Listen, I hesitate to post this. I'm friends with a lot of antiglobalists and absolute believe you mean well. But exaggerating an perpetuating racial stereotypes, and pretending that Chinese (and African and other non-OECD) consumers are not the PRIMARY beneficiaries of the industrial revolution ignores history by pretending language and race make our own industrial adolescence unique.
"You have chosen to rationalize non-tariff trade barriers to free employment of Chinese workers, probably to protect markets for a product you or your employer couldn't manufacture affordably enough for world (e.g. Chinese) consumers to buy and share your pleasant lifestyle. Your rationalization is characterized by one or more of the following possible memes;
[_] Calling engineers and employees of Chinese ODM factory "Chinese peasants"
[_] iPhones/Pads would cost too much for Chinese, Indian, and other emerging consumers if I had to pay my fellow wealthy citizens to make them
[_] iPhones employment/affluence overseas will not evolve the environmental regulations the industrial revolution caused me to vehemently insist for myself
[X] All the other progressive claiming manufacturers are using racial #whitesaviorcomplex memes too
[_] Some/Many/Most Chinese workers appreciate shrinking 40 hour weeks, quintupling of pay, and breathing their own consumption's aluminum dust
[X] It's not Foxconn, it's Apple
[_] It's not the Chinese government, it's Apple
[_] They (ODMs like Foxconn) should use their engineering degrees to continuously redesign products they patented if they don't like it
[_] OMG It's capitalism at work!
[_] OMG It's communism at work!
[_] My crass generalizations about "disposable workers" are paid applied to Apple disposable workers than my nation's agriculture and food (apple) harvesting
[_] Apple's auditors didn't prove a negative, that Mike Daisy's fictitious serious issues might not apply anyplace they didn't audit
[_] Five years ago, thanks to Taiwanese engineering firms like Foxconn, the Chinese who worked in Shenzhen were too wealthy to exploit
[_] My Android is Foxconn too
[_] I'm an Apple hater using Apple as a scapegoat
[_] I also work 60/80/100/120 hour weeks at my IT job
[_] Apple designers are in Taipei and Vancouver
[_] Every sanctimonious protectionist colonial power did the same thing to every successfully emerging market
[_] China outlawed slavery too.
[_] The Chinese manufacturers have no prison labor today
[_] It's up to the Chinese to stand up to their oppressive government
[_] There are lines of willing workers trying to do my job, better than I do, at Foxconn factories
[_] If any company were to stop hyperbolizing the exploitation, I really think it'll be Apple
[_] My affordable Chinese hardware runs on Android and Linux, and its white box OEMs made computers too affordable to the masses
[_] Foxconn workers think they have it great, but it's no ok until Anti-globalists say so!
[_] Foxconn worker suicide rate is lower than Chicago's suicide rate
[_] China's worker homicide rate is lower than Chicago's homicide rate
[_] If poor people get to use the same devices the wealthy use, it can pollute the whole world!
[_] Half of all Chinese households have an Foxconn product
[_] If they develop emerging cities like Shenzhen, I'll have no anti-globalist #whitesaviorcomplex causes to champion
[_] The falsely claimed high incidence of suicides didn't get the insurance money for hyperbolized suicide claims
[_] You can afford to read from a macbook/iphone/ipad right now
[_] When I post about suicide nets on American bridges, it's less exotic and altruistic sounding
[_] I'm writing to Interns in the US who don't get paid to make them think it's because of immigrant farm workers and engineers in Taipei and Hong Kong
[_] By merely suggesting the inference that some high tech Chinese factories beat the wo
Unlike the dry county / wet county and guns references (or gay marriage, etc), this particular case uses the fact that marijuana remains illegal under federal law.
The suit should prod US Congress to pass a law explicitly allowing Colorado and Washington to self regulate marijuana.
If that happens, it's all good, the Nebraskas actually move the ball forward by removing the legal dichotomy.
I'd think Congress could do that. They might be chicken to actually remove the federal law, but they could explicitly create an exemption for state law since there is no Constitutional (civil rights) issue at stake. And it's because it's a commerce issue more than a rights issue, it doesn't belong in Courts in the first place. If Congress cannot act on it one way or the other, it must be just as dysfunctional as its members claim and agree it is.
