It is called redlining and a simultaneously and sufficiently blunt means to result in what I "personally" would characterize as a form of genocide of the Black American male and a banal evil. A "best" deal includes extractive economies and ghettoization. Prior to that-- hangings.
But to move on, comparing zip codes and credit bureaus (who have of late been rendered meaningless by data breaches so serious the government has only wrung its hands and waits for public attention to diminish) to the data metrics and scorings of private enterprise (formerly high-profile Madison Avenue ventures steeped in proprietary research intermittently paraded to the public in expose pieces as "what we know about you that you do not know about yourself") is woefully anemic and likely disingenuous. "Skin in the game" is the commonly traded phrase used by both the agnostic and devious alike, and how a euphemism like "tool" is applied by social hackers gaming a system of "what is legal if no one sees it".
What private information cultures indulge to socialize in a mediated world is an evolving phenomenon and despite Zuckerberg's famous "idiots" quote and its disparagement, the ethos of it is a widely adopted perspective of ridiculously predominant young men in a sexist and racist industry. The guilty secret is, "How do I show I'm smarter and get rich doing it."
Discrimination Stuff? People with a "disability", who purchase sports items as gifts only rarely or incidentally, are not a significant market to merit retailers not wasting their money? The government ought to assist suppliers and their distribution networks of commodities and manufactured goods to know the character and degree of a disabled person?
Someone please forward you the ghost of Ferdinand Porsche post haste; You have a world to conquer.
My favorite word to explore in what documentation I come across is "granularity". I had not seen it used since a kid reading about the surface of the sun. Applying relational databases has been overshadowed by networks modeled on neural connectivity, but the latter serves the former. These advances are largely legitimate, but the Valley's greatest minds can't stop social hacking in the name of disruptive commerce and a rentier class has the resources to beg their forgiveness because regulating technology is non-trivial.
I've recently witnessed Apple pulling shit on kids that would shame a cigarette executive from the 1930s.
FaceBook employs so few people (that's what I mean by a feudal culture) and I understand "new" paradigms in optimization, but goddammit.
Let me understand: Are all disruptive platforms conflating consumers and suppliers as users?
__FaceBook prediction #312__
By 2034, of the 41% of deceased profiles, 22% provide "click farm" jobs for 90.3 million children in developing nations, though any reliable approximation of deceased, but "vital", users will be known only to FB's legal department and a closely guarded trade secret.
Thank Colossus for mrwireless' post. I am not surprised there are some on/. asserting on a public forum not to speculate about how proprietary *tools* are *utilized* by FaceBook's-feudal-warlord-culture designed to impress *Mr.* Zuckerberg. Keep it up, scuzzballs, and the government itself will be forced to hire watchers, and then watchers to watch the watchers (as socialist countries choose to do) because the abuses are worse every quarter.
For slashdot yutes: (1) Real ID accounts were a battle ending in a stale-mate ten years ago now, and (2) You're deluding yourself if you believe your casual comprehension of demographics, its methods and metrics, are greater than teams of corporate lawyers and quants all over the globe. What is a demographic? Begin with the Domesdary Book and don't stop looking over your shoulder, subject.
Frontline has a respectable documentary some four hours long: From Jesus to Christ: The Early Christians. I've not found better interviews with academics citing archeology and textual/pragmatic interpretation of extant documents. The short answer to what inspired Revelations is Rome-- repeated uprisings and Rome's violent suppression of Judea. The earliest scrolls were not casting to some distant future, but their present. After Constantine, all that was recast.
A fun speculation I had heard as a kid (but reinforced by the Frontline documentary) is adding up all the Roman numerals except for 'M'-- D-C-L-X-V-I.
Please forgive the purposefully stupid pun...to invite any in this community to provide a null hypothesis for the following: Asian people have provided both a sufficiently inexpensive and educated labor force to ensure quality assurances that enable IP holders to successfully project earnings.
Because that is how I'm interpreting Qualcomm's agreement to accept fines they have paid, and offer what remains in terms of "investment". Qualcomm sought greater control of information about who bought a finished product and at what price and Taiwan said, "No, thank you," because Taiwan's labor force is exactly that valuable-- Pay These Fines or Go Hang because Good Luck finding anyone else with as many and meaningful assurances?
