There was a TV show some years ago - a proto-reality show - where a management consultant was brought into a company to upgrade their processes, in a bid to improve profitability.
Morgan was one of the companies visited by this smarmy git and his TV crew. Now, the Morgan production line is, well, antiquated. The cars (at the time) were largely hand-built, using hand tools, even hand-powered tools. The visiting expert tried to convince them to automate some of the manufacturing to increase production volume, and to start using cheaper materials to reduce costs. They flat-out said "no", and you could see the expert fail to understand their reasoning. Their orderbook was full for a number of years, they were happy with what they were doing, and the way they were doing it. The expert just couldn't comprehend why they didn't want to change.
And now they're going electric. Who owns Morgan now?
This makes no sense. Why would you pay a lot of money for management consultants to improve profitability then ignore their advice?
If it was free advice because it was a TV show, then it was still a waste of everyone's time.
With a full orderbook they obviously didn't need the publicity, so it's not that.
Kind of heartwarming to see Malvern make the news somehow, especially on/.
You ought to suggest to the Town Council that they rename it "Elon Musk" then you'll be guaranteed an hilarious oops-not-that-Elon-Musk story at least once a week.
Since we're talking science fiction, how about the very real threat that it will be used to create virtual prison hellscapes for opponents of the government? That it will be possible to torture people without leaving physical evidence? That the media will create entirely convincing lies about reality and the news?
So it's "whining" to complain about open, pervasive, and unfair discrimination? I guess that makes Martin Luther King, Jr. a black-whiner.
Nice try. The slight difference is that MLK did actually suffer open, pervasive and unfair discrimination. He wasn't some balls-aching MRA bitching becauwe his female boss gets paid more than he does.
The reason you need information on minority groups being discriminated against is because they are minority groups being discriminated against, as opposed to, say, the group in power.
If you're a white male and you do badly at your course or job, it's because you're not very good at your course or job, you can't seriously blame the black matriarchal nature of society.
Irrelevant. The majority of high-paying jobs aren't in upper management and the vast majority of workers aren't upper management workers. Get back to me when the majority of people making over $100K are white men.
What sort of non-upper-management high-paying jobs are you talking about? Software developers? Basketball players?
Ah! Asking questions about the product? Can't imagine why would one be so interested in "the product"... perhaps she was bidding for a role in managing the development, maintenance and marketing of that very same product? Who'd have guessed!
It appears to be some sort of badge of honour for developers on slashdot to have no interest whatsoever in the actual business they are working in.
The black security guy there was suspicious of me and told me that he was keeping an eye on me, referring to me as a "Timothy McVeigh-type"....
I have been detained by (white) police many times for not being known to them and somehow drawing attention to myself.
The problems seems to be that you are a creepy asshole, rather than anything to do with skin colour.
I've personally seen competent white males get passed over for promotion in favor of incompetent black women.
Unless you work in HR or did the interviewing yourself, how can you possibly tell who was more competent?
I've seen a white woman passed over for promotion until she got married to another white guy who just happened to be named Gonzalez - bam, two pay grades almost instantly.
Yes, that's exactly how it works in government departments. I myself started wearing a t-shirt proclaiming that I am a proud black lesbian, and I was given an immediate 100% government pay rise even though I am a straight white male and don't even work for the government.
I am gonna admit this in public... So, I just checked and I did, indeed, have belly button lint. I surely can't be the only one who checked or will I be the only one who admits it?
Oddly, it was blue. I'm wearing a green shirt and I'm quite positive that I showered today. I have no idea where/why I accumulated blue lint in my belly button. I'm half-tempted to take a picture.
Belly button lint is ALWAYS blue.
It's one of the minor mysteries of life like where do all the odd socks go?
I suggest that just because someone makes lots of money at something that they aren't necessarily good at it: M$, US Government, Wall Street, Bank of America, etc etc etc.
Microsoft are good at making money. Wall Street is good at making money.
The only measure for how good you are at making money is how much money you make. There is no ethical or aesthetic or engineering dimension to it. Whether MS made the worst or best software in history has nothing to do with how much money they made selling it.
the japanese have been dreaming about this forever, no car in japan is older than like 5 years
And I expect their average level of safety is high and pollution low compared to somewhere where people are driving around in 25 year old rust buckets.
You'd have to be a pretty retarded osprey to mistake a golden eagle for a salmon. The fact it was flying rather than swimming would seem like the most obvious clue.
Many of the WMDs found would certainly be suitable for terrorist attacks. You may recall that Saddams support of terrorism was another charge made against him.
A pick up truck with a couple of barrels of home made fertiliser explosive is suitable for terrorist attacks, that doesn't make it a weapon of mass destruction.
No one is saying there weren't any chemical weapons, the West sold the things to Saddam Hussein in the first place, and his earlier use of them against the Kurds and opponents is well documented.
The point is that the whole "weapon of mass destruction" story was grossly over-exaggerated. Bush and Blair made out that Saddam Hussein had the capability to launch long range targeted weapons capable of causing multiple thousands of deaths in Western cities. That is in a totally different league from dropping canisters of mustard gas out the back of a cargo plane.
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The problem with Uber is not whether it has come up with a better taxi service, but that it won't admit it is a taxi service in the first place.
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Oh come on, they were fucking hilarious.
There was a TV show some years ago - a proto-reality show - where a management consultant was brought into a company to upgrade their processes, in a bid to improve profitability.
