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HR wall slogans are cringey when still drying on the wall. They are even cringier in a ruin.
"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair"
The greatest of poems
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#152This is awesome. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs close to here. I always wondered what it was like on the inside. It’s eerie to see it in ruins. I imagine what energy it would have in its heyday.
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#153If you're interested in abandoned buildings and other artistic captures of the darker side of society, check out Artemy Lebedev - a Russian traveller who's been to pretty much everywhere in the world.
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#154I’ve been thinking in 50 or 100 years from now, will this be the case for the Apple Starship campus? I’m sure Motorola seemed indomitable at the time of its construction.
It's just as easy to imagine this being most of San Jose because of drought. Or this being every corporate HQ because of the collapse of Western Capitalism in the face of global warming. I'm sure life will go on though.
Most likely global capitalism will thrive in the face of global warming. Creative destruction. All the infrastructure to be rebuilt, the huge projects, warlike government expenditures, replacing the worlds fleet of vehicles, expanding the grid multiple times.
It will be absolutely Faustian…
People were taking too much time between new cars
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That included a row over the generic concept of a tablet, where in defense the Samsung lawyers brought up prior art ... from the Kubrick movie "2001: A Space Odyssey". The astronauts in the movie are using something that looks just like a tablet.
You don't patent a "concept." You patent an invention . I'm not familiar with that particular case, but I really doubt that a clip from 2001 was dispositive of anything. Unless the patent really was as broad as "a flat computing device."
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How about the Quincy office, near where Wavering worked and near where he and Lear were each born before making the product that would be the name of the company? Even the last little local sales office closed years ago.
As in Quincy, IL? I grew up there and the town still hasn't recovered from the closure.
I moved down to Texas from Quincy about a decade ago. I lived most of my life before that in Hannibal and Quincy. There's a lot of business missing up there. Gardner Denver I think moved their HQ several years ago but kept the plant. Moormans sold. Quincy Soybean still has some work there but sold and closed the HQ. Building Technolgoies closed in Hannibal in the 80s. They never rebuilt the grain elevator at Hannibal after the 1993 flood. Buckhorn Rubber closed about a year ago. They never rebuilt the trainyard at West Quincy after the '93 flood either. I'm not sure if Harris still builds broadcast equipment there or not. I think Knapheide and Hollister Whitney are still doing well.
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As a French, the company was vastly different to what I was used to. But not only that: when travelling to Schaumburg I was staying in the Embassy Suites on the other side of the road and I remember, jetlagged, waiting for 6 am for the breakfast to be served. There was also a big mall a bit south (I forgot the name) , very much different from the ones we had at home (staring with the fact that you drove around the ma…
> There was also a big mall a bit south (I forgot the name) , very much different from the ones we had at home (staring with the fact that you drove around the mall, and not walked inside. I'm not sure what you mean. While Woodfield has a rather large parking lot, it was definitely the case that the vast majority of people parked and went inside. You couldn't get to the Apple Store, for example, without going inside.…
> "On September 20, 2019, at around 2:30 PM CDT, a man drove a black first generation (2001-2008) Chevrolet TrailBlazer LT through an entrance door of Sears and began driving through the store and into the main concourse of the mall, crashing into kiosks, Clarks, International Diamond Company, and multiple other stores, seemingly targeting Forever 21 and other adjacent stores.[40][41] The driver was taken into custody by responding police near the center of the mall's first level without further incident. The identity of the suspect was not immediately released. No injuries were reported, but the mall was temporarily on lockdown due to the incident as well as concurrent, but unfounded, reports of an active shooter.[42][43] The mall was evacuated about one hour after the incident.[44]
The man, later identified as Javier Garcia of Palatine, Illinois, was charged with terrorism as a result of the incident; he appeared in court on September 29, 2019, and was denied bond. He appeared in court again on October 1, 2019, and was due back in court on January 27, 2020.[45][46][47][48][49] Garcia's family spoke out arguing that Javier is not a terrorist and that he has schizophrenia, though a police investigation shows evidence that Garcia's attack was premeditated, with investigators releasing – in part – that Garcia "searched 'Woodfield mall,' the aerial view of the mall and mall premises 124 times between 9/19/19 at 14:38 and 9/20/19 at 12:55."[50] Garcia has since also been charged with an unrelated arson case from September 8, 2019, in his hometown of Palatine.[51]"
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#158It's amazing that neither the article nor any of the comments so far mention that Google bought part of Motorola, for its 10,000 patents. Then sold it a few years later. I was in Google Patents and I interviewed people for the position of "acquirer of patents." This was a period when they actually thought the "throw weight" of your patent portfolio really mattered in cross-licensing deals. Most of those patents were…
Not just their patents, but also their cellphone division. My understanding was that the Motorola phones were going to be Google's flagship devices for Android. So I bought one, and I really liked it - I got regular OS updates (unlike many Android licensees), the phone had a gorgeous walnut veneer back, and it fit well in my hand. Nice.
I had a peak-motorola era moto G - it was fast, up to date, devoid of bloatware, and the camera was of incredible quality for such a cheap phone. the only downside was it was flimsy and met an early death at the hands of my merciless kitchen tile
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Archaeologists have found inscriptions referring to the cult of "Six Sigma", which is hypothesized to be a primitive form of ritual statistical magic.
Skimming your comment I read “ritual sadistic magic”. Funny how the mind wanders
Many years ago I picked up a book on six sigma. First page was all about how you attack anyone that disagrees with six sigma.
Okay so this is a cult.
Put the book down and spent remaining career avoiding anyplace that mentioned it.
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Not just their patents, but also their cellphone division. My understanding was that the Motorola phones were going to be Google's flagship devices for Android. So I bought one, and I really liked it - I got regular OS updates (unlike many Android licensees), the phone had a gorgeous walnut veneer back, and it fit well in my hand. Nice.
I had a peak-motorola era moto G - it was fast, up to date, devoid of bloatware, and the camera was of incredible quality for such a cheap phone. the only downside was it was flimsy and met an early death at the hands of my merciless kitchen tile
If they sold the original moto g with a modern CPU and RAM, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. That really was the perfect android phone.