Traffic enforcement should be done for the purpose of improving safety, not fund-raising for the local police department.
Your entire post is great, but the first sentence cannot be emphasized enough. They don't even try to hide it. They're given quotas for tickets and it's not a secret. In reality they should be forced to do what students do - hold bake sales. At least that way the populace gets something positive out of the experience, rather than a rampant mistrust of law enforcement. That's a two-way relationship that isn't positive for anyone.
In the real world this is seen as nothing more than just a company doing the absolute bare minimum to cover their ass. Sure, it fulfills all the necessary legal requirements to pawn off responsibility, so odds are the suit will go nowhere. However, if you truly believe that adding the trophy and issuing this as cover as being a responsible citizen, this yet one more reason why 'corporate personhood' is dangerous.
I don't know about evil, not that I'm going to argue against that, but 'hypocrite' or perhaps 'misguided' would be a better term. Leaving aside the constant need for certain politicians who feel compelled to merge their religion with public policy, I am always fascinated when those who constantly rail against the Nanny State decide they need to attempt to impose their own sense of morality on everyone else. Not that I expect a whole lot different from the Mormon state, but we already have enough real health issues than focusing on this nonsense.
Whatever the topic is, educate first and provide context. Lead poisoning and contaminated water, for instance, is a real health crisis. It isn't imagined. It's damaging and killing people. It's costing the rest of us money in terms of medical care and transporting clean water across the country. That problem isn't going to get any better any time soon. Focus on that problem first. Deal with your own perceived problems later, please. There's only so much money to go around solving problems.
Not that this is anywhere close to the only Governor in the U.S. from focusing on trying to provide an answer to a problem that nobody should care about...
God I can't read this morning, let me retry.
Statistics or not, the government or some other third party entity should NOT be in charge of who people trust in cab rides. If we aren't allowed ourselves, the citizens, to be in control and trust who we share a cab with then it's just time to give up on society and remove free will from the equation.
Statistics or not, the government or some other third party entity should be in charge of who people trust in cab rides. If we don't all us, the citizens, to be in control and trust who we share a cab with then it's just time to give up on society and remove free will from the equation.
(Apologies for the lack of line breaks - I'm on autopilot this morning). Fixed:
1) I'm not a design expert, so maybe this is wrong, but there's already a Lightning adapter, so it likely doesn't add much thickness, if at all. And considering the screen size increase was a conscious design choice, I doubt it mucked with the form factor either.
1b) Frankly I've never understood this race to the bottom when it comes to these devices. It's like the end goal is to remove *all* ports and forcing users to wirelessly sync everything. Which is great if you like spending battery power for every conceivable function.
2) Manufacturer expense, and the cost of ports is insignificant. And if you're going to convince me a company as large and profitable as Apple can't absorb the cost of a microUSB port, well, I'm in a parallel universe. If you're going to spend I don't know how many millions designing a custom adapter, Lightning, you don't get to complain about expense of using industry standard ports.
3) Adding a port does reduce reliability, but adding *anything* does. If you don't use that feature, no matter what it is, then odds are as close to zero as possible that you'll notice (and there are a bunch of features on every phone which some people will *never* use). I have NFC on my phone. It might not work, I don't know, I've never activated it. It doesn't change at all how I feel about the device. Nonetheless I bet many people find it very useful.
4) True, but, again, that holds for anything you put in the phone. Do we have someone that's looked at the layout of the device and verifies that there's no room comfortably for a port?
5) So is the Lightning adapter and headphone jack, but your basic point is valid.
6) If Apple can't reliably write a microUSB driver I don't want anything running their software. Sorry, that's *really* bad excuse, especially considering they can easily control what they'd allow to work inside their device.
7) This is a breakdown of your previous point. I still think it's asinine.
8) See #7.
9) True, so I agree. Let's take a poll and see what features customers really want. Let's rank them all and then we can start make sure the most sought after features are in the device. Maybe this particular port wouldn't make it, I don't know. That's definitely a possibility, but we do we know for sure, for example, cloud syncing would make it?
10) About the only point I agree with you on to a certain degree. If you do not value hard accessible backups or extended storage then this will have no value for you. For people that cannot or do not want to rely on cloud storage/accessibility, this is the only option for additional storage. Or, are we going to get into an argument that X should be enough memory for everyone?
