Pensions are funded by the stock market as well. Pension funds are some the largest landlords as well.

Really which company do you have more than 1 vote per share or have more than 5%? Very few people are given either.

The stock market is how pensions are funded. That means the largest loss of wealth to the middle class.

You don’t want the stock market destroyed. That is how retirements are funded as well.

You want to restrict ownership of an individual stock. Limit them to 5% or so. Also make every stock have 1 vote, no exceptions.

Wal-Mart does a lot of things I don’t agree with. Their labor practices along with their sourcing and many other things make them the last place I will shop.

I sound agree price isn’t always the best factor to determine a monopoly.

Walmart use to go into a town, sell everything cheap and drive everything else out of business.

It’s one of the many reason I hate Walmart.

Growing up we have a cool downtown area. It wasn’t big but had a bunch of small stores. They all closed within a year of Walmart.

I mean yes but in the case no.

Most customers are not demanding it.

Meant that as what about they could store.

Why I know. Go play it and you’ll see how they did it.

I am curious who said. You know am audio take will create a great experience.

Using a tape drive is crazy when you think about it. It was slow…. This wasn’t the big tape cartridges. It was a standard Audio tape. Not sure why they could store but it was all sequential

I think it was just a limit of how quick everything ran back then. Also, this was an IBM system that was checked, double-checked, and triple-checked because it was a mission-critical system. IBM used to be known for quality hardware. Hard to imagine because they are such a crap company now but that was the equivalent of a google back then.

My first pc had a tape drive.

During the pandemic, hotel rooms rapidly escalated in prices. I travel often for work, and I noticed a huge different in cost. The rooms are also cleaned less often and there are fewer staff in the hotels. So yes, they need raises, hotel staff are hard working people that historically have been underpaid.

I noticed Vegas was not on the strike list. I suspect it’s because they make pretty good money in Vegas working in hotels. Ironically it’s union or the fear of unions that keeps the wages high. One hotel that was proud to be non-union said they would compare local contracts, tax the highest wage and add 20% as long as the staff did not attempt to unionize. Either way the union helped them get better pay and treatment.

It isn’t a disk driver since the OS is not loaded yet. It is the hardware identifying each disk in the SCSI chain. Not sure what else it was doing walking the bus much I know finding all the disk was the longest part.

I think mine takes like 2 minutes. It’s ten years old. I’ve putting off upgrading to the cost of videos cards

I will date myself. These machines had a lot of memory as well which added to the slow reboot. I think it was 16 gigs.

The r series for IBM took forever. The p series was faster but was still slow

The more disk you had, the longer it took. It walked the scsi bus which took forever. So if you had more disk. It took even longer.

Since everything was remote, you’d have to call hands and they weren’t technical. Also no cameras since it was the 90’s.

Now when I restart a vm or container. I panic if it’s not back up in 10 minutes.

In the old days some of the servers took at hour to reboot. That was stressful when you couldn’t ping it at an hour.

ditto

The default for acquisitions should be no. Too many large companies buying small companies.

It’s lemmy. Most people don’t get a small business is often tradesmen, the local restaurant down the street or that weird quirky store in your neighborhood.

They’re also the ones struggling hard right now. I’m no fan of Harris but based on the limited article, I support the idea.

We need to make it easier for the average person to start a business and have some prosperity.

I seek out small locally owned businesses as often as I can.