a threat that doesn’t pass even the slightest sniff test, any significant raise in prices would leave them open for a competitor to undercut them.
Gets carried away in overly rambly rants about unimportant bullshit, uses fancy words without understanding their meaning, has a complete lack of self awareness.
Likes budgies.
a threat that doesn’t pass even the slightest sniff test, any significant raise in prices would leave them open for a competitor to undercut them.
dude think about this stuff before you open the floodgates bro
in certain parts of the world they really ingrained in us that roman numerals are the proper way to do it and it’s very hard to shake off, apologies
Nah, not so much a failure on your part as a failure on the part of a society that elects to glorify people that “move ball good” or “say line funny” over the people that have built the pillars without which our modern society literally would not exist in the same manner.
To paraphrase Churchill “Never was so much owed by so many to a single man”, NTP has been a critical aspect of XXIst century, from making highly complex clusterized systems work reliably to saving you the pain of adjusting the clock in your smartphone. If you have used even a single networked electronic device for a millisecond in your life, you owe the man some thanks.
Subscription-based services already change the agreement of a transaction too much in favor of the provider, because it goes from “convince me that your product is good enough to go through the hassle of obtaining it” to “convince me that your product is bad enough to go through the hassle of cancelling it”. It is only fair to try to tilt it in favor of the consumer as much as possible.
I really wanna hear what the proposal is for removing “unqualified” jobs en masse without implementing universal basic income.
The low pay and bad conditions of “unqualified” jobs often gets excused because they, allegedly, are “stepping stones”, a means of sustaining oneself while working towards more specialized careers.
If you destroy a significant amount of those positions, where does that leave those people? Are we so drunk on cyberpunk-esque lust of AI evolution that we are fine eliminating the means of entry to society for so many?
broadband? Isn’t this specifically about cable TV, not Internet communication?