What is the CIAs goal? I am going to take that as "Why would the CIA do it, if it doen't even work in a school." The reason is "We weren't really seeing a lot there." The 'not a lot' means that something was seen. For the CIA that something might be an attack that will be prevented or identificaation of a network they were not aware about or even info on a person who now can be seen as dangerous and needs closer observation.
1 in a million is worth it for the CIA. 1 in a million is not worth it for a school.
If you agree that they do it or not and/or if it is legal is a whole different question, but that is why they want to mo,itor everybody and everything. Because it makes their job easier.
European here: 1: 35-40 IS a work week. And if you work half time, you are still insured for that period. For the company having somebody work full time or two people half time will cost about the same. Part time might even cost more. The reason to get part time people is a) Because people want to. e.g. moms who want to work part time and still have time for the kids b) You have hours that need it. There will be people who are willing work 4/5th (4 day week) or 9/10th (e.g. every wednesday afternoon off) or other situations were they decide to work less in agreement with the employer
2. If by schedules you mean fixed hour weeks, then yes. Working overtime in Belgium is just not worth it. The taxes on your over time are about 85% or more. So you would be stupid to do it. So how do they deal with situations where overtime can not be avoided? You get paid in extra days off. e.g. working 1 (unplanned) Saturday will get you 1.5 or 2 days off. Sunday will be 2-3, depending on where you work. As a company you will learn very fast that most unforseen days are not really unforseen. It is just bad planning. And the situations will suddenly happen less. And yes, there wwhere situations where I did a lot of extra work one month and had 2 weeks vacation extra.
3. It is about living wages. Where I work and in many other places, public transport is not only an option, it is paid for by the company. Imagine if you would not need to pay for your car. No taxes, no payment, no maintenance, no fuel. Look at it financially, not practically, because that is not possible. For me that was 200-300EUR difference per month, easy. If you are at the low end of earning, that will be a HUGE difference. So all of a sudden, I make 200EUR more per month.
4.. Credit is obviously available in Belgium and other countries as well. And some people fall into that trap. However top get a credit (in Belgium) the credit company will be forced to look how much other credits you have, how much you make and how much you need to live. Give credit to somebody who should not get a credit and he does not even need to pay it back. Not ever. Not when he starts making money. Just no pay back at all. Complete write off for the credit company. So how does this work? a) You need a minimal income to get a credit. Below 1100EUR per month netto and no credit. b) Deduct from you income a standard for living. e.g. food, rent and such. Not sure what the amounts are, but say 750. That leaves 250 per month. Now look at every other credit. Not: a credit (card) is calculated as if iut where maxed out, because that is what you would have to pay back in the worst case scenario. So a CC for 2000EUR would be 100EUR as there is a minimal payback of 5% per month. That leaves you 150EUR to buy a car. So many people will say: If I ditch the card, I can buy a bigger car. Many will even have to ditch their cards to be able to buy a house. So you do not build credit, you get it when you work and things are not added, but deducted. Interest rates are fixed by law. Charge more and they will close you down without blinking and good luck trying to get your money back.
The amount of cards to me makes it reasonable to at least look into it. Just like when I get stopped and I have a suitcase of 20USD bills with me. There could well be a very reasonable explanation, but I would understand if they start asking questions. As for "what is too many" I say that that would differ from situation to situation. If you are a beggar sitting on the streets and you have 10.000 with you, to me that is suspicious. (and yet legal, but it would be understandable if there are questions asked). If you walk into a second car dealership, having a larger amount with you is more normal.
I live in a country where I have to have an official ID with me and I have been stopped in the street and have been verified and I have no problems with that.
Imagine that there is abuse by the police person, I can file a claim. If I am the only one, it will most likely be seen as in favour of the police officer. If there are more, you can bet that there will be an investigation and he will be reprimanded. So no, you can nu just ask how much money have people on them and even then it does not mean that what they have is illegal.
The real problem is that there is no real accountability for police officers in the US. Change that and I am sure that the rest will become reasonable as well.
And again: no, you can't put exact numbers on these kind of things what is reasonable. Yes, that will mean that you have some false positives and false negatives.
That is the case for humans, because we do not HAVE the reaction time.especially in stressful situations. e.g. you push down the wrong pedal and the car starts moving. Youwant to stop, so you prss down harder. Car goes faster; so you press down harder. This untill you realize what is going on, but more likely till you hit a building or another car 2 seconds later.
