Posts by Doctor Syntax 42029 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
"I am not sure how they determined it was a homicide without information from the autopsy being released."
To some extent it's their job to assume the worst. At the very least a missing person is something to be investigated as is a sudden death once the body turns up. As there is at least the possibility of homicide arresting the most likely suspect would be a precaution. Note also that he was released, suggesting that until the full PM results are in it's an open case.
"and will need people to do work and make their investment profitable"
No. Modern management practice is to keep firing people year after year. The fact that they do the actual work is of no consequence. It cuts costs in the next quarter. The wise heads in the stock markets nod approvingly and increase the price. The execs get bonuses based on this. The is proceeds until the company is unable to function but by that time the execs have gone to spend more time with their money and everyone in the stock markets say what a dog that company was.
There are extra bonus points for the bankers if they can catch the company, put it into administration, buy it out again, leaving its creditors to absorb the losses, load it up with even more debt (the driving force of all this for the banks is to load it up with debt and collect the interest).
Nothing in this does any good at all for employment. Any work that has to be done will be ousourced. Expect the outsourcers to be amongst the disappointed creditors.
It's not so much what drives the circulation as the fact that on Earth the disparity between wet and dry parts of the atmosphere is driven by the underlying distribution of water, land and even the relief of that land which, together with the pattern of circulation, determines precipitation and hence removal of water from the atmosphere. It's easy to see a mechanism for the removal of water. In comparison such variations on a gas giant look odd. And in science the most interesting comment isn't "that's obvious"; it's "that's odd".
As per your example: the mixed atmosphere on Earth is due to the fact that an almost (but thankfully not completely) negligible atmosphere is circulating over a large solid body with an irregular surface partly covered in water. But how does a gas giant come to be so irregular?
I remember a case from about then. Not what you'd call a supermarket but a privately owned shop big enough to employ several staff. The owner couldn't have been keeping close enough watch on his accounts as it was either his accountant of bank who warned him. Surveillance cameras went in and worked out that several staff were working together. The cashier would wipe her hand along her thigh which looked innocent enough until you realised she'd palmed a note and the action rolled it up. The note was then deftly passed to another member of staff who just happened to walk by.
"If you think your country sees them any differently, you should probably take an economics course."
Economics? Try law, because that's where how a country sees companies is expressed. And one of the provision in UK law is that at least one director has to be a natural person. UK law distinguished between companies as persons and actual real human beings as persons. Your rhetoric might sound great but sometimes you have to look at facts.
Legislators do actually like to have someone on whom to come down like a ton of bricks.. UK company law, for example requires that at least one director is a natural person. I'd be very surprised that US legislation doesn't have that provision. The responsibilities of the directors under UK law include a requirement to act within the company's constitution and that is a set of documents registered with Companies House who aren't going to accept a declaration that the company is going to act outside that law, The legislation also makes reference to common law responsibilities. It also makes reference to offences being committed by the company and any officer in default. You'll also find other legislation putting officers of the company on the line, for instance the current DPA sticks closely to GDPR and does just that.
I've probably been on this planet longer than you and certainly long enough to have spent a decade or so as a company director. Whilst the above might not have been a day-to-day concern it was one to be kept in mind.
"single track, with multiple blind, right-angle bends...The speed limit is NSL (60mph)"
Even more interesting I have a road like that - not actually single track but narrow. For a vehicle depending on this sign reading it would be NSL coming from one directions and 30mph from the other.
The Lib-Dems' problem was that their supporters were largely protest voters. For them it wouldn't matter what the party's policies were, it just enabled them to wash decry whatever the government did because, left or right, they hadn't voted for it. When Clegg made the entirely responsible decision to go into a coalition they threw a collective wobbler because the party they'd voted for now had to deal with real situations and make real and hard choices.
"The US and the UK are suffering from the same political nightmare"
Ultimately, the US's political nightmare is to combine Head of Government with Head of State. They have no excuse for that because by the time they became independent separating them more or less accomplished in Britain.
It needs to be SOP everywhere that the moment a head of government leaves office an investigation starts to look for any criminal activity in their conduct in office and in the run up to it. Any offences should be pursued through the normal criminal courts, not by a political process such as impeachment. And, of course, attempts by the current govt to influence the investigation of the previous one will in turn be looked at.
And there was I reading into it things like the EU seting out to even up things in regard to the US giants (although excluding fiat seems to make that a non-starter) and generally doing bits to protect citizens and thinking "what a pity we've lost out on that". But then I rather suspect that that's the way Cummings and his glove puppets want it.
