Well, these days anyway. And mostly because Silicon Valley has gotten dumbed down and nothing to do with silicon or engineering, intead focusing on social media and advertising. In the past though, Silicon Valley actually innovated with technology instead of just using it.
I have seen legal departments refuse to accept any changes in contracts or agreements. When a company reaches a certain size then it takes on a life of its own and it becomes too difficult to get approval to modify a boilerplate agreement. Even when approval is granted it requires going to up to the most senior management.
I knew a contractor that refused an "updated" contract that changed the non-compete agreements. It essentially covered anything to do with software or devices that used software. And the company wasn't even in the software business. Since he worked on multiple contracts he couldn't afford to agree to it. It was a boilerplate agreement and HR wouldn't budge, and legal wouldn't allow any changes to the boilerplate, even after the VP of R&D claimed that it was essential that they retain this contractor.
Did Barcelona mark these out before electric scooters became a thing and were suddenly dumped on the sidewalks overnight, it did they create the lanes afterwards?
These all popped up suddenly. It takes time for cities to start hiring more police and responding to the changing situation on the street. As soon as there's a scooter patrol, the fad will inevitably die off. Right now the police are still busy trying to collect all those damn ride-sharing bikes are littered everywhere.
Often there aren't enough police resources to do this. Ie, in San Jose most parking enforcement happens downtown, whereas these scooters are everywhere including residential areas, parks, industrial parks, etc.
The scooter company are the ones parking the scooters on the side walks. Generally they start by getting 5 or 6 and putting them in a lone at intersections. Later on customers use these, get bored, and toss them in the bushes in leave them in the gutters. So most that I see on sidewalks are the scooters that haven't been used.
Um, when I grew up we were taught to ride our bikes on the sidewalks because it was safer than riding on the street. Generally the number of pedestrians was low and people didn't ride bikes at breakneck speeds like today. These scooters don't go super fast. The bigger issue are the scooter companies doing the whole business model of "act now and get permission later" and dumping scooters everywhere they can.
Was the hospital the "government"? I know these cases bring out all the anti-government people, but it's not always the government doing this. Doctors take an oath to always provide the best care for their patients - maybe they disagree with the parents and maybe they make mistakes, but they don't do this because there's an evil government telling them to hurt a child.
Ha, I arrived at a customer's site once and my boss was flying home from there. He handed me a loaner phone to use. After he left I looked at it and it still had all his texts on there, all of them salacious and which I am positive he would never have wanted me or anyone else to see.
A lot of this data is stored locally, and can be used to determine the cause of an accident and so forth. But is this data being shared? Anyone who voluntarily uses their phone to let the car send the data to the company servers is being naive. And yes, I know we have an epidemic of naive people...
Or they think "ooh, this app is free!", or "wow, I can use an expensive ride sharing service just by tapping a screen!", or "the food hear looks and smells good, but I have to look at Yelp first before I go inside", and so forth.
I mentioned to a coworker that I use ad blockers. He thought it was stupid, and even said that he *wanted* to see ads because that way he knows what new products are out there. Which was pretty dumb, there are so many other ways to know what new products are out there without a barrage of Bud Lite and Chrysler commercials. (he also said this at work, and I was his boss, and I pointed out that he really should be looking at those websites at home)
A good nanny state doesn't prevent what you put in your body, but instead stops companies from selling you poison while labeling it as food. This is what starts nanny states, cracking down on crackpot devices that hurt, maim, or even kill customers. Why do we test cosmetics on animals? Because in the past cosmetic products could be dangerous, and people used them because there was no indication that they were dangerous, and there would be several people hospitalized before there was enough public pressure for the company to stop selling their snake oil.
I only paid for one bag, which I don't use much. Because I get tons of bags sent to me for free by various charities that I contributed to. Those grocery bags are the new tchotchkes to replace tote bags and pens.
No wait, two bags. I had to buy one in europe when I went to get some groceries there. I still have that one too.
I understand that these companies want to make more money, but at this point it's just creepy that they are so open about their desire to extract more money from customers. This would seem to be something that normally they'd be quiet about because could scare away customers and definitely be alarming. But I think so many people now just don't care anymore, and so many who actively want to share data with strangers, that these companies can get away with divulging their evil plans in public.
Time for everyone to watch Fifteen Million Merits on Black Mirror for an extrapolation of where we go from here.
Probably more electricity used to send the receipt electronically than just printing the paper. But I wouldn't worry about it, it's a common practice to create news about some crazy guy's plan that will never actually occur. It isn't that California is weird this way, go to any state or country and there's always that one guy that proposes something stupid.
Hah, when I was in Arkansas, if you look between the trees you can see a bunch of rusting cars. Ok, maybe this isn't the "forest" but definitely just behind a few trees is someone's house with some old beater parked on the lawn, and this repeats over and over as you drive along and pay attention.
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You can still be sued. If it goes to court you will win. But the difficulty is being able to afford to get to court in the first place.
Well, these days anyway. And mostly because Silicon Valley has gotten dumbed down and nothing to do with silicon or engineering, intead focusing on social media and advertising. In the past though, Silicon Valley actually innovated with technology instead of just using it.