Just in those two seconds you were unable to react correctly, because that is how the brain works. So with humans you are correct: reaction time is not that important.
Now take a computer. The computer will not "shut down" because there is a stressfull situation. It will be able to do many calculations per second and react on each of those calculations depending on the past, current and predicted situation. Reaction time is a human factor if you look at a failpoint. It is because of the increased reaction tme that many accidents can be prevented.
As you did not stat you are a doctor, I assume you are not. I will talk as somebody who has been on call (not as a doctor) and being on call means that I get paid to ber available and that also means I am restricted in what I do. e.g. I can not drink any alcohol, as I need to be able to drive. Because of these limitations, I am paid for my time. Not going the the movies is not forbidden, but something that I am not willing to do, because I will be disturbing others. Not by the phone, but by me walking out.
The doctors I know will not go to the movies when they are on call. We will go to restaurants, but it is then very clear that it would mean they could leave any moment, so they avoid that as much as possible.
If you are on call 24/7, you are doing it wrong. If not alone from the point of view of being hit by a bus.
The Marketing companies select the names of cars, because of what they mean. They select the wording ads, so they give us certain feelings. They decide the colors to be used in ads, so specific emotions are being targeted, yet they had NO idea that the general public would think of when they said "auto-pilot"? I think THAT is the problem.
They hide behind semantics like a 12 year old who holds the hand of his brother and yells "Stop hitting yourself." And no, naming it "I can't believe it is not an autopilot." is not a good name either, not is taking a trademark on 'AutoPilot' and claim it is just a name. By naming it Autopilot, they where very well aware of what that idea would mean.
"Rechts is frei" sind die letzeten Woerter des Beifahrers. (Sorry for the errors) This means 'No traffic from the right' are the last words from the person sitting next to the driver. (Traffic from the right has right of way). So I would go for "Automatishe beifahrende Swiegermutter"
Hiding behind what people did 200+ years ago means that you are either unable, but more likely unwilling to solve anything. So no, do NOT take it up with the founding fathers. Go out there and solve the shit that is going on yourselves.I live in a country that is younger than the US and has gone through more changes on a political level. Stop blaming others for the mess you are in.
Not sure how it works elsewhere. In Belgium every several years Union reps are voted for in all companies that have more than 50 employees. Voting is done by every employee, not only union members and it is not an electronic process.
Sometimes people will not be able to be at the place where the voting is done, so they get to vote by letter. This is how that works:
They get a blank letter with a ballot and two envelopes. One envelope is blank. No identification on it. The other has the identification of the person on it. So what happens is that on the day of the election all the envelopes are first taken by one person. name (or number. I forgot) is read out lout. Another person checks it of a list. The envelope is opened qnd the second envelope is checked and if OK put to the side. Not ok; would be not sealed, visible voting, writing or any other indication. The valid envelopes are thrown in a box and when all are done, shaken,and then they are opened one by one. These votes are varified if they are valid and then thrown into the ballot box.
This is witnessed by at least one person of each union. Where I was there were 7 people from several unions looking over my schoulder. They are NOT allowed to touch the ballots in any way.
What I did during the day was take the ID of a person coming in, saying his name so somebody else would tick it off They then got a ballot and where allowed to vote. After they put the ballot in the box outside the voting booth, they would get their ID back.
Much more details went into the whole process. The whole system was interesting to witness.
I often open 30 or so tabs for videos I want to watch. I see something, click on related videos and open e.g. 5 of them.Those 5 will have links to another 2 each and then another 1 or 2 of the ones I see. I then start to watch the tabs one by one and close them when I saw them.
If I have to open, go to that tab, stop playing, go back to the original tab, open the next one and so on, I will be less willing to watch that many if any at all.
They have the ability to turn off autoplay for the next in line. It should not be that hard to have a button for autoplay on/off as well. (and have it on by default)
And if I open the 30 at the same time I will not be able to hear anything anyway, so there's that.
I hate that car makers do not realize that people have phones. I have places for my coins (that I have in my walles, so I don't use it), places for my glasses (that I do not have) and places for my coffee that I do not drink. Some have places to put your parking ticket on the window. Some of these will be used by some of the people, yet there is one thing that everybody that has a drivers licence has and that is a phone. But a place to put it in any convinient way? Nope!
