I don't know about falsehoods, but quoting alt-right websites like Breitbart doesn't really help much. Or, as Bannon himself calls it, "this populist nationalist movement". I'm surprised you didn't also quote The National Review, since you also included the Daily Caller. Those three are the current trifecta of the US mainstream populist nationalist movement, at least according to their Twitter hashtags, followers, and stats. I'll counter with a bleeding-heart "alt-left" citation: How Donald Trump's New Campaign Chief Created an Online Haven for White Nationalists. Finally, my own personal opinion is that neither alt-right or alt-left is a viable ideology, and both lead to a very undemocratic place.
Large concentrations of power to an entity that is fundamentally immortal, concerned only with quarterly profit, and has a "can we argue it's legal" attitude towards all it's actions will always be "bad". Modern corps are like the vampires in V:TM, with the employees being the ghouls who are "gifted" with just enough blood from their Master to enact the Master's policies and do it's bidding in the daylight...but the actual corporation itself is a non-physical entity that is almost impossible to kill. Even when you do kill it, the assets and management just flee to another Master and the cycle begins again. There are many companies over 1,000 years old.
Since corporations are theoretically immortal, there should be no statue of limitations on them. There are many corporations over 1,000 years old. The statue of limitations is based around the idea of degradation of evidence. Yet in these cases, there are rock-solid records of the accounting so that doesn't apply. Another reason is that a normal person is "punished" by their conscious over time; but corps don't have morals, conscious, mortality, or any other human similarities. For most publicly traded corps it's all about next quarter's profit; let the lawyers fend everything else off.
If you spin it right, your next job might even be a promotion. "Exceeded quarterly new account open quotas by 50% for eight straight quarters." I do the same thing...yesterday we had a "successful unannounced real-time server disaster recovery test scenario" and "validated the nightly backups are functional". For all the end-users, I was testing the backup procedures, upstream caching, etc. What actually happened was the Exchange server rebooted during an update and left all the services disabled and files blarged. Good thing the VSS was stable!
Didn't they just announce they are getting rid of that via CSC? HP Enterprise Services, formally known as EDS, WAS the technological consulting services. What's left to get rid of? Seems like the only thing that will be left soon is the server/network hardware, and their crappy cloud...neither of which require many employees in the US. HPE will probably just black-label AWS, Azure, and GCloud as their own, and manufacture everything overseas. It will be a bunch of managers who oversee all contractors. The c-level execs will be the only actual employees. At least the HPE people get severance packages, and expanded unemployment benefits.
My money is they may all move next door to Ireland. IE has a huge opportunity here for a financial coup, especially if they can negotiate some special terms with the UK. They already have some "amazing" tax structures for inversion of companies, coupled with their proximity and history with the UK...time to step up your game Dublin!
That's OK, because VB will leverage the Cloud, write it's own app, and then will advocate for you! All on it's own, it's Microsoft's new StalkerAPI! It uses cookies, tracking telemetry, and hard-coded OS exploits to write itself, self-publish on Play, Itunes, etc, deploy itself to all your contacts, and makes your life "more Connected"!
As a Pastafarian, I take great offense at your usage of the term "spaghetti" code! We all must fully extend and embrace His Noodly Appendage into our coding practices too!
The only one that comes to mind is SpaceX's recent contractual deliveries to the ISS. Musk seems to have gotten that down pat to the point the delivery is secondary to his reusable rocket program. But the actual rockets themselves from all the contractors seem to be pretty stable contractor-wise. It's just the IT stuff that the feds can't seem to sift out of the catbox.
If those "tools" involve HP Service Manager, then their better off using smoke signals, chiseling in rocks with copper tools, and pigeons with notes tied to their legs. It's the biggest mess of "jack of no trades, master of none" Java I've ever had to fight with. Notes on a chalk board updated by a drunk gorilla would work better. Having to go through 25+ required fields, 5-10 "pages" of searches, failed EDI transactions, etc every time your trying to create a ticket is more maddening than seeing Cthulhu naked.
HPE rewards neither tenure or competence. Too much tenure and you get laid off; too much competence and you go insane running head-first into walls of idiots while trying to do your job.
