From time to time I look into the list of new apps available on f-droid.org, but it's a long time ago I saw something new I really wanted to have. And certainly, I will not register an account with Google or use any commercial app store.
... provider. German computer magazine c't recently ran an article on which cloud providers adhere to which standard certification (such as ISO 27k) (full article paywalled), and amongst the 14 cloud providers they tested, Apple was the only one not providing any proof of any certification. But sure, asking Apple for standards compliance and certifications is like asking the catholic church for an independent proof that their god exists and acts on their prayers.
Even more funny given Walmarts Epic Fail in Germany, where they failed to compete against other discounters paying higher wages and providing more benefits.
Luckily, not every country is as uptight as the US of A. If you think that this Swiss performance is disturbing, better don't visit theatrical performances like La Fura Dels Baus' "XXX" when in Europe.
... not only because they did it "on budget and in time", which can only mean they didn't go for the cheapest bidder, but also because it's trains going through the tunnel, only!
Had this been done in proper US-style, that tunnel would have no place for trains, but one lane reserved to military vehicles and the cars of VIP ticket holders, then another lane for ordinary cars, on which a permanent traffic jam would take you 2 hours mininum to pass the tunnel, if only because of the mandatory TSA strip searching before entering.
... who always followed the mantra that growing a business is more important than making it profitable. So in his world, there cannot possibly be limits of growth just because earth has limited surface/resources, and just because bringing things into space is extremely expensive (and usually costs more energy than that thing could harvest in space).
To any reasonable person, of course, his opinion is total bullshit.
Why would the advocate of some (in this case not even new) therapy need to be a for-profit company? The US spends billions on military invasions abroad each year, with the questionable rationale that this lowers the number of terror victims. Yet, orders of magnitude more people die from diseases that this money could most probably heal. Ok, asking a US politician for spending money on saving people is also orders of magnitude less likely to succeed than asking for spending money on killing people, yet that doesn't mean it would not be possible.
... that was recently announced, before they close the shop? I hate those oversized bar-phones, and it's a tragedy there are no small folder phones anymore (that also provide up-to-date technology).
And I want even less a cellphone that phones home to the US (because some US corporation + agencies installed their software on the phone) and to China (because that is where the phone was actually produced and the chinese backdoors installed). Buying a phone that only phones home to China sounds more attractive, especially since they only want to steal my secrets, but won't SPAM me and resell my data to everyone who pays.
And Germany should now rejoice or what? What do they get out of this? Jobs?
Yes, actually the number of people working in Germany for Adidas increases when production happenes there again - even if it's just a hundred robot-mechanics (instead of ten-thousand workers in China).
Basically what they get is waste and landfill. Oh, and overpriced shoes.
The environmental rules imposed in Germany are pretty strict, you can be sure if waste production is a significant side effect of producing shoes, the bean counters will have put the costs for disposal into their calculation. There are certainly industries (e.g. the mining of rare earth metals) that wouldn't be transferred to Germany if only because of the cost it would mean to do this "environmentally legal".
And the overpriced fashion-sport-shoes were sold in Germany before, so no difference there.
Corporations are legal entities, not humans. "Decency" is not a legal term, it has no meaning in the context of a legal entity.
If you, as a person, pay your cleaning staff poorly, people knowing this may think lowly of you, and as a human, you may therefore feel a lack of decency.
But a legal entity has no feelings, and thus no decency.
But the low-paid workers in China had a job. Now they don't.
Sure, but that's a problem Adidas cannot solve by keeping production sites in China. The workers would be replaced by robots in China - there certainly is a reason why German robot manufacturer Kuka was recently acquired by a Chinese company, and you've seen Foxconn replacing workers by robots, too.
I think the global issue of diminishing work due to replacement by robots will more likely be solved when production and consumption happen in the same country, so politicians can see "both sides of the medal" - cause and effect. Producing in country A and selling in country B on the contrary makes it less likely the problems of unemployment are solved.
According to press coverage in Germany the main advantage (apart from not having to pay human workers) they are after is not so much storage and transport cost (they are pretty cheap these days), but eliminating the time it takes to ship products from China to the countries where they are sold. "Fashions" seem to come and go within months these days, and a shipment taking a month can make a difference, then.
If that actually becomes technically feasible one day, you can be sure the (by then heavily dongled) plastic filament cartridges will be more expensive then the ready-made shoes.
Ever tried to print a colorful book on an ink-jet printer for the price you can buy a hardcopy?
As if any CEO was ever asked by his supervisory board "Cannot we pay decent wages?". They only get asked "Can you make us more profit?". Corporations by definition have no decency - there are only laws preventing them (not always) to take a shit on mankind.
The low-paid workers in China were not really buying expensive Adidas shoes before, anyway. And Adidas employed no shoe producing workers in Germany before.
The relevant news here is not that robot-made shoes are sold in Germany.
The actual news here is that Adidas moves part of its production of shoes, which previously was completely done in south-east Asia, back to Germany. And of course, that is reasonable to do for them only when almost all the work is done by robots, where there's no huge salary difference between doing it in China or Germany.
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From time to time I look into the list of new apps available on f-droid.org, but it's a long time ago I saw something new I really wanted to have. And certainly, I will not register an account with Google or use any commercial app store.
... provider. German computer magazine c't recently ran an article on which cloud providers adhere to which standard certification (such as ISO 27k) (full article paywalled), and amongst the 14 cloud providers they tested, Apple was the only one not providing any proof of any certification. But sure, asking Apple for standards compliance and certifications is like asking the catholic church for an independent proof that their god exists and acts on their prayers.
