This looks like the latest escalation in the tug-o-war between employers and remote workers. The relatively few people going to extraordinary efforts just to avoid doing the job they're being paid to do is going to ruin it for everyone else. Do you want to make return-to-office mandatory? Because creating AI fakes to pretend to be on work meetings sounds like a good way to make that happen.
Hahahahaha.
Bots and other bad actors thrive in free (as in beer) environments, for reasons that should be obvious. If we want to do anything meaningful about them, sites will need a nominal but real fee to use.
It's not what anyone wanted, but "free" was always inevitably going to lead to the Internet becoming a dump. The free ride is over.
"Fire Phone" is a terrible name
I suggest "Layoff Phone".
Windows is now slower than Linux.
To be clear, this was true over 20 years ago. (In light of which, the word "now" probably doesn't belong in the above phrase, since it implies recentness.)
Stop trying to change what the founding fathers made
The founding fathers didn't want a king.
And we don't have one. Or a Hitler. No matter how badly some people scream so.
"This loot box model that Valve has developed—charging an individual for a chance to win something of value based on luck alone—is quintessential gambling, prohibited under New York's Constitution and Penal Law," the complaint says. In one of the games, the process even resembles a slot machine, according James. Since the prizes in the loot boxes are determined randomly in accordance with odds set by Valve, James alleges, that effectively makes Valve an online casino. "Valve, a video game developer, has made billions of dollars by letting children and adults illegally gamble for the chance to win valuable virtual prizes," James posted on social media. "These features are addictive and harmful. That's why I'm suing to stop Valve's unlawful conduct and protect New Yorkers."
Zenith, Motorola (Quasar), Admiral, RCA, GE televisions in the United States.
Don't forget Curtis Mathes. Remember when they had their own high end stores?
LG, maybe...
Probably not for long. You may as well buy that no-name TV made in Vietnam now, because name brands have ceased to mean anything in this space. Just about everyone followed RCA and GE and Philco, who all stopped making sets in the 80's, and made all their TV money licensing their names to cheap Asian third parties. There hasn't been a real RCA TV since 1986.
Oh the day has come when people look at vile, despicable anti-capitalist actions in cities and think "lets do the same thing in farmlands".
Zoning laws, not high taxes, are the reason people are fleeing California.
Uh, it's both, and crime too.
The lack of multifamily housing (condos and apartment buildings) is why housing got so expensive.
Housing got expensive because California become like New York City: A place where the young want to be because its "the center of it all", which creates luxury pricing conditions for everything, not just housing. As packed as LA and the Bay Area have become, you're only going to get more apartments by seizing single family homes by eminent domain and tearing them down. That's not America, and even in California, that'll get you a fucking riot. Go on, try it and see.
Obviously they need to be purchased by either SpaceX or Tesla. Vertical integration ftw.
You'd be closing the circle, then. Musk founded PayPal as "X.com" in 1999. He's still the single largest shareholder. So it wouldn't shock anyone.
We need to eliminate car dependency and give people a choice of transportation. Freedom of mobility includes freedom to not travel by automobile. Side benefits include less pollution.
Bullshit. You already have that in cities. People have a variety of choices. Every big city in the US has both bus and light rail systems with very few exceptions (Cincinnati, for one). EVERY city of medium size on up has a bus system. What you really want is to force your post title on people: no cars at all. Your whole aim has nothing to do with "choice".
Physician: One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well. -- Ambrose Bierce
