Additionally as regards this: "The video features an elaborate set depicting the control room, or bridge, of the spaceship featured in the hit TV show."
Here's how opinion should be done on News channels: You invite guests on. The guests are the ones with the opinions, and the host does his best to stay neutral. This is how it's done in countries with decent standards in the TV media.
And when I say guests I mean REAL guests. Fox News has a small army of people that are on the payroll and the talking points email list, that they present as if they were guests. But they're not.
There was a story here a while ago about a machine that you could put your old mobile phones in, and it would give you cash for them. I guess that's an example.
The fact that they keep referring to new as of yet published games as "retro" because they are for out of production systems also baffles me and adds to their retardedness.
The definition of retro is "Imitative of a style, fashion, or design from the recent past". It's not things that are actually from the recent past, it's new things that are made in that style.
If you go buy a recently released LP you wouldnt call it retro, even tho it plays on a record player.
Yes, retro is exactly what you'd call it. Well you wouldn't, but the rest of the world would.
Perhaps the reason you're baffled is that your word skills are retarded?
"And for all of Appleâ(TM)s corporate facilities worldwide, weâ(TM)re at 75 percent, and we expect that number to grow as the amount of renewable energy available to us increases."
Now see page 10 of the report linked above. Notice how retail stores is a separate category than corporate offices.
You're still wrong.
Notice how "facilities" is a completely different word from "offices". Notice that you are looking at the table subdivision for "offices", but the entire table, which includes Retail, has as it's title: "Worldwide Facility Electricity and GHG Scope Summary"
Of course Retail Stores aren't included in offices, they aren't offices. Of course they are included in facilities because they are a facility.
There will be when they find out something they wanted is not in the app store.
If.
As I pointed out before, this isn't something unique to Apple, console manufacturers have had the same power of selection for decades. And funnily enough, people don't have a problem, because they don't come across types of games that they want, but aren't allowed. But they do get the advantage that selection keeps most of the shit out.
Pretty much the only people that are complaining about Apple's curated store are Android users who don't even have an iOS device. And they face the uncomfortable truth that there is mountains of shit in the various Android stores.
It's not voluntary if there's negative repercussions if you don't do it.
Every employee has that. Don't do it, and you'll be fired, and you'll lose your salary and benefits. That doesn't make it slave labour.
Every intern in every country for who the internship is a mandatory part of the course also has negative repercussions if they don't do it. That's not slave labour either.
For the record, these internships were internships in name only. They were long hour, monotonous assembly line jobs, nothing more.
For the record we've seen distortions far bigger than this being reported before. Remember the so called Foxconn suicide epidemic. The truth was that if you crunched the numbers, the general suicide rate in both China AND the USA was higher than the rate at Foxconn. ANY company with over a million employees will have suicides.
I see no actual evidence whatsoever here that the interns are being asked to do anything unreasonable. Just the hearsay of the usual suspects who have an axe to grind.
The user having control is more important that protecting the system from him.
(Using your definition of control)
It might be to you. For plenty of people, having no worries about software that's downloaded, and having a one stop shop to get apps are both advantages. For them there aren't any downsides.
Internship is on the job training. As the article does mention these are students doing vocational courses. So of course success in the course requires satisfactory completion of an internship.
To call a voluntary course which requires satisfactory completion of an internship "slave labour" is as ridiculous as the rest of the allegations. And it does a disservice to the reality of true slave labour that is still a problem in this day and age.
"This report documents the environmental impact of our facilities and our efforts to reduce their impact. In particular, this report documents: â How we generate and use energy across our worldwide facilities including our corporate offices, data centers, and retail stores by highlighting our fiscal 2012 accomplishments"
Telling me or anyone else here what would or wouldn't make them happy is the height of arrogance.
No more than if I told you what kinds of activities would make you fit and vice versa. Or what was bad for your heart. The mind, like the body, has some universal ways in which they work.
Saccharine coated feelgood thoughts like "family", "helping others" and "appreciating what you have" may work for you, that doesn't mean they work for everyone.
It's not saccharine coated anything. Nor anecdotes. As I said in recent years scientists have been studying what makes people happy. Actual experiments. These are the results. It's not distilled from grandma's wise sayings, or what the preacher says.
caring about the environment, caring about children, caring about a future world for everyone to enjoy, and caring about a persons freedom
So far so good. We're talking freedom as in what Amnesty International fights for. Basic human rights.
, and freedom of knowledge and tools for everyone are all the same thing.
And that's were you reach something that is not like the others. Anarchy/socialism in software (what the OSS community believes in) is not the same as basic human rights. Property is not theft. Not even when it's software or patents.
