It would already be enough if their CEO has to personally pay for the blunder, and you'll see them replace cheap code chimps with sensible IT staff pretty fucking quickly.
CEOs don't give a shit about anything as long as it doesn't cut into their bottom line. And I mean their personal one, not the one of the company they are allegedly responsible for.
“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”
If you use the "A is bad, hence B must be good" fallacy to make your point for A, you look about as stupid as someone who tries to use it as a point for B.
Because bodies are pretty good shrapnel shields. A suicide bomber going off inside a packed crowd will not really kill more than the maybe 5 or 10 closest nearby. The blast might injure a few more, but who cares about almost-deads, only complete success counts.
And when it comes to that you can't really beat blowing up a plane that takes down 300+ people in one go.
I could think of a few substances where maybe a kilogram would already be sufficient to at the very least cause the people in your vicinity to suffer serious injury along with you. Swallow a few ball bearings, too. Or hey, how about going nuclear? It's not like you're too keen on surviving anyway, so dying in about 5 hours from radiation poisoning shouldn't be a problem.
I'm fairly sure that a skilled physician could time your PU-intake in such a way that you are subcritical before boarding but go supercritical a few hours after take off. Different foods spend different times in your stomach, so ingesting it with the right meal might just do the trick. Someone would have to put some time (and bodies) into researching that matter.
Just because your country implemented it badly doesn't mean that idea of giving everyone the opportunity to study is a bad one. We, too, have a rather large number of people starting every year. It clears up quickly, though.
Even stupid people notice that they're wasting their life, and people in general don't really like doing that.
The more interesting question is, who the hell would want to go to that country anymore?
Right. Fewer and fewer people. But it is because of Trump. Not because flying there has become a ridiculous jump-the-hoops game that no self respecting person would ever subject himself to if he has any choice.
Hell, I'd seriously ponder flying to Canada and driving to the US if I ever have to go to any state within 1000 miles of the Canadian border.
It's because I don't want customers of my customer relationship software to know that I also create firmware for flesh colored fake assholes that have a sucking mechanic.
I mean, that's what I could imagine HIS reason is...
Dude, even I don't pay 50% tax and I'm in the upper 10% of the country. If you exaggerate, at least do it at a sensible level.
The main difference is that you actually get something out of your taxes over here in Europe. My taxes pay well for my safety, not because we have tons of police, more because simply everyone here has enough to lose to not mug you for the maybe 20 bucks in your wallet. And for my healthcare, my retirement, my potential unemployment, accidents that might happen...
In other words, that spending money that I have left over at the end of the month IS actually spending money. Because everything you either try to find an affordable insurance for or have to stash money away for eventualities I have already covered.
Quite the opposite, everyone should be able to get into a university. That would allow them to weed out left and right and make sure that only the absolute best really graduate. Drop out rates of 90% should actually be the norm, at least when 100% can afford to enroll.
Pre-1990: Pravda runs a contest for the best political joke. First prize: All-expenses paid trip to Sibiria. Post-2001: Homeland security runs a contest for the best hack: First prize. All-expenses paid trip to Cuba.
Nobody, no person, no organization, that holds that amount of information and hence power, stays independent and trustworthy for long. What kind of saint do you expect to take that position? Even with the best of all intentions he would fail.
Yeah, how dare they speak their mind? If we don't stop them right here, next they'll even demand the right to peacefully assemble, and what we got then may not be stoppable anymore.
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It would already be enough if their CEO has to personally pay for the blunder, and you'll see them replace cheap code chimps with sensible IT staff pretty fucking quickly.
CEOs don't give a shit about anything as long as it doesn't cut into their bottom line. And I mean their personal one, not the one of the company they are allegedly responsible for.
“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When
you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay
too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you
bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The
common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a
lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well
to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will
have enough to pay for something better.”
John Ruskin
If you use the "A is bad, hence B must be good" fallacy to make your point for A, you look about as stupid as someone who tries to use it as a point for B.
Because bodies are pretty good shrapnel shields. A suicide bomber going off inside a packed crowd will not really kill more than the maybe 5 or 10 closest nearby. The blast might injure a few more, but who cares about almost-deads, only complete success counts.
