As in, these multi $billion companies have only themselves to blame. All the penny-pinching to placate shareholders does no good when the company dries up because all the customers gave them the middle finger.
BNSF Railway laid off a couple hundred mechanical folks on Monday. They dumped about 450 mechanical folks a year and a half ago too.
It's not just white collar.
I mean, like the shareholders. Are all Boeing's shareholders OK? Obviously the passengers/crew and some people on the ground are dead, but won't someone think of the shareholders?!?
So the merchant, in what used to be called a "free" country, cannot sneak in any fees whatsoever.
But the GOVERNMENT can!
If you're going to mandate honest pricing, it should absolutely include every government fee and tax as well. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
THERE's the problem.
I freaking HATE those things.
Give me actual physical cash, or at least an actual physical gift card/Visa card and the results will be different.
Wow.
That is absolutely provably demonstrably FALSE.
Reddit is by far the deepest and most expansive leftist cesspool on the planet. It makes a DNC convention look like a Sunday morning Catholic mass.
So, what you are saying is also...
The CNN/MSNBC/CNBC/etc propaganda machine is paid for by every American who buys a cable package.
We watch a decent amount of OTA TV, partly because it is free. Local news, regular broadcast shows, that sort of thing.
But I've already invested in tuners and infrastructure for watching it. I'm not going to re-invest in stuff yet again only to be ridiculously saddled with DRM.
OTA DRM can go to hell and never come back.
That's actually not true.
They have data showing it will be a net loss for them in revenue. But the exec who provided that data to the board was summarily fired.
if you don't watch any of them!
I kinda hate TV. I very very rarely watch anything, and if I do, it's live news for something significant happening (breaking news or cultural, like a State of the Union or similar).
My wife is the opposite. If she is anywhere within the house, the TV is guaranteed to be on. Drives me insane.
CEOs should get jail time for allowing data breaches to happen on their watch.
That'd fix this problem REAL fast.
As it stands now, the problem is they simply don't care. They've no doubt evaluated the monetary cost to harden their systems and compared it to the monetary cost of the occasional data breach, and concluded that it is cheaper to just ignore the problem and pay for the cleanup afterwards.
The original Parallels would run on a PowerPC Mac and emulate x86 hardware. It also was excruciatingly slow.
What's also wrong, is that educational institutions don't take a hit when borrowers default. If their money was at risk, they would be a little more careful about which students, and what kind of degrees, they agreed to accept through financing. Instead, taxpayers are on the hook when borrowers fail to pay.
CORRECT!!!
Student loans should be 100% a function of the specific college or university where you attend, NOT the government. That'd fix this problem real fast.
A dramatically higher percentage of Democrats have Masters degrees or PhDs and work in high-paying professions.
And those people don't even know how to use a screwdriver or change a tire.
I ought to be able to go into the CableCo "restaurant" and pay for INDIVIDUAL television channels!
As it stands now, to continue their analogy, If I go into CableCo's "restaurant" and just want a side of fries and nothing else, they'll tell me "sorry, can't do that. You have to buy three burgers, two steaks, five drinks, six sides, fifteen desserts and four adult beverages, that's our only option to get fries."
Established technology tends to persist in the face of new technology. -- G. Blaauw, one of the designers of System 360
