Quoting: "On June 2, a warehouse employee contacted OSHA to report the heat index hit 102 degrees in the warehouse and 15 workers collapsed. The employee also complained that workers who had to go home due to heat symptoms received disciplinary points."
Another quote: "When the heat index ranges from 100 to 114 degrees, Amazon 'typically' gives hourly breaks of at least five minutes and shifts heavier work to cooler times of the day, Forney said."
"On July 25, a security guard at the Amazon warehouse called OSHA and said the temperature exceeded 110 degrees. The guard reported seeing two pregnant women taken to nurses and that Amazon would not open garage doors to help air circulation."
"One employee said it's now like 'working in a convection oven while blow-drying your hair.' They said they received extra break time when it was hot, but production rates were not reduced.
"Ambulances responded to multiple medical assistance calls at the Amazon warehouse during hot days in May. So Amazon paid Cetronia Ambulance Corps to have ambulances and paramedics stationed at its two adjacent warehouses during five days of excessive heat in June and July."
"Another 15 people were transported from the Amazon warehouse to hospitals for further treatment, according to Cetronia, but none was in critical condition."
Amazon's response seems to me to be sophisticated lying. The response avoided all the issues:
' "The safety and welfare of our employees is our No. 1 priority at Amazon, and as the general manager, I take that responsibility seriously," Mortimer said. "We go to great lengths to ensure a safe work environment, with activities that include free water, snacks, extra fans and cooled air during the summer. I am grateful to work with such a fantastic group of employees from our community, and we partner with them every day to make sure our facility is a great place to work." '
It's easy to distract attention from the main point. Cities can be unhealthy, much more unhealthy than is commonly discussed.
Apparently the air quality in Portland, Oregon is far worse than the city or state governments are willing to investigate. The traffic is now jammed most of the day; 4 years ago, it was jammed during rush hours.
What does "content" mean? I'm guessing that many Chinese Factory workers would say they are "content".
"The article about fluoride emissions is short on information."
These are the chemicals Intel emits, listed on page 28 of the report linked below: Vinyl acetate, Ethyl benzene, Xylenes (mixed), Sulfuric acid, Nitric acid, Fluorides, Hydrogen Fluoride, Perchloroethylene {Tetrachloroethene}, and Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether.
The Portland metropolitan area doesn't have good news reporting. The Oregonian newspaper is poorly managed, in my opinion. The only Oregonian reporter for technology issues is Mike Rogoway. He apparently has almost no technical knowledge.
It seems to me that Intel has handled its business in an extremely destructive and self-destructive manner. Intel's plants should not be allowed to emit poisons.
Apparently there is a continuing intention to avoid rather than resolve the many issues. Intel is by far the biggest employer in the area. Avoiding effective disclosure and avoiding actually fixing the emission problems seems to be helped by government incompetence and possibly government corruption.
You missed the point. The point is that there is an enormous depth of dislike for what Seattle has become. Only a few of those commenting are being completely logical. If they were logical, they would move away from Seattle.
Can you find other web sites and articles about people who dislike their city? I'd like to see them.
Consider the U.S. metropolitan area centered on Portland, Oregon:
Intel has been emitting fluoride for years without state knowledge, permit. Quote: "When Intel applied for D1X approval, the company considered its fluoride emissions insignificant and did not include those. It was only when the company applied for the new DEQ permit required by greenhouse gas regulations that it requested a 6.4-tons-per-year fluoride emission limit. " 6.4-tons-per-year!!!
Oregon warns home gardeners, Portland leaders lash out at state pollution response. Quote: "Regulators have known for years that Portland has high levels of the heavy metal cadmium in the air, but didn't know until 2015 what the likely sources were." Another quote: "The department's own air monitoring found arsenic levels were 159 times higher than the state's safety goal in Southeast Portland and cadmium levels were 49 times higher."
