the company was $190 million in debt, and the bulk of the accounts totaling $137 million is now missing.
what was Gerald Cotten business model, I want in, he ain’t dead, he is living it up on a Caribbean island looking over his shoulder every five seconds.
I have read this book, or seen the story, a drying earth and a loan pilot attempts to seed a cloud with salt to get it to rain, but pirates attack our hero in an aero battle to keep control of the scare water resources.
This particular chip or sub chip is not really high end anymore, it’s easy to make a modem in house thats still faster then the network it’s connected to.
A simple cost saving equation, keep the simple stuff in house.
Of course this makes sense, both Russia and China figured out how to manipulate the people through misinformation, it’s cheaper then shipping them off to gulags
Our hero is in China promoting his new movie and his face is plastered on buses all over China, his social score drops so low the authorities go looking for him and he has to don a disguise and go into hiding.
Sound stupid? Of course, it’s a Will Smith action movie, it will be great!
Employers hate when good employees leave, it’s not only expensive brining on new employees, they know that they lost an employee that knew the ropes, and are getting another new hire.
And this is not just about programers, it’s all professions, and all fields of employment.
The Boss’s have all types of tricks to keep you working for them, bonus, profit sharing, office perks, and at times promoting views of thought that might make us feel like we are losing skills or productivity if we switch jobs.
The whole concept of a helium shortage was a made up event for corporate America to take over the US Helium reserve.
Many oil production facilities vent out helium because the cost to capture and transport to market are too high compared to the return on the investment on the next quarters finical reports.
And there is nothing more important then next quarters finical reports, our pensions depend on them, our IRA depend on that, sometimes our bonus depends on the next quarters finical reports.
We have to listen to our CorpPolitical overlords, reusing helium will just make the problem worse, the price for helium will go down and thats not good for profits.
"Both allege that Facebook's lack of proper security has exposed them and additional potential class members to a significantly increased chance of identity theft as a result of the breach,"
You had a Facebook profile, what the heck did you think was going to happen.
Bitcoin mining puts strains on public utilities, when these utilities are forced to upgrade the local grid to accommodate these miners all residence of this community will face higher rates regardless if the are miners or skeptics.
While an ISP prioritizing traffic is only trying to strong arm the packet provider into paying a toll fee.
--- Incident report: Posable AI Induced suicide
--- Location: Six story office building on Brand Blvd, Pasadena
--- Time and Date: Friday afternoon, in the near future
--- Setting: Shortly before the end of business, the servers hosting their sales portal went down, the subject attempted to call tech support to resolve the issue.
--- The following phone transcript was recovered
{C} How can I help you?
{H} I want to talk to a huma... {C} of course you do, let me direct you to..... {H} SHUT HELL UP I WANT TO TALK TO A... {C} please sir calm down I’m sure I can hel.... {H} DONT TALK TO ME JUST PUT A HUM.... {C} yes sir I can see your upset, let me put my supervi... {H} YOUR SUPERVISOR BETTER BE A HUM.... {C} my supervisor is THX 1138, please hold.
--- recording ended as subject tossed his phone out of a six story window then followed the phone down
Thats really the sad part of this, almost everyone loses, the investors that fronted the 8 billion in debt will get cents on the dollar they invested, the 33 k employees will lose their jobs
I say almost because I am sure the principles at KKR, Bain and Vornado have been paid handsomely managing this mess they created.
it does not really sound like a backtrack, but more like we do not need to do this anymore, now that the antivirus programs stopped using those parts of the kernel that the patch needed.
On the surface I might agree with your argument that the ISP consumer that's subsidizing the cost of the bandwidth the FANGs are using.
But then look what is going on with the large ISP’s, they are buying up content.
Comcast owns NBC and Universal Entertainment, Time Warner owns Warner Brothers Entertainment and a whole bunch of other content.
Even Verizon owns a hand full of small content providers.
Without NetNutrality it would be easy, legal, and make good business sense for these ISPs to prioritize their content regardless what the consumer wants.
I still fail to see how this can Hyper-stuff can make a profit. ok, you can move up to 16 people between points at a very fast speed, yet the cars would need to be spaced far enough apart from each other to provide a save emergency stop if something went wrong with car up front.
