Mandatory "I am not a professional in any field dealing with IP law but I have common sense, which doesn't always relate to legal stuff" disclaimer.
I didn't see this in any comments and the article obviously isn't written for people who want to know what patents IBM is claiming infringement upon.
"Two of the four patents at issue relate to Prodigy, a late-1980s forerunner to the internet, developed by IBM and others, that describe a system for showing applications and advertisements that reduces server loads."
* I suspect that those two patents will be shown to be overly broad and obvious unless there's some radical work to reduce the server load. I'm thinking the word 'cache' will appear.
"IBM also said it patented so-called “single sign on” technology that allows consumers to log in to a retailer’s website with their Facebook or Google account."
* I don't know that I've seen a site lately that doesn't allow connectivity to other accounts. SSO is so prevalent and there's so many sites that use it without licensing that this one will be diluted to the point of irrelevance. The connection between Facebook and Google licensing the patents would be on the back end, not the front.
Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada (Nevada law only addresses support of children and not support of parents. NRS Chapter 125B), New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia.
It isn't 'robotic surgery'. It's robot-assisted surgery. There's still a trained human performing the surgery itself. The intention is to perform more types of surgery using less invasive, time consuming processes.
The other thing is the concern that the doctors won't be able to perform the surgeries in this manner if they don't have the robot assistance if that's the only way they've been trained to do it.
Overall the concept is great - less stress on the patient, less expensive surgery, ability to perform more surgeries which reduces wait times. The implications of being completely dependent on the robot to do the procedures this way is scary.
tl;dr - Ghosting before accepting an offer seems rude but not out of line with how candidates are treated. Ghosting after an offer and not giving notice are unfathomable to me.
I'd be curious to find out what the age breakdown is for the study. My instinct tells me it's a younger crowd that would accept a job offer then not show up or ever contact the employer again. That's something they do socially so doing it professionally would seem to fit right in.
Now leaving without giving notice or even saying you're leaving is entirely different. Zero day resignation is telling them you're leaving NOW and while companies frown on it they're the same people who will escort you out the door when you give two week notice. The double standard is painfully ironic. Having said that I can't think of a time when simply not showing up any more would be considered acceptable behavior.
When I'm job hunting I generally submit my resume, save a copy of the job description and company (if provided), and pretty much forget about it. I only keep the job description because the same job can be listed by multiple recruiters and applying for a job more than once kills your chances. If I hear back from them - great! Otherwise I've come to expect the dead silence after submission.
After an interview? Same thing. I don't send thank you notes because the interviews have been panel interviews, panel with people on the phone, multiple people, and people who are smart enough not to give their contact information. All communication has been through the recruiter or HR. I stopped trying to do that little politeness years ago when I found I simply couldn't get the contact information. So like job submission I let it go unless they have stated a specific timeframe for a response and I have a way to contact the HR person or the recruiter.
The only time I've gotten timely responses has been for a job with the US federal government. They're required to acknowledge all job submissions (other places do that too) and they're required to tell you if you haven't been selected to move forward. I think that should be required by all companies. They don't have to give a reason but it would be nice to put a check mark next to that job and say it's gone.
The one thing that's missing in the process is manager accountability. Managers should have these recorded as part of their performance. If they have multiple decisions going against them in the arbitration process then they're the ones hauled up for unsatisfactory performance.
Without consequences to the managers this is a feel-good process that the company can point to and show that they're willing to 'work' with employees who 'feel they're unfairly singled out'.
So the odds of anyone surviving the performance improvement plan are likely fairly low.
My experience is that people never survive the "improvement plan". If they were too incompetent to do their job before, that is not going to change. If they just lack motivation and effort, that is going to get even worse.
The "probation period" is mainly a way to may the firing process less psychologically stressful for the manager. Most managers do not like firing people and tend to delay the process beyond the best interests of the company.
Then you're not understanding the purpose of the "improvement plan". It's just paperwork to cover the company even in at-will states. A manager who puts an employee into that situation has already decided that they're gone. If anything it's a time to use company resources to job hunt and make sure your references are current.
Since you're already out the door you can pretty much stop caring. You'll never meet the goals (even if you do) so there's no real point to trying. Instead of following their plan learn a new skill or three and when they finally do let you go you have more resume building material.
