That won't work because there's lots of wild animals that would smell the food as well. You lose a mine, and your entire minefield, in short order.

Come on, man, this is Slashdot. Since when do the comments ever have anything to do with the article?

That's the part that has me curious. Presumably, there would be persistent inventory reconciliation errors reflecting more sales of low-priced Lego kits than they had in stock.

But multiple errors across multiple periods? That too should have made a few people suspicious.

I think you mean to send Sam Magee

Whatever the arguments of this post, the statement that 4 people working 50 hours equals 5 people working 40 hours doesn't work.

Costs of health insurance and other items that are incurred for each employee don't extend to working more hours. Such costs run at least 25 percent and can be as much as 40 percent. And as just one more example, consider the costs of finding and hiring that next employee.

Before you start extrapolating how to spread work across more employees, consider the added costs of hiring that next person. This is why companies are reluctant to incur those costs until they are sure those costs will be recovered over the long term.

You have a point, but not ALL of our stuff sucks. Same thing with beer; if you look at the small producers, we have some pretty good stuff.

Didn't see it in TFA, but I half suspect them of keeping the physical disks as they "upgrade" you to be able to see the streaming movie.

So let's start up eBook only publisher, containing only the staff needed to assist the Ebook author. No typesetting, warehouses, printers, or distribution chains to the mortar shops. Then we can price the book to cover our costs and profits for both us and the author.

The author can then negotiate two separate publication deals, one for the ebook version and one for the paper version.

Most likely, a third person will be required, who will be paid to shill the book and get the book tour going.

What we really need are a few consumers, hopefully as a class-action, to cross-sue both sides, claiming that these are indeed sales (and thus resurrecting the first-sale doctrine).

Maybe we can get a judgment to decide the issue once and for all. It's merely icing on the cake to watch the RIAA take both positions simultaneously.

AT&T's records are accurate. The problem is that all those computers are loaded with applications that keep checking for updates every 30 seconds. Tthat's what's chewing up all the bandwidth.

"Left-wing..." who love the "no borders" globalization, with "no worker safety protection laws, and zero environmental protection laws." Man, I must have my politics mixed up; that sounds totally Republican to me. Either that, or you simply blame the other side for everything and your beloved party for nothing.

This is from the first page of the Conservative Playbook: Invent a "clever" twist of a name to demean one's opponent, giggle while patting one's self on the back and never, never, actually debate any merits of an argument.

I commented on much the same thing immediately after you posted it, but I have to disagree with you at the conclusion. This was not a work product that will be relied upon to construct anything. It would be different story if NCDOT accepted the calculations as-is and incorporated them into their engineering study, or if they were submitted for that purpose. Instead, I believe the purpose is to demonstrate that NCDOT's study was flawed as a "correct" study would have come to a different conclusion, and an argument for that purpose - a policy argument - should not require a PE stamp, as the recipients are free to evaluate the merits of the argument separate from their value in determining the validity from an engineering purpose.

My posted argument was that Mr. Lacy suspects that someone in his department did the calculations and he wants hang that guy by his feet.

"I'm not trying to hush him up."

I believe Mr. Lacy; that his real motive is that he suspects someone in his department assisted with the calculations, and he wants to shut him up by requiring that whatever engineer did the calculations reveal themselves so they can be fired.

I remember there was a similar mindset for a while: "No one ever got fired for choosing IBM."

I wrote them off when I was choosing some small accounting software back in the mid 80s and the damned software couldn't even display decimals, all the money had to input in pennies. When we decided to go with other software, that was the salesman's last ditch plea.