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  1. Harder and harder to make money growing pot indoors in CA. The sun is free. Harvest glut lasts all year.

  2. Re:In unrelated news, pot farming on The US Government is Loaning Millions of Dollars To Jumpstart Urban Farming (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Making it up.

  3. Re: And yet.... if you dare to travel.... on Amazon Prime Video's Global Launch Looks Soft, But It's Just a First Step (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    How much time would you get in Germany for watching 'Man in the High Castle' in public?

  4. Re:I don't understand this... on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    Wait a second; People actually watch award shows? I've always just assumed they fabricated ratings for themselves.

  5. Re:I don't understand this... on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    Pop music's only purpose is to separate middle schoolers from their allowances.

    Middle schoolers are very easily led.

  6. Re:The Character, Princess Leia, Is Iconic on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    Do yourself a favor, fast forward to the stark raving naked part. The rest is just awful.

    The main character was, IRL, apparently just a queen bitch, who's _only_ redeeming quality was that she was pretty. They tried, but the unlikeable junkie cunt part came through in the movie. When she dies of AIDs I suspect 99% of the audience was thinking: "Good, I hope she suffered, a lot.' Which, I suspect was not the director's intent.

  7. Re:In unrelated news, pot farming on The US Government is Loaning Millions of Dollars To Jumpstart Urban Farming (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Where are you claiming to see this?

    They used to do that because the cops would steal their land. Now they are mostly growing on their own private land. All over CA.

    There just isn't much money left in it. Market is massively glutted.

  8. Re:The Character, Princess Leia, Is Iconic on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    Gia the movie with 18 year old Angelina stark raving naked...

  9. Re:In unrelated news, pot farming on The US Government is Loaning Millions of Dollars To Jumpstart Urban Farming (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit.

    Some in the national forests, but 99% on the grower's land. Much better than when it was illegal.

  10. Re:I don't understand this... on Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 (people.com) · · Score: 1

    Pay the funeral home enough, and they might make you a souvenir of it.

  11. Re:sense of entitlement on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You can bet carnival long ago outsourced their reservation and ticketing system to one of the majors, just to make the flight connections easy.

    The rest is typical hotel supply chain management. So they likely own a SAP pigfuck (or worse, Oracle apps), but it too, could already be outsourced.

  12. Re:Dear Matthew on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You realize the Rs where voting for the commie, just as the Ds were voting for Trump?

    Had he won the nomination, then the videos of him saying 'I support Fidel' would have been in full time circulation.

    The fact is viable candidates for the D nomination stayed away as 'it was her turn', the only one to turn up, wasn't even a democrat. Just like the winner of the R nomination wasn't even a R. Hillarys people set it all up and it blew up in their faces.

  13. Re:Dear Matthew on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Harsh fact of life: ((1 - corp tax rate) * (1 - cap gains tax rate) * average growth) must be globally competitive. Perhaps with a (1 - graft tax rate) term (that would include any 50% local 'partners' shares, night shift bootlegging and other similar shenanigans.) Your nation also competes globally for investment capital.

    Confounding facts of life:
    Average growth is noisy and meaningless when discussing individual investments, past performance is no guarantee of future returns.
    Actual 'Graft tax rates' are hard to estimate.

  14. Re:Dear Matthew on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In fact: ((1 - corporate tax rate) * (1 - capital gains tax rate) * average return) is a globally competitive number. That is the number that attracts capital to your nation's economy, (average return is noisy as fuck though and 'past performance is no guarantee...') Confounded by corporate growth strategies and income tax laws regarding short term holdings, so not really that simple, but close to it.

    Shifting the deck chairs around between corporate tax rate and capital gains tax rate wouldn't change the bottom line. But I'm with you and don't trust the bastards. They want to raise the corporate tax rate but leave capital gains the same, in the process, fucking us royally (with crunch ghost pepper flavored peanut butter as lube).

  15. Re:Dear Matthew on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Bender: Evil, good...they are both fine choices.

  16. Re:In unrelated news, pot farming on The US Government is Loaning Millions of Dollars To Jumpstart Urban Farming (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Less than a few years ago.

    It's moving outdoors in CA. Granting the laws haven't progressed to the point where interstate commerce is legal, that isn't stopping anyone.

  17. Re:For once pragmatism trumps policy on China Opens Door For Tesla and Other Foreign Automakers To Produce Electric Vehicles (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    It's easy, low hanging fruit. Electric resistive heat is a terrible solution, but it's much better than a coal burning stove. N. China's city cores have enough density they should be using common steam loops and waste heat from nearby power plants.

  18. Re:Pointless on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the company selecting for cheap and 'manageable' employees. If technically competent, than psychologically beyond help (or they would leave). Managers it such places will make effort to convince them 'it's like this everywhere', but there are huge downsides to being staffed by those with 'learned helplessness'.

    In practice, the managers of these places know they can't keep A people. To them it's a waste of time to try, they will suck the life out of kids right out of school (who didn't have the wit and opportunity to avoid them) but those kids move along soon, leaving behind yet more technical debt. The line managers don't usually own much stock, so don't really care if the place crashes and burns, anymore than the overloaded C- people they have constantly putting out fires really care. The long timers at such places are _all_ working just hard enough not to get fired, for most, death will be sweet relief.

    Yahoo has already lost a billion in valuation over similar practices. They should lose the rest ASAP (leave them worth _less_ than their Alibaba holdings), but I don't think any single example is going to be enough. Publicly traded companies are going to have to be held to IT security standard practices, just as they are held to accounting standards. A role comparable to comptroller will have to be defined.

  19. Re:Same as every year:The Bible. on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    Jesuits aka jebbies.

  20. Re:This fellow named L. Ron Hubbard... on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    WTF?

    The movie was an improvement. _Incredibly_ bad book.

  21. Re:Same as every year:The Bible. on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 1

    Damn jebbies made us read it Jr year.

    I can honestly say, I've slept on just about every page. Cheated my way through Jr year catholic brainwashing. Wasn't doing anything for me, I hadn't gotten the early years of the slow grift.

  22. Re:sense of entitlement on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    When they make an AI that can clutch at it's pearls about the coming AI revolution...

  23. Re:Pointless on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I guarantee that any commercial reservation service (used by the airlines) could take over Carnival's scheduling system in 3 months. I'd be amazed if it wasn't already outsourced along with all the challenging stuff (such as they have challenges in the first place).

    They don't really have unique problems. Hotel like supply chain management, airline like scheduling, regular office support.

    The problem is Canival sells more or less commodity stuff, never work in IT for companies that 'move' commodities. In those places you ARE JUST A REPLACEABLE COG by design.

  24. Re:Pointless on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    For companies like Carnival, IT is just overhead.

    'IT is overhead' companies will never treat their IT workers as anything other than cost centers and cogs. Because that's what they are.

    Just as competent peddlers go to companies that reward peddling, competent tech people go to companies the reward tech work. Carnival get's the leftovers, who will complain when poked. There are very few talented people working there for long. Look at insurance company IT staff, good for catching flies.

  25. Re: The employees should take this on Facing Layoff, An IT Employee Makes A Bold Counteroffer (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    There is always more to teach...yes just push the backup tape back into the drive when it asks for tape #2 and 3.