For the record, Sony Pictures did not cancel the release in response to the hacker threats. The five theater chains cancelled showings in response to those threats. Sony Pictures then indefinitely postponed the "release date". The article and most of the comments here are misstating what happened. The Theaters may or may not be "idiotic" but after the lawsuits from the Colorado Batman Joker killers its not quite "idiotic" to demonstrate due diligence to the threat.
...Until they nuke Samsung or Hyundai or Seoul or Incheon. They don't really need an intercontinental rocket to mess the world economy up. And while this will be hugely unpopular (strapping my brass balls on for the mod-downs), this was actually the neo-con case for taking Saddam Hussein out, that he would EVENTUALLY be in the position that Kim Jong-un is in, with just enough WMD to threaten Saudi Arabia and thus the world economy. I'm not defending how it turned out, leading to ISIS etc, but for the record the neocons made a rational case that once a despot invades (Kuwait, Sony HQ), that they establish their willingness to use whatever weapon they find in the future. Iran incidentally still may pass that test, I don't know. India and Pakistan do (have weapons but little evidence of irrational Putin-esque border challenges).
Seeing how often Hollywood remakes movies, and how much attention Kim Jong-un has given this particular picture, it may become the Oedipus Rex or Nutcracker of the next century. After this blows over, Sony's going to rake in the DVD and rebroadcast and international sales, and North Korea will redefine the "Streisand Effect"
On the one hand, this could be huge. On the other hand, let's see the peer reviewed articles. Remember "resveratrol"? After seeing resveratrol covered by CBS 60 Minutes, etc, I bought some tablets, based on the similar mouse aging claims. Interesting history in Quackwatch.com describes how the mouse aging study led to $720M investment by GlaxoSmithKline. Once the money started rushing in, it went quacky...
"In 2012, the University of Connecticut announced that it had concluded that Dipak K. Das, Ph.D., a professor in its Department of Surgery and director of the Cardiovascular Research Center, was guilty of 145 counts of fabrication and falsification of data and that the university had notified eleven journals about this problem [20]. In recent years, Das had gained attention for his reports on allegedly beneficial properties of resveratrol. As of March 2014, journals had retracted 20 of his papers, many of which were repeatedly cited by others [21]. Das died in 2013."
Some interesting research is still going on, tangentially from the resveratrol research. But the way anti-aging anything gets marketed, suspicion always seems warranted.
Yep, my history shows the Auto update installed the suggested fix 12/13/2014, before this article was posted here. I had noticed problems with Nvidia, so I'm glad they fixed it. Razr mouse may also have been affected. So the jury still says, let Windows auto-update.
Ah, yes.... I rather vaguely remember a series of experiments I attended a couple of decades ago. My colleagues and I participated in several hours-long, herb-fueled, analysis sessions comparing cassette tape, CDs, and vinyl, with and without equalizers. We listened in sessions controlling for acoustic, heavy metal, synthesizer, etc.. I'm pretty sure the committee's conclusion was "put the money into the speakers". But I think we forgot to write it down anywhere.
The gadget doesn't look like it should be limited to passing as a tattoo. We should see this as an opportunity to accessorize! But the models in TFA aren't into it. Catwalks! Sell it, baby!
You will be banked into facial recognition database and find Peperoni ads on your Facebook ads page. This is about facial recognition software, it's going into store cameras everywhere, and they are starting to package it as a "consumer advantage". Physical browsing is now, today, being tracked the same as web browsing. Minority Report has your pizza ready.
Eyeballs are attracted to bad news. Good news does not sell papers or attract viewers. This has been documented for a century, and modern psychology actually studies the "fear", "bad news", and "schadenfreude" centers in the brain. Perceived risks that you avoid releases dopamine. Talk radio manufactures doomsday stories every hour, on the hour.
The saddest thing is when CBS 60 Minutes gets it completely wrong - and wins a journalism Award. Ask CBS 60 Minutes anchor, Scott Pelley, about the state of journalism. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvn...
"Our house is on fire. Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.” - Scott Pelley
He should know. Pelley's won an journalism award for misreporting the "trail" of "e-waste" in 2008. But reporting that a past story was exaggerated doesn't sell many ads.
There are issues to resolve, but they aren't that difficult to resolve. There are 9 exemptions police departments can claim, including #6 below. http://www.foiadvocates.com/ex...