Because if a null hypothesis is not sufficiently offered, I'm more confident in a take on western IP holders being in a bind: How to enjoy the profits of scale within parameters of their choosing while simultaneously claiming labor is a trivial component.
I read many articles about how "unfair" mainland China is in terms of reverse-engineering and "stealing" IP while its educated labor provides a means of production. The articles bend over backwards to avoid any conclusion of: Then Build Your Gadgets Somewhere Else!
An anecdote I've read but once (and never seen repeated) is Obama asking Jobs about possibly returning some of Apple's manufacturing back to the US, and Jobs' reply: Those jobs are never coming back." It made sense to me because I was reading Chris Gilmore's book Nobodies and the question of Henry Ford's (as problematic as it is to to acknowledge Nazi sympathizers in this age) first observations of mass production-- how scale can benefit all classes-- is mind-blowingly rich in potentials when internationally applied, but as susceptible to abuse.
What unregulated capitalist will not seek the poorest and claim any increase in wages is sufficient?
Meat's not Murder, as much as I enjoy Morrisey; It's slaughter. And I admire meat-eaters who address sustainable farms to address factory farming and respect any perspective to appeal to HOW animals are raised and rendered after I had read Diet for a Small Planet (https://www.smallplanet.org/diet-for-a-small-planet) and Robbins' book (the Baskin/Robbins heir who was conned by Madoff) in 1990. I went lacto-ovo vegan and made soy "milk", and my own gluten (ashamed I couldn't master tempeh cultures) and supplemented my diet with nutritional yeast for B complex vitamins and explored every meat substitute available and can claim I was spared seasonal flus for years. Fifteen years later, friends half a generation younger, mocked my preferences to seek out substitutes with the same texture and "mouth feel" as akin to wearing a fake fur. It was my first experience with shifts in generational perspective, I think. (The second is a pervasive belief microwave appliances are dangerous.) Anyway, Morning Star brand was some of the best commercially available (and affordable) product (but used egg whites for texture) and leveraged by the growing market of baby-boomers reduction of cholesterol consumption: Tinfoil Advisory-- Morning Star's "Prime" product was the best I had ever experienced and disappeared from the market for over two decades because (I believe) it was TOO Good. At about this time, Oprah took on the Beef trade associations and was summarily silenced on the subject, the only topic from which I believe she has EVER backed away. Supply/Demand arguments have been the reason given for the 3-4X cost of livestock for three decades. Qorn was prevented from North American shelves for over a decade for reasons ignored when it came to Frito-Lay's potato chip products...end of Advisory...
In 2010, I returned to being an omnivore, but I miss the days of chasing down "mouth feel" substitutes because the science is interesting, and the business angles are very intriguing. Textured vegetable protein (a fantastic substitute in Chile adopted by Hormel a loooong time ago) is the best example of an affordable substitute and industrially compressed gluten that simulated a roast beef that I experienced in Oakland and LA's Whole foods deli sections is the most expensive (5X that of steak), but truly a delicacy.
In 1990, Robbins' claimed that, without government subsidized water rights, a dollar hamburger in the US would cost $6. I don't know if that's factual because there aren't many sources or studies to cross reference, but such an estimate goes a long way in explaining why the market is, in my humble opinion, so controlled.
Your browser's session configurations are all well and good on hardware made to compute, but killing the motherboard is coming whether it has been called thin clients, or now appliances,... whatever, it doesn't matter, and...
Until such time, not seeing ads is a marginally useful control group.
Calling either the US or China empires is what Little Big Boys Who Confuse What They See On the tee-vee News with the Game of Risk, and/or Thrones. There's a map somewhere in your realm of confusion. You might read it to see how China is designated a republic, qualified as socialist, while the United States is a democratic republic. They're both full of people that value what their mommies and daddies, and what their mommies and daddies (and so on) had a long time ago. These same people value what they have right now and what they hope their children, and their children's children (and so son), might have.
See how that works? Each culture assigning value to what was important, still is important, and might be important? For themselves? Without the need to dismiss whole populations oceans as less enlightened? Less _____ or More _____ of anything so important it necessitates 800 military bases in 70 countries?
If You Had Behaved Nicely The Communists Wouldn't Exist ~ Jenny Holzer, Survivor Series Abuse of Power Comes As No Surprise ~ Ibid.
