Guessing this might be non-essential workers as per covid lockdowns, ie how important it is for them to attend a workplace in person, but it’s definitely funnier if it is a ranked list of perceived importance to society, so let’s go with that
Australia seems to be doing its best to ditch it. Medicare levy plus a surcharge above a certain wage, but that surcharge goes away if you have private health cover. Health insurance companies have zero incentive to set premiums below what that surcharge would have been, particularly when, if you take up private health after you turn 31, then there’s a govt loading on it. Gap charges (ie the cost over and above that covered by Medicare) grow every year, bulk billing is disappearing, the public hospital system is constantly being underfunded, etc.
Just privatise healthcare, what’s the worst that could happen?
/ looks at US healthcare, and how well privatising just about everything else has gone for us so far
She makes some good points, but only focuses on Google’s monopoly being an issue. It is, but there’s no mention of privacy concerns, the oversaturation of ads, space being created for ads by deliberately worsening the UX, etc. The industry itself is a shitshow.
The issue isn’t so much that Google has a monopoly on the enormously invasive data that’s collected. The issue is that it is being collected.
As cool (heh) as this is, it saddens me knowing it’s just going to be used for data mining and ads
Bet you they will make them work in inhospitable conditions and forget they exist until they don’t meet an unrealistic performance target.
No wait, sorry. I was thinking of their human workers.
Saw someone making a sandwich once in stop-start traffic, cutting board resting against the (airbag) steering wheel and using a knife. Didn’t hear about them on the news that evening so can only assume Darwin missed it.
It’s just virtualised Deliverance
Spiders keep bugs under control
Snakes keep spiders under control
Dogs keep snakes under control
Humans keep dogs under control (sometimes)
Cats keep humans under control
Yup, this is on form for them. This isn’t the first product they’ve done it to and surely won’t be the last.
The moment the news broke we started migration planning, a short while later their new pricing came through and immediately justified the project spend. Tens of thousands of VMs migrated, a ton of labour, and even some hardware refreshes thrown in - and still cheaper than renewing, by a looong shot.
Shame, I liked VMware.
Kill them all.
Start with… that one
Ah yes, KeepAss
Yup, had to read it twice! Just about had a heart attack
Wow, I have a bunch of old stuff laying about too that I figured was worth nothing. Original boxes, games, manuals etc which might help too. Hmm
You’re thinking of a steering wheel down the pants
Yup and that is the same issue with elections. Candidate A wants to ban private jets and burn tyres, candidate B wants to legalise child labour. A wins then claims they have a mandate to burn tyres
the pairing restriction would “undermine the security, safety, and privacy of Oregonians by forcing device manufacturers to allow the use of parts of unknown origin in consumer devices.”
If only there were options that would encourage the use of safe, genuine parts.
Regardless of your stance on the name change, doesn’t the executive order (and subsequent updating of the names register or whatever it’s called) make it official? In which case the maps are just being updated to reflect it.
Afaik they’re not changing it anywhere outside the US as (so far…) that’s the only place it’s been changed, so it’s not like they’re pushing that name in places where it’s not official.
It’s also not unheard of to have map details that vary depending on where you are, to align with the official stance of wherever the map is being viewed from. Ukraine, bits of the India/Pakistan border, IIRC some islands off Japan disputed by China, etc.
Not saying the name change isn’t stupid and not suggesting at all that the companies in question aren’t scum, but getting angry at the map maintainers for this change seems pointless. What did you expect them to do?
Am I missing something?