Please reference a specific example of my liberal elitist contempt (with the exception of Trump himself). If you consider explaining in the broadest of terms how economics works to be "contempt," then I have nothing further to discuss.

The problem with your line of thinking is that you're saying she should have blatantly lied about policy choices in order to win. "Change" is/was not what the US needs, despite a vocal minority shouting at the top of their lungs. We've seen the projections for "change" over the last 8 months - 24 million Americans losing health insurance, regulations lowered or removed altogether on financial institutions and environmental pollution, weakened security due to willful ignorance and insults aimed at our allies.

The so-called "liberals in the big city" are doing well because they're adapting to, not fighting against, economic reality. The stagnation you mention in the rust belt has nothing to do with Obama, or "elitist liberals", or the ACA. It has to do with the economic realities of a 21st century global economy. I'm truly sorry if coal mining is no longer a viable means of supporting your community, but economic and political isolationism isn't the answer. Investments in education and subsidies for emerging markets (like clean energy) are the only real way to avoid the collapse of the rust belt. Unfortunately the GOP is doing its best to undermine both, while making entirely unrealistic promises to their base, like "we'll bring back coal".

Facebook (the app) can't, but Facebook (the ad network streaming commercials to set-top devices through Tubi TV) can see your IP, and then compare it to Facebook (the app) users' IP addresses. What a terrible, misleading headline - Facebook knows what you're streaming because they're serving the commercials that are streaming to you. Still, note to self: NEVER use Tubi TV.

When it comes to measures of success, I tend to give more credence to Apple's quarterly earnings reports than to the anecdotal ramblings of an anonymous coward who claims to "see almost no one with an iwatch on".

It varies from person to person

You must be new here.

The whole idea of the grandfather paradox always seemed absurd to me (along the same lines as Zeno's paradox of a runner never being able to reach a finish line because he'd have to cross an infinite number of subdivisions first). It sounds clever until you actually think about it.

Don't confuse consciousness with sentience or intelligence.

If you think marking a U2 album as "purchased" across all users' accounts is comparable to cracking strong encryption or secretly stealing private keys from remote devices, you really have no business commenting on this.

And downloading purchased music is also off by default, as well as using cellular data plans to do it...so that's THREE settings your hypothetical user EXPLICITLY turned on to put them into that situation. And you somehow think it's Apple's fault?

Even if they only do it after the users explicitly turn on the feature to push music down to their phones, and then it still will only work over wifi unless the users explicitly turn on another feature to "download over cellular"? You really think they have no business doing exactly what the user has asked for?

If a) I already knew you and had set up an arrangement to grant you access to my home to deliver books that I've purchased in the same manner, and b) you ONCE put a free book that you, the store owner (not the publisher), paid for as a promotion, then I would not be upset about it...EVEN IF it were not a book I wanted, because the solution would be to throw away/give away the book, and then my "problem" would be solved.

The MOST troubling part here is how disproportionally butthurt people seem to be over having a free album given to them. Also, spare me from having to read one more person prattle on about how their "curated" iTunes library has been harmed.

If it's compatible with the iOS framework then I'll probably cave and get one.

If you actually looked at the kits, you'd see that yes, there are some specialized pieces, but the majority of the licensed kits are made with the same basic bricks as every other Lego kit.