Arguably true...but then, it depends what you mean by true psychopathy -> if I care for only my family, or my tribe, am I a psychopath? If I am exhausted from caring for people beyond my resources and capacity...am I an evil person?
Ok...let's just have them burn static HTML pages on a DVD containing the operating system, and work from there. The other side can then play to win against Write Once media.
I'll be on my island, brooding, and watching anime.;-)
Dude, it's agreed that slashvertizements are in bad taste...like asking a girl for sex when you go to pick her up for a date (i.e. it's super rude), but having said as much (seriously editors, do something about this), everything this blurb is talking about was predicted. NSA goes on privacy knifing binge, other Powers decide not to trust the US with their secrets, the businesses of the US cry out. Predicted, known, and they still didn't care. And now they want our trust, again, so they can betray it, again. The NSA's nickname might as well be Judas Iscariot or Jesus Christ, depending on whether you're on the receiving end, or the giving end. In either case, people are pissed.
So make a bad choice: pure honesty, with our super bad laws (God help you with that, as you're screwed inside and outside the US...victim of our foreign policy, or victim of our domestic policy)...or pure honesty, we're human, you're going to fail at some laws, and you might / might not receive some help when you do. Frankly, I see suffering, which, while not being a Buddhist, I am not a fan of...mine or others. Frankly, I'd prefer laws that everyone could follow flawlessly.
True, but think about it. The truth is the truth; if your defined enemy has you by the balls (blackmail), why let him continue to apply pressure to your testicles? Just coming clean means you can relieve that pressure, and nail the other guy for attempted blackmail. This works, of course, only if you don't hide the truth or mitigate things, etc. once you are in that situation...so if the NSA is still trying to cover up or redact some things, it's still going to hurt with this strategy, unless it changes.
The truth only works so well as you let it. Try to hide something when you use it, and it works less successfully.
Indeed. In the choice between retiring the military early with golf-course careers and spending the money on healthcare, or rolling with a super police state, I favor the former.
Disagree. You're using your hypothesis to prove your conclusion. It's a common logical fallacy: all known societies engage in invasion of privacy, ergo, society must engage in invasion of privacy, or it is not a society.
In other words...consolidation. People were fine with Google et al. running things until they realized how badly they are being pwned. Now people want to change, to save their lives / businesses / etc., and they have to scramble to rebuild some of the things that were thrown away.
Because building websites is a tad bit more difficult than they are giving credit for? Think about it. They want to be commanders, handing down orders, and seeing them implemented...but they are seeing themselves fail time and time again. They are then obviously missing something...something so close to home that it's taken for granted.
Building websites means dealing with potentially dozens of vendors, whose products are more like legoes than fine tools. (Not that we don't love the tools we do have...we just know how difficult it is to build tools that are good). It means dealing with abstracts, and putting their designs into an implementation. That's a lot of mental travelling.
This is not taken into account by those who understand least, yet control the most, of their wages. It's a communication issue, a wage issue, and several thousand other issues which, at this point, even I've thrown up my hands in frustration.
Well...from a realpolitik viewpoint...you do. Countries are only interested in protecting their own (f*ck the world...and their allies), and even then, only so much as is necessary to stay in power.
Allow me to explain this to you in more pragmatic terms: if your country could, with reasonable effort, turn everyone outside its borders into slaves, sell them and their children on the open market, as well as anyone inside its own borders (up to 50% + 1 to keep itself in power 'democratically), it totally would. Buying and selling people's information, 'social' justice without any sort of reason...these are simply preludes to what is already here.
"Due to National Security concerns, we can only tell you that the person charged is guilty...we cannot provide any evidence, and you will need to totally believe us, no matter how many times we have been found engaging in practices that are considered immoral."
Nonsense. Terrorism, as apparently defined by many an agency, is anything, ordinary or non-ordinary, that causes at least one person to get their knickers in a twist, i.e. the current and past three generations have now attained the ill-fated title of being composed of entirely 'girly men.'
Snickers bar someone dropped in the elevator of your corporate building? Better call a bomb squad, wouldn't want to expose yourselves to the risk that a candy bar might be filled with something other than chocolate, peanuts, and possibly some forth of caramel. Someone speaking in a foreign language nearby, looking very animated and 'angry'? Well, obviously the FBI needs to intercede on Al-Him's third daughter's wedding planning, and how they will not have the flowers she wants in time. The Amish have a bumper crop of corn this year? Well, they're obviously up to no good.