Censorship is not the only narrative. China has never conducted a foreign war. Its border disputes are complex and its civil wars overwhelm western approximations or experience, but all my life the propaganda-driven mythos of 5 Chinese Brothers has dominated western narratives. All my life the warning is: China is about to lash out as it spirals into chaos and strike by some vague mechanism never revealed.
Assertions about distinctions of freedom, scrutiny, liberty, and "peace" find iconographic anchors and argument long anemic and recycled-- especially Tiananmen Square-- a tragedy by all accounts and without relevance. Had Chinese leaders allowed western corporations to "collect data" about its citizens and "know" more than the government itself about its consumer trends, desires, habits, fears, and proclivities, it would have been treason. Western interests would have had unprecedented and unmeasured advantages in banking, shipping, commodities, and currency exchange markets. Western and European corporations might have sought to choke the nation entire because it would have been plausible.
Dissonance on the topic is stark and nearly ubiquitous: As Americans learn how their own enterprises cannot be trusted as they compete for dominance and all of Google rests on the promises of anonymous collection, the NSA, CIA, and FBI have all acquiesced to contractors and admitted, if only representationally, what corporations CAN know about any individual dwarfs the methods and and resources once the monopoly of the US government.
What China has historically experienced is reeling from unexpected invasion, and the meddling of foreign powers with its neighbors. China has always been forced to protect itself. Yet most western narratives assert China's now plus billion people are "trapped" and its actions aim to accrue some capital to be an aggressor all while the US places military bases everywhere else around the world. South China Sea? How is China's military or trade strategies in waters so close to its borders even a topic? Because most discussions about China by so-called educated people resemble the boasts and assertions of teenagers at play with a game of Risk.
Maintaining global balances of trade is how the US insinuates itself into far off lands and some of it is reasonable. I'm no apologist for criticism of central planning politics and its inevitable corruption, but the "drums" of western dialogues on the topic are exhausting and puerile.
My first reference (to date myself) for the obsessive behavior of Japanese photographers is Caddyshack and their heady presence was led by a fully aware Rodney Dangerfield in his audacity to taunt and diminish propertied snobbery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Understand...Virtual Child Pornography involved the Supreme Court because digitally created images were used to agitate and turn Muslim suspects held at sites around the world in Psy-Operations.
We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.~ John Ashcroft, former US Attorney General
An interesting movie to have seen is Generation P(2011) because to what degree the average (young) Russian can be familiar with US culture far outpaces any reciprocity. Not because of any superiority, but because western advances in terms of technology and modernity have had a primacy since WWII. Someone had to come first.
Which produces ironies, such as Dan Ackroyd's (Zalinsky) line from Tommy Boy(1995): What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public.
Such precedence is realized and actualized by markets and most often expressed in terms of consumer goods. But their design and production will not forever remain America's providence, nor should they, and this is understandably frightening to many and exploited by some for many reasons.
I'm reluctant to bear my ignorance, by what can't USB C be magnetically configured? Because I do USE my laptop for a living and minding port plugs and wires is a pain in the ass. What I believe is proved by this continued design is the MAJORITY of Pro buyers ARE NOT engineers, sound, video, etc., but business hacks showing off the sleekness factor for meetings. A working Mac is tethered and ungainly and this latest port design makes it worse, but it doesn't matter because the larger market is conspicuous consumption types.
Maybe this is an open secret to everyone. Maybe it's just one of the many FanBoi arguments I've ignored because I've run Linux on a few laptops, but am most productive with my Apple.
I know this is/., but the article doesn't claim every inhabitant of planet earth has a mobile. The guestimates in this thread based on a sense of socioeconomic class and consumer envy are pathetic. I'm fortunate enough to have worked in remote areas of the Middle East and Asia and saw the same phenomenon of "tech-neck" among agrarian cultures as I had seen in, say, Oakland or LA-- and that was some five years ago. No technology has spread as rapidly and pervasively -- including fire and the wheel.
Slashdot Mirror
This Kind of Thing All the Time
It is called redlining and a simultaneously and sufficiently blunt means to result in what I "personally" would characterize as a form of genocide of the Black American male and a banal evil. A "best" deal includes extractive economies and ghettoization. Prior to that-- hangings.
