Oh absolutely. I hear that Google's board regularly reads/. and alters the direction of the company based on the comments here.
Bitch long enough that sales drop and they'll fix what you don't like or another company will.
This isn't your mom we're talking about here. Unlike her, corporations don't give a shit what you think. They care about what you buy. If you keep buying shit, no problem. They aren't people. You can't hurt their feelings or shame them or make them feel bad.
That's capitalism which I know you love.
Well, I know capitalism. You, not so much.
The ONLY reason corporations exist is to make money. Google is a multi billion dollar company from advertising dollars. Are you really so naive as to think that if you whine enough, they are going to forgo those profits? They will act to maximize profits. If pummeling you with ads gets them there, that's what they will do. The only way you are going to influence them is to reward the behavior you prefer, and the only way to do that is to buy, or not buy their products and services.
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If they want to be modern day gladiators and kill themselves, then that's their right to be dumb as fuck for people's enjoyment.
It's our right as a society to impose rules on them because it's US sponsoring the competition. Which we are doing. You are right, they can take whatever drugs they want on their own time and compete in whatever competitions will allow them. Just not internationally regulated sports.
There are always rules in a competition. They don't allow mopeds in the 400 meter. You can't wear a jetpack in the pole vault. You can't cork your bat.
Just let them, and let them use well understood substances.
And what if they don't? After all, an athlete would NEVER use an untested performance enhancer to get an edge over those using the "understood substances", right?
it's already happening that's why you get asked if you want to installa the mc donalds app when you enter a mc donalds
No, it asks you if you want to pay using Android Pay if you enter a McDonalds. Well, that's what Android does. Maybe Apple does what you say, I don't know (but I doubt it).
And here you go: turn off Android Pay. Problem solved. See how easy that was?
they haven't gone completely overboard with it yet, but give it a couple of years, they will
See above where I wrote about complaining about things when they actually happen.
Then don't use a phone. There's no market for $5000 phones with the features you require. They are not always products on the market that meet all of your requirements. You compromise or do without. Again, no are not entitled to such a product.
2. On a purely humanitarian level, artificial rules are just itching to be contravened, and i'd rather people shoot up the stuff we understand rather than new test-evading substances with unknown effects.
The contest is supposed to be physical and mental, not chemical (or financial, if it comes to buying drugs from another country).
Regardless, you think a free-for-all won't result in athletes using less-than-tested drugs? Have any of these drugs gone through the rigorous test procedures that are say required for a prescription drug to come to market? Of course not.
Smartphones are not a necessity. They are a luxury. A mobile phone is a necessity (perhaps, although we somehow didn't die without them at one point in the not so distant past).
The problem is that not indulging the luxury isn't an option people can comprehend. They think some kind of law is being broken if the vendor serves it up in a way they don't find palatable.
This should be modded way down. "Not buying the product" on an individual level does SHIT to change corporate behavior.
Yes you are right. Keep buying their shit and giving them money, but come here and whine about it. You know how to affect change. You are truly a revolutionary my friend.
Plus, giving up that fancy smartphone would be HARD. No Angry Birds. No Snapchat. It's not a life worth living.
No, I don't. iOS is closed source. I do know that anyone that decides to trust Apple over Google or Samsung has been completely brainwashed though. So are you making an offer on my bridge or what?
P.S., that GPS setting is about battery life. Your phone knows your location from cell tower and wi-fi data anyway. Regardless, that's a setting for apps, not the OS itself.
Because due to the way that capitalism corrodes market choice and reduces product quality, I have two viable choices for a smartphone
Translation: you want to have your cake and eat it too. No one owes you anything. You are not entitled to cheap wonderful smart phones. There's nothing in the Bill of Rights guaranteeing all citizens cheap, wonderful, feature rich smart phones. There are products on the market. Some gather usage stats. Others have more walled gardens than others. Others yet are more expensive and less feature rich. You get to choose one of these based on your criteria.
They made their money when I bought the goddamn phone. If they don't feel like they made *enough* money, they should have charged more for the phone and/or licensing Android, not spying and selling out and digitally violating all of their users 24 hours a day.
That's not their business model. If you don't like their business model, don't buy their product. I know, it's not as much fun as whining about it here, but trust me it's more effective.
If I put my phone in airplane mode, even carriers can find my location. If I switch on, I am using their towers to receive calls, so I have to tell the location.
If your phone is in airplane mode, the radio is off. They can't know your location.