Portland pollution: How does it affect you? Quote: "Tests detected cadmium and arsenic near Bullseye Glass in Southeast Portland and Uroboros Glass in North Portland. Superheating the metals, which are used to add color to glass, can send small particles up smokestacks and into surrounding air." The next paragraph: "The state also found that another carcinogen, hexavalent chromium, was used by the two plants."
More ideas: The Olympic Games will be in August, which is winter in the southern hemisphere. In Rio and most of Brazil, winter is still warm.
From the Slashdot story summary: "It was reported earlier this year that Rio has given up on its promise to eliminate 80 percent of the sewage found in the city's notoriously filthy water."
I've only been in Rio, at separate times, for maybe 3 weeks total. I haven't seen "notoriously filthy water". The heavily polluted area is in Guanabara Bay, I understand. This is a mostly true but sometimes exaggerated discussion of beaches in Rio: Beaches in Rio de Janeiro. (The article mentions where it exaggerates.)
The Brazilian media constantly emphasizes violent events in Brazilian cities. However, the murder rate in Rio de Janeiro was, the last time I checked, less than two-thirds of the murder rate in the U.S. capital city, Washington, D.C.
Discussions of the song, The Girl From Ipanema, are usually examples of cultures outside of Brazil not reporting Brazilian culture accurately. The author, Antonio Carlos Jobim, was sitting in a restaurant, I suppose, writing that song. If he had wanted to talk with that woman, she almost certainly would have been happy to talk with him. That's been my experience, and I'm not as physically attractive as was Jobim.
Many people live in the area surrounding Guanabara Bay, Go there. People from the U.S. will see that the people everywhere in Rio are generally far more healthy-looking than people in the United States.
"Git's not perfect, the only real reason everyone's comfortable with it is well, you sorta grew with it and you forget about its idiosyncrasies. And the fact the developers have really fixed up the more confusing aspects of git to be simpler and less tricky to do. I still have issues with format-patch and am because if you fail to rebase your tree when merging branches, you can end up with duplicate patches - one from the branch, one from the merge into mainline."
It seems to me that Git demonstrated a limitation in Linus' thinking. Git was not designed to be user-friendly.
"And that cost trillions of dollars and thousands of lives."
Often people in the U.S. count only the lives of U.S. citizens lost in the violence of the U.S. government. Actually, more than 500,000 have been killed. However, other estimates seem more accurate: 1,455,590 have died violent deaths.
Also, the destruction is far greater than the number of Iraqis killed. Iraq is no longer a stable country.
I mean, in the Stone Ages, people didn't just phone up Sigma-Aldrich for a "disinfected ruminant stomach number three", or whatever. It was a little less hygienic then.
You drifted away from the point. The original point was that those who are planning to build a mountain are not sufficiently aware of the enormous land area of the base.
Hey!!! I know a guy who will do it for only $3 per cubic yard. Why pay $1.5 trillion? How about merely $238 billion?
But wait! There's more! I was talking with a guy who would be happy to sell the UAE the entire Mt. Rainier in Washington State for, oh, maybe $10,000. Then there would be the easy problem of moving it.
A quadratic function is one of the form f(x) = ax2 + bx + c, where a, b, and c are numbers with "a" not equal to zero. X to the 2nd power is exponential. In this case the exponent is only 2, but that is exponential.
This in the story summary made me laugh: "Building a mountain is not a simple thing," Most people have very limited technical knowledge.
stabiesoft, respectfully, there is no "we". The people who started the Iraq war did it for money, and because they deal with life by being aggressive. They kill, or try to destroy the life of, anyone who tries to limit their aggression. Two of hundreds of sources:
I bought an unlocked dual SIM GSM phone for $29. I use it with a T-Mobile account that costs $10 per year (after paying $100 the first year). It works well for answering phone calls when my FreedomPop Samsung Galaxy phone (no monthly charge) is away from Sprint coverage.
