There is a thing called "mwm" which stands for the motif window manager. Given how sloooooooow gnome can be at times despite using video acceleration hardware to attempt to make up for poor coding (problably in gtk and not the actual window manager) it's tempting to use almost anything else other than gnome once you have a few windows up. While the idea seems to have been to sacrifice speed for shiny it falls well behind on both to things like Enlightenment.
Whoever the small number of Stratfor people clipped those articles from should be congratulated then. They are no more original than Slashdot and are in the same sort of business of collating information from other places.
Being able to see the future that others can't
No. Others saw the future and they relayed the message. Your local newspaper would have more employees than the 100 that Stratfor reported as their peak staffing level.
Strafor? The self declared "shadow intelligence agency" who not only got easily and spectacularly hacked but in reality were nothing but a clipping service with less resources than a small state daily newspaper? You yourself as a semi-anonymous poster have far more credibility than Stratfor because you do not have the poor reputation that they have. So I not only very strongly disagree with that "Trump saw reality clearly enough to achieve what others thought was impossible" - I think you can do far better than George Friedman of that overhyped small clipping service yourself. Trump has a very long track record of being tripped up by reality which is why he had so much trouble getting funding from US banks.
While the buck is supposed to stop with management many of these stupid types of things originated in HR. Mining companies mandating a FIFO (fly in fly out) workforce that depart from major cities where the HR people want to work instead of employing locals is another example of this. At the root of this current thing is probably a HR manager who is annoyed that remote staff are creating extra work for them.
Unfortunately not always that simple. Your local fire department resembles your statement nearly all of the time. Some places have very fluctuating workloads with short lead times so what looks like incompetence and overstaffing is sometimes (note sometimes) a matter of holding onto resources for those times when they need them. A way to spot something like that which is competently run is to take note of the amount of training and the secondary tasks that are carried out when the primary tasks do not require all hands. In comparison a place not so well run will just have people spinning their wheels and playing at workplace politics. I know what you describes happens, I've been a number on a list of staff being charged out to the client while sitting around waiting for ten hours a day (I left that fraudster swiftly - not good for the reputation), but it's not the typical situation.
because only those that are good at what they do (and hence have other prospects) will leave
That is not seen as a problem at the top of the tree where only managers are seen as having true value. A good manager can take anyone out of the gutter and turn them into a subject matter expert without the manager knowing anything about the subject - so the oft believed legend goes. So IMHO when you see such demented practices it's a bit of a symptom of such a situation.
then they're probably either avoiding such cases entirely, or deferring them to some other, larger and better-equipped organization
Yes, but there's also cutting corners or outsourcing them to the guy with a disk copying business.
but the NSA/CIA/etc. can do a *lot* if they are properly motivated
Once again "The Hacker Crackdown" applies - if things can be skewed to make something look like a headline grabbing crime that could lead to promotion there is motivation but not in a direction to the benefit of anyone other than the individuals putting together a high profile case. Justice often loses.
The F-35 is not normal and is a very obvious symptom of overt government corruption IMHO. Lockheed is "special" - hookers and blow for the right people "special". It's so "special" it would make a Chinese Communist official laundering what he's siphoned off at Macao blush.
In an ideal world (for the cops) yes - but resources and not always what you expect from television. The old Bruce Sterling non-fiction text "The Hacker Crackdown" (free download) is still apt after all these years. Back then the cops wanted the budget to buy an Amiga, now it's the budget for a computer forensic lab up to the quality of a guy running a hard disk recovery business out of his garage.
Wrong, that's just you pretending I do not for the sake of being insulting So - what point has your dozens of errors in all your "corrections" made? Why do you keep on trying and failing to come up to the bar that you insist that all others pass?
Posting history not strawman BlueStrat. Not your first idiotic gun post, not even the twentieth. I think I'd learned more about gun safety by the time I was seven than the shit you spout.
