I'm pretty sure the guy at the top was in on the ruse too.
By your comment, I'm pretty sure you've never worked a contract for government at a high level.
For a reality-based perspective, understand that silos are DEATH to most projects, and government structures are ALL SILOS. The fact that every single one of the "senior political figures" refused (make no mistake--it is always an active decision) is just par for the course.
So, how to change this? There are two key policies that must be implemented from the top:
1) The career of anyone who lies or fails to report bad news up the chain to those who need it is over, regardless of that person's position.
2) The reporting of bad news is to be treated as a problem to be solved, not an issue with the messenger (or the person who caused it).
Example: at a major metropolitan newspaper, a tech made a mistake and rm -rf * the website's home directory. He immediately reported it up the chain and the team dropped everything and worked on restoring the files. They then sat down and discussed how to mitigate the problem so that human error could not cause the same situation or how it could be restored quicker when it happened again. No retaliatory action was taken against the tech.
Um, I've been through enough M & As to know that businesses blow out all the time. I could care less, because it just means my commute and officemate wage slaves are going to change.
Whenever I get the memo that we're merging with someone else, that's when I start updating the resume and putting out feelers.
If I time it right, I can pick up the earlybird package before I leave for my next job, but if not, that's okay. The important thing is to get out before the water starts lapping at the Mezzanine deck, because that's when the panic sets in and the company starts prematurely pulling the trigger.
THEY WILL NOT SWITCH. Got to use what you like good for you.
Folks who live on the festering edge of technology will forever be in reactive mode.
They most likely live there because they don't know any better and have become "accustomed" to wearing their hair shirt.
There are a lot of customers of mine that love windows XP and there [sic] blackberrys.
Sure, and when Blackberry goes belly-up, they can suffer through a protracted outage while they scramble for a replacement. Nothing says success like a decision made in fear in panic. Or, they could start their planning and migration now and move as soon as they're ready.
Finally a use for tinfoil other than on my head: a GPS that cannot see the sky won't work.
Or I could give it a nice coat of paint that has some aluminum powder mixed in.
Or the wire powering the system could "wear out" by "rubbing" against another "moving part".
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If they want to raise enough funds, all they have to do is eliminate all free curbside parking in the city. They don't even have to charge that much: $.25/hour will do it.
Once all the "Takers" are gone, then the "Producers" can frolic in unabashed glory in their new utopia as their products are no longer taken (or consumed) by people who want them.
And THEN the Morlocks will kill and eat all the Eloi.
The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.
My answer to him was, "John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."
— Issac Asimov, The relativity of wrong
THIS, and I'll raise you that Spotify should ban their music. There are lots of other equally-or-more-talented musicians who would kill for a chance at exposure.
I'm sure Ministry of Sound would be happy getting their stuff played exclusively on ClearChannel FM and/or sold at [insert failing big-box 'electronics' store here]. Meanwhile, artists with business knowledge will be out promoting the shit out of their music and making a killing.
I might take a break from my PS4 just to laugh at the MS FanBoyz. I hope they enjoy spending their Microsoft Fun Bucks, I mean cash on avatar "clothes".
I have a 360 -- the last Xbox I'll own until MS pulls their head out of their sphincters.
HALO SIR OR MAM!1!!!!!! I WISH 2 TAEK OUT A LOAN FROM UR FIEN BANK!1!!11!1! OMG WTF AS U CAN SE I HAEV AN EXC3LENT FINANCIAL RECORD HAEV BEN AMPLOY3D AT TEH SM3 JOB FOR 7 Y3ARS AND HAEV NO OUTSTANDNG DEBT!1!!! OMG THANK U FOR UR TIEM!!11! WTF
41,000 Americans die each year in vehicle-related accidents (source: ntsb.gov)
785,000 Americans die each year due to heart disease (source: ahajournals.org)
580,000 Americans die each year due to cancer (source: cancer.org)
0 (as in Zero) Americans die each year due to Terrorism - it isn't a recurring event. This year, 3 people died in Boston, due to "Terrorism". In 2001, 3-5,000 people died; in 1996, 1 person died.