With employment verification being nothing more than confirmation that you were employed you don't have to worry much about the circumstances in future interviews. "Reorganization" is a perfectly acceptable reason for being let go and it's not completely untrue. Overall a performance improvement plan is your notice that you're getting fired.
tl;dr. Artificial deadlines, expectations of 60 hour work weeks, expectations of being connected 24/7/365, and caring about the same things as management are all the ways to crush your spirit.
It sounds like burnout and it's darn close but honestly not caring about things helps put it all into perspective.
I don't have my work email on my personal cell phone. So anyone sending a high priority email to me after my work hours isn't getting a response until my next work day. If they start requiring me to check my email all the time they can furnish me with a device to do so.
I'm salaried but that salary is based on me working regular 40 hour weeks with an occasional rotation on call. If they start doing the 'work until the job is done no matter how long it takes' push then I continue my 40 hour weeks and see what happens. I honestly don't mind an occasional all-hands deadline but when they become more than a quarterly exception then it's a sign that management has no idea what they're doing.
I learned long ago that working at a high rate of speed only gets you more work while the slower workers get tasks reassigned to the.. ones who work faster. Since I'm not that much of an idiot I don't try to stand out of the herd.
Almost every deadline is arbitrary and only benefit the managers who set them. Those are the same managers who are going to get heat when their deadlines aren't met. It does roll downhill but again being in the middle of the pack shelters you quite nicely.
You are suffering from learned helplessness. Fix yourself. Change your oil, once in your life, anybody can do it. Watch a Youtube video. Yes, your time is worth more, the knowledge is worth still more.
In theory I know how to change the oil in my car. In practice it's not economical or feasible. My apartment complex frowns on people doing car repairs in the parking lot. I don't have a decent jack to lift the car. I don't have the tools to do the work. Those are all factors to take into account.
So while yes I could change my own oil it's more cost effective for me to take it to the mechanic next door and have them do it along with an inspection.
"Amazon has been going full steam ahead when it comes to hiring and now employs over 500,000 people."
That's good - when the economy seems to be heating up too much, the government can ask Jeff "Zorg" Bezos to quietly fire 500,000.
I'm really surprised at the lack of floating point unit jokes when dealing with Intel math here.
Seriously, numbers tend not to lie. If the mean age of the fired workers is statistically significant over those retained then Intel has some 'splaining to do. Yes the jobs these people were in will show as a factor but overall the public view will be that they culled out their workforce to get rid of older, more expensive employees to bring in cheaper hires.
Everything *within reason*. Returning every other item that you buy in a short amount of time is not within reason. It's like when you go to a buffet that says "All you can eat". It doesn't mean you get to empty all of the steam trays of shrimp. Or how "free refills" doesn't mean you get to come in every day and sit for hours having drink after drink.
Also, Amazon Prime doesn't apply to third party sellers, who often get shafted by buyers who do that.
Dude, what the fuck are you talking about? When the buffet says "All you can eat", I can certainly empty all of the steam trays of shrimp. If they serve caviar, I can go and eat all the caviar they put out there, and then ask for some more after I've finished the container. It's ALL YOU CAN EAT. What part of that don't you get?
You're both right. You CAN sit there and empty the shrimp tray for an entire day. But the owners can also say you're banned from the restaurant after that.
The issue is that if you don't like Facebook it's not like you can just go to another social network. Without your friends it won't be much fun.
Since you can go to a competing service for the same product at the same cost then there is no monopoly. Your friends are on Facebook but you decide you prefer G+. Your friends can join G+ too. Just because it's the dominant player doesn't make it a monopoly. It makes it popular.
In Red Mars, you could grow plants in near vacuum by chanting over them and resource expropriation somehow leads to unlimited additional resources being provided.
You already touched on Red Mar's idiocy regarding government structure.
It's a silly thing to cite.
It's not such a silly thing to cite since the series of books went over multiple forms of government. It also showed what could happen with each one. It's not science but it is interesting.
They didn't 'grow plants in a new vacuum by chanting over them'. They had a world class expert in closed biosystems and they grew their food in sealed greenhouses tailored to growing plants. The fact you think that's what's in the book says you didn't really pay attention.