Even if you have an audio in, there is no way to place the phone, so I have to buy something that I put on the window, because the rest isn't flat.
When I rent cars, most of the times I just put the suction cup on the double DIN radio screen.
That would be an expensive quadcopter for enduser use with a 4K camera for that prce. You also don't need to re-buy the radio.
And instead of the quadcopter, perhaps they are just using RC aircraft. Buy the motor, a battery and a receiver and you are able to build one yourself with local materials pretty easy.
Add some RVP and you are easily able to fly them several miles away. 25 miles is not unheard of. And as you do not need to worry about the return flight, you can add less batteries and/or more payload.
There are plenty of forums, sites and videos all over the place to find out how to do that.
As a kid I had bad ankles. I am older and I thought that was coming back. Often on Sunday I had a very bad pain that I thought was s sprained ankle. Mainly because problably twisted while walking home after many beers.
So I went to the doctor and told him what I thought was going on. He looked at the ankle that was really thick. Told me to drink less and that was it.
One day it was extremely bad. I went to the hospital and it was gaut. It is not that common to not have it in your toes but in your ankle.
Next time I had an attack, I went to my doctor and told him it was gaut. He said there were some students and he asked if they could look at it. They diagnosed it correctly. The difference was that when he did the diagnosis, I had given imput. When they didi it, I gave no feedback at all.
So yes, there is more than just a yes/no version.
I even have seen my doctor looking up things on Google. And I am OK with that. I assume he usses it for reference and confirmation. Just like people who know perl will someti,es still look up code. Just to see if there might be a better way or not.
I would not even mind if my doctor uses WebMD, because he knows how to interpret things that I do not know how to do.
Why would it be any different than with e.g. a robot that replaces workers. If you have 10 people working at 40 hours, replacing 5 workers by a machines does not mean that they now work each 20 hours at the same pay (minus the cost of the machine). It means that they fire 8 people and let the rest work for the same amount for 80 hours. The extra money is for the stockholders and as bonus for the CEO when the company goes under. (Oh, you thought it was to reduce the price? It won't)
While I agree that this does not help, I just dislike ads in general. Be it on a website, on tv, on the street or on my underware. I just dislike ads.
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply youâ(TM)re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. Itâ(TM)s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially donâ(TM)t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, donâ(TM)t even start asking for theirs. http://readingfrenzy.com/ledge...
From your article: It appears likely that the phone sustained some damage while it was being transported. The kind of battery used in the iPhone and other handsets are almost always safe, but can be incredibly dangerous â" if they are punctured, they can easily explode or set fire, taking the rest of the phone with it. The phone did appear to be dented and damaged beyond the kind of issues that would be caused by heat. But that also suggests that the new problems hitting the iPhone are not on the level of the exploding Note 7, which necessitated a global recall and has been a disaster for the company. No further problems with the iPhone 7 have yet been reported and it appears that the problem is likely to be isolated.
I think the quest for ever thinner phones and ever thinner batteries is to blame.
Who are these people asking for thinner phones? I have not seen anybody asking for them. Since the beginnng we ask for longer battery life. Even in the period where you could do 2-3 weeks with a battery did we wanted a longer battery life. So it is the companies who tell us that thin is better and we buy it.
Not everything is to blame on the companies, because we buy it and also âoeIf I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.â --H.Ford
I am all for legalizing it.The issue I have is that people buy the laws. Because that way you end up in a pissing contest where only the rich decide what becomes law.
Isn't is great that the largest economy in the world can be manipilated so easy. What I think is also great is how "nothing" shows up for Trump with all his history. No, I do not believe he is clean, so people are not looking or are unwilling to look.
What I can imagine is that this is all a ploy to get Trump elected and then imidiately impeached for whatever they have on him.
Because if Trump is elected, BOTH parties will block whatever he wants. The thing is that the US has a LOT of influence in the world, so I do care. So just watchning the shitstorm that will be going on for at least the next 4 years is not an option. We all will be in the middle of the shitstorm and can only hope that it "only" has economical consequences.
I really would have wanted to have lived in the future so I would only have to learn about the second time the Americans fought for their freedom from books.
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What is the CIAs goal? I am going to take that as "Why would the CIA do it, if it doen't even work in a school."
The reason is "We weren't really seeing a lot there."
