As a manager she is quite direct in telling people hard truths... And often does.

This reminds me of a conversation I had with a biker colleague who claimed that motorbikes *need* to make noise for their protection. I was like "so cycles should have a boat horn blowing constantly for their protection too ? And electric cars as well ?" He disagreed.

Must really suck that Apple wont let you run interpreted code, huh?

That hasn't been true in nearly 20 years. Python on my ipad runs just fine. I mean fuck, half the problem with modern apps is all the javascript shit in them.

Nearly everybody I know buys them for sheet music

Which is a whoops move. I brought a tablet exactly for that, a samsung. Almost none of the software standardised in the music industry for sheet music actually runs on android (and thats partly because android historically had terrible audio apis, though it has gotten better). Ended up having to get an ipad. About the same price all up.

In this case, there's actually a difference though.

A government at least nominally is supposed to do what's best for the people. A company will sell the people for dogfood if it can make a buck.

You never want the merchant caste ruling your nation. There's a reason we have that old saying about "love of money is the root of all evil."

Yes. In socialist societies, the government owns companies. In capitalist societies, companies own the government.

> It works very well because the average person lacks critical thinking and would rather "fit in" then rock the boat.

So why would you let them vote?

The entire world is moving back toward aristocracy, but whereas China's aristocracy is based on being able to actually do stuff and Russia's is increasingly going to be based on having been successful at whatever you were doing in a war, the West's aristocracy is based on being able to convince the people with money to give it to you.

The incentive system in modern business cares only about short-term stock prices so the managers can exercise their stock options and retire to Hawaii. A good way to bump up stock prices is to sack all the competent people because they are typically paid more.

A secondary benefit is that those competent people were the most likely to complain about policies which are long-term harmful so you no longer have to deal with anyone complaining about what you're doing.

> Same Ford asking for bills to outlaw repair

C'mon man. Only dealerships can be trusted to repair cars properly. We must ban third-party repairs FOR THE CHILDRUN.

If it only saves one life...

The surprising part is that any of the engineers went back after the company had treated them like that. I guess they'll just be saving money until they get sacked again.

This is why cars increasingly come with cameras to look at the road for the driver who can't see out because crash tests require high hoods and small windows to improve survivability.

The obvious end result is that we drive like the puppets in Captain Scarlet, in a rear-facing seat with a monitor showing them what the cameras outside the car are seeing. Because MOAR SAFETY.

Higher hoods and smaller windows are one reason less people inside the car die when a car does crash. I believe modern hoods are also designed to absorb more of the impact when a car hits a pedestrian so they do less damage in a crash.

Yes. We're shopping for a new car and it's difficult to find one which actually has decent visibility these days because of the constant demand for MOAR SAFETY.

Few things have been more harmful to society over the last few decades than the desperate attempt to bubble-wrap the world.

Back in the real word, one reason for the increasingly tall hoods and increasingly small windows is... to provide better crash protection for people in the car.