My tripe response? This has nothing at all to do with stomach lining.
And I did read your entire response. The parent post was asking if there was evidence it was bad for kids. The nuance was the question wanted information on if it was bad for kids but not for adults. All you did was point out something that happens regardless of age, so your response was useless in that regard.
Or how did they get a patent on this with all the prior art out there? It was known prior to that filing date that Best Buy and others were feeding people BS prices on their internal free wifi when they came in to "showroom".
Way to shift the goalposts. Someone needs to write that legislation before it can be sponsored, and that part hasn't been done. That is not on Congress as a whole and you know it.
> and do you realize that it's Congress which writes the legislation.
Actually I know it's not:
https://www.usa.gov/how-laws-are-made
"A bill can be introduced in either house of Congress by a Senator or Representative who sponsors it."
SPONSORS. Not writes. Someone else, like at the White House, or a representative's interns, or the lobbyists at Phillip Morris/Exxon/Halliburton/Comcast writes the actual bill and then finds a sponsor in one of the houses to introduce it.
If we use your logic that "congress" writes them, how could the health care bill have come into existence if none of them have read the damn thing? Some sort of Joseph Smith magic possession by the spirit of Ronald Reagan wrote it longform?
I don't even live in your country and I seem to know more about the process than you do. That's embarrassing.
You do realize the legislation has to actually be created before it can be voted on, yes? So how's that tax legislation coming? Or the infrastructure legislation? Or the border wall legislation? Or the job offshoring legislation? You know, items that The Donald promised would be ready and voted on in his first 100 days? Most of that stuff hasn't even had a cover page written for it yet. My point stands.
> Jobs are necessary to do things... However, you only need to produce more iPhones when people are buying more iPhones.
Gee, it's too bad that Apple couldn't possibly develop new lines of products with some of that money, what with all the product lines that people will ever buy already invented.
Good thing for them that iPhones have been a staple of the company since its inception in the 70s or who knows what they would have done.
> Well, to be fair, the current administration *IS* working on legislation (hopefully soon) to allow for repatriation of Apple and other companies' tax dollars offshore....at a reasonable rate.
At the rate this administration "works" on legislation I would expect to see that bill sometime in the 22nd century.
I do love how you blame Netflix for that, when in reality it was the content holders they were licensing that brought massive pressure against them to stop geo blocking evasion with VPNs. Netflix played the fool for ages against the licensors saying there wasn't any way to stop VPNs until they were finally backed to a cliff edge.
A lot of pundits said the Wii U crashed and burned compared to the Wii because many parents who do the console buying didn't even realize it was a different console due to the confusing name. Let's see if the same happens with the Xbox One X.
Some software packages (stupidly) check to see if a WIndows OS is 32 bit or 64 bit before running or installing and if it's not 32 bit, they don't start. How do I know this? I know a person who runs their business on an outdated software package with exactly that limitation, which is why upgrading their office network was a hell of a challenge to ensure we got 32 bit versions of Win 7 Pro when we bought the equipment.
Why don't they get a new version? Because the company that makes the software is out of business
Why don't they use something else? Because they LIKE this package and for what it does, it works well.
So your hot take on this is that shitty things happened to other people, shitty things are now happening to these people, everyone deserves shit because that's the way the world works, shut up and like it?
Fantastic. When you wonder why the world sucks, go look in a mirror.
>I'm sure Amazon is guilty of this with their warehouse workers, delivery drivers, etc.
Here's an older article written by someone who went in to see the environment at an Amazon fulfillment center and talked with other workers. I can't imagine it's gotten better since.
""You look way too happy," an Amalgamated supervisor says to me. He has appeared next to me as I work, and in the silence of the vast warehouse, his presence catches me by surprise. His comment, even more so........
"Really?" I ask.
"Well," the supervisor qualifies. "Just everybody else is usually really sad or mad by the time they've been working here this long."
> Even after they had a tuberculosis outbreak (no I'm not kidding - the CDC got involved and required everyone to be screened) they didn't abandon this system.
Sounds to me like that's some labor lawyer's class action lawsuit wet dream....
No problem. Strangely work that would have gone their way is now instead going to a new corporate entity named AllenBooz which is totally separate and not at all connected.
Companies love doing things that "look good" but are counter intuitive. Working overtime for weeks on end during "crunch time" is another. I've shared the story before about a place that I worked several years back that actually decided to do a study of the bugtracker after a 2 month crunch. During the crunch at this place it was normal to work 10-12 hours each day with at least 1 day on the weekend as well. So reviewing all of the bugs that were checked in showed both a pattern of increasingly sloppy work overall the longer the crunch went on, and a peak of dumb mistakes that occurred during the last few hours of the 12 hour shifts or the weekend work.
Overall the mistakes took nearly as much effort to mitigate as the overtime that was put in, so the place decided going forward there would no longer be any crunch overtime work as it was just making people miserable for no tangible gain.
Slashdot Mirror
Lighten up Francis, it's a joke.
My tripe response? This has nothing at all to do with stomach lining.
And I did read your entire response. The parent post was asking if there was evidence it was bad for kids. The nuance was the question wanted information on if it was bad for kids but not for adults. All you did was point out something that happens regardless of age, so your response was useless in that regard.
Which I pointed out with a trite response.
> Are there adults that are addicted to their smartphones? Most definitely.
Maybe those adults should have waited until they were over 13 to use a smartphone. Oh wait, they did?
Not really sure how having an age barrier is going to fix that one then.
Or how did they get a patent on this with all the prior art out there? It was known prior to that filing date that Best Buy and others were feeding people BS prices on their internal free wifi when they came in to "showroom".
http://boingboing.net/2007/03/03/best-buy-admits-to-k.html
Back in 2007... Amazon patent in 2012. WTF USPTO?
