Re: Respect
I think Betty White makes cake mixes.
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By and large DARPA employees and researchers are only there for very limited amounts of time; usually on a project basis. Management may last a little longer but not very often. Churn is build into their model in order to prevent stagnation and keep innovation high. Often the researchers start companies to produce what they designed while there. It's all part of the deal.
Comparing the working conditions of a poor country to the expectations of a wealthier Western nation is stupid. People line up for blocks just to try and get any job Foxconn offers. If they were so bad then people wouldn't want them so much.
The suicide rate in China is fairly high anyway, and is pretty close, per capita, to that of the Foxconn suicides. No story there; Chinese people kill themselves a lot.
This whole smear campaign is a bunch of Western asshats who have too much time on there hands. I hope the price of their silly products doubles.
Now don't get me wrong. Years ago I did my share of P2P downloading and did most certainly take content I wasn't paying for; but I do think that the filesharing crowd has been shrinking for years. Content has gotten so cheap that it is easier to buy it rather than steal it.
I think the 5% figure is probably fairly accurate. Only a few are still participating in "unauthorized" downloads of content. Losers who take more than they can ever watch/listen to. That's sad...
The recently proposed laws are stupid though.