It's not that cut and dried. Apple was the one who insisted on renegotiating the contract, as well as not installing a backup power supply for each furnace and starting production in a non-commissioned plant.
Apple originally offered to buy sapphire-growing furnaces from GT. But according to sources familiar with negotiations, after five months Apple demanded a major change in terms, requiring GT to supply the sapphire itself. In fact, Apple wanted GT to build the world’s largest factory to produce the stuff—more than doubling the world’s entire sapphire production capacity.
Producing sapphire requires a very clean environment, but ongoing construction at the factory meant that sapphire was grown "in a highly contaminated environment that adversely affected the quality of sapphire material," according to GT. It also requires uninterrupted supplies of water and electricity to regulate the temperature of the molten aluminum oxide used to form the boule. GT said that to save costs, Apple decided not to install backup power supplies, and multiple outages ruined whole batches of sapphire.
Make no mistake about it - Apple was in the driver's seat in this mess. It was their deadline for the iPhone6 that set the stage for attempts to grow sapphire in an unfinished factory. But Apple will find a way to make money out of this.
... and it wants to be the Facebook of transportation. "We're collecting all this data to help us make your user experience better. Don't like it - use someone else. Oh wait - we actively sabotage the competition 'cuz we got $1.5 billion thrown at us by crazy investors."
Which is why, if Blackberry had any brains, they would stop wasting effort on producing phones and concentrate on secure messaging, which has a higher profit margin, lower inventory costs and risks, and has a real demand.
It's not like code is regulated as a dangerous isotope or something...
... Yet...
At some point, some elected ID-10-T is going to start yammering about how "terr'rists are using code to attack all our computers and spy on everything you do."
After all, the government doesn't like competition.
My favorite is chunks of ram from alloc(). I can make it into whatever I want. A stack, a linked list, a ring buffer, a series of buckets, whatever. After all, everything except the raw bytes is an abstraction, right? So abstract away:-)
My point was that by foregoing market share in the first country to make such a threat, the other countries would have a choice between giving up their Crackberries or not threatening RIM. Instead, by giving in, they launched a cascade of similar demands. Sure, this only affected customers who valued encrypted email, etc., but that was a key selling point to business and government. "Big Brother doesn't know what you say" became "We gave the keys to all your secrets to Big Brother."
If they had ended up losing half their market share, they would STILL have been better of than they are today.
The others didn't stake their brand on security and privacy being top-most. If Blackberry had said "Fine, we'll stop selling in your country" to the first one, maybe no other country would have made the same demands. Sometimes you have to take a hit to avoid long-term damage to your brand. They blinked, and went from #1 to... well, mostly irrelevant. And that was sad.
How many people are actually going to go to the trouble of setting up a BES (Blackberry Enterprise Services) server? If you read through the posts, you'll see that businesses are finding it's easier to use activesync, since so many former crackberry users have switched to something else.
And it allows the governments to view both encrypted and unencrypted BIS and BBM messages.
The company has provided a solution that allows the government special access to Blackberry’s communication services, including BlackBerry Messenger and BlackBerry Internet Service email. As a result, the Indian government can now monitor the exchange of emails and email attachments on BlackBerry devices, as well as whether messages on Blackberry Messenger have been marked ‘delivered’ or ‘read.’
Research in Motion has reportedly averted a ban on its BlackBerry communications services in Saudi Arabia in exchange for security concessions to the government.
Waterloo-based RIM has agreed to hand over user codes that would let Saudi authorities monitor its BlackBerry Messenger, a source close to the talks told Reuters News Agency on Tuesday.
The source said RIM would share with Saudi Arabia the unique pin number and code for each BlackBerry registered there. That will allow authorities to read encrypted text sent via Messenger, an instant messaging service that’s distinct from email sent on the BlackBerry that is so popular with its prized corporate and political customers.
