If the govt built the iPhone it would be the size of a suitcase, and not carry-on size either because some airline lobbyist would insert a line in the authorizing legislation to boost his industry’s revenue.
Bat sh*t crazy
The Feds attack Apple trying to overturn lawsuit with Samsung.
Now Pelosi attacks the biggest company in the USA located 60 miles from her district.
Something is happening...
I’m wondering if this might have something to do with Intel supporting Trump.
If the feds had built the iPhone, encryption problems wouldn’t be an issue.
In the context of the iPhone,final cause, efficient cause, and formal cause are all conditions of Apple
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Then why did the government have such a difficult time with the encryption?
“We have to pass this bill to find out what’s in it”
Nuff said.
Pelosi has got to be one of the most stupid women to ever walk the earth.
She says that about a California company. She’s got her millions so she doesn’t care what anyone thinks.
Government builds nothing. It is composed of a worthless group of paper pushers and some service staff with mixed capabilities. Private business builds everything.
Government built mobile phone. Batteries extra.
"... The mind that thinks this way is truly scary. Basically, they’re arguing that anything that’s ever been built, sold, and bought - if it references or integrates even the tiniest sliver of federal-funded research - is a product of the all-powerful state. ..."
I agree.
What I'm having trouble coming to grips with is;
How can anyone in their right mind keep voting for Democrat party candidates? Isn't Pelosi one of their top 'minds'? Politically speaking...
I, Pencil is an article written in 1958 by Leonard E. Read. The burden of the article is how diffuse are the inputs to make a simple item like a pencil. Of course a particular company - Eberhard Faber, in the example instance - made the pencil. But Mr. Eberhard and Mr. Faber did not simply speak the pencil into existence; the company has to have buildings housing machinery, and workers to operate the machines. But beyond that, the Eberhard Faber workers have to have food, shelter, and normal amenities - including those required by their families.And the same is true of the vendors who supply Eberhard Faber with the machinery they require, and all the obvious materials - wood, graphite, rubber, and the ferrule material and the enamel. All those vendors have their own equipment, workers, and supply chain. And in all cases the workers need food, shelter, and normal amenities. So although the pencil certainly does not exist without Eberhard Faber, society works together to make the pencil. And everything else.
The correct word for all the support which surrounds the total production of the pencil - or anything else - is society. Not government, note well, society:
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.Government is utterly unqualified to innovate, but after their betters have created a market for them, Bernie Sanders and his acolytes declare smartphones “a fundamental right.”Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . .
As I, Pencil illustrates, the workings of society in efficiently producing a useful product are far more subtle and nuanced than anything the government might do with regulations and administrators.
What else does one expect from Skelator, whom thinks welfare spurs the economy 2:1 (or whatever she used at the time).
When Al Gore and company were talking about the Information Superhighway way back when they had France’s Minitel in mind. And if the government was in charge that’s all we would have today.