Way to shift the goalposts. Someone needs to write that legislation before it can be sponsored, and that part hasn't been done. That is not on Congress as a whole and you know it.
> and do you realize that it's Congress which writes the legislation.
Actually I know it's not:
https://www.usa.gov/how-laws-are-made
"A bill can be introduced in either house of Congress by a Senator or Representative who sponsors it."
SPONSORS. Not writes. Someone else, like at the White House, or a representative's interns, or the lobbyists at Phillip Morris/Exxon/Halliburton/Comcast writes the actual bill and then finds a sponsor in one of the houses to introduce it.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/04/gop-congressman-i-dont-think-any-individual-has-read-health-bill.html
If we use your logic that "congress" writes them, how could the health care bill have come into existence if none of them have read the damn thing? Some sort of Joseph Smith magic possession by the spirit of Ronald Reagan wrote it longform?
I don't even live in your country and I seem to know more about the process than you do. That's embarrassing.
You do realize the legislation has to actually be created before it can be voted on, yes? So how's that tax legislation coming? Or the infrastructure legislation? Or the border wall legislation? Or the job offshoring legislation? You know, items that The Donald promised would be ready and voted on in his first 100 days? Most of that stuff hasn't even had a cover page written for it yet. My point stands.
> Jobs are necessary to do things ... However, you only need to produce more iPhones when people are buying more iPhones.
Gee, it's too bad that Apple couldn't possibly develop new lines of products with some of that money, what with all the product lines that people will ever buy already invented.
Good thing for them that iPhones have been a staple of the company since its inception in the 70s or who knows what they would have done.
> Well, to be fair, the current administration *IS* working on legislation (hopefully soon) to allow for repatriation of Apple and other companies' tax dollars offshore....at a reasonable rate.
At the rate this administration "works" on legislation I would expect to see that bill sometime in the 22nd century.
I do love how you blame Netflix for that, when in reality it was the content holders they were licensing that brought massive pressure against them to stop geo blocking evasion with VPNs. Netflix played the fool for ages against the licensors saying there wasn't any way to stop VPNs until they were finally backed to a cliff edge.
OH NOES!!! How DARE someone benefit by taking the effort to recommend a relevant link?
A lot of pundits said the Wii U crashed and burned compared to the Wii because many parents who do the console buying didn't even realize it was a different console due to the confusing name. Let's see if the same happens with the Xbox One X.
Some software packages (stupidly) check to see if a WIndows OS is 32 bit or 64 bit before running or installing and if it's not 32 bit, they don't start. How do I know this? I know a person who runs their business on an outdated software package with exactly that limitation, which is why upgrading their office network was a hell of a challenge to ensure we got 32 bit versions of Win 7 Pro when we bought the equipment.
Why don't they get a new version? Because the company that makes the software is out of business
Why don't they use something else? Because they LIKE this package and for what it does, it works well.
So your hot take on this is that shitty things happened to other people, shitty things are now happening to these people, everyone deserves shit because that's the way the world works, shut up and like it?
Fantastic. When you wonder why the world sucks, go look in a mirror.
Or LG, Asus, and more. There's tons of non Samsung Android out there.
> As usual, Trump has put forward a glorious plan with few details.
Enough with the gloom! He's gonna build a wall in the sky and then make the pigeons pay for it!
Inflicting a Steve Harvey show on the world seems cruel.
>I'm sure Amazon is guilty of this with their warehouse workers, delivery drivers, etc.
Here's an older article written by someone who went in to see the environment at an Amazon fulfillment center and talked with other workers. I can't imagine it's gotten better since.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor
Some of it is just f-d right up:
""You look way too happy," an Amalgamated supervisor says to me. He has appeared next to me as I work, and in the silence of the vast warehouse, his presence catches me by surprise. His comment, even more so. .......
"Really?" I ask.
"Well," the supervisor qualifies. "Just everybody else is usually really sad or mad by the time they've been working here this long."
It's my 28th hour as an employee."
WTF America?
> Even after they had a tuberculosis outbreak (no I'm not kidding - the CDC got involved and required everyone to be screened) they didn't abandon this system.
Sounds to me like that's some labor lawyer's class action lawsuit wet dream....
> on the one hand they are employees and on the other they are associates. Which is it really?
Whatever definition is most beneficial to Walmart at that particular moment.
> Tesla has yet to turn a profit, claiming growth - yet every other firm manages to grow while it is profitable.
*cough* AMZN *cough*.
https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/12/4217794/jeff-bezos-letter-amazon-investors-2012
Bezos practically invented the growth-first-profit-whenever mantra, and it's worked for Amazon at least.
> It's been fun playing. But I think Kerbal just went extinct.
So your copy of the game just suddenly stopped working?
No problem. Strangely work that would have gone their way is now instead going to a new corporate entity named AllenBooz which is totally separate and not at all connected.
Companies love doing things that "look good" but are counter intuitive. Working overtime for weeks on end during "crunch time" is another. I've shared the story before about a place that I worked several years back that actually decided to do a study of the bugtracker after a 2 month crunch. During the crunch at this place it was normal to work 10-12 hours each day with at least 1 day on the weekend as well. So reviewing all of the bugs that were checked in showed both a pattern of increasingly sloppy work overall the longer the crunch went on, and a peak of dumb mistakes that occurred during the last few hours of the 12 hour shifts or the weekend work.
Overall the mistakes took nearly as much effort to mitigate as the overtime that was put in, so the place decided going forward there would no longer be any crunch overtime work as it was just making people miserable for no tangible gain.
I guess that's why Netflix is failing and has no subscribers right?