1) I'm not a design expert, so maybe this is wrong, but there's already a Lightning adapter, so it likely doesn't add much thickness, if at all. And considering the screen size increase was a conscious design choice, I doubt it mucked with the form factor either.
1b) Frankly I've never understood this race to the bottom when it comes to these devices. It's like the end goal is to remove *all* ports and forcing users to wirelessly sync everything. Which is great if you like spending battery power for every conceivable function.
2) Manufacturer expense, and the cost of ports is insignificant. And if you're going to convince me a company as large and profitable as Apple can't absorb the cost of a microUSB port, well, I'm in a parallel universe. If you're going to spend I don't know how many millions designing a custom adapter, Lightning, you don't get to complain about expense of using industry standard ports.
3) Adding a port does reduce reliability, but adding *anything* does. If you don't use that feature, no matter what it is, then odds are as close to zero as possible that you'll notice (and there are a bunch of features on every phone which some people will *never* use). I have NFC on my phone. It might not work, I don't know, I've never activated it. It doesn't change at all how I feel about the device. Nonetheless I bet many people find it very useful.
4) True, but, again, that holds for anything you put in the phone. Do we have someone that's looked at the layout of the device and verifies that there's no room comfortably for a port?
5) So is the Lightning adapter and headphone jack, but your basic point is valid.
6) If Apple can't reliably write a microUSB driver I don't want anything running their software. Sorry, that's *really* bad excuse, especially considering they can easily control what they'd allow to work inside their device.
7) This is a breakdown of your previous point. I still think it's asinine.
8) See #7.
9) True, so I agree. Let's take a poll and see what features customers really want. Let's rank them all and then we can start make sure the most sought after features are in the device. Maybe this particular port wouldn't make it, I don't know. That's definitely a possibility, but we do we know for sure, for example, cloud syncing would make it?
10) About the only point I agree with you on to a certain degree. If you do not value hard accessible backups or extended storage then this will have no value for you. For people that cannot or do not want to rely on cloud storage/accessibility, this is the only option for additional storage. Or, are we going to get into an argument that X should be enough memory for everyone?
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Traffic enforcement should be done for the purpose of improving safety, not fund-raising for the local police department.
Your entire post is great, but the first sentence cannot be emphasized enough. They don't even try to hide it. They're given quotas for tickets and it's not a secret. In reality they should be forced to do what students do - hold bake sales. At least that way the populace gets something positive out of the experience, rather than a rampant mistrust of law enforcement. That's a two-way relationship that isn't positive for anyone.
In the real world this is seen as nothing more than just a company doing the absolute bare minimum to cover their ass. Sure, it fulfills all the necessary legal requirements to pawn off responsibility, so odds are the suit will go nowhere. However, if you truly believe that adding the trophy and issuing this as cover as being a responsible citizen, this yet one more reason why 'corporate personhood' is dangerous.
I don't know about evil, not that I'm going to argue against that, but 'hypocrite' or perhaps 'misguided' would be a better term. Leaving aside the constant need for certain politicians who feel compelled to merge their religion with public policy, I am always fascinated when those who constantly rail against the Nanny State decide they need to attempt to impose their own sense of morality on everyone else. Not that I expect a whole lot different from the Mormon state, but we already have enough real health issues than focusing on this nonsense.
Whatever the topic is, educate first and provide context. Lead poisoning and contaminated water, for instance, is a real health crisis. It isn't imagined. It's damaging and killing people. It's costing the rest of us money in terms of medical care and transporting clean water across the country. That problem isn't going to get any better any time soon. Focus on that problem first. Deal with your own perceived problems later, please. There's only so much money to go around solving problems.
Not that this is anywhere close to the only Governor in the U.S. from focusing on trying to provide an answer to a problem that nobody should care about...
God I can't read this morning, let me retry. Statistics or not, the government or some other third party entity should NOT be in charge of who people trust in cab rides. If we aren't allowed ourselves, the citizens, to be in control and trust who we share a cab with then it's just time to give up on society and remove free will from the equation.
Statistics or not, the government or some other third party entity should be in charge of who people trust in cab rides. If we don't all us, the citizens, to be in control and trust who we share a cab with then it's just time to give up on society and remove free will from the equation.