Compare that one to the current post, and note the differences. First,/. is generating new content in that post...they are interviewing, even if by email, one of the higher tech people in the industry; what more, they are asking the right questions, because the person asking them lives in the tech world...the interview is quicker, and perhaps juicier because of that.
The current submission is, perhaps, something similar to pulling a story off the AP wire, and dumping the first paragraph verbatim as the summary.
The Tech industry is filled with people, both major and minor, who have email addresses./. could always try emailing some people (not in Marketing / PR / etc.) for an interesting piece (helps if the people writing it are actually nuanced in the tech world...better learn to program, build a machine by hand, and attend the Cons (large crossover with the anime world) / Trade Shows).
"Enough lead to act as a shield would not have the needed thermal profile."
My solution would need to be adapted accordingly. The goal with the lead pods was not, in of themselves, to provide a permanent means of storage, but to allow the robot, while working within the reactor, to safely contain pieces of the fuel rods...because cutting fuel rods, with a laser, into thousands of pieces, then attempting to pick up those pieces later on would, in all likelihood, end badly...as the cut fuel rods / pieces, presumably laying on top of each other at they are cut off, would have a much higher surface area, which, if there are any neutron reflecting / slowing materials in the area (like water), might end badly. You could use any number of materials that qualify as radiation stopping here...and there are many to choose from. Lead is simply a well-known, common one.
As for storing fuel rods, in a pool, the water itself is fine: http://what-if.xkcd.com/29/. Granted these are 'spent' fuel rods, not active fuel rods in a reactor...they're just being stored, so they're safe enough for people, engineers, in some instances, to walk around unshielded in some cases...well, unshielded at the bottom of a pool.
Perhaps a better solution, long term, would be simply to recycle the rods. I know, I know, it sounds insane. But your options are seal them up...and watch as someone goes looking for them eventually...and they will...or use them up...I know of no immediate way to render radioactive substances non-radioactive using current technology. Current methods induce more radiation into surroundings, etc. Perhaps if a new method for slicing or restoring subatomic particles could be created, this would not be an issue...
The cutting is occurring under water; I'm sure that the Japanese, depending on their level of desperation, can build a test scenario to replicate the conditions in the reactor, and make adjustments before sending anything in.
Again, the core itself is under water...you might need to move some debris to get around things, at which point multiple robots, or perhaps, multiple robots with winches / more powerful / disposable tools might be useful. If it requires two of them to remove a girder to get to the sunken core, then two of them they will need. I favor the laser because it's bound to be useful for cutting the melted rods into chunks you can safely remove...mechanical attempts would be iffy, at best. And it might be possible to keep the actual laser generation apparatus outside the reactor, while feeding the cutting beam through the fiber optic cables. This would allow complete control of the laser + shutdown of the laser in an emergency + keep it out of any danger / radiation. Plus chemical lasers tend to be stronger than other kinds...or that was the impression I was left with last time I checked...things may have changed.
And yes, you are right about using the laser itself on the cores. Some double-checking would be needed to ensure that it would not 'assist' any additional neutron release, but I'm sure the idea itself is still a sound one.
As the core is dissected, I'd direct the robots to place each piece in a lead-lined storage pod; this needs to be done as each piece is cut off, so as to not create further metldowns; each piece must be placed in its own self-contained pod. After this is done, the immediate worry about needing to constantly pump in coolant to keep the core from getting worse will be alleviated...and the core itself will be contained, and presumably taken somewhere to be recycled or stored or buried. Continuing to pump water into the reactor, when it already contains seawater (WTF), which is a serious no-no for typical nuclear chemistry, is just a recipe for disaster. Your choices are many, but the ones here are 1.) keep pumping in water and watch it keep poisoning things (which does seem to be the media's current assessment...no idea whether that is true), or 2.) dismantle the core so that radiation will drop. There is, of course, as you highlighted, the possibly of dust creation...but lasers tend to be pretty good here; your choices are 200 years of highly radioactive water flowing out of the reactor (need to verify this, is it actually highly radioactive and flowing? and 200 years worth?) or what will probably be a temporary spike of whatever dust is created by the lasers used (better than other cutting tools, I imagine), followed by an immediate drop off as the core is sealed. And the dust created will be somewhat granular, so perhaps some careful planning there can limit its spread as well (I suppose if you want to get extra crazy, you would apply an airlock or something to the area directly above wherever you find the melted core...and just filter for particles larger than 0.3 microns or something and smaller than the robot. You could apply gel to the cut pieces of the cores itself, to prevent any dust from moving, thought that would happen afterwards.
