Now this is interesting
This is very interesting. My instincts say China.
Could be Yaks, but they already have a lot of control over industry and politics and they really do prefer to remain low key these days.
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"China's National Supercomputer Centre at Tianjin is two kilometres from the blast zone. The Centre's Tianhe-1 supercomputer was taken offline on the day of the blast. It's unclear if it is has returned to work, but with the three kilometre exclusion zone in operation it seems set to remain offline for some time."
Holy fuck! Er, this is far too "coincidental". Yeah, I'm kinda paranoid that way. So sue me.
Bullshit. If he feels that bad, he can take the money and then pay to move them all. What will that cost? About a million at most? Maybe 2? That will leave him with a minimum of $37 million. Oh what to do, what to do.
He's a liar who IS going to sell them all out and leave them behind. I hope he proves me wrong, but I doubt it.
"I’m sure regular readers are overjoyed to learn this, and I extend a particularly warm welcome from me and my toilet to those reading this Saturday morning’s column while eating breakfast."
Actually, quite. I can live without many things. A working toilet is not one of them.
So, HUZZAH!!!
When did Chris Rock become an infosec guru? I guess you need that kind of sense of humor to deal with all the fucking stupidity.
Oh, not that Chris Rock? Oops.
Anyway, welcome to William Gibson's world from 30 years ago. (although I do believe it's almost right on time)
Now about that cloud thingy and the IofT...
"The working hours rules and the various benefits put in place were'nt some great evil socialist plan to destroy capitalism, they were designed to make capitalism better for the workers so they'd be less likely to stage a revolution and kill all the ruling class."
Exactly.
I am constantly amazed at how those of the upper 20% often forget who Marie Antoinette was. You would think they could afford a better education.
"For example, almost all workers are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday per year (known as statutory leave entitlement or annual leave). An employer can include bank holidays as part of statutory annual leave. Self-employed workers aren’t entitled to annual leave.
Who out there actually would, if given an entirely free choice of cash or holiday, choose to have exactly 5.6 weeks of it each year? Everyone who would not choose exactly that amount, rather than the cash an employer would be willing to pay (or withhold, for those who want more leave) instead, is losing out by having that amount imposed upon them."
I'm still trying figure out how being paid for time off is an "imposition." Doubleplus good, eh?
Gig economy is all about hyperbole. It is literally the soup du jour. It only exists at all because real jobs are hard to come by and companies are playing fast and lose with the definition of employee. something the US labor department fixed this month.
I've been working short term contract jobs for years now and people still ask me why I don't have a permanent long term job. It's like they don't get out or read the news. Temp jobs have been a good portion of the US economy for over 2 decades. This scam of being an indie contractor is just the logical extension.
As for benefits, there has been a concerted and coordinated destruction of benefits ongoing since the 1980s. If you have benefits and have been able to hang on to them, let along actually, you know, benefit from them, you are one very, very lucky person in this modern age.
"...the handful who suffer become screaming headlines, while the million who benefit go unnoticed."
Handful? Have you NOT been paying attention to population numbers? Or math in general?
The UK population is currently at 64.1 MILLION. If just one percent of that population is in dire straits or suffering some consequence of bad policy, that's 640,000 people. That is not "a handful" in anyone's book. Anyone sane, that is.
Now extrapolate to the other nations numbers. At some point, it goes beyond "mere" suffering and straight into "barely holding back anarchy and government overthrow that will result in mass deaths". Like yours.
See the problem?
So the millions who benefit can still have it taken away by those kinds of destabilizing forces. Many, many a government and leader thought those who suffered could just eat cake.
Regarding the third choice: the finding is correct that above certain populations sizes, the voluntary system no longer works. That's why it's so rare.
People really are, for the most part, stupid. It's also why psychopaths politicians and self made leaders are able to get away with the crimes they do.
Exactly, mpinco. Most people have no idea what good sound is. We are surrounded by so much half-shit audio it's unbelievable and unlistenable starting with sound techs who are equally fucking clueless all the way to shit speakers being cranked way too hard and much gimmickry in-between.
The technology and quality is there and has been since the 1970 with the only real advances being miniaturization, yet bookshelf speakers, MP3 and Beats headphones are considered quality apparatuses for listening.
What utter shit.