HA! I was tasked with filing out my teams "Business Impact Statements". As I used to work on the HPE helpdesk, I knew for certainty that the documentation I needed was in their knowledge base. However, their Director refused to let anyone outside of her fiefdom into it. I finally had to sneak upstairs at night, and take pictures with my phone of the old paper printouts in a filing cabinet. I then had to send those to my manager, who used that as "evidence" to force them to give us access for a couple of weeks. It went all the way up to the Director of Data Center Services; personally for me it was a political coup. We were both supporting the SAME CUSTOMER, just at different levels...I wondered out loud "what would our customer think if they knew our own internal divisions refuse to share the information they have given us to support them?" The customer didn't say "only the help desk can use this". I did get some karma later on when my ex-Director got involuntarily transferred to a team in the NOC and she almost passed out seeing me sitting there. She didn't last more than a few weeks lol.
Good call. You couldn't "clean up the mess": It's far beyond the help desk's scope to fix the issues; issues like being forced to use the worst ticketing system ever (HPSM). Ass-backwards implementation of LEAN. Focusing on "call metrics" like it's a second-rate call center instead of a technical help desk. A knowledge-base that makes a burning pile of confetti look good. No support for your tools; I had to go to external forums and wind my way backwards to get support from some third-party for what supposedly was HP software. Tech leads busy playing MMORPG's on their personal laptops. Ridiculous levels of unchecked favoritism.
Not surprising. I was at HP/HPE for a couple of years, at the original SABRE site. Almost everything was outsourced to Wipro/IBM. I had to step-by-step walk thier "systems administrator" through on installing IIS on a w2k box. To the point of "yes, now hit enter. Click here, no; you need to DOUBLE CLICK." It felt like IT Crowd "you do know what a button is, right? No, not on your trousers". I'll bet that "single HPE employee" was also a contractor. The only reason the SABRE site isn't 100% contractors is because AA won't let them. They "outsourced" the entire help-desk floor, even making LTE/FTE go to a contractor position at less pay and practically zero benefits. I was told stuff like medical insurance went from "employer paid" to "we can get you a discount"; just "good enough" to not get an ACA penalty. No vacation, no PTO. Some people had been LTE/FTE for over a decade. Everyone was outsourced, from the helpdesk Director on down. I got lucky and jumped out of the HD into the NOC just as it was announced, and managed to hang on for another 2 years...but at least I was FTE and got a severance package. Now I'm at a privately owned company, making $15k more a year and no longer feel like a replaceable part.
Pretty much any suggestion from IT that involves users doing ANYTHING "new" or "different" causes a "massive user outcry." It's something you get used to, and eventually laugh about the end-users behind their backs. Like today, corporate said the end users complain if we move their office and it takes too long to move their voip phones. My response was "well, we fixed that. We never allow our users to move out of their original offices."
Or maybe ctrl-A, right-click, Format Cells, "text". Then Excel won't change anything around, and will treat all cells as plain "text" and won't convert anything. Takes maybe 5-10 seconds.
Indeed, and that's what got me to the State Science Fair in 7th grade. Why anyone would let a 13 year-old take home an expensive laser, let them processes photographic plates in a light-sealed bathroom by themselves...lol
The requirements vary from state to state, and many of them have injunctions against them by various lawsuits. It's pretty fluid, and not all states even have hard-core "ID laws".
They have no comment section, no way of telling anyone that reads this site to be able to inform their readers that Snowden was not a "federal employee" like they claim.
"you're paying for it" not me, I pirate all my Nature of Things. If there was a way I could pay, honestly I would. It's a great, insightful, educational show that I believe many US people would benefit from learning from. Same thing with BBC content, I have to pirate most of it. "BBC America" doesn't really make the cut IMHO. I told the door-to-door cable guy "Once you can offer BBC 1-4, Sky, Space, etc then I might actually buy your service."
That's called proportional or representational voting, and it's how most European countries work, at least for part of their systems. In my state of Oklahoma, our State AG ran unopposed. Seriously, there wasn't a single Democrat who ran against him. In the US we have majority voting, which works out to eventually only having two parties. One winner, one looser, and they just flip back and forth between the two since 51% is all that's needed to win. The fact that the meme "third party" is a thing in the US points to the fact that the majority system defaults to just two. It's pretty impossible for a third, or fourth, or fifth, party to gain enough momentum in local, state, and federal elections to ever sway half the population to vote for them.
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Our accounting system has an auto-forward rule set up that just sends your ADP login info to every email address in the whois db that is in Nigeria.