But to move on, comparing zip codes and credit bureaus (who have of late been rendered meaningless by data breaches so serious the government has only wrung its hands and waits for public attention to diminish) to the data metrics and scorings of private enterprise (formerly high-profile Madison Avenue ventures steeped in proprietary research intermittently paraded to the public in expose pieces as "what we know about you that you do not know about yourself") is woefully anemic and likely disingenuous. "Skin in the game" is the commonly traded phrase used by both the agnostic and devious alike, and how a euphemism like "tool" is applied by social hackers gaming a system of "what is legal if no one sees it".
What private information cultures indulge to socialize in a mediated world is an evolving phenomenon and despite Zuckerberg's famous "idiots" quote and its disparagement, the ethos of it is a widely adopted perspective of ridiculously predominant young men in a sexist and racist industry. The guilty secret is, "How do I show I'm smarter and get rich doing it."
Discrimination Stuff? People with a "disability", who purchase sports items as gifts only rarely or incidentally, are not a significant market to merit retailers not wasting their money? The government ought to assist suppliers and their distribution networks of commodities and manufactured goods to know the character and degree of a disabled person?
Someone please forward you the ghost of Ferdinand Porsche post haste; You have a world to conquer.
Stuff? Are you a senator's son?
10 PRINT "Bless this post.";
20 GOTO 10
My favorite word to explore in what documentation I come across is "granularity". I had not seen it used since a kid reading about the surface of the sun. Applying relational databases has been overshadowed by networks modeled on neural connectivity, but the latter serves the former. These advances are largely legitimate, but the Valley's greatest minds can't stop social hacking in the name of disruptive commerce and a rentier class has the resources to beg their forgiveness because regulating technology is non-trivial.
I've recently witnessed Apple pulling shit on kids that would shame a cigarette executive from the 1930s.
FaceBook employs so few people (that's what I mean by a feudal culture) and I understand "new" paradigms in optimization, but goddammit.
Let me understand: Are all disruptive platforms conflating consumers and suppliers as users?
__FaceBook prediction #312__ By 2034, of the 41% of deceased profiles, 22% provide "click farm" jobs for 90.3 million children in developing nations, though any reliable approximation of deceased, but "vital", users will be known only to FB's legal department and a closely guarded trade secret. Thank Colossus for mrwireless' post. I am not surprised there are some on /. asserting on a public forum not to speculate about how proprietary *tools* are *utilized* by FaceBook's-feudal-warlord-culture designed to impress *Mr.* Zuckerberg. Keep it up, scuzzballs, and the government itself will be forced to hire watchers, and then watchers to watch the watchers (as socialist countries choose to do) because the abuses are worse every quarter.
For slashdot yutes: (1) Real ID accounts were a battle ending in a stale-mate ten years ago now, and (2) You're deluding yourself if you believe your casual comprehension of demographics, its methods and metrics, are greater than teams of corporate lawyers and quants all over the globe. What is a demographic? Begin with the Domesdary Book and don't stop looking over your shoulder, subject.
Frontline has a respectable documentary some four hours long: From Jesus to Christ: The Early Christians. I've not found better interviews with academics citing archeology and textual/pragmatic interpretation of extant documents. The short answer to what inspired Revelations is Rome-- repeated uprisings and Rome's violent suppression of Judea. The earliest scrolls were not casting to some distant future, but their present. After Constantine, all that was recast.
A fun speculation I had heard as a kid (but reinforced by the Frontline documentary) is adding up all the Roman numerals except for 'M'-- D-C-L-X-V-I.
Please forgive the purposefully stupid pun...to invite any in this community to provide a null hypothesis for the following: Asian people have provided both a sufficiently inexpensive and educated labor force to ensure quality assurances that enable IP holders to successfully project earnings.
Because that is how I'm interpreting Qualcomm's agreement to accept fines they have paid, and offer what remains in terms of "investment". Qualcomm sought greater control of information about who bought a finished product and at what price and Taiwan said, "No, thank you," because Taiwan's labor force is exactly that valuable-- Pay These Fines or Go Hang because Good Luck finding anyone else with as many and meaningful assurances?
Because if a null hypothesis is not sufficiently offered, I'm more confident in a take on western IP holders being in a bind: How to enjoy the profits of scale within parameters of their choosing while simultaneously claiming labor is a trivial component.
I read many articles about how "unfair" mainland China is in terms of reverse-engineering and "stealing" IP while its educated labor provides a means of production. The articles bend over backwards to avoid any conclusion of: Then Build Your Gadgets Somewhere Else!
