But when PEOPLE peaceably assemble and then break the peace by committing a crime, they go to jail as individuals. Let the same happen to those board members and we're good.
And the people they apply that leverage to have been known to put families out in the streets at the drop of a hat, so not all sunshine and roses on that side either.
If you think the teamsters are a problem, just think of them as revolution lite. The concessions unions have gained are a good bit of what kept a worker's revolution from happening in the U.S.
Yeah, they'll have those automated buses ready to go and have state and federal approval in a week or two, tops!
Back here on Earth, it'll be several years before they can get approval for an automated bus on public streets, another few years until they get people to trust them rather than protest them as a safety hazard, and perhaps another year or two to get them to pay for themselves before they break down (driver salary and all), especially for a shuttle bus that isn't running 24/7.
So I guess the Teamsters kids might need to do something different.
And either those drivers join Teamsters before the cutoff date or the next news item is about how Yahoo, Apple, Genentech, eBay and Zynga were shut down for two weeks when their employee buses couldn't get through the picket line. I wonder how much that downtime will cost?
Yet you seem more than willing to kick any of the people trying to climb out of the hole they were born in in the teeth to make sure they never get ion an equal footing with you.
You seem, in fact, to enjoy pissing in that hole from time to time to assert your odd sense of innate superiority.
You seem surprised that they aren't happy to be pissed on. Perhaps one day they'll tie you down and piss on you. You'll have it coming so I'll just watch and laugh.
Perhaps uneducated, definitely working hard enough that they will accelerate arthritis and other damage to their bodies. They won't be able to keep working until whatever might pass for retirement age. Since you feel so strongly about it, why don't you go undercut their demand and do the job for $146K? That'll teach 'em!
First, keep in mind, to the MBA, a line in the summary plus 20 supporting pages is "a line", at least when it benefits him to call it "one line".
Next, that one line can be HUGE sometimes. It can require whole new additional sub-susyems. Must interface with existing PCs -%gt; Must interface with existing PCs including the Univac in the basement. (and by interface with, they also mean translate between).
And, as BronsCon points out, sometimes one WORD is a problem depending on when it changes.
Dropping or adding the word 'not' can also make life interesting.
You can't have an estimate without knowing exactly what you will be doing. Finding out exactly what you are doing is also known as the design phase. It is the highest paying part of the project and can easily be 50 to 90% of the whole project. But they want the time estimate up front...
Once given, they will want to stick to the estimate as if it was carved on stone tablets by Moses.
If the project involves replacing of interfacing with a legacy system, or for that matter gathering requirements from people you don't know yet even estimating the design phase timeline can be a problem.
If it requires anything that can be described as experimental, you need to perform the experiments before you can commit to a timeline. The estimated time to do the experimentation will be even further out of the question if there is any possibility that one result could lead to an additional experiment.
Then something changes and blows the estimates out of the water. But the MBA's think since only one line in the spec changed, the schedule should stay the same.
The vast majority of drugs never make it to market yet they costs millions in development anyway. It's an extremely expensive and difficult business with a high failure rate.
That is nothing recent. It was the case when the other drugs were developed as well. It was even worse before they had a hope of screening out probable failures through computer modeling. Back then they had to test each and every possibility manually with petri dishes and a microscope, then even the candidates that we can easily identify as deadly today had to be tried on expensive lab animals.
Actually, yes, minimum wage was meant to be at least barely adequate to keep you and your family off of food stamps and welfare.
Stop paying the CEO as much as everyone on the factory floor put together and it's not that big of a problem.
Tell the management to quit trying to pay silly stupid low wages.
It's funny how quickly the so called free market capitalists cry foul when unions demand whatever the market will bear. Sorry, you can't have it both ways.
That makes sense for consumables like gas or electric, but the only real consumable in networking is peak bandwidth. It costs the same to transmit your 10Mbps stream for 10 minutes as it does for 10 hours. It costs less to transmit a 5Mbps stream for a week.
For the same reason, our highly regulated landlines are billed as a flat monthly.
Beyond even that, they seem to miss that for competition to actually result in a healthy market, there must be dozens or even hundreds of competitors. Less than that and they'll settle into a comfey tacit agreement to keep prices high and service low.
Their understanding of market forces is at about a 4th or 5th grade level.
