Right. Apple is required to disable features that are not approved by the government of the nation in which the product was sold.

For example, FaceTime is disabled if you buy an iPhone in the UAE.

The highest bracket was taxed at 70% until Reagan’s first plan in 1981 lowered it to 50%.

It’s currently at 37% under Trump’s 2018 tax plan.

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/historical-income-tax-rates-brackets/

Agreed. Rice cookers and slow cookers are gateway appliances. You’ll get sous chef prep practice and results with very low risk of failure.

To be fair, leaking government secrets is the most effective defense against momma jokes.

You also have Hamilton Fish. He was Grant’s Secretary of State. His letter of gratitude before retirement is, or at least was, hanging in the Empire State Building.

https://empirestateplaza.ny.gov/hall-governors/hamilton-fish

Infamous and Second Son were so much fun to play as good and then evil. It’s so much easier to play as evil, because you can ignore all of the collateral damage you cause completing the mission.

“Why do you call him Pig Vomit?”

“Cause he looks like a pig, and it makes me wanna vomit.”

Giamatti is top shelf.

I know a girl named Paige that married a man with the last name Page.

We call her Page 2. It’s also fun when they disagree and I ask if they can get on the same page.

👍⏰🙅‍♂️👀🪡👍

They also revere Columbus, and call white Christians “real Americans.”

Mexicans are real Americans. White people in America are immigrants.

Wait to tell them you’re not straight until after you get the garlic bread. Fuck ‘em. Garlic bread is delicious.

Yes. There was an issue with iOS 14.1 that enabled personalized ads by default if you didn’t restore from a backup. I was working for Apple at that time. It wasn’t intentional or malicious, and a hotfix was implemented as soon as the bug was identified. The lawsuit was just. Apple fucked up.

No joke, I had to stop falling asleep to podcasts over a decade ago. The conditioning to tune-out conversation was causing me to drift off and lose focus in meetings.

Prove it.

https://security.apple.com/bounty/

All you’ve proven is that neither your claim nor mine is provable.

That still doesn’t make you correct. It means neither argument can be proven.

At least my argument is logical. You’re convinced Apple would risk blowing up a $3.3T empire for $10M.

Get real.

You don’t have to. Opinions are subjective, and you’re entitled to believe whatever you’d like.

That still doesn’t mean you’re correct.

Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada.

Yes. I worked for Apple for over a decade.

Updates aren’t forced. You have the ability to enable automatic updates, but they are turned off by default. They also cannot affect user data. iOS and app software is sandboxed. The kernel keeps application and OS layers independent, just like Linux. User data is stored in a separate partition.

Apple users will experience the same thing that all other computer owners experience when they disable updates entirely; outdated security software and limited compatibility.

How can Apple remotely modify your device? Software updates? They have no access to your data.