Having said all that the series does bring up interesting things about population control. How the superpowers expected to use Mars to drain off surplus population. The 1.5 child allowance. The moral right to the life extending process. They're worth debating. They're not worth citing.
I just happen to be reading the series again because I like the way that these things evolve and the repercussions of them. It's a slog to read all three books but please do before attempting to refute things.
I was wondering why the fuck the subway system even needs a Twitter account to begin with.
I use Twitter to connect with the Denver public transit system. It's fast and they respond in very good time. It's convenient to type a quick message and be done with it.
Elevator not working at a station? Tweet them. Train didn't show up on time? Tweet. Driver issues? Tweet. They respond to all of them and get more information as needed. All this in a public forum.
Customer service is one of the actual good uses for Twitter in my opinion.
I mostly use Facebook for the groups now. So there's a whole lot of people who share interests with me already filtered out of the general herd. It might be nice to see if anyone there matches my other interests and is local to me. If nothing else I can find people who could be real life friends without being Stalker McCreepy by random messaging.
I wondered how long it would take for them to wind up this function. It's a social media application and dating is a social activity. Should be interesting to watch the process unfold.
I found this little bit of logic to be the most interesting.
* The parts had an Apple logo on them, which made them counterfeit per the definition;
* The logo was covered with marker that could easily be removed by the recipient if they so chose;
* The defendant never removed the ink from the logo;
* The parts with the logo were never visible to the end users.
The judge took that into account and noted that since the logo was not visible it was not considered to be counterfeit. The users did not know the logo was on the parts.
He neatly closed off that line of argument from Apple since he's saying the printing on the internal parts is irrelevant to whether or not they infringe. That's a lot of leg to cut out from under them in their case.
More and more these types of things - film festivals, award shows - are being shown to be irrelevant in the current world. Back in the days before immediate access to everything they were big events that were a way to see the big name actors (gender neutral term). Now you can't avoid seeing them in any online social or media outlet.
People see the movies they like and those make money. Critics go for the weird, niche movies that no one cares about. And the ones the critics like make it to the festivals and awards shows. Being commercially successful might get a few technical awards but if it makes money then it's not award worthy.
And it's time for these things to die. Really. They're film industry masturbation. People aren't interested in watching hours of awards being presented and acceptance speeches along with - gasp - some 'candid' footage of actors in the audience. And cord cutters can't watch anyway since it's all on broadcast media.
That being said Cannes is a private event and the people who run it can make whatever rules they want. Netflix doesn't really care and it's not going to hurt them in the slightest. They'll probably even find a way to turn this to their advantage.
Half the web sites I read news from REQUIRE a Facebook account to post comments -- that has got to change! I deleted my Facebook account, so now i just STFU.
That has nothing to do with Facebook and everything to do with the site owner's decision on what kind of comment system to use,
Want to comment on news stories? Read them on sites that use a different comment system.
The mere fact that IC results are ignored says just how broken the review process is. That pile should, in any logical world, be put into the "We thought this might happen" pile and counted. But to simply toss them aside because they knew it was going on is insane.
I understand the need to balance risks. The risk being balanced shouldn't be the risk of the drug company getting sued.
Messenger conversations are private, Facebook scans them and uses the same tools to prevent abuse there that it does on the social network more generally.
So your messages are private except that they're not. It seems like these companies have a different definition of 'private' than the rest of us.
Actually, if you consider the situation, it could have been much worse. From the body count alone, one can infer that this person was not using a semi-automatic rifle with high-muzzle velocity fragmentary rounds. With an AR-15 she may have killed a dozen people before killing herself. So yeah, while it's not ideal, a lot of people are still alive because of those laws.
I didn't see the sarcasm tag on your post and I'm very much hoping that you simply forgot to add it.
An AR-15 is a rifle. A rifle fires one shot per trigger pull. Just like ever other gun available to consumers. If you're thinking it was a full military automatic (more than one shot per trigger pull) then you're flat out wrong.
I have a semi-automatic handgun. I have a revolver. I have a rifle. They all do the same thing - fire one shot per trigger pull./p
It's been quite a few years since I went through an ISO 9001 audit, but I recall thinking what a load of crap it was at the time. I'm no expert on it, but what I was told was that it's primary function was to verify that you followed your processes. But, it did nothing to ensure that those processes were worth a damn. Then, what the fuck good is it? Maybe I was mislead...I've never bothered to look it up.
