Pages Tagged “car analogy”
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- Taking the Safety Off
Purism’s explanations for removing various safety features from Librem One’s social network sound like someone explaining why they removed the mirrors, brakes, horns, seat belts, airbags and signals from the cars they’re reselling, because they know those cars are only ever going to be driven on a track where they’ll never have to change lanes […]
- The Wrong Shop
You needed to fix your car. You could have gone to the established shop, but the new guy told you they were crooked. You went with the new guy. Now he’s stripping your car, telling you he’s doing a great job & complaining about the cops investigating a stolen car parts ring.
- Re-Engineering the Road
Imagine a dangerous road curve. Do you blame the drivers and call it a day? After all, not everyone crashes over the edge or into oncoming traffic. Or do you bank the turn, calculate a safe speed limit and add a railing? It won’t stop all crashes, but it’ll reduce them. Re-engineering the road doesn’t […]
- Why would you risk eating out with a food allergy?
Someone always asks this. It’s like asking why, if a car could kill your child, you would cross the street with them instead of keeping them home?
- Dosage Matters: The Car Analogy
Yes, something *can* be harmless or even beneficial at low dosages and dangerous at higher levels. Think about that the next time you see a scare warning.
- What’s Wrong With Facebook Updating Itself on Android?
Imagine a car recall, except instead of getting a notice from the manufacturer, you hear a noise in your garage and find someone messing with your car.
- SOPA/PIPA and Stopping Piracy: The (Inevitable) Car Analogy
Imagine that people who don’t drive, don’t understand how cars work, and have never studied traffic engineering decide that they’re going to stop speeding…
- Cry me a river
So Apple is ticked off at Real’s reverse-engineering to let people buy music from Real and play it on an iPod. Apple has threatened DMCA sanctions and all but promised to deliberately break it in the next software update. Excuse me? In general I like Apple, but their insistence on locking the iPod to iTunes […]