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901.
by romwell 5y ago
I feel like the people we're arguing with are going around at night tearing down street signs: >We have GPS, nobody reads directions anyway. You should know your way around these parts. Getting lost is a part of life, deal with it.
902.
by romwell 5y ago
Again, as a tinkerer, I'm happily learning from your comments — thank you! But the general public can't be expected to know all that without it being even in the booklet that comes with the product. >Frankly, I am a bit astound
903.
by romwell 5y ago
You can get Moto G Power with a 2-day battery life[1], and it's not even thick. [1] https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/motorola-moto-g-power-2022
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by romwell 5y ago
FYI, Moto G Power is a $200 phone with a battery that lasts 2-3 days. It's the best phone I've ever had. With a 512GB SD card, and a built-in fat battery, I never have to worry about running out either of storage or power. It&#x27
905.
by romwell 5y ago
My angle is that you shouldn't throw stones, especially while living in a glass house. Saying that the OP has, quote, "eviscerated their own credibility as an engineer" without adding anything of value to the discussion (asid
906.
by romwell 5y ago
The charger needs not be present for injury. If you really want to stick to the bagel analogy, it's as if the bagel stabbed you back with a knife after you cut it and set the knife aside. I hope you would find such backstabbing bagels
907.
by romwell 5y ago
>As a result, they are required to be shipped with hazardous material declarations like the UN3481 stickers you'll find on everything. These modern hieroglyphics a)mean little to nothing, and b)stop existing once you remove a produc
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by romwell 5y ago
>To be clear, it isn't the cell dropping below 2.5V that will cause the cell to turn into a bomb, it is afterwards attempting to recharge it that is dangerous.Stop using and never charge a Li-ion cell that's voltage dropped too
909.
by romwell 5y ago
>This only counts if you’re buying it from the artist directly. Yup, that's the point. What value is there in a receipt that says "I paid money to the person that supported the artist"?
910.
by romwell 5y ago
In defense of provenance, there's value in saying "I have contributed to this by chipping in". You can print off a digital painting on your inkjet, but paying for a signed print means you are enabling the artist to create mor
911.
by romwell 5y ago
>Yes, and most are entirely unaware of the dangers and best practices. [It] may have happened even if the product was new [...] It could have burned the house down. And yet, the calls to add labels that would allow consumers to tell whic
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by romwell 5y ago
>Although, to be fair, given the number of objects compared to the number of failures, we're pretty close. Did you ever pause to think why that's the case? That wasn't the case 100 years ago, when Radium was a fun new chem
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by romwell 5y ago
Pardon me, but when you say "it works this way", what exactly do you mean? The specific way the justice system operates in the US isn't the way things are done in Europe or China. In particular, lack of regulations is justifi
914.
by romwell 5y ago
>The biggest problem for OP is that they messed up their first response, maybe due to inadequate fire safety training Maybe due to that training not being required to use headphones. And maybe due to no information of what to do in such
915.
by romwell 5y ago
Of course, but we don't have the capacity to do an investigation of this sort - Bose does; and we don't have the authority to force Bose to conduct it - CPSC does, as do the courts. Hence my suggestions to direct our efforts towar
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by romwell 5y ago
>You're conflating... I am conflating nothing as I was summarizing the comments of other people in that sentence. The other comments do conflate different battery types; you can educate the people who make them. Ctrl+F "lithium
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by romwell 5y ago
>The issue here is not your European upbringing but rather the American justice system That's right, and let me fix the rest of the comment: > Suing Americans can be awarded enough money to pay for their medical bills in some ca
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by romwell 5y ago
>I have set some things on fire spontaneously That's you setting things on fire. Here, the user did not set the headphones on fire. If normal operation can cause the headphones to catch fire, Bose should market these headphones as
919.
by romwell 5y ago
There is no such thing as "sue-happy American consumer". There is, however, an American consumer whose only way to get their medical bills paid in case they are hurt by negligence or harmful actions of a corporate entity, is to s
920.
by romwell 5y ago
>I would say a step further: instruction manuals are inundated with worthless warnings, and there is no sense to the user which are real threats... This is not the case. Neither in general, nor, in particular, in the case of Bose QC-35 I
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by romwell 5y ago
You seem to ask the question in bad faith, as clearly this is not the right place to find out these statistics. Google is your friend. There is evidence that warnings, in general, do work. There is also evidence that wired headphones, which
922.
by romwell 5y ago
Why are we discussing this here? A bagel sitting on a shelf isn't going to cut you up. Bose QC-35 II headphones, apparently, may catch on fire and cause chemical burns when touched. Analogies are great for illustrating a point, but i
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by romwell 5y ago
>I think this can all be true. ER doctors say avocados are one of the most dangerous fruits because of knife accidents. This analogy doesn't apply. Avocados don't lunge at unsuspecting people with knives while they're not
924.
by romwell 5y ago
Yes, which makes it even more absurd that people here are complaining about calls to increase J by having the OP sue Bose (given that increasing J is the only way we can actually make them care). Everything about it is quite unfortunate.
925.
by romwell 5y ago
$100 might be tough to get, but my Moto G Power was $200, and I don't feel it's limited in any way. Heck, with the SD card slot I can film terabytes worth of videos and not worry about storage ever , and it lasts 2 days on a sing
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by romwell 5y ago
>should it? Yes, it should, because people expect wireless headphones to be as safe as wired ones, which have exactly 0% (zero, zlich, nada) chance of spontaneously catching on fire. Wired headphones are still widely used, made, and sold
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by romwell 5y ago
My rhetorical strategy resulted in the OP filing the report with the CPSC. As far as strategy goes, mission accomplished. The purpose of further discussion is that I enjoy it; these are not the views I thought needed to be advanced on the
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by romwell 5y ago
>That same process happens to every log I burn in my fireplace. Pray tell where you get the self-igniting logs. Last time it lit a fire, it took some effort to get it going. Also, feel free to take it to Webster. And The Free Dictionary[
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by romwell 5y ago
My apologies, and thank you!
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by romwell 5y ago
> The "Bose is evil" camp are probably the same ones who would damn anyone straight to hell for ever giving money to them I think the money I paid for my Bose SoundLink Mini II is very much well-spent, and I don't know of

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