Re: A stopped clock is correct twice daily
It's thinking long term.
This boosts coal and LNG use.
So increases global warming
So makes solar more viable for the rest of us
Hats off to our selfless cousins for thinking of future generations.
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Hire lots of cyber security experts
To lure them away from Amazon/Google etc you need to beat the salaries and not make them do all that extreme camping the Army is so fond of.
Since salaries are fixed with rank you will have to hire these nerds at a rank that is commensurate with $300-500K industry salaries
So that means a pay rise for Brigadier General (or whatever the highest rank is among the brown trousers)
That's why you need More Democracy (tm).
Make the school board, fire station, police and transit all democratic.
Then you get the thrilling experience of separate labour and conservative campaigns for election to the park board.
The city engineering is still unfairly decided by an unfair guild system which insists on privileged knowledge, so the unwashed masses don't get to vote on how thick the bridge cables are - but it's only a matter of time.
Lots of Entrenched Interests are feeling the swamp getting more turbulent.
Goldman Sachs executives in each post or advisers to unqualified holders - check
Consumer and environmental protection rewritten by industry - check
Banking regs rolled back to pre-2008 settings - check
Net neutrality rules reset at cable company request - check
Yep swamp drained.
The main concern by lobbyists seems to be that laws are written directly by industry with no need to actually lobby
How many times did Clintons meddle in Russian election's?
I always assumed somebody in the UK/USA intelligence agencies got Putin elected.
He is the perfect Russian president, scary enough to justify arms sales but not enough of a leader to gain anything. Corrupt enough that the Russian economy stays out of competition and we get to sell his friends nice mansions in London
If it wasn't for the fact that he isn't a committed communist I would assume he is an MI5 agent. Although the shirt-off posing does suggest he has a touch of the Peterhouse about him.
Except countries like Dubai/UAE/Singapore can't operate a point-point model in Eu/USA.
The free market economies of the decadent capitalist west make sure their own airlines are protected - so Air Singapore can't operate Manchester to Newark or Barcelona-Berlin. They can only fly in-out of their own country, and nobody wants to fly from one 2nd city in Dubai to another.
However the F35 won't be usable in a future Falklands conflict.
The US company with the contract for the onboard avionics will have a significant share holding from the Argentinian teachers pension fund and so will cancel the runtime license and then Turkey will be negotiating a deal with Argentina for a new pipeline and so will refuse to do any servicing, and Boeing will be in court about bribes to Argentine officials and doesn't want any bad press...
We may have created the solution for perpetual peace
"He couldn't understand that he created shortcuts to the files on his computer and that it wouldn't work on our computer..."
Back in the day somebody managed to load our dept web site into MSFT Frontpage and convert all the hyperlinks to file links to the shared drive.
Of course it must be our fault because it worked on their machine.
Because you can't run a lab science class for the standard fixed tuition fee. So you either shut down the chemistry dept or divert money from the cheap to teach arts depts to STEM.
In top universities it is the opposite way round, the STEM research depts bring in massive amounts of external grants which you charge 150% overhead on - and divert the money to the arts depts
Then they just obey the security policy to the exclusion of doing any work.
If you do those fake phishing calls/emails to see if they respond then your users stop responding to any calls/emails - they can simply claim they thought all customers were suspicious.
In fact I'm not even logging onto my machine this morning because the keyboard looks like it has been moved on my desk - that's "suspicous" so I'm going out for coffee until IT have checked it.
"Road signs and lanes disappear
Good - it can only help.
The freeway from Seattle splits into two border crossings.
The old one is "straight on", the new one, open 24hours and with truck facilities, splits off at the last exit.
You also have signs warning you to exit before you end up at the border
The result is a set of instructions, to be read at 70 mph, that I think are Turing complete, the wordage makes "Finnegans Wake" read like the Very hungry Caterpillar
BA 747s many times I would argue that the word ergonomic' is sorely misplaced, unless you mean 'dark blue, creaky, cracky, cramped hellhole'
That's true of all BA flights (or was before I used to avoid them)
The nice thing about being the World's only airline is that you really don't have to make any effort at customer service, new or clean aircraft etc. It's not like business people are going to fly on some bunch of middle eastern or SE Asian carriers are they ?
I wonder how much of the A380 was because Airbus had no competitor to the 747 ?
If a national airline wanted long haul trans atlantic/pacific it had to buy 747s (before etops 370). So you had to let the Boeing salesman in the door, at that point he could offer you a much better deal if you also wanted to buy 737s and 777 for your other routes. And look at all the savings on maintenance and training by only operating Boeing.
It's like HP or IBM having to buy up auxiliary systems vendors because if they can't offer the full package the customer has to go to your competitor
. Often customers are willing to pay for speed of delivery, especially with JIT manufacturing.
JIT means they are willing to pay for reliability.
That's why Maersk's new container ships are half the speed of the last lot. So long as I can promise to the hour when the parts arrive then you don't care if it is in 10 days or 20 - it's just a longer conveyor. The extra cost of capital tied up in the parts is so low that the cost savings on fuel win.
It's only for one offs or launch day spikes of a new iPhone that you need rapid delivery.
And if China takes off and you need A380 passenger numbers on short trips that would be 737 in Eu/USA then you need an A380 in "asian economy" seating layout (don't ask if you are more than 5' 4")
Unfortunately it looks like they have decided that high speed rail is a better/quicker/cheaper/more efficient way of moving 1000 people 3-500km - bunch of commies
So if Canada were to close a bunch of northern airstrips it only keeps open as emergency diverts - then only the A350 would be able to make a lot of Eu-USA flights and Boeings would have to do a long expensive southern route.
Boeing has just screwed Canada over with a 50% duty on Bombardier and Airbus has just take Bombardier under its wing...
seems like a bloody good idea.
Hey want to invest in my French startup - it processes data.
Cool, am I allowed to buy shares?
Will you be able to IPO?
If you are sucessfull, will you be able to sell the company ?
Will the bank lend you money if it isn't allowed to sell assests ?
Are you allowed to choose which customers to work with ?
If the answer to all of the above is: "It depends on the politics of the French government or courts at the time" Then I might just pass