Yep. A lot of these tech companies that have run in the red for years are now being called on to produce a profit and pay the big backers.
Yep. A lot of these tech companies that have run in the red for years are now being called on to produce a profit and pay the big backers.
Why shouldn’t they be allowed cell phones, at least as a privilege? They shouldn’t be allowed to harass anyone, but they’re people. JPay and other predatory companies put an undue burden on families just trying to talk to their loved ones (who, let’s face it, may not be guilty) in the pen. There are even worse companies that pretend to be places where you can send money or put money on a phone card for a loved one but once you get to the fine print it’s just a scam. That dries up if you just allow folks the opportunity to talk to their family during their downtime.
But fuck them, I guess. People are in jail to be punished and if they don’t have the maximum amount of punishment 24x7 along with their families then we’re not really getting our money’s worth.
Or maybe he’s talking on a butt phone.
Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!
I can’t argue with that because honestly I was jealous of the folks running it. But they are buying new equipment today and I’m not.
Same. I have a lot of legacy recording equipment that I won’t replace until it stops working and it’s all mini USB.
I’m just glad I got what I did instead of FireWire.
Until the CIO gets the “telephone game” version of what’s going on.
That’s not the one I was talking about, but it doesn’t surprise me.
I’m less concerned about that and more concerned about supervillains building lairs.
Some of us always look like shit.
I just assume it’s a convoluted way to present Loss.
Same thing is happening a lot of places. One large american company that I’m not going to mention is doing several rounds of layoffs along with a return to office initiative.
Yep. A bunch of police departments give out cable locks if you just ask. I bought one for $4 because I don’t want to go to the police department for any reason and I use it to lock my helmet to my motorcycle.
It’s not a perfect solution but it’s cheap and helpful.
I was barely in high school and had just gotten into heavier rock. Before that it was my dad’s rock (a lot of Boston and ZZ Top) and a little grunge because it had EXPLODED the year before on the radio because of Cobain’s death.
That Ozzy album and Astrocreep 2000 led that shoeless hillbilly boy down the road of heavy metal that continues to this day.
Perry Mason and I Just Want You were my favorites, but I played that cassette enough to destroy it. Same with Astrocreep. The next year I got a CD player and that changed the whole game.
Capital One lets you do unlimited virtual cards for each service. X1 gives you the ones like I described. There are others.
That’s just garbage.
You may want to see if your bank will let you create disposable cards. I have two credit cards where I can create temporary or reloadable cards at no charge for transactions.
So if I wanted to trial something, I would create a card with $1 on it. The trial starts and does the test transaction. I forget to cancel before the trial is over, but the card has no money so it automatically cancels.
If I wanted a subscription to HBO, I could create an HBO card and load the amount for it every month. When I cancel, I don’t have to worry that they’ll try to keep charging me because I just don’t add anything else to the card. It also makes me think about whether I’m using a service every month.
It saved me a few hundred bucks not terribly long ago. I tried a clothing subscription box that was absolutely terrible. So I contacted their customer service to cancel because they don’t have a real way to do it on their site. They didn’t get back to me in time and attempted to charge my card for another box. Luckily it was on the temp card and there was no cash on it so I just got a rejected charge on my card.
I need to train my grip strength to combat my alcohol misuse.
Apparently, SpaceX has special tactics to stoke his grandiose ego and trick him into giving them the freedom they need.
It’s a tale as old as bosses. Many of them have big egos and think that because they’re in charge that magically gives them expertise. So if you want to do something you either get them looking at something shiny or you make them think it’s their idea.
I had a boss like that ages ago. If I wanted to work on something out of the ordinary I would plant the idea, then a few weeks later I would remind him that he brought it up a while ago. I used the fact that he had a million things going on so he never really remembered who brought it up. I didn’t care that he got the credit because I got to work on cool things and expand my repertoire.
Theoretically, someone could have baked the sugar from lemonade onto their pipes by riding with a cup of it in a cup holder attached to an engine guard. Then hypothetically that person could have had great success removing it using Bike Brite, then taking 000 steel wool to it after the bulk was gone.
I’m not saying it happened, I’m saying you can’t prove it happened to me.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus
–Alex Blechman
Except in this case it’s a political party instead of a tech company.