~ newly freed pervs ~
Not all SOs are perverts.
Take a leak in an alley when you're 15? You can get on the list.
Get a little drunk at a football game your freshman year and decide to streak across the field? You can get on the list.
~ it's right up there with the theory of gravity. I want to see these bozos go roof-side and test that one out for us.
The High Prophet Tim Minchin said it best (NSFW).
I'm pretty sure the guy at the top was in on the ruse too.
By your comment, I'm pretty sure you've never worked a contract for government at a high level.
For a reality-based perspective, understand that silos are DEATH to most projects, and government structures are ALL SILOS. The fact that every single one of the "senior political figures" refused (make no mistake--it is always an active decision) is just par for the course.
So, how to change this? There are two key policies that must be implemented from the top:
1) The career of anyone who lies or fails to report bad news up the chain to those who need it is over, regardless of that person's position.
2) The reporting of bad news is to be treated as a problem to be solved, not an issue with the messenger (or the person who caused it).
Example: at a major metropolitan newspaper, a tech made a mistake and rm -rf * the website's home directory. He immediately reported it up the chain and the team dropped everything and worked on restoring the files. They then sat down and discussed how to mitigate the problem so that human error could not cause the same situation or how it could be restored quicker when it happened again. No retaliatory action was taken against the tech.
Hey, it could be your workplace next.
Um, I've been through enough M & As to know that businesses blow out all the time. I could care less, because it just means my commute and officemate wage slaves are going to change.
Whenever I get the memo that we're merging with someone else, that's when I start updating the resume and putting out feelers.
If I time it right, I can pick up the earlybird package before I leave for my next job, but if not, that's okay. The important thing is to get out before the water starts lapping at the Mezzanine deck, because that's when the panic sets in and the company starts prematurely pulling the trigger.
THEY WILL NOT SWITCH. Got to use what you like good for you.
Folks who live on the festering edge of technology will forever be in reactive mode.
They most likely live there because they don't know any better and have become "accustomed" to wearing their hair shirt.
There are a lot of customers of mine that love windows XP and there [sic] blackberrys.
Sure, and when Blackberry goes belly-up, they can suffer through a protracted outage while they scramble for a replacement. Nothing says success like a decision made in fear in panic. Or, they could start their planning and migration now and move as soon as they're ready.
Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.
Except when it comes to buying a car?
Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
Since "convervatives" ARE "champions of big government", please clean out your desks and hit the road.
Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.
Yes, and that includes being able to test drive a car, you cretin.
In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.
Remember your Fountainhead:
Once all the "Takers" are gone, then the "Producers" can frolic in unabashed glory in their new utopia as their products are no longer taken (or consumed) by people who want them.
And THEN the Morlocks will kill and eat all the Eloi.
*sigh* you've never field dressed a drone?
Yeah, duh. The first thing you do is cut its wings off, then clip its fuel line and drain it out before tying it to your hood.
That's exactly how science is supposed to work.
The master said it best:
The young specialist in English Lit, having quoted me, went on to lecture me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the universe at last, and in every century they were proved to be wrong. It follows that the one thing we can say about our modern "knowledge" is that it is wrong.
My answer to him was, "John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."
— Issac Asimov, The relativity of wrong
I used to run my own web site. The modest fees didn't bother me; but the image leaches did.
Translation: "I somehow figured out how to install IIS, and then I forgot how to use google, so I gave up and shut down."
The poor sap is probably chomping at the bit to buy all of his media again when a new format comes out.
Oh, to be a "consumer" instead of a...person.
Use this instead: [pirate bay link]
THIS, and I'll raise you that Spotify should ban their music. There are lots of other equally-or-more-talented musicians who would kill for a chance at exposure.
I'm sure Ministry of Sound would be happy getting their stuff played exclusively on ClearChannel FM and/or sold at [insert failing big-box 'electronics' store here]. Meanwhile, artists with business knowledge will be out promoting the shit out of their music and making a killing.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion
