Start with 10 years for his role in this mess and after that parole him as soon as everyone with these "illusory" losses is made whole.
Or better yet, stick him with the 100 year sentence and then after the defense can prove that every victim was made whole, drop the sentence to 5 years minimum, minus time served for the 100 year stint.
It's all the style to paint the current supreme court as conservative, and list all the really awful decisions they make along with their political leanings. It give us so much outrage and clicks!
In reality, if anyone ever took the trouble to *read* their decisions, they would find that the court makes really well-researched decisions based on the law.
Let's reiterate that point: the court doesn't rule on whether something is *right*, it only rules on whether something is *legal*.
Ah NO! - They make a ruling on whether or not THEY INTERPRET something as legal. A perfect example is the republican desire to overturn the Roe V Wade Supreme Court decision from 1973. Obviously a previous Supreme Court had determined the legality of the issue but the current panel had been pretty much hand picked to make sure that they would come to a different conclusion.
Now what I see with an "Apple Car" is that Apple is probably going to release something that is better than the Tesla on a luxury car platform, like Lexus (Toyota.) Not an American or European brand.
Apple is probably going to release something that they claim is better than the Tesla on a luxury car platform
Fixed that for you...
Where I live, for example? My only broadband option is Spectrum/Charter cable, and their gigabit Internet (which only provides 40mb/sec upload speeds) costs me about $110 a month. A relative few people in my city can also choose AT&T fiber where they pay a little bit less for gig fiber, but it's bidirectional so a much better value proposition. For 3 years now, though? I've been checking to see if AT&T fiber is available at my house, and they keep saying no. There's very little evidence they had any interest in expanding their fiber infrastructure in my city at all. I think they only brought it in, initially, for E911 services as part of some big modernization push. And they discovered it was easy enough to branch it off from there to a few neighborhoods to sell it.
We have cable internet where I live, it's actually OK, decent speeds. There's a fiber line (installed by the phone company) running up our road that provides fiber internet services to a community further up the road but the phone company is still telling us that fiber internet isn't available in our area. This is because of exclusivity deals with the cable provider. This practice is bullshit!
Clubs are worthless, all it takes is a pair of bolt cutters to remove it.
"But my club is made of diamond!"
Too bad your steering wheel isn't. And it remains plenty functional with a single cut in it, which is all that's needed.
Not ENTIRELY worthless, they are a deterrent to casual car thieves, given the choice a similar car with no steering wheel lock will get pinched instead of yours. But if a thief WANTS your car, they're going to get by pretty much any steering wheel lock, pretty quickly if they have the right tools.
Certifications to me felt like a drawback if i see them on a resume. They make no sense. It's pay-for-paper, the classes often come with indoctrination into a product line, no real quality I've seen from those with certifications except for lacking knowledge in anything not in the class.
The only benefit I could see, is someone changing professions later in life who isn't able to go back to school. But for someone junior - go to frigging school, even if it's junior college. For someone who did this later, then you can tell that they have some real job experience even if it's not coding, and that's a bonus. Just don't aim for the bottom, and certificates are sort of like aiming for the bottom; the least effort possible to try to convince someone to hire you instead of one of the millions of offshore rote programmers who are cheaper.
I completely agree with the pay-for-paper observation, especially if you look back to the dot.com boom in the late 90s, where any Joe Sixpack could get a certification over the weekend. However, I've worked at companies where promotions and raises were tied to getting certifications, which is worse than useless, IMHO.
a board made up of mostly elected members and a few appointed ones
This could turn out to be an issue, where the power players on the board are only there because they have the charisma to get elected or they get appointed a cushy job. Hopefully they will put restrictions on who is allowed to run for these positions.
The cost isn't zero, this perk does cost them money. The venn diagram of "people who work at Microsoft" and "people who would pay for the best game service" aren't two circles, there is going to be significant overlap.
I agree that this isn't a good idea. If only for the bad press.
I agree that the actual cost to Microsoft isn't zero, but it can't be very significant on a per employee basis. Also, I have to wonder if anyone actually did an analysis comparing number of employees that are eligible for this perk against number of employees that actually use it on a regular basis (not including the X-Box teams because they are keeping the perk) to try and gauge how many potentially pissed off employees they would have, or if some savings pillar group said we could get X 'extra' revenue if we started charging our employees for something we currently give them for free. My money is on the latter...
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.