If someone chooses to buy a device with a single store for software, they've made a choice with complete freedom.
Nice try with your big words though.
It's not just big words. I'm pretty good at knowing what words like freedom really mean too.
Sure. That's exactly why they are doing more. They were unfairly singled out for the allegations, not because their record was bad, but because they were a juicy target.
And as a result, they do more than any other company to ensure their third party manufacturing is squeaky clean as regards these practices.
Name any other large company that manufactures in those Asian countries, and there is more child-labour and sweatshop conditions than there is in the case of Apple.
The entire page constitutes a lie because they are deliberately implying that all their operations will be renewable.
"implying"? If you can't understand plain English, that's your problem. It talks about Apple's corporate operations, not the operations of other companies.
That's because you're doing it to yourself, which is called cognitive dissonance.
Marketers use the 'truth' to 'lie' by depending on the inability of the average person to be able parse a sentence correctly.
That would be a fault of the average person then, not of the marketers. They only have a responsibility to not lie. They don't have a responsibility to talk to people like babies.
You do realize that in the countries where child labor is practiced that the children NEED the work.
It's a subtle point that Apple is aware of. Whilst of course they can't change the fortunes of a nation, on those occasions when they have found a subcontractor that has broken the rules, and employed underage workers, it's a condition of remaining a subcontractor that they continue to pay the family the wage even though the child is no longer working PLUS finance the child to go to school.
It's a good move. It's a disincentive for a subcontractor to risk it, as well as making sure that Apple's intervention doesn't make life worse for the kid or his/her family.
The 75% figure doesn't include manufacturing, or Apple stores
It doesn't include most manufacturing, because that is mostly third party companies. But why would you say it doesn't include Apple Stores? Of course it does.
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Additionally as regards this: "The video features an elaborate set depicting the control room, or bridge, of the spaceship featured in the hit TV show."
Except it's pretty obviously green screen.
Here's how opinion should be done on News channels: You invite guests on. The guests are the ones with the opinions, and the host does his best to stay neutral. This is how it's done in countries with decent standards in the TV media.
And when I say guests I mean REAL guests. Fox News has a small army of people that are on the payroll and the talking points email list, that they present as if they were guests. But they're not.
There was a story here a while ago about a machine that you could put your old mobile phones in, and it would give you cash for them. I guess that's an example.
Name one thing that was banned that made your lives better.........
Murder.
The fact that they keep referring to new as of yet published games as "retro" because they are for out of production systems also baffles me and adds to their retardedness.
The definition of retro is "Imitative of a style, fashion, or design from the recent past". It's not things that are actually from the recent past, it's new things that are made in that style.
If you go buy a recently released LP you wouldnt call it retro, even tho it plays on a record player.
Yes, retro is exactly what you'd call it. Well you wouldn't, but the rest of the world would.
Perhaps the reason you're baffled is that your word skills are retarded?
I will not respond to you last statement since it is a lie. Those stores are just as curated.
If they're just as curated, how come there's so much Android malware?
Well I've read that 3 times, and I still can't decipher what point you are making. Care to elucidate?
Apple didn't do it. It was just a rumour.
"And for all of Appleâ(TM)s corporate facilities worldwide, weâ(TM)re at 75 percent, and we expect that number to grow as the amount of renewable energy available to us increases."
Now see page 10 of the report linked above. Notice how retail stores is a separate category than corporate offices.
You're still wrong.
Notice how "facilities" is a completely different word from "offices". Notice that you are looking at the table subdivision for "offices", but the entire table, which includes Retail, has as it's title: "Worldwide Facility Electricity and GHG Scope Summary"
Of course Retail Stores aren't included in offices, they aren't offices. Of course they are included in facilities because they are a facility.
There will be when they find out something they wanted is not in the app store.
If.
As I pointed out before, this isn't something unique to Apple, console manufacturers have had the same power of selection for decades. And funnily enough, people don't have a problem, because they don't come across types of games that they want, but aren't allowed. But they do get the advantage that selection keeps most of the shit out.
Pretty much the only people that are complaining about Apple's curated store are Android users who don't even have an iOS device. And they face the uncomfortable truth that there is mountains of shit in the various Android stores.
It's not voluntary if there's negative repercussions if you don't do it.
Every employee has that. Don't do it, and you'll be fired, and you'll lose your salary and benefits. That doesn't make it slave labour.
Every intern in every country for who the internship is a mandatory part of the course also has negative repercussions if they don't do it. That's not slave labour either.
For the record, these internships were internships in name only. They were long hour, monotonous assembly line jobs, nothing more.
