Most likely not. The US track record isn’t great regarding unionization.

I bet the board would rather pay 100 times more than what meeting the workers demands would cost, just to fight this and stop it from spreading.

Maybe it’s time for the board of directors to review the CEO’s strategy the last 10-20 years and reevaluate if just focusing on payout to shareholders and bonuses for your management actually was a great long term strategy…

Despite the slurs, Mr Swenson was glad that the hackers had announced their presence so loudly. It would have been much worse, he said, if they had decided to quietly observe his family inside their home. They could’ve peered through his robot’s camera, and listened through the microphone, without him having the slightest clue.

Who says they didn’t???

Even if Mr Swenson had used the same username and password on other sites, and if those credentials had been leaked online, that still should not have been enough to access the video feed or to control the robot remotely. These features are supposed to be protected by a four-digit PIN. The PIN code was only checked by the app, rather than by the server or robot.

I don’t even…

Ok.

At least no one around me were actually hoping for Wagner to take out Putin. If Wagner were strong enough to pop Putin, who would take the power then? Prigozhin? Someone Prigozhin selected?

The only outcome of Wagner getting rid of Putin would be someone as “nice” as Putin ending up ruling Russia.

We would just end up with essentially the same problem but now with additional instability in a state with nuclear weapons.

But there’s probably not a correct view on what people rooted for. I based my view on my experience from the people I surrounded myself with at the time.

Either way, hoping for that anything Wagner does ending up good is naive. The only good thing Wagner has done was the Battle of Khasham.

Still didn’t make them heroes in any way. They have a dirty smelly track record that will always stain them.

Wagner didn’t march towards Moscow to give back the power to the Russian people.

Or we just ignore the clown…

I can’t remember any warnings Russia has issued that has actually ended up in something real. Not even in the days before Russian troops rolled off the Ukrainian border did they dare to be honest with their intentions. The only thing they were able to do was to sucker punch Ukraine.

So right now, Russia is like an annoying little poodle that is constantly barking.

It barks is because it’s afraid and knows it’s weaker than the dogs around it, just like Russia.

I’m curious. When did you root for Wagner?

I don’t know how to feel about this.

On the one hand, it’s cool that they pushed old electronics way beyond the known limits, but on the other hand is 120p really an accomplishment?

Even my old Commodore 64 from 1982 was able to produce around 400p when pushed to the limit (I know progressive wasn’t thing on tvs then. I’m simplifying things to not end up on a side quest here). The norm was 200p and exploring how far the electronics could go in that resolution would be far more interesting in my opinion.

If we’re just focusing on framerate, I’m pretty sure it would be possible to reach over the kHz limit with 1p.

Essentially it would be possible to run 1p led-aray at 1MHz or more…

Wait… What?

Now EU is something you care about?

Maybe you shouldn’t have gone on a bootlicking tour trying to pose as a representative for European foreign politics ?

Please elaborate.

Google has worked hard to break up Microsoft’s monopoly and Windows-Office lock in effect. The way Google designed Android and the eco system around it pushed out the model where you fully own your device. (“own” as in be in full control of what you bought).

Nowadays people are used to get things for the price of their personal data and/or spending half of the time using their device by watching ads.

As I see it, Microsoft has just adjusted their offering on the consumer market to what people are used to today.

Pfffft … Russia putting Franken Tanks on the battlefield is because the Russian economy is booming, not because Ukraine pops T-90s like bubble wrap.

Goldman Sachs is overhyped and unreliable.

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Nintendo might try but there wouldn’t be much substance in such claim.

I have the same experience as you do, but there’s a reason that the big ISPs continue to be big: The majority of customers seems to prioritize a lower price than a better level of support.

(Also, I’m not just talking about ISPs. I meant customer support in general and how the view has changed from “keeping a customer is much cheaper than gaining one” to “cattle, cattle, cattle. If we lose one, there’s hundreds to gain”.)

Nice try. But let’s play with the thought that there’s no way we can let a rookie listen in on customer calls and gradually work their way into the role until they have enough experience… What about hiring technicians/professionals that has been working with the products/services for 10 years?

That would be a way of getting competent customer support people, right?

And just to clarify my comment that you replied on: The problem today is that most often there’s no career path for the customer support rookies and the pay is so lousy that most people just work customer support until they get something better.

That’s definitively the correct way to avoid getting experienced people in the customer support.

Unpopular opinion and rant: Us, the consumers, brought this on ourselves. Not intentionally but it was a slippery slope.

No one I know did ever ask the sales representative “does your customer support answer within 5 minutes and will I always reach a representative with att least 10 years of experience, that has the authority to make real decisions?”. No, but we were all very interested about the pricing of the service/product.

Then these “Please press 1 for…” happened… and no one of us really cared about the change because the service providers offered a much lower price than the ones with customer support representatives with 20 years of experience. Since all of us went for the cheapest provider, the other ones had to cut cost to be able to offer their service on a competitive price level. So then there were no one offering competent support with representatives that knew their shit. And it slowly continued to go downhill…

So here we are with shitty services, which we pay for, where we all are treated as cattle.

If people at least started to ask for better customer support there would someone, who wants to climb the corporate ladder, creating a PowerPoint presentation with a real VIP Service Level. Of course it will cost more money, because real people cost money, but we would att least get what we want.

But no. Consumers will still go for the lowest price.

China has next to no dependencies on Russia but Russia would collapse within 2 years of China just said no.

Both Xi and Putin knew this when they had their little negotiation last year.

Oh my… Imagine how far Putin had to lean forward for Xi to get China to deliver the essentials for Putin’s war machine.

Great theory you have there.

So when USA would be doing whatever you think they would do to China, how do you think that would affect the economy of USA and the rest of the West when all essential manufacturing stops to a grinding halt worldwide?

Covid showed the world what happens if China is unable to keep the factories up and running 100%… And you seem to have missed it all because you have been asleep since 2018 and just woke up?

Why are you worried about Sony owning the blu-ray format?