One of the nice advantages of being heavily involved with technology is that you can feel comfortable saying no to technology. I've met people who felt they had to have the latest iPhone because other people bought the latest.
I am not, of course, saying anyone else on Slashdot would make the same choices.
Thanks for mentioning the MSI version of Chrome. I didn't know it existed. Still no version number or 32-bit/64-bit indication in the file name.
The version number with the 3 system services is: Google Chrome Version 40.0.2214.91 m. The web site says Copyright 2016, but I think that is due to sloppiness we are now seeing everywhere with Google activities. That version is less than 2 years old, apparently.
You said, "Ok now you're just getting stupid. Sorry, I can't fix you." Maybe I can do something for you. No one knows everything about technology. Don't call someone stupid because you disagree. In fact, as I mentioned in my parent comment, Mozilla Foundation gets its money from Microsoft now, through Yahoo. That's what the news stories say.
Because sometimes new versions break old arrangements. For example, as I mentioned, somehow the user interface of SeaMonkey composer was damaged, apparently intentionally. I was glad that I had the old versions.
Software companies are taking more and more control. We are often not allowed to have a full program; often we are allowed to have only a program that downloads the full program and installs it.
It surprises me that most people accept what I consider to be the dictatorial behavior of Microsoft, Google, and Adobe.
Google is becoming more and more abusive, and more and more incompetent. Want to download the Google Chrome Browser? The download file name does not give the version number. Even the badly managed Mozilla Foundation puts the Firefox version number into the file name. (But the file names for the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Firefox are the same.)
An earlier version of the Google Chrome browser installs 3 system services. Google has more control over computers than limited rights users. Is Google paid by the U.S. government to include software to control computers?
The browser situation is very, very ugly. Firefox is now, basically, owned by Microsoft, who is apparently trying to destroy it. In the past, Google paid Mozilla Foundation $300 million each year to make Google search the default search engine in Firefox. Google apparently didn't cause problems in the design of Firefox, even though it paid a shocking amount.
Now, I understand, Mozilla Foundation gets most of its money from Microsoft: Microsoft pays Yahoo. Yahoo pays Mozilla Foundation to make "Yahoo search" (actually mostly Microsoft Bing search) the default search engine in Firefox.
The Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Composer GUIs have been damaged, apparently deliberately. File saves in the newer versions of both ask for a new file name, and don't suggest the last one chosen. The damage was reported several months ago, but has not been fixed.
Is that another example of Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? People who feel forced away from Thunderbird may choose Microsoft software to replace it. Is that something Microsoft is trying to accomplish?
In my opinion, dishonest people should not be employed in management. In my opinion, the managers and members of the board of directors of both Microsoft and Mozilla Foundation who approved the dishonesty of sneakily re-configuring Mozilla Foundation products should be immediately fired, and not allowed to have management positions in the future.
Mozilla Foundation may be desperate now that it has lost the incredible amount of money paid by Google.
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More about Amazon: Inside Amazon's Warehouse
Quoting: "On June 2, a warehouse employee contacted OSHA to report the heat index hit 102 degrees in the warehouse and 15 workers collapsed. The employee also complained that workers who had to go home due to heat symptoms received disciplinary points."
Another quote: "When the heat index ranges from 100 to 114 degrees, Amazon 'typically' gives hourly breaks of at least five minutes and shifts heavier work to cooler times of the day, Forney said."
"On July 25, a security guard at the Amazon warehouse called OSHA and said the temperature exceeded 110 degrees. The guard reported seeing two pregnant women taken to nurses and that Amazon would not open garage doors to help air circulation."
"One employee said it's now like 'working in a convection oven while blow-drying your hair.' They said they received extra break time when it was hot, but production rates were not reduced.
"Ambulances responded to multiple medical assistance calls at the Amazon warehouse during hot days in May. So Amazon paid Cetronia Ambulance Corps to have ambulances and paramedics stationed at its two adjacent warehouses during five days of excessive heat in June and July."
