This might not be such a good idea as Vegas was begging Canada to come back. Their tourism isnâ(TM)t what it used to be and talk of 51st state has turned off Canadian tourism.

For 20 years, plus or minus, personal computers reversed that idea.

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

The only problem with this is you have to go stand in the sunlight to charge it.

Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

Maybe the idea should be to tell a compelling story. Once you got that down, you can be as diverse and inclusive as you like, people will watch it. Not because it's diverse or inclusive but because it has a compelling story.

Take Star Trek. TOS. That was a revolutionary show back in the days. A black female officer at the height of the civil movement and a Russian navigation officer only a few years after the whole McCarthy era. And let's not forget the first interracial kiss in a nationally broadcast TV show.

And guess what, it was a success. It still is. Mostly because it actually had an interesting story to tell.

Even Goebbels knew that you can slip any and all sorts of propaganda into your programming, but first and foremost, people have to WANT to watch your show. They'll easily accept all the propaganda you want to add, but first you MUST entertain them!

Too bad, you could actually have learned something.

Oh well, some people just prefer to pretend they already know everything.

"Ok, folks, we're losing subscribers. Why did people sign up with us in the first place?"
"Well, mostly because they were fed up with cable TV and we offered an alternative that only only let them choose what they wanted to see but was also heaps cheaper."
"Great. So what could we do to be more like cable TV?"
"We could throw in some programs nobody asked for and up the price."
"Perfect, let's do that!"

Neither does anyone else currently subscribed to Netflix, but how else could you justify yet another price hike so soon after the last one if you don't throw in another shovel of garbage?

Well, it's sweaty guys in ridiculous outfits... yeah, it's sports.

Perfect security isn't one that keeps you from getting where you want to go by reminding you of its presence with every step you take.

Perfect security is so stealthy that you don't even know it is there until you try to do something that compromises it.

Security that gets into your way is something you WILL get rid of, and without a guilty conscience. You're doing it to improve your productivity. An example:

If you work in a warehouse where stuff gets stolen and security demands that the doors are closed and locked at all times, and your job is to carry boxes out to the delivery truck, your work cycle is like this: Pick up a crate, carry it to the door, unlock the door, open the door, carry the box through the door, close the door, lock the door, carry the box to the delivery truck, return to the door, unlock the door, open the door, step through the door, close the door, lock the door, start over.

How many times do you think the average worker will do that before there's a wedge under the door to keep it open?

You have to use our products.

You will be judged by your security work.

Double bind at its finest.

Part of that pitting smarts against the rule is to avoid the backlash.

The copyright of my country allow the circumvention of copy protection for interoperability reasons and that right cannot be waived.

In other words, watch your AI research go byebye to Europe.

Meeting attendance went through the ROOF when we started teams meetings from home. The bi-weekly speeches by our C-suite were pretty much dead, with only a handful of die hard bootlicks going while they were in person, recently they had to upgrade the streaming server to accommodate the amount of people that participate. Pretty much every single person in the company that isn't on vacation or sick is there!

If you really want attendance, get people to join from home!

Ok, now for the real reason behind it: It's 2 hours that you can "bill" on the "staff meeting" project. Now, since there is zero interaction and it's just the C-levels gilding each other's ass on how wonderful they are, you can easily push that window somewhere where it doesn't bother you (or just minimize it) and do some sensible work that you cannot bill on anything.

One of the suggestions in our Q&A was that we might want to do these meetings on a weekly base. We could use a few more hours that we needn't bill.