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ILoveCats:
Y'all can keep your kids out of college if you want. Somebody has to fix my iPhone when it breaks. ::) But the last thing America needs is "less education" and "less intellectual curiosity". No, the sky is not falling. No, we are not about to be replaced by robot overlords. No, this is not the worst generation of humans ever seen on the planet. Yes, people with an education will still have more opportunities than people without education. No, the weirdo hippie professors populating the social sciences hallways are not a new phenomenon. Yes, your child can get an education without being "dumbed down" by the anthropologists and sociologists who can't get a job outside of academia.
As much as I self-deprecatingly joke about the weird minors and classes we had to take as electives at UNL on top of all the more substantive major studies, I got a really, really good education at our state university. While you rely on the more concrete studies early on in a career, the well rounded person factor of studying art, literature, history, philosophy and foreign languages helps you later in your career as you lead larger projects and larger groups of people. And I'd put my UNL education against a lot of the Ivy League grads I've worked alongside. (Not "all" but a lot.) At a state college you just need to be driven and motivated to be toward the top of your class, and intellectually curious. Nobody's going to care if you drop out your freshman year and many thousands do just that.
The thing that determines whether a kid does well in and after college (or whether he becomes a successful entrepreneur right out of high school, or does well in a vocational training program) is whether he was well raised by his parents. If your kid's playing video games more than he's playing outdoors, he's not going to do as well. If your kid's watching TV more than he's reading, he's not going to do as well.
GreyGeek:
--- Quote from: feralcatkillr on November 02, 2015, 10:41:51 AM ---Somebody has to fix my iPhone when it breaks.
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Most consumer electronics these days are non-fixable throwaways. For things that can be fixed, like battery replacement on iPhones, the people that do that are citizens of China.
JTH:
--- Quote from: GreyGeek on November 05, 2015, 09:34:53 PM ---Most consumer electronics these days are non-fixable throwaways. For things that can be fixed, like battery replacement on iPhones, the people that do that are citizens of China.
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Really? We send our phones to China to have their batteries replaced?
Or all people who work in Apple stores (who do battery replacement here in the U.S.) all are Chinese citizens who came here?
Huh. Who knew.
GreyGeek:
--- Quote from: jthhapkido on November 06, 2015, 11:10:20 AM ---Really? We send our phones to China to have their batteries replaced?
Or all people who work in Apple stores (who do battery replacement here in the U.S.) all are Chinese citizens who came here?
Huh. Who knew.
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You must enjoy ragging on people. If you send or take your iPhone 6+ with a dead or defective battery and $80 off to an Apple Service center they will transfer your data over to a refurbished iPhone 6+ and send or give that one back to you. They send your device to China where technicians there, at slave labor wages, replace the battery and send it back to US Apple service centers as refurbished devices. Do you really think Apple would pay for expensive American labor to replace batteries?
Of course, if you are technically minded you can replace the battery yourself. They cost about $20:
http://www.directfix.com/product/IP-2867.html?gclid=CKe_84bT_MgCFYRFaQod01cEOA
but you'll need a set of tools to do the job. Those will cost you about $25. Total: $50 bucks and your time. The howto is here:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2014/12/28/how-to-replace-the-iphone-6s-battery/
if your iPhone is out of warranty it might be worth a try. You save $30 if your time isn't worth anything, but the risks are a lot higher because the work of replacing it is delicate.
Now get off my back.
JTH:
--- Quote from: GreyGeek on November 06, 2015, 02:45:34 PM ---You must enjoy ragging on people. If you send or take your iPhone 6+ with a dead or defective battery and $80 off to an Apple Service center they will transfer your data over to a refurbished iPhone 6+ and send or give that one back to you. They send your device to China where technicians there, at slave labor wages, replace the battery and send it back to US Apple service centers as refurbished devices. Do you really think Apple would pay for expensive American labor to replace batteries?
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I'm just curious how you know that instead of taking 5 minutes to change a battery in-store, Apple instead takes the phone, ships it to China, has THEM take 5 minutes to change the battery, then ships it back to America.
For all iPhones, since you originally said: "For things that can be fixed, like battery replacement on iPhones, the people that do that are citizens of China."
You have a tendency to make sweeping statements that you can't support, so I'm curious how you know that all iPhones are sent to China for battery replacement.
--- Quote ---Now get off my back.
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Public forum, public comments, and large, sweeping statements phrased as facts. If you can't back them up or annoyed by people asking how you got your facts, maybe you should phrase things as opinions.
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