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walshemj
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walshemj
7y ago
But they probably built it as test cluster to do initial work on before going for a big shot on a big boy cluster.
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walshemj
7y ago
MM a high tech cutting out - in the old day they used ships boats and sailors and marines to do that
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walshemj
7y ago
This is how you start a pc today when you are diy building it. The first stage is testing that the MB will boot to bios outside the case
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walshemj
7y ago
Interesting approach back at my first job in Hydrodynamics research BHRA (Now Bhr Group ) in the early 80's I shared an office with an engineer who's got assigned to research the efficacy of toilets - we had some interesting brain
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walshemj
7y ago
Which country are you in and if your listed there should be guide lines on standing orders etc. For running meetings in the UK you can use Citrine and I suspect the USA would use Roberts Rules.
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walshemj
7y ago
That does sound like the upper classes saying no foreign holidays for the hoi polio - a return to wakes weeks.
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walshemj
7y ago
Guns are a lot more accepted in the us and its unlikely that a UK site would have any armed guards - places like Sellafield and other nuke sites do, but you would have an order of magnitude of difference in the sort of organisations that do
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walshemj
7y ago
some humans have a mutation that means they don't smell
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walshemj
7y ago
They are not independent contractors they are employees its the employer side that is going missing. An in the USA (vs the UK) actually self employed workers get screwed over getting 20% over a FTE i seen as good where in the UK I would go
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walshemj
7y ago
They are avoiding taxes which indirectly increases ours
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walshemj
7y ago
Well you would have had to have a similar revolution to the French revolution and not sure if any other countries are good candidates. More to the point if George III had wanted to recover the lost colonies as much as he was anti catholic -
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walshemj
7y ago
There is still bad feeling in wales about some of the valleys that where flooded in the 60's. With devolved government now in Wales and Scotland and new Pumped storage will face more push back
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walshemj
7y ago
That is assuming you have the suitable terrain and don't have a problem with forcibly moving the inhabitants - its not the 50/60's the locals might not just pack up and move.
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walshemj
7y ago
There was a case in the UK recently where some one got a £500 fine on the train because their phone died and they could not show their electronic ticket. I was only after the press got involved that it was over turned.
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walshemj
7y ago
Ah Lies dam Lies and pension fund valuations. One of the problems that caused the decline of DB pensions is the accounting industry decided on such a unlikely scenario that inflated the cost to the employer immensely. One pension trustee co
856.
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walshemj
7y ago
Um moving from a DB scheme to a DC one is not an improvement
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walshemj
7y ago
That's because 401k's dont have employee or independent trustees
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walshemj
7y ago
You can move pensions and you can sack the manager and replace them as one of the biggest UK DB ones has done
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walshemj
7y ago
So what reasons do you have for preferring an inquisitorial system?
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walshemj
7y ago
Ah the Inquisitorial system that came out of the French revolution no thank - you a bit to open to abuse and technocratic for my British tastes
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walshemj
7y ago
No I was comparing US unemployment benefits to the UK
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walshemj
7y ago
Absolutely compare what a single person gets on JSA to the much more generous Unemployment benefits lasting much longer than it does in the UK
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walshemj
7y ago
in 1971 absolutely back then. I have worked for UK companies that until 76 or so women who got married where forced to resign
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walshemj
7y ago
Compared to the UK the social security system in the USA is fairly generous so if that is affordable so would be maternity leave.
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walshemj
7y ago
I think there is a lot of internalised custom and practice that HR adhere to.
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walshemj
7y ago
Very common on DEC PDP systems, more modern ones like the 11/40 and 11/03's I used had a separate sub system that did this for you. Sometimes these broke down and you could manually toggle the initial boot sequence in. Even m
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7y ago
What is a trades promotions - is this jargon for the executive ?
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walshemj
7y ago
Me to I was nervous, but when I was 20 or so I joined a group in the UK 18 Plus (now just Plus) similar to Rotaract. I joined the committee and I was my job to stand up and announce the next weeks events, I used to imagine putting on circus
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walshemj
7y ago
Probably start up business or popups who might not qualify for traditional banking or don't wasn't to go through the hoops.
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walshemj
7y ago
And search engines do check for this they don't only crawl as Googlebot.
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