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Taiwan - one party state + martial law from 1949 - 1987.
Singapore - one party has held power for over 40 years.
These three countries have transformed themselves into advanced high-income economies. My expectation is that China will follow the same path as its neighbours - authoritarian government + restrictions on personal freedom during the rapid industrialisation phase, then eventually a transition to a functioning democracy once urbanisation is mostly complete. If China can attain the same GDP per capita as the Asian Tigers, then it will easily be larger than the US economy.
Here's the original article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/automobiles/after-a-chargi...
And here's some coverage of the controversy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/automobiles/after-a-chargi...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_suicide
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2094294?uid=3737536&ui...
I was under the impression that the attraction of nuclear weapons is that they can help reduce total defence spending. They act as a strong deterrent to any country considering an invasion thus allowing NK to reduce the size of its standing army as well as spending on traditional weaponry and military hardware.
http://n4g.com/news/607824/apple-approves-manomios-c64-2-0-a...
> FISA orders can range from inquiries about specific people to a broad sweep for intelligence, like logs of certain search terms, lawyers who work with the orders said.
Looks like personal data could be turned over (well, at least part of your search history) even if you're not being targeted individually.
According to the article, he'd leaked "troves" of development documents to the writer of the article. It appears he may be the source, or one of the sources, behind the unprecedented amount of detail that has been leaked ahead of the console announcements.
From the article:
> Dylan wanted to know about next-gen systems, and somehow he learned plenty. He got development documentation for the next PlayStation and Xbox. Long before I'd sized him up as a hacker, he'd sent me troves of PDFs and white papers describing the functionality of both the code-named Orbis and Durango. The documentation was loaded with programming code—and with details.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS
Basically, it seems like the original RSS spec (RSS 0.9) was authored by two guys at Netscape, and released in March 1999, followed by RSS 0.91 in July 1999.
At this point, it looks like Netscape lost interest in RSS, and the project was forked into two competing versions, one lead by Dave Winer, and the other by the RSS-DEV Working Group. Dave Winer published the specs RSS 0.91 (different to Netscape's), 0.92, 0.93, .94 and then 2.0 between 2000-2002.
In August 2000, a competing fork was started by Rael Dornfest, who posted a draft of RSS 1.0, which appears to have been written by himself. He asked for interested parties to join a working group, of which Aaron became a member. This group became known as the RSS-DEV Working Group, and 1.0 was published in December 2000.
It's hard to say how much involvement Aaron had in this working group (I haven't read through the archives), but RSS had certainly existed for some time before Aaron became involved.
Assembling the iPhone is a small and very insignificant part of the manufacturing process. What about the manufacturing of the steel, glass, LCD panels, logic boards, processors and IC chips, antennas, speakers, microphones, screws, cameras, batteries, and cables?
Obviously if it's unethical for Apple to contract the assembling of the iPhones to a manufacturer that pays high wages relative to the average Chinese job, then it must also be unethical to buy components from suppliers that also pay their factory workers a similar wage. Clearly, doubling the wage for all factory workers who work on any component of the iPhone will have a huge impact on the manufacturing cost far beyond the extra $7 you suggest it to be.
Don't think that's true. Worst-case scenario is that Apple releases a firmware update that removes the switching functionality and forces the 4S antennae to behave like an iPhone 4 (assuming the functionality can be turned off by software). Patent litigation will then continue as before.
Examples of the US defending freedom.
1973 Chilean coup d'état
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
The US supports a coup of the democratically elected President Salvador Allende who is replaced by the dictator Augusto Pinochet. Chile lived under a military dictatorship until 1990. Pinochet was responsible for the death and torture of tens of thousands of Chileans.
1953 Iranian coup d'état
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
The US overthrows the democratically elected government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and have him replaced with the Shah of Iran, who acts as a proxy for US interests and uses the Iranian Intelligence Agency to crush political opposition.
US support of Saudi Arabia
Saudia Arabia is an absolute monarchy with no political parties or elections. It was rated in the Economists 2010 Democracy Index to be the seventh most authoritarian country in the world, and ranked higher than both Iran and Libya. The Saudia Arabian monarchy has given hundreds of billions of dollars to the US in exchange for military weaponry and the building of military infrastructure. Recently, Obama approved the biggest arms sale in US history, $60.5 billion in arms sold to Saudia Arabia.
Now, I'm getting a bit tired, so I'm not going to go into a lot of detail for the rest, but you can look into US support for King Abdullah in Jordan, US support of Murbarak in Egypt, US support for Suharto in Indonesia, the list goes on.
Sometimes the US supports democratic governments, often they support brutal tyrannical dictators. Generally it has to do with whether or not the policies of theses countries are in alignment with US economic interests.
What evidence do you have to support the allegation that Apple makes a profit on every App sold?
Firstly, there's the cost of having the application tested, approved, uploaded and categorised. There's also the cost of hosting the app as well as the credit card processing fees. Users have the right to re-download any app they've purchased in the past. What about a 99c app that weighs in at 2GB? Does Apple really make a profit after credit card processing fees and bandwidth costs?
As for the $99/year developer fee, there are costs involved in providing support, moderating forums, and approving applications.