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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 18 2018, @05:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the maybe-someone-doesn't-like-the-color dept.

5 shuttle buses chartered by Google, Apple apparently vandalized on I-280, possibly with pellet gun

Shuttle buses carrying Apple and Google employees were apparently vandalized Tuesday while traveling to and from the South Bay, officials said. No injuries were reported.

Five buses driving in the northbound and southbound directions of Interstate 280 between Highway 84 and Highway 85 were damaged during the Tuesday morning and evening commute, said California Highway Patrol Officer Art Montiel. Four buses were chartered by Apple and one by Google, the officer said. The Apple campus is located off I-280 in Cupertino. Google headquarters is in Mountain View off Highway 101.

According to Montiel, several bus windows were damaged and cracked, possibly by pellet guns, BB guns or rocks.

According to an article on TechCrunch

In response, we've learned that Apple has rerouted the bus routes for employees living in San Francisco, adding 30-45 minutes of commute time each way, as the company works with authorities to see what exactly is going on.

Also at The Guardian.


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  • (Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:47PM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @07:47PM (#624324)

    And start doing something about it.

    Whether that is getting the neighborhoods to band together and revolt against your current politcal leaders, or moving to a different region, or founding a new nation for all the people like you.

    Technology is to the point where the right set of skilled individuals could not just automate enough agriculture to feed themselves, but also automate every other facet needed to manufacture low and high technology. Once you can do that, you're independent from the companies and nations of the world, barring raw resources, and if you can your own people into space to handle mining endeavors, even that restriction goes away, leading to the opportunity for all of you to work, recreate, or create new investions, arts, etc that others will never have time or opportunity to dream of.

    The only thing stopping this is each person who says 'pity me, against this society what can I do.' Stop being one of those and conscript yourself into the army for tomorrow. Because if you don't you'll just be part of the huddled massed of yesterday with neither a present nor a future to look forward to. And even if you die in the trenches of that war for a present, or tomorrow, at least you won't have been languishing in your own self-pity in the meantime.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:10PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:10PM (#624341)

    Automation won't lead to a non-scarcity based economy for the masses because the automation won't be controlled by the masses. I called it many years ago: technology will make poor people obsolete.

    • (Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:49PM (5 children)

      by insanumingenium (4824) on Thursday January 18 2018, @08:49PM (#624374) Journal

      It hasn't happened as you predict yet, and you aren't the first to predict it. But if we take your prediction as a given, what exactly do you think the reaction to the obsolete poor will be? Given their extreme numbers advantage, I don't like any of the answers I get. Everyone wins if we can find a solution that doesn't require obsoleting the poor.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:04PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:04PM (#624391)

        The poor can be obsoleted without removing the people, but by removing the money. Get rid of government backed currency, give people the basics and let the free market handle everything else.

        • (Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:27PM (1 child)

          by insanumingenium (4824) on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:27PM (#624411) Journal

          I don't see how you are going to remove currency if you are going to go with UBI+capitalism as you seem to be suggesting. Having a medium of exchange isn't the core issue here.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @02:54PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @02:54PM (#625164)

            Currencies would still be around, just not government backed currencies. Set the robots to distribute food, water, housing, clothing, and let capitalism take care of their other wants. You want a new PlayStation? Go to work and get some bitcoins or something.

      • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday January 18 2018, @10:10PM (1 child)

        by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday January 18 2018, @10:10PM (#624430) Journal

        what exactly do you think the reaction to the obsolete poor will be?

        Make revolution obsolete with armed security droids!

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @01:58AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @01:58AM (#624511)

      if people would stop funding the slave traders and start financially supporting Free Software and Open Hardware initiatives, automation could be run by the people.

  • (Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:00PM

    by insanumingenium (4824) on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:00PM (#624387) Journal
    You minimize the amount of development we are missing for huge swaths of this future you promise. Seriously, look into any single thing you are talking about automating and you will find the automation isn't 100% of where you seem to assume. Taken as a whole we have a long ways to go.

    On to your second half, these is absolutely no reason changes require bloodshed. Any person encouraging that is at best a git. Try using the system we have in place, get fucking political. If you have the numbers you would need for war, you have the numbers you would need to do this the right way. Sorry it isn't heroic to you without an "army", but if you approached this from a less dipshit direction you might just have my vote, as is you are a problem not a solution.
  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Grishnakh on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:40PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Thursday January 18 2018, @09:40PM (#624416)

    Whether that is getting the neighborhoods to band together and revolt against your current politcal leaders, or moving to a different region, or founding a new nation for all the people like you.

    The people in SanFran who don't like the housing situation there have no right to complain about their political leaders. They elected these leaders, and with all the stories about people being packed into housing, that means there really should be far more cramped, unhappy people than rich people hogging housing, so they should easily be able to outvote the rich landowners in the city council elections.