Greg Bear's The Forge of God destroyed the Earth in this manner many years ago. An attacking civilization flung two large pieces of neutronium and antineutronium at opposite sides of the Earth, where they descended to the core and orbited each other for several weeks, until they spiraled in together and made bad things happen.
To quote Blizzard's management when WoW lost three million subscribers in a single quarter: "Don't worry, it's cyclical."
That reminded me of a scene in "This Is Spinal Tap", when the manager, Ian, told the band that their Boston gig was cancelled - "I wouldn't worry about it though, it's not a big college town."
I wasn't really speaking of "debts" in terms of loans to be repaid under an agreed-upon contract so much as liability for the company's actions when something goes wrong - i.e. one of the company's employees runs over a pedestrian and their family sues and wins.
At some point the libertarian has to accept a degree of government control, else it spirals into an anarchy in which the amount of force someone can bring to bear solely determines ownership and control in a given situation.
I'm sure the CFO and/or accountant had no relationship at all with the thieves, who seemed to have impeccable timing and impeccable knowledge of the business's payment operations.
Or the CFO suspected something shady was going on, but couldn't prove it and didn't want any part of it.
The only way a business is "shut down" in a Libertarian country, is by not making enough money — from happy willing customers — to continue to operate.
To "continue to operate under the corporate charter that the government granted the company", right? Or are business owners expected to accept personal liability for any and all debts of the company? Exactly how much government involvement is acceptable as a libertarian in your opinion?
n the process we discovered a huge number of accounting errors thanks to it, typically invoices that were never billed, to the tunes of nearly one million dollars. It took us several months to correct them.
About 20 years ago I did some contract work for a hospital whose accounting group did all of their day-to-day work with Quattro Pro, then a nightly process batched all of the spreadsheet work into the actual accounting system that ran on a System/390. The spreadsheet was useful for the bookkeepers and accountants to get a lot of work done every day spanning 60K accounts, and having the batch run by the actual accounting system was great for picking up errors (the batching code also did some rudimentary checking of its own as well), so we rarely had any errors that took more than a day to identify and fix.
They can already plow a car out of a fire zone with a fire truck if they need to.
Or push cars driven by idiots out of the way with the truck if they refuse to yield. I watched a hook & ladder truck do that one time at an intersection in Norfolk, VA.
One of their more promising goals is to create a "perfect lens" which would allow an every day person to view things as small as a virus with the naked eye.
Hmm, how does one see a 50nm virus when illuminated with 400 nm light, no matter how good the lens is? I guess you could illuminate it with far UV and use a fluorescent material to shift the wavelength of the magnified image into something visible, but I'm not sure what the lens has to do with that.
Don't start complaining about this. Those of us in the 1099 contracting game LIKE it this way!!
We do so long as the compensation is appropriate for it. If you're working through an agency and being paid the same as you would working W-2, then you're almost certainly losing money doing it since you have to cover your half of Social Security, in addition to doing quarterly taxes and generally keeping up with more paperwork as you mentioned.
I had thought the same thing the first time I saw them, but the more recent photos show them to be quite irregular in shape. More interesting to me are the hexagonally-shaped areas above the equator.
Compare to an average property area of 6000 sq. ft or so for a family home. With a holodeck, your virtual living area and property size could be as big as you wanted while taking up a relatively small amount of real estate.
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Greg Bear's The Forge of God destroyed the Earth in this manner many years ago. An attacking civilization flung two large pieces of neutronium and antineutronium at opposite sides of the Earth, where they descended to the core and orbited each other for several weeks, until they spiraled in together and made bad things happen.
Enjoy!
To quote Blizzard's management when WoW lost three million subscribers in a single quarter: "Don't worry, it's cyclical."
That reminded me of a scene in "This Is Spinal Tap", when the manager, Ian, told the band that their Boston gig was cancelled - "I wouldn't worry about it though, it's not a big college town."