On November, 2007, in order to sell its devices inside Russia, RIM provided its encryption keys to Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) which, in turn, provided access to the Federal Security Service (FSB). The official Russian law which mandates this supervision is Order 6 from 16.01.2008 "About the statement of Requirements for telecommunication networks for operational and search activities."
In January, 2008, RIM China announced that BlackBerry sales through China Mobile were on track although 2007 was the expected start date. The delay was due to the fact that "RIM needed to satisfy Beijing that its handsets posed no security threat to China’s communication networks, according to sector analysts." There’s only one way to satisfy the Chinese government regarding "security threats" and that’s to comply with Chinese law regarding supervision and monitoring.
Some sort of lottery system that would make political campaigns and party affiliations obsolete, and put an end to the career in public service.
Thus making lobbyists more powerful, since they are now dealing with amateurs. Amateurs who's lives have been interrupted, and who are thus in desperate need of future financial security. Sounds like a good plan.
We do it to decide life-and-death issues - it's called the jury system. Works pretty well most of the time, too.
Funny how this comment, which I thought was obviously poking fun at a mistake due to the TSR reference, has turned into being stalked and trolled by what appears to be GPs sock puppets.
Good thing you didn't make fun of APK's HOST file:-) Welcome to the club.
Agreed. But racism is. When an animal is rabid, you put it down. It's not the animal's fault, but it's dangerous.
The guy doesn't have rabies. He's also non-violent.
With racism, you don't make excuses for the perpetrator -- you call it what it is and you don't encourage or make up reasons why it's ok
Neither I, nor most of the other posters, have said it's okay. We don't encourage it. Nevertheless, we recognize that, in this particular instance, the man is quite possibly not responsible for everything that comes out of his mouth. Or do you support executing killers who are found to be not criminally responsible due to insanity?
When mental illness foments, supports or creates hate and divisiveness, the situation has escalated beyond any reasonable level of tolerance.
As opposed to when someone who is NOT mentally ill "foments, supports or creates hate and divisiveness"? Because there's a LOT of hate and divisiveness out there, and very little of it has to do with skin color.
Try living with a serious mental illness for a while and then get back to us, mkay
Don't make baseless assumptions, m'kay? You'll spend less time savoring the taste of your own shoes, deluded into thinking that is the flavor of rhetorical success.
Blah blah blah. Big talk from someone with zero empathy or compassion who wants to send the mentally ill to the gas chamber (because that's often how unwanted and dangerous dogs are "put down") - or do you have a better "final solution"?
I've lived with PTSD and MDD all my adult life. As I originally posted, I know that the issues are not cut and dried. For a long time, I had a serious prejudice against schizophrenics due to the actions of one who was also homicidal. With therapy I came to realize that (1) there's no rationalizing that person's actions because, as the jury concluded, they were NOT in a rational state of mind at the time, and (2) be grateful it wasn't me that ended up dead. We don't "put down" (your words, not mine) people for having physical illnesses, so why should we "put down" people with mental illnesses?
Most of the schizophrenics I've encountered since are non-violent, and very lonely because nobody else will talk to them like a human being. Yes, they can say some pretty objectionable things, but between their illness and the way society treats them, I'm not surprised that some of them express their anger and frustration in ways that you or I would not approve of, or just say some really stupid things because they have been denied a chance to see and experience the world as we see and experience it. Their racist speech is more likely a symptom of a deeply disturbed individual than anything else - same as any other racist who is NOT mentally ill.
He believes god told him to do this, and it's a way of talking directly with god. But his own coding will reveal he can't really do that, or at least he gets no genuine response, and so he will self prove his own belief as wrong.
... but a True Believer (TM) will claim that God is all-powerful, and that the random number generator is therefore not truly random when you use it to call God,
The preacher had been heckling the town drunk from the pulpit every week, but the drunk continued to booze it up.
The preacher went to a conference, and when he got back, the first person he ran into was the drunk.
"Preacher, a bolt of lightning hit my house and it burned to the ground" said the drunk.
