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notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Why Oakland's a Tech Start-up Game Changer

Walk down the tourist area of Haight Street towards the park and you'll see pieces of cardboard and what looks like dog poop or human faeces smeared all over the sidewalk. Outside every store is someone smoking marijuana. It's a terrible place to go for a walk with a baby or kids.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Why Oakland's a Tech Start-up Game Changer

> San Francisco is the filthiest city I've ever worked in.

Literally.

How many of you reading this are in San Francisco and live in an apartment building? Go and check the trash room.

You'll probably find that Recology emptied out the bins today but left garbage, even if tied up neatly in trash bags, piled up against the wall or door.

Disgusting and unsanitary. What happened to common sense? What happened to people doing their job? Seriously, is there some law which says that trashmen are not allowed to place trash bags into a wheelie bin for expensive compacting trucks to get to work?

San Francisco is one of the worst run cities I have ever seen.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Uber CEO Indicted in South Korea Over Its Taxi Service

> Uber really just provides technical infrastructure

Would it be accurate to say centralised technical infrastructure? Simply transferring the data to the US is already probably breaking local data protection laws. I don't think Uber operates a franchise model with local infrastructure so countries are right to be concerned that names, addresses, credit cards and movement of individuals is being stored in a foreign country and open to data-mining and other abuse.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition: Now Shipping to Dealers

This is great when you consider today's culture of planned obsolescence and the environmental damage that results.

Yes, I'm pointing fingers at Apple here, because they charge $1000-$1500 for laptops that have proprietary hard-drive connectors and soldered ram.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Apple goes to war with the BBC

Clearly Tim Cook and senior management are in a bind.

They keep telling people they're geniuses ('only Apple could do this') and industry leaders in environmental practices.

The BBC film has shown this to be false so either Tim Cook is a pathological liar or he doesn't have a clue what goes on in the supply chain. Meaning he's not the genius the fawning press like to make him out to be.

The best quote in the film is when an Indonesian supplier is asked what he thinks of Apple's envieonmental policy. His response: "Apple bullshit. Bullshit Apple.". The subtitles make this an instant internet meme.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Apple goes to war with the BBC

Yes, the suppliers are faking the hours. They show this in the film.

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notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Apple goes to war with the BBC

It's worse.

The documentary shows how Foxconn and Pegatron fake payroll slips so that long hours don't show up.

93% compliance is rubbish. Workers are forced to sign forms saying they consent to night shifts and overtime, when in fact overtime is mandatory.

Apple's required reporting is nothing more than window-dressing; lipstick on a pig.

Apple's release schedule of one big yearly event and 10 million units ready to ship on day 1 must bear some of the blame. Near impossible demands are being placed on manufacturers desperate to keep a lucrative contract, who in turn drive workers like slaves.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Tim Cook: Apple is dedicated to the advancement of human rights and equality

The 'code of conduct' is a sham:

Foxconn and Pegatron issue fake payroll slips to hide long hours, threaten workers to tick boxes saying they consent to working nights, overtime is mandatory, ID cards are illegally confiscated leaving workers trapped at the plants.

The employee education program is a joke. Employees are herded into a hall, shown some slides and then asked to take a test. The answers are shouted out and repeated in unison by everyone. Thus everyone scores 100% and passes.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Tim Cook: Apple is dedicated to the advancement of human rights and equality

This is a letter which Tim Cook et al issued to Apple UK staff after the BBC's documentary unit, Panorama, went undercover into the iPhone factories.

Terrible working conditions in continue to exist, contrary to public statements made by Tim Cook, and the supply chain continues to make use of child labor wittingly or unwittingly.

When an Indonesian tin supplier to Apple is asked about Apple's environmental policies his response was "Bullshit Apple. Apple Bullshit".

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notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Theater Chains Decline to Show Sony’s ‘The Interview,’ Citing Threats

Seth Rogen is a bit of a coward. He picked an easy target in Kim given that North Korea is isolated and has no ability to do any real harm to him. Easy to mock somebody who can't get back at you.

Would he have dared to make a comedy mocking Mohammed the warlord turned prophet and 72 virgins in heaven? I guess he was smart enough to figure out that life under police protection would have cramped his partying.

Oh, and Seth is a total prima-donna, witness his recent tirade against Cathay Pacific because they wouldn't allow his wife's dog onto the plane due to the breed being more susceptible to death during flight.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: US Links North Korea to Sony Hacking

The headlines go around the world and people will just accept it as the truth.

If there is a retraction it will be in a year's time and buried under an ad for washing powder on page 17.

You simply don't need evidence anymore when the media, unwittingly perhaps, construct the narrative for you.

Why is the New York Times held in such high esteem? Was there a period of time when it truly was a paper of record? These days it seems like the name Pravda on the Hudson is well deserved.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: Russia raises key interest rate to 17% amid rouble decline

I think ordinary folk should find it scary that the price of oil is a complete sham.

Price of a barrel of oil has fallen 50% in the space of two to three months based on the policy decisions of OPEC. Has demand suddenly collapsed? I don't think so, anything you can bring onto the market, China will gobble up.

Of course, the price at the pump comprises a lot of taxes too, but it seems evident that ordinary folk are getting ripped off and that the price of oil is not only lining the pockets of the Saudis but also a geopolitical tool.

notjackma | 11 years ago | on: New York schoolboy made $72M trading stocks on his lunch breaks

How much money did he start with? Why not publish his complete trading history? With these kind of stories we are never given the actual data and I think it's dangerous as it encourages others to speculate with money they can't afford.

There was a story on CNN yesterday where a person said instead of paying off their student loan they had invested in the stock market and they were doing going great. Of course they neglect to mention that he started investing in 2009 and not in 2007.

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