I may be wrong but I thought airlines did similar. They sold more tickets than existing seats assuming people would cancel. That's why sometimes they offer cashback at terminal for a different flight, but it still comes out net positive
Partially you are right. My only disagreement is while most people don't read those documents, 1 lawyer who is bored and sees a pay day is all that's needed. Like someone has a law degree but can't find a practice to hire them so they go to a dealership, test drive a vehicle, sit down to sign paperwork, read everything and are like "hold up... Can you give me a copy of this?... Thanks, tell your boss to expect a letter from me."
It's like general computer security, you can block 500 bugs and security flaws but if 501st is discovered it's a really bad day.
I would go further than software. I think too much stuff is cheap. I'm not rich, I'm barely surviving. That said if things were more expensive but better I think that's a net positive. Like you can buy a 50 vacuum, won't do a good job won't last long no hope to fix anything. If minimum was a 300 vacuum but it had a 15 year warrenty, mandatory suction and cleaning ability and user fixable wouldn't that be better?
It's similar to the old boot thing. A poor man buys a pair of boots for 10 dollars and lasts 2 months. A rich man buys a pair of boots for 200 and they last 4 years.
Would be an interesting court case... If I'm not even shown or given a method to see a disclaimer, can it disclaim anything (is that even good English? You know what I mean but there must be a way to say it)?
Part of me says no. The company should make safe devices, a lamp is certified by ul and a car us way more dangerous.
Part of me say yes. People are really stupid sometimes. Companies shouldn't need to design everything with bubble wrap and people need to know not to slam their head into a coffee mug.
The sad part is this will/has gone to court and the first case will determine the future. Like someone is like "Nissan video recorded me buying lunch at McDonald's and saw my pin code" court says there was no damage since you can change your pin and no record of fraudulent charges. From then on there is legal precedent they can take your pin code. Year 2056, you see a Ford employee emptied your bank account by buying door dash, court states "Sorry, 30 years ago these other people said someone seeing your bank account data with your car camera is fine, just deal with your empty bank account."
I mean you are mostly right and I was joking and exaggerating. I mean someone who can tear apart a transmission and put it back together and have it work better is obviously smart and intelligent.
Honestly I hate the direction cars are going. For example twenty years ago I could buy a new stereo at Walmart and have it installed in an hour. Now do that in a tesla. Yes some cars had different physical mounts and some had the door chimes built in such a way they would not work with aftermarket stereos but generally worked.
That was a solved problem. There was no reason to make this difficult.
This is probably the truth. Probably not root cause(that's society, women being taught to depend on men, shows teaching women their value is in looks and not brains etc) but it's likely the closest cause of this.
Honestly I disagree. I rarely see men judge a woman for looks. It's typically women judging other women for looks. I've never seen a man look down on a woman for not having painted nails for example but have seen woman comment on another woman for her nails being chipped.
There was an old joke like "if you ever are about to have sex with a man and he comments about how your panties and bra don't match... RUN! What is wrong with that person? No man cares, hell you're about to remove them anyways."
Edit: men are dangerous for many reasons. Typically the opposite problem, they see a woman as too beautiful to refuse the desire to have sex with them. They rarely have the feeling of" well she would be pretty but seriously, that shirt with those heels?".
It kinda felt like it but I could tell he was kinda mad. Me driving there to push a power switch the both the teller and manager were supposed to check and the manager confirmed to him personally on the phone cost him about 300 dollars in his budget.
He wasn't mad at me but more mad at the teller and manager for not actually checking the power strip. Found out later the cleaning crew was told not to use computer power stripes for their vacuums. It wasn't their fault and I know there was other fallout from his anger (no one fired but there were "meetings") but yeah. Cleaning crew plugged vacuum cleaner into power strip after hours. They vacuumed and then turned strip off when done. Next day teller comes to work and can't turn on her computer. She assumed computer died, reality was the power strip was turned off...
This is more fun than serious but... I worked at a small company who contracted out it support. One day I got a call that a computer wouldn't turn on, no signs of power at all. This was in a bank. Per their policy the teller had a list of things to check. They notify the branch manager who checked all the same stuff plus some extra. They then call a vp who checks all the stuff with some even more extra. If still broken, they would call us. On this day the call was no power on computer, branch was about an hour away, drove company car to client and immediately saw issue. The god damn power strip was turned off. The teller, the manager and the vp were to check this so I decided to have some fun. I told them there was an evil spirit and we had to "cleanse" it. I had manager go get leave from outside, I found some old candles from a old birthday, the lights were turned off, I called out some random non-sense about mother gia and cleansing and whatnot, arm motions, everyone's head down and eyes closed. Meanwhile I flipped the power strip switch to on and within seconds the windows xp sound was heard (yes I'm old). Everyone was confused but amazed and easily signed the paperwork to say I fixed it.
I drove back to my office and on way the vp asked me to come to his office as he had questions. I went to his office, he asked me to explain the issue at the branch which I did and how I "fixed" it. He was obviously upset but said "next time that happens call me first ". I was confused but said "ok". He then followed up with "we could have had a animal sacrifice" and pulled a rubber chicken out of a drawer.
I didn't technically work for him but he seemed like a great boss...
Yeah I know. If I counted on this to survive or run a business I wouldn't run sid. I mostly use it for background voices from YouTube, if entire system exploded... The sound would come from my phone so video is smaller and sound quality not as good. Oh well...
I may be wrong but I thought airlines did similar. They sold more tickets than existing seats assuming people would cancel. That's why sometimes they offer cashback at terminal for a different flight, but it still comes out net positive