Both issues could have something to do with how they have been treating their employees recently...

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Terribly balanced audio (quality and volume). Ever increasing amounts of ads before the movie (seriously the last movie I went to had 30 minutes of ads starting at the advertised movie start time). Ridiculously overpriced snacks/drinks (and the popcorn is universally bad). Damaged screens in theaters older than a few years. Common image focus issues. Other people (crowded, talking, lit up phones, etc..). Unclean (from all the slobs that just leave their trash everywhere).

Yeah... Soooooo much better for the average person than watching at home where they have full control over the environment...

In the 20 years since my first 50+ inch screen I have yet to see a movie in the theater where I thought the experience was better than watching the same movie at home (and I'm still on plain "old" HD). The only reason I've gone in the last 5 years (and before that I couldn't tell you the last time I had been) is because my son wants to go from time to time, but invariably he wants to leave early because things are too loud for him.

I think that is more a failing of the local area to not offer recycling services than the manufacturer of any given product, but I'll grant that is a fair argument.

If we accept that, however, isn't it more the fault of the stores that order products that "aren't really recyclable" since they are local and should better know the state of recycling in that area?

The lack of recycling options is definitely a problem that we need a solution to and I could easily get behind demanding that these companies contribute more to fixing that problem, but that does not change that the product itself is indeed recyclable. Further, over the years the drink manufacturers (especially the big soda ones) have continued to make their bottles more recyclable and recycled.

No they didn't. For right or wrong doctors hold a high position of trust in our lives. When a doctor says you need to take medicine few people will ask for more details much less question the need. We always say that people should get a second opinion, but the reality is on the whole we trust doctors implicitly.

Bribing such people to over prescribe us to highly addictive drugs while telling the doctors that it wasn't addictive is in no way similar to "making their product cheaper".

Further, I don't know where you have been getting your soda, but the cost has consistently gone up over the last 4 decades I've been drinking it. So your false comparison isn't even true.

What? Are you trying to say that they should be following you around and taking bottles from you after you are finish drinking?

Their responsibility/obligation is to use packaging that is recyclable. They do that. Your responsibility is to properly dispose of your waste when you are finished with a product. They have given you the option of being responsible with your waste, it's not on them if you choose not to.

If you want to consider comparing apples and chickens "a little bit close" since they can both be food sources even though you are talking about things grown on trees. In the real world where facts actually mean something, they are not comparable in any meaningful manner for the given context.

Except that they adopted recyclable packaging long before most other vendors and they continue to improve how recyclable their bottles are. They have taken responsibility for their part of the chain and do what they can to limit the impact. It's their consumers that refuse (it gets muddier in those areas where recycling services aren't available) to meet their responsibility.

How about looking at real worse options like candy and snack wrappers that are mostly non-recyclable and truly single use (at least you can reuse a soda/water bottle if you so choose). These just wadded up, thrown into the trash, and end up in the landfill. They'll also get carried around by the wind far more than a bottle will. Or how about the non-recyclable foam that is still prevalent in shipping these days? Or lets talk cars that people feel they have to turn over after a few short years and when they are no longer useful are rarely actually recycled. How about all the cheap plastic toys and crap that we constantly replace because it keeps breaking?. Or maybe we just talk about how we are all just too consumer focused which makes all these things possible.

Nope. Lets target an industry that actually does what they can about that particular problem. That makes much more sense...

There is a major difference between the situations that makes them not at all similar.

"Big Soda" did not bribe trusted individuals to prescribe drinking soda and then not properly discard the waste.

Opioid manufacturers, however, bribed and lied to doctors to get them to give out a highly addictive drug to patients for even minor injuries. The patients trusted their doctors knew best and took the drugs and many then got addicted. There is culpability all through the chain with opioids too, but in that case the manufactures knew full well that the "it's not addictive" garbage they used to spew to doctors was a load of crap from the beginning.

Soda manufacturers are lying about the bottles and doing anything to falsely push them on people.

Your HFCS argument has some more weight as that stuff is indeed terrible in multiple ways, but again I've never heard of them trying to convince legitimate doctors to tell their patients to drink more soda to help health problems...