(Apologies for the lack of line breaks - I'm on autopilot this morning). Fixed:
1) I'm not a design expert, so maybe this is wrong, but there's already a Lightning adapter, so it likely doesn't add much thickness, if at all. And considering the screen size increase was a conscious design choice, I doubt it mucked with the form factor either.
1b) Frankly I've never understood this race to the bottom when it comes to these devices. It's like the end goal is to remove *all* ports and forcing users to wirelessly sync everything. Which is great if you like spending battery power for every conceivable function.
2) Manufacturer expense, and the cost of ports is insignificant. And if you're going to convince me a company as large and profitable as Apple can't absorb the cost of a microUSB port, well, I'm in a parallel universe. If you're going to spend I don't know how many millions designing a custom adapter, Lightning, you don't get to complain about expense of using industry standard ports.
3) Adding a port does reduce reliability, but adding *anything* does. If you don't use that feature, no matter what it is, then odds are as close to zero as possible that you'll notice (and there are a bunch of features on every phone which some people will *never* use). I have NFC on my phone. It might not work, I don't know, I've never activated it. It doesn't change at all how I feel about the device. Nonetheless I bet many people find it very useful.
4) True, but, again, that holds for anything you put in the phone. Do we have someone that's looked at the layout of the device and verifies that there's no room comfortably for a port?
5) So is the Lightning adapter and headphone jack, but your basic point is valid.
6) If Apple can't reliably write a microUSB driver I don't want anything running their software. Sorry, that's *really* bad excuse, especially considering they can easily control what they'd allow to work inside their device.
7) This is a breakdown of your previous point. I still think it's asinine.
8) See #7.
9) True, so I agree. Let's take a poll and see what features customers really want. Let's rank them all and then we can start make sure the most sought after features are in the device. Maybe this particular port wouldn't make it, I don't know. That's definitely a possibility, but we do we know for sure, for example, cloud syncing would make it?
10) About the only point I agree with you on to a certain degree. If you do not value hard accessible backups or extended storage then this will have no value for you. For people that cannot or do not want to rely on cloud storage/accessibility, this is the only option for additional storage. Or, are we going to get into an argument that X should be enough memory for everyone?
1) I'm not a design expert, so maybe this is wrong, but there's already a Lightning adapter, so it likely doesn't add much thickness, if at all. And considering the screen size increase was a conscious design choice, I doubt it mucked with the form factor either. 1b) Frankly I've never understood this race to the bottom when it comes to these devices. It's like the end goal is to remove *all* ports and forcing users to wirelessly sync everything. Which is great if you like spending battery power for every conceivable function. 2) Manufacturer expense, and the cost of ports is insignificant. And if you're going to convince me a company as large and profitable as Apple can't absorb the cost of a microUSB port, well, I'm in a parallel universe. If you're going to spend I don't know how many millions designing a custom adapter, Lightning, you don't get to complain about expense of using industry standard ports. 3) Adding a port does reduce reliability, but adding *anything* does. If you don't use that feature, no matter what it is, then odds are as close to zero as possible that you'll notice (and there are a bunch of features on every phone which some people will *never* use). I have NFC on my phone. It might not work, I don't know, I've never activated it. It doesn't change at all how I feel about the device. Nonetheless I bet many people find it very useful. 4) True, but, again, that holds for anything you put in the phone. Do we have someone that's looked at the layout of the device and verifies that there's no room comfortably for a port? 5) So is the Lightning adapter and headphone jack, but your basic point is valid. 6) If Apple can't reliably write a microUSB driver I don't want anything running their software. Sorry, that's *really* bad excuse, especially considering they can easily control what they'd allow to work inside their device. 7) This is a breakdown of your previous point. I still think it's asinine. 8) See #7. 9) True, so I agree. Let's take a poll and see what features customers really want. Let's rank them all and then we can start make sure the most sought after features are in the device. Maybe this particular port wouldn't make it, I don't know. That's definitely a possibility, but we do we know for sure, for example, cloud syncing would make it? 10) About the only point I agree with you on to a certain degree. If you do not value hard accessible backups or extended storage then this will have no value for you. For people that cannot or do not want to rely on cloud storage/accessibility, this is the only option for additional storage. Or, are we going to get into an argument that X should be enough memory for everyone?
Makes sense, we already have one based on Missy Elliot.