"Another 15 people were transported from the Amazon warehouse to hospitals for further treatment, according to Cetronia, but none was in critical condition."
Amazon's response seems to me to be sophisticated lying. The response avoided all the issues:
' "The safety and welfare of our employees is our No. 1 priority at Amazon, and as the general manager, I take that responsibility seriously," Mortimer said. "We go to great lengths to ensure a safe work environment, with activities that include free water, snacks, extra fans and cooled air during the summer. I am grateful to work with such a fantastic group of employees from our community, and we partner with them every day to make sure our facility is a great place to work." '
It's easy to distract attention from the main point. Cities can be unhealthy, much more unhealthy than is commonly discussed.
Apparently the air quality in Portland, Oregon is far worse than the city or state governments are willing to investigate. The traffic is now jammed most of the day; 4 years ago, it was jammed during rush hours.
What does "content" mean? I'm guessing that many Chinese Factory workers would say they are "content".
"The article about fluoride emissions is short on information."
These are the chemicals Intel emits, listed on page 28 of the report linked below: Vinyl acetate, Ethyl benzene, Xylenes (mixed), Sulfuric acid, Nitric acid, Fluorides, Hydrogen Fluoride, Perchloroethylene {Tetrachloroethene}, and Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether.
The Portland metropolitan area doesn't have good news reporting. The Oregonian newspaper is poorly managed, in my opinion. The only Oregonian reporter for technology issues is Mike Rogoway. He apparently has almost no technical knowledge.
This Oregonian article gives some information: Intel secures air quality permit, two years after fluoride gaffe derailed it. Intel emitting poisonous compounds was not a "gaffe", it was extremely destructive dishonesty.
That article links to an Intel Health Risk Report (PDF file), but I don't see anything showing the amounts of the chemicals emitted.
It seems to me that Intel has handled its business in an extremely destructive and self-destructive manner. Intel's plants should not be allowed to emit poisons.
Apparently there is a continuing intention to avoid rather than resolve the many issues. Intel is by far the biggest employer in the area. Avoiding effective disclosure and avoiding actually fixing the emission problems seems to be helped by government incompetence and possibly government corruption.
You missed the point. The point is that there is an enormous depth of dislike for what Seattle has become. Only a few of those commenting are being completely logical. If they were logical, they would move away from Seattle.
Can you find other web sites and articles about people who dislike their city? I'd like to see them.
Consider the U.S. metropolitan area centered on Portland, Oregon:
Portland has become unlivable. There are traffic jams all day. The air is poisonous. Things About Portland That Suck
Intel has been emitting fluoride for years without state knowledge, permit. Quote: "When Intel applied for D1X approval, the company considered its fluoride emissions insignificant and did not include those. It was only when the company applied for the new DEQ permit required by greenhouse gas regulations that it requested a 6.4-tons-per-year fluoride emission limit. " 6.4-tons-per-year!!!
Oregon warns home gardeners, Portland leaders lash out at state pollution response. Quote: "Regulators have known for years that Portland has high levels of the heavy metal cadmium in the air, but didn't know until 2015 what the likely sources were." Another quote: "The department's own air monitoring found arsenic levels were 159 times higher than the state's safety goal in Southeast Portland and cadmium levels were 49 times higher."
Portland pollution: How does it affect you? Quote: "Tests detected cadmium and arsenic near Bullseye Glass in Southeast Portland and Uroboros Glass in North Portland. Superheating the metals, which are used to add color to glass, can send small particles up smokestacks and into surrounding air." The next paragraph: "The state also found that another carcinogen, hexavalent chromium, was used by the two plants."
Portland, Oregon is no longer a livable city in other ways. Portland city management is allowing the construction of large buildings with no parking! One story: New Portland apartment buildings with no parking have neighbors worried about congested streets.
More ideas: The Olympic Games will be in August, which is winter in the southern hemisphere. In Rio and most of Brazil, winter is still warm.