Well, going with theoretical solutions (for 200 Alex), I'd whip up a pneumatic robot (all fluidic pressure, no electronics), and strap on a chemical laser + fiber optic lines + lens system. That should ensure that stray radiation will not damage any electronics, as it won't have any, though it will be a one way trip for the bot (still going to be highly radioactive), and watching the cables will be an issue (better pay the extra money to make sure they're braided). Then I'd send it into the reactor core, to cut up / out the still active reactor rods, and bring them to a designated midway point piece by piece.
No human is going to survive in that core, even if they'd volunteer for the mission...nor would any electronic-based machine. The first will be cooked from the inside out, the second will get so many errors as it gets closer to the core from radiation hitting its processors that it will do more damage than good.
I'm not interested in a protracted 'battle' with the NSA...1.) it's not how I do things, and 2.) it takes time and energy away from core focuses.
If I wanted to register a complaint with the NSA, I'd do it by ensuring that anyone associated with it would suddenly consider the thought of continued work along those lines to be less than compatible with their long term goals in this life, namely peace and longevity. However, we live in a Democracy...and as such, we shall wait for the current set of leaders to fail...and they will....to reign in the NSA, before endeavoring to consider alternatives.
For the record, the NSA does constitute a sometimes valuable resource to the US; however, like the CIA, some of its, shall I say 'shenanigans' need to be reigned in, before we become the laughingstock of the nations, and we can't call ourselves the nation of the free / home of the brave without laughing. Finally, the military does need to be brought home; the military leaders have spoken...all of them...and while some people might want to test their loyalty to civilian authority by pushing for further war with Syria, I am reminded that the reason we have military leaders is that so we can have their advice on military matters. Ergo, if they are saying "let's give the military a rest,' then there's a chance that it needs one, on more than one level.
Yeah, no. Assume that the NSA has access to your machine, even if you're running a tight BSD install. So...why develop new software that they're just going to copy for themselves? Remember, these people have no souls.
Switch providers, tell friends about new provider, watch as old provider's revenues slowly crash over the next three years, while new one enjoys a nice bump.
There are many issues that IT attempts to communicate to Senior Management, but, for a variety of reasons, go unhandled. We've tried communicating before...and people said "Shutup, you're talking too technical, you need to speak business," then it became "Shutup, every week there is some sort of thing that needs attending to..."; so, after a while, those reports start getting filed in the garbage can immediately after they are printed, since that's where they end up anyways.
It's only later on, when something has gone terribly wrong (imagine a large kingdom having been run into ruin by the last dozen or so kings...), when there are so many things going wrong all at once that duct tape and shoelaces can't fix things, that Senior Management may wake from its slumber, and ask "What the hell is going on in this company? Why is it taking forever to get new projects done, and old projects are requiring constant intervention just to keep afloat? Why are we leasing buildings that we used to own? How badly mismanaged have things been that the former masters of the household are now its servants?" And that's when Senior Management begins knocking on Accounting, Legal, and IT's doors...if they are still around...and asking, "You are the sensory organs of this company...you deal with the day to day running of operations...why are we bankrupt? Did we lose a major lawsuit? What happened? Accounting, why are we in the red? IT, you handle information on a daily basis...what have you heard?" And for companies that have outsourced all of their IT, Accounting, and Legal operations...well, just getting a hold of someone, who is very unhappy with your delinquent bills, can be trying.
So, what you're seeing now is Senior Management having woken up from a long hiatus, and wondering who made what decisions, and why everything is so wrong.
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Arguably true...but then, it depends what you mean by true psychopathy -> if I care for only my family, or my tribe, am I a psychopath? If I am exhausted from caring for people beyond my resources and capacity...am I an evil person?
You're right. And do not forget that the batteries degrade over time, which is an additional worry.
*facepalms*
Ok...let's just have them burn static HTML pages on a DVD containing the operating system, and work from there. The other side can then play to win against Write Once media.
