Posts by honkhonk34 56 publicly visible posts • joined 15 May 2011
statistically men have more accidents than women. we agree on this, yes?
It's an oversimplification though; there is still a reasonable proportion of women who have accidents, yet because that group is smaller than bad male drivers they have access to cheaper insurance... which when you think about it, makes no sense.
Safe drivers - regardless of gender, age or background - should be paying less than unsafe drivers. To think that anything else is remotely equal is absurd.
And I say that in a neutral way; the concept of a male pill does not invalidate the use of the female pill. As things stand if you're a woman and you don't want to get pregnant you take/use the pill or other contraceptive method. if you're a man you use a condom (which let's be honest diminishes sensation) or a vasectomy (which ain't exactly fun).
I have a happy and stable relationship and my partner uses the pill; if a male pill was available I would take it too - not because I don't trust her but because it decreases the odds of an unexpected guest* due to her forgetting a pill, it being a dud, etc etc etc
The only people who would have a problem with this are people who would loose an amount of control due to it, and that group is probably women who may intend to use pregnancy as some form of leverage. I have no pity for such people.
There is no "do you trust a man if he said he took it" - your primary responsibility is to yourself; do you want to be pregnant? If the answer is no then you should be taking contraceptives even if your partner claims to be.
this merely offers men the same choice as women have enjoyed for many years now, and I can't really see it as a bad thing.
(*My family's term for unplanned children)
Is the whole "nobody really upgrades/maintains it anyway" crossed with the "if you don't like it don't buy a mac"
it's ignorant and narrow minded for a couple of reasons, such as the fact that individual consumers aren't the only people who buy apple products. many institutions and businesses do and maintenance and upgrade costs are important to their choices of products; this isn't merely anti-apple people having fun (though I'm sure a few are), many of their business sector customers have a valid reason to be worried by such actions, so not only is saying "nobody would care" highly opinionated, it's also not correct.
as far as "if you don't like it don't buy a mac" - as I said, I'm an Information Analyst, an aspect of my job is discussing within the team about solution practices for the organization hiring us; I know from first hand experience that difficult to maintain gear is anathema to senior management, so within the business sphere the result may indeed be a reduction in apple product purchases, should something as simple as replacing a HDD become more costly or awkward.
I think some people have forgotten that being an individual consumer still only makes you part of a greater whole; although individually this might not seem to be a contentious issue there are other perspectives which one should be aware of and respect.
But there's a few undeniable aspects to this:
A. This cable connector is propriety, not standard. for any third party to use it infers licence fees, which is a deal breaker. you won't see other companies bringing out compatible drives in any great numbers or models, if at all.
B. The features offered through this extended connector are already available through SMART, which is an industry standard for hard disk drives and has been for several years.
C.This action clearly reduces market competition for replacement or upgrade parts without the use of unsupported hardware or software; a reduction in market competitiveness is generally well proven to be bad for consumers.
D. Comments about the eventual hack are moot. Either you agree with the concept of a new propriety connector (and all that implies) or you don't.
E. I expect to be down voted for posting this, so I'll clarify that I am an Information Analyst, working with a wide variety of operating systems on a regular basis, and that I hold no bias in what I'm sure many readers perceive as the Microsoft vs Apple battle. All operating systems have pros and cons; that is irrelevant to the point in hand: this propriety connector is unnecessary considering widely used standards which supply the same features, and it is bad for consumers. That is the important thing here.
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