Comment seafaring GRAVE ROBBERS (Score 1) 119
Hey, people pay good money for non-radioactive materials!
Comment So ... (Score 1) 24
... a waldo?
Comment Yawn... (Score 1) 108
Still trying to extort money from IBM after all this time. Nothing like a business model made up entirely of rent seeking.
Comment Re:Functional unemployment is 20% (Score 1) 181
President Harry S. Truman proposed universal health insurance in 1945, where workers would pay a fee or tax and the government would then pay the doctor or hospital of the patient's choice
The AMA claimed this was "socialism" because the federal government controlled the money.
Um
Now, you may like socialism
Comment But, but ... (Score -1, Offtopic) 132
... even though The Handmaid's Tale and Literally Hitler????
Comment "Left the labor force" (Score 2, Insightful) 181
720,000 people left the labor force
This is the blandest, most watered-down way to say "lost their job" yet. Quite nauseating.
Comment WAT? (Score 1) 95
I was going to notify you that you have a cranky Scottsman here wanting a word with you, but then I double-checked, and for some reason a thousand Watts is a kilowatt. But then why is it abbreviated kW? WTF world? Please fix.
And no, I am not a train fancier. Well, any more than anybody else.
And no, I am not a train fancier. Well, any more than anybody else.
Comment technically correct is the best (Score 1) 126
"No net zero?
OK, carbon negative it is, you heard the boss."
OK, carbon negative it is, you heard the boss."
Comment burn in Hell Darl McBride (Score 4, Informative) 74
Wow, Caldera, there's a company I haven't heard about in a looooonnngg time.
Let's remember that they transformed into blatant patent troll and persistent lawsuit pest The SCO Group which Microsoft funded in a futile attempt to bludgeon Linux out of existence.
Let's remember that they transformed into blatant patent troll and persistent lawsuit pest The SCO Group which Microsoft funded in a futile attempt to bludgeon Linux out of existence.
Comment Re:The Great Equalization has begun. (Score 1) 84
This... is going to be interesting.
Especially interesting for these who don't understand and appreciate what they still (somewhat) have.
Y'all may think that you like communism, or (other peoples' exotic) eastern theocracy, but if they get the upper hand, you will find out much too late that you do not really like them at all
Comment Looking for silver lining here (Score 3, Funny) 94
Charles Poon, Ford's vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, added, "Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product."
(Looks for silver lining)
Comment Re:Now now guys ... (Score 1) 22
From the summary, "Five people in the US were convicted and received jail terms or probation.", so sounds like some westerners are involved as well.
Possibly, though their names, citizenship status, etc. would be helpful to know that.
Comment Re:What is a "harmful response?" (Score 1) 59
Then you do it.
I think we've identified the harmful bit right there.
Comment Re:Is this (corporate) exceptionalism, USA? (Score 0) 22
TL;DR: US company that screws-over its suppliers and its employees also suffers employees that help suppliers screw-over other suppliers.
Er, actually it sounds like values from other, non-US cultures operating in parts of a worldwide company.
The ring allegedly extracted about $100 million in unfair advantages by bribing Amazon employees in Asia to help them sell more products and sabotage their competitors.
Comment Now now guys ... (Score 1, Funny) 22
.... don't impose your western values on the eastern folk of this worldwide company!
The ring allegedly extracted about $100 million in unfair advantages by bribing Amazon employees in Asia to help them sell more products and sabotage their competitors.
