Comment Re:Ironic? (Score 0) 756
"Never go up against a Sicilian when Death is on the line!!" - Vizzini, shortly before making a loud 'thump' and falling dead.
"Never go up against a Sicilian when Death is on the line!!" - Vizzini, shortly before making a loud 'thump' and falling dead.
No mod points, but +1. The Saturn V was like early railroad companies, which often only built a single track along a route. While it was cheaper, it significantly constrained schedules and made travel along those routes more expensive. The Saturn V was another single-track effort; once it was established as the de facto technology, the costs of altering the technology were too high to contemplate.
Sigh. We silly monkeys. We need to learn long-term thinking....
Causal Domain Shear? Oh noes....but Orolo will be very pleased.
I wish I had mod points for this. Exactly right.
I'd like to think you're right, but I've worked in the corporate woods long enough to have been involved in discovery on more than one fraudulent scheme.
The dumb frauds are perpetrated by marketing people and executives. They divert stuff to transparently false locations and expect no one to notice.....and get caught and fired.
The smart frauds....well, they don't often get caught. But I've seen a few which took painstaking assembly of data over time - managers doing a round-up-round-down scheme where many small amounts get posted to an account where they have discretion (the modern equivalent of petty cash), or a technical manager playing with interdepartment chargebacks to add to their budget (which, it must be granted, went to bonuses for his staff).
Intelligence isn't necessarily an indicator or guarantee of ethical behavior.
In the US, almost all employees are 'at-will', which is to say that you can be dismissed without the employer being required to provide a reason.
I did this for years, and now I'm a contractor. I'm a W2 for a contracting company which is very, very good to its staff.
They encourage us to take our vacations.
And if we wind up working for a company which wants access to us while we're on vacation, they've got a policy that every call while on vacation is paid by the hour on top of vacation pay, at a slight premium rate, plus the vacation hours back. So if I wind up working on vacation, I get:
- vacation hours paid for worked hours
- premium paid time for those hours
- a refund on vacation time (e.g., 4 hours worked = refund of 4 hours of vacation).
Because tech staff are at a premium, this works - and the consultancy is very much able to say, with a straight face, that they work on behalf of their staff. No one likes getting called on vacation, but if it's going to happen, make it a costly choice for the caller.
It's a nice idea that fraud can be prevented by out of office time, but anyone who's smart enough to commit ongoing fraud is smart enough to script the tasks so they go on without apparent input....
Without question. They're not overdedicated. They're scared, they're afraid that you'll terminate them for daring to take time for themselves.
Didn't you read the article?
+1
The article summary should not refer to the court as a "Massachusetts court." That means a STATE court of Massachusetts. This is a FEDERAL APPEALS COURT which just happens to be located in Boston.
What if they just bought half the music industry, fixed it, then massacred the other half in the market place? That other half would soon change their ways to become competitive, given no other choice.
I have to ask what "fixing it" means. Because if it means making less money, then artists don't have a good financial incentive to sign on with Google's label and that would very quickly lead to the collapse of Google's music label.
Have you reconsidered a computer career?
