It could, but I haven't heard anything of the sort. There has been talk of some newer buildings being improperly built, but on the whole they stood up to the punishment much better than the old ones. Or so I have been led to believe.
I really have to wonder, who's buying cars so often that they actually have a chance to get to know a salesman? Me, I'm still on my first car, but I can't imagine buying a car more often than once every three years or so (and probably much less than that), so there would be no way we'd still know each other. I guess there are people out there with money who really like to have new cars, but it's such a strange idea.
It's never illegal to sign such a contract. What happens is that the contract, or sections thereof, merely becomes legally unenforceable.
You and I can write up a contract making you my slave, sign it, get it notarized, whatever, and there's nothing illegal about it. But if I then abduct you and imprison you in my home, the police will haul me away to jail despite the contract (if I get caught).
Likewise, there's nothing that prevents a salesman from signing such a contract, or his employer from creating one. But if the employer takes their former employee to court for breaking it, they'll (usually) discover that they can't actually do anything about it.
1. Eroding faith in government. We already saw how bad their construction was after that recent quake. 20 year old buildings stood up to the shaking, more recent buildings fell down. Government regulation and enforcement has failed.
Say what? Do you have any evidence for this? This is the exact opposite of everything else I've heard about this earthquake. China had no real earthquake building codes until the Tangshan earthquake in 1976. Buildings constructed after 1976 conformed to these codes and withstood the earthquake reasonably well. But many buildings in the area predated 1976 and thus were not constructed to match this code.
It wouldn't surprise me if the codes were occasionally ignored and often skirted, but still, everything I've heard about this earthquake indicates that, on average, the newer the building the better it withstood the earthquake.
The population of active Macs is roughly ten times larger than the population of active iPhones right now. None of them have any sort of code signing restrictions, kill switches, or anything else of that nature. Somehow they have all avoided being the malware-infested cesspools that everyone thinks that the iPhone would inevitably become if it weren't locked down tight. Why is that?
Let's say that at the age of 14 (the numbers aren't important, just illustrative), you have the choice of either beginning on the auto mechanic track or on the aerospace engineer track. You choose auto mechanic. At the age of 18 you change your mind. You have wasted four years.
Now, what does this mean in the US? It means that you need to back up, study for 4 years (or less if you're motivated and learn fast), then enter college at the age of 22. If you follow the standard schedule, you'll graduate with your BS at the age of 26, ready to either enter the workforce or continue on to a more advanced degree.
In many other countries, this kind of switching is simply impossible. It's not that you've wasted four years and will have to delay things. You've missed the opportunity to choose, and that path is now closed. That's the difference.
Interesting, I rejected the extended warranty for my car for similar reasons. I figured that the neighborhood garage would be able to fix any problem I had for far less money than the extended warranty would cost.
It might depend on what kind of car you have, though. I just have a boring mid-range GM. Maybe if you have something fancier it starts to pay off better.
I don't know why it's so hard for people to understand this.
Because they are absolute, utter morons.
The same person who shrugs off thousands of unfixed bugs in a random popular open source project expects utter perfection from an incredibly complex machine which probably has more moving parts than they have ever written lines of code.
It's just a manifestation of the attitude that if you don't know anything about it, it must be easy.
An entirely fair point. I didn't necessarily mean to single out Apple with this, it's just that Apple is the only company I've bought an extended warranty from because of this issue.
That's not the main body, that's amendments. And theoretically speaking, they are redundant. They only spell out what is already implied in the main body of the document. Many founders were opposed to passing them in the first place because of this.
I guess it was too tough to unplug it or cover it when not in use, or to clean out whatever evil software was transmitting your picture without your consent.
So let's say we take your advice. Death penalty! Suddenly this guy has nothing to lose. What happens when the police come for him?
Having a gradient of ever more severe punishments for ever more severe crimes is a good thing. You never want to be in a situation where a criminal at large is already certain of getting the maximum possible punishment.
