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Mass production is about two and a half years away
Translation: "Well, we can pretty much almost kinda sorta make it work in the lab slightly more than half the time."
Mass production is about two and a half years away
Translation: "Well, we can pretty much almost kinda sorta make it work in the lab slightly more than half the time."
Cheaper than paying Andersen Consulting...
F/K/A Accenture (pronounced "ass-enter" - anyone else remember Fucked Company?)
Nice that they are stating the obvious now that they aren't being undermined by the executive branch
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FTFY.
This is why hackers do what they do. There's a reason governments don't negotiate with terrorists.
The CEO will still get tens of millions in bonuses even after this blatant dereliction of duty. Because freedom.
MURICA!
From TFA, the decryption tool they received was too slow:
Once they received the payment, the hackers provided the operator with a decrypting tool to restore its disabled computer network. The tool was so slow that the company continued using its own backups to help restore the system, one of the people familiar with the companyâ(TM)s efforts said.
If you do, then you have been thoroughly propagandised.
1. No, you're probably not. You're probably pretty average just like the rest of us. And that's okay.
2. In a stack rank system, you can be at the bottom even if you are a top performer. Guess what? Buh bye.
Coffee up the keister- Just looked that up, instant regret.
What has been seen cannot be unseen, as you just found out.
IOW, for the last 10 years, Intel literally had more money than it knew what to do with. And now they want to suckle at the government teat while subjecting the rest of us to unbridled cutthroat capitalism.
"Socialism for thee, but not for me."
Yeah, fuck that noise.
Companies that don't pay taxes want taxpayer cash.
Or in this case, you get a lot, you give more.
If the corporations want some of that sweet, sweet taxpayer cash, then they can ditch the "shareholder value is god" horseshit and start behaving in a more prosocial manner. Some ideas:
-- Start paying a flat Federal tax of 25% of net profits as reported to shareholders.
-- All work done in the US by US citizen workers. No H-1Bs or any other foreign worker visas.
-- Cap C*O pay to a multiplier of worker pay.
-- Transparent hiring practises that make logical sense. No more blanket four-year degree requirements.
-- Eight hour workday, 40 hour work week, double time for overtime.
-- Paid vacation and sick days.
-- Fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits.
-- Workplace rules that are transparent, fair, reasonable, and consistent.
-- Job security: Layoffs only as an absolute last resort, progressive discipline, termination only for just cause.
-- Apprenticeship training - bring people in and train them.
Don't like it? All of this is anathema to what you were taught in B-school? Well, I guess you don't want that sweet, sweet taxpayer cash then.
By contrast, America allowed M$ to claim with absolute impunity that unbundling IE/Edge/whateverthefuck from Windows was impossible and would unleash TEOTWAWKI. A few billion in EU fines later and all of a sudden, M$ started allowing users to opt out of its shitty browser. Result? Other browsers were able to compete at long last and M$'s browser market share fell from practically 100% to below 20% practically overnight.
Most EU countries use civil law so even two courts in one single country can come to different conclusions in similar cases.
That has nothing to do with civil law. The same is true everywhere. That's why appellate courts and, ultimately, courts of last resort exist. The U.S. Supreme Court, for example, mainly gets involved to resolve conflicting rulings from two or more of the appellate circuit courts.
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberrys!" -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