I don't know about falsehoods, but quoting alt-right websites like Breitbart doesn't really help much. Or, as Bannon himself calls it, "this populist nationalist movement". I'm surprised you didn't also quote The National Review, since you also included the Daily Caller. Those three are the current trifecta of the US mainstream populist nationalist movement, at least according to their Twitter hashtags, followers, and stats. I'll counter with a bleeding-heart "alt-left" citation: How Donald Trump's New Campaign Chief Created an Online Haven for White Nationalists. Finally, my own personal opinion is that neither alt-right or alt-left is a viable ideology, and both lead to a very undemocratic place.
Large concentrations of power to an entity that is fundamentally immortal, concerned only with quarterly profit, and has a "can we argue it's legal" attitude towards all it's actions will always be "bad". Modern corps are like the vampires in V:TM, with the employees being the ghouls who are "gifted" with just enough blood from their Master to enact the Master's policies and do it's bidding in the daylight...but the actual corporation itself is a non-physical entity that is almost impossible to kill. Even when you do kill it, the assets and management just flee to another Master and the cycle begins again. There are many companies over 1,000 years old.
Maybe the EU was afraid they would loose their Lucky Charms...
Since corporations are theoretically immortal, there should be no statue of limitations on them. There are many corporations over 1,000 years old. The statue of limitations is based around the idea of degradation of evidence. Yet in these cases, there are rock-solid records of the accounting so that doesn't apply. Another reason is that a normal person is "punished" by their conscious over time; but corps don't have morals, conscious, mortality, or any other human similarities. For most publicly traded corps it's all about next quarter's profit; let the lawyers fend everything else off.
If you spin it right, your next job might even be a promotion. "Exceeded quarterly new account open quotas by 50% for eight straight quarters." I do the same thing...yesterday we had a "successful unannounced real-time server disaster recovery test scenario" and "validated the nightly backups are functional". For all the end-users, I was testing the backup procedures, upstream caching, etc. What actually happened was the Exchange server rebooted during an update and left all the services disabled and files blarged. Good thing the VSS was stable!
Didn't they just announce they are getting rid of that via CSC? HP Enterprise Services, formally known as EDS, WAS the technological consulting services. What's left to get rid of? Seems like the only thing that will be left soon is the server/network hardware, and their crappy cloud...neither of which require many employees in the US. HPE will probably just black-label AWS, Azure, and GCloud as their own, and manufacture everything overseas. It will be a bunch of managers who oversee all contractors. The c-level execs will be the only actual employees. At least the HPE people get severance packages, and expanded unemployment benefits.
My money is they may all move next door to Ireland. IE has a huge opportunity here for a financial coup, especially if they can negotiate some special terms with the UK. They already have some "amazing" tax structures for inversion of companies, coupled with their proximity and history with the UK...time to step up your game Dublin!
Send the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the G20 Summit to demand details from the UK. The data must flow...
True engineers still despise the idea of "users"
That's OK, because VB will leverage the Cloud, write it's own app, and then will advocate for you! All on it's own, it's Microsoft's new StalkerAPI! It uses cookies, tracking telemetry, and hard-coded OS exploits to write itself, self-publish on Play, Itunes, etc, deploy itself to all your contacts, and makes your life "more Connected"!
As a Pastafarian, I take great offense at your usage of the term "spaghetti" code! We all must fully extend and embrace His Noodly Appendage into our coding practices too!
The only one that comes to mind is SpaceX's recent contractual deliveries to the ISS. Musk seems to have gotten that down pat to the point the delivery is secondary to his reusable rocket program. But the actual rockets themselves from all the contractors seem to be pretty stable contractor-wise. It's just the IT stuff that the feds can't seem to sift out of the catbox.
If those "tools" involve HP Service Manager, then their better off using smoke signals, chiseling in rocks with copper tools, and pigeons with notes tied to their legs. It's the biggest mess of "jack of no trades, master of none" Java I've ever had to fight with. Notes on a chalk board updated by a drunk gorilla would work better. Having to go through 25+ required fields, 5-10 "pages" of searches, failed EDI transactions, etc every time your trying to create a ticket is more maddening than seeing Cthulhu naked.
HPE rewards neither tenure or competence. Too much tenure and you get laid off; too much competence and you go insane running head-first into walls of idiots while trying to do your job.