6. Documents which are "personnel and medical and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy." 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(6).
Also exempt is anything mentioned by statute, so Washington could just pass a law liminting FOIA access to the police cams. And #7 probably works as well.:
"7 Documents which are "records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes," but only if one or more of six specified types of harm would result. 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(7)."
Or if you are on the police cam, you can start to reveal secrets related to oil well data, or banking. Big Oil and Banking have their own exemtions, 8 and 9.
That's all this is, it's balancing the laws protecting citizens against credible threats vs. the free speech rights of the person making the threat. Whether it rhymes, is set to music, or is in iambic pentameter is irrelevant. Threatening speech is like pornography, judges have to know it when they hear it.
Could we robotize the baggage handling system first? Driverless luggage carriers and robots won't need background checks, won't pilfer, and don't interact with third parties out in the tarmac (less likely to encounter ambulance chasing lawyers out to sue Google for fender bending).
Surviving the estimated 1000 degree centigrade reentry temperature is impressive. The rest of the test - a suborbital flight of 780 seconds - is less so. But I would have expected the seconds of heat to be more deadly to the DNA than light years of cold, so it's still interesting.
There's actually a fairly cool and intelligent discussion that could be had about volcanic activity's role in the history of world climate, and how forecasting of volcanic activity can play a role in climate modelling. Too bad I can't anticipate actually having that discussion without an eruption of troll commentary. Merely discussing it amounts to flamebait due to the polarizing of opinions on the issue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
Besides the effect on lawmaking (or failure to pass laws under gridlock), gerrymandering gives people on both sides of issues a sense of majority. "I won in a landslide, I must be right", combined with polarized news programming, has been demonstrated to make people dumber. Harvard Business Review has an interesting article this week on opinion reinforcement and groupthink this week [ https://hbr.org/2014/11/making... ], which compares focus groups from liberal Boulder CO USA and conservative Colorado Springs USA. The researchers documented the negative effects of grouping like-minded people in political discussions. I think gerrymandering has the same effect on political intelligence. Their own conservatism or liberalism appears validated by landslide elections in their districts.
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Listen, I hesitate to post this. I'm friends with a lot of antiglobalists and absolute believe you mean well. But exaggerating an perpetuating racial stereotypes, and pretending that Chinese (and African and other non-OECD) consumers are not the PRIMARY beneficiaries of the industrial revolution ignores history by pretending language and race make our own industrial adolescence unique.
"You have chosen to rationalize non-tariff trade barriers to free employment of Chinese workers, probably to protect markets for a product you or your employer couldn't manufacture affordably enough for world (e.g. Chinese) consumers to buy and share your pleasant lifestyle. Your rationalization is characterized by one or more of the following possible memes;
[_] Calling engineers and employees of Chinese ODM factory "Chinese peasants"
[_] iPhones/Pads would cost too much for Chinese, Indian, and other emerging consumers if I had to pay my fellow wealthy citizens to make them
[_] iPhones employment/affluence overseas will not evolve the environmental regulations the industrial revolution caused me to vehemently insist for myself
[X] All the other progressive claiming manufacturers are using racial #whitesaviorcomplex memes too
[_] Some/Many/Most Chinese workers appreciate shrinking 40 hour weeks, quintupling of pay, and breathing their own consumption's aluminum dust
[X] It's not Foxconn, it's Apple
[_] It's not the Chinese government, it's Apple
[_] They (ODMs like Foxconn) should use their engineering degrees to continuously redesign products they patented if they don't like it
[_] OMG It's capitalism at work!
[_] OMG It's communism at work!
[_] My crass generalizations about "disposable workers" are paid applied to Apple disposable workers than my nation's agriculture and food (apple) harvesting
[_] Apple's auditors didn't prove a negative, that Mike Daisy's fictitious serious issues might not apply anyplace they didn't audit
[_] Five years ago, thanks to Taiwanese engineering firms like Foxconn, the Chinese who worked in Shenzhen were too wealthy to exploit
[_] My Android is Foxconn too
[_] I'm an Apple hater using Apple as a scapegoat
[_] I also work 60/80/100/120 hour weeks at my IT job
[_] Apple designers are in Taipei and Vancouver
[_] Every sanctimonious protectionist colonial power did the same thing to every successfully emerging market
[_] China outlawed slavery too.
