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

    The big consultancies are infamous for bait and switch tactics.

    EDS actually had a very few competent people (hard to believe, I know). You would meet them during contract negotiations. Once the deal was inked you would never see anybody who knew anything again.

    It's not on the job training that people complain about, it's being promised industry experts and being delivered recent college graduates (C students) or non-english speaking H1Bs. Who proceeded to try and learn their jobs on your dime. Worse, they usually fail at learning, if they succeed, they get transferred to another client that is further up the 'pissed off curve'.

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

    Sounds like you caught about 10% of their shananigans.

  3. Re:Yay! Cruelty-free bacon! on Scientists Use Stem Cells To Grow Animal-Free Pork In a Lab (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you only 80% self righteous asshole as well?

  4. We already have 'extruded foods', so their is a potential pallat for printed food.

    Extruded foods:
    Cheezy poofs.
    Slim Jims
    Corn nuts

    You could print a slim jim on cheesy poof 'sandwich' with a two head printer.

    I'm sure there are many more 'extruded foods'. Noodles are often extruded, but require cooking after.

  5. Re:Call me when on Scientists Use Stem Cells To Grow Animal-Free Pork In a Lab (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Still better than 'Ender's Game'. OSC should have stopped at the short story.

  6. Re:That's nothing on Scientists Use Stem Cells To Grow Animal-Free Pork In a Lab (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of pork organ/sphincter meats.

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

    Accenture? Companies still hire them? Seriously?

    If you hire companies to 'tell you what you want to hear', you have nobody to blame but yourself.

    I'm not sure what skills they are talking about, but they are certainly in the 'soft skills' catagory (AKA bullshiting).

  8. Chad's official urbanization rate is 22.5%...coincidence? http://www.indexmundi.com/chad...

    The question is: What % of revenue goes to paying for tower security and paying off the local kleptocrats?

    Cell towers in the country would likely be dismantled and sold for scrap, unless guarded 24x7. Payoffs to the locals are required on top of the payoffs to the national government. It can quickly become a deal breaker when all the potential customers are poor.

  9. In Chad? Do you know how many people have to be paid off to keep the pole where you put it?

    The problem is kleptocracies. Balloons are out of reach of the local governments.

  10. Re:McDonald's need to hire someone on McDonald's Hires Project Ara Design Team To Reinvent the Drinking Straw (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be a job for a bull?

    'All beef' means all beef and beef byproducts. What you're looking for is USDA prime.

  11. You put each ingredient in a beer bong. Adjust tube widths and system head to get desired flow ratio (based on fluid density and viscosity). Done.

    Yeah the flow rates might vary a little, but if you're drinking a shake through double barreled beer bongs, brain freeze is going to happen, won't matter.

    If you pause the flow, the timing will be off, fluid mass lost velocity. Even the silly solution is more complicated than first appears.

  12. Re:Weird on Samsung Chief Lee Arrested In Corruption Investigation (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Madoff was the worst of the worst in the eyes of billionaires. A poseur that got away with it for decades, getting fat on their caviar and dom, taking off all the 'right people' in 'high society'. They have to remember elbowing and clawing, just to be allowed to get fucked by Madoff. The butthurt will be slow to fade.

    At the end he's only got what he has very well hidden. How he gets any of that into prison is a mystery. Penniless in the eyes of the law.

    I expected their to be criminal charges after the first dotcom bubble popped. In one example I know of, a mortgage bank took a sweet two billion out of the DuPont family. But lesson for any accountants/comptrollers/CFOs at dotcom companies today, make sure your books are immaculate. If you hired bangladeshi click farms make god damn sure nobody can prove it. Even in 10 years, after some other fool led them right to the bangladeshi's usual payment route. It will save your sphincter some hard miles.

  13. Re:Lots of Sunshine there on Utilities Vote To Close Largest Coal Plant In Western US (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    322 kW panels?

    You lost a 10^3 and are ignoring capacity factor.

  14. Re:Old Regulations that Spared Lives on Father of Driver In Violent Tesla Crash Blames Sedan's 'Rocket-Ship' Acceleration (autoweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Not in the USA. The insurance institute limited speed for factory configurations.

    Fixing that has been as simple as removing throttle stops (in some cases).

    Euro cars typically had sewing machine motors, but they've gotten better recently. A few even have V8s, like god intended.

  15. It's 'average' for a 'slow as shit' car.

  16. Sense the independent review of Toyota ECUs code, they have been _settling all cases_. So no.

    No protected memory, no stack overflow protection, heap at the same end of memory as stack so stack overflows into 'Kernel' memory space. It's like it was built by someone from the MacOS 7 team.

    I, for one, will not be buying a throttle by wire (much less a brake by wire) car until they are required to build their ECUs to aviation standards.

  17. I advocate lowering the drinking age to 14. 10 with the parents supervision.

    Raise the driving age to 18.

  18. Your liver metabolizes a drink/hour.

    So 1/hour plus an hour break before driving and you have _no alcohol_ in your blood.

    Obviously doesn't work if you've cooked your liver, but if you're healthy.

  19. You said 'majority'. That word has a meaning.

  20. You gotta get past denial dude.

  21. The majority of people are poor

    World wide that may be true.

    But in the first world, you have to use an absurd definition of poor.

  22. Re:Never. on New Office Sensors Know When You Leave Your Desk (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Tape a little christmas tinsel so it hangs in front of all the data collectors accessible. Every One.

    Then find a new job, as soon as you're off probation, hire away the key people. Especially if recruitment bonus' are available.

  23. Re:Never. on New Office Sensors Know When You Leave Your Desk (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    For every company like that there is a Dave (not his real name).

    Whenever he drank, he had a bizarre rap: 'Always shit at work, last year I got paid $15k for shiting. I'm always holding it on the drive to work. I punch the clock and head for the head, every day.'

    You knew he was getting drunk when he started those lines on whatever girl he was chasing/annoying that day.

  24. Re:Put a space heater next to the sensor on New Office Sensors Know When You Leave Your Desk (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A little christmas tinsel and move it into an airstream. So their is constant motion.

  25. Re:Productivity! on New Office Sensors Know When You Leave Your Desk (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    It's a shadow metric for % of female workers.