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Comment Re:Overbooked Flights (Score 1) 338

I was going to post more or less the same. Airlines overbook flights on the assumption that a certain percentage of people are going to miss their flights. These customers are just helping that percentage.

If they (airlines) want criminal convictions for people who engage in this then we should have criminal convictions for airlines that overbook and do not have a seat for everyone that shows up, or worse when they bodily remove a passenger I say we start with the CEO facing prison time for each incident

Comment Re:Incredibly obtuse (Score 1) 11

The reality is they are not a monopoly in gaming, they are not even in the top 5.

Activision Blizzard have been in the top 10 (by revenue) for I don't know how long and are regularly in the top 5. If you want a citation1, citation2, citation3 and other industry analysts also agree that the microsoft blizzard would see big changes.

Comment Re:Good! (Score 2) 65

Companies should provide all equipment necessary to perform work related functions.

Very entitled. Go work construction or as a mechanic or even a welder. 99 times out a 100 they have to buy their own tools. This mentality in tech that the company should coddle to your every whim on equipment is isolated to tech and doesn't exist outside of it.

That's because in the tech industry they aren't saying "You need a hammer" they are saying "You need exactly this quite expensive hammer that will only work on our building site and if you go elsewhere we can destroy that hammer."
The second an employer starts dictating what can or cannot go on a device, or if they want to monitor traffic to and from that device then I no longer have complete control / ownership of it.

A better analogy would be a uniform. If I need dress in business casual, or in a two piece suit then that's on me. If I need a specific uniform then that's on the employer.

Comment Re:The internet was fine... (Score 1) 324

Doesn't the whole WWII thing fall down as soon add that ISIS was on a number of terrorist lists and most of google, facebook et al's algorithms drive users in an echo chamber to extreme ways?

It's alot closer to a store which sells medical cannabis and also having meth. When someone comes in asking about the cannabis the clerk says "Hey we also have some meth, why don't you try some of that" Perhaps it was only the clerk that was dealing in the meth, but elsewhere isn't the store's owner / mangers olso held accountable for the clerk's actions?

Comment Re:Meh... they asked for it (Score 1) 93

Not all data centres are Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook. The vast bulk of them are for colocation and similar.

As most Data centres effectively charge either by the U who wouldn't want to get as much as they can. If I lease an entire suite then I've still only got a certain footprint which equates to a total number of U's I've got to fit everything into

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