The thing that makes AppleCare a bit different is that Apple is essentially a monopoly supplier for the repairs, which makes their cost much lower than what they actually charge.
Look at what it costs to get a new screen installed. Do you think that it costs Apple anywhere near that much to do it? Definitely not. They're making a hefty margin.
What this means is that Apple actually can end up charging less for the warranty than for the individual repairs, on average, over the long term. I find this to be particularly true with their portables, where the cost of AppleCare isn't all that much but the cost of repairs is completely ridiculous.
I discussed how I didn't talk to my parents very much, but that I wish they had made the effort to bridge the gap. Being judgmental is a big part of why I kept so much to myself. The funny thing is that they really weren't very judgmental, but I had myself convinced that they were.
If they had really made the effort to talk to me, consciously forced their way into topics that made me uncomfortable and then helped me out while being explicitly non-judgmental, I think it would have helped matters a lot.
If the TSA weren't such a bunch of assholes that guy in front of you wouldn't have so much trouble. It is pure idiocy to blame the victim instead of the perpetrator.
At full power, a FedEx plane coming into Dulles is going to reach the White House in just a couple of minutes. There is absolutely no way that the proper authorities will be alerted, the situation realized, the decision made, the authorization disseminated, and the equipment readied before it impacts.
The idea of shooting down wayward planes sounds nice, and it may even work if the hijacking can be detected 15-20 minutes before anything bad happens, but it's not going to save you from a halfway clever attacker.
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It could, but I haven't heard anything of the sort. There has been talk of some newer buildings being improperly built, but on the whole they stood up to the punishment much better than the old ones. Or so I have been led to believe.
I really have to wonder, who's buying cars so often that they actually have a chance to get to know a salesman? Me, I'm still on my first car, but I can't imagine buying a car more often than once every three years or so (and probably much less than that), so there would be no way we'd still know each other. I guess there are people out there with money who really like to have new cars, but it's such a strange idea.
It's never illegal to sign such a contract. What happens is that the contract, or sections thereof, merely becomes legally unenforceable.
You and I can write up a contract making you my slave, sign it, get it notarized, whatever, and there's nothing illegal about it. But if I then abduct you and imprison you in my home, the police will haul me away to jail despite the contract (if I get caught).
Likewise, there's nothing that prevents a salesman from signing such a contract, or his employer from creating one. But if the employer takes their former employee to court for breaking it, they'll (usually) discover that they can't actually do anything about it.
1. Eroding faith in government. We already saw how bad their construction was after that recent quake. 20 year old buildings stood up to the shaking, more recent buildings fell down. Government regulation and enforcement has failed.
Say what? Do you have any evidence for this? This is the exact opposite of everything else I've heard about this earthquake. China had no real earthquake building codes until the Tangshan earthquake in 1976. Buildings constructed after 1976 conformed to these codes and withstood the earthquake reasonably well. But many buildings in the area predated 1976 and thus were not constructed to match this code.
It wouldn't surprise me if the codes were occasionally ignored and often skirted, but still, everything I've heard about this earthquake indicates that, on average, the newer the building the better it withstood the earthquake.
Because people can't possibly find out about great new free apps through news sites, or on Twitter, or by simple word of mouth, or....
And once the fervor dies down I bet you won't check the top free apps list nearly as often either.
The population of active Macs is roughly ten times larger than the population of active iPhones right now. None of them have any sort of code signing restrictions, kill switches, or anything else of that nature. Somehow they have all avoided being the malware-infested cesspools that everyone thinks that the iPhone would inevitably become if it weren't locked down tight. Why is that?
Yeah, competition can be real bad for companies. But ignoring it is even worse. These guys will crash and burn if they persist in this.
Ouch! Well, I can't blame you there.
As for me, my mileage is much lower (under 40,000) but so far no repairs needed. I'm keeping my fingers crossed....
Wasting time is not being screwed.
