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  1. Bill Clinton got 'one free grope'! Why shouldn't this manager get one free clumsy comeon?

  2. Re:Attack Software on Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 1

    Soft rubberduckie?

    Is it even possible for a phone to tell USB that it's a keyboard?

  3. Re:Globalization vs. Protectionism on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No modern nation has farmers tilling a few acres each...Perhaps a few acres of hydroponic, but even their being legal is having financial consequences.

    If Mexico wants into the first world, they won't either.

  4. Re:Globalization vs. Protectionism on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not hard, they just have to have the will. None of the refugees in Germany have any hope of finding work without work papers and everybody knows it. Granting Germans are RULES CRAZY. But still, it's a matter of wanting it to work. In Germany a 'boss' caught hiring off the books would face a 5 figure fine for first offence and get frequent visits after, wouldn't take long to lose his business.

    In America, construction workers don't even bother calling in complaints about sites running illegals. Because they know it will be ignored. Hence some states new construction is 100% cash, must speak Mexican. Not Spanish, Mexican. In some cases, have the right tats.

  5. Re:Globalization vs. Protectionism on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No. With power, money is available if and when it's needed. All money is power, but not all power is money.

    See also what happened to the Clinton 'trust' and to the Clinton's Son in Law's Hedge Fund since the election. No more power, no more money. Like magic, just puff.

  6. Re:Ban H1Bs from ever consulting on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They just lie about the job title.

    Just giving the H1Bs to those that will get the highest pay (vs. lottery) solves this problem.

  7. Re:Globalization vs. Protectionism on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you just pick the start date for you real estate price comparison by accident? Sure you did...

  8. Delphi closed, along with BIX, Prodogy and all the other AOL like online services of the early 90s.

  9. Re:That much demand for being lied to? on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yahoo has to be worth a nickle. An example has to be made. They've already lost over a billion in valuation, over a breach. They have to lose the rest. Let them sell their AliBaba holdings to pay off the judgement against them, leave the stockholders with nothing. Only then will the three letter geniuses make security a priority.

    Also security standards for public companies, same as they have accounting standards. Those can be set by the exchanges, so we don't have to let government idiots mess things up.

  10. Re:On regulation of AI development on EU Moves To Bring In AI Laws, But Rejects Robot Tax Proposal (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't buy it, duh.

  11. Re:Globalization vs. Protectionism on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    We have better and cheaper ways now, a simple national ID program required for jobs (with teeth against employers) would have them leaving at near zero cost to us. Bonus: It would make the holy rollers even _crazier_.

    The question was 'When were immigration laws enforced'. I took it to mean in the USA, answering 'All along' would have applied to both Mexico and Canada.

    Surely you're not citing Salon as anything but pure propaganda?

  12. Re:Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    If you're born somewhere, you are native. Don't let anybody redefine words on you.

    I was conceived in Germany, but I'm a native American.

  13. Re:Death To All Jews on PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty · · Score: 1

    Look at all the anti-semitic liberal ethnic jews. It's pretty much the 'standard enlightened view' in east coast big cities.

  14. Re:That much demand for being lied to? on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Think how they treated their average clients.

    Hint: When those top notch people went away for a couple of days, they were being used as props to close deals.

  15. Re:Globalization vs. Protectionism on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Eisenhower. Operation wetback.

  16. Re:That much demand for being lied to? on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know this is ironic. But I've 'consulted' (more than 50% of our clients were former EDS/EMA clients, this phenomenon was an opportunity) for many government organizations and non-profit NGOs (in the Electric power industry, I'm counting PUD/MUDs as NGOs). 90% air thieves watching clocks, 10% actual workers. (In the office at the overripe ones...linemen/plant operators etc are just different, in no small part because they have real jobs that have real metrics. There is no bullshitting a down power line. They still featherbed, but jobs got done.)

    Sure they are mostly 'doing their best with few resources' but one of those few resources is typically 'intelligence and motivation'.

    The older the NGO/government department the higher % of staff is connected people that the rest of the staff wished had 'no show jobs' as they only get in the way, costing 2 or 3 times their direct salary in wasted time/resources. Peter principle corollary at work.

    Which isn't to say 'for profits' with government granted monopolies are much better.

    It is largely a problem with old fossilized organizations. We were watching the old order fall apart as previous monopolists were forced to prepare for competition in power pools. You could see those with no hope of competing vs. those getting ready. Also the whole deal was colored by these places being Engineering focused, power companies have no bullshit possible metrics, rate and reliability. Which is why we were able to displace the likes of EDS, no matter how many blowjobs their suits were giving. They knew the days of 'making a profit remodeling the president's office' were ending.

    Curious, I know you know a little about Sac. Are you familiar with CA's General Services Admin (GSA)? You realize it's a government administration whose only purpose is to be a 'transfer destination' for air thieves in other parts of CA government? They can't fire them, just transfer them to GSA, where they 'work' until retirement. Building is about six stories, one full city block, south of Broadway in downtown Sacramento.

  17. Re:Ban H1Bs from ever consulting on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Approving H1Bs by sorting on 'pay' and giving them to the highest paid positions will end TataSys's business, overnight. A lottery was an idiotic way to do it.

  18. Re:That much demand for being lied to? on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Said every government employee/contractor, ever. 99% are lying, mostly to themselves.

  19. Re:Put the blame where it belongs. on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Green cards, not citizenship. Citizenship takes time, green cards (permanent residence) is what they need. It's also a required step on the path to citizenship.

  20. Re:Protectionist? on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Libtard snowflakes have discovered a new 'stage of grief': Snark.

  21. Re:Globalization vs. Protectionism on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The original premise was that nations don't ever attack 'trading partners'.

    But it's not so simple, China has mismanaged its economy in a huge way, in part because we let them. When their bubble pops, they will blame 'the west', directing their people's anger outwards.

  22. Re:That much demand for being lied to? on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Your saying Accenture failed to deliver on its promises, but put the blame on the client's management, so you like their results.

    They clearly told management what it wanted to hear _up front_, then made excuses for not delivering. The fact their excuse wheel ended on 'client management' is just luck for you, could have just as easily landed on 'client staff'.

  23. Re:Globalization vs. Protectionism on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The promise of 'globalism' is new markets.

    The real mystery is who believes their is actually such a thing. China and India are fully protectionist and we're giving out tax incentives to move production to China and India.

    There comes a point where the other sides protectionism has to be ended. That time is today. Don't expect China and India to like it.

  24. Re:Globalization vs. Protectionism on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    At that level they are past being money grubbers. They are power grubbers.

    Look at Sanders for example. Drunk on power, but completely incompetent around money.

  25. Re:That much demand for being lied to? on Accenture To Create 15,000 Jobs In US (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    The 'skilled person' involved was the negotiator that determined that the 'fromage grande' wanted a reason to go back to MS.

    After that it was just a matter of producing TCO numbers to justify the conclusion already in the mayor's head. Easy peasy.

    I don't understand why people don't start laughing when Accenture's name is mentioned.