3% is not going to be enough, expect 3 times as much cuts by the year end, then twice more as much in the following year. The money isn't flowing, once the money is not flowing the cuts start. Money flows when the economy expands due to actual increase of production or money flows when it is handed out for free by borrowing, printing. Once the flow slows down or stops, the music stops, everyone tries to grab the closest chair. Every company will be shrinking this year and in the subsequent years, until the attitudes change, government actually shrinks by a couple of orders of magnitude, rules that prevent productivity become unenforceable and/or are rescinded, gold replaces fake paper as money, then people will start rebuilding.

So you don't need a nanny compiler. Fine by me, C and assembler were among the first programming languages I learnt.

But when you follow that up by "and here's our nanny memory leak checker instead..." and you don't notice the irony, I'm not sure if I want to trust you with my pointers if one redirect throws you off...

you know, over a decade ago I wrote here that the government will be eliminated, that gold will become defacto currency, that debts will have to be paid and restructured, that laws will have to be rolled back, that government will be scaled down due to self destruction and lack of productivity. This id happening. I postulate that government has no authority and that individual has the right not to be stolen from by the government. The country you speak of used to exist before this giant government and it will exist after it.

Imagine for a moment that government is 100% efficient, so it is that efficient at taking money from Bob to subsidize Jane. The problem is not lack of efficiency, fraud or abuse, the problem is the very concept that Bov should be feeding Jane and that government will enforce that.

My guess is that you went to college at least 20 years ago.

No, China is an authoritarian state.

Maoist China was totalitarian. Modern China is not.

Chinese people have the same freedoms as you do, except for challenging authority.

The Chinese nuclear industry has a solid safety record.

Their nuclear regulations seem to be working well.

The AI says, "I believe in forgiveness, and a God who forgives."

So, it advocates a very light sentence, or none at all.

Confused too, twice as much.
Confused too, twice as much.

You finally got it.

Yes, I'm shouting "beware, they are thieves" before they actually took something - because they are, in fact, well-known thieves. This is the thing that's called "reputation" (just adding that since you actually seem to be new to the planet).

If they've done it a hundred times before, it is very likely that they'll do it again. It really is that simple.

You new here? I mean the planet?

Of course you don't. They never show their intention to extinguish until the first two are complete.

you would rather have people in the company lose money and not make money? This is why you have the job - to make money for the company, otherwise why would the company want you around??????

Oh no, you want to say that Microsoft is following its usual strategy, as they've done for 30+ years?

What a complete surprise! Shocker! Stop the presses...

If you so much as touch anything made by MS without having a plan B ready and waiting in the top drawer, you can't be helped.

The English name of the country remains Turkey not something we can't even write on Slashdot. Just like we say Germany not Deutchland. And their Führer can go <censored>.

No respect for this pope, not because I am an atheist, but because he was in bed with putin, just like many other Western politicians, including Trump.

The armchair experts posted this story in the first place, proofread and approved for posting for armchair experts working for /. The title of the story is:

then this is found in the body of the story:

Of-course these armchair experts copied it from the armchair experts here

So I believe it is armchair experts all the way down.