HA! I was tasked with filing out my teams "Business Impact Statements". As I used to work on the HPE helpdesk, I knew for certainty that the documentation I needed was in their knowledge base. However, their Director refused to let anyone outside of her fiefdom into it. I finally had to sneak upstairs at night, and take pictures with my phone of the old paper printouts in a filing cabinet. I then had to send those to my manager, who used that as "evidence" to force them to give us access for a couple of weeks. It went all the way up to the Director of Data Center Services; personally for me it was a political coup. We were both supporting the SAME CUSTOMER, just at different levels...I wondered out loud "what would our customer think if they knew our own internal divisions refuse to share the information they have given us to support them?" The customer didn't say "only the help desk can use this". I did get some karma later on when my ex-Director got involuntarily transferred to a team in the NOC and she almost passed out seeing me sitting there. She didn't last more than a few weeks lol.
Good call. You couldn't "clean up the mess": It's far beyond the help desk's scope to fix the issues; issues like being forced to use the worst ticketing system ever (HPSM). Ass-backwards implementation of LEAN. Focusing on "call metrics" like it's a second-rate call center instead of a technical help desk. A knowledge-base that makes a burning pile of confetti look good. No support for your tools; I had to go to external forums and wind my way backwards to get support from some third-party for what supposedly was HP software. Tech leads busy playing MMORPG's on their personal laptops. Ridiculous levels of unchecked favoritism.
Not surprising. I was at HP/HPE for a couple of years, at the original SABRE site. Almost everything was outsourced to Wipro/IBM. I had to step-by-step walk thier "systems administrator" through on installing IIS on a w2k box. To the point of "yes, now hit enter. Click here, no; you need to DOUBLE CLICK." It felt like IT Crowd "you do know what a button is, right? No, not on your trousers". I'll bet that "single HPE employee" was also a contractor. The only reason the SABRE site isn't 100% contractors is because AA won't let them. They "outsourced" the entire help-desk floor, even making LTE/FTE go to a contractor position at less pay and practically zero benefits. I was told stuff like medical insurance went from "employer paid" to "we can get you a discount"; just "good enough" to not get an ACA penalty. No vacation, no PTO. Some people had been LTE/FTE for over a decade. Everyone was outsourced, from the helpdesk Director on down. I got lucky and jumped out of the HD into the NOC just as it was announced, and managed to hang on for another 2 years...but at least I was FTE and got a severance package. Now I'm at a privately owned company, making $15k more a year and no longer feel like a replaceable part.
Pretty much any suggestion from IT that involves users doing ANYTHING "new" or "different" causes a "massive user outcry." It's something you get used to, and eventually laugh about the end-users behind their backs. Like today, corporate said the end users complain if we move their office and it takes too long to move their voip phones. My response was "well, we fixed that. We never allow our users to move out of their original offices."
Or maybe ctrl-A, right-click, Format Cells, "text". Then Excel won't change anything around, and will treat all cells as plain "text" and won't convert anything. Takes maybe 5-10 seconds.
Indeed, and that's what got me to the State Science Fair in 7th grade. Why anyone would let a 13 year-old take home an expensive laser, let them processes photographic plates in a light-sealed bathroom by themselves...lol
The requirements vary from state to state, and many of them have injunctions against them by various lawsuits. It's pretty fluid, and not all states even have hard-core "ID laws".
They have no comment section, no way of telling anyone that reads this site to be able to inform their readers that Snowden was not a "federal employee" like they claim.
"you're paying for it" not me, I pirate all my Nature of Things. If there was a way I could pay, honestly I would. It's a great, insightful, educational show that I believe many US people would benefit from learning from. Same thing with BBC content, I have to pirate most of it. "BBC America" doesn't really make the cut IMHO. I told the door-to-door cable guy "Once you can offer BBC 1-4, Sky, Space, etc then I might actually buy your service."
That's called proportional or representational voting, and it's how most European countries work, at least for part of their systems. In my state of Oklahoma, our State AG ran unopposed. Seriously, there wasn't a single Democrat who ran against him. In the US we have majority voting, which works out to eventually only having two parties. One winner, one looser, and they just flip back and forth between the two since 51% is all that's needed to win. The fact that the meme "third party" is a thing in the US points to the fact that the majority system defaults to just two. It's pretty impossible for a third, or fourth, or fifth, party to gain enough momentum in local, state, and federal elections to ever sway half the population to vote for them.