By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Cream Cheese The most important story in the world right now is the national cream cheese shortage, by which I mostly mean the New York City cream cheese shortage, because that’s the bit that directly affects me personally. A new wrinkle in the crisis: As it turns out, a contributing factor to the nationwide shortfall in cream cheese is a cyberattack that took place in October. Schreiber Foods, the largest cheese manufacturer in the U.S., closed for several days after hackers compromised their plants, an attack that happened at the height of holiday cream cheese demand and sent ripples through the supply chain. Schreiber was running at full capacity at the time, and as
1) I can speak personally the fact that many court proceedings now take place virtually. In the state where I live, we are trying cases virtually, and just about every type of procedure can or does take place online. That did not happen at all before March of 2020.
2) Pacer is a colossal scam. If you are in a case, you get "one free look" at a document once it is filed. If you exit out of it by accident or have a computer issue which logs you out, you have to pay to re-access the same document. If you just need a docket report (a listing of all of the filings in a case), you even have to pay for that. It's infuriating.
1) I can speak personally the fact that many court proceedings now take place virtually. In the state where I live, we are trying cases virtually, and just about every type of procedure can or does take place online. That did not happen at all before March of 2020.
2) Pacer is a colossal scam. If you are in a case, you get "one free look" at a document once it is filed. If you exit out of it by accident or have a computer issue which logs you out, you have to pay to re-access the same document. If you just need a docket report (a listing of all of the filings in a case), you even have to pay for that. It's infuriating.