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.
> 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.
BTW, Recology will not pick up trash that's not in the bin because the trash collection service is billed by volume. They'll usually ask the subscriber to upgrade to a larger bin.
> 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.
Might just be me but it seems likely Sony and these celebrities are in pretty clear violation of the FTC 2013 .com disclosure guidelines?
It's one thing to give celebrities clothes, etc and let them parade them around so that gullible consumers buy the product to pretend to be "fashionable" via known endorsement contracts.
It's quite another to pay a celebrity millions of dollars to say something and hide it as their own statement without disclosure.
Again just speculating, but this could also elevate the dump of the documents on Twitter by the individual into a press issue now since it is showing wrongdoing.
Rights of journalist to distribute illegally obtained documents in public interest I think was firmly established by SCOTUS in BARTNICKI v. VOPPER [0] and they go over the DMCA implications in the opinion.
> proprietary hard-drive connectors and soldered ram.
But at least Apple's stuff uses modern parts and they design using recyclable materials and in ways that plan for the end of life of devices.
Most of the choices you mention are a result of market physical size demands and are made by every phone and tablet vendor, as well as nearly all ultrabook and other ultraportable devices like the MS Surface, etc.
An argument could be made for the pre-retina MacBook Pro's, which were RAM/disk expandable, and still had most of the benefits of current modules.
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.
Yes, the suppliers are faking the hours. They show this in the film.
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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.
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.
I'm pointing out that even if they were doing it correctly, and you gave Apple the benefit of the doubt. Their current successes have no reached enough of their supplier chain to brag about, or make the claims they did.
So even if your only source is Apple. Apple's claims don't stack up with their documents. A.K.A. lying though your teeth.
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 verify their claims.
