The English Wikipedia should have user preferences to select UK / US spellings. It would be trivial compared to the bloated user preferences and formatting flourishes that it has now. It can't call itself scholarly when it's full of spelling errors.
The 'board' sees themselves as in nearly the same role as the CEO and on the same team. From their perspective, their employees and shareholders are their adversaries.
It's not as if CEOs are hired for their competence in the first place.
Well, actually we don't know that. That's an extrapolation based on math which breaks down if you get too close to the moment of the big bang. (If 'moment' is even the right word.)
Considering how uninformed journalists are, it's not surprising that the nuance of 'know' versus 'reasonably confident based on evidence to date' is lost on them.
I think that IT work is getting more stressful, but that is only one factor among many for the increase in stress. Some of it is that there is no longer easy money for easy IT work, like there was during the dot com boom, some of it is that millennials really do have an inflated sense of entitlement, and some of it is that the economy is pushing management to demand more in terms of results while those results are getting more difficult to measure. Contemporary IT work involves a lot of very complex web-based work where the tools really are inadequate. There's a fabulous opportunity for someone who can fix the Internet.
I wish I could find it, but there's a comic with a bunch of scientists debating climate and one of them says something to the effect of,
"Wait a minute! What if we reduce pollution, create a whole new industry of well-paying high-tech jobs, achieve energy independence, and it's all for nothing?"
What's your concept of "one thing"? The "one thing" in my job requires about a dozen different screens in nearly as many applications, and I'm not going to close and re-open them 30 times a day.
In the American legal system, the analogous state is "guilty."
No, that actually is much more analogous to the civil versus criminal standards of evidence. While not as bad as a criminal conviction, losing a lawsuit or receiving an administrative fine are not pleasant either.
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The English Wikipedia should have user preferences to select UK / US spellings. It would be trivial compared to the bloated user preferences and formatting flourishes that it has now. It can't call itself scholarly when it's full of spelling errors.
earthquake protection business
"Nice business you got here. It'd be a shame if an earthquake happened to it."
You use high speed rail to travel between cities.
If you have it. Not all rail is designed to handle high-speed traffic. Most high-speed lines require an entirely new right-of-way.
Um, punishment is part of it too.
Prison can do more than one thing. Or at least it's supposed to
But it's with a 3-D printer! That makes it novel and non-obvious, right? The patent system couldn't be wrong...
The 'board' sees themselves as in nearly the same role as the CEO and on the same team. From their perspective, their employees and shareholders are their adversaries.
It's not as if CEOs are hired for their competence in the first place.
Even many staunch union supporters would agree that giving workers more power than employers is a bad idea.
They may say that, but I've never heard of any that believe it.
The losing team of every competition likes to say things like 'statistical draw'.
This statement implies parking is even possible.
It could be understood to mean parking only happens during dream states.
I've always wondered...
How is a 3-D project of a 2-D universe different from an intrinsically 3-D universe? How would you tell the difference? And would you care?
The Big Bang didn't happen at a single point.
Well, actually we don't know that. That's an extrapolation based on math which breaks down if you get too close to the moment of the big bang. (If 'moment' is even the right word.)
Considering how uninformed journalists are, it's not surprising that the nuance of 'know' versus 'reasonably confident based on evidence to date' is lost on them.
Are all the turtles flat, or just the first one?
They're the only ones who can stop the CIA.
I think that IT work is getting more stressful, but that is only one factor among many for the increase in stress. Some of it is that there is no longer easy money for easy IT work, like there was during the dot com boom, some of it is that millennials really do have an inflated sense of entitlement, and some of it is that the economy is pushing management to demand more in terms of results while those results are getting more difficult to measure. Contemporary IT work involves a lot of very complex web-based work where the tools really are inadequate. There's a fabulous opportunity for someone who can fix the Internet.
Clearly the UN conspiracy is *also* keeping time-travel technology secret. They're good.
I wish I could find it, but there's a comic with a bunch of scientists debating climate and one of them says something to the effect of,
"Wait a minute! What if we reduce pollution, create a whole new industry of well-paying high-tech jobs, achieve energy independence, and it's all for nothing?"
But... but... oil!
Exactly why legitimate fire departments only hire former mob arsonists!
What's your concept of "one thing"? The "one thing" in my job requires about a dozen different screens in nearly as many applications, and I'm not going to close and re-open them 30 times a day.
https://xkcd.com/1473/
In the American legal system, the analogous state is "guilty."
No, that actually is much more analogous to the civil versus criminal standards of evidence. While not as bad as a criminal conviction, losing a lawsuit or receiving an administrative fine are not pleasant either.
If there were competent managers there would be no hiring problems - for job seekers or job creators - at all.
"HR persons" would never say anything that could open up the employer to a lawsuit.
If fact, they likely would never say anything meaningful at all.
Capitalism does a lot of things well... leaving government to pick up the tab
That might not be an example of capitalism.