But anyway, no. A provider can know your location, but they don't need to know your location for the service to work. Your device connects to the nearest tower, or the tower w/ the strongest signal. The tower doesn't need to know your location for that to happen. And even if they did, they don't need to TRACK your location for the service to work (yes, carriers are tracking your location, all of them, all the time).
It won't be long before they start selling intrusive ads based on location, time of day, etc.
How about you complain about that when it happens? Or maybe you don't have enough real problems in your life that you are imagining possible problems and fretting over those? Shit, what if they start sending your p0rnographic photos when they detect your mom visiting?
I mean really, if it happens, and you don't like it, get a different phone that doesn't have that behavior. Problem solved.
Also, I'm pretty sure they have already developed software that can detect the time of day, so that ship has sailed.
If you think iOS isn't phoning home with your location, I have a bridge to sell you. Same goes for ANY phone, since of course the carriers can detect your location from cell towers anyway (and they are, they just are not monetizing it as well as Google).
Why don't you just not use a device w/ Google software on it?
Try to understand. Google is a company. They need to make money. We all know how they make money. They aren't going to build something as complex as Android and Google Services for nothing. You are free to "buy" their product, or not. Exercise your right as a consumer. There's nothing nefarious going on here. If you don't like it, don't use it.
But let me guess. You want to use Google, and let Google know others' location, just not yours. You want Google to make money from knowing everyone else's data, and have the profits from that support your mooching? Got it.
If you'd taken the time to read more than one post above yours have seen i wrote exactly that. But thanks for the valuable input to the thread. Your intelligence is validated.
Right, because a latest gen Core i5 isn't really enough to do real work, right? Go do a little Googling, and come back and apologize when you see how many laptops, and mid range GAMING systems ship with i5's.
In the case of a consumable item, it would work like the original poster said, you'd just get the item on one device and that purchase could not be restored on other devices.
There're lots of ways it could work. I'm only talking about how it actually works.
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Oh absolutely. I hear that Google's board regularly reads /. and alters the direction of the company based on the comments here.
Bitch long enough that sales drop and they'll fix what you don't like or another company will.
This isn't your mom we're talking about here. Unlike her, corporations don't give a shit what you think. They care about what you buy. If you keep buying shit, no problem. They aren't people. You can't hurt their feelings or shame them or make them feel bad.
That's capitalism which I know you love.
Well, I know capitalism. You, not so much.
The ONLY reason corporations exist is to make money. Google is a multi billion dollar company from advertising dollars. Are you really so naive as to think that if you whine enough, they are going to forgo those profits? They will act to maximize profits. If pummeling you with ads gets them there, that's what they will do. The only way you are going to influence them is to reward the behavior you prefer, and the only way to do that is to buy, or not buy their products and services.
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Sports are there to keep the general public dopey and not politically active, but ironically the players themselves can't use dope.
Whether or not either of those is true, your conclusion is ridiculous. I think you can do better than that.
If they want to be modern day gladiators and kill themselves, then that's their right to be dumb as fuck for people's enjoyment.
It's our right as a society to impose rules on them because it's US sponsoring the competition. Which we are doing. You are right, they can take whatever drugs they want on their own time and compete in whatever competitions will allow them. Just not internationally regulated sports.
There are always rules in a competition. They don't allow mopeds in the 400 meter. You can't wear a jetpack in the pole vault. You can't cork your bat.
Just let them, and let them use well understood substances.
And what if they don't? After all, an athlete would NEVER use an untested performance enhancer to get an edge over those using the "understood substances", right?
Oh wait. THEY ARE ALREADY DOING THAT NOW.
it's already happening that's why you get asked if you want to installa the mc donalds app when you enter a mc donalds
No, it asks you if you want to pay using Android Pay if you enter a McDonalds. Well, that's what Android does. Maybe Apple does what you say, I don't know (but I doubt it).
And here you go: turn off Android Pay. Problem solved. See how easy that was?
they haven't gone completely overboard with it yet, but give it a couple of years, they will
See above where I wrote about complaining about things when they actually happen.
Then don't use a phone. There's no market for $5000 phones with the features you require. They are not always products on the market that meet all of your requirements. You compromise or do without. Again, no are not entitled to such a product.
Wow. You even type Russian.
2. On a purely humanitarian level, artificial rules are just itching to be contravened, and i'd rather people shoot up the stuff we understand rather than new test-evading substances with unknown effects.
The contest is supposed to be physical and mental, not chemical (or financial, if it comes to buying drugs from another country).
Regardless, you think a free-for-all won't result in athletes using less-than-tested drugs? Have any of these drugs gone through the rigorous test procedures that are say required for a prescription drug to come to market? Of course not.