I'll be on my island, brooding, and watching anime. ;-)
Dude, it's agreed that slashvertizements are in bad taste...like asking a girl for sex when you go to pick her up for a date (i.e. it's super rude), but having said as much (seriously editors, do something about this), everything this blurb is talking about was predicted. NSA goes on privacy knifing binge, other Powers decide not to trust the US with their secrets, the businesses of the US cry out. Predicted, known, and they still didn't care. And now they want our trust, again, so they can betray it, again. The NSA's nickname might as well be Judas Iscariot or Jesus Christ, depending on whether you're on the receiving end, or the giving end. In either case, people are pissed.
So make a bad choice: pure honesty, with our super bad laws (God help you with that, as you're screwed inside and outside the US...victim of our foreign policy, or victim of our domestic policy)...or pure honesty, we're human, you're going to fail at some laws, and you might / might not receive some help when you do. Frankly, I see suffering, which, while not being a Buddhist, I am not a fan of...mine or others. Frankly, I'd prefer laws that everyone could follow flawlessly.
True, but think about it. The truth is the truth; if your defined enemy has you by the balls (blackmail), why let him continue to apply pressure to your testicles? Just coming clean means you can relieve that pressure, and nail the other guy for attempted blackmail. This works, of course, only if you don't hide the truth or mitigate things, etc. once you are in that situation...so if the NSA is still trying to cover up or redact some things, it's still going to hurt with this strategy, unless it changes.
The truth only works so well as you let it. Try to hide something when you use it, and it works less successfully.
Indeed. In the choice between retiring the military early with golf-course careers and spending the money on healthcare, or rolling with a super police state, I favor the former.
Disagree. You're using your hypothesis to prove your conclusion. It's a common logical fallacy: all known societies engage in invasion of privacy, ergo, society must engage in invasion of privacy, or it is not a society.
In other words...consolidation. People were fine with Google et al. running things until they realized how badly they are being pwned. Now people want to change, to save their lives / businesses / etc., and they have to scramble to rebuild some of the things that were thrown away.
Remind me...why are they so easily offended?
Because building websites is a tad bit more difficult than they are giving credit for? Think about it. They want to be commanders, handing down orders, and seeing them implemented...but they are seeing themselves fail time and time again. They are then obviously missing something...something so close to home that it's taken for granted.
Building websites means dealing with potentially dozens of vendors, whose products are more like legoes than fine tools. (Not that we don't love the tools we do have...we just know how difficult it is to build tools that are good). It means dealing with abstracts, and putting their designs into an implementation. That's a lot of mental travelling.
This is not taken into account by those who understand least, yet control the most, of their wages. It's a communication issue, a wage issue, and several thousand other issues which, at this point, even I've thrown up my hands in frustration.
You seem to assume that the choices are mutually exclusive: Soviet KGB-style interrogations and intelligence, or total Anarchy.
I ask you, why did we even fight the Cold War, and win it, if we were just going to embrace everything at a later time?
Well...from a realpolitik viewpoint...you do. Countries are only interested in protecting their own (f*ck the world...and their allies), and even then, only so much as is necessary to stay in power.
Allow me to explain this to you in more pragmatic terms: if your country could, with reasonable effort, turn everyone outside its borders into slaves, sell them and their children on the open market, as well as anyone inside its own borders (up to 50% + 1 to keep itself in power 'democratically), it totally would. Buying and selling people's information, 'social' justice without any sort of reason...these are simply preludes to what is already here.
"Due to National Security concerns, we can only tell you that the person charged is guilty...we cannot provide any evidence, and you will need to totally believe us, no matter how many times we have been found engaging in practices that are considered immoral."
Nonsense. Terrorism, as apparently defined by many an agency, is anything, ordinary or non-ordinary, that causes at least one person to get their knickers in a twist, i.e. the current and past three generations have now attained the ill-fated title of being composed of entirely 'girly men.'
Snickers bar someone dropped in the elevator of your corporate building? Better call a bomb squad, wouldn't want to expose yourselves to the risk that a candy bar might be filled with something other than chocolate, peanuts, and possibly some forth of caramel. Someone speaking in a foreign language nearby, looking very animated and 'angry'? Well, obviously the FBI needs to intercede on Al-Him's third daughter's wedding planning, and how they will not have the flowers she wants in time. The Amish have a bumper crop of corn this year? Well, they're obviously up to no good.
