Posts by M.V. Lipvig 2081 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Feb 2019
Start putting in the contracts that repairs must be completed within 5 days of notification of the repair need, or within 6 days of the first attempt to notify, or the contractor starts paying penalties. Does not matter how large or how small the job is. Penalty is 10 percent of the purchase price for the equipment per day, minimum 10,000 per day. Or, the contractor has the option of putting it in the contract allowing the military to make its own repairs.
Yes, but no. Yes, Europe has to comply on the tariffs because they are on a physical product. No, Europe would not have to comply if a US citizen accessed something on the Euronet if the Euro site used nothing in the US. It would not matter if half the transaction took place in the US if the US side was the customer. It would only matter if the European company had US based equipment.
Almost. They push projections out further than popping time. They want to get their profits and line up bag holders before the bubble pops, but also want to be out early enough that someone else gets the blame. If the.prediction is late 2027, the balloon blows early 2027 and we'll see a lot of CEOs moving on by Christmas 2026. The new guy will be in the saddle just long enough to own what happens and if he tries blaming the current bunch, "Hey man, it was fine when we turned it over to you LAST YEAR!"
was very heavily biased to the left. Snopes, for example, is not an even handed, objective website. They just say they are. I also same the same sort of BS trying to convince me to vote for Biden, and later Harris, that I was from people trying to convince me to vote for Trump.
The truth is usually somewhere in the middle, but question them all, not just the ones that challenge your viewpoint. The ones that agree with your viewpoint are just as twisted, and not to be trusted.
"All because the Chinese government didn't consider what the impact of a one child policy would have when taken in conjunction with the established cultural expectations put on the child."
I disagree with this - I think China knew exactly what they were doing. They want Taiwan, and their one child policy resulted in about a million excess males to be born. Result - a million man army ready to be deployed, without destroying the population balance after the war is over. It doesn't matter if they haven't follower through on the planz but it is a way to plan ahead for war.
It's possible. The financial industry paid to install a specific fiber route from Chicago to New York that is as short as physically possible, and I used to work for a company that had the contract to maintain it. The fiber's route is so straight that it's almost as though someone laid a long section of fiber between the cities and pulled until it was straight. There's also specific, stripped down fiber equipment on the span that runs at its max distance between repeaters, and has no overhead or error checking to get latency as low as possible. They also throw a friggin' fit when it goes down. There's one guy in the US that knows how it works and we called that guy when it's down. No matter who else that guy works for, he dropped everything when we called. And, he never shared anything - he'd just call back and tell us to send a tech with "this" card, and have the tech call him when he arrived. Then he'd call back to say it was fixed. Wall Street is a single car accident away from losing that link.
Except, using a chatbot is doing exactly that. Where you are going wrong is assuming the kid is the creator; he is the consumer. The AI bot is the creator, and you can rest assured that there will be ads associated in there somewhere which is the money making aspect.
A franchise agreement would not work, as a franchise is legally tied to the franchisee and therefore can be compelled.
About the only way it could work is if the software were made open source, then forked. How likely is it that any of these US companies would be willing to do that? Face it, Europe will either have to grow their own or suck that d*** when their candy man says get on yer knees.
I'm really hoping Europe grows their own before we all get Borged.
You can make more selling to millions of poor people making a dollar a head than you can selling to a few rich people at 10,000 a head. The idea here is likely "these poors invested a lot of time and (for them) a lot of money so they won't have a choice. They'll just have to keep buying even if we raise prices and sell subscriptions."
I think they've started torpedoing their business customers as well. Those who deal in a lot of protected IP are howling, and governments are starting to move away from them over security issues.
The coffin will be firmly nailed with a power hammer once larger governments move away, then start telling companies they contract through that they are not allowed to use M$ in anything related to the government contracts.
Go all in on AI, let AI do all the work, then submit the product - and when The Boss asks why it failed, "One moment Boss - AI, why did the product you designed fail? Oh. Sorry Boss, AI says the product is a resounding success and anyone who says otherwise is a company saboteur who should be reported to the authorities. Hello, police?"
I don't see spacesuit incompatibility as being an issue, when they could send an unmanned ship up with, wait for it...
wait for it...wait for it...
... extra spacesuits that are compatible. It's a rescue ship, and the taikos would not be expected to perform intricate repairs while wearing them so, as long as they more or less fit and were airtight they'd have been fine.
That's what happens when you sell your company to California liberals. Suddenly the words are changes to the "superior" American spelling, because what do the English know about spelling English words anyway?
I'll get me coat and hat, as my account will probably now be deleted for being SLIGHTLY negative about California liberals.
And that is ironic, for the companies who ignore the shareholders and take proper care of their customers make money every quarter like clockwork. Those who don't have bursty profits then start spiraling down.
M$ is hitting the top of the spiral now. I've used M$ since 3.1 days, and while I occasionally grumbled I stayed. Why? Because it worked and I'm inherently lazy. I'm no programmer techie, just a user. Win10 was a tipping point though - the never ending updates, the constant need to put setting back like I had them, constantly having to find where those setting are hiding now, M$ finally made their OS suck enough that I put in the work necessary to move to Mint. If a lazy old man like myself is willing to leave, they're not long for this world.
Because every update resets the data inhalation settings to "Yes please." It's hard to hoover when the plug is pulled. They do this because they know that eventually people will fet tired of having to go back every other day to turn those setting back off and will stop doing it. When that happens, the data harvest is no longer called on account of rain.
40 year bonds? I'll be shocked and amazed if that company is still in business in 5 years. The kids left for cooler pastures, the grandparents are dying off, and the droid running the place keeps spending billions trying to convince people to move into little life support beds and live in his virtual world.
The prank I remember was to call someone and tell them you're with Bell, and that you would be working on the line for the next half hour and that no matter how many times the phone rang, they were not to answer it or the technician would be electrocuted.
About 20 minutes later, you call back. When they answer, you start screaming into the phone.
In SATCOM we'd send the privates out for rolls of orderwire. Now I think about it, we should have been getting orderwire spikes to tie the orderwire to. Could also have been sending them out for boxes of spectrum to top up the spectrum analyzers as well.
I work for a global telecom and quite a lot of our equipment uses admin/password for administrative access to the machine. Supposedly it's all safe behind the VPN.
My own password is LiberalsLoveTrump#1. The criminals might be able to guess it, but being criminals they'll never be able to make themselves type it.
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