That's the point I addressed waaaaaaaaaaay above Crashdoxy. In the modern world we use all kinds of very toxic stuff in chemical processes and have a thing called waste management. It's kind of pathetic that you are using that angle just because the process looked a little "green" to you. Oh noes - there can't be anything toxic to deal with in industry you seem to be bleating - fucking pathetic. You are turning yourself into a ridiculous parody of the extremists of the people whose politics you do not like. Are you sure you are not just doing this as a joke? Are you really as ridiculous as the words you spout? Is it really some sort of suprise to you how toxic cadmium was or is that some pathetic faux suprise? If it's the former, that's kind of sad that you thought you knew enough to write your FUD attack above, if it's the latter - well that's just the icing on the cake of how utterly pathetic you are and you should really resolve whatever offline problems are making you but an utter festering prick in this place.
Firing shotguns into the air in cities - what could possibly go wrong? The way to spot a gun nut is that they know fuckall about guns, even less about gun safety and accept that traitor Oliver North in the NRA as their leader. Not every gun user is a gun nut. Maybe consider becoming one of those instead of the foaming at the mouth political types.
Save a few bucks and use the industrial helium that has oil, water and who knows what else is in there. You don't want to do a Donald Duck voice trick with that stuff.
It's kind of irrelevant since it's high school chemistry yet you brought it up as part of your pathetic doxxing attempted bullying.
isn't in solution
CATALYST Your only "correction" of your dozens of attempts you got right was due to moving the goalposts from Western economics to Chinese Communism - just give up. It's pathetic.
Oh, and read that book. You may as well be one of the examples in it, but either way you'll find it both funny and informative. Techy types like us don't get to have the background that journalist types spend years getting in advanced bullshit detection.
Slashdot Mirror
No but it's a good example of drastic changes to a functioning piece of software that leave some users unimpressed.
Insanely slow as well - so much so that the "X Sux" trolls use the new gedit as "proof" that X is slow.
There is a thing called "mwm" which stands for the motif window manager.
Given how sloooooooow gnome can be at times despite using video acceleration hardware to attempt to make up for poor coding (problably in gtk and not the actual window manager) it's tempting to use almost anything else other than gnome once you have a few windows up.
While the idea seems to have been to sacrifice speed for shiny it falls well behind on both to things like Enlightenment.
They are no more original than Slashdot and are in the same sort of business of collating information from other places.
No.
Others saw the future and they relayed the message. Your local newspaper would have more employees than the 100 that Stratfor reported as their peak staffing level.
Strafor? The self declared "shadow intelligence agency" who not only got easily and spectacularly hacked but in reality were nothing but a clipping service with less resources than a small state daily newspaper? You yourself as a semi-anonymous poster have far more credibility than Stratfor because you do not have the poor reputation that they have.
So I not only very strongly disagree with that "Trump saw reality clearly enough to achieve what others thought was impossible" - I think you can do far better than George Friedman of that overhyped small clipping service yourself. Trump has a very long track record of being tripped up by reality which is why he had so much trouble getting funding from US banks.
*sigh* I still hate typos, and they still slip through Preview too often. *sigh*
I prefer to see the article subject as a typo - this sounds better:
Trump Approves Crude Mission to Mars - "Grab it by the Olympus Mons" he tweets.
Boy are you in for a shock! Or are you joking?
Every second day in Afganistan, Syria and Iraq appears to be a more significant calamity when you remove the now outdated political namecalling.
While the buck is supposed to stop with management many of these stupid types of things originated in HR.
Mining companies mandating a FIFO (fly in fly out) workforce that depart from major cities where the HR people want to work instead of employing locals is another example of this.
At the root of this current thing is probably a HR manager who is annoyed that remote staff are creating extra work for them.
Unfortunately not always that simple. Your local fire department resembles your statement nearly all of the time.
Some places have very fluctuating workloads with short lead times so what looks like incompetence and overstaffing is sometimes (note sometimes) a matter of holding onto resources for those times when they need them. A way to spot something like that which is competently run is to take note of the amount of training and the secondary tasks that are carried out when the primary tasks do not require all hands. In comparison a place not so well run will just have people spinning their wheels and playing at workplace politics.
