Oh, gimme a break. Are you so money driven that you've forgotten how important is for the market to provide options? Intel had left their butts sitting on a large pile of cash for a while trying to control an industry that they did not invent. Industries exists for both consumers and producers, not just for self-serving monopolists. We need measures like this to make sure that supply chains actual represent the entire breadth of products that comes from (your words) innovation, cost reduction, and technology shrinks, and etc.
Don't get ME wrong on this, but you're a jerk for posting such an arrogant and crass remark. It's almost never the victims fault for incidents like this, where they used the primary option in an emergency, but failed.
The problem we're facing is not the lack of options people are given, but the transition between people that we care about who are lesser educated about the options, but know of the options they currently have, and the more educated population like you and I who are empowered to such options.
For example, try explaining speed dial to an aging mother who immigrated here, and didn't grow up in a rapidly changing modern society. Or someone's cousin Mary Sue who didn't make it past college. They all know about how to dial numbers, and it's easy to drill in a habit of dialing 911.
Sure you can teach ppl that there's a speed dial ready to call another police station or fire station, but let's see this plan work in practice when they have a gun to their head, a burning building to run out of, or having a heart attack. I'll bet all the money I got that more than 70% of the population will NOT use your so-called brilliant speed dial idea, because it takes a different train of thought than the normal and primary usage of a phone. This is not like picking another place for lunch if your local joint is closed!
The challenge these companies face is providing the #1 option of emergency calls with the same level of reliability. We start losing more of our rights in society when the basic infrastructure we have is slowly taken away from us.
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Oh, gimme a break. Are you so money driven that you've forgotten how important is for the market to provide options? Intel had left their butts sitting on a large pile of cash for a while trying to control an industry that they did not invent. Industries exists for both consumers and producers, not just for self-serving monopolists. We need measures like this to make sure that supply chains actual represent the entire breadth of products that comes from (your words) innovation, cost reduction, and technology shrinks, and etc.
Don't get ME wrong on this, but you're a jerk for posting such an arrogant and crass remark. It's almost never the victims fault for incidents like this, where they used the primary option in an emergency, but failed.
The problem we're facing is not the lack of options people are given, but the transition between people that we care about who are lesser educated about the options, but know of the options they currently have, and the more educated population like you and I who are empowered to such options.
For example, try explaining speed dial to an aging mother who immigrated here, and didn't grow up in a rapidly changing modern society. Or someone's cousin Mary Sue who didn't make it past college. They all know about how to dial numbers, and it's easy to drill in a habit of dialing 911.
Sure you can teach ppl that there's a speed dial ready to call another police station or fire station, but let's see this plan work in practice when they have a gun to their head, a burning building to run out of, or having a heart attack. I'll bet all the money I got that more than 70% of the population will NOT use your so-called brilliant speed dial idea, because it takes a different train of thought than the normal and primary usage of a phone. This is not like picking another place for lunch if your local joint is closed!
The challenge these companies face is providing the #1 option of emergency calls with the same level of reliability. We start losing more of our rights in society when the basic infrastructure we have is slowly taken away from us.