This. This is why ISO isn't useful for anything but PR that you have processes in place.
I worked at a bank that provided after hours call center support for banks that didn't want to staff their own. That affiliate got ISO certified as a way to sell the service.
When the ISO auditors were scheduled the departments would cherry pick who got tapped for audit and they darn well knew were the manuals were both on paper and on line. They would also go through one - just one - documented process to show they knew how to do it.
A woman in Tempe, Arizona died of her injures after walking into traffic and being struck by a car.
Wow. Take out the 'self-driving' part and it's just another story about someone who jaywalked and got hit. Didya know that there were 10 pedestrian deaths in Tempe in a single week this month? Didya know that Arizona ranked 3rd in pedestrian deaths in 2016? No? That's because it's not sensational enough to make the news outside of that area.
It isn't the cars that's the problem. It's the people who don't pay attention to the large metal death machines,
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Mandatory "I am not a professional in any field dealing with IP law but I have common sense, which doesn't always relate to legal stuff" disclaimer.
I didn't see this in any comments and the article obviously isn't written for people who want to know what patents IBM is claiming infringement upon.
"Two of the four patents at issue relate to Prodigy, a late-1980s forerunner to the internet, developed by IBM and others, that describe a system for showing applications and advertisements that reduces server loads."
* I suspect that those two patents will be shown to be overly broad and obvious unless there's some radical work to reduce the server load. I'm thinking the word 'cache' will appear.
"IBM also said it patented so-called “single sign on” technology that allows consumers to log in to a retailer’s website with their Facebook or Google account."
* I don't know that I've seen a site lately that doesn't allow connectivity to other accounts. SSO is so prevalent and there's so many sites that use it without licensing that this one will be diluted to the point of irrelevance. The connection between Facebook and Google licensing the patents would be on the back end, not the front.
Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada (Nevada law only addresses support of children and not support of parents. NRS Chapter 125B), New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia.
Two things occur to me as I read about this.
It isn't 'robotic surgery'. It's robot-assisted surgery. There's still a trained human performing the surgery itself. The intention is to perform more types of surgery using less invasive, time consuming processes.
The other thing is the concern that the doctors won't be able to perform the surgeries in this manner if they don't have the robot assistance if that's the only way they've been trained to do it.
Overall the concept is great - less stress on the patient, less expensive surgery, ability to perform more surgeries which reduces wait times. The implications of being completely dependent on the robot to do the procedures this way is scary.
tl;dr - Ghosting before accepting an offer seems rude but not out of line with how candidates are treated. Ghosting after an offer and not giving notice are unfathomable to me.
I'd be curious to find out what the age breakdown is for the study. My instinct tells me it's a younger crowd that would accept a job offer then not show up or ever contact the employer again. That's something they do socially so doing it professionally would seem to fit right in.
Now leaving without giving notice or even saying you're leaving is entirely different. Zero day resignation is telling them you're leaving NOW and while companies frown on it they're the same people who will escort you out the door when you give two week notice. The double standard is painfully ironic. Having said that I can't think of a time when simply not showing up any more would be considered acceptable behavior.
When I'm job hunting I generally submit my resume, save a copy of the job description and company (if provided), and pretty much forget about it. I only keep the job description because the same job can be listed by multiple recruiters and applying for a job more than once kills your chances. If I hear back from them - great! Otherwise I've come to expect the dead silence after submission.
After an interview? Same thing. I don't send thank you notes because the interviews have been panel interviews, panel with people on the phone, multiple people, and people who are smart enough not to give their contact information. All communication has been through the recruiter or HR. I stopped trying to do that little politeness years ago when I found I simply couldn't get the contact information. So like job submission I let it go unless they have stated a specific timeframe for a response and I have a way to contact the HR person or the recruiter.
The only time I've gotten timely responses has been for a job with the US federal government. They're required to acknowledge all job submissions (other places do that too) and they're required to tell you if you haven't been selected to move forward. I think that should be required by all companies. They don't have to give a reason but it would be nice to put a check mark next to that job and say it's gone.
