That’s a fair concern. I think it could be fixed by asking workers about food allergies and avoiding those foods. Unless it’s an absolutely massive company it should be feasible.

Except the proposed rule doesn’t do that. It’s only regarding carriers unlocking policies. The owner of the phone could still be under contact, and early termination fees would still apply. Carriers are still able to recoup any losses on the hardware through those fees. Requiring phones to be unlocked after 60 days changes none of that.

As things are now, a poor person would have to pay BOTH. An early termination fee AND then go buy a new phone if they wanted to switch to a new carrier before the (typically 2 year) contact is complete. They lose any money they’ve put into their current phone because it’s locked to a carrier until they have been in good standing for the full 2 years.

So what it really depends on is if you think a poor person should be trapped with their current carrier until they finish the contract, unlock the phone and move to another, OR if they should be free to switch over to the competition at any time without onerous restrictions on hardware they have fully paid for via early termination fees.

Yeah, NAT is great for home users. Unless your ISP is also using (carrier grade) NAT. Then you’re fucked by double NAT and have to call your ISP every time you want to forward a port.

This argument may have made sense a decade ago, but phones today aren’t making the generational leaps and bounds with performance every year. Even the low end phones are just fine for most uses these days.

If you’re poor, and I certainly have been, you shouldn’t get into these contacts that ultimately cost you more. You buy a cheap phone from last year and put it on an MVNO that’s cheap

Honestly the OG stream controller would have been perfect if they could find a way to fit a 2nd analog stick on there

If they’re able to siphon money from the public school system they’ll look better compared to the now poorer public school.

She’s saying the states don’t have standing to bring the suit. They’re unable to prove they were harmed specifically, so they don’t have standing.

A better way to read the phrase in question would be “the court’s doctrine regarding standing”

See: Standing

Bessie says it adds a certain umami flavor to her hay

I’m kinda surprised that insurance companies haven’t offered to buy driver information from these types of companies so they can raise rates

It’s a shame passenger pigeon nets have fallen out of style. I imagine you could catch a lot of ducks with one of those

Most manufacturers have these types of systems but none are up to the new standard. They’re often called forward collision warning/avoidance systems.

Some cars aren’t quite that simple, on newer models they’re hiding the keyhole on the bottom side of the handle behind a cover. But usually those models won’t lock with the keys inside the car

Gotta get that 3% cash back

I assume it’s fine as long as you don’t get any on the rice

Lol the app on my phone that replicates the TI layout was only $5

Wasn’t the fruit bowl in his bedroom?

The average real-world electric driving share is about 45%–49% for private (phev) cars and about 11%–15% for company cars

45-49% on privately owned cars isn’t rarely, but 10-15% on the corporate side totally is. However I can also understand employees not wanting to give their company free electricity every night, while simultaneously companies do not have plans in place for employees to charge at work.

Company purchasing managers would be better off just buying regular hybrids if they’re not going to set up a plan to keep these charged, otherwise they’ll never get the financial benefits that sold them on the phev in the first place.

Better hope it never needs parts, they’ve never recovered from covid backlogs in my experience. I’m no longer surprised when the rover parts guys tell me something is on “intergalactic backorder”

You get what you pay for?

I mean 5-10 grams of vaporized gunpowder leaves the barrel at fairly high speed. It’s not a lead round but it’s not nothing. Also the spent brass being ejected is not easy to CGI convincingly.