I know what you describes happens, I've been a number on a list of staff being charged out to the client while sitting around waiting for ten hours a day (I left that fraudster swiftly - not good for the reputation), but it's not the typical situation.
That is not seen as a problem at the top of the tree where only managers are seen as having true value. A good manager can take anyone out of the gutter and turn them into a subject matter expert without the manager knowing anything about the subject - so the oft believed legend goes.
So IMHO when you see such demented practices it's a bit of a symptom of such a situation.
Yes, but there's also cutting corners or outsourcing them to the guy with a disk copying business.
Once again "The Hacker Crackdown" applies - if things can be skewed to make something look like a headline grabbing crime that could lead to promotion there is motivation but not in a direction to the benefit of anyone other than the individuals putting together a high profile case. Justice often loses.
The F-35 is not normal and is a very obvious symptom of overt government corruption IMHO. Lockheed is "special" - hookers and blow for the right people "special". It's so "special" it would make a Chinese Communist official laundering what he's siphoned off at Macao blush.
In an ideal world (for the cops) yes - but resources and not always what you expect from television. The old Bruce Sterling non-fiction text "The Hacker Crackdown" (free download) is still apt after all these years. Back then the cops wanted the budget to buy an Amiga, now it's the budget for a computer forensic lab up to the quality of a guy running a hard disk recovery business out of his garage.
Good idea. I'll try that with some other stuff in the microwave.
I pointed out your shit and you went for me with doxxing and other ways to attack the man and not the ball, so I did not let that stand.
Also why should I be trying to convince you of something that you already know but choose to lie about?
Wrong, that's just you pretending I do not for the sake of being insulting
So - what point has your dozens of errors in all your "corrections" made?
Why do you keep on trying and failing to come up to the bar that you insist that all others pass?
Posting history not strawman BlueStrat.
Not your first idiotic gun post, not even the twentieth.
I think I'd learned more about gun safety by the time I was seven than the shit you spout.
That's the point I addressed waaaaaaaaaaay above Crashdoxy. In the modern world we use all kinds of very toxic stuff in chemical processes and have a thing called waste management. It's kind of pathetic that you are using that angle just because the process looked a little "green" to you. Oh noes - there can't be anything toxic to deal with in industry you seem to be bleating - fucking pathetic. You are turning yourself into a ridiculous parody of the extremists of the people whose politics you do not like.
Are you sure you are not just doing this as a joke? Are you really as ridiculous as the words you spout?
Is it really some sort of suprise to you how toxic cadmium was or is that some pathetic faux suprise? If it's the former, that's kind of sad that you thought you knew enough to write your FUD attack above, if it's the latter - well that's just the icing on the cake of how utterly pathetic you are and you should really resolve whatever offline problems are making you but an utter festering prick in this place.
Your "in solution" was an epic fail - just give up.
Read section three loser instead of just choosing the bits you want.
Firing shotguns into the air in cities - what could possibly go wrong?
The way to spot a gun nut is that they know fuckall about guns, even less about gun safety and accept that traitor Oliver North in the NRA as their leader.
Not every gun user is a gun nut. Maybe consider becoming one of those instead of the foaming at the mouth political types.
I get the idea that it's being used as a legal term, so the other one outside Canada where there are different aviation regulations didn't apply.
Save a few bucks and use the industrial helium that has oil, water and who knows what else is in there. You don't want to do a Donald Duck voice trick with that stuff.
Do not eat.
http://www.sciencelab.com/msds...
It's kind of irrelevant since it's high school chemistry yet you brought it up as part of your pathetic doxxing attempted bullying.
CATALYST
Your only "correction" of your dozens of attempts you got right was due to moving the goalposts from Western economics to Chinese Communism - just give up. It's pathetic.
Oh, and read that book. You may as well be one of the examples in it, but either way you'll find it both funny and informative. Techy types like us don't get to have the background that journalist types spend years getting in advanced bullshit detection.