Just doing high-frequency-trading with human FRU's (Field Replaceable Units).

Yep.

That is why when I told my boss I am an independent consultant. I hired him.

Working for him I don't need to do marketing, unless I want to leave. I don't deal with accounts receivable, because they pay me on salary. I still have customers, and vendors, but they may (or may not) work for the same company. My primary clients keep me around because I resolve their issues, and when the world goes right, I resolve their 'pain points' before they know they are painful.

For that, I reduced my overhead to the point where I can still live on what compensation I get. It still MUST be more than my cost of living or I will fire them as a customer and go and get another customer or more.

He didn't like my 'attitude'. That is OK, I didn't like his.

Eventually I left for non-job reasons. But it was a relief. I always hated working with/for difficult customers. A boss with a bad attitude is a bad customer.

Vague, IMHO, includes being overly inclusive. Sarbox-Oxly's reason for being is to reduce the amount of obfuscation of 'bad' business activities, and to allow forensic auditing of the processes. -- After having to help implement SARBOX (short hand for the act) processes, it does allow easy over reaching by investigators at the cost of business being able to profit from their efforts. After being in business for years, I see the need for some, but at one time at lest the SARBOX fear to keep business from working was worse than the activities it was trying to prevent. ... Just my opinion.

Because if they had Marty McFly change it, there would be a quantum shift in the space time continum. Now if the darn thing didn't take 1.21gigawatts to run...

And those that do get the job can't possibly qualify unless they are lieing to the bosses. Somthing I refused to do. I suffered, and the potential employers suffered as a result. At one time, we (as a nation) looked for highly qualified and trainable candidates, now there is zero training budget and you are EXPECTED to be fully functional in the new proprietary environment before you start. IMHO, the best companies should hire reasonably good and trainable people, invest in them with training and OTJ experience (depending on the situation). This will allow them with 'minimal' additional expense (and lower wage rates possibly) to keep qualified people longer, builds employee loyalty, and allows bringing up employees in the way the company wants. Especially with continuing training, on a regular basis, the employee becomes more valuable to the employer, and the employee will have closer ties to the employer. One example: SAS Institute in Cary NC has proven this true over and over again. People almost never quit, and their profit per employee is very high. It doesn't happen immediately or in one quarter, but it will happen if there is a good, sustainable business case, and good base people to employ.

Because we, through our rep's (the govt) have given them the right to do it as part of the license we agreed to when we first licensed the spectrum portions to them. Yes, we are changing the rules mid stream in general, but this written 'in stone' license seems to be harder to change due to the possible monetary consequences to current licensees.

Cable and DSL/whatever is about 3 miles or less from here, and has been for over 10 years. Neither the phone company or either cable provider wants to service us. Even dialup over hardwire lines is limited to 22Kbps (with good working, high quality 56K modems) due to bad copper in the ground. So our main internet is satellite that costs a huge amount (10G / mo for $50 US, and $10/G additional). -- Your taxes to 'bring broadband internet to the rural community' aren't working here. -- We have mainly 2G cell service, AT&T or Sprint mostly, Verison if you go to the top of the hill and stand on a picnic table. All this within 25 miles of a 'major US city' (Nashville, not to major but still not to small).

Same here. In the past I got 30 to 50 a day too. ... At times I go through the spam folder find a few 'false positives', and for those that have a 'cancel' option I do try them. By doing that, I have significantly reduced my spammail, still get a few chinese language spams (oriental letters).

for another 'world apology tour' like he did just before and just after he was coronated the first time. It seem that this Hussein has take the mantle of power a little to seriously.

UNIX was a 'small, lightweight' system with small utilities surrounding it to perform specific tasks. Not a large monolithic monstrosity? It may be time to look into BSD instead of Linux as a stable ecosystem. Change for a reason that is well demonstrated is one thing, change for the sake of change is another. This sounds like change looking for a reason to be.

I just couldn't pass by saying this one. Even networks were not compatible at one time. IMHO, this compatibility can be addressed by having an open standard for minimal communication interface, and allow some folks that know how and can do the secure communication ( I have seen and worked with the SWIFT network. It is very secure an could be used for data transmission or store and forward. It is used internationally for banking now. It is a private network set up by banks based in Beljum, and is very secure IMHO. see https://www.swift.com/ for information on their products. I am just a happy former user. It ain't cheap, it is good.)

Not evidence, but my wife runs an employer provided and 'professionally maintained' laptop. She never had a BSOD on her XP laptop, this Win7 machine has had 2 BSOD incidents in the last 2 days.

Her use is strictly business and no 'roaming' on the internet for non-business. Her home machine is a fun only box (personally owned PC). Still XP. Never had a BSOD that was not explained by 3rd party utility software (patches from the vendor fixed).

yes, still anecdotal not sufficient for 'hard proof' evidence.

Lawyers, hairdressers, and politicians. ... Even an adventure for a raft of those on welfare! (it sounds ugly, but they might/could become more productive in a different environment.)

You could bring any number larger than one breed pair, a few extra women, and a supply of 'male samples' to impregnate them once arriving. Even some already fertilized eggs to be implanted for surrogates. That would be more economic than taking that many people. I guess we could go full on and try artificial wombs, but that is getting a little to sci-fi even for me. Still the need for supplies until the colony could be big enough to be self sustaining is an significant logistics issue.

If it is the law, follow the law. If folks don't like the law, change the law then follow it.