I wasn't really speaking of "debts" in terms of loans to be repaid under an agreed-upon contract so much as liability for the company's actions when something goes wrong - i.e. one of the company's employees runs over a pedestrian and their family sues and wins.
At some point the libertarian has to accept a degree of government control, else it spirals into an anarchy in which the amount of force someone can bring to bear solely determines ownership and control in a given situation.
I'm sure the CFO and/or accountant had no relationship at all with the thieves, who seemed to have impeccable timing and impeccable knowledge of the business's payment operations.
Or the CFO suspected something shady was going on, but couldn't prove it and didn't want any part of it.
The only way a business is "shut down" in a Libertarian country, is by not making enough money — from happy willing customers — to continue to operate.
To "continue to operate under the corporate charter that the government granted the company", right? Or are business owners expected to accept personal liability for any and all debts of the company? Exactly how much government involvement is acceptable as a libertarian in your opinion?
Replying to myself - fewer than half found other jobs within the company.
Have you so soon forgotten Disney's attempt to replace their techs?
Not to mention the 250 that were actually fired and replaced by H-1Bs in January, well before the linked story happened.
Why do you need multiple IPs on a machine with 1 nic?
Having VMs on the machine is the first that comes to mind for me.
Doh - I must have fat-fingered the number. It does in fact pass.
That number won't pass Luhn checking - try 4000 1000 4000 1000 instead.
(Some of them don't even have the "X" corner icon. You have to choose one of the presented links to close.)
I find the close icon on the browser tab to be effective in those cases.
n the process we discovered a huge number of accounting errors thanks to it, typically invoices that were never billed, to the tunes of nearly one million dollars. It took us several months to correct them.
About 20 years ago I did some contract work for a hospital whose accounting group did all of their day-to-day work with Quattro Pro, then a nightly process batched all of the spreadsheet work into the actual accounting system that ran on a System/390. The spreadsheet was useful for the bookkeepers and accountants to get a lot of work done every day spanning 60K accounts, and having the batch run by the actual accounting system was great for picking up errors (the batching code also did some rudimentary checking of its own as well), so we rarely had any errors that took more than a day to identify and fix.
They can already plow a car out of a fire zone with a fire truck if they need to.
Or push cars driven by idiots out of the way with the truck if they refuse to yield. I watched a hook & ladder truck do that one time at an intersection in Norfolk, VA.
Interesting article. Thanks for the link.
One of their more promising goals is to create a "perfect lens" which would allow an every day person to view things as small as a virus with the naked eye.
Hmm, how does one see a 50nm virus when illuminated with 400 nm light, no matter how good the lens is? I guess you could illuminate it with far UV and use a fluorescent material to shift the wavelength of the magnified image into something visible, but I'm not sure what the lens has to do with that.
It seems they didn't think someone doing helpdesk should know the three little lights on the keyboard are important diagnostic output.
What about keyboards that don't have indicators? One of Dell's most popular Bluetooth keyboards in years past (Y-RAQ-DEL2) has none, for instance.
"The Motorola BioPhone 1 - it's not just a phone, it's a weight loss program too!"
Don't start complaining about this. Those of us in the 1099 contracting game LIKE it this way!!
We do so long as the compensation is appropriate for it. If you're working through an agency and being paid the same as you would working W-2, then you're almost certainly losing money doing it since you have to cover your half of Social Security, in addition to doing quarterly taxes and generally keeping up with more paperwork as you mentioned.
Because at the time, the NASA site didn't have the latest photos, and the Johns Hopkins site did.
Could be. It'll be fun to find out though, if we can.
I had thought the same thing the first time I saw them, but the more recent photos show them to be quite irregular in shape. More interesting to me are the hexagonally-shaped areas above the equator.
Replying to myself - it's Johns Hopkins, not JPL.
Especially when JPL has photos available from yesterday morning.
Compare to an average property area of 6000 sq. ft or so for a family home. With a holodeck, your virtual living area and property size could be as big as you wanted while taking up a relatively small amount of real estate.