Even if we had a 9/11 every month, it wouldn't even come close to Cancer or Heart Disease as a threat.
...so you can toss your duct tape and plastic sheets. Or use them when you paint your garage.
Don't worry. The wheels will eventually come off, as sustaining Pax Americana will utterly and completely drain the coffers down to where the whole thing just collapses, just as they did with every other two-bit empire in the past.
If you have to have an admissions exam for a university, ~.
Let me distill down a Quarter of College-level Econ for you:
There are a limited number of spaces in the university;
There are more applicants for those spaces than the number of available spaces; therefore
Some method of discriminating* between applicants is necessary.
Of course, one (i.e., you) could claim that the simple fix is to increase the number of spaces at the university, or perhaps build more universities. Then you run into the issue of scarcity of competent professors. Would you wish to staff your university with the first bumblefnck that was able to stumble through your doors, clutching a freshly-minted Masters or PhD?
* Discrimination, in this case, means "a method of choosing". It could be the first 500 students in the door, those whose last name starts and ends with a vowel; or those who passed some godawful test.
Scenes I'd like to see: implement national driver's license test standards so that 70% automatically fail their first try, and boost the penalty for driving without a license. Then we'd finally have a nation of good drivers, I mean good test takers. Wait...what?
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The odds of your gun being grabbed and used against you are high.
[citation needed]
Specifically: annual number of "gun grabs" per year (from reputable data) versus total number of firearms, correlated by geographic location.
Not all SOs are perverts.
Take a leak in an alley when you're 15? You can get on the list.
Get a little drunk at a football game your freshman year and decide to streak across the field? You can get on the list.
The High Prophet Tim Minchin said it best (NSFW).
Otherwise you will DIAF.
By your comment, I'm pretty sure you've never worked a contract for government at a high level.
For a reality-based perspective, understand that silos are DEATH to most projects, and government structures are ALL SILOS. The fact that every single one of the "senior political figures" refused (make no mistake--it is always an active decision) is just par for the course.
So, how to change this? There are two key policies that must be implemented from the top:
1) The career of anyone who lies or fails to report bad news up the chain to those who need it is over, regardless of that person's position.
2) The reporting of bad news is to be treated as a problem to be solved, not an issue with the messenger (or the person who caused it).
Example: at a major metropolitan newspaper, a tech made a mistake and rm -rf * the website's home directory. He immediately reported it up the chain and the team dropped everything and worked on restoring the files. They then sat down and discussed how to mitigate the problem so that human error could not cause the same situation or how it could be restored quicker when it happened again. No retaliatory action was taken against the tech.
Um, I've been through enough M & As to know that businesses blow out all the time. I could care less, because it just means my commute and officemate wage slaves are going to change.
Whenever I get the memo that we're merging with someone else, that's when I start updating the resume and putting out feelers.
If I time it right, I can pick up the earlybird package before I leave for my next job, but if not, that's okay. The important thing is to get out before the water starts lapping at the Mezzanine deck, because that's when the panic sets in and the company starts prematurely pulling the trigger.
Folks who live on the festering edge of technology will forever be in reactive mode.
They most likely live there because they don't know any better and have become "accustomed" to wearing their hair shirt.
Sure, and when Blackberry goes belly-up, they can suffer through a protracted outage while they scramble for a replacement. Nothing says success like a decision made in fear in panic. Or, they could start their planning and migration now and move as soon as they're ready.
Finally a use for tinfoil other than on my head: a GPS that cannot see the sky won't work. Or I could give it a nice coat of paint that has some aluminum powder mixed in. Or the wire powering the system could "wear out" by "rubbing" against another "moving part". ---- If they want to raise enough funds, all they have to do is eliminate all free curbside parking in the city. They don't even have to charge that much: $.25/hour will do it.
Except when it comes to buying a car?
Since "convervatives" ARE "champions of big government", please clean out your desks and hit the road.
Yes, and that includes being able to test drive a car, you cretin.
