(November 27, 2022 at 10:15 am)TaraJo Wrote:

(November 26, 2022 at 12:47 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: The funny thing is, in order for such a plan to work, at this point, he’d have to have enough foresight to be able to not just manufacture the phones, but create a new OS for them (which could easily take years if we’re talking about a full-on system to compete with iOS and Android), but it’d also require the sort of foresight that would have kept him from getting into this mess in the first place.

Maybe, maybe not.  This is Elon Musk we're talking about and he doesn't innovate new things, he buys things from other people and claims he built them.

In this case, maybe he'll talk Bill Gates into selling him the OS for Windows phones and market them as the phone with Twitter.  Or possible he could do something similar with the mobile-phone version of Amazon Fire OS.  Or even blackberry, if he wanted to get REALLY retro.  There are operating systems he could buy instead of just building his own.

The big problem isn't the possibility of Twitter being taken off app stores, it's the possibility that most countries won't allow Twitter with all the "free speech" that Elon is allowing.  Use of "the n-word" jumped 500% after Elon officially purchased Twitter and he brought back people who were banned specifically for making hateful comments.  The American government is very good about protecting free speech, but other countries aren't quite as permissive as we are.  He could find Twitter to be illegal in countries like Germany, France, the UK or many others.  

But, then, that's only a problem if Elon doesn't deal with the fact that he doesn't have the employees he needs to run twitter, the ones he has are currently looking for better jobs, many of his former and current employees are openly mocking him, without the support he needs Twitter could crash quite easily and with all the chaos surrounding Twitter, advertisers are leaving in droves and Twitter, even after firing over half their employees, is hemorrhaging money.

(December 4, 2022 at 11:06 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(November 27, 2022 at 10:15 am)TaraJo Wrote: Maybe, maybe not.  This is Elon Musk we're talking about and he doesn't innovate new things, he buys things from other people and claims he built them.

In this case, maybe he'll talk Bill Gates into selling him the OS for Windows phones and market them as the phone with Twitter.  Or possible he could do something similar with the mobile-phone version of Amazon Fire OS.  Or even blackberry, if he wanted to get REALLY retro.  There are operating systems he could buy instead of just building his own.

The big problem isn't the possibility of Twitter being taken off app stores, it's the possibility that most countries won't allow Twitter with all the "free speech" that Elon is allowing.  Use of "the n-word" jumped 500% after Elon officially purchased Twitter and he brought back people who were banned specifically for making hateful comments.  The American government is very good about protecting free speech, but other countries aren't quite as permissive as we are.  He could find Twitter to be illegal in countries like Germany, France, the UK or many others.  

But, then, that's only a problem if Elon doesn't deal with the fact that he doesn't have the employees he needs to run twitter, the ones he has are currently looking for better jobs, many of his former and current employees are openly mocking him, without the support he needs Twitter could crash quite easily and with all the chaos surrounding Twitter, advertisers are leaving in droves and Twitter, even after firing over half their employees, is hemorrhaging money.

The only way Musk is going to damage Apple is if he buys it.

Boru

(December 7, 2022 at 3:16 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Apparently, the girl is okay, even if we only have Ted Cruz' word for it.

That said, the way they've phrased it, "self-inflicted stab wounds to the arms", either she really shit the bed with some household task, or she's a cutter. My depression never got to the point of cutting myself, but I know that something like this, there's going to be more to healing than just treating those arm wounds. I suspect that her hospital stay will likely include a 3+ day involuntary hold in the psych ward, and years of therapy afterward.

(December 7, 2022 at 4:13 pm)tackattack Wrote: "It's a wonder she didn't hang herself" .... what a shitty thing to say. Do better.

(December 7, 2022 at 5:12 pm)tackattack Wrote: Nope I voted yesterday for warnock. How is a mentally disturbed suicidal person a shitty person that should have hung themselves… simply because of who her father is… I hope you have a really awesome day and your life goes perfectly for u and your family.

Back to news..  almost had a real dictator situation down in Peru. I think he got arrested