[_] The Chinese manufacturers have no prison labor today
[_] It's up to the Chinese to stand up to their oppressive government
[_] There are lines of willing workers trying to do my job, better than I do, at Foxconn factories
[_] If any company were to stop hyperbolizing the exploitation, I really think it'll be Apple
[_] My affordable Chinese hardware runs on Android and Linux, and its white box OEMs made computers too affordable to the masses
[_] Foxconn workers think they have it great, but it's no ok until Anti-globalists say so!
[_] Foxconn worker suicide rate is lower than Chicago's suicide rate
[_] China's worker homicide rate is lower than Chicago's homicide rate
[_] If poor people get to use the same devices the wealthy use, it can pollute the whole world!
[_] Half of all Chinese households have an Foxconn product
[_] If they develop emerging cities like Shenzhen, I'll have no anti-globalist #whitesaviorcomplex causes to champion
[_] The falsely claimed high incidence of suicides didn't get the insurance money for hyperbolized suicide claims
[_] You can afford to read from a macbook/iphone/ipad right now
[_] When I post about suicide nets on American bridges, it's less exotic and altruistic sounding
[_] I'm writing to Interns in the US who don't get paid to make them think it's because of immigrant farm workers and engineers in Taipei and Hong Kong
[_] By merely suggesting the inference that some high tech Chinese factories beat the wo
Unlike the dry county / wet county and guns references (or gay marriage, etc), this particular case uses the fact that marijuana remains illegal under federal law.
The suit should prod US Congress to pass a law explicitly allowing Colorado and Washington to self regulate marijuana.
If that happens, it's all good, the Nebraskas actually move the ball forward by removing the legal dichotomy.
I'd think Congress could do that. They might be chicken to actually remove the federal law, but they could explicitly create an exemption for state law since there is no Constitutional (civil rights) issue at stake. And it's because it's a commerce issue more than a rights issue, it doesn't belong in Courts in the first place. If Congress cannot act on it one way or the other, it must be just as dysfunctional as its members claim and agree it is.
For the record, Sony Pictures did not cancel the release in response to the hacker threats. The five theater chains cancelled showings in response to those threats. Sony Pictures then indefinitely postponed the "release date". The article and most of the comments here are misstating what happened. The Theaters may or may not be "idiotic" but after the lawsuits from the Colorado Batman Joker killers its not quite "idiotic" to demonstrate due diligence to the threat.
"It couldn't cost as much as Afganistan."
Let the Meme Galleries grow into movie punchlines! http://www.complex.com/pop-cul...
Feelless Reader Reaps Streisand Effect http://www.complex.com/pop-cul...
Feelless Reader is blocking this post. We have mod down this post -4. Victory for Feelless Reader is guananteed
I got an "insecure login" warning when I was trying to log into /. in the past 15 minutes
Seeing how often Hollywood remakes movies, and how much attention Kim Jong-un has given this particular picture, it may become the Oedipus Rex or Nutcracker of the next century. After this blows over, Sony's going to rake in the DVD and rebroadcast and international sales, and North Korea will redefine the "Streisand Effect"
On the one hand, this could be huge. On the other hand, let's see the peer reviewed articles. Remember "resveratrol"? After seeing resveratrol covered by CBS 60 Minutes, etc, I bought some tablets, based on the similar mouse aging claims. Interesting history in Quackwatch.com describes how the mouse aging study led to $720M investment by GlaxoSmithKline. Once the money started rushing in, it went quacky...
"In 2012, the University of Connecticut announced that it had concluded that Dipak K. Das, Ph.D., a professor in its Department of Surgery and director of the Cardiovascular Research Center, was guilty of 145 counts of fabrication and falsification of data and that the university had notified eleven journals about this problem [20]. In recent years, Das had gained attention for his reports on allegedly beneficial properties of resveratrol. As of March 2014, journals had retracted 20 of his papers, many of which were repeatedly cited by others [21]. Das died in 2013."
Some interesting research is still going on, tangentially from the resveratrol research. But the way anti-aging anything gets marketed, suspicion always seems warranted.
http://www.quackwatch.com/01Qu...
How are we to know whether the funeral we are watching is genuine? Could it be counterfeit, rebroadcast, or pirated?