"Well, I warned you that if you didn't change your reprobate ways God would punish you. It is a sign of what God has in store for sinners like you!"
Then the drunk said "Oh, my bad - it was YOUR house that was struck by lightning and burned down."
"The Lord moves in mysterious ways."
People will continue to believe what they want to believe.
I think the concern is that it is all just reinforcing his own delusions and therefore not helping him lead a more balanced life, and potentially giving people some cheap laughs at the expense of the mentally ill.
I've been going through the comments and, while there are some ignorant posters (hey, this IS the Innert00bs, right?), there are also many who "get it". He's not hurting anyone, he's found something to keep his mind occupied, and if you read the article, that's a LOT better than how he was doing before - jail, repeated stays in mental institutions, homelessness...
After many tries, he's found something that works for him. Wish we could all say that:-)
Why would you waste your time posting on slashdot (or anywhere on the internet) if you were having a manic or depressive episode?
Wouldn't you have more pressing things to concern yourself with?
I can't speak for manic episodes, but going through a major depressive episode doesn't mean that I'm totally incapable of doing anything at all. The last few months was my latest "down time", I couldn't even stay awake more than a few hours at a time, continuous invasive thoughts of suicide when I was awake, nothing seemed worth it, etc. It happens when you have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and MDD (major depressive disorder).
Maintaining at least some semblance of routine, of interest in something other than what I was going through, was a "Good Thing." And I must have been doing something right judging by all the +5 mods. I knew that I was withdrawing from everyone around me, so I would force myself to, as much as possible, get out and talk to my neighbors, surf slashdot, etc. It's not easy when you're so depressed that you're sleeping 16 hours a day...
There are so many wrong ideas about people with mental illnesses that it's not funny, but the worst is the stigma that prevents the people who are affected from engaging others in a rational conversation. My sisters still tell me I "should just pull myself out of it." That I shouldn't trust my doctors. In my book THAT is crazy talk.
A psychiatrist told me one time that I was the most normal, sane person he'd ever met, but considering his usual clientele that's probably not as much of a compliment as it may seem.
Nah, he says that to ALL his patients:-)
But seriously, there are so many of the "walking wounded" out there who deny they need help, and it interferes with their day-to-day living, sometimes seriously. People who beat their spouses and kids. People who have phobias they won't address. People who think that because they so order, even if it's impossible, it makes it the One True Way (most programmers have had one or more of those as bosses). People who keep doing the same thing over and over and complaining that they keep getting the same results. I'm sure you can add to the list.
After it was installed on November 17th and calibrated over the next week,
...
Wilmore installed a new print tray, and the ground team sent a command to fine-tune the printer alignment and printed a third calibration coupon.
An "alignment coupon" is printed before each job. So, the first TWO objects printed by a 3d printer were "alignment coupons".
FTFA:
installed the printer on Nov. 17 and conducted the first calibration test print. Based on the test print results, the ground control team sent commands to realign the printer and printed a second calibration test on Nov. 20. These tests verified that the printer was ready for manufacturing operations. On Nov. 24, ground controllers sent the printer the command to make the first printed part: a faceplate of the extruder’s casing. This demonstrated that the printer can make replacement parts for itself
More likely he's been hospitalized again. Or God told him that he shouldn't post to slashdot any more because they didn't accept his submission about TempleOS.
Everyone should be thankful they're not in his shoes. Judging from the comments, there are still many who have wrong ideas about mental illness.
In 2012, there were an estimated 9.6 million adults aged 18 or older in the U.S. with SMI (Serious Mental Illness) in the past year. This represented 4.1 percent of all U.S. adults.
In 2012, there were an estimated 43.7 million adults aged 18 or older in the U.S. with AMI (any mental illness) in the past year. This represented 18.6 percent of all U.S. adults.
The site gives breakdowns on the different types of disorders and the rates per year and over the average lifetime.
Auto mechanics own their own tools. Most shops give a "tool allowance" for them to buy new tools on a regular basis, but the fact is that owning your own tools makes theft pointless and accidental loss expensive. Problem solved.