The one thing that's missing in the process is manager accountability. Managers should have these recorded as part of their performance. If they have multiple decisions going against them in the arbitration process then they're the ones hauled up for unsatisfactory performance.
Without consequences to the managers this is a feel-good process that the company can point to and show that they're willing to 'work' with employees who 'feel they're unfairly singled out'.
So the odds of anyone surviving the performance improvement plan are likely fairly low.
My experience is that people never survive the "improvement plan". If they were too incompetent to do their job before, that is not going to change. If they just lack motivation and effort, that is going to get even worse.
The "probation period" is mainly a way to may the firing process less psychologically stressful for the manager. Most managers do not like firing people and tend to delay the process beyond the best interests of the company.
Then you're not understanding the purpose of the "improvement plan". It's just paperwork to cover the company even in at-will states. A manager who puts an employee into that situation has already decided that they're gone. If anything it's a time to use company resources to job hunt and make sure your references are current.
Since you're already out the door you can pretty much stop caring. You'll never meet the goals (even if you do) so there's no real point to trying. Instead of following their plan learn a new skill or three and when they finally do let you go you have more resume building material.
With employment verification being nothing more than confirmation that you were employed you don't have to worry much about the circumstances in future interviews. "Reorganization" is a perfectly acceptable reason for being let go and it's not completely untrue. Overall a performance improvement plan is your notice that you're getting fired.
tl;dr. Artificial deadlines, expectations of 60 hour work weeks, expectations of being connected 24/7/365, and caring about the same things as management are all the ways to crush your spirit.
It sounds like burnout and it's darn close but honestly not caring about things helps put it all into perspective.
I don't have my work email on my personal cell phone. So anyone sending a high priority email to me after my work hours isn't getting a response until my next work day. If they start requiring me to check my email all the time they can furnish me with a device to do so.
I'm salaried but that salary is based on me working regular 40 hour weeks with an occasional rotation on call. If they start doing the 'work until the job is done no matter how long it takes' push then I continue my 40 hour weeks and see what happens. I honestly don't mind an occasional all-hands deadline but when they become more than a quarterly exception then it's a sign that management has no idea what they're doing.
I learned long ago that working at a high rate of speed only gets you more work while the slower workers get tasks reassigned to the .. ones who work faster. Since I'm not that much of an idiot I don't try to stand out of the herd.
Almost every deadline is arbitrary and only benefit the managers who set them. Those are the same managers who are going to get heat when their deadlines aren't met. It does roll downhill but again being in the middle of the pack shelters you quite nicely.
In theory I know how to change the oil in my car. In practice it's not economical or feasible. My apartment complex frowns on people doing car repairs in the parking lot. I don't have a decent jack to lift the car. I don't have the tools to do the work. Those are all factors to take into account.
So while yes I could change my own oil it's more cost effective for me to take it to the mechanic next door and have them do it along with an inspection.
Fire one million.
I'm really surprised at the lack of floating point unit jokes when dealing with Intel math here.
Seriously, numbers tend not to lie. If the mean age of the fired workers is statistically significant over those retained then Intel has some 'splaining to do. Yes the jobs these people were in will show as a factor but overall the public view will be that they culled out their workforce to get rid of older, more expensive employees to bring in cheaper hires.
You're both right. You CAN sit there and empty the shrimp tray for an entire day. But the owners can also say you're banned from the restaurant after that.
Since you can go to a competing service for the same product at the same cost then there is no monopoly. Your friends are on Facebook but you decide you prefer G+. Your friends can join G+ too. Just because it's the dominant player doesn't make it a monopoly. It makes it popular.
It's not such a silly thing to cite since the series of books went over multiple forms of government. It also showed what could happen with each one. It's not science but it is interesting.
They didn't 'grow plants in a new vacuum by chanting over them'. They had a world class expert in closed biosystems and they grew their food in sealed greenhouses tailored to growing plants. The fact you think that's what's in the book says you didn't really pay attention.
Having said all that the series does bring up interesting things about population control. How the superpowers expected to use Mars to drain off surplus population. The 1.5 child allowance. The moral right to the life extending process. They're worth debating. They're not worth citing.
