Comment Re:Issues (Score 1) 376
I guess the truth hurts....
Like the truth about Mitt being two-faced at the head of this thread?
I guess the truth hurts....
Like the truth about Mitt being two-faced at the head of this thread?
Tipping is institutionalized bribing to convince a person to treat you better.
If that were true, tipping would be done up front so the staff would know how to treat you.
Tipping is an opportunity for you to treat someone else better, at your own discretion. It is an opportunity to enjoy a dining experience without signing on to the exploitation of un- or semi-skilled labor.
Connectivity is also a luxury. The internet as a public commodity is less than a generation old, fer cryin' out loud.
No, "TV" is a device that allows me to watch visual and audio stimuli - it's unrelated to the content, which is what you're describing.
The content I am describing is the "audio and visual stimuli" that you are referring to. The point is that while people could stare at a blank screen or specialized patters of relaxing audio and visual stimuli, that is not what most people watch on TV.
Also, everything you've just discussed can be said for books (and many websites, for that matter). Are you giving up reading and internet surfing, too?
Give up books? Of course not, because a book is just a collection of pieces of paper bound together. A book is unrelated to the content printed within.
Your brain needs relaxation too - TV's no different than reading a book or any other mostly passive activity.
Citation?
TV is the product of decades of study to find ways to keep you watching, indefinitely if possible. It is the junk food of entertainments -- highly engineered to push every available button that will keep you consuming, with zero regard for the impact of that consumption on the consumers health or well being.
How is it "relaxing" to be assailed by an endless stream of manipulative messages designed to stimulate all manner of consumption, often by promoting various anxieties?
Too many people simply surrender control to the almighty state. It's baffling.
Why is it baffling? These are the same people who can't drag themselves or their children away from the almighty TV.
Why should children and the society that they will inhabit suffer because their parents are too incompetent to set limits? Anti-government paranoia uber-alles?
The important bit is that workers are striking not because they are against stricter quality, but because tighter quality checks meant they must work harder to produce iPhone components presumably at the same rate as earlier models.
And what better way to increase quality than to squeeze more productivity out of workers?
Would it make you feel worse if the number was a "mere" 250m? Or 100m?
I am currently ignoring 2 different accounts, FWIW. Facebook keeps sending notifications of various uninteresting types to both, I assume that they are both considered "active".
I joined with a buch of real life friends years ago, and it appears that about 1 in 10 ever post anything on a regular basis.
[Shrugs]
It never ceases to amaze me how many people rush out to purchase a new product with both unreviewed hardware and software and then get upset that there are flaws.
Do you not yet understand that the price for showing off your elite toy is that you are a paying beta tester?
That might cut it for software that can be patched or some truly cutting edge piece of gear.
For the latest of several versions of a mass market consumer product that is being manufactured and sold by the millions? Hell no. I don't and never will own an iPhone, but I don't think buyers should be scolded for expecting the iPhone5 to be beta tested by Apple.
We should not apologize for free speech, no matter who it offends.
Unless a foreigner makes a political video that offends the US, in which case we reserve the right to brand him a terrorist and send a drone to assassinate him in his own country.
The situation is a win-win for the Obama administration, who can now appear to be punishing the man whose film sparked protests and riots around the world.
This is outrageously ridiculous. Why would it be a "win-win" for the Obama administration to appear to be punishing someone for exercising his First Amendment right to free speech?
Because the people who want this guy punished don't give a fig about the reasons, or pretext as the case may be (though it isn't). They have enough distance to see through the self-righteous bleating about "freedom of speech" from Americans. Many of the live in countries where making a video critical of America may put you in the crosshairs of a American drone, possibly being actively controlled from American soil.
At the same time, this guy has availed himself to punishment for something other than is speech at a very convenient time for the current Administration.
Win (he is jail) Win (legitimately).
Nobody is asserting that Steve Jobs literally never apologized for anything. HTH.
Which is exactly why Apple chose to invest in their own map data and software: they could not come to an acceptable agreement with their direct competitor to allow them to offer this feature. Apple made the right decision.
That is a good reason to invest in their own solution. However, switching to their own solution before it was competitive was not the right decision. The right decision would have been to invest in customer satisfaction by doing what it would have taken to come to an interim agreement with the map solution that sets the standard for acceptable performance.
Isn't that what Apple is supposed to be about? Sterling user experience?
In a year, when (if) they catch up, they will still have no credibility WRT the supposed rationale behind their elevated prices.
"I paid extra for this IThing and they can't use some of that money to deliver best of breed features?"
I take it you've never heard of Occam's Razor.
I've never heard of Occam's Razor. What is it? I'm imagining some kind of 7 legged, supersonic, invisible shoe.
Bread (pop) and (nitro) circuses!
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
