Sadly so true. At this point the scammed students might seek competent and qualified legal advice on their best options to deal with this situation.

I agree 100% with Everything you said. When you are your own employer, you cannot escape the realty, that you can only get your customers pay for the value you created, and if you fail a something, the consequences are entirely on you.

Working by the clock, means you have a very constant, steady workload. So the amount of accomplished tasks equals the time spent working.

Although:
- Employers will tend to increase the workload within the same time span.
- Employees will push the other way and slow down their work until end of work time.

This method is praised because it simplifies management. It is just laying time tables and checking employees are on their assigned time.

While paying by the accomplished tasks within a defined time frame is more appropriate and fair for both employers and employees.

It has virtues:
- Employers pays proportionally to the value created by the work actually done.
- Employees are motivated to optimize their tasks, do time managements, adjust their work load to fit their own constraints, health, children education, income needs.

The drawback of this, is that it needs more qualified, more capable managers with a good understanding of tasks, capable of managing projects, dispatching tasks and adjusting the workload per employee, perform periodic team synchronizations, adjustments.

To summarize, the clocked work time need time managers, whereas the tasks oriented work requires projects managers.

Sure it'd be safer, unless the blind replacement does not fly off mid-air like that door plug.

As de Gaulle once said: Les cimetières sont remplis de gens irremplaçables cemeteries are full of indispensable people.

You mean I can shelf my Cap’n Crunch whistle and still screw Ma Bell for free?

I enjoyed Everquest I and a good chunk of Everquest II befor I even went to WoW. Then it got boring when they introduced PVP Arenas. This gave a direction to the game that I didi not like and I quit.

Slashdot turned into a tabloid.

Once upon a time, it was news for nerds, it even had a partner Geekshop.

Now it is a tabloid for grandma with fearful stories about escaped monkeys.

Ok, fake Google Meet mislead users with running malware install in a PowerShell with copy-pasted code.

How do they get to this to begin with? I doubt it can sip-in with regular Google Meeting. Can it be, or one need to first be led to join a faked meeting for this to be possible?

Would lawyers be able to use these backdoors imposed by the government, to bring the case to a court and demand compensation for the victims, and sanctions for those responsible for this deliberate weakening of security?

Instead of calling me insane, perhaps you could try to understand the situation a little more deeply or at least argue about what I've said. It's much more polite and respectful when you reply to someone you don't know.

Of course not, there's no declaration of war if you stop at semantics. There has been no declaration of war. I can see that my use of the term “war” is provoking some very negative reactions.

So I'm going to go into a little more detail or precision.

The United States is one of the NATO countries that have voted for and are applying economic sanctions against Russia, and are supplying Ukraine with weapons against Russia. In this sense, the United States is, from Russia's point of view, in the hostile camp.

So I apologize to you, because the term war was exaggerated and inaccurate; because I lacked nuance here, I admit.

So yes, in any case, the state of relations between the US and Russia being what it is these days, it's no surprise that the Russian authorities are being tough on US companies.

Discord Inc. is a US company.
US with OTAN are at war with Russia.
Russia get economical sanctions being reinforced.

Anyone is surprised that Russia is not nice with US companies?

This is Mars, where do you get Oxygen to react Methane as an energy source?

And?

How much energy do you spend to extract and process the clay to extract this methane and all the process to extract an Oxydizer from a yet unknown source.

This is just to highlight this baseless stupid claim in the summary.

A more appropriate title would have been:
"A Robot Begins collecting samples of Melted Fuel From the Fukushima Nuclear Plant."

But whatever. The person who wrote the misleading title perfectly knows it is misleading.

Never take nuisance for ignorance.