As much as I hate using cash, I understand that the credit card companies charge ridiculous fees to businesses and also that people with very low income don’t always have access to digital forms of payment. Maybe Sweden does better with equipping their entire society with digital tools, but in the US I don’t think we are ready for a fully digital payment society.
This was such an absolute bullshit abuse of power and violation of rights. I’m also honestly surprised this wasn’t lobbied against by corporations who don’t want their corporate devices that contain proprietary information to be accessed by any Joe Dipshit working at an airport.
That’s a different type of test for a different type of rocket.
I know people who use the mouse jiggler. They get all their work done and are good employees.
I’m a manager at a large company and have employees who work mostly from home. I don’t bother checking if their picture has a green or yellow mark next to their name. If they respond to my emails quickly and get their overall work done, I’m happy.
I’d love to hear from anyone at all who can give me a reason why the shareholders would vote for this. The stock value has been going down for both the 1 year and 3 year time frames, so he’s not doing great things today. The company only made a profit of $18B last year, so this is like wiping out 3 years of profitability in one step. This package is over half of the company’s total revenue!! In what world do investors think it’s a good idea to say one guy deserves almost as much as the entire company brings in for a year?
The game came with the account. I ostensibly bought the game, but the guy gave me control of the account the game was locked to.
Not as a protest. I just didn’t feel the need to create an account for a game, so I bought an account that was already created.
I don’t have much to contribute to the technical discussion here, just my comment that even playing with kids toy night vision goggles is awesome. For about $100 you can buy a really fun toy to play around with. Gets boring quickly, but kids might have fun with it longer.
I bought a Steam account back in 2007-ish. I wanted to play HL2 but didn’t want to create a Steam account. I thought then, and still think now, that I shouldn’t need to create an online account just to play an offline game.
The guy gave me his login information, and then I went in to change the email and all other info to generic info. I’ve been using that account for 17 years, but I did eventually have to give them real info to buy new games.
It is something the Space Force is constantly working on. It’s absolutely one of the highest priorities.
Fuck you, MS, for making people create an account to use something they paid for.
I’ve been boycotting Amazon since 1999, so no I haven’t been paying attention.
Ah, so dark as in evil, not dark as in low light. I hadn’t heard of that, but going through the darkpatterns.org website is basically a laundry list of shit I hate.
I hate Amazon probably more than most people in the world and have been boycotting them since roughly 1999, but… “dark patterns???”
EDIT: TIL a new term, and it refers to something I have hated for years.
Seriously, that’s really low rates. Healthcare and all that overhead is usually at least double of the actual salary.
It’s eco-conscious, not eco-friendly.
You’re right. I guess I was remembering premium channels and some niche channels that were cable-only. Most channels available on early cable were just piping non-local broadcast channels down a cable.
I’m old enough to remember when cable didn’t have ads. I was really young, maybe 5ish, but even then it was confusing to me when they started adding commercials. That was for bad TV with the antenna. Then it was only HBO that didn’t have ads, but we couldn’t afford that until I was much older.
EDIT: I guess my memories of being 5 years old aren’t very accurate.
As much as I want this to be true, I’ll have a hard time not filing this under “GRR Martin and Patrick Rothfuss cowriting a new series” level of believing it will finish any time soon.
I used to get so mad at movies that had unrealistic portrayals of how people would act in a crisis situation.
After COVID, I no longer question the unbelievable stupidity of humans, nor the amount of hatred humans have.