And yet they have synthesized it and are putting it through trials for approval. I presume that means they expect it to be profitable. Many modern antibiotics are discovered and produced in much the same way as penicillin was except we have much more advanced technology. There are indications of whole new grove of low hanging fruit from soil bacteria.
Meanwhile, the early research in new drugs is frequently publicly funded at universities.
Then how do you explain the antibiotics developed for decades before? They clearly made money. The companies that made them all did very well in spite of them being inexpensive to the patient. They continue to make money on them decades later even though they are long out of patent.
The vast majority of money spent by pharmaceutical companies is for sales and marketing. They want you to believe that the CEO goes home to his shack every night and cooks up a bowl of stone soup over a small fire he built from a few twigs he found in the park, but it's simply not the case.
Create automation that replaces politicians, CEOs, and economists and watch the fixes fly!
We just need a set of context sensitive executive decision makers (deluxe model uses an actual radiation source for random numbers.). They can have options like 'steal from social programs', 'tax the poor', 'Give banks a handout', 'blame the other party', etc. CEO versions can include 'give employees food stamp applications', 'layoff', 'plunder the pension fund', etc.
You must have slept through history class. There was no 'Soviet Russia' until the revolution in the 20th century.
I believe the market needs to be regulated to keep the con artists from taking over and killing people. You might not realize this but between black and white there is a vast spectrum of gray.
Before you quack on about irrelevancies, it's worth noting that I am not a fan of the FDA. The market needs regulation, not bad pseudo-regulation by stooges for the industry.
You should check what you're swimming in first. You'd be surprised how many expensive treatments you can get in America that are denied in Canada because they've been shown to make things worse or to have no effect at all.
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But when PEOPLE peaceably assemble and then break the peace by committing a crime, they go to jail as individuals. Let the same happen to those board members and we're good.
Finally! Someone noticed. Half the state dependent on a single fiber out in the middle of nowhere. What the hell?!?
To make it worse, it sounds like it was all communications. Cell, landline, and internet. Every egg in that one basket.
Surely there should have been at least a second cable somewhere.
And the people they apply that leverage to have been known to put families out in the streets at the drop of a hat, so not all sunshine and roses on that side either.
If you think the teamsters are a problem, just think of them as revolution lite. The concessions unions have gained are a good bit of what kept a worker's revolution from happening in the U.S.
Yeah, they'll have those automated buses ready to go and have state and federal approval in a week or two, tops!
Back here on Earth, it'll be several years before they can get approval for an automated bus on public streets, another few years until they get people to trust them rather than protest them as a safety hazard, and perhaps another year or two to get them to pay for themselves before they break down (driver salary and all), especially for a shuttle bus that isn't running 24/7.
So I guess the Teamsters kids might need to do something different.
And either those drivers join Teamsters before the cutoff date or the next news item is about how Yahoo, Apple, Genentech, eBay and Zynga were shut down for two weeks when their employee buses couldn't get through the picket line. I wonder how much that downtime will cost?
It helps when those poor don't find a gadzillion employers happy to pay them sub-minimum wage for dangerous work off the books.
Those same employers lobby for a lack of immigration reform AND a lack of border control.
Yet you seem more than willing to kick any of the people trying to climb out of the hole they were born in in the teeth to make sure they never get ion an equal footing with you.
You seem, in fact, to enjoy pissing in that hole from time to time to assert your odd sense of innate superiority.
You seem surprised that they aren't happy to be pissed on. Perhaps one day they'll tie you down and piss on you. You'll have it coming so I'll just watch and laugh.
Quit complaining and buy yourself a commercial mower!
Perhaps uneducated, definitely working hard enough that they will accelerate arthritis and other damage to their bodies. They won't be able to keep working until whatever might pass for retirement age. Since you feel so strongly about it, why don't you go undercut their demand and do the job for $146K? That'll teach 'em!
First, keep in mind, to the MBA, a line in the summary plus 20 supporting pages is "a line", at least when it benefits him to call it "one line".
Next, that one line can be HUGE sometimes. It can require whole new additional sub-susyems. Must interface with existing PCs -%gt; Must interface with existing PCs including the Univac in the basement. (and by interface with, they also mean translate between).
And, as BronsCon points out, sometimes one WORD is a problem depending on when it changes.