The 'not a lot' means that something was seen. For the CIA that something might be an attack that will be prevented or identificaation of a network they were not aware about or even info on a person who now can be seen as dangerous and needs closer observation.
1 in a million is worth it for the CIA. 1 in a million is not worth it for a school.
If you agree that they do it or not and/or if it is legal is a whole different question, but that is why they want to mo,itor everybody and everything. Because it makes their job easier.
I think we are at a point that it is better that the Chinese read our data than the US.
European here:
1: 35-40 IS a work week. And if you work half time, you are still insured for that period. For the company having somebody work full time or two people half time will cost about the same. Part time might even cost more. The reason to get part time people is
a) Because people want to. e.g. moms who want to work part time and still have time for the kids
b) You have hours that need it.
There will be people who are willing work 4/5th (4 day week) or 9/10th (e.g. every wednesday afternoon off) or other situations were they decide to work less in agreement with the employer
2. If by schedules you mean fixed hour weeks, then yes. Working overtime in Belgium is just not worth it. The taxes on your over time are about 85% or more. So you would be stupid to do it. So how do they deal with situations where overtime can not be avoided? You get paid in extra days off. e.g. working 1 (unplanned) Saturday will get you 1.5 or 2 days off. Sunday will be 2-3, depending on where you work. As a company you will learn very fast that most unforseen days are not really unforseen. It is just bad planning. And the situations will suddenly happen less.
And yes, there wwhere situations where I did a lot of extra work one month and had 2 weeks vacation extra.
3. It is about living wages. Where I work and in many other places, public transport is not only an option, it is paid for by the company. Imagine if you would not need to pay for your car. No taxes, no payment, no maintenance, no fuel. Look at it financially, not practically, because that is not possible. For me that was 200-300EUR difference per month, easy. If you are at the low end of earning, that will be a HUGE difference. So all of a sudden, I make 200EUR more per month.
4.. Credit is obviously available in Belgium and other countries as well. And some people fall into that trap. However top get a credit (in Belgium) the credit company will be forced to look how much other credits you have, how much you make and how much you need to live. Give credit to somebody who should not get a credit and he does not even need to pay it back. Not ever. Not when he starts making money. Just no pay back at all. Complete write off for the credit company. So how does this work?
a) You need a minimal income to get a credit. Below 1100EUR per month netto and no credit.
b) Deduct from you income a standard for living. e.g. food, rent and such. Not sure what the amounts are, but say 750. That leaves 250 per month. Now look at every other credit. Not: a credit (card) is calculated as if iut where maxed out, because that is what you would have to pay back in the worst case scenario. So a CC for 2000EUR would be 100EUR as there is a minimal payback of 5% per month. That leaves you 150EUR to buy a car.
So many people will say: If I ditch the card, I can buy a bigger car. Many will even have to ditch their cards to be able to buy a house.
So you do not build credit, you get it when you work and things are not added, but deducted.
Interest rates are fixed by law. Charge more and they will close you down without blinking and good luck trying to get your money back.
So you are saying that Assange is responsible for Brexit? That would be more logical than what they have been telling me.
The amount of cards to me makes it reasonable to at least look into it. Just like when I get stopped and I have a suitcase of 20USD bills with me. There could well be a very reasonable explanation, but I would understand if they start asking questions.
As for "what is too many" I say that that would differ from situation to situation. If you are a beggar sitting on the streets and you have 10.000 with you, to me that is suspicious. (and yet legal, but it would be understandable if there are questions asked). If you walk into a second car dealership, having a larger amount with you is more normal.
I live in a country where I have to have an official ID with me and I have been stopped in the street and have been verified and I have no problems with that.
Imagine that there is abuse by the police person, I can file a claim. If I am the only one, it will most likely be seen as in favour of the police officer. If there are more, you can bet that there will be an investigation and he will be reprimanded. So no, you can nu just ask how much money have people on them and even then it does not mean that what they have is illegal.
The real problem is that there is no real accountability for police officers in the US. Change that and I am sure that the rest will become reasonable as well.
And again: no, you can't put exact numbers on these kind of things what is reasonable. Yes, that will mean that you have some false positives and false negatives.
That is the case for humans, because we do not HAVE the reaction time.especially in stressful situations. e.g. you push down the wrong pedal and the car starts moving. Youwant to stop, so you prss down harder. Car goes faster; so you press down harder. This untill you realize what is going on, but more likely till you hit a building or another car 2 seconds later.
