You will probably have to use some kind of technicality to get rid of the IT manager. For my company, it was a combination of things, including the HR manager noticing that the IT manager was only coming into work like 4 hours a day on average (which was used with other circumstantial evidence). However, even after we got rid of that manager, we are still in the process of "hitting rock bottom" as we try to fix years of managing the department like a nation of fiefdoms . . . it is amazing how much damage one incompetent high level manager can do . . .

This is really why IT needs to establish some kind of professional certification like doctors, lawyers, and accountants. It is not so much that you will prevent the incompetent from getting certified (though, certainly, hard testing does help prevent that). However, the main thing is that it creates an incentive for any certificate holder to try to keep their certification (our fired IT manager actually brags about how little work he was doing) and provides employers some leverage ("please help us with a smooth transition or we will report you to your professional organization . . ."). Until then, things will continue to be the wild west, so good luck trying to replace the old sheriff in town . . .

But I really think we could have done this more cheaply, more ethically, and more humanely through a controlled experiment. Call me jaded, but I have absolutely no romantic feelings of nostalgia towards the cold war. It was a time when the timeless "mine is bigger than yours" human defect almost destroyed human civilization.

>you have PhDs mopping floors for a living

Actually, I think there already is a robot for that . . .

Looking forward to when there is a better way to undo accidental mods . . .

>For partisan political advantage. Really? Had nothing to do with a very possible nuclear war apocalypse (which almost happened, from my knowledge, at least once . . .).

>Pathogen research offered no such advantage. Maybe if a version of the Nagasaki or Hiroshima bombings were to occur with pathogen research, you would start to see some more protests. Humans are not very good at understanding risks, such that it can take seeing cities of people perish in unimaginable hell before they actually care enough to get involved.

The rest of your post gives examples that basically do not even come close to a "global apocalypse." In fact, your post seems more politically motivated than the protests against nuclear war. If nuclear science was also a target, I would consider it as just a casualty of being too closely associated with the very real threat of nuclear war apocalypse at the time. Seems some of the blame for nuclear science getting a bad wrap should go to weaponization and use against large numbers of civilians.

Yes, technically it is only micro . . . until you use it to print a printer, which can print true nano.

We must arm sharks with lasers!

So that you can identify witty responses to stupid posts?

Zidisha allows you to invest directly and collect interest (at the rate you choose, which can be 0%).

Absolutely right. Her primary application is the browser and now she no longer has to worry about losing any files.

For my mom . . . who is in her 70s. Windows should not even be considered for such a demographic.

• Perhaps Amazon is not so profitable because it is a technology firm and is expected to invest in future innovations rather than save profits for large dividends to investors (compare dividend yields).
• Perhaps investors understand that Amazon is in the process of taking over the industry and are willing to weather lower profits now to see significant gains in value later (compare P/E ratios).
• Perhaps brick-and-mortar stores have higher barriers to market so they can charge more monopoly rents than online retailers.

There are many reasons some companies are currently profitable, none of those reasons necessarily mean the company will be profitable in the future, especially when face with disruptive technological trends.

Sorry if you thought there would be something more substantial in the body of this post . . .

Amakudari. And it is a recipe for disaster in every industry that it occurs in. . .