An anecdote I've read but once (and never seen repeated) is Obama asking Jobs about possibly returning some of Apple's manufacturing back to the US, and Jobs' reply: Those jobs are never coming back." It made sense to me because I was reading Chris Gilmore's book Nobodies and the question of Henry Ford's (as problematic as it is to to acknowledge Nazi sympathizers in this age) first observations of mass production-- how scale can benefit all classes-- is mind-blowingly rich in potentials when internationally applied, but as susceptible to abuse.
What unregulated capitalist will not seek the poorest and claim any increase in wages is sufficient?
The time stamp of the home screen is 4:20.
It will be cheaper to have the contents of the internet delivered to your house via snail mail once a week.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
~ Andrew S. Tanebaum, creator of Minix
The market is controlled because of the foot shortages we experienced after the Dust Bowl which exacerbated the Great Depression.
You explanation goes a long way in allowing me to put away several rolls of foil-- sincerely-- Thank you.
Meat's not Murder, as much as I enjoy Morrisey; It's slaughter. And I admire meat-eaters who address sustainable farms to address factory farming and respect any perspective to appeal to HOW animals are raised and rendered after I had read Diet for a Small Planet (https://www.smallplanet.org/diet-for-a-small-planet) and Robbins' book (the Baskin/Robbins heir who was conned by Madoff) in 1990. I went lacto-ovo vegan and made soy "milk", and my own gluten (ashamed I couldn't master tempeh cultures) and supplemented my diet with nutritional yeast for B complex vitamins and explored every meat substitute available and can claim I was spared seasonal flus for years. Fifteen years later, friends half a generation younger, mocked my preferences to seek out substitutes with the same texture and "mouth feel" as akin to wearing a fake fur. It was my first experience with shifts in generational perspective, I think. (The second is a pervasive belief microwave appliances are dangerous.) Anyway, Morning Star brand was some of the best commercially available (and affordable) product (but used egg whites for texture) and leveraged by the growing market of baby-boomers reduction of cholesterol consumption: Tinfoil Advisory-- Morning Star's "Prime" product was the best I had ever experienced and disappeared from the market for over two decades because (I believe) it was TOO Good. At about this time, Oprah took on the Beef trade associations and was summarily silenced on the subject, the only topic from which I believe she has EVER backed away. Supply/Demand arguments have been the reason given for the 3-4X cost of livestock for three decades. Qorn was prevented from North American shelves for over a decade for reasons ignored when it came to Frito-Lay's potato chip products...end of Advisory...
In 2010, I returned to being an omnivore, but I miss the days of chasing down "mouth feel" substitutes because the science is interesting, and the business angles are very intriguing. Textured vegetable protein (a fantastic substitute in Chile adopted by Hormel a loooong time ago) is the best example of an affordable substitute and industrially compressed gluten that simulated a roast beef that I experienced in Oakland and LA's Whole foods deli sections is the most expensive (5X that of steak), but truly a delicacy.
In 1990, Robbins' claimed that, without government subsidized water rights, a dollar hamburger in the US would cost $6. I don't know if that's factual because there aren't many sources or studies to cross reference, but such an estimate goes a long way in explaining why the market is, in my humble opinion, so controlled.
That's like saying if there were only one model of car,...
Slashdot would have less than zero analogies?
Your browser's session configurations are all well and good on hardware made to compute, but killing the motherboard is coming whether it has been called thin clients, or now appliances, ... whatever, it doesn't matter, and...
Until such time, not seeing ads is a marginally useful control group.
Go read Document 9.
Reading: What Other People Should Do
Calling either the US or China empires is what Little Big Boys Who Confuse What They See On the tee-vee News with the Game of Risk, and/or Thrones. There's a map somewhere in your realm of confusion. You might read it to see how China is designated a republic, qualified as socialist, while the United States is a democratic republic. They're both full of people that value what their mommies and daddies, and what their mommies and daddies (and so on) had a long time ago. These same people value what they have right now and what they hope their children, and their children's children (and so son), might have.
See how that works? Each culture assigning value to what was important, still is important, and might be important? For themselves? Without the need to dismiss whole populations oceans as less enlightened? Less _____ or More _____ of anything so important it necessitates 800 military bases in 70 countries?