Just in those two seconds you were unable to react correctly, because that is how the brain works. So with humans you are correct: reaction time is not that important.
Now take a computer. The computer will not "shut down" because there is a stressfull situation. It will be able to do many calculations per second and react on each of those calculations depending on the past, current and predicted situation.
Reaction time is a human factor if you look at a failpoint. It is because of the increased reaction tme that many accidents can be prevented.
As you did not stat you are a doctor, I assume you are not. I will talk as somebody who has been on call (not as a doctor) and being on call means that I get paid to ber available and that also means I am restricted in what I do. e.g. I can not drink any alcohol, as I need to be able to drive. Because of these limitations, I am paid for my time. Not going the the movies is not forbidden, but something that I am not willing to do, because I will be disturbing others. Not by the phone, but by me walking out.
The doctors I know will not go to the movies when they are on call. We will go to restaurants, but it is then very clear that it would mean they could leave any moment, so they avoid that as much as possible.
If you are on call 24/7, you are doing it wrong. If not alone from the point of view of being hit by a bus.
The Marketing companies select the names of cars, because of what they mean. They select the wording ads, so they give us certain feelings. They decide the colors to be used in ads, so specific emotions are being targeted, yet they had NO idea that the general public would think of when they said "auto-pilot"? I think THAT is the problem.
They hide behind semantics like a 12 year old who holds the hand of his brother and yells "Stop hitting yourself."
And no, naming it "I can't believe it is not an autopilot." is not a good name either, not is taking a trademark on 'AutoPilot' and claim it is just a name.
By naming it Autopilot, they where very well aware of what that idea would mean.
"Rechts is frei" sind die letzeten Woerter des Beifahrers. (Sorry for the errors)
This means 'No traffic from the right' are the last words from the person sitting next to the driver. (Traffic from the right has right of way).
So I would go for "Automatishe beifahrende Swiegermutter"
Hiding behind what people did 200+ years ago means that you are either unable, but more likely unwilling to solve anything.
So no, do NOT take it up with the founding fathers. Go out there and solve the shit that is going on yourselves.I live in a country that is younger than the US and has gone through more changes on a political level.
Stop blaming others for the mess you are in.
Not sure how it works elsewhere. In Belgium every several years Union reps are voted for in all companies that have more than 50 employees. Voting is done by every employee, not only union members and it is not an electronic process.
Sometimes people will not be able to be at the place where the voting is done, so they get to vote by letter. This is how that works:
They get a blank letter with a ballot and two envelopes. One envelope is blank. No identification on it. The other has the identification of the person on it. So what happens is that on the day of the election all the envelopes are first taken by one person. name (or number. I forgot) is read out lout. Another person checks it of a list. The envelope is opened qnd the second envelope is checked and if OK put to the side. Not ok; would be not sealed, visible voting, writing or any other indication.
The valid envelopes are thrown in a box and when all are done, shaken,and then they are opened one by one. These votes are varified if they are valid and then thrown into the ballot box.
This is witnessed by at least one person of each union. Where I was there were 7 people from several unions looking over my schoulder. They are NOT allowed to touch the ballots in any way.
What I did during the day was take the ID of a person coming in, saying his name so somebody else would tick it off They then got a ballot and where allowed to vote. After they put the ballot in the box outside the voting booth, they would get their ID back.
Much more details went into the whole process.
The whole system was interesting to witness.
I often open 30 or so tabs for videos I want to watch. I see something, click on related videos and open e.g. 5 of them.Those 5 will have links to another 2 each and then another 1 or 2 of the ones I see. I then start to watch the tabs one by one and close them when I saw them.
If I have to open, go to that tab, stop playing, go back to the original tab, open the next one and so on, I will be less willing to watch that many if any at all.
They have the ability to turn off autoplay for the next in line. It should not be that hard to have a button for autoplay on/off as well. (and have it on by default)
And if I open the 30 at the same time I will not be able to hear anything anyway, so there's that.
So JavaScript blocking will prevent HTML5 from playing? Nope, not the case.
I hate that car makers do not realize that people have phones. I have places for my coins (that I have in my walles, so I don't use it), places for my glasses (that I do not have) and places for my coffee that I do not drink. Some have places to put your parking ticket on the window.
