it is doubtful that the wrench was used a the sole tool for some important fix.

Given that the "wrench" was really a socket driver (or so it appears from the pic), no, it wasn't the sole tool - the socket must've been up there.

Note the label on the driver, by the by 3 inch-pounds torque. It's a wrench for a very delicate piece of equipment, looks like.

Oh, and I can well believe they didn't have a torque wrench on hand for something like that. Not like you need a 3 inch-pound wrench all that often....

I expect to be downmodded to the lowest level of turtles, but I think it is the idea of since today, dancing is quite popular, and that if they can get young girls to think that programmers dance all day, they might decide to become programmers.

I mean Beyonce is a programmer right?

BYOB.

Bring your own body-guard.

Plus, nothing ever got done before the intertoobz. It was impossible.

So the bean counters and shareholders can check up on them and make sure they are serving them in the cheapest and most profitible way possible?

Then later the IOTs can control your refrigerator and stove for maximum efficiency.

1. Find out what the Democrats want to do.

2. Denounce and oppose it.

I was only clarifying what someone else said. Never said I agreed with it.

What database are you using? Sqlite? OpenOffice Base?

Maybe you've heard of "the cloud"? It lets you do this nifty thing where you rent servers by the hour - quite cheaply, too. Other companies manage to handle holiday surges just fine. Need, say, an extra 1,000 servers for a day? Won't even be that expensive.

Presumably, it was enough of a selective factor among mastodon hunters that they tended to breed people tough enough to be stepped on by a mastodon and live to tell the tale?

Thought not.

Not enough people get into auto accidents, much less die of them, to have much impact on whatever traits are being selected for via natural selection.

They did the same with the old Forest-Fire (USS Forrestal) when it came time to turn it into razor blades....

And there are Commodore 64s on ebay for $50. This thing is clearly crazy overpriced.

Note that $500 is about 300 pounds - right in line with the story. And smaller cities in Zhejiang typically are 20-30% less than the Shanghai area. I know in Suzhou my factories tend to pay around 2500 RMB for a 1-2 year experienced worker, with performance bonuses adding up to 1000 RMB on top of that.

Really? I think you don't know China, nor do you do any business there. Zhejiang has the highest minimum wage, and it peaks in Ningbo at 1550 RMB per month (this information is out of date a bit, but pretty close to current conditions). That's 160 pounds sterling. Given that only inexperienced/brand new workers will earn minimum wage, the range of 200 to 300 pounds sterling is completely understandable and expected (that's about 2000 to 3000 RMB per month).

Additionally, new sales staff/office trainees in places like Shanghai run about 3500 RMB per month (low-level white collar) and a fresh acoustical engineering grad from the University of Nanjing (top Chinese school) in the top 10% of his class earns 4500 RMB (about 450 pounds sterling) per month. A very experienced (8 year) office manager with excellent English skills and 5 years experience working for Western companies earns 8000 RMB per month. How do I know? I just returned 4 days ago from Shanghai, where I signed contracts for all those positions.

Factory workers in China in the East rarely start at more than minimum wage. 1500 to 2000 RMB is a very good starting wage, and line bosses/leads may earn double that amount. Well below your 5000 RMB per month minimum salary.

1) var x = how many Likes someone is getting

2) var y = how often people bitch about that person in private messages

3) Ratio of Candy Crush ads for that person = y/x

There, FB now has a sufficient explanation.