I always found that bizarre. Kes (Jennifer Lien) was supposed to be what? Two? Whoever came up with that idea was obviously drunk.

If I had mod points I'd vote this up right now.

That's why Bill got in line for the 72. (By the way, did anyone see the picture of Monica Lewinsky on the news this past week? She looks like she was possessed by a wraith.)

Meanwhile, back in a secret bunker, hidden beneath a nondescript concrete building:

General: Mr. President, it appears that we have located... Planet X!

Georgio: I'm not saying it's aliens... but it's aliens.

Sitchin: It's Nibiru! The Anunnaki are returning!

I would expect nothing less from the Slashdot editors. Good Lord.

So basically, it is like the airport where your bag gets flung ten feet regardless. In this case, it will be popcorn time when some drone drops a package on someone's dog.

That works, but how efficient is it? Could it really be scaled? This isn't accusatory; I am asking the question in earnest.

That's the major problem. Nobody has any stockpiles anymore. In previous times, villages had granaries to store food to hedge them through a tough period. Today, the financial equivalent is futures contracts, but that doesn't help when the physical delivery can't happen. Your average neighborhood grocery store has maybe a couple or three days of supply; they don't have canned foods and such in the back now. That's inefficient, particularly for taxes where you have to pay tax t the end of the year on inventory.

Our system is horribly broken. Our supply lines are shot. Remember, "an army marches on its stomach."

Turn the German-made air conditioner to "glacier mode" or, as Al Bundy referred to it, "blitzkrieg."

Yes. Remember that these are the same kind of people who push shit like Starfleet Academy (aka Kurtzman Trek) and wonder why it bombs.

When you fold the iPhone Sixty Nine it 69s itself.

They could be posting about something interesting in coding, or new security vulnerabilities, or some articles about amateur radio, or bio hacking, or any number of things. Instead we get old and recycled stuff, and we get endless articles on AI slop. Sometimes we get AI slop included in the TFS. Slashdot has become so great over the years...

That's a great question. What typically happens, I think, is that most people answer something along what they made for their last contract. (Yeah, I'm talking 1099s here.) That means that they work themselves out of a raise and lose due to cost of living and inflation. On the other hand, prop yourself too far up and you'll never get an offer regardless of how qualified you are.

So a question to the Slashdot community to make this thread useful: How do you go about that in negotiation? How do you determine your opening offer? Of course, this assumes that you are a good candidate to begin with.

Good lord. I can see how back in the BBS days these might have fit in, but nobody is ever going to pay for this.

So these child-clowns want me to dump all my personal data to their AI so it can go through it and perform actions on my behalf? Maybe some day, dude, but only if"

1. I have exclusive control of it.

2.The data never leaves my possession.

3. I have total control over the decision matrix it uses to do things.

I can just see some piece of Altman-ware trying to go through my email and signing me up for everything from dates to "friendly gatherings" to business meetings to.... Just no.