From the Slashdot story summary: "It was reported earlier this year that Rio has given up on its promise to eliminate 80 percent of the sewage found in the city's notoriously filthy water."
I've only been in Rio, at separate times, for maybe 3 weeks total. I haven't seen "notoriously filthy water". The heavily polluted area is in Guanabara Bay, I understand. This is a mostly true but sometimes exaggerated discussion of beaches in Rio: Beaches in Rio de Janeiro. (The article mentions where it exaggerates.)
The Brazilian media constantly emphasizes violent events in Brazilian cities. However, the murder rate in Rio de Janeiro was, the last time I checked, less than two-thirds of the murder rate in the U.S. capital city, Washington, D.C.
Discussions of the song, The Girl From Ipanema, are usually examples of cultures outside of Brazil not reporting Brazilian culture accurately. The author, Antonio Carlos Jobim, was sitting in a restaurant, I suppose, writing that song. If he had wanted to talk with that woman, she almost certainly would have been happy to talk with him. That's been my experience, and I'm not as physically attractive as was Jobim.
Many people live in the area surrounding Guanabara Bay, Go there. People from the U.S. will see that the people everywhere in Rio are generally far more healthy-looking than people in the United States.
Good point! Book about Microsoft Word: 1056 pages.
That makes me wonder: If there were a better user interface, would the software be easier to explain?
Thanks. I'm borrowing it through Inter-Library Loan.
I'm skeptical about O'Reilly books. I've seen some that are poorly edited. But it's worth a look.
Wow! 574 pages! Looks professionally organized. I read a few paragraphs that seem written well and easy to understand.
"Git's not perfect, the only real reason everyone's comfortable with it is well, you sorta grew with it and you forget about its idiosyncrasies. And the fact the developers have really fixed up the more confusing aspects of git to be simpler and less tricky to do. I still have issues with format-patch and am because if you fail to rebase your tree when merging branches, you can end up with duplicate patches - one from the branch, one from the merge into mainline."
It seems to me that Git demonstrated a limitation in Linus' thinking. Git was not designed to be user-friendly.
What's the best manual for Git?
It seems to me that Git documentation is very poor. Can you recommend something?
"And that cost trillions of dollars and thousands of lives."
Often people in the U.S. count only the lives of U.S. citizens lost in the violence of the U.S. government. Actually, more than 500,000 have been killed. However, other estimates seem more accurate: 1,455,590 have died violent deaths.
Also, the destruction is far greater than the number of Iraqis killed. Iraq is no longer a stable country.
Why was that? Poor cell phone connections?
You drifted away from the point. The original point was that those who are planning to build a mountain are not sufficiently aware of the enormous land area of the base.
Hey!!! I know a guy who will do it for only $3 per cubic yard. Why pay $1.5 trillion? How about merely $238 billion?
But wait! There's more! I was talking with a guy who would be happy to sell the UAE the entire Mt. Rainier in Washington State for, oh, maybe $10,000. Then there would be the easy problem of moving it.
"... a quadratic function of the height."
A quadratic function is one of the form f(x) = ax2 + bx + c, where a, b, and c are numbers with "a" not equal to zero. X to the 2nd power is exponential. In this case the exponent is only 2, but that is exponential.
This in the story summary made me laugh: "Building a mountain is not a simple thing," Most people have very limited technical knowledge.
Google is developing an extremely bad reputation. Tracking everyone. Allowing abuse.
Soon even Microsoft will be jealous.
"And we screwed up again in Iraq."
stabiesoft, respectfully, there is no "we". The people who started the Iraq war did it for money, and because they deal with life by being aggressive. They kill, or try to destroy the life of, anyone who tries to limit their aggression. Two of hundreds of sources:
House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
9 Ridiculous Passages From Former Vice President Dick Cheneyâ(TM)s New Book
I bought an unlocked dual SIM GSM phone for $29. I use it with a T-Mobile account that costs $10 per year (after paying $100 the first year). It works well for answering phone calls when my FreedomPop Samsung Galaxy phone (no monthly charge) is away from Sprint coverage.