Not really. You still have the problem of other workers, or the boss, "borrowing" a tool and forgetting (purposefully or not) to return it. And you have the problem of forgetting a tool in the vehicle or under the hood or whatever.
Since my personal troll never bothers to log in, he obviously hasn't seen my signature. He believes I'm ashamed. So here it is:
this post brought to you by the letter ' t ' in LGBTt (Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, transsexual)
BTW, the APA (American Psychiatric Association) no longer considers being transsexual a mental disorder. It took them "only" 40 years more to figure that out than it did with lesbians and gays. Maybe you should realize that your current social construct is as last-century as your HOSTS file.
And yes, I know a bit about mental illness, at least wrt PTSD and MDD, since I have been dealing with PTSD most of my life, as well as MDD and other co-morbid conditions. Again, nothing to be ashamed of. The problem is that society stigmatizes any mental illness as a sign of both weakness and "other-ness." So people hide it, don't seek treatment, and end up either in the E.R. or the morgue.
I tried coping on my own for the longest time - my dogs helped a lot as a buffer for depression. But I know from experience that it doesn't help when those around you are always telling you to "just pull yourself out of it" rather than "maybe you need to get some help." They wouldn't be saying that for a physical illness, such as a broken leg.
But the only way to remove the stigma of mental illness is for more people to talk about it realistically, and remove the knee-jerk stereotypes.
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It's not that cut and dried. Apple was the one who insisted on renegotiating the contract, as well as not installing a backup power supply for each furnace and starting production in a non-commissioned plant.
Apple originally offered to buy sapphire-growing furnaces from GT. But according to sources familiar with negotiations, after five months Apple demanded a major change in terms, requiring GT to supply the sapphire itself. In fact, Apple wanted GT to build the world’s largest factory to produce the stuff—more than doubling the world’s entire sapphire production capacity.
Producing sapphire requires a very clean environment, but ongoing construction at the factory meant that sapphire was grown "in a highly contaminated environment that adversely affected the quality of sapphire material," according to GT. It also requires uninterrupted supplies of water and electricity to regulate the temperature of the molten aluminum oxide used to form the boule. GT said that to save costs, Apple decided not to install backup power supplies, and multiple outages ruined whole batches of sapphire.
Make no mistake about it - Apple was in the driver's seat in this mess. It was their deadline for the iPhone6 that set the stage for attempts to grow sapphire in an unfinished factory. But Apple will find a way to make money out of this.
... and it wants to be the Facebook of transportation. "We're collecting all this data to help us make your user experience better. Don't like it - use someone else. Oh wait - we actively sabotage the competition 'cuz we got $1.5 billion thrown at us by crazy investors."
Which is why, if Blackberry had any brains, they would stop wasting effort on producing phones and concentrate on secure messaging, which has a higher profit margin, lower inventory costs and risks, and has a real demand.
It's not like code is regulated as a dangerous isotope or something...
At some point, some elected ID-10-T is going to start yammering about how "terr'rists are using code to attack all our computers and spy on everything you do."
After all, the government doesn't like competition.
My favorite is chunks of ram from alloc(). I can make it into whatever I want. A stack, a linked list, a ring buffer, a series of buckets, whatever. After all, everything except the raw bytes is an abstraction, right? So abstract away :-)
Being #1 in a rapidly-expanding market is a huge advantage due to the "network effect" - people buy what the people around them buy.
The writing was starkly on the wall last year when their sales didn't put them in the top 10. Going from #1 to being lumped in with "Other" == "yuck".
And there's a big difference between "subscriber base", which is accumulated over years, and "annual sales."
My point was that by foregoing market share in the first country to make such a threat, the other countries would have a choice between giving up their Crackberries or not threatening RIM. Instead, by giving in, they launched a cascade of similar demands. Sure, this only affected customers who valued encrypted email, etc., but that was a key selling point to business and government. "Big Brother doesn't know what you say" became "We gave the keys to all your secrets to Big Brother."
