Posts by Gordon 10 3879 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
Interestingly enough I saw this phenomenum just yesterday at a fantastic council run place called the discovery Outlook Center - which has 2 things that I assumed were just satellite dishes masquerading as art work but turned out to be whispering dishes doing exactly what Mike said but on a smaller scale.
Well recommended for a visit with the Little'uns if you are in Berks.
@dbhh. Thats a little arlarmist. Most likely we will see what has happened in RE's apply across a whole range of China made products. Whereas the cycle of glabal demand and supply in a previous centuries was generations or hundreds of years - the world is now so interconnected its down to 5's of years.
And those timescales are not long enough for the previous knowledge and infrastructure held in the source economies atrophy to any great exent.
Eventually things will stabilise into a stable-ish cycle of supply and demand - just on a global scale.
Think - how many offshoring operations are on their 3rd or 4th cycle of moving? You can see it as a race to the bottom - the alternative way of looking at it is a necessary step towards Global demand and supply equilibruim.
I suspect the difference between the 2 - even in this day and age - is that marrieds are more likely to have offspring who limit both in terms of sheer time, and also content. ie does my 2 yo really need to see my one shot sniper kill?
Gawd knows I had enough of a problem the other day explaining why the Pigs were getting it in Angry Birds!
I'll think you'll find anyone who uses a Pi/ardrone or similar in the States will find themselves automatically reclassified as an "armed militia" and dealt with accordingly.
Only the Gubermint can own Grab-drones with impunity.
You gotta factor in the mindset of the person making this comment. She rocked back to work mere weeks after having a baby. That tells us 2 things.
1. Work comes first for her.
2. She has no concept of how hard those on less than CEO wages find managing child care.
Personally working from home 1 day a week is worth about £10k to me as without it I'd have to find a non-London job and my current employer would be devoid of my manifold talents.
"What they said was: if a company is in a state that bans gay marriage, a gay person is less likely to come work for that company, thus harming their business. They want the best people, regardless of whether they are gay or not, and so would like these obstacles to free movement to be removed."
Really? Tenuous much? Im all for Gay Marriage but Im more for businesses staying the f*ck out of issues that involve personal choice & freedoms rather than making some spurious business reason to get them and their slush funds involved.
I'd like to see any one of these firms show the hiring stastics that back up their assertions.
"At the end of the day, if you're innocent, what's your problem?"
The problem is that innocence depends very much on the vagaries of the day.
One day its mugging a granny, breaking a shop window..... one regime change later its looking Islamic, thinking suspiciously, applying for a school place out of catchment. Oh Ripa already covers the last one - Move it to the top.
This is the big issue with these FaceTwit type SSO services. The people providing it have no incentive to protect your privacy. In fact given that their business models pretty much fail if people do enforce their want for privacy its no surprise this kind of thing happens.
Try explaining that to joe-schmoe user who just thinks "ahahh one less password".
Stealing your wallet icon .... obviously right.
My in-laws had an even simpler problem. They just wanted an uprated supply so they could leave the freezer on between visits (other people visiting less knowledgable in the ways of spanish electricals would cause it to trip). Between getting the permits and getting the work done it took nigh on 2 years.*
Admittedly its a holiday home but still........
I know your well done was probably a grudging one but they may have caused more harm than good.
If the rozzers can't now get provable pre-hack copies of all the evidence the defence has all the material they need to get the evidence thrown out as tainted.
In which case it's more like Anon you utter fuckwits.
Steve Todd is correct. From those 2 figures quoted in the article alone its very difficult to tell how the VC bods made out - its quite likely they made the loss Steve Todd suggests.
Its actually rather poor Daily Fail quality reporting from the Reg on this one. If an IT site is going to attempt to cover finance in its articles its worth running them by someone with a finance background first.
Do the due diligence El Reg.
She seems to be the only one coming out of this with reputation and sanity mostly intact. Whilst you may question some of her decisions - and lets face it if she said white is white - someone on the internet would - however she has been remarkably even handed in the whole thing.
Justice seems to have been served - even if maybe the letter of the law hasnt'.
Nearly everyone else involved in this from Sammy, Apple - their laywers and the juror's should hang their heads in shame.
"(including the level of pay) at the start of the administration process"
The whole point of it not including that provision is that it allows the firm which is already in trouble not to add it its woes.
Remember the one of the points of administration is not to liquidate the company but to allow it to continue trading in some form.
"situation where they are faced with a deal that offers a decent chance of paying off a large number of creditors vs. one with a slightly better chance of being able to pay off the preferred creditors only."
Really - care to articulate one.
Contract law and precident clearly establish who is a preferential creditor and who is not. You may not be happy with it - but everyone enters into business knowing who gets their cut when a business goes into administration and writes their supply contracts accordingly.
For me the order of precidence is currently all wrong - and empoyee's both in terms of outstanding wages, redunancy and pension contributions should get a fairer deal - but thats what our MP's are for.....
China will soon come to its senses and start pissing its money up the wall trying to turn its ephemeral economic dominance into fleeting worldwide political dominance.
Headlines 2050:
Chinese war in South America/ Bumfuckistan enters its 3rd decade.
China plans rover for Titan.
Funding for CSS (Chinese Space Station) cut.
Federated United States in breakup talks.
British Government to fund Microsat powered by hot air and wishful thinking.
Heres hoping not.....
Also bear in mind some physical "constants" are only such under a set of defined conditions......Change those enough of those conditions.
Its convient to assume the speed of light is a constant (its not) and that its synonymous with "C". However whilst C is a fairly universal constant its only a top bound for the speed of light.
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