Morgan was one of the companies visited by this smarmy git and his TV crew. Now, the Morgan production line is, well, antiquated. The cars (at the time) were largely hand-built, using hand tools, even hand-powered tools. The visiting expert tried to convince them to automate some of the manufacturing to increase production volume, and to start using cheaper materials to reduce costs. They flat-out said "no", and you could see the expert fail to understand their reasoning. Their orderbook was full for a number of years, they were happy with what they were doing, and the way they were doing it. The expert just couldn't comprehend why they didn't want to change.
And now they're going electric. Who owns Morgan now?
This makes no sense. Why would you pay a lot of money for management consultants to improve profitability then ignore their advice?
If it was free advice because it was a TV show, then it was still a waste of everyone's time.
With a full orderbook they obviously didn't need the publicity, so it's not that.
Kind of heartwarming to see Malvern make the news somehow, especially on /.
You ought to suggest to the Town Council that they rename it "Elon Musk" then you'll be guaranteed an hilarious oops-not-that-Elon-Musk story at least once a week.
Since we're talking science fiction, how about the very real threat that it will be used to create virtual prison hellscapes for opponents of the government? That it will be possible to torture people without leaving physical evidence? That the media will create entirely convincing lies about reality and the news?
The future is not all flowers and rainbows.
So it's "whining" to complain about open, pervasive, and unfair discrimination? I guess that makes Martin Luther King, Jr. a black-whiner.
Nice try. The slight difference is that MLK did actually suffer open, pervasive and unfair discrimination. He wasn't some balls-aching MRA bitching becauwe his female boss gets paid more than he does.
It's like complaining about workplaces monitoring homophobic discrimination asking "why isn't there any monitoring of heterophobic discrimination? ".
If you're a white male and you do badly at your course or job, it's because you're not very good at your course or job, you can't seriously blame the black matriarchal nature of society.
Irrelevant. The majority of high-paying jobs aren't in upper management and the vast majority of workers aren't upper management workers. Get back to me when the majority of people making over $100K are white men.
What sort of non-upper-management high-paying jobs are you talking about? Software developers? Basketball players?
Ah! Asking questions about the product? Can't imagine why would one be so interested in "the product"... perhaps she was bidding for a role in managing the development, maintenance and marketing of that very same product? Who'd have guessed!
It appears to be some sort of badge of honour for developers on slashdot to have no interest whatsoever in the actual business they are working in.
The black security guy there was suspicious of me and told me that he was keeping an eye on me, referring to me as a "Timothy McVeigh-type". ...
I have been detained by (white) police many times for not being known to them and somehow drawing attention to myself.
The problems seems to be that you are a creepy asshole, rather than anything to do with skin colour.
I've personally seen competent white males get passed over for promotion in favor of incompetent black women.
Unless you work in HR or did the interviewing yourself, how can you possibly tell who was more competent?
I've seen a white woman passed over for promotion until she got married to another white guy who just happened to be named Gonzalez - bam, two pay grades almost instantly.
Yes, that's exactly how it works in government departments. I myself started wearing a t-shirt proclaiming that I am a proud black lesbian, and I was given an immediate 100% government pay rise even though I am a straight white male and don't even work for the government.
I am gonna admit this in public... So, I just checked and I did, indeed, have belly button lint. I surely can't be the only one who checked or will I be the only one who admits it?
Oddly, it was blue. I'm wearing a green shirt and I'm quite positive that I showered today. I have no idea where/why I accumulated blue lint in my belly button. I'm half-tempted to take a picture.
Belly button lint is ALWAYS blue.
It's one of the minor mysteries of life like where do all the odd socks go?
You're implying that Google is good at it.
I suggest that just because someone makes lots of money at something that they aren't necessarily good at it: M$, US Government, Wall Street, Bank of America, etc etc etc.
Microsoft are good at making money. Wall Street is good at making money.
The only measure for how good you are at making money is how much money you make. There is no ethical or aesthetic or engineering dimension to it. Whether MS made the worst or best software in history has nothing to do with how much money they made selling it.
we want new toys on a regular basis
You make it sound like the world's run by ten year olds.
the japanese have been dreaming about this forever, no car in japan is older than like 5 years
And I expect their average level of safety is high and pollution low compared to somewhere where people are driving around in 25 year old rust buckets.
There's a car out there that hit a million miles or something crazy like that.
The world record is some guy with a Volvo who's done three million miles.
I never thought I'd read something more irritating than people referring to their computers as "boxen". But "Windows boxen" manages it.
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I just use the "smoke signals" app on my phone.
Or orthodontia.
Or weekly mass school shootings.
If I came to their country, took one of their cows, and then proudly ate it, yeah, that would be kinda shitty too.
We're not talking about foreigners visiting the US and kidnapping your bald eagles for pets though.
You'd have to be a pretty retarded osprey to mistake a golden eagle for a salmon. The fact it was flying rather than swimming would seem like the most obvious clue.
Question: How do you go to the toilet in these pods?
You give all the passengers hyper-incontinence pads.
Many of the WMDs found would certainly be suitable for terrorist attacks. You may recall that Saddams support of terrorism was another charge made against him.
A pick up truck with a couple of barrels of home made fertiliser explosive is suitable for terrorist attacks, that doesn't make it a weapon of mass destruction.
The point is that the whole "weapon of mass destruction" story was grossly over-exaggerated. Bush and Blair made out that Saddam Hussein had the capability to launch long range targeted weapons capable of causing multiple thousands of deaths in Western cities. That is in a totally different league from dropping canisters of mustard gas out the back of a cargo plane.