Why is this their fault? The bottles are indeed recyclable as promised. How is it those companies fault that the consumer isn't recycling it? Further, how is it their fault that the economics of recycling STILL do not work which means we have more material to recycle than we have capacity?

Maybe we should really sue local governments for shutting down recycling services due to cost? Or maybe State and Federal governments for not better subsidizing recycling? Or maybe the tax payers for not wanting to pay more taxes to cover all the things we should actually be doing?

Where does it stop? For that matter, where does it actually start?

Suing the drink manufactures is just going after a target that has deep pockets and is easy to make people hate. It's not a solution to anything.

Buy a Pixel directly from Google. Still has some basic stuff installed (mail, maps, calendar, etc..), but you can delete anything you don't want without having to root the damn thing.

Except that Apple already gave them the same answer a few years ago regarding the San Bernandino shooting. There was bi-partisan condemnation of Apple at the time, but no new laws have come to pass since then. It even goes back farther than that (Clinton pushed the Clipper chip which was funded and developed by Bush Sr), yet in all the time they have been trying to legislate back doors they have had little success.

I agree that the anti-Tech crowd will try to use this as a stick, but even the average non-techie seems to not be falling for such antics from the government as they were back at the turn of the century. Not even "OMG terrorists!" and "Think of the children!" are working so well for them any more (which is good even if much to late for a lot of damage done behind those banners).

There are areas that the Tech industry needs to be reined in (e.g. privacy, hardware/software ownership, etc..), but looser encryption is not one of them.

Intel solved that problem in the 90s. Catch up with the times!

Which is what makes "we can't" the correct answer.

If they make their system so they have no access to the data then there is no worry about a moral issue when presented with a legal but unjust subpoena. I also expect that being unable to decrypt phones/backups also provides them some legal protections too.

Try a natural latex mattress. Most vendors sell them in layers to allow you to customize to suit you best. For queen and king beds they'll also let you do different layers on each side.

We have 3 Savvy Rest mattresses (master, kid, guest) with our's being the oldest at around 15 years. A few years ago we took our bed apart for a semi-annual cleaning and found a few of the layers were deteriorating abnormally. Traded emails with them, sent pictures, and they replaced the failing layers at no charge to us (material or shipping). They even let us reconfigure the layers we were using in the process. Not cheap, but we spent twice as much on normal mattresses in the 10 years before we switched and got no support from those companies for their crappy over priced products.

Yes I believe the adware "update" (malware?) is only for Bolt and newer systems. Our's got it about a month ago now, but I think it started rolling out before that based on the forum posts I found at the time. You can call and scream at them and they'll turn off the pre-roll ads, but they claim they can't remove the self serving TiVO+ ads they have embedded in other places.

If I was on a monthly contract I would have canceled already, but as I have the lifetime sub for this unit I'm still finding it hard to dump it for a comparable FIOS DVR. Contrary to the clear desire of their daily popups to buy a new model I will not be giving them more money though. I may suffer it out until the Bolt dies or finally suck it up and switch to a provider unit, but after the Bolt is done I'm done with TiVO...

Yes the speed used to SUCK. The claimed performance improvement with the Bolt, however, was legit even if it's hump design is obnoxiously stupid. The streaming apps are actually usable. Too bad they've ruined it all by forcing ads before every recording and plastering ads for their new TiVO+ service all over the guide and other places. Not to mention that the update that brought us all those ads (which is what we specifically bought TiVOs to avoid!!!!) also brought bugs to the menu/guide system so it will randomly jump back to where you started no matter how many pages you've "scrolled".

I have been a loyal TiVO user since my Series 2. The thing that kept me for so long was their simple and consistent interface that worked. That interface started going downhill when they switched to the HD menu and now they seem to do things to intentionally piss off users. This latest change to stick ads everywhere is it for me.

Maybe the wording in TFS and TFA is bad, but I read it as it is exposing the the credentials anytime it connects to the network. That's significantly more worrying than if it was just during the initial setup where someone would need to be watching at just the right time.

Probably would have been a reasonable assumption when these things first started appearing, but now they are being installed by average people that don't bother changing their router passwords. In 4 blocks worth of townhouses surrounding my house there are 16 Ring doorbells, 5 Nests, and 2 others that I can't identify (not Amazon or Google though). In that same area there are 6 visible guest networks.