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BM found that Boomers were the least likely to understand IBM’s business strategy,
We have a business strategy?
Of course how else do you think the business is planned?
The business is planned? - I thought the plan was to fire everyone competent, alienate customers and drive the company into the ground?
He found out the grand strategy!
(A newer Garmin said I had done 24,000 miles in about twenty minutes between Impington and Dry Drayton.)
< nasel anorak voice of man in pub> what you did was take the wormhole at the back of Fenstanton, go through the galactic center and turn right at the spiral arm - it cuts out the whole junction at nether wallop. Alternately you can take the stargate at the little side road off the 3rd turning at the Fen Drayton roundabout
promote her to a position which requires the trust of the community?
He was a slightly brown person that came out of a council tower block and went on public transport.
She was promoted by a community that isn't remotely brown, would never dream of visiting a council tower block (except after it burned down) and thinks everyone on public transport should be shot as a matter of hygiene
If you think about it logically
The current system has 98% false positive rate, Charles De Menezes was falsely identified.
So if we set it the system to hunt down and kill Charles De Menezes, he would have a 2% chance of escaping - which was better than he got.
Well my team and I really concerned ourselves fundamentally with a statistical analysis of violence as a whole in tandem with and related to a psycho-chemical and broadly speaking a behavioral analysis of over a thousand individuals and we've come to the inevitable conclusion that the one course of action
that the authorities must take is
to cut off their goolies facial recognition carpet bombing
No the trick is to keep it vague: That way you can prosecute a photographer at a protest march or ban an image of a politician caught in-the-arms-of-a-damsel. And of course you need to make it an offence not to turn over all any phone or camera to the police to investigate.
There is a funny talk by a law prof (LSE?) about whether lady Godiver should be prosecuted for public indecency or Peeping Tom for peeping.
In an example of "Everything that's Wrong with the Modern World" another obit piece (probably in the Garudian) said something like "in the light of this behavior we must reconsider the value of his work"
NO, if the work is good it doesn't matter if he fed puppies into wood chippers or used emacs. The value of the work is unchanged. Blackadder II doesn't become bad when Ben Elton becomes a Tory peer.
Even worse, Amazon co-mingle stock. So if you buy a Casio from a totally reputable retailer on Amazon you are just as likely to get the fake one shipped to their warehouse by Dell Boy as you are to get the genuine one if you buy from Trotters Independant Trading Fulfilled by Amazon.
That's why nobody buys sd cards or (non-amazon brand) batteries on Amazon anymore
The problem is that they have also put their brand name on a bunch of cheap rebadged rice cookers, wifi switched light bulbs and other crap that got a plain white box and an unjustified 300% markup
If you go to your favourite cheap-chinese-crap.com site and put in Xiaomi it looks a lot more like Aldi than Apple
Microsoft buying an OSS repository is questionable because of their open hostility to openness.
Microsoft of 10years ago would buy it to shut down the open source cancer.
But Microsoft of 10years in the future isn't a software company - it's a services company.
They are charging / month for Office, Visual Studio and Azure - they aren't selling shrink wrapped copies of software.
Github model is perfect, you use the free version of VS + Git = your code is public.
If you want to keep it private = you pay $X/month. No arguing about licensing, student versions, introductory offers etc
Germany exports about 1 in 7 of the cars it makes to the UK. Post-Brexit, absent a relevant deal, tariffs could kick in
Except that it would then switch to exporting cars to the UK from its US plants.
Or was Britain's plan to introduce 25% tariffs on American imports as part of the goal of global free trade
True but it is still important that people know what a computer does
Most people don't become professional physicists but it's still worth teaching everyone that you perform experiments, see how changing one thing affects others, change your mind when you see the results - rather than just believe what some ranting idiot says
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