What investigation? He saw bad financials, he did a short, he talked about the short and the financials.

There's a huge cost to hold a short position. The US SEC doesn't allow naked shorts, so you have to go through stock loan and all that. You pay money, on a continual basis, for the loan, and you have a huge potential for loss. This is not a theoretical huge loss potential, Porsche got nailed hard on a short squeeze, in Germany that did allow naked shorts at the time. Almost killed the company, and weakened it to the point of being a takeover target.

market manipulation? probably? but, you buying a stock causes perturbations in the price. Cramer foaming at the mouth can be thought of as manipulation. I don't disagree with you but i wonder where the line is.

so, these guys do not go after healthy companies and are able to kill them. it's just too pricey, too risky. There's usually a bit of fire behind the smoke.

they're criminals. they're also humans. and, unless you're going to keep the humans in prison forever until they die, or actively kill the humans, or unless you're going to ship the humans somewhere to die, they're going to get out.

what will they do once out? this "hey we expect you to rejoin productive society, but we've given you zero tools to rejoin productive society just had you around other criminals" what are they expected to do?

Unless you're going to kill every prisoner or keep every prisoner in jail for life, at some point they're going to get out.

what's going to happen with these humans once they get out? what will the human be able to do once out? will said human be desperate because their skills withered while incarcerated? will the human be desperate and have to choose crime to eat?

This is not systemic thinking.

It's close but not truly apples to apples

1) fireOS is not Android. there are differences between the two

2) the $30 is not "you own the device" cost. The $30 is "here is this advertising medium, pay more to make it just a tablet"

I'd buy a decent $60 android tablet over the equivalent hardware $30 fireOS device

Between this and that commercial with a Kardashian-Jenner they really get what most people want

Apple is proactively removing them. Its a small breach, but is "apple cares about your privacy and will boot anyone from the App Store" a bad message? Maybe I'm just cynical and expect bad actors, and expect Apple/Android not being able to catch them all

There was a simple pattern match to see if you sent a flamewar email. I'm sure it was string matches and counting.

In ToS, Kirk fighting the Romulans was a chess match, with respect on both sides. In Abrams its stuff blows up real good and Kill em all let Got sort em out. Radically different.

Snap, Crackle, Mitch, and Pop....

-- Mitch Hedberg

As far as #1 goes, I know you're not going to listen, but of course a President has an agenda. Besides executive orders, which Trump has done exclusively since he can't organize his thoughts to get anything through Congress, they can drive things through Congress. Do you call the ACA "ObamaCare"? If so, you agree a President can have a "law" and drive it through Congress.

Anyways, more importantly, as far as 2 goes, I need to trust them because they affect my life. Mortgage? Need to trust Equifax. Get a job? Need to trust Equifax if a potential employer checks my credit. Or yes, I can pay money to make sure they do their job. Such a racket.

Android users can't normally say this... they lose the ability to update after 6 months or so.

Windows, they threw out the OS a couple times.

Blackberry? Threw out the OS and the new one never caught on.

Other than feature phones, then yes, only an Apple fan *can* say their phone is still working fine.

Not sure how many fashion companies have their own ARM chip designs.... ones that consistently beat SnapDragons.

See the first Android phone. it was a BlackBerry killer. Then they see the iPhone, realize they had their copy machine focussed on the wrong thing, and then copied the iPhone.

Apple never has won on checkbox marketing. They won on having features that were actually usable. They weren't the first MP3 player, but there are no other real dedicated MP3 players anymore. The Apple Watch wasn't first, but try to find an Android Watch on anyone in the wild. If Qualcomm says "Apple doesn't have features first" Apple would say "yep. Usually true. But we're the phones most people want".

What's this about trusting them? Did you ever fill out a form and say "please hold all my data?" Nope. You have no choice in the matter. It's not about consumer trust. Consumer trust has nothing to do with them making money. Only if their real customers (yes, you're the product) drop them will they have to change. This is a case only where losing money will effect change. But you and me will get a buck or two and only the lawyers will get rich.

Also, see Axciom. Another company with a huge amount of data about you, data they pull from various sources without you saying "please develop a profile on me to sell me new things". If they had a data breach, same thing - us normal folks would bitch and moan but no real change.

Or we can have the Trump administration have real laws protecting consu,......... nah, I couldn't even type the whole sentence out without laughing too hard to finish it.