Remember your Fountainhead:
Once all the "Takers" are gone, then the "Producers" can frolic in unabashed glory in their new utopia as their products are no longer taken (or consumed) by people who want them.
And THEN the Morlocks will kill and eat all the Eloi.
*sigh* you've never field dressed a drone?
Yeah, duh. The first thing you do is cut its wings off, then clip its fuel line and drain it out before tying it to your hood.
That's exactly how science is supposed to work.
The master said it best:
Translation: "I somehow figured out how to install IIS, and then I forgot how to use google, so I gave up and shut down."
Aren't you supposed to be back at 1025 F Street today?
The poor sap is probably chomping at the bit to buy all of his media again when a new format comes out.
Oh, to be a "consumer" instead of a...person.
THIS, and I'll raise you that Spotify should ban their music. There are lots of other equally-or-more-talented musicians who would kill for a chance at exposure.
I'm sure Ministry of Sound would be happy getting their stuff played exclusively on ClearChannel FM and/or sold at [insert failing big-box 'electronics' store here]. Meanwhile, artists with business knowledge will be out promoting the shit out of their music and making a killing.
I might take a break from my PS4 just to laugh at the MS FanBoyz. I hope they enjoy spending their Microsoft Fun Bucks, I mean cash on avatar "clothes".
I have a 360 -- the last Xbox I'll own until MS pulls their head out of their sphincters.
HALO SIR OR MAM!1!!!!!! I WISH 2 TAEK OUT A LOAN FROM UR FIEN BANK!1!!11!1! OMG WTF AS U CAN SE I HAEV AN EXC3LENT FINANCIAL RECORD HAEV BEN AMPLOY3D AT TEH SM3 JOB FOR 7 Y3ARS AND HAEV NO OUTSTANDNG DEBT!1!!! OMG THANK U FOR UR TIEM!!11! WTF
FIFY, at least in America.
41,000 Americans die each year in vehicle-related accidents (source: ntsb.gov)
785,000 Americans die each year due to heart disease (source: ahajournals.org)
580,000 Americans die each year due to cancer (source: cancer.org)
0 (as in Zero) Americans die each year due to Terrorism - it isn't a recurring event. This year, 3 people died in Boston, due to "Terrorism". In 2001, 3-5,000 people died; in 1996, 1 person died.
Even if we had a 9/11 every month, it wouldn't even come close to Cancer or Heart Disease as a threat.
...so you can toss your duct tape and plastic sheets. Or use them when you paint your garage.
Don't worry. The wheels will eventually come off, as sustaining Pax Americana will utterly and completely drain the coffers down to where the whole thing just collapses, just as they did with every other two-bit empire in the past.
A good read on the subject is Chalmers Johnson's The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic.
To the bunkers!
Let me distill down a Quarter of College-level Econ for you:
Of course, one (i.e., you) could claim that the simple fix is to increase the number of spaces at the university, or perhaps build more universities. Then you run into the issue of scarcity of competent professors. Would you wish to staff your university with the first bumblefnck that was able to stumble through your doors, clutching a freshly-minted Masters or PhD?
* Discrimination, in this case, means "a method of choosing". It could be the first 500 students in the door, those whose last name starts and ends with a vowel; or those who passed some godawful test.
Scenes I'd like to see: implement national driver's license test standards so that 70% automatically fail their first try, and boost the penalty for driving without a license. Then we'd finally have a nation of good drivers, I mean good test takers. Wait...what?
LOL.
Why be a victim? Use Greasemonkey and all that ugliness will just melt away.
Oh, don't know how to write javascript code? Yes, that's a problem.
Help, help!
How do I cut and paste without a mouse?!
Sincerely,
PEBKAC
Every time you use teh interwebs, you are endangering national security.
Every time you leave the house, you are endangering national security.
Every time you stay at home, you are endangering national security.
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Consider that they are tracking everyone.
Which means everyone is a suspect.
And they wouldn't be suspects if they weren't guilty.
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Q. What do you call an innocent civilian?
A. A criminal who hasn't broken the law yet.