Comment Henry Kissinger - War Criminal (Score 1) 155
There I fixed the headline.
There I fixed the headline.
Yeap.
Back in the dark 80s, before I turned to IT, my Aerospace Engineering professor at a certain Northeastern University/College was a "difficult" grader. His "B-" was an "A". (which I got in two of his courses.) Before I took my 6 required "Aerospace Engineering" minor courses with him, my GPA was 3.85. After him it had fallen to 3.49. I had aced all my physics and math courses prior to his "tough" grading. And even though he relied on Differential Equations a lot (one of my favorite subjects,) his grading was still ridiculous. I only got a B+ from him in Aerospace Design Project, where we designed 2 new passenger jets during the semester.
The year I was graduating, he was replaced with a new professor with a more reasonable grading scale (people getting As when appropriate.) I suspect , with this professor, I would have had a final grade point average around 3.8+ with better job prospects after graduating.
In that time frame, we didn't sign a petition, but the Dean of Engineering still heard our complaints and replaced the professor.
Man, I would bet him $100 Million.
He has no clue.
Plus, there is another point completely missed: Rising Prices. You will get to a point where no one will be able to afford a car, especially an EV. But there are places in America where people STILL have to drive. What will happen then? Just like in Cuba, people will keep old ICE cars running, because that's all they'd be able to afford.
Unless you come to me with $15,000 - $25,000 electric car that everyone can afford and that the utility company comes and installs the charger in your house or Apartment for no cost to you, a 2035 timeline is impossible to meet. That's real life.
Sci-Fi has already proposed this idea decades ago. I can name a dozen books just off the top of my head:
Mother of Storms
Fallen Angels
State of Fear
The Ministry of the Future
The Fifth Season
Forty Signs of Rain
Solar
The Bone Clocks
American War
Memory of Water
Flood
The Problem is that companies are laying off their experienced Programmers and Engineers, the actual people who know the software, believing the next generation will and can understand the complexity.
And that's where they are wrong.
No Foreign Workers until they start hiring back those of us over 50.
Screw Congress.
and
Screw Corporations who lay off people in order to mover their work overseas.
I plan to read this soon! Thanks.
One of my best-friends is a top scientist on this telescope.
I'll ask him what happened.
A "highly skilled IT professional" has lost his fight to be paid his unused vacation days as well as a non-trivial bonus, after a judge stuck to a law he admitted was outdated. Matthew White joined Hewlett-Packard in 2013 and left in July 2015, just months before the company split into HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). After quitting, he was stunned when the US mega-corp, citing HPE's new policies, refused to hand over extra pay he felt was contractually due. Hewlett-Packard had enticed White with a sweet contract that offered a signing bonus, base salary, regular bonuses, and a benefits program. But after he quit, he was left without his unused vacation pay and a $10,000 bonus he felt he was entitled to...HPE decided that, under the law, White could only get hold of the relevant policies if he turned up, in person, to the company's official human resources headquarters – which is on the other side of America in California, roughly 2,500 miles away. White felt this was ridiculous given that HP, sorry, HPE is not only a massive organization with HR people all over the United States, but that it was a technology company with countless employees working across the world, often at home, and that the policies are likely readily available in an internal cloud. The judge had some sympathy for that view. "This part of the statute may indeed need reworking for today’s world where cloud-based digital records are replacing physical file folders located in a physical location, where employees work at home – sometimes remotely from any head office or regional office – and where worldwide companies like HP assign HP personnel for an entire country or region, or even outsource various HP responsibilities."
Have to pay Greece?
What do you know about Greece's problems?
Zero.
So, your comment has no basis in fact and should be down-voted.
Agreed. I wish I had mod points today.
Biggest issue is that the corporations are in it for the money.
How did this screed from an Amazon insider get upvoted like this?
I found this illuminating:
"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen
