We acknowledge everyone has a right to free speech and teachers have academic freedom over their curriculum and how it is taught. However, when discussion switches from curriculum to inflammatory remarks targeting students it crosses a line and becomes free speech that people have a right to express their own opinion about.
See Pickering V. Board of Education
she clearly abused her power, and we will not stand for it.
or a range of issues, professionals in a given area might have better insight than researchers, especially where question deal with common practice.
Why people always view wikipedia as an unreliable source. Anyone has access to post to wikipedia which means that yes a person who is very knowledgable can post, but also someone who does't have much knowledge can too.
the New York Times is thought by many to have a center-left bias and the Wall Street Journal a center-right bias, and USA Today is prone to centrist bias
like when people say Fox is a more conservative news show and CNN is more liberal. It's not even if the information presented is accurate, how its presented can determine accuracy.
the trustworthy publications are the ones saying things that are correct, and we define what “correct” is what we believe to be true. A moment’s reflection will show the flaw in this way of thinking.
I think this is because we already go into reading stuff with preconceived notions so when we read things that line up with these notions we view that information as true and agree with it automatically.
Do you really think Apple doesn't know? In a company obsessed with the details-- with the aluminum being milled just so, with the glass being fitted perfectly into the case-- do you really think it's credible that they don't know?
It's amazing that a company as highly developed as apple produces it's products in conditions like this. It reminds me of the false notion with the gravestones from the article yesterday. People like to think about the gravestones they receive for their lost loved ones being carefully carved and crafted by an old craftsman. They fail to realize the exploitations that occur to make these gravestones. Same with iPhones. These devices have amazing capabilities and are always being innovated. I think people may think that because they are so technically advanced, they are also careful constructed in pristine high tech conditions which is again false. But we don't know about it so we don't see a problem with continuing to be consumers to apples products.
They look really pissed. And they are carrying guns.
All of this to guard factors that produce electronics. It's evident that these guards and men aren't used to keep people out, it's used to keep the underlying issues occurring inside from getting out.
because it gave me so much pleasure, if it hadn't been for the pictures
I find it a little ironic and it makes me wonder....from the articles we read and discussed yesterday to this one today, we are more than aware of the issues at hand. So what do we do? Where do we go from here? I am appalled by the articles I am reading, but at the same time I am reading them on the devices that are the subject of these articles.
is made in China
We know where it's made, but people don't usually understand HOW it's made
Good question. Anything else I can do for you?
I wonder what would happen if people tried this today. This was done using an iPhone 4s. We are now on the iPhone 7. With so much time passing, and the releasing of articles like this one, I wonder if Siri's answers have changed?
Yours is probably within arm’s reach right now.
Read this article the first time on my phone....interesting and valid point
The frictionless genius of our creative class, which we see every day in our lives and in advertising, leads us to support environmental destruction and human enslavement that we never see. We want our clever phones, the market needs resources to make them, and getting those resources creates and feeds conflict. It turns out that the foundations of our ingenious new economy rest on the forceful extraction of minerals in places where laws do not work and criminals control everything.
Our drive to always have the next best thing fuels this market. Would we be so attached to our products (cell phones) if we clearly knew and understood the means in which they were produced?
For the thugs the townspeople are more like stolen cattle; there’s no investment beyond the effort of capture and little reason to keep them alive.
Another example of the disassociation between production and the means of production. The people who produce these products have no humanity to the "owners" and are treated as property, making them disposable.
“peace”
Ironic. Peace through the exploitation and violence control.
So far, no country has decided to use this international law to help Congo end slavery, but the tools are there.
What about other forms of exploitation that still exist in America? Ex. Racial profiling, women's equal pay, etc.. Obviously we have come a long way since Jim Crow, and the enslavement and exploitation of the people of the Congo are unbelievable. However, we are quick to judge the horrific occurrences in the Congo, but are we able to say we are above exploitation of one's own people?
an extraction that we never actually see.
Again, making us mindless consumers and allowing us to think we have no part in the exploitation that occurs
Our view of cemetery monuments is normally restricted to what we see when we bury our loved ones or visit their graves. If we think about where the markers come from at all, we might imagine an elderly craftsman carefully chiseling a name into a polished stone.
This goes to show the blind relationship we have between consumers and producers. When we purchase a product, we seldom think about who produced them or how they were produced. If we knew the ways and means of the production of the products we want, we may view them differently and may avoid them all together. This blind ignorance between consumers and producers is how capitalism works. By thinking of the products we care for being produced in caring ways (ex. graves being constructed from elderly craftsmen), we don't realize how they are actually produced (through exploitation of resources and people) making us mindless consumers and allowing the exploitation to continue to thrive.