Some of these will be used by some of the people, yet there is one thing that everybody that has a drivers licence has and that is a phone.
But a place to put it in any convinient way? Nope!
Even if you have an audio in, there is no way to place the phone, so I have to buy something that I put on the window, because the rest isn't flat.
When I rent cars, most of the times I just put the suction cup on the double DIN radio screen.
That would be an expensive quadcopter for enduser use with a 4K camera for that prce. You also don't need to re-buy the radio.
And instead of the quadcopter, perhaps they are just using RC aircraft. Buy the motor, a battery and a receiver and you are able to build one yourself with local materials pretty easy.
Add some RVP and you are easily able to fly them several miles away. 25 miles is not unheard of. And as you do not need to worry about the return flight, you can add less batteries and/or more payload.
There are plenty of forums, sites and videos all over the place to find out how to do that.
They use Apple for navigation.
As a kid I had bad ankles. I am older and I thought that was coming back. Often on Sunday I had a very bad pain that I thought was s sprained ankle. Mainly because problably twisted while walking home after many beers.
So I went to the doctor and told him what I thought was going on. He looked at the ankle that was really thick. Told me to drink less and that was it.
One day it was extremely bad. I went to the hospital and it was gaut. It is not that common to not have it in your toes but in your ankle.
Next time I had an attack, I went to my doctor and told him it was gaut. He said there were some students and he asked if they could look at it. They diagnosed it correctly. The difference was that when he did the diagnosis, I had given imput. When they didi it, I gave no feedback at all.
So yes, there is more than just a yes/no version.
I even have seen my doctor looking up things on Google. And I am OK with that. I assume he usses it for reference and confirmation. Just like people who know perl will someti,es still look up code. Just to see if there might be a better way or not.
I would not even mind if my doctor uses WebMD, because he knows how to interpret things that I do not know how to do.
Why would it be any different than with e.g. a robot that replaces workers. If you have 10 people working at 40 hours, replacing 5 workers by a machines does not mean that they now work each 20 hours at the same pay (minus the cost of the machine). It means that they fire 8 people and let the rest work for the same amount for 80 hours. The extra money is for the stockholders and as bonus for the CEO when the company goes under. (Oh, you thought it was to reduce the price? It won't)
So they both did great things.
What if a human fails the Turing test?
While I agree that this does not help, I just dislike ads in general. Be it on a website, on tv, on the street or on my underware. I just dislike ads.
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply youâ(TM)re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. Itâ(TM)s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially donâ(TM)t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, donâ(TM)t even start asking for theirs.
http://readingfrenzy.com/ledge...
From your article:
It appears likely that the phone sustained some damage while it was being transported. The kind of battery used in the iPhone and other handsets are almost always safe, but can be incredibly dangerous â" if they are punctured, they can easily explode or set fire, taking the rest of the phone with it.
The phone did appear to be dented and damaged beyond the kind of issues that would be caused by heat.
But that also suggests that the new problems hitting the iPhone are not on the level of the exploding Note 7, which necessitated a global recall and has been a disaster for the company. No further problems with the iPhone 7 have yet been reported and it appears that the problem is likely to be isolated.
(Emphasis is mine)
Who are these people asking for thinner phones? I have not seen anybody asking for them. Since the beginnng we ask for longer battery life. Even in the period where you could do 2-3 weeks with a battery did we wanted a longer battery life.
So it is the companies who tell us that thin is better and we buy it.
Not everything is to blame on the companies, because we buy it and also âoeIf I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.â --H.Ford
I am all for legalizing it.The issue I have is that people buy the laws. Because that way you end up in a pissing contest where only the rich decide what becomes law.
Isn't is great that the largest economy in the world can be manipilated so easy. What I think is also great is how "nothing" shows up for Trump with all his history. No, I do not believe he is clean, so people are not looking or are unwilling to look.
What I can imagine is that this is all a ploy to get Trump elected and then imidiately impeached for whatever they have on him.
Because if Trump is elected, BOTH parties will block whatever he wants. The thing is that the US has a LOT of influence in the world, so I do care. So just watchning the shitstorm that will be going on for at least the next 4 years is not an option. We all will be in the middle of the shitstorm and can only hope that it "only" has economical consequences.
I really would have wanted to have lived in the future so I would only have to learn about the second time the Americans fought for their freedom from books.