So, what about those walking noise pollution emitters with their bluetooth speakers blasting obscenity-laced 'songs' featuring whatever topic they're promoting this moment? What about them, hm? Even going so far as to drown out the local muzak or people trying to hold a conversation at decent volume with someone near them.

That's what I want to know. Where would such a guide, with illustrative examples, fall in this quagmire of IP management? Surely the use (and understanding) of AI prompts will become more and more important as time goes by. Somebody somewhere is going to write a guide (if there aren't a slew of them already). How much of said guide will be subject to copyright and who gets the revenue?

The moment the big switch begins, we all know what will happen to electricity prices, right? The gouging will deep and very painful. How about making roof solar panels and small wind turbines a lot more affordable and tax free? That might just mitigate the need for bigger generating plants. In the end, electricity will be very much more in demand. Unless that can be an affordable resource, life will not change much.

The surcharges are B.S. and I simply wouldn't patronize such a place. Tipping has already gotten out of hand as it is. Adding other fees and charges simply drives the cost of eating out even further out of range for some of us.

One would think that, as public servants, they would have everything they say held up to the fire of fact checking, so that they can be held accountable? After all, the assumption that they, our duly elected official representative, will do their due diligence representing those who put their faith in them in the first place?

Maybe I'm just a bit too deluded, thinking that politicians, of all people, might actually be expected to be anything other than completely corrupt, corporately sponsored shills...

This was the exact same case at the turn of the century, if not the last 50 years, and it's only now getting mainstream attention? People have mortgaged their very lives for education that was supposed to let them pay off the student loans they took out to get the coveted education that ultimately earned them a minimum wage job at the bottom of the pecking order in bloated companies. Old news is still news, I guess.

If you're rich, you can bend (or ignore) the rules that apply to everybody else.
Just another example that screams "Privilege" in a voice loud enough that many people can actually hear.

They tried all this before and it bit them hard.
They seem to have managed to get a whole lot of companies to buy into their Office Subscription business model, so now they think their OS as a service will fly this time.
I'd ask how stupid people are, but I have been to Walmart, so I know already.
This is a great way to push people to Linux.

When companies are hiring people at a higher rate of pay that the folks who toughed it out through the hardest parts of the pandemic, the rest of us get a little miffed that we aren't even offered a token raise for our dedication and hard work.
Needless to say, if the employers don't show appreciation for those who stuck by them, why in the world would they expect people to stay?
Last year, when the Canadian government handed out "incentive pay" to assorted front line workers of up to $4/hr, people were very thankful to get it, and really felt the loss of it when employers cut it out. Many only got a Part of that,and the employers kept the rest for themselves...
Walmart gave its front liners $2/hr "incentive pay" but deducted it dollar-for-dollar from the yearly "bonus".
You want to talk about ticking off your employees? Walmart corporately made Record Breaking Profits throughout the crisis, but can't make their little incentive perk of $2/hr permanent as a reward to those who stayed in the trenches and dealt with the rabid anti-maskers and other free radicals?
Good Grief!
The Exodus is coming, and the big employers are not going to even Try to retain those they have shafted, nor are they willing to consider what they have done wrong, as they continue to exploit the impoverished population that needs work.

Sooner or later, those who spew disinformation will have to face their lies in court. If they take someone to court over "damages" caused by their lies being proven to be so, the fact checker should have the right to counter sue. After all, the facts are rather non-negotiable. Only if the fact checker doesn't manage to prove their facts as true, should they be subject to a fine for defamation.

I guess they don't understand the concept of ownership and product sales with regular use.
This will easily make people pirate their own legally owned product, or jail-break them.
Then there's the pirate source sites that will pop up.
All in all, it will leave a bad taste in peoples' mouths over that attempt to rent back something already paid for and owned.

Bad News: their "employees" will continue to give out their own personal numbers and do rides "off the meter" for their own profit.
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The Good News: they can FIRE anyone caught doing that (and possibly sue them for losses).
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Now, they need to add a license to anyone who wants to do that job, and you can kill off Gypsy Cabs. (Or at least, take a bite out of them).

So many drivers give out their personal cards and numbers, so they can make runs without being on the company's take and simply pocket the whole thing. I have seen this so many times here in Canada. It's a wonder that they are still in business at all.

The general populace can't seem to wear a single mask properly or consistently now. What makes anyone think that doubling up would actually get practised?

People that think they are immune to the rules of the road tend to disregard those rules for their own convenience. After all, they see themselves as "pedestrians" and not vehicles. This means that directional signs (and even Stop signs0 are "optional" of unenforceable on them.
We see a lot of that behaviour in southern Ontario.