If they had ended up losing half their market share, they would STILL have been better of than they are today.
The others didn't stake their brand on security and privacy being top-most. If Blackberry had said "Fine, we'll stop selling in your country" to the first one, maybe no other country would have made the same demands. Sometimes you have to take a hit to avoid long-term damage to your brand. They blinked, and went from #1 to ... well, mostly irrelevant. And that was sad.
Most consumers aren't going to be running their own BES server. Encrypted BBM and BIS messages ave viewable. They weren't before. Blackberry caved in.
And it allows the governments to view both encrypted and unencrypted BIS and BBM messages.
Didn't Blackberry give back door access to their phones to the governments of India, China and pretty much anyone else who asked?
Some simple fact checking would show this is false, yet it continues to persevere through the grossly uninformed.
Actually , it's true. India
The company has provided a solution that allows the government special access to Blackberry’s communication services, including BlackBerry Messenger and BlackBerry Internet Service email. As a result, the Indian government can now monitor the exchange of emails and email attachments on BlackBerry devices, as well as whether messages on Blackberry Messenger have been marked ‘delivered’ or ‘read.’
Saudi Arabia
Research in Motion has reportedly averted a ban on its BlackBerry communications services in Saudi Arabia in exchange for security concessions to the government.
Waterloo-based RIM has agreed to hand over user codes that would let Saudi authorities monitor its BlackBerry Messenger, a source close to the talks told Reuters News Agency on Tuesday.
The source said RIM would share with Saudi Arabia the unique pin number and code for each BlackBerry registered there. That will allow authorities to read encrypted text sent via Messenger, an instant messaging service that’s distinct from email sent on the BlackBerry that is so popular with its prized corporate and political customers.
Russia, China
On November, 2007, in order to sell its devices inside Russia, RIM provided its encryption keys to Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) which, in turn, provided access to the Federal Security Service (FSB). The official Russian law which mandates this supervision is Order 6 from 16.01.2008 "About the statement of Requirements for telecommunication networks for operational and search activities."
In January, 2008, RIM China announced that BlackBerry sales through China Mobile were on track although 2007 was the expected start date. The delay was due to the fact that "RIM needed to satisfy Beijing that its handsets posed no security threat to China’s communication networks, according to sector analysts." There’s only one way to satisfy the Chinese government regarding "security threats" and that’s to comply with Chinese law regarding supervision and monitoring.
You can find more if you look.
Some sort of lottery system that would make political campaigns and party affiliations obsolete, and put an end to the career in public service.
Thus making lobbyists more powerful, since they are now dealing with amateurs. Amateurs who's lives have been interrupted, and who are thus in desperate need of future financial security. Sounds like a good plan.
We do it to decide life-and-death issues - it's called the jury system. Works pretty well most of the time, too.
Funny how this comment, which I thought was obviously poking fun at a mistake due to the TSR reference, has turned into being stalked and trolled by what appears to be GPs sock puppets.
Good thing you didn't make fun of APK's HOST file :-) Welcome to the club.
Mental health issues are not cut-and-dried.
Agreed. But racism is. When an animal is rabid, you put it down. It's not the animal's fault, but it's dangerous.
The guy doesn't have rabies. He's also non-violent.
With racism, you don't make excuses for the perpetrator -- you call it what it is and you don't encourage or make up reasons why it's ok
Neither I, nor most of the other posters, have said it's okay. We don't encourage it. Nevertheless, we recognize that, in this particular instance, the man is quite possibly not responsible for everything that comes out of his mouth. Or do you support executing killers who are found to be not criminally responsible due to insanity?
When mental illness foments, supports or creates hate and divisiveness, the situation has escalated beyond any reasonable level of tolerance.
As opposed to when someone who is NOT mentally ill "foments, supports or creates hate and divisiveness"? Because there's a LOT of hate and divisiveness out there, and very little of it has to do with skin color.
