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.
> 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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.