For the record we've seen distortions far bigger than this being reported before. Remember the so called Foxconn suicide epidemic. The truth was that if you crunched the numbers, the general suicide rate in both China AND the USA was higher than the rate at Foxconn. ANY company with over a million employees will have suicides.
I see no actual evidence whatsoever here that the interns are being asked to do anything unreasonable. Just the hearsay of the usual suspects who have an axe to grind.
The user having control is more important that protecting the system from him.
(Using your definition of control)
It might be to you. For plenty of people, having no worries about software that's downloaded, and having a one stop shop to get apps are both advantages. For them there aren't any downsides.
Internship is on the job training. As the article does mention these are students doing vocational courses. So of course success in the course requires satisfactory completion of an internship.
To call a voluntary course which requires satisfactory completion of an internship "slave labour" is as ridiculous as the rest of the allegations. And it does a disservice to the reality of true slave labour that is still a problem in this day and age.
Ahem.
"This report documents the environmental impact of our facilities and our efforts to reduce their impact. In particular, this report documents:
â How we generate and use energy across our worldwide facilities including our corporate offices, data centers, and retail stores by highlighting our fiscal 2012 accomplishments"
Understanding English, you fail it. If you knew what the word "morality" meant
I know exactly what the meaning of morality is. And it doesn't change the irony of your post.
Telling me or anyone else here what would or wouldn't make them happy is the height of arrogance.
No more than if I told you what kinds of activities would make you fit and vice versa. Or what was bad for your heart. The mind, like the body, has some universal ways in which they work.
Saccharine coated feelgood thoughts like "family", "helping others" and "appreciating what you have" may work for you, that doesn't mean they work for everyone.
It's not saccharine coated anything. Nor anecdotes. As I said in recent years scientists have been studying what makes people happy. Actual experiments. These are the results. It's not distilled from grandma's wise sayings, or what the preacher says.
For example: http://www.lifeedited.com/get-happy-spending-money-just-not-on-yourself-or-buying-stuff/
caring about the environment, caring about children, caring about a future world for everyone to enjoy, and caring about a persons freedom
So far so good. We're talking freedom as in what Amnesty International fights for. Basic human rights.
, and freedom of knowledge and tools for everyone are all the same thing.
And that's were you reach something that is not like the others. Anarchy/socialism in software (what the OSS community believes in) is not the same as basic human rights. Property is not theft. Not even when it's software or patents.
If someone chooses to buy a device with a single store for software, they've made a choice with complete freedom.
Nice try with your big words though.
It's not just big words. I'm pretty good at knowing what words like freedom really mean too.
Sure. That's exactly why they are doing more. They were unfairly singled out for the allegations, not because their record was bad, but because they were a juicy target.
And as a result, they do more than any other company to ensure their third party manufacturing is squeaky clean as regards these practices.
Name any other large company that manufactures in those Asian countries, and there is more child-labour and sweatshop conditions than there is in the case of Apple.
The entire page constitutes a lie because they are deliberately implying that all their operations will be renewable.
"implying"? If you can't understand plain English, that's your problem. It talks about Apple's corporate operations, not the operations of other companies.
That's because you're doing it to yourself, which is called cognitive dissonance.
That phrase doesn't mean what you think it means.
Marketers use the 'truth' to 'lie' by depending on the inability of the average person to be able parse a sentence correctly.
That would be a fault of the average person then, not of the marketers. They only have a responsibility to not lie. They don't have a responsibility to talk to people like babies.
Until another such flaw is found.
Maybe, but that would be a flaw in the OS. Again, the system removes the user as being the flaw that allows trojans to be installed.
You are trying to secure a device against its owner.
No, we are talking about security against malware here. Contrary to your claim, the user is not a flaw in this regard with iOS and the games consoles.
You miss the fact that they both are supposed to have the same ideological underpinnings.
They most certainly are not. They are orthogonal belief sets.
You do realize that in the countries where child labor is practiced that the children NEED the work.
It's a subtle point that Apple is aware of. Whilst of course they can't change the fortunes of a nation, on those occasions when they have found a subcontractor that has broken the rules, and employed underage workers, it's a condition of remaining a subcontractor that they continue to pay the family the wage even though the child is no longer working PLUS finance the child to go to school.
It's a good move. It's a disincentive for a subcontractor to risk it, as well as making sure that Apple's intervention doesn't make life worse for the kid or his/her family.
Apple not only sees themselves as guardians of morality
Ironic, given that this post shows you yourself to have that self image.
The 75% figure doesn't include manufacturing, or Apple stores
It doesn't include most manufacturing, because that is mostly third party companies. But why would you say it doesn't include Apple Stores? Of course it does.