No other options, must pay. :( The old timers had a word for how to fight such bullshit. Sounded like “shrike”? Something like that? Perhaps, “Buoy snot”? Anyway, they had some sort of spell by which they refused to give evil corporations their money. No idea how that worked, lost knowledge. (Queue 100 comments about Game Pass being a requirement for modern life, like electricity and water.)
Basic economics? Drop your low-value customers for high-value customers, make more money for less support and infrastructure (and accounting and HR and payroll and…) This is Business 101. Two things kick my ass: 1) No one seems to get this thing. 2) Everyone acts like these leaching services are a necessity.
Drop them and move on! Choose an entertainment ecosystem that fucked you? Lesson learned. Move on. Still want it? Steal what you can. I have no idea what’s on broadcast, cable or subscription TV. My home-rolled VPN is $6/mo., done.
Someone rewrote Time by Pink floyd.https://genius.com/Pink-floyd-time-lyrics
And where can this sentiment be found?
I prefer lye. Can’t stand the smell of bleach.
I certainly do in highways and interstates. Google tells me where the cops are, and it’s pretty good at it.
That’s the whole payment, all that included. There’s no interest, no property tax, it’s a Habitat for Humanity mortgage.
$700 down payment. There’s no interest, it’s a Habitat for Humanity mortgage.
There’s no interest, it’s a Habitat for Humanity mortgage.
Was gonna go for it but it’s been patched. :(
The GOP dropped the “party of fiscal responsibility” over under George Bush. I haven’t heard them spout that bullshit in nearly 2 decades.
Not just hiring and training! You also have to start paying state unemployment tax on that new hire. In Florida the first $7,000 is taxed on each new employee. Then there’s loss of efficiency, and related items. On top of that, if your turnover is high, your payroll company will up your rates because they’re working harder and you’re a PITA employer. I’ve sat meetings where we decided exactly that.
South is your best light in the Northern Hemisphere, you sure don’t want to cut that off.
And the problem lies on the idiots who think everything is dangerous. My wife is 110 pounds and goes to strangers houses to pick up FB Marketplace stuff a couple of times a week. And then you have morons calling the cops and posting on Nextdoor.com because, GASP, a stranger knocked on their door.
They can’t just kick you out if you have a lease.
Much of the bank bailout actually made the treasury a profit. It was paid back.
When your ass is truly on the line, your brain will take over quite nicely. I don’t mean mere fear or apprehension, I mean, “I will die if I don’t act as needed.” Many go their whole lives without that experience. This is not an “illness” thing.
Broke my femur and while waiting on surgery in the ER, the nurse than came on shift and checked my chart was the woman I had been partying with the night before. :)
"Here we have yet another case of a person dangerously confusing “how he thinks things ought to be” with “how things actually are.” Couple of quotes down: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/41156208-deadly-force---understanding-your-right-to-self-defense Off topic, but interesting in itself.