Now it it possible to get an unlocked Blu phone for $20. Or, if you think that is too expensive, $18.
An advantage of the less-capable phones: More than thirty days of stand-by time. ($74)
One of the nice advantages of being heavily involved with technology is that you can feel comfortable saying no to technology. I've met people who felt they had to have the latest iPhone because other people bought the latest.
I am not, of course, saying anyone else on Slashdot would make the same choices.
Apparently you didn't bother to read my comment, or visit the links I provided.
Thanks for mentioning the MSI version of Chrome. I didn't know it existed. Still no version number or 32-bit/64-bit indication in the file name.
The version number with the 3 system services is: Google Chrome Version 40.0.2214.91 m. The web site says Copyright 2016, but I think that is due to sloppiness we are now seeing everywhere with Google activities. That version is less than 2 years old, apparently.
You said, "Ok now you're just getting stupid. Sorry, I can't fix you." Maybe I can do something for you. No one knows everything about technology. Don't call someone stupid because you disagree. In fact, as I mentioned in my parent comment, Mozilla Foundation gets its money from Microsoft now, through Yahoo. That's what the news stories say.
Because sometimes new versions break old arrangements. For example, as I mentioned, somehow the user interface of SeaMonkey composer was damaged, apparently intentionally. I was glad that I had the old versions.
Software companies are taking more and more control. We are often not allowed to have a full program; often we are allowed to have only a program that downloads the full program and installs it.
It surprises me that most people accept what I consider to be the dictatorial behavior of Microsoft, Google, and Adobe.
Google is becoming more and more abusive, and more and more incompetent. Want to download the Google Chrome Browser? The download file name does not give the version number. Even the badly managed Mozilla Foundation puts the Firefox version number into the file name. (But the file names for the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Firefox are the same.)
An earlier version of the Google Chrome browser installs 3 system services. Google has more control over computers than limited rights users. Is Google paid by the U.S. government to include software to control computers?
The browser situation is very, very ugly. Firefox is now, basically, owned by Microsoft, who is apparently trying to destroy it. In the past, Google paid Mozilla Foundation $300 million each year to make Google search the default search engine in Firefox. Google apparently didn't cause problems in the design of Firefox, even though it paid a shocking amount.
Now, I understand, Mozilla Foundation gets most of its money from Microsoft: Microsoft pays Yahoo. Yahoo pays Mozilla Foundation to make "Yahoo search" (actually mostly Microsoft Bing search) the default search engine in Firefox.
The Thunderbird and SeaMonkey Composer GUIs have been damaged, apparently deliberately. File saves in the newer versions of both ask for a new file name, and don't suggest the last one chosen. The damage was reported several months ago, but has not been fixed.
Is that another example of Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? People who feel forced away from Thunderbird may choose Microsoft software to replace it. Is that something Microsoft is trying to accomplish?
In my opinion, dishonest people should not be employed in management. In my opinion, the managers and members of the board of directors of both Microsoft and Mozilla Foundation who approved the dishonesty of sneakily re-configuring Mozilla Foundation products should be immediately fired, and not allowed to have management positions in the future.
Mozilla Foundation may be desperate now that it has lost the incredible amount of money paid by Google.
"The Eich incident tarnished Mozilla's reputation."
That incident showed a shocking lack of social understanding. Mozilla CEO resignation raises free-speech issues.
The most amazingly sad recent action of Mozilla Foundation, in my opinion, is the fact that the 32-bit and 64-bit versions have the same file name!
Computer vulnerabilities make money for technology companies. Have an Android KitKat 4.4 phone? Sorry, no updates. Buy a new phone.
Probably a very good point. I haven't listened to her in a long time. I understand she has gotten worse.