On the order of 1bn, but my memory of exact figures from a decade ago needed refreshing. In fact only $350 million of corrupt foreign monopolist cash is enough to buy the editorial position of America's premier source of fake news.
When big money monopolists corrupt our local governments to obtain taxi monopolies at the expense of working families, the environment, and vulnerable racial minorities that can't hail taxis but can get an Uber, then it's the system that's antisocial and antidemocratic.
Uber is a social reform movement organized as a profit-seeking business. Of course the forces of corruption and reaction are going to try to stop it under cover of law.
The New York Times is hardly a reliable source known to journalistic ethics or objectivity. It worked with Dubya Bush to push the Iraq war and worked hard to cover up Bush deliberately exposing intelligence agents through the newspaper in an attempt to get them killed for revealing malfeasance to Congress and the people.
They reversed their editorial position on the balance of immigration enforcement techniques immediately and completely upon accepting a billion dollar investment from the Mexican telecom monopolist Carlos Slim.
And their campaign and Trump and Russia coverage has been a jumble of lies, bias, and credulity for the past six months. Any given reporter or story may be fine, but depending on NY Times as an institution is just bad judgement.
It started with the Mexican-American war of 1846, so that is a viable theory (though the CIA was not yet involved). That's the war Mexicans still teach in every Mexican school with a big famous map showing that California and Texas are Mexican territory unjustly stolen by the USA.
"For me, the new Germany exists only in order to ensure the existence of the State of Israel and the Jewish people."
Funny then how Angela Merkel has chosen to ethnically cleanse the German people and replace them with a population whose top geopolitical priority is and has always been the destruction of Israel and the extermination of the Jews.
The new 'refugee' dominated Germany is going to be an interesting place.
Response? We don't respond on the left, we investigate and learn.
Unlike the right wing where science is a tool of social dominance and global warming or evolution are rejected when they're inconvenient for the plutocrats or theocrats pulling the strings, the left believes in truth. When the truth leads in an unexpected direction, we study it and check the results and then we learn the new thing that has been discovered. The only test is truth.
It's hard for the right to understand since they're so committed to obeying power, but we want to know the truth wherever it leads. We're pro-science not because we expect to 'win,' but because science and truth are good.
Whichever way the cognitive ability science goes, learning the truth will offer us new ways to help people and especially future generations to be smarter and build a better world for everyone.
I removed the back plate to observe the damage and hopefully see if the hard disk had survived.
Apple has solved this problem in the current models. There's no longer any way for the hard disk to leave you in doubt. It's now fused to the motherboard permanently so that it cannot be recovered even if it does survive some kind of trouble.
The Saudi Terror Clan spends tens of billions of dollars every year on bribing US politicians and retired politicians and military men. It's true that the US people would be fine without any alliance with the STC, but US policy isn't set by the American people.
US policy is set by politicians, bureaucrats, and military leaders. And STC has them well into its palm. That's why the STC can attack us on our own soil, kill thousands of us, and get thanked and rewarded by our leaders.
Canada, Ireland, and Abu Dhabi do US immigration at their own airports before you leave. I've never heard of any other pair of countries with any similar arrangements.
Indeed Canada, Ireland, and Abu Dhabi wait until you arrive there from the USA to do their own immigration so it only goes one way.
I don't expect it that it was the Spanish Inquisition.
Cerebrō was Latin for brain before it was Spanish, so probably it's some kind of Future Past thing with the Colosseum. Which explains why it's so beat up, but not how Magneto lifted it when the Romans didn't have steel-reinforced concrete.
Recipe inspired by Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Lots of hinting that fast food demons were eating people, but the eldritch secret of the Doublemeat Palace episode (2001) was that the Doublemeat Medley sandwich contained no meat whatsoever.
There has been amazing news from Apple since Steve died. There was the introduction two years before everyone else of the new blazing fast ARM AARCH 64. There was retina notebooks. There was the design and thumbprint reader tech on iPhone5.
But all of those were built and designed while Steve was leading Apple. They're like little amazing tech gifts from beyond the grave. It just takes a while to get to mass market.
There has been nothing amazing that started while Tim Cook has been running the place except raising margins by making base products less useful. Keeping the crippling 16GB limit on base iPhones for three extra years while camera images grew and grew was a bold move to drive up average selling price at the expense of customer happiness.
You've always been able to get more bang for your buck with a Windows machine
Actually, Apple has been selling price competitive or even cheap machines compared to other offerings with similar performance for years. From 2007-2015 Apple consistently had the best prices for pro laptops and desktop machines among offerings with comparable build quality.
The $300 price bump for equivalent machines in 2016 and disappointing spec upgrades in 2015 and 2016 are a new deviation.
The price performance advantage of Windows machines is returning from a very long hiatus. And for Mac users it's unwelcome.
Tim Cook's Apple, of course, is all about high margins and raising average selling price. They're eating the seed corn to squeeze out more short term profits. We'll see how long it lasts.
Good luck defending the NY Times on that basis.