in the first place. It's not that petrol and diesel are better, it's just electric is no better either, it's just marketed as better for the hard of thinking.

I am all for a solution that is better for the environment but right now, whats on the market isn't it. What we really need is a solution that is politically acceptable, practical, financially viable and sustainable. Something along the lines of using our deserts to setup farms for bacteria or simple plants to make an oil based fuel. That we already have the technology for, we have the distribution network for, it is an energy dense fuel so range isn't an issue and keeps a decent amount of the supply domestic. Economically, not sure but it seems to actually address the problem where electric cars do not.

Re: Leccy? No!!

What about the damage caused to the environment by the mining, refining and disposal involved with the battery packs? Just because the damage is done in another country does not make it 'green'.

Steve Jobs to supervise iPhone 6 FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE

It's not entirely shocking that a company with one phone would have plans for a couple of generations ahead. You can see from google \ motorola that there is a significant amount of lead time and work will begin conceptually well in advance of that point as well. Apple is probably somewhat unique as it doesn't work as closely with carriers on design as others do. Apple builds largely what it wants whereas HTC will speak with networks (there was a video from sprint about the process somewhere on the interweb) to see what they think they need and take that into account to some degree. Quite how much work would have been done on an iphone 6 a year ago is debateable, it would most likely be 3d models and overall design and engineering goals rather than very specific technical details.

As for phone thefts, I'm sure it helps sales. Whilst a national db of stolen phones may deter some level of theft, phones can have their imei's changed or just be sold abroad. It's not an excuse to do nothing, but any solution needs to be more than a token effort.

Court refuses to block Aereo's personal streaming TV service

Re: Easy fix

Thats what will likely happen. What would be interesting to see the networks take something like hulu a step further. I would love to see hulu without adverts (even for double the price) with all the shows in one place (no redirecting to other sites etc).

We dropped cable TV entirely, not due to the cost but due to it being a waste of money. Even with a DVR it wasn't worth it. Netflix and Amazon prime do a fair job. It would just be nice to have a single subscription for say $50-60 a month that combined the best of all four (linear broadcasting, netflix, amazon and hulu) without the adverts and with the ability to cache shows to a tablet. That would mean working together though!

Peoples needs and technologies are advancing, they don't have to replace entirely the 'old' linear broadcast system but they are only hurting themselves by trying to resist change. TV is a want, not a need. If they are playing silly buggers then fine, I spend my money elsewhere.

Tim Cook eats necessary crow, apologizes to China

So in America we complain about it and we get told we are holding it wrong. China complaints about something and the boss eats sweet and sour crow feet. I guess we know which is the biggest market! Most amusing to see however!