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Maybe everyone should just carry around a Leroy Stick

When I was growing up, there was a dog that lived on my block named Leroy. Leroy was a big dog with a disdain for leashes and a thirst for blood. He made a habit of running around our block attacking anything he saw, biting my dad and my dogs basically whenever he had the chance. He chased me a few times, but I always escaped because I was/am an amazing tree climber.

Anyhoos, after Leroy’s second or third attack on my dogs, it became clear that the police and Leroy’s owner weren’t going to do anything to stop him, so my dad took matters into his own hands and came up with a brilliant invention: the Leroy stick.

The Leroy stick was, you guessed it, a stick. My dad carried an axe handle and I carried a plunger handle. My dad told me two things about carrying the Leroy stick. First, if Leroy came near me or the dogs, I should hit him. Second, if I hit Leroy with my stick, I would not get in trouble. Was it legal? Probably not. Was it right? It sure felt like it. We set the example and soon a lot of our neighbors started carrying Leroy sticks as well. Soon enough, Leroy and his owner saw everyone carrying sticks and Leroy didn’t run free anymore.

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Maybe everyone should just carry around a Leroy Stick

When I was growing up, there was a dog that lived on my block named Leroy. Leroy was a big dog with a disdain for leashes and a thirst for blood. He made a habit of running around our block attacking anything he saw, biting my dad and my dogs basically whenever he had the chance. He chased me a few times, but I always escaped because I was/am an amazing tree climber.

Anyhoos, after Leroy’s second or third attack on my dogs, it became clear that the police and Leroy’s owner weren’t going to do anything to stop him, so my dad took matters into his own hands and came up with a brilliant invention: the Leroy stick.

The Leroy stick was, you guessed it, a stick. My dad carried an axe handle and I carried a plunger handle. My dad told me two things about carrying the Leroy stick. First, if Leroy came near me or the dogs, I should hit him. Second, if I hit Leroy with my stick, I would not get in trouble. Was it legal? Probably not. Was it right? It sure felt like it. We set the example and soon a lot of our neighbors started carrying Leroy sticks as well. Soon enough, Leroy and his owner saw everyone carrying sticks and Leroy didn’t run free anymore.

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Maybe everyone should just carry around a Leroy Stick

When I was growing up, there was a dog that lived on my block named Leroy. Leroy was a big dog with a disdain for leashes and a thirst for blood. He made a habit of running around our block attacking anything he saw, biting my dad and my dogs basically whenever he had the chance. He chased me a few times, but I always escaped because I was/am an amazing tree climber.

Anyhoos, after Leroy’s second or third attack on my dogs, it became clear that the police and Leroy’s owner weren’t going to do anything to stop him, so my dad took matters into his own hands and came up with a brilliant invention: the Leroy stick.

The Leroy stick was, you guessed it, a stick. My dad carried an axe handle and I carried a plunger handle. My dad told me two things about carrying the Leroy stick. First, if Leroy came near me or the dogs, I should hit him. Second, if I hit Leroy with my stick, I would not get in trouble. Was it legal? Probably not. Was it right? It sure felt like it. We set the example and soon a lot of our neighbors started carrying Leroy sticks as well. Soon enough, Leroy and his owner saw everyone carrying sticks and Leroy didn’t run free anymore.

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I’m not a sawing expert — does anyone know what they’re doing now? It looks like they got a horizontal cut all the way through, and now they’re making vertical cuts down the side. As soon as they fire up the saw the screen fills with brown dust, so it’s looking like they have to saw a bit, stop, wait for it to clear, then saw some more.

Fuckin’ robots are cool!

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I’m not a sawing expert — does anyone know what they’re doing now? It looks like they got a horizontal cut all the way through, and now they’re making vertical cuts down the side. As soon as they fire up the saw the screen fills with brown dust, so it’s looking like they have to saw a bit, stop, wait for it to clear, then saw some more.

Fuckin’ robots are cool!

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I’m not a sawing expert — does anyone know what they’re doing now? It looks like they got a horizontal cut all the way through, and now they’re making vertical cuts down the side. As soon as they fire up the saw the screen fills with brown dust, so it’s looking like they have to saw a bit, stop, wait for it to clear, then saw some more.