The X-Ray dose is trivial...especially the digital versions, which use, I believe, six times less radiation than a normal non-digital version.
http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/dental.htm
2 or 3 mrem is the reported dose for a dentist X-Ray.
http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation/around-us/doses-daily-lives.html
On average, Americans receive a radiation dose of about 0.62 rem (620 millirem) each year.
Someone who has journalism (possibly even 'Tech' journalism) experience is trying to run /., perhaps? Or maybe a lack thereof?
Let's review earlier /. submissions: http://games.slashdot.org/story/99/10/15/1012230/john-carmack-answers
Compare that one to the current post, and note the differences. First, /. is generating new content in that post...they are interviewing, even if by email, one of the higher tech people in the industry; what more, they are asking the right questions, because the person asking them lives in the tech world...the interview is quicker, and perhaps juicier because of that.
The current submission is, perhaps, something similar to pulling a story off the AP wire, and dumping the first paragraph verbatim as the summary.
The Tech industry is filled with people, both major and minor, who have email addresses. /. could always try emailing some people (not in Marketing / PR / etc.) for an interesting piece (helps if the people writing it are actually nuanced in the tech world...better learn to program, build a machine by hand, and attend the Cons (large crossover with the anime world) / Trade Shows).
"Enough lead to act as a shield would not have the needed thermal profile."
My solution would need to be adapted accordingly. The goal with the lead pods was not, in of themselves, to provide a permanent means of storage, but to allow the robot, while working within the reactor, to safely contain pieces of the fuel rods...because cutting fuel rods, with a laser, into thousands of pieces, then attempting to pick up those pieces later on would, in all likelihood, end badly...as the cut fuel rods / pieces, presumably laying on top of each other at they are cut off, would have a much higher surface area, which, if there are any neutron reflecting / slowing materials in the area (like water), might end badly. You could use any number of materials that qualify as radiation stopping here...and there are many to choose from. Lead is simply a well-known, common one.
As for storing fuel rods, in a pool, the water itself is fine: http://what-if.xkcd.com/29/. Granted these are 'spent' fuel rods, not active fuel rods in a reactor...they're just being stored, so they're safe enough for people, engineers, in some instances, to walk around unshielded in some cases...well, unshielded at the bottom of a pool.
Perhaps a better solution, long term, would be simply to recycle the rods. I know, I know, it sounds insane. But your options are seal them up...and watch as someone goes looking for them eventually...and they will...or use them up...I know of no immediate way to render radioactive substances non-radioactive using current technology. Current methods induce more radiation into surroundings, etc. Perhaps if a new method for slicing or restoring subatomic particles could be created, this would not be an issue...
The cutting is occurring under water; I'm sure that the Japanese, depending on their level of desperation, can build a test scenario to replicate the conditions in the reactor, and make adjustments before sending anything in.
Again, the core itself is under water...you might need to move some debris to get around things, at which point multiple robots, or perhaps, multiple robots with winches / more powerful / disposable tools might be useful. If it requires two of them to remove a girder to get to the sunken core, then two of them they will need. I favor the laser because it's bound to be useful for cutting the melted rods into chunks you can safely remove...mechanical attempts would be iffy, at best. And it might be possible to keep the actual laser generation apparatus outside the reactor, while feeding the cutting beam through the fiber optic cables. This would allow complete control of the laser + shutdown of the laser in an emergency + keep it out of any danger / radiation. Plus chemical lasers tend to be stronger than other kinds...or that was the impression I was left with last time I checked...things may have changed.
And yes, you are right about using the laser itself on the cores. Some double-checking would be needed to ensure that it would not 'assist' any additional neutron release, but I'm sure the idea itself is still a sound one.
As the core is dissected, I'd direct the robots to place each piece in a lead-lined storage pod; this needs to be done as each piece is cut off, so as to not create further metldowns; each piece must be placed in its own self-contained pod. After this is done, the immediate worry about needing to constantly pump in coolant to keep the core from getting worse will be alleviated...and the core itself will be contained, and presumably taken somewhere to be recycled or stored or buried. Continuing to pump water into the reactor, when it already contains seawater (WTF), which is a serious no-no for typical nuclear chemistry, is just a recipe for disaster. Your choices are many, but the ones here are 1.) keep pumping in water and watch it keep poisoning things (which does seem to be the media's current assessment...no idea whether that is true), or 2.) dismantle the core so that radiation will drop. There is, of course, as you highlighted, the possibly of dust creation...but lasers tend to be pretty good here; your choices are 200 years of highly radioactive water flowing out of the reactor (need to verify this, is it actually highly radioactive and flowing? and 200 years worth?) or what will probably be a temporary spike of whatever dust is created by the lasers used (better than other cutting tools, I imagine), followed by an immediate drop off as the core is sealed. And the dust created will be somewhat granular, so perhaps some careful planning there can limit its spread as well (I suppose if you want to get extra crazy, you would apply an airlock or something to the area directly above wherever you find the melted core...and just filter for particles larger than 0.3 microns or something and smaller than the robot. You could apply gel to the cut pieces of the cores itself, to prevent any dust from moving, thought that would happen afterwards.
