Germany pays you to recycle plastic bottles with the "pfand" system. Implement the same with batteries and the likes, load an extra cost at purchase time and get that money back once you properly recycle

Google's antitrust defeat in Europe reinforces a fundamental principle of the free market: fair competition ensures that superior products win on merit, not monopoly power.
When European goods outperform American rivals on U.S. soil, it is because those companies delivered greater innovation, efficiency, and quality. True economic freedom requires trusting citizens to choose the best product available, not restricting their access through state intervention or protectionist committees. Replacing consumer sovereignty with government-directed choice isn't free enterprise; it is central planning. And we already know what that kind of approach is called, don't we?!

agree. Excel too, ultimately, has those few features FOSS equivalents lack. Plus, there's always the doubt a compatible program isn't fully 100% compatible and you miss lost data

It should stop calling itself "Open" then

yes, they're the stars in this story!

If only the staff had union representation

I was really angry with IOMega, my IDE drive failed and I demanded a replacement. I did so through two channels: online and by phone. Result? I got two new drives and ultimately just one survived. My .5% was actually 66%?

Many clients were giving me material on 100MB disks, it was a de facto standard. I was liberated by ancient 3.5" floppys and my "slow" 56k was not such a bottleneck after all.

Then IOMega launched Jaz, pocketZip and then 250MB Zip.

They fragmented themselves... CDs easily took over although more fussy (e.g. they were never truly RW)

I still have a drawful of ZIP drives with God knows what still saved there :-(

I use multiple Windows PCs daily, I experience a total of perhaps 3 BSODs per year in total, hardly worrying.

"a mother of three and grandmother of five" yet she missed payments. No-one could step in???

I'd say the opposite. An AI client can be very low spec, so the buy/rent decision will tilt towards paying a fee to rent AI from the cloud rather than run it locally.

Have the AI say "please" and "thank-you" if it's so important. Are local managers that useless??? Or are they the premium wage currently getting in the way of profits?

So, you've been frozen for millennia, finally some being comes and thaws you, and brings you back to life only to try and kill you with antibiotics. Hell yeah, I stand with the ancient bacteria!!

They took the human out of the training and testing to cut corners, the staff played by the same rules!

Make training a personal experience again and this won't happen

PS: IMHO the partner failed the test because they got caught, part of the test was in fact how to use AI without the clients noticing :-)

Italy is not opening backdoors on any private personal system.

Italy wants to defend copyright holders and block pirate streaming services. Is that an absurd request?

yes