{"id":2649,"date":"2009-11-17T00:03:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T22:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2009-11-17T12:44:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T10:44:49","slug":"reporting-the-hand-that-gives-you-cellphones-to-the-proper-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/reporting-the-hand-that-gives-you-cellphones-to-the-proper-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting the hand that gives you cellphones to the proper authorities."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung, or<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromstockholmwithlove.com\/\"> their ad agency<\/a> rather, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsungshakedown.com\/\">threw a competition<\/a> where you call a number of a phone to make it vibrate off of a plexiglas platform, onto concrete or into a tank with goldfish. The phones are of the rugged kind, so the competition killed two birds with one stone, providing both a neat online interactive experiment, as well as making the proof of the phones ruggedness conditional of winning it.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, I reported them to the animal rights people, as well as contacting Samsung directly. Had those fish instead been kittens \u2014\u00a0or if the phones literally were aimed for the previously mentioned birds \u2014\u00a0you wouldn&#8217;t have had to argue much before getting the animals removed from a stressful sitiation, but seeing as it&#8217;s much harder to sympathise with fish, it took a call from the department of agriculture for the fish to be removed.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s awesome that there are enough resources, and laws to direct said resources, to care even for the rights of really boring creatures. Having said that, I realise those fish might have been flushed down the crapper.<\/p>\n<p>[flv:https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_video\/Samsungshakedown.flv https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/blog_video\/Samsungshakedown.jpg 640 360]<\/p>\n<p>The other part of the story is concerned with the cellphone marked &#8220;00&#8221; in the video above \u2014 barely missing the tank \u2014\u00a0which is the one I won by ringing frantically, shouting excitedly in front of my computer. I&#8217;m only half expecting a dead fish in the mail. I&#8217;m sure there is a moral to be learned here, and perhaps there&#8217;s even a suitable biblical parable, but I think Petter put it best using the ancient art of rhetorical questioning:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You won a cellphone and reported them using your own name? You did not win a cellphone.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung, or their ad agency rather, threw a competition where you call a number of a phone to make it vibrate off of a plexiglas platform, onto concrete or into a tank with goldfish. The phones are of the rugged kind, so the competition killed two birds with one stone, providing both a neat online &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/reporting-the-hand-that-gives-you-cellphones-to-the-proper-authorities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reporting the hand that gives you cellphones to the proper authorities.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[867,1155,1157,584,1154,1156],"class_list":["post-2649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","category-video","tag-animal-rights","tag-but-its-so-shiny","tag-choices-choices","tag-competition","tag-goldfish","tag-hypocrite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}