And when it comes to that you can't really beat blowing up a plane that takes down 300+ people in one go.
I could think of a few substances where maybe a kilogram would already be sufficient to at the very least cause the people in your vicinity to suffer serious injury along with you. Swallow a few ball bearings, too. Or hey, how about going nuclear? It's not like you're too keen on surviving anyway, so dying in about 5 hours from radiation poisoning shouldn't be a problem.
I'm fairly sure that a skilled physician could time your PU-intake in such a way that you are subcritical before boarding but go supercritical a few hours after take off. Different foods spend different times in your stomach, so ingesting it with the right meal might just do the trick. Someone would have to put some time (and bodies) into researching that matter.
Just because your country implemented it badly doesn't mean that idea of giving everyone the opportunity to study is a bad one. We, too, have a rather large number of people starting every year. It clears up quickly, though.
Even stupid people notice that they're wasting their life, and people in general don't really like doing that.
We are. And your tourism sector is already lamenting and crying over the lost dollars.
So I guess SOME are missing us. Or at least our money.
The more interesting question is, who the hell would want to go to that country anymore?
Right. Fewer and fewer people. But it is because of Trump. Not because flying there has become a ridiculous jump-the-hoops game that no self respecting person would ever subject himself to if he has any choice.
Hell, I'd seriously ponder flying to Canada and driving to the US if I ever have to go to any state within 1000 miles of the Canadian border.
Nah, how could you then justify buying more nudie scanners?
Say what you want about our government, but it doesn't back stab its owners. Once bought, it stays bought.
If I'm a suicide bomber, why shouldn't I simply swallow it?
No. Just too many codemonkeys.
Likewise, there aren't too many managers. We only have too many beancounters.
It's because I don't want customers of my customer relationship software to know that I also create firmware for flesh colored fake assholes that have a sucking mechanic.
I mean, that's what I could imagine HIS reason is...
Dude, even I don't pay 50% tax and I'm in the upper 10% of the country. If you exaggerate, at least do it at a sensible level.
The main difference is that you actually get something out of your taxes over here in Europe. My taxes pay well for my safety, not because we have tons of police, more because simply everyone here has enough to lose to not mug you for the maybe 20 bucks in your wallet. And for my healthcare, my retirement, my potential unemployment, accidents that might happen...
In other words, that spending money that I have left over at the end of the month IS actually spending money. Because everything you either try to find an affordable insurance for or have to stash money away for eventualities I have already covered.
What matters is the result. I don't give a fuck why I don't get to pay alimony, as long as I don't get to pay.
Just because someone sent you a ruler where he wrote "feet" on a piece of tape and tacked it to the place that read "centimeters" doesn't make it so.
But by the time she could see that we'd already be in my bedroom?
It all depends on your compiler flags.
Quite the opposite, everyone should be able to get into a university. That would allow them to weed out left and right and make sure that only the absolute best really graduate. Drop out rates of 90% should actually be the norm, at least when 100% can afford to enroll.
Yeah, because of the big bucks you make with UBI, we might have a shortage of Ferraris really soon...
But yes, basic food might become more expensive now that more people can afford it. True, true...
Pre-1990: Pravda runs a contest for the best political joke. First prize: All-expenses paid trip to Sibiria.
Post-2001: Homeland security runs a contest for the best hack: First prize. All-expenses paid trip to Cuba.
I bet my TrackIR that the Asus-Soundcard I have will crap out earlier...
But I'm intrigued, could you give me some pointers?
So... all it takes to get holidays all year long is about 10k dead people?
Hand me that machine gun, please.
You needn't be super secret just because you're a threat to freedom. All you need is government backing.
Nobody, no person, no organization, that holds that amount of information and hence power, stays independent and trustworthy for long. What kind of saint do you expect to take that position? Even with the best of all intentions he would fail.
Yeah, how dare they speak their mind? If we don't stop them right here, next they'll even demand the right to peacefully assemble, and what we got then may not be stoppable anymore.