Fuckin’ robots are cool!

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I’m not a sawing expert — does anyone know what they’re doing now? It looks like they got a horizontal cut all the way through, and now they’re making vertical cuts down the side. As soon as they fire up the saw the screen fills with brown dust, so it’s looking like they have to saw a bit, stop, wait for it to clear, then saw some more.

Fuckin’ robots are cool!

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I’m not a sawing expert — does anyone know what they’re doing now? It looks like they got a horizontal cut all the way through, and now they’re making vertical cuts down the side. As soon as they fire up the saw the screen fills with brown dust, so it’s looking like they have to saw a bit, stop, wait for it to clear, then saw some more.

Fuckin’ robots are cool!

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[quote=Arraya]fwiw – 13 people have killed themselves at the apple factor in china in the last few months.[/quote]

And yet the suicide rate at Foxconn is less than the national average:

What we do know is the annual suicide rate per 100,000 people in China is about 13.5, with slightly more women than men taking their own lives (the only major country where that is the case, by the way). That means the Foxconn factory, with 300,000 workers, ought to be experiencing almost 40 suicides per year, while the reported numbers are a lot less than that.

This story says more about the press than it does about Foxconn, because I’ve read about it for months and nobody else seems to have done the math, which isn’t hard to do. But doing the math makes the story weaker, so of course it isn’t mentioned.

via Robert Cringely

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[quote=Arraya]fwiw – 13 people have killed themselves at the apple factor in china in the last few months.[/quote]

And yet the suicide rate at Foxconn is less than the national average:

What we do know is the annual suicide rate per 100,000 people in China is about 13.5, with slightly more women than men taking their own lives (the only major country where that is the case, by the way). That means the Foxconn factory, with 300,000 workers, ought to be experiencing almost 40 suicides per year, while the reported numbers are a lot less than that.

This story says more about the press than it does about Foxconn, because I’ve read about it for months and nobody else seems to have done the math, which isn’t hard to do. But doing the math makes the story weaker, so of course it isn’t mentioned.

via Robert Cringely

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[quote=Arraya]fwiw – 13 people have killed themselves at the apple factor in china in the last few months.[/quote]

And yet the suicide rate at Foxconn is less than the national average:

What we do know is the annual suicide rate per 100,000 people in China is about 13.5, with slightly more women than men taking their own lives (the only major country where that is the case, by the way). That means the Foxconn factory, with 300,000 workers, ought to be experiencing almost 40 suicides per year, while the reported numbers are a lot less than that.

This story says more about the press than it does about Foxconn, because I’ve read about it for months and nobody else seems to have done the math, which isn’t hard to do. But doing the math makes the story weaker, so of course it isn’t mentioned.

via Robert Cringely

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[quote=Arraya]fwiw – 13 people have killed themselves at the apple factor in china in the last few months.[/quote]

And yet the suicide rate at Foxconn is less than the national average:

What we do know is the annual suicide rate per 100,000 people in China is about 13.5, with slightly more women than men taking their own lives (the only major country where that is the case, by the way). That means the Foxconn factory, with 300,000 workers, ought to be experiencing almost 40 suicides per year, while the reported numbers are a lot less than that.

This story says more about the press than it does about Foxconn, because I’ve read about it for months and nobody else seems to have done the math, which isn’t hard to do. But doing the math makes the story weaker, so of course it isn’t mentioned.

via Robert Cringely

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[quote=Arraya]fwiw – 13 people have killed themselves at the apple factor in china in the last few months.[/quote]

And yet the suicide rate at Foxconn is less than the national average:

What we do know is the annual suicide rate per 100,000 people in China is about 13.5, with slightly more women than men taking their own lives (the only major country where that is the case, by the way). That means the Foxconn factory, with 300,000 workers, ought to be experiencing almost 40 suicides per year, while the reported numbers are a lot less than that.

This story says more about the press than it does about Foxconn, because I’ve read about it for months and nobody else seems to have done the math, which isn’t hard to do. But doing the math makes the story weaker, so of course it isn’t mentioned.

via Robert Cringely

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So which of them gets custody of the Internets?

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So which of them gets custody of the Internets?

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