Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 663
Okay, my mind is blown. You've totally explained why I ditched Linux on the desktop years ago. Thank you. No sarcasm at all.
Okay, my mind is blown. You've totally explained why I ditched Linux on the desktop years ago. Thank you. No sarcasm at all.
A quick google shows fast food starting pay is right around $8/hour, retail at $9/hour, so I'm having trouble generating any outrage over Apple paying $12/hour.
To misquote Shaw "If you put an American worker on a spit you can always find another who will turn him"
Now I know why Apple and others pay what they do. The bright souls on Slashdot are engaged in a race to the bottom instead of helping each other.
Young black men are unemployed largely because the only jobs they can get don't pay enough to make it worth working.
That's an interesting opinion which I doubt has any basis in reality. As a counterexample, apparently, there's a lot of people hired into the drug trade at below federal minimum wage. There might be other perks such as sex or drugs, but it remains that a lot of people are working illegally (in more than one sense of the word) for much less than any "living wage" would be. So they're already working at the so-called "don't pay enough to make it worth working" level.
Are we legitimizing criminal activity here? A lot of working off the books is done so people can keep their Medicaid while trying to approach a living wage.
BK in the 80's was staffed by kids and retires. The Apple store isn't. This has been one of the big stories on the collapse of the American job market. People who used to make a living wage are now competing for former kids jobs.
And this being called called okay!?
Looking at the video and some of the responses I just keep thinking that if they just wanted to start a buzz they succeeded. If you want someone to notice something they have to notice it. It is now noticed. Exactly what it says is nowhere near as important as imbedding the idea in the mind. Time and again it has been shown that annoying ads work as well as pleasant ones.
They have linked the two ideas: Girls, and sexy girls at that, and Science, and cut through and differentiated the issue. We are arguing a very different issue then we were yesterday. That is a good thing.
When I saw primary phone I said IOS, but it's not my primary phone! My land line is! WOW, thanks for helping me think again. I feel so much more connected not my reality now. Which is so pathetic, because it's true.
I would tend to think the opposite. If you have a reason to hide things, then you will find how to hide them. This is why repressive countries have significant organized crime issues (AFAIK).
We can argue the details of security from now to doomsday. It's a good thing that Google is doing this. Except it's of limited value. As has been pointed out in reference to the Flame attack, State sponsored hacking is very hard to detect. Google might be able to detect some, but how many? And when does Google encounter a conflict of interest? What happens then, and will we know? This is one reason I like the existence of things like Bing and Yahoo Axis, I get to spread things around. No, it's not a cure all and I'm aware that I still can be tracked, but I am raising the price (effort, etc) needed to get things on me.
We're back to the price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. Some things don't change in the digital world. Politics didn't, Sex did. Go figure.
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Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.