notjackma

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Virgin VS43 to Las Vegas lands safely in London on faulty landing gear(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by notjackma 12y ago|0 comments
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by notjackma 12y ago
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
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by notjackma 12y ago
> 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
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by notjackma 12y ago
Many mobile developers defend Apple taking their 30% cut. Crazy, but true.
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by notjackma 12y ago
> 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
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Consumer DSLRs “dead in 5 years”(eoshd.com)
2 points by notjackma 12y ago|0 comments
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by notjackma 12y ago
This could be it. Amazing what "celebrities" are charging for product placement. https://twitter.com/BikiniRobotArmy/status/54688646593893171...
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by notjackma 12y ago
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-dri
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by notjackma 12y ago
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 T
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by notjackma 12y ago
Yes, the suppliers are faking the hours. They show this in the film. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:76291D1E48A0930CD649A42E3C7BD82F78E5EE16&dn=panorama+s62e44+apples+broken+promises+hdtv+x264+ftp+ettv&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1
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by notjackma 12y ago
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
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by notjackma 12y ago
Good spot catching that Apple's own documents don't stack up with their claims. But this is how the company operates as a whole - sell the sizzle, not the steak. I think they simply thought that nobody would actually bother to v
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by notjackma 12y ago
Done, thanks for the heads up.
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by notjackma 12y ago
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 lea
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by notjackma 12y ago
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
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Tim Cook: Apple is dedicated to the advancement of human rights and equality(forums.macrumors.com)
3 points by notjackma 12y ago|7 comments
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by notjackma 12y ago
Very funny and true... and it looks like fear (of getting emails hacked) has executives in Hollywood panicking now. "Steve Carell’s North Korea Movie ‘Pyongyang’ Canceled in Wake of Sony Hack" http://www.thewrap.com&#x2
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by notjackma 12y ago
It might never be released. Sony has pulled it from theatrical release and said there are no plans for video-on-demand or DVD release. http://variety.com/2014/film/news/sony-cancels-theatrical-re...
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by notjackma 12y ago
Some people believe it is... this guy actually has a regular column at Forbes. U.S. Should Make North Korea Pay for Sony Hack Pyongyang has given the Obama administration no choice but to retaliate now by imposing sanctions or even an emba
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by notjackma 12y ago
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
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by notjackma 12y ago
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
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Saudi Arabia is playing chicken with its oil(blogs.reuters.com)
4 points by notjackma 12y ago|0 comments
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by notjackma 12y ago
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&#
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by notjackma 12y ago
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
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New York schoolboy made $72M trading stocks on his lunch breaks(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by notjackma 12y ago|2 comments
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by notjackma 12y ago
> I can't imagine the neck strain that's going to occur. I was wondering about this too and the impact on your eyes. For a 39" monitor it's recommended you sit over 5ft away, so the optimal desk environment for such
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by notjackma 12y ago
Western companies have no problen doing business with China or Russia. If you have a problem then that's on you. The politics in China has not stopped entrepeneurs from heading east.
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by notjackma 12y ago
You may be right. It's often described as being at the cross roads of east and west. It's north of both Iraq and Iran which for most people would not be Europe.
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by notjackma 12y ago
It doesn't matter what you want your kids exposed to... because there are activists who are working with politicians in most Western countries to totally change sex educations classes. For example, in the UK, teachers are to tell kids
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by notjackma 12y ago
It's interesting to note that that the Eurovision song contest includes Russia, Israel and central Asian states, including even Azerbaijan. Perhaps this is an example of soft power projection from the EU "project" of a polit

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