This is the kind of thing I say when I go to somebody's house when I know they have one of these things. Surprisingly, even though they say they're not being recorded all of the time, they always unplug their devices when I start up.
So, if a random independent hotel owner puts a recording device in their rooms, wouldn't that person go to prison for a long, long time? How about the civil suits? I don't understand how people wouldn't want, say, me, to put a recording device in their rooms, but are A-OK with Amazon doing the recording, and sharing that recording with an unlimited number of unknown people.
Oh, my God! You're right! How is my lard-ass going to suck down gallons of sugar water while driving without a plastic straw!?!?! With my fucking lips? Holy shit! This is a catastrophe! These fucking environmentalists want to ruin our lives. How dare they?
Apple sells your location to anybody with money. 911 call centers, I'm assuming, don't have it in their budgets to buy locations from Apple, so no, I wouldn't think they'd have your locations. Why would you think Apple gave that data away for free?
I'd be more concerned about my kids running into Richard Spencer videos than horror movies. Horror movies are obviously, not real. Nazis, unfortunately, still are very much real.
Do you have any reason for feeling that it's a political organization, instead of a health organization? I don't see any evidence at all of what you're describing.
If anything, that's yet another damning indictment of the US education system.
The US education system, is indeed, garbage, unless you're wealthy. While we're at it, so is health care and many other indicators of quality of life. The US is a really, really awful place to live if you're not wealthy.
I don't understand how they're going to evaluate students.
In the US, we have no national education standards. In many states, we have no state standards. The quality of schools and what is taught in schools varies wildly from district to district, and even school to school, due to wildly unequal funding. With no standards, how are they going to compare students?
The thing is that it's more than a simple adoption of technology. Just using one of these companies' services, automatically engages an individual in their entire corporate machine. Get an iPhone or an Android phone, and right away, everything you do is tracked and sold. All you have to do is to turn the thing on, and all of your privacy is immediately gone. Shop with Amazon, and you get the same thing, while at the same time, contributing to one of the largest, far-reaching corporations the planet has ever seen, and contributing the downfall of who knows how many competing businesses.
It's a lot to exchange for the sake of a little bit of convenience. The fact that "everybody is doing it" doesn't make it any better, functionally, or ethically.
You'd think someone would push for some laws to put a stop to this kind of keep-the-poor-out-of-it feedback loop by now.
Hahahahahahaha. You must be new to the US. In the US, the corporations write the laws and pay the politicians to vote on them. Visa/MC and the banks get up to 3% of every single card use. That's at least a percentage point or two of the GDP. That's more money that I can imagine. Unless we get money out of politics, we'll be cashless soon.
I pay in cash where ever possible, yes. My bills are paid via my credit union's free bill pay service. Is it really that surprising to you that somebody would value their privacy enough to be slightly inconvenienced?
That's true. With the retail race to the bottom, margins are slimmer than ever before in history, I'd imagine. $0.25 per item is much too expensive. You'd have to increase sales by quite a lot to see any savings from not having cashiers.
I would imagine that they do, considering you need an Apple ID to use an Apple Phone and Apple Pay. All Apple Pay information is given to the credit card companies, too, so I would imagine they do some serious data mining.
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This is the kind of thing I say when I go to somebody's house when I know they have one of these things. Surprisingly, even though they say they're not being recorded all of the time, they always unplug their devices when I start up.
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So, if a random independent hotel owner puts a recording device in their rooms, wouldn't that person go to prison for a long, long time? How about the civil suits? I don't understand how people wouldn't want, say, me, to put a recording device in their rooms, but are A-OK with Amazon doing the recording, and sharing that recording with an unlimited number of unknown people.
People are kinda' dumb.
I have an intense dislike for extremely selfish people. Be a selfish asshole, if you want, but don't expect everybody to accept it, happily.
3. Plug the listening device back in
Maybe you, but not me.
#3: Get a refund and find a different hotel.
And plastic straws were developed in response to the environmentalists who didn't want us killing trees to make paper straws.
Citation?
Oh, my God! You're right! How is my lard-ass going to suck down gallons of sugar water while driving without a plastic straw!?!?! With my fucking lips? Holy shit! This is a catastrophe! These fucking environmentalists want to ruin our lives. How dare they?
Apple sells your location to anybody with money. 911 call centers, I'm assuming, don't have it in their budgets to buy locations from Apple, so no, I wouldn't think they'd have your locations. Why would you think Apple gave that data away for free?
Meh. We replaced Uber with Lyft, anyway. Uber is a shitty company.
I'd be more concerned about my kids running into Richard Spencer videos than horror movies. Horror movies are obviously, not real. Nazis, unfortunately, still are very much real.
Do you have any reason for feeling that it's a political organization, instead of a health organization? I don't see any evidence at all of what you're describing.
Unlike so many phone addicts, my brain still works. I get around without an electronic map at all! Honestly, it's still possible!
If anything, that's yet another damning indictment of the US education system.
The US education system, is indeed, garbage, unless you're wealthy. While we're at it, so is health care and many other indicators of quality of life. The US is a really, really awful place to live if you're not wealthy.
I don't understand how they're going to evaluate students.
In the US, we have no national education standards. In many states, we have no state standards. The quality of schools and what is taught in schools varies wildly from district to district, and even school to school, due to wildly unequal funding. With no standards, how are they going to compare students?
Is that real? $5000 for a laptop? That can't be right. The most expensive one I can find on their site is an absurd $2800.
[This post was written on a $200 laptop].
Yup. We've got that in the US, too. Luckily, we can still choose to have a cashier do it at every grocery store I've ever been to.
I'm not arguing with you any more.
You never started to.
The thing is that it's more than a simple adoption of technology. Just using one of these companies' services, automatically engages an individual in their entire corporate machine. Get an iPhone or an Android phone, and right away, everything you do is tracked and sold. All you have to do is to turn the thing on, and all of your privacy is immediately gone. Shop with Amazon, and you get the same thing, while at the same time, contributing to one of the largest, far-reaching corporations the planet has ever seen, and contributing the downfall of who knows how many competing businesses.
It's a lot to exchange for the sake of a little bit of convenience. The fact that "everybody is doing it" doesn't make it any better, functionally, or ethically.
You'd think someone would push for some laws to put a stop to this kind of keep-the-poor-out-of-it feedback loop by now.
Hahahahahahaha. You must be new to the US. In the US, the corporations write the laws and pay the politicians to vote on them. Visa/MC and the banks get up to 3% of every single card use. That's at least a percentage point or two of the GDP. That's more money that I can imagine. Unless we get money out of politics, we'll be cashless soon.
I pay in cash where ever possible, yes. My bills are paid via my credit union's free bill pay service. Is it really that surprising to you that somebody would value their privacy enough to be slightly inconvenienced?
That's true. With the retail race to the bottom, margins are slimmer than ever before in history, I'd imagine. $0.25 per item is much too expensive. You'd have to increase sales by quite a lot to see any savings from not having cashiers.
I would imagine that they do, considering you need an Apple ID to use an Apple Phone and Apple Pay. All Apple Pay information is given to the credit card companies, too, so I would imagine they do some serious data mining.
Oh yeah. Good point. I forgot about Bing.
That only works if you're a good little Amazon and Google or Apple drone.
I pay for things with cash. If a business doesn't take cash, they don't get my business.