Eventually some enterprising company will realize that there is a market for a service that that provides centralized access to all your favorite streams, and one easy to digest monthly price. They'll suggest you'll save time, money, and maybe even bandwidth on your incoming Internet cable. They might even decide to call this new service cable TV.
Me: It took 90 minutes, but I finally got the book from your Kindle to mine.
Wife: You could have just read it on my Kindle.
Me: That's not the point. It shouldn't be this freaking hard to borrow a book from my wife.
(Yes, I know about family accounts. Daughter is other adult on my account so that she can buy e-textbooks at college on my account)
The real problem was that it had been a couple of years since I messed with Calibre, and didn't realize that Amazon had a new file format that was incompatible.
There is no way they have any research that says consumers will pay $30 to $50 to rent a movie at home. This is #FakeProgress, designed to fail so the industry can claim there is no market for early release windows for home viewing.
How long until we find somebody with a stack of fed ex envelopes hanging around the International terminals, Fed-Exing phones to the US for people that are stepping onto a plane to come here.
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They don't care if they can win. They are trying to harass Techdirt into permanent silence or a settlement to make the suit go away. They are bullying via the legal system.
I've watched enough horror movies to know what happens when you drain the swamp. You release horrible swamp monsters, and and apparently give then Cabinet positions.
Taco Tuesday was a thing at the Taco Bell in West Lafayette, IN in the late 1980s. It was 3 tacos for a dollar, which when combined with it also being dollar night at the mall movie theater, made for a very cheap date night.
I worked at a big company that got busted for this sort of thing, although on a much bigger scale. Qwest Communications was doing something similar at the end of the dot com boom - 2001. On the last day of the month regional sales managers would simply mark whatever deals they needed as sold, even though they weren't. Sales Managers got their bonuses based on those self reported numbers, so these guys were making well into six figures on fraudulent sales. In sales we didn't get paid until the project invoiced, which obviously these fake deals never did, so we didn't benefit financially even though you could argue we were ultimately responsible as our names were on the accounts.
The CFO and CEO went to jail for faking sales on a much larger (multi-billion) scale. So no, I doubt senior management at Wells Fargo was specifically aware that this stuff was going on, but they created a culture that led to it happening, and I wouldn't be surprised to find out shenanigans at a much bigger scale are happening at the higher levels of the organization.
As a Wells Fargo customer I'm not surprised at all. Even the damn ATM tries to sell me 3 difference services while I'm taking $40 out of the bank. The pressure to sell there is so intense it's not surprising employees cheated to make their quotas.
It doesn't sound like she called them first. Did they show up at her house uninvited, then bully their way into her rom and into a contract? Doped on on Oxycotin or whatever she might have had for pain, would make me question if she was even legally capable of agreeing to contract terms at that moment.
If the alternative is the guy Putin wants as President of the USA, then probably yes, we should support these people. The real question is why in a country of 300+ million do we have to choose between these two?
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Me: It took 90 minutes, but I finally got the book from your Kindle to mine.
Wife: You could have just read it on my Kindle.
Me: That's not the point. It shouldn't be this freaking hard to borrow a book from my wife.
(Yes, I know about family accounts. Daughter is other adult on my account so that she can buy e-textbooks at college on my account)
The real problem was that it had been a couple of years since I messed with Calibre, and didn't realize that Amazon had a new file format that was incompatible.
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IN in the late 1980s. It was 3 tacos for a dollar, which when combined with it also being dollar night at the mall movie theater, made for a very cheap date night.
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The CFO and CEO went to jail for faking sales on a much larger (multi-billion) scale. So no, I doubt senior management at Wells Fargo was specifically aware that this stuff was going on, but they created a culture that led to it happening, and I wouldn't be surprised to find out shenanigans at a much bigger scale are happening at the higher levels of the organization.
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If the alternative is the guy Putin wants as President of the USA, then probably yes, we should support these people. The real question is why in a country of 300+ million do we have to choose between these two?
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