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First!!
Now I will proceed to post a bunch of urls for questionable online degrees…
(Not really.)
Hello,
It’s me, Denis
I’m watching you RB.
Murky issue. So often safety and efficiency are gladly traded for allowing oversight and control. Like if you have a Sprint PCS phone, they keep records of exactly where you were geographically when you made every call. If someone were to sue you, these records could easily be opened to the court.
Likewise the phone record and geographical location information could serve as a much-needed alibi if it were made available to the courts.
I hear a company is developing toilet paper which tracks how many sheets you use. And whether you’re are 1-ply, 2-ply or 3-ply person.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc0gUi2hKA8
…. day after day they take some brain away
(know the artist?)
Ah, Ruud….
From what I have seen (via RB), Kenya is basically a head-on collision between ancient culture and cutting-edge technology. Seems so much more raw, less nuanced than the confluence of influences (??) we navigate in the USA.
But thankfully people in Kenya are proving adept at important 21st century skills, like lying with a completely straight face when saying things like, “We trust our drivers….”
I can’t help but wonder what happens if a taxi is indeed hijacked. Brings to mind the classic line from “Enter the Dragon”: “I see. If there’s trouble, you make a phone call.”
I believe she trusts her employees generally. (And distrusts some of them specifically.) Trust but verify.
I love watching Ruud’s reports. They are usually tinged with sadness and no clear cut answers. Mitch is right - it’s murky. DO you have a right to privacy when your boss is PAYING for your time and ALLOWING you to make a living with her resources? Do you really want the gov’t to intervene?
Privacy is fast becoming a myth. Japanese corporations installed cameras in the workplace long ago for “efficiency studies”. We now have them everywere here, too, except they are for “security”. And each time you use your debit card or go into town, you are advertising your whereabouts and allowing companies to gain (buy and sell!)information about your spending habits.
Here in Texas our legislators are looking at passing a bill to allow gov’t the ability to intervene in private business deals RETROACTIVELY. It’s aimed at the sale of electric company TXU, but could set a precedent for many other private transactions. Is that the kind of gov’t help you want?
Is it too early to talk about voting for independent candidates in ‘08 and throwing the Rep’s and Dem’s both into the lion’s den?
I was jsut thinking the same thing. I LOVE Ruud\’s reports. Kudos!
This would fly in New York, right?
First I thought Josphat said “We always have some problems with “robots” attacking us” lol
Maybe the reason the taxi drivers were taking extra fares, is because that “stinkin’ tight ass company” wasn’t paying them enough in the first place!
I applaud the first GPS company that left them, stating “we can’t work with this because it goes against our ordinary practice” Apparently ‘ordinary practice’ is letting the drivers make a little extra money on the side, maybe to feed their family or buy their kid a new dress, or maybe it was necessary because they’re lousy tippers there.
“There’s an extra Jackson in it if you get me to the airport in 5 minutes”
lp
Right on Kam, being a cab driver is damn hard work..and you have to put up with a lot of jerks, vomit and possible attack. For the latter case they should have an easy to push button which alerts the police & company simultaneously like On -Star or some other gps system FOR EMERGENCY PURPOSES ONLY.
Too many coporations are tracking people everyday. I have many friends who can no longer send jokes by email from work. Oooh wasted 2 precious minutes…what the F**CK!!! Be a corporate slave, buy, buy, buy their goods and get your lousy 2 week vacation in exchange for being owned. I thought slavery ended a while back, at least in the USA.
Where have all the bees gone?
Guess they all quit. The Queen bees were gonna monitor them with a new government approved Hive-GPS.
Maybe that stinkin’ tight ass company wasn’t paying them enough. How do you know? It’s one of the reasons competition (both in terms of marketplace and labor pool) is good.
Now I don’t believe the free-market is all it’s cracked up to be either. Mostly because you’ve got idiots on both sides of the aisle saying it’s discrimination NOT to allow a host of our southern border neighbors (primarily) to invade us and allow our stinkin tight ass companies here to rape a profit off their labor “doing jobs Americans won’t do”. Yeah, right.
It’s not like the circumstances hurting workers there are not present here. They’re just hidden better.
Do unto others!
Yes, it is a murky issue, but it does show the benefits and disadvantages of the whole Big Brother issue in America. (I don’t know if that was RB’s intent…)
At first, I thought this was going to be a typical TV report where the reporter tries to subliminally inject his view of an issue into the interview, but it turned out rather well. I like hearing both sides of stories.
I guess I should register.
Here’s another issue for another day:
Joanne, might you have a few hundred moments to read this article
and provisde us with a brief synopsis and/or your thoughtful insights?
Thanks! B-man
The Matrix: Information Overload
iii. Space-Time Architectures: The Aesthetics of Memory
“Cyberspace has no memory.” ~ Wolfgang Ernst
http://www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca/academy/carolynguertin/2iii.html
I like this part…(it’s the only part I read…lol…who has the patience?)
“This shift in the visual horizon was foretold by one of the great 20th century prophets, Albert Einstein. He prophesied the coming of the ’second bomb’ in the wake of the atomic one; he warned that a destructive force called ‘unlimited information’ would follow in the footsteps of wartime industrialism: “A bomb whereby real-time interaction would be to information what radioactivity is to energy.”
Oh no it’s doing it again!
I have to have a url when I post comments! Wha?!
Again I want to say that you, Drew, are making wonderful programs when you can take us to places far from here to experience other cultures. Ruud Elmendorf is special.
Thanks to you, and everyone else behind the scenes at RB, its way beyond just me that this works.
Rocketboom in Dutch, perfect! :-)
In Philadelphia they\’re going to do the same thing.
They also want to encourage/impose the use of credit cards. That way, they know who you are inside the taxi and where you\’re going.
In a totalitarian society, they can track you wherever you go…
It\’s not good. Keep in mind that in Philly there is not really a big problem with thieves or hijackers. The drivers are all opposed to the GPS system.
deja vu
Your site is blocked in IE7/Vista because I don’t have QuickTime. How 1999 of you. Use Flash video instead.
PS- Joanne is a hottie. Just had to get that out too.
Great invisible show today!
Here\’s a lttle tune to end the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D-xoRqU8Dk
Steve Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Child ( Jimi Hendrix cover)