The recent changes to Google Workspace effectively increased my per seat cost by 70%. Im doing 2021 budgeting now and I can save about $200/head by killing Google entirely (and Slack and Asana) and just using Microsoft 365.
I have purchased 25 Acer Swift 3 laptops this year for my staff. They cost about $650. They come preinstalled with unnecessary Norton antivirus software (which defaults the installation of a lighter version in its standard uninstall flow), Dropbox, Firefox, ads for Netflix and Amazon on the desktop, and a persistent “Would you like to use Skype?” popup program separate from Skype itself. Consumers have a clear choice to tolerate this bloat, or to pay more to Apple to avoid it and ensure only high quality software runs on their computers.
How convenient this “climate change” thing excuses so many state government failures of land management. Climate change didnt stop anyone from clearing forests around LA or Sacramento, the Sierra Club did. Climate change didn’t cut CalFire’s budget or replace 90% of its trained firefighters with prison labor, CA’s state government did.
CalFire’s budget is lower than it was in 1999 in inflation adjusted dollars. 8/10 CalFire workers are prison laborers. How convenient for the CA government to have cLiMatE chAnGe to blame.
I am not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure it’s a violation of anti-trust law when Walmart tells me I’m not allowed to set up for free a lemonade stand in the middle of their store.
This story is total fake news. The patient is a teacher with a Cadillac health insurance plan. She paid $75 co-pay. The $10,000 bill is an illusion printed by the insurance company to make her think that her insurance is actually valuable. No one was paid $10,000. The hospital was paid a secret negotiated rate much much much much lower than $10,000.
I was a victim in 2007 of Wells Fargo’s tactic of re-ordering debit transactions from largest to smallest to maximize overdraft fees. I remember screaming at a bank manager about this practice that he claimed he could do nothing about. I closed my account that day and put my savings into a credit union across the street.
Well, you need to burn a lot of diesel (or it’s equivalent) to produce, store, and transport the hydrogen so I think it goes without saying that hydrogen fuel is worse.
No, because HAL isn’t a person. The people who programmed HAL likely committed manslaughter, though it depends on which state they did the programming.