Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 25340 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
So when China (or possibly a slightly confused WhiteHouse) invades Taiwan, we're able to make to make Walmart-grade landfill ready Windows laptops in the Land of Free(*)
(* Freedom offer may be limited , not available to all participants, terms and conditions apply)
Nobody is building GW datacenters in Maine. It's a snowy wilderness that's basically Canada (come the glorious revolution) with no tech industry and is half-a-dozen equally snowy states away from any seat of power.
It's like the Sicily isles having a moratorium on building high speed rail
Hence Field Marshall Hegseth's call for a more lethal military. If they don't have any surviving veterans they don't have any VA to fund.
By simply having all your infantry land on the beach in Iran and walk toward Tehran we can reduce the burden of returning veterans significantly
In modern countries the National Air Traffic Control System is a private company, owned and funded by its customers the airlines. If they are short of staff leading to expensive delays for the aitrines they attract more staff by paying more money.
It's a "science" we call "economics" and the "free market"
>They do get all the "missing" money after the shutdown is over
Only by the benevolent gift of the executive, they have no automatic right to the money. They are also stressed by not being paid bonuses/vacation pay of they took a single day sick during shutdown
> Do you really want ATCs which are so bald at handling their money
It's your first year in the job, you have student loans, you've had months of minimum pay during training, you've had to move to a big city and pay rent+deposit up front
Ironically for national security reasons the routers have to be built in the USA but the code can come from anywhere.
So bring back minimum wage assembly line jobs but keep the skilled programming jobs in China.
Either somebody is playing hyperdimensional chess or an idiot made up a policy in a tweet
The trouble with cycling is that as you get better it's less effort so you stop getting fitter, then you buy some super lightweight carbon bike with aerodynamics and low resistance tires and electronic shifting and it's even less effort
I'm launching the revolutionary new "fitness bike". Based on a 1980s Halfords original, it's made of cast iron, has 3 dynamos on each wheel, the brakes all rub and it comes with special low pressure knobbly tires.
