On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Scammers have taken a South Carolina women for $180 and sold her an iPad - a wooden one. Know as a variation of the 'brink in a box' scam. Where the buyer orders an iPad but receives just a brick in the box. Ashley McDowell reported that she was approached by two black males who said they have bought iPads in bulk and were willing to sell her a piece for $300. Saying that she had only $180 on her the con men agreed to sell it to her. But when she opened the FedEx box containing the iPad all she found was the piece of wood with the Apple logo. There was also a Best Buy sales sticker on it. In fact it looks like a replica of the iPad complete with Safari icons and all. Scammers don't go to such lengths to come up with something that looks original In fact the brick in the box scam is exactly what it sounds like, you get an actual brick in the box.
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| The wooden iPad |
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| Copy of the complaint filed |
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| A display piece that was never meant to work sipped to customer |
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| Brick in the box |
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