Posts by Eff Flintstone

Midwest tornado destroys Amazon warehouse, killing six after worker 'told not to leave'

Re: Corporate manslaughter?

Interesting post, spoiled by:

- cherry-picking a single event from nearly 100 years ago, rather than showing the trends for the last 100 years

- mentioning The Economist (without actual citation) as a source of scientific data

Both of those suggest an agenda rather than knowledgable or scientific information.

UK government has 'no clear plan' for replacing ageing legacy IT estate, MPs report

Re: None at all @John Robson

"Do you think that Boris personally manages the maintenance and migration away from that ICL mainframe, or do you think that might perhaps be managed by a civil service IT professional?"

The difference between BloJo and an actual leader is the difference between:

- "Do some stuff. Waffle waffle... IT... world-beating... exponential... fight this battle... crush the enemy..."

[pauses to check metaphor cliche list]

and:

- "Here is a list of IT items I'm aware of. Please provide your thoughts so we can agree a priority list and plan"

Academics horrified that administration of Turing student exchange scheme outsourced to Capita

Re: How do they do it?

"The rules - conveniently - don't allow past performance on other contracts to be taken into account. If they did then clearly Crapita would have gone under years ago."

More likely that the rules would have been rewritten years ago.

Renting IT hardware on a subscription basis is bad for customers

Re: Confused

>It not that difficult. The motion (paraphrased) is "renting is bad"

>FOR - the author thinks renting is bad

>AGAINST - the author thinks renting is good

Hmmm. Perhaps it is more difficult than you assumed.

From your statements I'm unclear about whether you are saying that:

(1)

FOR means that renting is bad

AGAINST means that renting is good

or

(2)

FOR means that the author of the article thinks that renting is bad

AGAINST means that the author of the article thinks that renting is good

From the article I think the vote is about whether renting is good or bad - option (1).

I think that your statement says option (2).

Magnanimous Apple will allow people to fix their iPhones using parts bought from its Self Service Repair program

"Definitely sounds like a step in the right direction."

Sounding like a step in the right direction is the marketing objective.

Not being one is the business model.

Plus ça Change.