Our next generations will pay the hefty price for what we are now doing to our environment. Stop the madness baba, even if the next gadget is free...

The iPhone is overrated and behind in technology. Most of their "new" features are copied from the old samsung technology. I have most of the stuff on my old Galaxy 6. Incidentally, Apple buys parts for their iPhone from Samsung.

iPhone 10 screen, OLED, is made by Samsung. Hyped up gadgets that no one really needs. Consumerism drives 2/3 of US economy, so let's spend, spend, spend! 

Corporations own "us" and "we" can't do anything about it. This is what rabid capitalism is all about. 

Note:

I'm not advocating communism. I believe there must be strict control over what the corporations are doing to the environment and our pockets. 

OK GR, you are confusing me now.

If you are such an advocate of strict control over the corporations and what they are doing to our environment, how did you end up in the Trump camp, who is the epitome of corporate tax breaks, climate change denial, regulation busting, big business lobbying, KKK supporting, etc.?

And please don't give me those Fox News clips or conspiracy theories!

Faramarz Jaan,

No Fox News, this time around. Here's a speech about the causes of "our" confusion  

http://www.instructionaldesign.org/theories/cognitive-dissonance.html

By the way, after capping the oil spill in the Golf of Mexico, I read more than 600 lawyers, lobbyists and all sorts of other experts poured into Washington. In the same article I also read more than 400 of them were on BP payroll. Do you have any idea what they were all doing in Washington where the environment-friendly President Obama was ruling, at the time?

OK GR, here is a civics lesson for you.

In the US, we have 3 equal branches of the government. When there’s an oil spill by BP in the Gulf of Mexico and there are ensuing lawsuits, the Executive Branch headed by President Obama cannot get in the ring with 400 BP lawyers. That’s left to the Judiciary Branch, meaning the courts.

When the Congress does not terminate the tax cut by GW Bush and make it permanent, it’s not a transfer of wealth by Obama, but rather a permanent tax cut by the GOP to the top 1%, and the President has no way of stopping it when he does not control the Congress.

But when President Obama issues an Executive Order in favor of the climate, better gas mileage on cars, banking regulations, keeping the Dreamers in the country, etc., those are attributed to the President Obama and he takes the credit/blame on all of them.

Thanks for not posting Fox News or other stuff that I do not read.

Obama slams GOP as party of billionaires then attends $32k-a-head fundraiser hosted by billionaire property tycoon named Rich Richman

OK, we are getting off topic here.

It is a lawyers' adage:

If you have the law on your side, argue the law; if you have the facts, argue the facts; if you have neither, pound the table.

Faramarz Jaan,

We got off the topic when you brought Trump into this. You seem to believe that one president can do better than another simply because the mainstream media say so. I don't believe presidents can manouver much beyond the limits of their prescribed roles. Continuity in both foreign and domestic policies is something that no president can ignore. The first step in breaking through this vicious cycle is getting rid of the Federal Reserve Bank. And that's only the first step. 

Here's a true story:

A person close to me was running the budget department of NIOC southern regions. For years, he bragged about how he had stopped "petty" thieves from stealing from the company. By "petty" I mean deals deals that sometimes involved millions of dollars, here and there. I listened to him and said nothing until I heard that he didn't even let his kids or close relative get jobs at the company for the fear of being accused of cronyism. At that point, I decided the guy had gone mad. So, one day when he repeated his usual mantra of how he was protecting the company's coffers, I politely told how wrong he was because he was indeed working for a huge mafia organization. 

The moral of of the story: 

Even if you get a president that is as clean as the guy in my story, you still have to deal with the big bosses who in fact run the affairs of the country. 

Dear COP- It's not just the new iPhones. Apple has been using Samsung components in its phone for a long time. In fact, when Samsung was suffering big losses because of its exploding phones, it was still making a profit because of the sale of iPhone components to Apple. I just find Samsung much more user friendly, and much more advanced technologically. I've been charging my Samsung phone wirelessly for years now, but somehow Apple's new wireless charger is a big deal! Same thing with facial recognition, water resistant phones, and many other features that I can't think off now. Samsung had them all before Apple. And the picture quality of Samsung is just great. The iPhone doesn't even come close.

Apple is also an "old" phone. The older crowd likes the iPhone because they have been using it since it came out in 2007. And they're used to it. The younger generation is not as bound by it, and they also like other gadgets that other phones offer. I know a guy who manages a cellular Verizon store, and he uses the Google phone. He loves it. Before that he had the Sony one with which you can take pictures under water (100 feet I believe). 

$1000.00 for a phone is obnoxious, immoral and waste of money. $1000 for decent hooker now that is priceless!

In this part of the world, it has been $1,000 for some time now. 

It is called, "highway robbery!" And it is all legal. 

God has shown us his displeasure with Trump and the $1,000 iPhone by sending us Harvey and Irma hurricanes!

Geomythology 101 is in order. 

Resorting to mythology in order to explain natural disasters is unbecoming of hardcore environmentalists. I was under the impression you guys worked solely with factual scientific data. 

Could this change of heart have anything to do with committing all those "sins" along the way to old age?

I hope you were in Osaka last night watching Iran volleyball beat Japan 3-1. Awesome.

Faramarz Jaan,

I watched the match on TV. Expected Iran to win. 

I don't enjoy crowded places. And the noise bothers me. 

I'm switching to google's Project Fi once my contract with Verizon is up, and I'll dump my iPhone.