I just happen to be reading the series again because I like the way that these things evolve and the repercussions of them. It's a slog to read all three books but please do before attempting to refute things.
I use Twitter to connect with the Denver public transit system. It's fast and they respond in very good time. It's convenient to type a quick message and be done with it.
Elevator not working at a station? Tweet them. Train didn't show up on time? Tweet. Driver issues? Tweet. They respond to all of them and get more information as needed. All this in a public forum.
Customer service is one of the actual good uses for Twitter in my opinion.
I mostly use Facebook for the groups now. So there's a whole lot of people who share interests with me already filtered out of the general herd. It might be nice to see if anyone there matches my other interests and is local to me. If nothing else I can find people who could be real life friends without being Stalker McCreepy by random messaging.
I wondered how long it would take for them to wind up this function. It's a social media application and dating is a social activity. Should be interesting to watch the process unfold.
I found this little bit of logic to be the most interesting.
The judge took that into account and noted that since the logo was not visible it was not considered to be counterfeit. The users did not know the logo was on the parts.
He neatly closed off that line of argument from Apple since he's saying the printing on the internal parts is irrelevant to whether or not they infringe. That's a lot of leg to cut out from under them in their case.
More and more these types of things - film festivals, award shows - are being shown to be irrelevant in the current world. Back in the days before immediate access to everything they were big events that were a way to see the big name actors (gender neutral term). Now you can't avoid seeing them in any online social or media outlet.
People see the movies they like and those make money. Critics go for the weird, niche movies that no one cares about. And the ones the critics like make it to the festivals and awards shows. Being commercially successful might get a few technical awards but if it makes money then it's not award worthy.
And it's time for these things to die. Really. They're film industry masturbation. People aren't interested in watching hours of awards being presented and acceptance speeches along with - gasp - some 'candid' footage of actors in the audience. And cord cutters can't watch anyway since it's all on broadcast media.
That being said Cannes is a private event and the people who run it can make whatever rules they want. Netflix doesn't really care and it's not going to hurt them in the slightest. They'll probably even find a way to turn this to their advantage.
That has nothing to do with Facebook and everything to do with the site owner's decision on what kind of comment system to use,
Want to comment on news stories? Read them on sites that use a different comment system.
Wow.
The mere fact that IC results are ignored says just how broken the review process is. That pile should, in any logical world, be put into the "We thought this might happen" pile and counted. But to simply toss them aside because they knew it was going on is insane.
I understand the need to balance risks. The risk being balanced shouldn't be the risk of the drug company getting sued.
I was on the Sears site today and it served up a malware ad. So now we know how much they really care about security.
Big surprise. More doublespeak.
Messenger conversations are private, Facebook scans them and uses the same tools to prevent abuse there that it does on the social network more generally.
So your messages are private except that they're not. It seems like these companies have a different definition of 'private' than the rest of us.
I didn't see the sarcasm tag on your post and I'm very much hoping that you simply forgot to add it.
An AR-15 is a rifle. A rifle fires one shot per trigger pull. Just like ever other gun available to consumers. If you're thinking it was a full military automatic (more than one shot per trigger pull) then you're flat out wrong.
I have a semi-automatic handgun. I have a revolver. I have a rifle. They all do the same thing - fire one shot per trigger pull./p
This. This is why ISO isn't useful for anything but PR that you have processes in place.
I worked at a bank that provided after hours call center support for banks that didn't want to staff their own. That affiliate got ISO certified as a way to sell the service.
When the ISO auditors were scheduled the departments would cherry pick who got tapped for audit and they darn well knew were the manuals were both on paper and on line. They would also go through one - just one - documented process to show they knew how to do it.
Request the desktop site and you get your messaging back in the browser.
Let's write an accurate story here.
Woman Dies After Walking Into Traffic
A woman in Tempe, Arizona died of her injures after walking into traffic and being struck by a car.
Wow. Take out the 'self-driving' part and it's just another story about someone who jaywalked and got hit. Didya know that there were 10 pedestrian deaths in Tempe in a single week this month? Didya know that Arizona ranked 3rd in pedestrian deaths in 2016? No? That's because it's not sensational enough to make the news outside of that area.
It isn't the cars that's the problem. It's the people who don't pay attention to the large metal death machines,