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  • Unionized Apple Store seeks pay raises, customer tips

    greginpraguegreginprague
    No one is complaining about a corporation being asked to offer up to 45 days paid bereavement for pets and close friends? Employees can just buy a bunch of goldfish. If the standard is five work days a week that would be an extra 9 weeks off per year paid.  What insanity is this?
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  • Truck thief gunned down by owner after AirTag gives away location

    greginpraguegreginprague
    For the numbskulls who say well done, now the truck owner is facing murder charges, prison, crazy legal bills. Yeah, it’s annoying to have a car stolen. Don’t be an idiot. Call the cops. There are enough stories of cops recovering cars and bikes to shut up the idiots who claim cops won’t do anything.
    Can you please link the article indicating the truck owner is facing charges?  Everything I can find just says police are investigating to see if the thief actually had a weapon, which could impact whether charges are filed.  If the thief had a gun it’s highly unlikely that the owner will face charges.

    I’m not promoting gun use, just pointing out that your post seems to be jumping to major conclusions in this specific instance.
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  • Apple wins VirnetX patent appeal -- but one verdict awaits

    greginpraguegreginprague
    chadbag said:
    Anilu_777 said:
    There should be a law against non practising entities (patent trolls making money off suing others) owning any patents. Only companies that would actually use the patents should be able to purchase them. 
    No.  This is wrong in so many ways.  Property rights are for everyone.  Patents are valuable property and lots of small inventors hold patents and need to get paid for their inventions when big companies use them.  

    I wish the phrase “non practicing entity” were abolished.  It is meaningless and has no part in a reasonable discussion on patents and property rights.  

    A patent is valid or not and by valuable or not, regardless of the status of the invented/owner.  Whether they personally implement the patented idea or license it to others.  

    The real issue is if patents are being issued for things that shouldn’t be patentable.   


     
    Your “small time inventor who deserves to get paid” story is such a tired joke.  Nearly all of these cases are well funded (often private equity) firms who prey on the corpses of dying companies, buying up their patent portfolios for the express purpose of filing frivolous (but very expensive to defend) infringement lawsuits.

    The current patent law system that allows this to take place is broken, stifles innovation and hurts owners and shareholders of companies that actually make good products.
    bageljoeydanoxjony0watto_cobra

  • Apple Music rolls out to Tesla cars in holiday software update

    greginpraguegreginprague
    payeco said:
    greginprague said:
    We finally got our Model Y in August after waiting 11 months from order date.  It’s the first new car we’ve ever owned. It’s amazing, but would like to have CarPlay on it.  If Rivian is a better car then buy it, but to me it’s idiotic to make (or cancel) a car purchase because of any person at the company.  
    To be fair, Musk isn’t just “any person at the company”, he is the face of the company. From what I can tell he seems to be a fairly loud-voiced and opinionated face of the company.  He also seems to rub a lot of people the wrong way.

    To me it’s similar to that person that cuts me off in traffic while driving a vehicle that has their company name on it.  I’ll remember that Chris’ Custom Closets guy cut me off and when it’s time to redo my closet I won’t be calling them.

    It wouldn’t surprise me in the least to hear that Musk said something in an interview or on Twitter that really annoyed a potential customer and then that potential customer decided to go with another brand. 
    My point was that regardless of the person, even the CEO, if the product is worth buying then buy it. Otherwise you’re just putting the stick in your own eye. I didn’t avoid Disney because Chapek is an idiot. 

     I drove 430 miles yesterday afternoon to night in the Model Y. It took about 8.5 hours with all charging and bathroom stops, averaging about 74mph while on the road. What other electric vehicle can you do that with today (or likely even in 2 years)? The Lucid Air certainly can’t do that on one charge at interstate highway speeds.
    There seems to be some disconnect here. The CEO of the company is making their own product not worth buying in the eyes of many people. This is the part your seem to be missing. It’s wonderful for you that your personal moral or ethical compass allows you to completely ignore the shitbag running the company you bought your car from though.
    My point is it’s asinine to make decisions about your car purchase based on something that is unrelated to the car company.  If you don’t like what Musk is doing at Twitter don’t use Twitter (or use it to complain about Musk).  If Musk was doing something bad at Tesla then that would be rational to influence a purchasing decision.  

    Nearly all clothes are still made in sweatshops globally.  Do you harvest your own wool and knit your own garments?  Do you research all the purchasing decisions you make (or don’t make) this granularly? If not, why not Moral Compass?
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  • Apple Music rolls out to Tesla cars in holiday software update

    greginpraguegreginprague
    macxpress said:
    The honeymoon with your Tesla will be over eventually....
    Wouldn’t that be true of any car? Why specifically about my Tesla?  There are many hundreds of thousands of very happy drivers and tens of thousands who own multiple Teslas.  I don’t think you can say the same about the Chevy Bolt.
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