I believe the 110% here can be interpreted as "beyond a sustainable pace", thus leading to burnout (white collar) or injury (blue collar). Amazon seem to have high employee churn baked into their business model.

The greedy bastards raise the price every year and have it saturated with advertising, 20-30 minutes every hour concentrated in the latter half. And the few good shows end up on specialty channels that cost extra.

When the hiring manager has starry-eyed young hopefuls lined up out the door and around the block, who view a game developer job as the culmination of their lifelong dream, of course working condition will be shit. Because you're all easily replaceable. So you put in unpaid overtime during crunch time and get laid off after the product ships. Contrast this to someone who does non-glorified skilled work and has a reliable job and decent work/life balance.

Why not regulate this so the public has access to "Universal Basic Entertainment" to simulate how it was in the good old days of antenna TV? A basic Steam/GoG/Netflix offering that every resident can access anywhere. It will be funded by huge companies that shop around for the best state tax incentives.

'Cable' is a generic and outdated term to describe pay TV. Now we've got IPTV and the method of delivery is inconsequential. What utility doesn't come through a cable or pipe?

Maybe kids have trouble with math because they're taught that their unrefined and subjective emotions are significant. The apologist author of this paper seems be afflicted by the same problem.

Why does this columnist seem so damn smug about the prospect of losing a convenient payment option that has no middleman taking a cut?

Sounds like the bereaved family was looking for something to fuss about and latched on to this. Miserable people often do their best to make others miserable too. Good way to get the bill reduced.

There is no doubt that the contract stated exactly what the penalty for cancellation would be. The lady didn't read it.

It's not complicated to get out of a contract when the service is unreliable. You just have to consistently take the time to report your problem. The ISP sends a truck out to the house at their expense. The problem persists, so you call in and complain and get another truck . Repeat a few more times, get a few more trucks. Eventually the problem will be fixed or it will become apparent to the ISP that they're paying more for trucks than you're paying them for service. Then you've got good grounds for cancellation with the penalties waive. You can even ask the tech to leave a note on your file that the problem is unfixable; they're the authority on the matter.

If you sever your service before you've allowed the ISP what they consider sufficient opportunity to fix the problem, then they'll stick you every time.

> you were 'exposed' to uranium by OSHA's definition Sounds like weasel words to me. Someone's trying to blow a story out of proportion. The staff may have reason to be concerned though.

This is putting the cart before the horse. Corporations exist at the benevolence of society not the other way around. Amazon Corp uses strong arm tactics to wheedle their way out of paying the taxes that they exist to generate, because they are big enough to play municipal governments against each other. Time to break them up.

Calm down snowflake. You willfully miss the point with your indignant screeching. The subject is people who 'need' a free ride from our tax money, and the concern is that they not be dependent on handouts for the rest of their lives due to lack of self-motivation. Can confirm that being down and out is an excellent motivator to become employed and self-sustaining. A concern worth screeching about is that our employers are axing jobs left and right, reducing wages and job quality, as automation rolls through so that more and more classes of workers are considered 'lucky' to still have any job. And the citizens are the ones who motivate them by shopping for the lowest price.

My smartphone can make phone calls, video calls, read e-mail, play music, interface with other devices with bluetooth, act as a GPS navigation system, browse websites, and stream videos on a beautiful high resolution screen—all while holding enough charge to last all day. And even the cheapest models on the market can do all these things, since Moore's Law is no longer rendering old phones quickly obsolete. There is finally value in repairing your existing phone, and in buying used phones.

These cards often are posted right near the end of a video. I click on the video to pause it and end up hitting one of the links. I doubt that's a coincidence. Should use spacebar instead though.

We should enact legislation to rebalance selling practices. A strong economy depends on sensible public policy. I say enough of these disingenuous pre-arranged sale events. Sales should be unintended accidents where the merchant is happy to unload the product to whoever will buy it, and never planned in advance. No loss leaders allowed, and no running at a loss to gain market share by squeezing out the competition. The legislation should include penalties substantial enough to make enforcement profitable. The only way that bad business can change is by consistent and repeated punches to the wallet.