Close. But no banana.
I once thought like you did. Then I thought : if you canâ(TM)t beat em, join em. So I got an MBA. A good MBA recognises value, profit being a good measure. But not the only measure.
No, the real problem is the Blackrocks, the Vangaurd investment funds, etc. The ones that probably have your pension savings. They have an incredible thirst. Growth or profits. Preferably both. Dollars or die.
Well, if you'd just managed to study "Veteran and Vintage Vehicles" at the Academy, like you were supposed to, this wouldn't have happened.
C'mon K9.
Copyright is broken.
That doesn't mean it isn't useful, but it needs a total and utter re-think.
From treatment of abandon-ware, to geo-pricing, to excessive terms and lack of registration. And probably a bunch of others.
Sadly, if such a rethink ever came to pass, it would be dominated by monied interests. Common sense would leave the conversation at the moment the first bundle of cash was passed around the table.
So, they will add in two new team members to a working party every week. Only one of which has even heard of electricity.
In response to the lack of progress, the managers will make the customers train the newbies. And they will all need to work stupid hours while accomplishing nothing.
Repeat next week with three or 4 new members, but two from two weeks ago have quit (and are now marketing themselves as having vast industry experience). Meh.
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I mean it's not like the big companies (wherever based), don't do that anyway.
At a fundamental level I would say you are right. It is a human right to have decent levels of education and health care. However, that same society should demand AND GET a decent return of taxes. None of this double Irish-Dutch Luxembourg sandwich.
No, problem exists because I am a completionist. I've read one book in a series, gotta read 'em all. Good, Bad, or *&#*/&( atrocious. Much easier to read when the ALL books are good ones. Sadly, this has never, ever been true.
There are plenty of e-ink readers out there that are NOT Kindles. If you had read the article, that's what they're targeting.
I personally have a couple of Kindles. One for Everyday and Sunday best. (or, throwing in my rucksack without a thought). I agree that glare and the temptation of being distracted doesn't help reading on a phone or tablet. E-ink and a good screen work great.
Had no problem avoiding renting books. Sideloading everything. Calibre makes making your ebook trivial.
However, with Amazon and all other devices that phone home, I am always worried about an update that removes that feature. So, by default, it is on Airplane mode until I checkout that an update hasn't nixed that feature.
Yes to the above AND if you are doing 996 you will have someone working for you to let you do that. A cook, a gardner, a nanny, a PA, a personal stylist. You are not needing to do anything else for yourself. Unless you are a the big C level, you can not afford that. I donâ(TM)t and wonât.
I'm not selling my soul to Meta, so I'm never going to get them.
Also, have an unusual prescription to correct my vision
I'm sure these are solutions in search of a problem. Really, just cannot see a compelling use case. Driving, we have HUD. I can only think remote support diagnostic. There is a hands on, on-site but not a subject matter expert. Think Antarctic station or Space level remote.
"This god damn pod bay door won't open"
"Have you tried turning off your HAL-9000 and on again?"
Why? Sounds like the best one Meta could afford?
Mumble, mumble
Ok, not MY browser history.
Is anybody doing this, and NOT blowing away the disk, these days? I mean, easy migration rather than start from scratch would help a lot of potential members of the Linux community.
Under-investment
The other half is sorting out the perverse tax incentives that favour cars and trucks. A level playing field for all modes of transport.
Remove the tax incentives . I am not saying impose NEW taxes, just make ALL car and truck use the same.
Case in point: In Australia, all Diesel purchases are taxed. However, farmers may directly claim that back. And the Diesel fuel excise it fed directly back in to roads. However, who is the single biggest purchaser of Diesel fuel? In the state of Victoria, that would be the regional train network.
In fact, that's highly representative of the thinking of modern governments. The train network needs the diesel because they can't fund the capital intensive electrification, and end up paying more for the fuel they do use. Which is is then fed back in to the competition.
My guess is that nearly every country has these types of stories. Many, many times.
And then I would fix the accounting around road-building as well. That's a classic case of where the costs are socialised, but the profits are privatised. Full cost recovery for the road network - you know that means tolling. Even the little ones. Suddenly, the rail networks of the world don't look so expensive anymore. This being politically impossible in some countries means it will be a footnote to an asterix to a spec of dust in history.
Riddle me this.
Why is Visual Basic still up there?
Is VBA still a BIG thing? I guessed it was still a thing but disappearing down its own DIM statement.
Or Visual Basic, part of Visual Studio?
Hate to break it to you, but cash in any volume isnâ(TM)t free. It might be free at the time it is received or point BUT â¦
Buy a safe? Arrange a secure delivery or pickup? Go to the bank with cash to make bill payments? Evaporation due to theft/fraud/counterfeiting? All costs of cash.
Money costs. Not having money costs more. No money at all costs most.
When outsourcing IT (I can't talk about other business functions), it has often been that not only does the lowest bidder wins, but the C-Suite then wash their hands of IT and consider the job done.
And that's the kicker.
What comes back to hurt the company in the end is:
- IT often is the only record of business knowledge accross business functions (eg, the how and why things are done. Often, the company is in such a rush to demonstrate the unicorn-like savings that the IT are out before the new guys come in.
- New requirements cost money. No external provider is going to do something that costs money or takes more time for free. Suddenly C-suite farts into a bottle cost actual money, so don't get implemented. Sadly, new requirements like challenge-response identity verification (secret questions), get left of the table.
- Performance metrics, as measured externally (to the service provider) cost money, and rely on someone knowing (a) what to measure (b) how to measure it and (c) how that relates to the service provided. So, see all of above, mostly doesn't get done.
Sigh. IT Outsourcing is a great way to bring in skills in the short term. It can even take over specific functions. But you need to retain internal control with someone that knows what the service delivers. It is never going to serve a business well to outsource the whole function.
To summarise the summary: You need to pay the going rate for someone that cares and goes a good job, or you are going to have a lot of grief. Pay peanuts, get hacked.
10 to the 6th power Bicycles = 2 megacycles
