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6y ago
That's an interesting idea but production lines cannot just be stopped and started like that - you could carry much more produced inventory to make up for lost days but that will be expensive.
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I suspect the problem is Human Remains (HR) who are supposed to organise this. And I suspect its the pipeline of people who end up in HR positions that is a problem as well.
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So come 121 time they all got marked down for not finishing that's a good way to get put on a pip. "needs improvement, did not finish course xyz"
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And you did not use the two passports trick - common if you are Woking in the middle east ?
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That's what I though "how very dare they show me a tweet from that ultra left politician tony blair"
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Yeh is it "I don't agree with president Trump" or more conservative twitter users objecting to companies tweeting about BLM or Pride. I actually suspect the latter.
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Actually not in the UK receptionists triage patients as a extreme covid risk (trasnpaltee) I get priority
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GDPR really doesn't cover this I know that people with access to some telecom systems in the UK have to have been vetted some even to DV level - ie the same as if you where working for a TLA. So having to pass a TS clearance and the wh
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It would also exclude venerable people which is the problem with the real name idea
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As twitter only has about 5k Employees having more than 1k ie over 20% with access like this is shocking and the fact that "j random "contractor" has access even more so. Twitter needs to get serious period and not just blu
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I was more a better way of remote controlling the mac vnc works but its a bit crap. The main idea was for GM's to use mood music to set the tone or for audio effects the classic red alert should for a sf based game. What I wanted it fo
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Yes I have looked at virtual loop back like Voicemeeter and might be able to do it with the routing aspects of the focusrite software. It is of course the sort of thing that should be baked into the OS.
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Oh nice I will have to look into this as I was considering Using a dual pc set up for streaming and this would be great for controlling the second pc (mac mini) I want to have main pc for running ROLLd20 and a daw - then use a mac mini to
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And the joys of soldering up a rs232 cable including the swanky heat shrink tubing - only to find you had neglected to put the hoods on first. I recall at one job we had very long runs of rs232 cables to some vt100's which where very s
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In which country for a long time after ww2 in the UK you where only allowed to take I think £50 out of the country.
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V interesting and nice to see an innovative coop :-) I used to be a member of poptel which built and ran the .coop registry.
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Yelp has its own problems with gaming reviews not sure applying that to PHD programs is a good idea.
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The US has botched regulation of telecoms compared to the UK/Europe
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Warbooty both on a personal level and at the state level - operation paperclip etc. My first job was based on campus at Cranfield University and they had v1 and v2 parts left over from post ww2 analysis. If you go to Bovingdon tank museum -
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I have never under stood the dislike of longer form writing - this is part of Stephenson's style. You don't think say the digression on the Galvanick Lucifer isn't a glorious read?
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Ah I see thank you I recall years ago when I did work on the international side my boss making a comment about ISDN and Germany and I now see the issue they backed themselves into. The UK could have had much better fibre if back in the 90&#
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Yes in London as well there are companies that do these sort of modifications. I suspect Mark Zukerberg and Jeff Bezos have similar mods done.
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FTC and VDSL Copper from the CAB to the Home is not a "Bad" decision. For quite a while early on in the internets history we are talking 1990's the German Telcos still wanted to use IDSN
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" or a contract to friend's friend's construction company" Is absolutely corruption. Years ago I did a high level IR/HR course at BT where this sort of low level corruption was one of the most common types of seriou
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For a lot of HNW individuals from the middle east this is part of their contingency planning. I worked at a Lebanese company in London and a lot of directors had the special versions of their cars, the ones with runflat tires and up armoure
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The fact that no one has resigned or been fired from the Regulator. The head of the regulator should have resigned weeks ago.
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Even a first line manager can fire? are there no hr processes
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In BT it was 3 months later and the only way I could get in that building was if I was personally vouched for by some one the security guards knew. This was a v high profile project we had two board members as sponsors. Later on I knew that
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If you do that to a head of state its very visible and leads to major changes. Same as when a journalist in the UK got a temp job in BT's office in Edinburgh and looked up the queens unlisted phone numbers at Balmoral - lead to a major
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Isn't a bit to high profile - the perps risk attracting the attention people a bit more serious than overworked police fraud squads
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