Non-competes were critical to the development of silicon valley,
I htink you mean "not having non-competes" here?
I have seen legal departments refuse to accept any changes in contracts or agreements. When a company reaches a certain size then it takes on a life of its own and it becomes too difficult to get approval to modify a boilerplate agreement. Even when approval is granted it requires going to up to the most senior management.
I knew a contractor that refused an "updated" contract that changed the non-compete agreements. It essentially covered anything to do with software or devices that used software. And the company wasn't even in the software business. Since he worked on multiple contracts he couldn't afford to agree to it. It was a boilerplate agreement and HR wouldn't budge, and legal wouldn't allow any changes to the boilerplate, even after the VP of R&D claimed that it was essential that they retain this contractor.
You put something that is not a bicycle into the bicycle lane you are going to get a lot of angry cyclists harassing you.
Getting permission first screws up their business plan. What are you, some kind of anti-capitalist commie?
Did Barcelona mark these out before electric scooters became a thing and were suddenly dumped on the sidewalks overnight, it did they create the lanes afterwards?
Damn socialist puppies!
These all popped up suddenly. It takes time for cities to start hiring more police and responding to the changing situation on the street. As soon as there's a scooter patrol, the fad will inevitably die off. Right now the police are still busy trying to collect all those damn ride-sharing bikes are littered everywhere.
Often there aren't enough police resources to do this. Ie, in San Jose most parking enforcement happens downtown, whereas these scooters are everywhere including residential areas, parks, industrial parks, etc.
Oh no, competing memes!
The scooter company are the ones parking the scooters on the side walks. Generally they start by getting 5 or 6 and putting them in a lone at intersections. Later on customers use these, get bored, and toss them in the bushes in leave them in the gutters. So most that I see on sidewalks are the scooters that haven't been used.
Um, when I grew up we were taught to ride our bikes on the sidewalks because it was safer than riding on the street. Generally the number of pedestrians was low and people didn't ride bikes at breakneck speeds like today. These scooters don't go super fast. The bigger issue are the scooter companies doing the whole business model of "act now and get permission later" and dumping scooters everywhere they can.
Was the hospital the "government"? I know these cases bring out all the anti-government people, but it's not always the government doing this. Doctors take an oath to always provide the best care for their patients - maybe they disagree with the parents and maybe they make mistakes, but they don't do this because there's an evil government telling them to hurt a child.
Ha, I arrived at a customer's site once and my boss was flying home from there. He handed me a loaner phone to use. After he left I looked at it and it still had all his texts on there, all of them salacious and which I am positive he would never have wanted me or anyone else to see.
A lot of this data is stored locally, and can be used to determine the cause of an accident and so forth. But is this data being shared? Anyone who voluntarily uses their phone to let the car send the data to the company servers is being naive. And yes, I know we have an epidemic of naive people...
Or they think "ooh, this app is free!", or "wow, I can use an expensive ride sharing service just by tapping a screen!", or "the food hear looks and smells good, but I have to look at Yelp first before I go inside", and so forth.
I mentioned to a coworker that I use ad blockers. He thought it was stupid, and even said that he *wanted* to see ads because that way he knows what new products are out there. Which was pretty dumb, there are so many other ways to know what new products are out there without a barrage of Bud Lite and Chrysler commercials. (he also said this at work, and I was his boss, and I pointed out that he really should be looking at those websites at home)
A good nanny state doesn't prevent what you put in your body, but instead stops companies from selling you poison while labeling it as food. This is what starts nanny states, cracking down on crackpot devices that hurt, maim, or even kill customers. Why do we test cosmetics on animals? Because in the past cosmetic products could be dangerous, and people used them because there was no indication that they were dangerous, and there would be several people hospitalized before there was enough public pressure for the company to stop selling their snake oil.
The autos will be cloud based in the future!
This is probably what killed Radio Shack finally. After an exchange like this I dumped the items I wanted to buy on the counter and walked out.
I only paid for one bag, which I don't use much. Because I get tons of bags sent to me for free by various charities that I contributed to. Those grocery bags are the new tchotchkes to replace tote bags and pens.
No wait, two bags. I had to buy one in europe when I went to get some groceries there. I still have that one too.
I understand that these companies want to make more money, but at this point it's just creepy that they are so open about their desire to extract more money from customers. This would seem to be something that normally they'd be quiet about because could scare away customers and definitely be alarming. But I think so many people now just don't care anymore, and so many who actively want to share data with strangers, that these companies can get away with divulging their evil plans in public.
Time for everyone to watch Fifteen Million Merits on Black Mirror for an extrapolation of where we go from here.
Probably more electricity used to send the receipt electronically than just printing the paper.
But I wouldn't worry about it, it's a common practice to create news about some crazy guy's plan that will never actually occur. It isn't that California is weird this way, go to any state or country and there's always that one guy that proposes something stupid.
Hah, when I was in Arkansas, if you look between the trees you can see a bunch of rusting cars. Ok, maybe this isn't the "forest" but definitely just behind a few trees is someone's house with some old beater parked on the lawn, and this repeats over and over as you drive along and pay attention.