Won't buy Apple products anymore? Then don't stop there | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News
does any editor ever read the shit that “tech” writers shovel? The NYT is not going after Apple because they are famous. The NYT is going after Apple because they profit the most from the bullshit working conditions “enjoyed” by many workers in China.
Add Brooke Crothers (seriously?) to a long list of assholes writing about this stuff.
Apple-Foxconn tale goes well beyond Apple, and tech | Apple - CNET News
This story, that comes on the back of a New York Times investigative report on the supply chains used by major tech companies in the west, gets all bitchy that said report focuses on Apple.
Just a few days ago Apple, and their legions of apologist bloggers who make sane people want to puke, were openly masturbating over how much money the company made during the last financial quarter in profits (£13Billion (US) if you’re interested).
The most profitable and the biggest company would and should be singled out because they are very obviously a major part of the problem, which is pointed out in the two pieces run by the NYT thus far.
If you want to fix the problem then you highlight the biggest trouble maker. You go after the dealer, not the junkies.
It’s also interesting that Tim Cook, Apple’s new CEO, responded not to the questions put by The New York Times but in an open letter to employees.
This is classic PR bullshit 101, don’t talk to the journos that can pin you into a corner, put out a sanitised ”open letter” which is free from follow ups and direct attribution. Also, Mr Cook is the one credited with building Apple’s relentless supply chain.
Dickish beyond belief, from Cnet through Apple and all the way to the bloggers.
Sadler’s Wells is Dance, not!
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
So Apple really doesn’t make things in the United States because the above would be considered unreasonable, dictatorial and perhaps even cruel. Because most western employers would never do such a thing and most western workers would, rightfully, tell their employer that the job would get done in normal working hours, screw the made up deadline to get the phones made.
Source: The New York Times
Red-faced bank officials would not comment, but sources say the funds were “uncleared” and he could not have withdrawn the money if he had tried.
Considering the money would have weighed about 98 Tonnes (metric) if it was in US Dollars we doubt he would have been able to just wander off down the street with it even if he could have withdrawn the cash.
BBC News - Indian teacher’s shock at his $9.8bn bank balance
Source: BBC
Intelligent lighting ? Walking at night and light goes out as houseowner kept awake. Night vision lost, I fall over and break leg. Mugged and stabbed by frustrated burglar while I’m on the ground and no one can see me in the dark….but at least I can look at the stars which is a real comfort to me while I wait for the morning and think who I can sue for negligence. Lawyers would love it!
People like this are the reason we don’t make progress.
Source: BBC
I cannot understand why the home button needs to appear when you’ve made this choice in the lock screen, but also why the back button needs to show up on a modal dialog with a cancel button.
http://alanzeino.tumblr.com/post/15917457226/androids-broken-software-buttons
Amazing that people like Mr Zeino can cross the road without being run over by a truck.
The phones of CES 2012 | The Verge
Not sure what a “phone enthusiast” is but we should all hope never to meet one!
This is what happens when you get too busy with the editing and too busy with the cameras. The work becomes increasingly difficult to follow. Believe it or not the work is not a jump cut, it’s all in sequence.
No one just skips on into the abortion clinic at 20 weeks, giddy with excitement and glinting with bloodthirsty anti-baby rage; no one enjoys having an abortion at all
