Accenture is the "New Jersey" of tech companies. This will never come to fruition.

We use JIRA as well, but fire all US development employees shortly after each acquisition, in order to replace them with cheaper developers in India. The developers in India do not have access to JIRA, and the few that do have access generally ignore it. Ever 4-5 years we'll delete a project queue to clean up the tickets once our customers choose not to renew their contract.

Is this not how everyone else does it?

I feel roughly the same way. I am of the opinion that we should withdraw from all of these idiotic inconsequential agreements, but should continue to strive to eliminate the environmental damage we're causing. I think NASA climate programs should be defunded... In favor of funding NOAA appropriately. Etc, Etc... As someone that voted for Johnson, Trump is doing exactly half of what I wanted, and it makes me look bad because I 'coincidentally' agree with ~50% of his actions (Gut the EPA, Gut the FDA, Fire Comey, abolish slavery).

No, but combine that with SS, UI, DD&D, school tax, property tax, etc, and it's about even 'if' nothing happens to me or my fam. One broken leg and I'm dipping into savings. Add to the cost of private transportation... Basically, here in the states I work twice as hard for roughly the same financial return, but incur a non-trivial additional risk if I fall off the happy path (injury, layoff, automobile accident, etc).

The part that pins me is that I'm sooooo tired of carrying other people. I've done my fair share for well over two decades at this point, and I'm tired now.... Two more decades to go, and I don't know if I have it in me.

Last note... Our health insurance was $12K pre-AHCA. I'm literally paying for two other families health care now.

Having worked in Europe (Vienna) for some time..... The work week was a cakewalk. 40h / week with Catholic holidays. Healthcare seemed good. Retirement seemed good. Public services (transportation) was good. The bad? Taxes were literally 50%.

Here in the US, I work 90h a week. Good healthcare for my family costs me $38k a year. I've trained overseas replacements six times, and been fired twice, only to be rehired as my overseas replacements quit due to lack of competency.

Cop Eats Pot Brownies Calls 911
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

I'd like to try to make the point that, since FR tech doesn't actually recognize faces, all results (including correct matches) are false positives.

This may seem like an odd question, but is it now OK to steal form international human smugglers, drug czars, money launderers, and criminal organizations? Two decades ago, the answer was a pretty clear "No, it's illegal to steal millions from a Colombian drug czar". Was wondering if this has changed recently.

In unrelated news, police and firefighters were called to the scene of a house bursting with popcorn early this morning. Homeowner Jerry Hathaway was unavailable for comment.

When my phone rings and I'm driving, I'll look at the front of it, to see who is calling. If it's important, I'll park and call them back. If not, I'll wait till I get to my destination. On occasion (city driving), I'll take a moment to turn off the ringer so that I do not encounter subsequent distraction.

It's unfortunate that, even though I do not use a cell phone while driving, I'm still breaking the letter of the law.

It's like Ray-EE-Aine, on your wedding day........ If you're a meteorologist....

In TFA, It says:

Imagination has a significant number of GPU patents (they’ve been at this for over 20 years), so developing a GPU that doesn’t infringe on those patents would be difficult to do, especially in the mobile space. Apple couldn’t implement Imagination’s Tile Based Deferred Rendering technique, for example, which has been the heart and soul of their GPU designs.

Since patents only last for 20 years, and the first Tile based PVR was released in 1996...... Why couldn't Apple use Tile Based Deferred Rendering?

Thanks for that. Of note:

"a list of account usernames and passwords for network systems and services" -- Not of his coworkers.
"Venzor allegedly used a separate Lucchese network account named elplaser" -- Does not say he created it like the 1st article.

Strange that there is a delta in the information provided by the two articles.

Nintendo has it half right

Dead pixels ARE normal.... Fortunately, so is the replacing of affected devices under warranty.

I've read this several times this year, and I have to say... I don't believe it.

With Uber, I pay for the ride. 80% goes to the driver, 20% goes to Uber. The VC funding is only subsidizing Uber's sophomoric corporate circle-jerk embezzlement-Ponzi scheme.... Not the rides.

With YellowCabs, the customers subsidize the corrupt-political-medalian and regulation embezzlement Ponzi scheme.

I realize I might be splitting hairs here....