My wife and I are looking to replace our old refrigerator. Samsung is off the list of companies to look at.

By demanding that employees return to the office will have the effect of making it easier for Microsoft's competitors to poach the best people. Offering people the opportunity to work from home is a lot cheaper than a bump in salary, options, and signing bonus to get them to jump ship. The mediocre employees, those who are one poor quarterly performance review away from a PIP (Performance Improvement Plan), will stick it out and start coming into the office. Someone need to tell management to look up the term "unintended consequence" on Wikipedia.

Sounds like a wet dream for the Stasi. Look it up if you don't know what that is.

Some of these companies are going forward with construction projects because after giving local politicians bribes, excuse me "Campaign Contributions" , they got all the permits lined up so they can build their new, ego stroking buildings. Most of these permits have a time limit on them, ie. start building by X date or the permit expires. The companies realize that if the permits expire the chances of getting new permits are slim to none since the voters who live around these project are unhappy and will vote for politicians who will promise not to let such and such company build another monstrosity in their district.

I've met John Draper a few times at geek gatherings. He is a bit off and and some of his behavior could be interpreted as being inappropriate. I've heard stories but they were always of the "friend of a friend" kind.

Object lesson: You open a forum up for adult themed stuff and you have just invited in the weird kink stuff.

One man's weird kinky is another's vanilla.

Dump the p0rn and everyone bails. Now they are rearranging the deck chairs. "Hey, I ordered my whiskey neat. What is this ice doing in my drink?"

My first draft of any code always ends with "What the fuck was I thinking. This is a total piece of shit. If my boss ever finds out what a fraud I am I'll never get paid. Maybe I can re-write this and not have it totally suck."

My bother-in-law is a moderately successful businessman living in Los Angeles. He is insured through Kaiser. He had to wait 6 months to get a knee replacement.

Yes (..no system is perfect, but this one's a better option. I know because I've been through Canada's health system)

Which province and what years ?

20% of Canadians can't find a family doctor at all.

Please provide a link to substantiate this stetment

My grandfather used to say "First step in getting out of a hole is to stop digging" I'm guessing this guy does not understand that the people who post to Reddit are the ones creating content for free. I have just stopped going to Reddit, other should do the same. When the big wigs notice a drop in traffic maybe, just maybe, they will rethink their position.

Having worked at several companies that based their web presence on AWS I can tell you that cost is WAY MORE than a few bucks.

Exactly my point. Jack Welsh and the people at the top made out like a bandit, the workers got FUCKED.

Ask Jack Welsh and GE how it went.