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Comment No one is stopping him from paying people... (Score 3, Informative) 257

... to work 70 hours.

I've historically gone beyond 40 hours per week, but I was paid for every single one of them. It's how I got ahead before my salary got high enough that 40 is enough.

What he wants is to pay people for 40 hours and then have them double their hours for no additional compensation.

People certainly can find another 30 hours to get paid if they want to. But that isn't what this is.

Comment Chapek Got Greedy (Score 1) 13

Chapek was too profit motivated and lost sight of Disney's first principle: show.

Maintenance and cleaning were overlooked to cut costs and guests were complaining.

Disney had no choice but to fire him. He was an idiot. Bob Iger apparently got bamboozled because I don't know how Chapek could get past the vetting process and then be such a loser. If I wanted to go to a badly maintained park, I'd go to Six Flags. Disney would never let their entrance signs be so rusty.

When Iger got back, parks were taken care of and Holiday decorations became a priority again.

Comment Re:Bias much? (Score 1) 372

"Under Chevron, a court defers to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, as long as the judge finds the interpretation to be reasonable. If the court limits or upends the Chevron doctrine, the ruling would pull back the leeway that agencies have had in interpreting statutes."

They are expert witnesses for the court. They aren't acting as judges.

Comment Paying Management, Not the Workers (Score 2) 55

As usual.

If they want their bonuses, they have to lean on their workers who have no financial incentive to put in the extra time or effort. A lot of security issues come from workers just not knowing what they're doing. Which means they need the compensation to go pay for classes and to put in the hours to become better so that they don't accidently put in security holes.

Comment This applies more to gym memberships (Score 1) 89

Netflix and other legitimate services generally make it painless to cancel the service.

With gym memberships, you may need to get comfortable with the idea that you have to close out the account with the bank entirely. When I had an issue with a gym, the customer support rep knew exactly what to do and that was the end of that. And I didn't need to switch credit card companies.

But, your results may vary.

Comment Probably security (Score 1) 26

You would either have to have a wire going from your phone to your glasses or send the information wirelessly through something like Bluetooth.

Having a self contained device means you don't have to worry about someone eavesdropping while you're looking at your phone typing in pin numbers and passwords.

The glasses using WIFI to send images and audio to a hardcoded IP address with SSL makes it easier to secure.

Comment Lulu (Score 1) 37

Lulu.com has been around since 2002. You can get a black and white book of reasonable length with a full color cover printed for under $4. And they can do additional work so your book can be sold directly on Amazon.

This isn't dealing with the publishing side. It's dealing entirely with the teams of people used to write some books and how to manage profit sharing.

If you can write your own books and have your own audience, this isn't for you. If you need 20 people to write a book, this might be for you.

Less than 1000 individual fiction authors in the United States make a living at it. Doing collaborative work might produce enough revenue to actually pay people.

Comment Re:Power analogy (Score 1) 44

No, it's charging you for the cost of providing power to your house from the power station and charging Twitch for the cost of getting power from their building to your power provider.

Twitch to you is 1000 miles, and the ISP wants to be paid for the 900 miles from Twitch to the ISP and to charge the customer for the 100 miles from the ISP to their house.

Where it's a problem is where routing is so bad you're paying for more miles than is necessary.

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