My understanding is that the cost of Extended Security Updates (ESU) goes up every year.
1 asprin [...] 1 aleve ...
That combination of two non-steroidal anti-inflammatories is probably knocking out more than you think.
There's an NPR episode of Code Switch on the subject:
If it's an official decree, then it must be in writing somewhere. The fanwiki is very short on references. One could assume it's all speculation. Probably just self-censureship rather than a ban.
Chosing not to air is not the same as a ban.
Either Shaw was gouging, or the first couple generations of cable modems really were three times today's cost. This was in the days where the DOCSIS standard capped out at 40Mb/s (which you only ever got close to when you happened to be downloading from a CDN hosted by shaw)
Sure, my experience was twenty years ago, but at the time my modem was roughly one month's rent at a dive apartment.
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In all seriousness, I do the same. We're pretty fortunate to win at the game of life and not get stuck in the living-paycheque-to-paycheque hole, aren't we?
That's a false dichotomy.
The principle of double effect allows one to attempt to relieve suffering with treatments having high mortality rates.
Euthanasia is a cost-saving measure to avoid the high costs of palliative care for non-palliative patients, and in the examples cited in the article -- healthcare in general.
Jokes aside, as you work in I.T., you'd know that most people completely ignore labour costs when it comes to these things.
I run my own email server using mailcow-dockerized. Ironically, the problem is not enough volume.
Yours still works? One of the updates made mine stop working. I had to switch back to WiFi.
I can't put my finger on the specific film, but there are those where the happy ending seems especially contrived, and the director's commentary lamented that's because anything less than a happy ending tended to test poorly with viewers. It might have something to do with the fact that they tested them tight after they watch the film rather than letting it sink in for a bit.
Test screenings are the J.D. Power Initial Quality Award of the film industry.