Try living with a serious mental illness for a while and then get back to us, mkay
Don't make baseless assumptions, m'kay? You'll spend less time savoring the taste of your own shoes, deluded into thinking that is the flavor of rhetorical success.
Blah blah blah. Big talk from someone with zero empathy or compassion who wants to send the mentally ill to the gas chamber (because that's often how unwanted and dangerous dogs are "put down") - or do you have a better "final solution"?
I've lived with PTSD and MDD all my adult life. As I originally posted, I know that the issues are not cut and dried. For a long time, I had a serious prejudice against schizophrenics due to the actions of one who was also homicidal. With therapy I came to realize that (1) there's no rationalizing that person's actions because, as the jury concluded, they were NOT in a rational state of mind at the time, and (2) be grateful it wasn't me that ended up dead. We don't "put down" (your words, not mine) people for having physical illnesses, so why should we "put down" people with mental illnesses?
Most of the schizophrenics I've encountered since are non-violent, and very lonely because nobody else will talk to them like a human being. Yes, they can say some pretty objectionable things, but between their illness and the way society treats them, I'm not surprised that some of them express their anger and frustration in ways that you or I would not approve of, or just say some really stupid things because they have been denied a chance to see and experience the world as we see and experience it. Their racist speech is more likely a symptom of a deeply disturbed individual than anything else - same as any other racist who is NOT mentally ill.
He believes god told him to do this, and it's a way of talking directly with god. But his own coding will reveal he can't really do that, or at least he gets no genuine response, and so he will self prove his own belief as wrong.
The preacher had been heckling the town drunk from the pulpit every week, but the drunk continued to booze it up.
The preacher went to a conference, and when he got back, the first person he ran into was the drunk.
"Preacher, a bolt of lightning hit my house and it burned to the ground" said the drunk.
"Well, I warned you that if you didn't change your reprobate ways God would punish you. It is a sign of what God has in store for sinners like you!"
Then the drunk said "Oh, my bad - it was YOUR house that was struck by lightning and burned down."
"The Lord moves in mysterious ways."
People will continue to believe what they want to believe.
The term originated with Unix
Actually, the term was adopted by unix, probably from Maxwell's Daemon, a useful daemon.
I think the concern is that it is all just reinforcing his own delusions and therefore not helping him lead a more balanced life, and potentially giving people some cheap laughs at the expense of the mentally ill.
I've been going through the comments and, while there are some ignorant posters (hey, this IS the Innert00bs, right?), there are also many who "get it". He's not hurting anyone, he's found something to keep his mind occupied, and if you read the article, that's a LOT better than how he was doing before - jail, repeated stays in mental institutions, homelessness ...
After many tries, he's found something that works for him. Wish we could all say that :-)
Why would you waste your time posting on slashdot (or anywhere on the internet) if you were having a manic or depressive episode?
Wouldn't you have more pressing things to concern yourself with?
I can't speak for manic episodes, but going through a major depressive episode doesn't mean that I'm totally incapable of doing anything at all. The last few months was my latest "down time", I couldn't even stay awake more than a few hours at a time, continuous invasive thoughts of suicide when I was awake, nothing seemed worth it, etc. It happens when you have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and MDD (major depressive disorder).
Maintaining at least some semblance of routine, of interest in something other than what I was going through, was a "Good Thing." And I must have been doing something right judging by all the +5 mods. I knew that I was withdrawing from everyone around me, so I would force myself to, as much as possible, get out and talk to my neighbors, surf slashdot, etc. It's not easy when you're so depressed that you're sleeping 16 hours a day ...
There are so many wrong ideas about people with mental illnesses that it's not funny, but the worst is the stigma that prevents the people who are affected from engaging others in a rational conversation. My sisters still tell me I "should just pull myself out of it." That I shouldn't trust my doctors. In my book THAT is crazy talk.
tl;dr: Mental illness != crazy.