While there is existing technology, the mag lift, in use, that can move two hundred plus people at a time on a monorail (cheaper then a tunnel) at speeds up to 400 km per hour.
The future of transportation is moving a large number of people fast and efficiently, I would love to see the business plan on this tunnel, how many people can be moved in a 24 hour period? whats the cost per passenger? whats the maintenance cost? the cost to maintain the vacuum in a ten mile line, yes it’s underground, but your going to need a lot of emergency exit points along the route, and each air lock is another potential vacuum breach.
The Concord showed us fast is not always profitable.
The last time the writers went on strike we ended up with Doctor Horrible’s sing-along blog, and that was not a bad thing.
Streaming....
The writers should have seen the writing on the wall, Hollywood, although still capable of producing an original hit now and then, are more interested in sequels and reboots then originality.
TV is much the same, “lets get this guy that was popular for 4 seasons in a sitcom and put him in another sitcom just like the last”
That might work for some viewers, but it will not grow the industry
It happened before, in the 60’s Hollywood was afraid of cost and originality and it took the Italian's with their Spaghetti Western’s to show the way forward. and a decade later Norman Lear transformed TV
The shift is happening, like it or not writers, traditional Hollywood and TV are dying.
Want to stay employed?
Start talking to Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or the other streaming services that are or will be cropping up.
Why does MS feel its so important for us to upgrade?
I’m happy with Win 7, and the accounting program we use in the office is not Win 10 ready, and many of the games I play are not Win 10 ready.
I don't understand why MS feels they have to force Win 10 on us when many are perfectly happy with the Win we have.
The part I cant figure out is why? whats so important that we all must upgrade to what is basically a free upgrade.
I’m running Win 7 in VMware on my Mac and the commercial accounting program we use is not yet patched for Win 10 so I cant upgrade.
Why is Microsoft insisting everyone must upgrade?
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the company was $190 million in debt, and the bulk of the accounts totaling $137 million is now missing.
what was Gerald Cotten business model, I want in, he ain’t dead, he is living it up on a Caribbean island looking over his shoulder every five seconds.
I have read this book, or seen the story, a drying earth and a loan pilot attempts to seed a cloud with salt to get it to rain, but pirates attack our hero in an aero battle to keep control of the scare water resources.
This particular chip or sub chip is not really high end anymore, it’s easy to make a modem in house thats still faster then the network it’s connected to.
A simple cost saving equation, keep the simple stuff in house.
can you still get tacos at the Telco Bell?
Of course this makes sense, both Russia and China figured out how to manipulate the people through misinformation, it’s cheaper then shipping them off to gulags
I did finish the book, but I agree, it was not one of his better works
Our hero is in China promoting his new movie and his face is plastered on buses all over China, his social score drops so low the authorities go looking for him and he has to don a disguise and go into hiding.
Sound stupid? Of course, it’s a Will Smith action movie, it will be great!
Employers hate when good employees leave, it’s not only expensive brining on new employees, they know that they lost an employee that knew the ropes, and are getting another new hire.
And this is not just about programers, it’s all professions, and all fields of employment.
The Boss’s have all types of tricks to keep you working for them, bonus, profit sharing, office perks, and at times promoting views of thought that might make us feel like we are losing skills or productivity if we switch jobs.
You don't understand the problem thats why.
The whole concept of a helium shortage was a made up event for corporate America to take over the US Helium reserve.
Many oil production facilities vent out helium because the cost to capture and transport to market are too high compared to the return on the investment on the next quarters finical reports.
And there is nothing more important then next quarters finical reports, our pensions depend on them, our IRA depend on that, sometimes our bonus depends on the next quarters finical reports.
We have to listen to our CorpPolitical overlords, reusing helium will just make the problem worse, the price for helium will go down and thats not good for profits.
"Both allege that Facebook's lack of proper security has exposed them and additional potential class members to a significantly increased chance of identity theft as a result of the breach,"
You had a Facebook profile, what the heck did you think was going to happen.
Huge .... Huge difference
Bitcoin mining puts strains on public utilities, when these utilities are forced to upgrade the local grid to accommodate these miners all residence of this community will face higher rates regardless if the are miners or skeptics.