... the much better trend for the US would be an increased use of non-electric, traditional bicycles.
Even more funny given Walmarts Epic Fail in Germany, where they failed to compete against other discounters paying higher wages and providing more benefits.
... that such methods are prone to be exposed one day? :-)
Luckily, not every country is as uptight as the US of A. If you think that this Swiss performance is disturbing, better don't visit theatrical performances like La Fura Dels Baus' "XXX" when in Europe.
And after that, to be replaced by human labour again, but this time not working for other humans, but for the robot overlords.
... not only because they did it "on budget and in time", which can only mean they didn't go for the cheapest bidder, but also because it's trains going through the tunnel, only!
Had this been done in proper US-style, that tunnel would have no place for trains, but one lane reserved to military vehicles and the cars of VIP ticket holders, then another lane for ordinary cars, on which a permanent traffic jam would take you 2 hours mininum to pass the tunnel, if only because of the mandatory TSA strip searching before entering.
... who always followed the mantra that growing a business is more important than making it profitable. So in his world, there cannot possibly be limits of growth just because earth has limited surface/resources, and just because bringing things into space is extremely expensive (and usually costs more energy than that thing could harvest in space).
To any reasonable person, of course, his opinion is total bullshit.
... to become my friend. I'm looking for friends only amongst those who are clever enough not to be on Facebook, and there are plenty of them.
Why would the advocate of some (in this case not even new) therapy need to be a for-profit company? The US spends billions on military invasions abroad each year, with the questionable rationale that this lowers the number of terror victims. Yet, orders of magnitude more people die from diseases that this money could most probably heal. Ok, asking a US politician for spending money on saving people is also orders of magnitude less likely to succeed than asking for spending money on killing people, yet that doesn't mean it would not be possible.
Bacteriophages have already been helpful with many cases of bacterial infection, they would probably already be in more widespread use (outside of the former USSR) if big pharma wouldn't insist on only selling patented stuff for the better of profits.
... that was recently announced, before they close the shop? I hate those oversized bar-phones, and it's a tragedy there are no small folder phones anymore (that also provide up-to-date technology).
And I want even less a cellphone that phones home to the US (because some US corporation + agencies installed their software on the phone) and to China (because that is where the phone was actually produced and the chinese backdoors installed). Buying a phone that only phones home to China sounds more attractive, especially since they only want to steal my secrets, but won't SPAM me and resell my data to everyone who pays.
Or refer to the much more comprehensive list of OpenStreetMap-using iOS Apps at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/...
But does OpenStreetMap have an iOS app like Google Maps does?
Yes, see for example http://osmand.net/
And Germany should now rejoice or what? What do they get out of this? Jobs?
Yes, actually the number of people working in Germany for Adidas increases when production happenes there again - even if it's just a hundred robot-mechanics (instead of ten-thousand workers in China).
Basically what they get is waste and landfill. Oh, and overpriced shoes.
The environmental rules imposed in Germany are pretty strict, you can be sure if waste production is a significant side effect of producing shoes, the bean counters will have put the costs for disposal into their calculation. There are certainly industries (e.g. the mining of rare earth metals) that wouldn't be transferred to Germany if only because of the cost it would mean to do this "environmentally legal".
And the overpriced fashion-sport-shoes were sold in Germany before, so no difference there.
Corporations are legal entities, not humans. "Decency" is not a legal term, it has no meaning in the context of a legal entity.
If you, as a person, pay your cleaning staff poorly, people knowing this may think lowly of you, and as a human, you may therefore feel a lack of decency.
But a legal entity has no feelings, and thus no decency.
You keep your data. You are not SPAMed. You help the community if you annotate or fix mistakes in the map if you find some.
But the low-paid workers in China had a job. Now they don't.
Sure, but that's a problem Adidas cannot solve by keeping production sites in China. The workers would be replaced by robots in China - there certainly is a reason why German robot manufacturer Kuka was recently acquired by a Chinese company, and you've seen Foxconn replacing workers by robots, too.
I think the global issue of diminishing work due to replacement by robots will more likely be solved when production and consumption happen in the same country, so politicians can see "both sides of the medal" - cause and effect. Producing in country A and selling in country B on the contrary makes it less likely the problems of unemployment are solved.
According to press coverage in Germany the main advantage (apart from not having to pay human workers) they are after is not so much storage and transport cost (they are pretty cheap these days), but eliminating the time it takes to ship products from China to the countries where they are sold. "Fashions" seem to come and go within months these days, and a shipment taking a month can make a difference, then.
If that actually becomes technically feasible one day, you can be sure the (by then heavily dongled) plastic filament cartridges will be more expensive then the ready-made shoes.
Ever tried to print a colorful book on an ink-jet printer for the price you can buy a hardcopy?
As if any CEO was ever asked by his supervisory board "Cannot we pay decent wages?". They only get asked "Can you make us more profit?". Corporations by definition have no decency - there are only laws preventing them (not always) to take a shit on mankind.
The low-paid workers in China were not really buying expensive Adidas shoes before, anyway. And Adidas employed no shoe producing workers in Germany before.
The relevant news here is not that robot-made shoes are sold in Germany.
The actual news here is that Adidas moves part of its production of shoes, which previously was completely done in south-east Asia, back to Germany. And of course, that is reasonable to do for them only when almost all the work is done by robots, where there's no huge salary difference between doing it in China or Germany.