Right, no comments in over 8 months makes one a "regular commenter."
But every comment on the first two pages shows -1 score. So the first two adjectives stand.
He just didn't like slashdot beta....
So he's not THAT crazy ...
A psychiatrist told me one time that I was the most normal, sane person he'd ever met, but considering his usual clientele that's probably not as much of a compliment as it may seem.
Nah, he says that to ALL his patients :-)
But seriously, there are so many of the "walking wounded" out there who deny they need help, and it interferes with their day-to-day living, sometimes seriously. People who beat their spouses and kids. People who have phobias they won't address. People who think that because they so order, even if it's impossible, it makes it the One True Way (most programmers have had one or more of those as bosses). People who keep doing the same thing over and over and complaining that they keep getting the same results. I'm sure you can add to the list.
So maybe he was telling the truth?
After it was installed on November 17th and calibrated over the next week,
...
Wilmore installed a new print tray, and the ground team sent a command to fine-tune the printer alignment and printed a third calibration coupon.
An "alignment coupon" is printed before each job. So, the first TWO objects printed by a 3d printer were "alignment coupons".
FTFA:
installed the printer on Nov. 17 and conducted the first calibration test print. Based on the test print results, the ground control team sent commands to realign the printer and printed a second calibration test on Nov. 20. These tests verified that the printer was ready for manufacturing operations. On Nov. 24, ground controllers sent the printer the command to make the first printed part: a faceplate of the extruder’s casing. This demonstrated that the printer can make replacement parts for itself
More likely he's been hospitalized again. Or God told him that he shouldn't post to slashdot any more because they didn't accept his submission about TempleOS.
Everyone should be thankful they're not in his shoes. Judging from the comments, there are still many who have wrong ideas about mental illness.
The NIMH has some interesting information about prevalence, etc. For example:
In 2012, there were an estimated 9.6 million adults aged 18 or older in the U.S. with SMI (Serious Mental Illness) in the past year. This represented 4.1 percent of all U.S. adults.
Any mental Illness:
In 2012, there were an estimated 43.7 million adults aged 18 or older in the U.S. with AMI (any mental illness) in the past year. This represented 18.6 percent of all U.S. adults.
The site gives breakdowns on the different types of disorders and the rates per year and over the average lifetime.
Do away with human workers, robots don't lose tools.
"Do not lose tools" is not one of the Three Laws of Robotics" :-)
Auto mechanics own their own tools. Most shops give a "tool allowance" for them to buy new tools on a regular basis, but the fact is that owning your own tools makes theft pointless and accidental loss expensive. Problem solved.
Not really. You still have the problem of other workers, or the boss, "borrowing" a tool and forgetting (purposefully or not) to return it. And you have the problem of forgetting a tool in the vehicle or under the hood or whatever.
Since my personal troll never bothers to log in, he obviously hasn't seen my signature. He believes I'm ashamed. So here it is:
this post brought to you by the letter ' t ' in LGBTt (Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Transgender, transsexual)
BTW, the APA (American Psychiatric Association) no longer considers being transsexual a mental disorder. It took them "only" 40 years more to figure that out than it did with lesbians and gays. Maybe you should realize that your current social construct is as last-century as your HOSTS file.
And yes, I know a bit about mental illness, at least wrt PTSD and MDD, since I have been dealing with PTSD most of my life, as well as MDD and other co-morbid conditions. Again, nothing to be ashamed of. The problem is that society stigmatizes any mental illness as a sign of both weakness and "other-ness." So people hide it, don't seek treatment, and end up either in the E.R. or the morgue.
I tried coping on my own for the longest time - my dogs helped a lot as a buffer for depression. But I know from experience that it doesn't help when those around you are always telling you to "just pull yourself out of it" rather than "maybe you need to get some help." They wouldn't be saying that for a physical illness, such as a broken leg.
But the only way to remove the stigma of mental illness is for more people to talk about it realistically, and remove the knee-jerk stereotypes.