'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Rachel Maddow used that footage to illustrate Why Regulation Matters. She's so smart.
Yeah. And oh boy did the auto industry scream and cry about the evils of those regulations back in the '60s and '70s... as well as hire private investigators to dig up dirt on Ralph Nader.
I didn't find it snarkful; I know there are both non-Starbucks and non-Apple folk around.
Well, I'm not snarking at Starbucks (I get coffee there frequently), or Apple (currently on one). Just the the idea of the cards.
I'm not sure why MP is bringing this up now...
The whole thing is sick and horrifying, but she is pushing her new book. t /cynic
I remember watching a documentary on I think the Science Channel that was all about the development of car safety equipment. At one point, they had footage of an interview some tv reporter was doing with a mom sitting in her late 60s/early 70s car with her kindergarten-aged son sitting beside her. She was talking about how she didn't want some government hack telling her that she had to wear a seatbelt or, god forbid, make her child wear one. All I could picture was that sweet-faced boy being thrown through the windshield when she's in a crash.
That always seems to be the case with HR departments! (no offense, Scrappy.)
Actually, I think HR in general has an image problem because part of their job interacts directly with the rest of us, but not all of it. So when they aren't doing the interaction part, I can't figure out what they are doing -- because I don't really know what the other part is. Which is not their fault.
(Not that I'm letting this specific person off the hook because I really don't think she's using her time effectively...)
Thank you all for reminding me I'm out of coffee and need to run down to SBUX before they close. We do not need a repeat of this morning's Red Bull Cola. Bleh.
Right, people keep thinking that Mad Men plays it for laughs or exaggerates that culture, but Nader (ptooie!) really created a revolution in how people thought about safety.
I remember a standup comedian riffing on the world before car seats and how you'd put the baby on the shelf by the rear view window of the car. All you'd worry about was flipping the baby over so it wouldn't get a sunburn. Which is funny - but people totally did that!
I know lots of people who still make that argument, mostly wrt helmets (bike or motorcycle) though. It's that super-libertarian stance, right? Thinks people should be allowed to be unsafe.
Apple simply lets me continue doing something I've been doing for years in a shiny, candy-like fashion.
And right there, SH sums up Apple's entire marketing plan. Which totally works on me.