spaghettiwestern

We have all become unwilling, unpaid employees of every company in their pursuit of higher profits. It's a feature, not a bug.

Corporations have discovered that there is no real downside (for them) when they don't function. Customer satisfaction no longer has much of an impact on their profits because the few companies left in each sector are doing the exact same thing.

IMO this is yet another side effect of unchecked corporate power. It's the same reason prices have risen so rapidly and corporate profits have reached 70 year highs. We are dealing with near monopolies and the billionaire class who created them. Until our government addresses the problem it's not going to get any better.

In other words it's not going to get better in our lifetimes.

Windows went a step further on my machine. I thought it had just screwed up my bootloader, but when I went to restore it my Linux partition was completely gone. Windows Update had deleted the partition.

Malware is right.

She's daring Smith to appeal. He should oblige her.

They definitely got me. Thanks.

Socal, Phoenix and Las Vegas have about 30 million residents within reasonable driving distance of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival and the area has more than enough lodging and restaurants to handle a lot of people.

By contrast there are maybe 8 million people in Western WA and OR within a reasonable driving distance, not much lodging and few restaurants around the Gorge Amphitheater, certainly not enough to handle even a fraction of the 125,000 people that attend the festival each day in Coachella Valley.

What's more, if the festival is held at the same time of year the weather is substantially more cloudy and much colder in Washington.

I'm guessing the organizers either are being forced to move or they will potentially make a bigger profit in WA State.

For owners and potential customers of either brand it most certainly is.

There is zero excuse for Kia and Hyundai to have dragged this out for so long. Being expected to park your car outside, away from other vehicles can create some real difficulties, financial and otherwise for impacted owners. Those who live in urban cores with limited parking and people who live in areas with high levels of vehicle crime are particularly vulnerable.

Is an owner who parks in an underground residential garage or parks in a garage for work supposed to park miles away and take a cab back and forth? Are Hyundai & Kia going to pay for the damage caused by break-ins and vandalism because the car had to be parked on the street instead of inside a secure garage? Are these cars just supposed to be parked in a lot somewhere and not driven until Hyundai and Kia get around to correcting the defects in the cars they've sold?

These companies need to be subject to a nice, multi-million dollar class-action lawsuit.

Which is exactly why Rudy is trying to change his residency from NY to FL.

Sometimes a comment comes along that's so full of bullshit it's kind of impressive.

So we need to evacuate the entire East Coast and Gulf Coast (hurricanes), the Midwest (tornadoes), the West Coast (fires), and any city built next to a river? Really?

Depends on the phone. Oneplus has a 65 watt charger.

Hey, somebody's gotta pay for the highest corporate profits in 70 years.