If You Had Behaved Nicely The Communists Wouldn't Exist
~ Jenny Holzer, Survivor Series
Abuse of Power Comes As No Surprise
~ Ibid.
Censorship is not the only narrative. China has never conducted a foreign war. Its border disputes are complex and its civil wars overwhelm western approximations or experience, but all my life the propaganda-driven mythos of 5 Chinese Brothers has dominated western narratives. All my life the warning is: China is about to lash out as it spirals into chaos and strike by some vague mechanism never revealed.
Assertions about distinctions of freedom, scrutiny, liberty, and "peace" find iconographic anchors and argument long anemic and recycled-- especially Tiananmen Square-- a tragedy by all accounts and without relevance. Had Chinese leaders allowed western corporations to "collect data" about its citizens and "know" more than the government itself about its consumer trends, desires, habits, fears, and proclivities, it would have been treason. Western interests would have had unprecedented and unmeasured advantages in banking, shipping, commodities, and currency exchange markets. Western and European corporations might have sought to choke the nation entire because it would have been plausible.
Dissonance on the topic is stark and nearly ubiquitous: As Americans learn how their own enterprises cannot be trusted as they compete for dominance and all of Google rests on the promises of anonymous collection, the NSA, CIA, and FBI have all acquiesced to contractors and admitted, if only representationally, what corporations CAN know about any individual dwarfs the methods and and resources once the monopoly of the US government.
What China has historically experienced is reeling from unexpected invasion, and the meddling of foreign powers with its neighbors. China has always been forced to protect itself. Yet most western narratives assert China's now plus billion people are "trapped" and its actions aim to accrue some capital to be an aggressor all while the US places military bases everywhere else around the world. South China Sea? How is China's military or trade strategies in waters so close to its borders even a topic? Because most discussions about China by so-called educated people resemble the boasts and assertions of teenagers at play with a game of Risk.
Maintaining global balances of trade is how the US insinuates itself into far off lands and some of it is reasonable. I'm no apologist for criticism of central planning politics and its inevitable corruption, but the "drums" of western dialogues on the topic are exhausting and puerile.
My first reference (to date myself) for the obsessive behavior of Japanese photographers is Caddyshack and their heady presence was led by a fully aware Rodney Dangerfield in his audacity to taunt and diminish propertied snobbery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Understand...Virtual Child Pornography involved the Supreme Court because digitally created images were used to agitate and turn Muslim suspects held at sites around the world in Psy-Operations. We've got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.~ John Ashcroft, former US Attorney General
Seethe On
Are you solarisly?
Pepsi's a pretty good soda, though.
Chopsticks
An interesting movie to have seen is Generation P(2011) because to what degree the average (young) Russian can be familiar with US culture far outpaces any reciprocity. Not because of any superiority, but because western advances in terms of technology and modernity have had a primacy since WWII. Someone had to come first. Which produces ironies, such as Dan Ackroyd's (Zalinsky) line from Tommy Boy(1995): What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public. Such precedence is realized and actualized by markets and most often expressed in terms of consumer goods. But their design and production will not forever remain America's providence, nor should they, and this is understandably frightening to many and exploited by some for many reasons.
I'm reluctant to bear my ignorance, by what can't USB C be magnetically configured? Because I do USE my laptop for a living and minding port plugs and wires is a pain in the ass. What I believe is proved by this continued design is the MAJORITY of Pro buyers ARE NOT engineers, sound, video, etc., but business hacks showing off the sleekness factor for meetings. A working Mac is tethered and ungainly and this latest port design makes it worse, but it doesn't matter because the larger market is conspicuous consumption types. Maybe this is an open secret to everyone. Maybe it's just one of the many FanBoi arguments I've ignored because I've run Linux on a few laptops, but am most productive with my Apple.
Jobs was allowed to tour PARC and recognized the enormous value of a graphical interface and traded stocks with XeroX. Nothing was stolen.
I know this is /., but the article doesn't claim every inhabitant of planet earth has a mobile. The guestimates in this thread based on a sense of socioeconomic class and consumer envy are pathetic. I'm fortunate enough to have worked in remote areas of the Middle East and Asia and saw the same phenomenon of "tech-neck" among agrarian cultures as I had seen in, say, Oakland or LA-- and that was some five years ago. No technology has spread as rapidly and pervasively -- including fire and the wheel.
Never!