It might be wise to realize that the following people might not have been able to function in society and achieve what they achieved if "survival of the fittest" was the way forward:
- Alexander Graham Bell (learning disability)
- Thomas Edison (Slightly deaf, learning disability)
- Albert Einstein (Aspbergers Syndrome, possibly dyslexic)
- Henry Ford (Dyslexic)
- Stephen Hawking (Motor neurone disease)
- Isaac Newton (Stutter, epilepsy)
- Leonardo Da Vinci (dyslexic)
- Pythagoras (epilepsy)
- H.G. Wells (diabetes)
Also interesting to note that almost all of these people lived in non socialist democratic cultures, but rather more conservative, small government, and/or oligarcy/monarchy/despotic cultures. Only after WWII did the modern Western European social democratic model start to really take shape. So what's your point? Some of the great minds in human history were not 100% healthy people?
Dislexia and learning disabilities are hardly life threatening conditions if we are talking survival of the fittest.
The human brain is the greatest survival tool in the natural world, as it allows us to overcome physical limitations avd facilitates concious sentient thought - and that is why we are top of the food chain and the pinnacle of Earth's evolutionary life at the moment.
The fine line between genius and lunacy is documented to be very fine indeed. Most of the world's greatest brains throughout history have included some sort of abnormality, whether it be a social behavior or learning disability or a motor skill disfunction or terminal abnormal deterioration and this doesn't appear to a coincidence, and it has nothing to do with the societal bend of the culture one finds themselves in.
Both of the comments are stupid.
To the original comment - Social democracy has nothing to do with people complaining or their sense of entitlement. Exponential increases in the channels with which they can complain, such as the advent of the internet, social media, the evolution of reality and viral "news" outlets, etc. combined with the general degeneration of human society's attention span that has reduced the relevance of any piece of information that takes longer tham 15 seconds to digest to nothing - have created an atmosphere where this type of thing is not only accepted, it is encouraged by the monetisation of page views, clicks, exposures, and unique visitors, etc.
The rebuttal is equally silly as it does nothing to refute the original claim, but tries to argue that because some great smart people were sick, that socialism is not to blame? Who took care of all of those people? Hmmm...not citizens tax dollars funneled through social welfare programs, I can guarantee you that!
Let's take a step back and assume that these people have legitimate concerns. It isn't their fault and who are any of us to go and ricidule them? On the other hand, read Apple's terms of use, that you all accept and approve when you set up that iDevice for the first time. They won't get sued for any of this, because everyone has signed away almost all their rights to do so as a direct result of using the hardware or software. In addition, any possible damages would be insignificant, and the tiny minority that actually have legitimate claims would probably not constitute a large enough group to pursue a class action because there would not be enough monetary damages to get a proper law firm involved on their behalf (and we're not talking about dumping waste in a river and killing people here are we?).
If there is enough hype created, Apple will probably release an update that allows for the disabling of the transitions as well as the parallax.
I have nothing against the people complaining - but on the one side, nobody is forcing you to us iOS 7 in the first place. If it is causing you problems, and Apple won't help you, and you don't want to go back to iOS 6.1.4 or .3 on the iPad, then Android and Windows are both perfectly viable alternatives, and you can have FaceBook, Skype, PayPal, Google+, DropBox, and even Angry Birds on all 3 platforms!
Apple's loss is their gain? I've heard that a Roku 3 with a new Nexus 4, new Nexus 10, and a Chromebook with a good Linux distro installed and a NAS is a pretty sweet setup, and can rival an iPhone/iPad/AppleTV/Macbook Air setup once everything is configured properly.
