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Comment Former EA Corporate Head: Looking for a guillotine (Score 1) 6

Fun, this coming after the blowback from the former member of the corporate Eldritch Abomination head that said that single player games are dead. He had to eat crow and humble pie.

Believe Unity needs to have someone like the well passed brothers Disney at the helm. Not a penny pinching member from Entitled Assholes corporate suite.

Comment Re:Very fun and addictive. (Score 1) 34

Had one of those with just playing with Canadian locations. Just had to be wrong with the guess in BC and the answer being in PEI.

On the other hand, the territories and prairie provinces are much more fun.

Especially getting stuff where you've seen the bear shaped plates. For me, the territories will always feel like home.

Submission + - Engineer Sues Amazon For Not Covering Work-From-Home Internet, Electricity Bills (theregister.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Amazon's attempt to dismiss a lawsuit, brought by one of its senior software engineers, asking it to reimburse workers for internet and electricity costs racked up while working from home in the pandemic, has been rejected by a California judge. David George Williams sued his employer for refusing to foot his monthly home office expenses, claiming Amazon is violating California's labor laws. The state's Labor Code section 2802 states: "An employer shall indemnify his or her employee for all necessary expenditures or losses incurred by the employee in direct consequence of the discharge of his or her duties, or of his or her obedience to the directions of the employer."

Williams reckons Amazon should not only be paying for its techies' home internet and electricity, but also for any other expenses related to their ad-hoc home office space during the pandemic. Williams sued the cloud giant on behalf of himself and over 4,000 workers employed in California across 12 locations, arguing these costs will range from $50 to $100 per month during the time they were told to stay away from corporate campuses as the coronavirus spread. [...] Amazon's lawyers, however, believe the broadband and utility bills, and similar expenses, aren't the company's problem since it was following shelter-at-home orders, which require employees to stay away from the office.

But Vince Chhabaria, a US federal district judge in northern California, slapped down Amazon's attempt to kill off the lawsuit, and said the local government's orders don't necessarily absolve the company from liability. "What matters is whether Williams incurred those expenses 'in direct consequence of the discharge of his or her duties, or of his or her obedience to the directions of the employer'," Judge Chhabaria ruled [PDF] this week. "According to the complaint, Amazon expected Williams to continue to work from home after the stay-at-home orders were imposed. That is sufficient to plausibly allege liability, even if Amazon itself was not the but-for cause of the shift to remote work. Williams also plausibly alleges that his expenditures were necessary to do his job." Chhabaria did grant Amazon's request to dismiss the engineer's claims that it violated California's laws alleging "unfair business practices," but gave Williams's legal team 14 days to file an amended complaint.

Comment Facebook is Cancer? (Score 5, Insightful) 50

Who wouldn't blame me for making a joke about Facebook metastasizing into a digital carcinoma like Alphabet?

Pretty pathetic when we've seen this before with Microsoft of course. At least they wanted a monopoly on the software front with dipping into first party hardware creation from time to time.

In comparison, Facebook could have done more R&D with making their own branded crap. Might not pay off initially, but it gives some leverage on where to start with hardware creation.

Comment Re:I'm a night person (Score 1) 234

Pity we can't send you somewhere north of the 60th parallel.

Call back when you can't sleep during "night time" hours due to summer sunlight being around 20-24 hours depending on how far north you go. Or finding that your glowing orb of ass means nothing in an arctic environment with the corresponding moonlight.

Comment Iger Uppercut (Score 1) 8

If anything, Iger's reign at the House of Mouse needs to end. And probably take that penny pinching toady whose name sounds like an inverted pay cheque with him.

Times like this, I'd swear bringing back Eisner might be a good call. Or at least someone who would respect Walt Disney's own vision to the point where the overly positive yes men find themselves out of jobs.

Comment Re:Why is this bullshit on Slashdot? (Score 2) 179

On Topic: I wouldn't be surprised if it was some otaku who just went too far with his death threats. If anything, he's going to find himself drowning in the Sanzu rather than crossing it. (Styx should give the same concept as well if you think about it.)

But of course said bozo is going to be hanging about in a few places, last one being before a statue of the Buddha.

Off topic: You want to see people burning in Hell for loving anime?
All I have to say is you are one sorry little bitch who is about to find out if Ammit and Cerberus just found a new morsel of food.

Comment Re:occam razor principle (Score 1) 168

When have "AAA" publishers looking for a profits from CEOs whose salaries could easily fund a smaller more agile studio. Or could replace them with those who are more like the late Satoru Iwata, and willing to cut their own pay in slim times.

Really what needs to be done is take guys like Bobby Kotick out of the picture. He wants fear? Give me a few minutes with voting stock, and watch him fall flat on his ass as to change his contract to remove the golden parachute to replace it with one made of frayed nylon. Unfortunately guys like him have no clue about the industry, usually because they haven't had the chance to see what it's like on the ground in the trenches.

Unfortunately these sorry excuses for executives are usually the ones who whine about short term profits over longer term gains. Kind of sad that they look at the balance sheet and don't see that their exorbitant pay stubs are what happens to be screwing the damn ledger.

Comment Re:but what does this mean (Score 1) 513

Raise your Stargate universe with the Macross universe? Different media, same goal.

Where are the Zentradi when we need them? Humour me because it crossed my mind with a badly thought out Spacy.

Of course would love to have some popcorn when Washington finally gets what it has been asking for. Aliens with mecha that could put their lovely little military industrial complex to shame.

Aliens who have no problem with fighting, yet beaten quite badly by belting out a few tunes. Unless we wind up with the Marduk, then we're probably fucked again by their own songstresses buffing them up. Unless we happen to have the SDF-1 Macross park itself on the White House or Pentagon. That would be one hell of a redecoration for the place that loves to boast about muscle, yet doesn't care for peacemakers.

Pity the conservative warmonger that gets hoisted on his petard by being beaten badly with a beatitude.

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