I know it is in jest, but that is actually illegal per the Constitution. "The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States." Not necessarily a toll or random inspections, but you can't treat it like its a border of the country or someone is going to take it to the Supreme Court and likely win.

There is a reason why IBM sold their PC business, Dell went private, and HP is selling theirs off. PC production shrinking and too competitive. The need will always be there, but the margin is like running a convenience store. They are sending it off to "die". But only die in the wall street sense.

Packard Bell

I am CS and no languages were required. CS is about theory which goes into types of languages. Schools that teach CS by teaching a language are teaching tech, not science. But not all CS are tech.

Do it for any reason other than being "uncompetitive". What the heck is so "uncompetitive"?

They require me to wear clothes at work. Should they reimburse me for that?

How can you assume the hot air is warmer but the cold air isn't? That is the fallacy of the argument.

High school math should include classes on algebra, geometry, logic, and calculus. Logic should be treated as a class in an of itself...not a second class citizen. It can include the math side, as well as interpreting statistics, verbal phrases (politicians/news), etc...

So seemingly innocent misuse of pills to feel better, kills more people in the US than mass gun shootings?

And it should be included alongside the science of Sasquatch and Ghosts. Interesting concepts, but not verified. And go over why they are not falsifiable.

That is what happens when you have autonomous public companies. Most of Jersey City works this way, including trash collection, parking authority, etc... Everything but the police and fire departments. And guess what? Jersey City is like 90% Democrat.

This isn't a party issue. It is an issue with autonomous public companies. A company is either private or public. And guess what? Public companies are the ones that need most of the regulating. They are the ones raking profits that are not checked by other companies, since they were granted monopolies. The only check is to vote for someone else to appoint a new leader of the autonomous public company. But that never changes anything, because no one can overcome the power of free money when they are put in that position.

Where else does the leader of the parking authority making $250K a year? Yes, the leader of the group of people that issue parking permits and drive around ticketing people. The leader...not the one doing it.

They could have all meters reporting into a central database and have a computer make sure the end-point meters are showing the same values as multiple distribution point meters. The more distribution/split point meters, the more quickly a leak could be narrowed down.

I'm sure they've thought of this. They just don't want to do it, because there is not motivation to do it. They probably have no liability for explosions on public property.

It just has private investigations into waste.

Well, a lot of people and institutions can't handle tech...government being one of those. With competition, at least when one fails someone else could theoretically pick up the slack. Government solutions suffer from the same problem monopolistic solutions suffer. Sure, they can do it cheaper, but without any competition in place, how do you keep prices and quality in check, let alone know they are out-of-whack?

If that is the way your pay is structured. When it is, I see most employees charging 40 hrs regardless of whether they worked 36 or 44 hours. It is disheartening. Not to mention it completely screws up the metrics.

When a manager tells me to charge 40 when I work 48, I refuse. If they want to hit their budget/numbers, then I usually work in a paid day off, because they can't stomach reporting the actual numbers. I had one that tried to force me. I took it to the ethics department. It was squashed immediately.