Well, going with theoretical solutions (for 200 Alex), I'd whip up a pneumatic robot (all fluidic pressure, no electronics), and strap on a chemical laser + fiber optic lines + lens system. That should ensure that stray radiation will not damage any electronics, as it won't have any, though it will be a one way trip for the bot (still going to be highly radioactive), and watching the cables will be an issue (better pay the extra money to make sure they're braided). Then I'd send it into the reactor core, to cut up / out the still active reactor rods, and bring them to a designated midway point piece by piece.
No human is going to survive in that core, even if they'd volunteer for the mission...nor would any electronic-based machine. The first will be cooked from the inside out, the second will get so many errors as it gets closer to the core from radiation hitting its processors that it will do more damage than good.
I'm not interested in a protracted 'battle' with the NSA...1.) it's not how I do things, and 2.) it takes time and energy away from core focuses.
If I wanted to register a complaint with the NSA, I'd do it by ensuring that anyone associated with it would suddenly consider the thought of continued work along those lines to be less than compatible with their long term goals in this life, namely peace and longevity. However, we live in a Democracy...and as such, we shall wait for the current set of leaders to fail...and they will....to reign in the NSA, before endeavoring to consider alternatives.
For the record, the NSA does constitute a sometimes valuable resource to the US; however, like the CIA, some of its, shall I say 'shenanigans' need to be reigned in, before we become the laughingstock of the nations, and we can't call ourselves the nation of the free / home of the brave without laughing. Finally, the military does need to be brought home; the military leaders have spoken...all of them...and while some people might want to test their loyalty to civilian authority by pushing for further war with Syria, I am reminded that the reason we have military leaders is that so we can have their advice on military matters. Ergo, if they are saying "let's give the military a rest,' then there's a chance that it needs one, on more than one level.
Yeah, no. Assume that the NSA has access to your machine, even if you're running a tight BSD install. So...why develop new software that they're just going to copy for themselves? Remember, these people have no souls.
And? He was not the one lying to get the job. Full stop.
Switch providers, tell friends about new provider, watch as old provider's revenues slowly crash over the next three years, while new one enjoys a nice bump.
Is....is super lie...
There are many issues that IT attempts to communicate to Senior Management, but, for a variety of reasons, go unhandled. We've tried communicating before...and people said "Shutup, you're talking too technical, you need to speak business," then it became "Shutup, every week there is some sort of thing that needs attending to..."; so, after a while, those reports start getting filed in the garbage can immediately after they are printed, since that's where they end up anyways.
It's only later on, when something has gone terribly wrong (imagine a large kingdom having been run into ruin by the last dozen or so kings...), when there are so many things going wrong all at once that duct tape and shoelaces can't fix things, that Senior Management may wake from its slumber, and ask "What the hell is going on in this company? Why is it taking forever to get new projects done, and old projects are requiring constant intervention just to keep afloat? Why are we leasing buildings that we used to own? How badly mismanaged have things been that the former masters of the household are now its servants?" And that's when Senior Management begins knocking on Accounting, Legal, and IT's doors...if they are still around...and asking, "You are the sensory organs of this company...you deal with the day to day running of operations...why are we bankrupt? Did we lose a major lawsuit? What happened? Accounting, why are we in the red? IT, you handle information on a daily basis...what have you heard?" And for companies that have outsourced all of their IT, Accounting, and Legal operations...well, just getting a hold of someone, who is very unhappy with your delinquent bills, can be trying.
So, what you're seeing now is Senior Management having woken up from a long hiatus, and wondering who made what decisions, and why everything is so wrong.
Those who live in glass houses, should not throw stones...