Let's say that at the age of 14 (the numbers aren't important, just illustrative), you have the choice of either beginning on the auto mechanic track or on the aerospace engineer track. You choose auto mechanic. At the age of 18 you change your mind. You have wasted four years.
Now, what does this mean in the US? It means that you need to back up, study for 4 years (or less if you're motivated and learn fast), then enter college at the age of 22. If you follow the standard schedule, you'll graduate with your BS at the age of 26, ready to either enter the workforce or continue on to a more advanced degree.
In many other countries, this kind of switching is simply impossible. It's not that you've wasted four years and will have to delay things. You've missed the opportunity to choose, and that path is now closed. That's the difference.
Interesting, I rejected the extended warranty for my car for similar reasons. I figured that the neighborhood garage would be able to fix any problem I had for far less money than the extended warranty would cost.
It might depend on what kind of car you have, though. I just have a boring mid-range GM. Maybe if you have something fancier it starts to pay off better.
Just because people ignore it doesn't change what it does.
I don't know why it's so hard for people to understand this.
Because they are absolute, utter morons.
The same person who shrugs off thousands of unfixed bugs in a random popular open source project expects utter perfection from an incredibly complex machine which probably has more moving parts than they have ever written lines of code.
It's just a manifestation of the attitude that if you don't know anything about it, it must be easy.
An entirely fair point. I didn't necessarily mean to single out Apple with this, it's just that Apple is the only company I've bought an extended warranty from because of this issue.
That's not the main body, that's amendments. And theoretically speaking, they are redundant. They only spell out what is already implied in the main body of the document. Many founders were opposed to passing them in the first place because of this.
I guess it was too tough to unplug it or cover it when not in use, or to clean out whatever evil software was transmitting your picture without your consent.
So let's say we take your advice. Death penalty! Suddenly this guy has nothing to lose. What happens when the police come for him?
Having a gradient of ever more severe punishments for ever more severe crimes is a good thing. You never want to be in a situation where a criminal at large is already certain of getting the maximum possible punishment.
The thing that makes AppleCare a bit different is that Apple is essentially a monopoly supplier for the repairs, which makes their cost much lower than what they actually charge.
Look at what it costs to get a new screen installed. Do you think that it costs Apple anywhere near that much to do it? Definitely not. They're making a hefty margin.
What this means is that Apple actually can end up charging less for the warranty than for the individual repairs, on average, over the long term. I find this to be particularly true with their portables, where the cost of AppleCare isn't all that much but the cost of repairs is completely ridiculous.
Absolutely backwards. The Constitution grants powers to the government. Anything that's not in there, they can't do.
Well said!
I discussed how I didn't talk to my parents very much, but that I wish they had made the effort to bridge the gap. Being judgmental is a big part of why I kept so much to myself. The funny thing is that they really weren't very judgmental, but I had myself convinced that they were.
If they had really made the effort to talk to me, consciously forced their way into topics that made me uncomfortable and then helped me out while being explicitly non-judgmental, I think it would have helped matters a lot.
I usually read a book or play with my computer. To each his own, I suppose.
You were following him around, or what?
Has it occurred to you that the reason you had problems talking to your father was because he was an asshole, not because he tried to talk to you?
If the TSA weren't such a bunch of assholes that guy in front of you wouldn't have so much trouble. It is pure idiocy to blame the victim instead of the perpetrator.
At full power, a FedEx plane coming into Dulles is going to reach the White House in just a couple of minutes. There is absolutely no way that the proper authorities will be alerted, the situation realized, the decision made, the authorization disseminated, and the equipment readied before it impacts.
The idea of shooting down wayward planes sounds nice, and it may even work if the hijacking can be detected 15-20 minutes before anything bad happens, but it's not going to save you from a halfway clever attacker.
I always get this sinking feeling when I see that an AC has responded to me. In your case this was entirely undeserved! Thanks, AC.