Do you "need" oxygen? Well no, only if you want to continue living. Understand now?
Smartphones are not a necessity. They are a luxury. A mobile phone is a necessity (perhaps, although we somehow didn't die without them at one point in the not so distant past).
The problem is that not indulging the luxury isn't an option people can comprehend. They think some kind of law is being broken if the vendor serves it up in a way they don't find palatable.
From the OP: "iOS has three settings for GPS"
What you linked is not "GPS settings".
Thanks though for the post.
This should be modded way down. "Not buying the product" on an individual level does SHIT to change corporate behavior.
Yes you are right. Keep buying their shit and giving them money, but come here and whine about it. You know how to affect change. You are truly a revolutionary my friend.
Plus, giving up that fancy smartphone would be HARD. No Angry Birds. No Snapchat. It's not a life worth living.
No, I don't. iOS is closed source. I do know that anyone that decides to trust Apple over Google or Samsung has been completely brainwashed though. So are you making an offer on my bridge or what?
P.S., that GPS setting is about battery life. Your phone knows your location from cell tower and wi-fi data anyway. Regardless, that's a setting for apps, not the OS itself.
Because due to the way that capitalism corrodes market choice and reduces product quality, I have two viable choices for a smartphone
Translation: you want to have your cake and eat it too. No one owes you anything. You are not entitled to cheap wonderful smart phones. There's nothing in the Bill of Rights guaranteeing all citizens cheap, wonderful, feature rich smart phones. There are products on the market. Some gather usage stats. Others have more walled gardens than others. Others yet are more expensive and less feature rich. You get to choose one of these based on your criteria.
Why don't you look into Ubuntu phones? http://www.ubuntu.com/phone
What a wonderful 1st world problem we have here huh?
They made their money when I bought the goddamn phone. If they don't feel like they made *enough* money, they should have charged more for the phone and/or licensing Android, not spying and selling out and digitally violating all of their users 24 hours a day.
That's not their business model. If you don't like their business model, don't buy their product. I know, it's not as much fun as whining about it here, but trust me it's more effective.
If I put my phone in airplane mode, even carriers can find my location. If I switch on, I am using their towers to receive calls, so I have to tell the location.
If your phone is in airplane mode, the radio is off. They can't know your location.
But anyway, no. A provider can know your location, but they don't need to know your location for the service to work. Your device connects to the nearest tower, or the tower w/ the strongest signal. The tower doesn't need to know your location for that to happen. And even if they did, they don't need to TRACK your location for the service to work (yes, carriers are tracking your location, all of them, all the time).
It won't be long before they start selling intrusive ads based on location, time of day, etc.
How about you complain about that when it happens? Or maybe you don't have enough real problems in your life that you are imagining possible problems and fretting over those? Shit, what if they start sending your p0rnographic photos when they detect your mom visiting?
I mean really, if it happens, and you don't like it, get a different phone that doesn't have that behavior. Problem solved.
Also, I'm pretty sure they have already developed software that can detect the time of day, so that ship has sailed.
If you think iOS isn't phoning home with your location, I have a bridge to sell you. Same goes for ANY phone, since of course the carriers can detect your location from cell towers anyway (and they are, they just are not monetizing it as well as Google).
Why don't you just not use a device w/ Google software on it?
Try to understand. Google is a company. They need to make money. We all know how they make money. They aren't going to build something as complex as Android and Google Services for nothing. You are free to "buy" their product, or not. Exercise your right as a consumer. There's nothing nefarious going on here. If you don't like it, don't use it.
But let me guess. You want to use Google, and let Google know others' location, just not yours. You want Google to make money from knowing everyone else's data, and have the profits from that support your mooching? Got it.
And if you aren't using Google, WTF do you care?
GPS is one of three ways "location services" work. It also uses Wi-Fi and cellular.
If you'd taken the time to read more than one post above yours have seen i wrote exactly that. But thanks for the valuable input to the thread. Your intelligence is validated.
Right, because a latest gen Core i5 isn't really enough to do real work, right? Go do a little Googling, and come back and apologize when you see how many laptops, and mid range GAMING systems ship with i5's.
And in every language not English?
Irrelevant. We're typing in English here.
So what you are saying is that hubris only is used by American rednecks, got it.
I see you are lacking a proper grasp of English grammar as well as vocabulary then.
In the case of a consumable item, it would work like the original poster said, you'd just get the item on one device and that purchase could not be restored on other devices.
There're lots of ways it could work. I'm only talking about how it actually works.