Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 21372 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
>In Emergency, Break Glass' box is your friend.
Phone fire brigade.
Same advice if you are ever stuck in an elevator/lift.
The emergency contact number, even if it works, will connect you to a call center who will call an engineer who will get round to you later when they have done all their other jobs for the day, unless that would go into overtime.
Calling the fire brigade means they get to drive big red trucks with flashing lights and use big tools to break into things. This makes them very happy and gets you out 5 mins.
>autism actually IS a superpower
0, Not understanding why people who know less than you think they are more important
1, Not caring about upsetting these people
2, Being one of the few vital people who understands stuff the company needs someone to do.
3, Understanding this stuff means you are also in demand by the dozen other companies around you.
4, Demanding that lists start with 0
The Challenger disaster happened because there were O rings joining together bits of rocket
There were joints in the rockets because they had to be shipped from landlocked Utah
They were built in Utah instead of Texas because Texas already had mission control. But Utah didn't get any Nasa spending and so wouldn't vote for the Shuttle budget.
Houston has mission control because in the Apollo era it didn't have industry that could be used in Apollo but needed some Nasa spending to get Texas to vote for Apollo.
Fortunately all that has changed today with the Senate Launch System which is made in 33 states
I was always suspicious that the Gay Wedding Cake case was a Republican stalking horse.
1, Fund the case against the baker and get a ruling that anyone discriminating against a customer gets a huge fine.
2, Get a list of Muslim owned business and demand that they make a T-shirt with Muhammad on it, when they refuse fine them out of business
3, Book every synagogue function room for your Hitler's birthday celebration. Similar..
Repeat for every group you don't like
I think a small independent baker SHOULD be allowed to not bake a gay wedding cake if they don't want - they are losing business and there are plenty of other bakers.
But say Alaskan Airlines shouldn't be allowed to refuse gay passengers if they are essentially the only choice to fly to Alaska.
There is a scale at which the company has sufficient power that there needs to be some level playing field.
Although there comes a scale where a private company is effectively a public utility.
Suppose Twitter cancelled all Republican politician's accounts, or Google didn't return any results for Republican candidates, or Visa/Mastercard declined to process donations for Republican causes ?
>Dame Mary Beard is not exactly a rabid Tory, but I didn't think she was on Vladimir's payroll.
I think she is only recruiting agents for the BBC
Of course it may be that senior tutors don't watch the news and are still busy recruiting agents for the NKVD and are a little worried that the nice Mr Trotsky hasn't published much recently
A) The cabinet are all businessmen and so only have the HP financial calculator - it doesn't have an exponent button.
B) Italy it is bad, but they are Italians, we are British so in Britain it will be NOT bad
C) Lockdown hurt profits, that patch of sand looks comfortable, mind if I stick my head in it ?
D) All of the above
A listed company, owned by banks, pension and hedge funds being sold to a hedge fund owned by banks , pension and sovereign wealth funds isn't necessarily anti-competitive.
If I'm a customer using ARM cores I don't care if it's listed on the FTSE or the NIKKEI - I do care if I can't buy the ARM cores anymore because it's now owned by a direct competitor
It wasn't British owned before softbank - it was a public company. Its shares were owned by anybody who wanted to buy them
If we wanted it to remain British owned the time to do that was in 1990 when it was formed with money from 2 American companies.
Or perhaps the BBC Micro and subsequently ARM should have been an internal BBC program, then under the BBC management and with BBC investment it would be a world beating British colossus
>This. Confined spaces are dangerous. Head down in a confined space without immediate help is deadly.
But all this safety paranoia in schools, kids today rarely get a chance to play with dinosaurs and so don't learn the dangers.
Perhaps some scary 1970s public information film - like the one about going swimming with death.
A friend built a startup on this with Asterix.
You phoned into a central number before going onsite, it logged your phone# and if you didn't call back to clear the site within a certain time it would alert a pre-programmed contact.
It was just after that estate agent got murdered by someone she was showing a house to in the 90s
But you don't see a certain conflict of interest in an insurance company, that will write profitable policies against ransomware attacks, paying a ransomware gang and so enabling and encouraging it to commit further acts?
Rather like a house insurance company donating crowbars to the charming street urchins of the neighbourhood
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