Yep, my history shows the Auto update installed the suggested fix 12/13/2014, before this article was posted here. I had noticed problems with Nvidia, so I'm glad they fixed it. Razr mouse may also have been affected. So the jury still says, let Windows auto-update.
Ah, yes.... I rather vaguely remember a series of experiments I attended a couple of decades ago. My colleagues and I participated in several hours-long, herb-fueled, analysis sessions comparing cassette tape, CDs, and vinyl, with and without equalizers. We listened in sessions controlling for acoustic, heavy metal, synthesizer, etc.. I'm pretty sure the committee's conclusion was "put the money into the speakers". But I think we forgot to write it down anywhere.
The gadget doesn't look like it should be limited to passing as a tattoo. We should see this as an opportunity to accessorize! But the models in TFA aren't into it. Catwalks! Sell it, baby!
You will be banked into facial recognition database and find Peperoni ads on your Facebook ads page. This is about facial recognition software, it's going into store cameras everywhere, and they are starting to package it as a "consumer advantage". Physical browsing is now, today, being tracked the same as web browsing. Minority Report has your pizza ready.
Eyeballs are attracted to bad news. Good news does not sell papers or attract viewers. This has been documented for a century, and modern psychology actually studies the "fear", "bad news", and "schadenfreude" centers in the brain. Perceived risks that you avoid releases dopamine. Talk radio manufactures doomsday stories every hour, on the hour.
The saddest thing is when CBS 60 Minutes gets it completely wrong - and wins a journalism Award. Ask CBS 60 Minutes anchor, Scott Pelley, about the state of journalism. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvn...
"Our house is on fire. Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.” - Scott Pelley
He should know. Pelley's won an journalism award for misreporting the "trail" of "e-waste" in 2008. But reporting that a past story was exaggerated doesn't sell many ads.
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6. Documents which are "personnel and medical and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy." 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(6).
Also exempt is anything mentioned by statute, so Washington could just pass a law liminting FOIA access to the police cams. And #7 probably works as well. :
"7 Documents which are "records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes," but only if one or more of six specified types of harm would result. 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(7)."
Or if you are on the police cam, you can start to reveal secrets related to oil well data, or banking. Big Oil and Banking have their own exemtions, 8 and 9.
If no one pays taxes, I live in a lousy infrastructure.
If everyone pays taxes, I live in a nice infrastructure, but had to pay taxes.
If I admit not paying taxes, no one else wants to pay taxes either.
If I make everyone believe in paying taxes, while I secretly do not pay taxes, I benefit from the infrastructure for free.
Dang. Didn't realize this was a Ph.D thesis material!
That's all this is, it's balancing the laws protecting citizens against credible threats vs. the free speech rights of the person making the threat. Whether it rhymes, is set to music, or is in iambic pentameter is irrelevant. Threatening speech is like pornography, judges have to know it when they hear it.
Could we robotize the baggage handling system first? Driverless luggage carriers and robots won't need background checks, won't pilfer, and don't interact with third parties out in the tarmac (less likely to encounter ambulance chasing lawyers out to sue Google for fender bending).
Surviving the estimated 1000 degree centigrade reentry temperature is impressive. The rest of the test - a suborbital flight of 780 seconds - is less so. But I would have expected the seconds of heat to be more deadly to the DNA than light years of cold, so it's still interesting.
There's actually a fairly cool and intelligent discussion that could be had about volcanic activity's role in the history of world climate, and how forecasting of volcanic activity can play a role in climate modelling. Too bad I can't anticipate actually having that discussion without an eruption of troll commentary. Merely discussing it amounts to flamebait due to the polarizing of opinions on the issue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
Besides the effect on lawmaking (or failure to pass laws under gridlock), gerrymandering gives people on both sides of issues a sense of majority. "I won in a landslide, I must be right", combined with polarized news programming, has been demonstrated to make people dumber. Harvard Business Review has an interesting article this week on opinion reinforcement and groupthink this week [ https://hbr.org/2014/11/making... ], which compares focus groups from liberal Boulder CO USA and conservative Colorado Springs USA. The researchers documented the negative effects of grouping like-minded people in political discussions. I think gerrymandering has the same effect on political intelligence. Their own conservatism or liberalism appears validated by landslide elections in their districts.