Sure, you could just change the time that school starts for the few months of winter. And the parents who need to get their kids ready for school and/or drop them off at school can change what time they show up for work. And since the workers are showing up at a different time, businesses can change what hours they're open. And since these changes all have to happen on the same day, you'll need someone to decide what days the time changes should happen.

Congratulations, you've just invented Daylight Saving Time, just with everyone needing to remember new start times instead of changing the clocks.

Yeah, I thought of that after I posted. Unfortunately bribery isn't quite as illegal as it should be.

Congratulations, here's your medal for pedantic dickweedery. The example of shouting "Fire!" in a theater has always had the implicit assumption that there isn't really a fire. Everyone (except you, apparently) knows that, which is why nobody bothers saying it every time they bring up the example.

You mean Communism?

Or, more to the point, bribery of public officials.

And that's cutting me own throat.

Automobile model years have started in the autumn for as long as I can remember. There's nothing illegal about it because "model year" doesn't tell you anything specific about the vehicle, so there's nothing that would be subject to false advertising laws.

Wait until you find out about corporate fiscal years.

If any of us were fun at parties, we wouldn't be on Slashdot.

To be fair, Babylon 5 did that once in a while too. JMS said that his job wasn't to answer questions, it was to start bar fights. Believers is the prime example, though it's probably one of the least liked episodes of the entire show.

You can. Go to Menu -> Feeds and you'll get only posts from friends, groups you're in, and people/pages you follow, sorted chronologically with the newest posts first.

If you own a car that's valued at $50,000 after the year you buy it, you can easily afford $500 in tax.

Do any carriers still do that? I haven't checked AT&T or Verizon, but with T-Mobile you can buy a phone from them and they just add the price to your bill over 24 months.

I think T-Mobile has only done it that way for at least a decade. I know that when I bought my Nokia N900 15+ years ago, I switched to T-Mobile because they were already giving a $20/month discount if you already owned a phone.

This is a civil case, not a criminal case, so the burden of proof is only preponderance of the evidence (A very oversimplified explanation: in a criminal case, if the jury says "I don't know", the defendant wins, but in a civil case, the jury can't say "I don't know", they must pick a winner). If Meta tells the judge and jury that they have no idea how the decision of who to lay off was made, it's going to be very easy for the plaintiffs to find one bit of evidence or explanation that will tip the jury in their favor.

Not at all. If they use a metric of "Worked at least X hours in the past 12 months", and a person worked fewer than X hours because they were on parental leave, firing them would not be a "side effect of performance", it would be a direct violation of their legal protection.

Hahaha

Oh, you were serious. Let me laugh harder.