Dropping or adding the word 'not' can also make life interesting.
You can't have an estimate without knowing exactly what you will be doing. Finding out exactly what you are doing is also known as the design phase. It is the highest paying part of the project and can easily be 50 to 90% of the whole project. But they want the time estimate up front...
Once given, they will want to stick to the estimate as if it was carved on stone tablets by Moses.
If the project involves replacing of interfacing with a legacy system, or for that matter gathering requirements from people you don't know yet even estimating the design phase timeline can be a problem.
If it requires anything that can be described as experimental, you need to perform the experiments before you can commit to a timeline. The estimated time to do the experimentation will be even further out of the question if there is any possibility that one result could lead to an additional experiment.
Then something changes and blows the estimates out of the water. But the MBA's think since only one line in the spec changed, the schedule should stay the same.
The vast majority of drugs never make it to market yet they costs millions in development anyway. It's an extremely expensive and difficult business with a high failure rate.
That is nothing recent. It was the case when the other drugs were developed as well. It was even worse before they had a hope of screening out probable failures through computer modeling. Back then they had to test each and every possibility manually with petri dishes and a microscope, then even the candidates that we can easily identify as deadly today had to be tried on expensive lab animals.
Actually, yes, minimum wage was meant to be at least barely adequate to keep you and your family off of food stamps and welfare.
Stop paying the CEO as much as everyone on the factory floor put together and it's not that big of a problem.
Tell the management to quit trying to pay silly stupid low wages.
It's funny how quickly the so called free market capitalists cry foul when unions demand whatever the market will bear. Sorry, you can't have it both ways.
Take the 6K saved on the drone and put it towards hiring an American. The result is a net gain in employment.
Do you know the power consumption difference between an idle switch and one running at it's max? Immeasurably small.
That makes sense for consumables like gas or electric, but the only real consumable in networking is peak bandwidth. It costs the same to transmit your 10Mbps stream for 10 minutes as it does for 10 hours. It costs less to transmit a 5Mbps stream for a week.
For the same reason, our highly regulated landlines are billed as a flat monthly.
Beyond even that, they seem to miss that for competition to actually result in a healthy market, there must be dozens or even hundreds of competitors. Less than that and they'll settle into a comfey tacit agreement to keep prices high and service low.
Their understanding of market forces is at about a 4th or 5th grade level.
And yet they have synthesized it and are putting it through trials for approval. I presume that means they expect it to be profitable. Many modern antibiotics are discovered and produced in much the same way as penicillin was except we have much more advanced technology. There are indications of whole new grove of low hanging fruit from soil bacteria.
Meanwhile, the early research in new drugs is frequently publicly funded at universities.
Then how do you explain the antibiotics developed for decades before? They clearly made money. The companies that made them all did very well in spite of them being inexpensive to the patient. They continue to make money on them decades later even though they are long out of patent.
The vast majority of money spent by pharmaceutical companies is for sales and marketing. They want you to believe that the CEO goes home to his shack every night and cooks up a bowl of stone soup over a small fire he built from a few twigs he found in the park, but it's simply not the case.
Create automation that replaces politicians, CEOs, and economists and watch the fixes fly!
We just need a set of context sensitive executive decision makers (deluxe model uses an actual radiation source for random numbers.). They can have options like 'steal from social programs', 'tax the poor', 'Give banks a handout', 'blame the other party', etc. CEO versions can include 'give employees food stamp applications', 'layoff', 'plunder the pension fund', etc.
No idea about the USA
Indeed. There are some drugs that are humans only, but that's because they're too damned expensive to administer to animals.
You are clearly over the deep end. Perhaps too much laudanum?
I'm still not sure how you jumped from early 20th century France to the Soviet Union.
You must have slept through history class. There was no 'Soviet Russia' until the revolution in the 20th century.
I believe the market needs to be regulated to keep the con artists from taking over and killing people. You might not realize this but between black and white there is a vast spectrum of gray.
Before you quack on about irrelevancies, it's worth noting that I am not a fan of the FDA. The market needs regulation, not bad pseudo-regulation by stooges for the industry.
You should check what you're swimming in first. You'd be surprised how many expensive treatments you can get in America that are denied in Canada because they've been shown to make things worse or to have no effect at all.