While an ISP prioritizing traffic is only trying to strong arm the packet provider into paying a toll fee.
Pink Floyd ..... FOREVER
--- Incident report: Posable AI Induced suicide
..... {H} SHUT HELL UP I WANT TO TALK TO A ... {C} please sir calm down I’m sure I can hel.... {H} DONT TALK TO ME JUST PUT A HUM.... {C} yes sir I can see your upset, let me put my supervi... {H} YOUR SUPERVISOR BETTER BE A HUM.... {C} my supervisor is THX 1138, please hold.
--- Location: Six story office building on Brand Blvd, Pasadena
--- Time and Date: Friday afternoon, in the near future
--- Setting: Shortly before the end of business, the servers hosting their sales portal went down, the subject attempted to call tech support to resolve the issue.
--- The following phone transcript was recovered
{C} How can I help you?
{H} I want to talk to a huma... {C} of course you do, let me direct you to
--- recording ended as subject tossed his phone out of a six story window then followed the phone down
this is my fate.
Thats really the sad part of this, almost everyone loses, the investors that fronted the 8 billion in debt will get cents on the dollar they invested, the 33 k employees will lose their jobs
I say almost because I am sure the principles at KKR, Bain and Vornado have been paid handsomely managing this mess they created.
it does not really sound like a backtrack, but more like we do not need to do this anymore, now that the antivirus programs stopped using those parts of the kernel that the patch needed.
When the voices in my head starts yelling at me it sounds like everyone is yelling and they don't stop until I put down the baseball bat.
On the surface I might agree with your argument that the ISP consumer that's subsidizing the cost of the bandwidth the FANGs are using.
But then look what is going on with the large ISP’s, they are buying up content.
Comcast owns NBC and Universal Entertainment, Time Warner owns Warner Brothers Entertainment and a whole bunch of other content.
Even Verizon owns a hand full of small content providers.
Without NetNutrality it would be easy, legal, and make good business sense for these ISPs to prioritize their content regardless what the consumer wants.
Ok, but will a sleeping policeman ever become a speed bump.
While there is existing technology, the mag lift, in use, that can move two hundred plus people at a time on a monorail (cheaper then a tunnel) at speeds up to 400 km per hour.
The future of transportation is moving a large number of people fast and efficiently, I would love to see the business plan on this tunnel, how many people can be moved in a 24 hour period? whats the cost per passenger? whats the maintenance cost? the cost to maintain the vacuum in a ten mile line, yes it’s underground, but your going to need a lot of emergency exit points along the route, and each air lock is another potential vacuum breach.
The Concord showed us fast is not always profitable.
Would vote for Silent Running, but only if they take out that Joan Baez song at the end
Thats what it looks like, not that I have first hand knowledge of course, well not too often.
The last time the writers went on strike we ended up with Doctor Horrible’s sing-along blog, and that was not a bad thing.
....
Streaming
The writers should have seen the writing on the wall, Hollywood, although still capable of producing an original hit now and then, are more interested in sequels and reboots then originality.
TV is much the same, “lets get this guy that was popular for 4 seasons in a sitcom and put him in another sitcom just like the last”
That might work for some viewers, but it will not grow the industry
It happened before, in the 60’s Hollywood was afraid of cost and originality and it took the Italian's with their Spaghetti Western’s to show the way forward. and a decade later Norman Lear transformed TV
The shift is happening, like it or not writers, traditional Hollywood and TV are dying.
Want to stay employed?
Start talking to Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, or the other streaming services that are or will be cropping up.
Whats the big deal over Win 10? why are pushing so hard?
Why does MS feel its so important for us to upgrade?
I’m happy with Win 7, and the accounting program we use in the office is not Win 10 ready, and many of the games I play are not Win 10 ready.
I don't understand why MS feels they have to force Win 10 on us when many are perfectly happy with the Win we have.
The part I cant figure out is why? whats so important that we all must upgrade to what is basically a free upgrade. I’m running Win 7 in VMware on my Mac and the commercial accounting program we use is not yet patched for Win 10 so I cant upgrade. Why is Microsoft insisting everyone must upgrade?