IIRC, Bank of America was the only one who actually got charged/caught for that specific thing though.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bank-of-america-overdrafts/bank-of-america-settles-overdraft-lawsuit-for-66-6-million-idUSKBN1D22ER

They got in trouble for breaking some rules. IIRC, they'd separate purchases so they could charge maximum amounts of overdraft fees for one, but could be wrong. I'm sure there's others though.

If you don't hit your husband/wife, how can you be trusted to shoot a dog kid criminal? ^^/s

Listening stations being those setups where you can listen/compare different products? I'd agree on that. I never cared about music quality until I tried a friends setup that was really nice. Not an audiophile, but even just buying a nice pair of headphones/speakers and cheaper DAC or sound card can make a huge difference.

Was going to say, kids go nuts over the stuff their parents used. It's just the cycle of things I guess. Some future kids are going to be going nuts over "basic" smartphones current kids use now, compared to their augmented reality AI driven contact lenses or something.

From my experience, the issue isn't that there's no evidence (while that is a case a lot of the time), even when there is getting them to actually follow up or investigate is the wall you hit. Where I am, you can have camera footage, receipts, hell even their wallet they dropped, that doesn't mean they'll look into it or follow through. Heavily depends on who you are, and who the criminal(s) is.

Just seems like this will just exacerbate the already massive backlog issues they have, while also costing a ton more to operate the cameras and store the data.

I think the issue is when you gamify certain industries/work, people start focusing on the "points" or "score" over the actual job. You can see this problem when companies start tracking certain metrics for performance; employees find ways to game the system and get more points without actually helping the company/business.

> Get ready to keep destroying the earth for profit.

Fixed it for you.

Yep. Wonder how much this article is trying to cash in on the general frustration with Germany not sending Ukraine tanks.

System working as intended. It's in their best interest to not go after each other all the time, at the expense of everyone else.

Not really, women can be evil/assholes with a victim complex.

You're comparing two very different things buddy. Rockets aren't nuclear reactors. Just because a different technology improved doesn't mean another, completely separate one magically will. Some technologies get abandoned, aren't economical/marketable, etc.

Ehhh. From what I understand, it's just not feasible. You're going to spend more CO2 doing this than you'll recover from the trees unless you handle everything in-house. Remember, cuttings/needles are pretty dense/heavy, especially since they won't be dried. You'll also somehow have to gather the trees, I don't know about places in the UK but here it's not exactly super cheap (for customers or the companies), especially when you consider all the gas needed to pick up, transport, then the labor for unloading/processing.

I remember talking to someone who's done research on this specific thing and from what they found, it just wasn't economically/environmentally feasible. Especially since the holidays are the major time you'd be able to get them. Maybe new advances/discoveries will change that, who knows.

> "conservation"

Are you guys running out of valuable... roof space or something?

Because the same profits that come from data collection pad politicians pockets. It's also the main business model of many websites and free services.

You do realize if kids are all of a sudden developing more allergies, then yes, they are getting "weaker" in a sense, right?

But this thing costs more than many electric fat bikes alone, and doesn't even come with its own motor. It's just a really bad deal. Again, this is without a motor, something from what I've seen other companies include, and costs more than other options including an entire electric bike on its own.

You should talk to a doctor if a bike frame is turning your bones into powder. I'm actually really curious how your skeleton can support the weight of your own body in that case.

>The S-Trax Snowbike Conversion Kit sells for €2,499.99

At that point, just buy a used snowmobile or something, cheaper ones are at that price. There are so many better, more cost effective options.

It just seems like a poorly conceived idea being marketed towards success. A lot of "technology" or ideas that aren't that great get bought and marketed as this cool new thing that will totally change X industry, despite everyone in that industry knowing exactly why it won't. The sad part is, many are successful because people fall for it, like those things you plug into your OBD or "essential oils".

Edit: HOLY FUCK

>The S-Trax Snowbike Conversion Kit sells for €2,499.99

That's as much as a (cheaper) used snowmobile from what I see. It also apparently doesn't even come with its own motor, which other conversion kits do too.

Also being happy in general usually leads to better things, including health. I don't know many people who decide to get pets despite hating animals/pets, I'd imagine most people buy pets for comfort/company, or happiness.

Bug/vulnerability bounties are a pretty good way to getting results, especially for those hard to figure out ones that deal with a specific issue. Otherwise, there's a much bigger incentive to sell the vulnerability to someone else, or use it for nefarious reasons.

Check out Rossman for his issues dealing with New York. Basically got audited, proved he didn't have any problems when they "mistakingly" said he did. Then he got audited again, directly after, at least from my understanding. It's incredibly corrupt, and sucks because it allows businesses easy access to stopping laws/policies and such like this one (or just completely ruining/editing it, as in this case).

I wonder how much companies "lobbied" to keep this law from happening.

One rule I follow with companies (and government organizations) is that they like to brag, show off, advertise their successes. In most situations, if they had something to brag about (especially with releasing/advertising products and such), they do. I tend to look for what's missing in that stuff, as it an sometimes give a better indication of what's going on than what little information companies can give out.

Yep, been hearing the same in a lot of places. Either a stove, or the fancy people getting entire backup-generators. They don't help much if the infrastructure (specifically gas, in their case) goes up though. I think some people are confused and think I meant only in Maine, where most people already have some form of backup heat. Plenty of places don't though, although people are learning quite quick it seems.