Especially since the story isn't even about Microsoft! Microsoft negotiates a new contract with Volt in which they pay 10% less for each consultancy hour bought. Which is not unreasonable since it costs them 2-3 times as much for consultants as for full-time employees. Volt chooses to put the lost income on each individual consultant as 10% lower salary.
And what planet are you from? This is total BS. Microsoft is the reason for the 'vote'. You need to get a grip and realize the thrust of the issue. Yes, consultants cost more per hour of pay, but with all the other costs of employees, its pretty much a wash as far as overall costs go. (vacations, health care, taxes, etc)
This action is another fine example of market domination at play. Volt is pretty much only serving msft with their 'staff'. One could honestly say that Volt is the consulting arm of msft where the staff has other opportunities every 100 days, the only reason they do anything other than only msft staffing!!
Oh, so you took me seriously... As we all know the space elevator doesn't go all the way to the top (it doesn't even get off the ground). I was going for at least (Score: 1, Funny) although 5 would have been nice too.
to me it looks like a squid which just ate a rather large king crab. either that or it really is an alien searching for oil. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.
On an outer-space adventure, they were hit by comic rays. Those spiders were changed forever, in most fantastic ways! Here come the two! The fantastic two!
Spider one can spin elastic! Two can hide from sight! Spiderone got the crap end of the deal, so it murdered the other one in the night! Here come to the two! The fantastic two!
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... there are simply too many people on the planet for it to magically absorb and breakdown all our waste ...
Speaking of disasters that will bring on the end, all we need is for the 'big one' to flip over a continent or two and voila, problem solved.
This has already been done. Haven't you ever heard of the Six Million Dollar Man?
Especially since the story isn't even about Microsoft! Microsoft negotiates a new contract with Volt in which they pay 10% less for each consultancy hour bought. Which is not unreasonable since it costs them 2-3 times as much for consultants as for full-time employees. Volt chooses to put the lost income on each individual consultant as 10% lower salary.
And what planet are you from? This is total BS. Microsoft is the reason for the 'vote'. You need to get a grip and realize the thrust of the issue.
Yes, consultants cost more per hour of pay, but with all the other costs of employees, its pretty much a wash as far as overall costs go. (vacations, health care, taxes, etc)
This action is another fine example of market domination at play. Volt is pretty much only serving msft with their 'staff'. One could honestly say that Volt is the consulting arm of msft where the staff has other opportunities every 100 days, the only reason they do anything other than only msft staffing!!
You can scratch one off of that list!
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/25/1929244
They will only steal what they view as the best parts and pass them off as their own invention
Oh, so you took me seriously... As we all know the space elevator doesn't go all the way to the top (it doesn't even get off the ground). I was going for at least (Score: 1, Funny) although 5 would have been nice too.
1. Build space elevator.
2. Use the freight version.
3. Build solar array.
4. Connect array to elevator wires
5. Power the world.
6. ??
7. Profit!!
It could work!?!
to me it looks like a squid which just ate a rather large king crab. either that or it really is an alien searching for oil. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.
Seems more like soldering as your adding a connecting agent. Glue would require time to dry, where soldering only requires cooling.
Rod would be pleased you cleared that up.
and to think that it will cost that much to sit in the nose bleed section.
On an outer-space adventure, they were hit by comic rays. Those spiders were changed forever, in most fantastic ways! Here come the two! The fantastic two! Spider one can spin elastic! Two can hide from sight! Spiderone got the crap end of the deal, so it murdered the other one in the night! Here come to the two! The fantastic two!
there, fixed that for ya...
... only out of box 5 minutes...